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Corum8 and WazirX Partnership
Tags: Cryptocurrency Course, Blockchain Technology, Cryptocurrency Trader, Blockchain Development

Corum8 Academy is proud to partner with WazirX, India’s most trusted bitcoin exchange. We came together to spread awareness among the students regarding emerging technologies like blockchain and cryptocurrency.

Talking about WazirX, WazirX has created a token named WRX and there is a limit on the no. of WazirX tokens ever created and that is equivalent to 1Billion. WRX forms the backbone of the WazirX ecosystem. Using WRX, WazirX involves the community to help them build WazirX and rewards them. WazirX helps people buy, sell, and trade digital currency easily with confidence and trust. Wazir X provides the best in class security and lightning speed transactions.

Corum8 on the other hand deals with Blockchain development as well as marketing and has worked with clients across the world. Corum8 has an expert team of Blockchain developers and marketers. Our team has developed several blockchain, cryptocurrency, and AI-based projects with great efficiency. The SMEs and developers designed blockchain and courses to educate students and even help them in getting placements. Corum8 Academy aims to make students industry-ready and generate more resources to fulfill the current demand for global industries. Corum8 bridges the gap between the industry requirements and the resources and they have a mission to empower students.

When the CEO of WazirX discovered Corum8, he found out that corum8 is providing the youth with knowledge about blockchain and cryptocurrency he partnered with corum8 and work together to build a better future. Blockchain and cryptocurrency domains are emerging as promising career options for students.

Wazir X is one of the leading cryptocurrency startups and believes that cryptocurrencies and blockchain can provide promising career options to students who want a different career path. Wazir X is a Binance-backed crypto exchange that sees its monthly trading volume in July grow 414% to $168 million compared to that in February 2020. The monthly signups have also grown by 290% in July since February.

WazirX is actively hiring in India to fuel its growth. According to the founder and CEO of WazirX Nischal Shetty, the demand for people in blockchain and cryptocurrency is high however the skill does not exist in India as it is a nascent and an emerging field. Corum8 and Wazir X have partnered together to give internship opportunities to students of the Coram8 Academy to provide industrial training to the students. Moreover, WazirX is giving WRX vouchers to all the students and professionals who are taking the trading course from Corum 8 Academy.

As the Crypto industry is evolving various new job opportunities are being created like blockchain engineers, wallet engineers, crypto economists, fund managers, and more. Therefore many startups are coming forward to skilled youth in this emerging domain. The partnership of WazirX and Corum8 also has this common objective to make India prepared for the next technology revolution.

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Benefits of Blockchain for Supply Chain
Tags: Blockchain Development, Blockchain Technology, Blockhain, Blockchain Startup

Enhanced Efficiency

-Supply chains contain complex networks of suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, auditors, and consumers.

-A blockchain’s shared IT infrastructure would streamline workflows for all parties, no matter the size of the business network.

-A shared infrastructure would provide auditors with greater visibility into participants’ activities along the value chain.

Cost-Saving

Blockchain can drive cost-saving efficiencies and enhance the consumer experience through traceability, transparency, and tradability.

Traceability

-Improves operational efficiency by mapping and visualizing enterprise supply chains.

-A growing number of consumers demand sourcing information about the products they buy.

-Blockchain helps organizations understand their supply chain and engage consumers with real, verifiable, and immutable data.

Transparency

-Builds trust by capturing key data points, such as certifications and claims, and then provides open access to this data publicly.

-Once registered on the Ethereum blockchain, it’s authenticity can be verified by third-party attestors.

-The information can be updated and validated in real-time.

Tradability

-Using blockchain, one may “tokenize” an asset by splitting an object into shares that digitally represent ownership.

-This fractional ownership allows tokens to represent the value of a shareholder’s stake of a given object.

-These tokens are tradeable, and users can transfer ownership without the physical asset changing hands.

Reducing Counterfeits

-Counterfeit consumer goods account for nearly 188 billion dollars of lost revenue regarding prescription drugs alone.

-Blockchain enables an individual to verify that a product was sourced accurately and ethically.

-Documentation counterfeiting and fraud are also common among diplomas, certifications, and official identification.

-Blockchain records can transparently verify certifications and official legal documents effectively.

-It can also coordinate record-keeping immutably, which prevents counterfeiting or fraud.

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Managing Local Tezos Infrastructure with Nautilus Core
By: Pratham Rawat
Tags: Blockchain Infrastructure, Tezos Development, Blockchain Development, Tezos, Infrastructure Automation

At the core of every Tezos Developer’s toolset is invariably one thing: The Tezos Node.

However, running multiple Tezos Nodes locally for all of your potential apps, tools, and networks can be challenging. No matter how good your organization is, managing all of those ports, containers, and processes adds up fast.

Cryptonomic has worked hard to provide robust and reliable public Tezos Nodes, as well nodes of our blockchain indexer, Conseil. You can find these on Nautilus Cloud! We also provide Arronax, a blockchain analytics tool with customization and power like no other. All of these are available publicly for developers to use to easily develop their apps and dApps on the Tezos chain.

However, tools on the Cloud are not always the best tools for the job. Often, local infrastructure is needed for development, debugging, and security. Unfortunately, such infrastructure is not always the easiest to set up on short notice.

To manage such a deep problem, an equally powerful tool is needed. This tool is Nautilus Core: the solution to all of your local Tezos Infrastructure needs.

In order to use it, clone it from the repository, and follow the instructions on the README to get started!

Nautilus Core allows us to set up Tezos Nodes and associated infrastructure at the push of a button.

Well… a few more buttons.

First there is a name input to differentiate the different nodes:

Followed by which network we want the node to run on:

And finally the history mode for the Tezos node software:

There are also a number of advanced settings as well. We will add restoring a node off of a snapshot soon! Or, if running an archive node, there are options to install Arronax and Conseil alongside the node.

With those options in, we can start the node by submitting! And now the node shows up on our homepage.

Clicking on the node provides lots of relevant node information. There are the container logs for each container created by Nautilus Core:

The basic info for the node:

The relevant ports for the node:

And finally,options to stop the node, restart the node, or delete the node.

Because the nodes run on containers, the local workspace will remain untouched. And because the project is built on top of the ubiquitous docker-compose infrastructure, it is easy to hack and configure!

We hope you have as much fun using Nautilus Core as we had building it! We have lots of ideas in development, and are working hard to include more features and customization for the nodes. Better Call Dev, and the rest of your favorite Tezos tools might soon be included as apps to start alongside your nodes. If you have any questions or feature suggestions, please let us know on Twitter, our Matrix Rooms, or by reaching out directly. We hope that Nautilus Core can be the one-stop solution for all of your Tezos node needs!
Blockchain Application Outlook Brief Report 2020
Tags: Blockchain, Blockchain Development, Blockchain Technology, Blockchain Application

Since the birth of Bitcoin, the development of blockchain technology has gone through 12 years. From the initial payment concept to the comprehensive exploration and combination of “Blockchain Plus Initiatives” in all industries and sectors today, we have seen the technological iteration and commercial development of “from point to surface” and “from surface to Multidimension”. The PBC’s DCEP pilot program, the implementation of Ubin in Singapore, and the update of the Libra white paper all prove that an era with the blockchain is coming.

Technological innovation must be accompanied by the intervention of capital, and the impetus of capital is destined to induce bubbles. But under the bubbles, we clearly see that data/information is automatically circulating, sub-packaged, and packaged on different chains with diversified consensus mechanisms. The tide recedes,the technology rises.

In this report, we will focus on the application of blockchain in different fields and explore the new business model and value of “Blockchain Plus Initiatives”, including but not limited to: Auto, Insurance, Medical care, Government affairs, Smart cities. And we will gradually release special reports on various industries.

BLOC: www.bc-tt.com

Contact: contact@bc-tt.com
Facts and Myths of Blockchain Development
Tags: Blockchain Technology, Blockchain Application, Blockchain Development, Trending Technologies, Technology

Blockchain technology has emerged as one of the most hyped and talked about technological inventions. While it reveals a lot of positive feedback from the tech industry post its inception there are still many myths around the community.

Acknowledged as a Distributed Ledger, the technology provides some of the leading developments in its data transactions with a bit more secure, transparent, and efficient computational architecture.

Under its functionality, the database is maintained by a continued growing set of data termed as blocks when composed together form a distributed peer-to-peer connected chain.

To recall, A Blockchain architecture is based on two key components:

Blocks — The structured sequencing of the data involved in the transactions.

— The structured sequencing of the data involved in the transactions. Transactions — The steps or operations taken by the users.

Myths and Facts of Blockchain Development

Blockchain Myth 1

Myth 1: Blockchain Comes Free

Fact: The Concept or the architecture is common or open-sourced to learn for all but when it comes to driving a blockchain-based application or other resources then it comes with a cost.

Due to the heavy computational processes along with the resources to perform the operations involved the statement to say it’s free is not justified.

Blockchain Myth 2

Myth 2: Blockchain is One

Fact: Blockchain gets derived as a concept that can be implemented to attain many technological advancements.

With its different types and architecture, blockchain can not be stated as a single technology rather it is a service-based mechanism to innovate on its concept.

Bitcoin, Ethereum, Hyperledger are certain examples of blockchain-based technologies.

Blockchain Myth 3

Myth 3: The Blockchain is a Cloud database.

Fact: Blockchain works on the algorithm that stores data in the form of blocks with every occurring transaction; these blocks are not documented or can be presented in any storage form.

It works on a peer-to-peer networking and allows controlled access. Hence, in reality it’s not a Cloud-based database management.

Blockchain Myth 4

Myth 4: Blockchain is the Most important next-gen Technology

Fact: Blockchain during its initial days was talked by many to be a path-breaking innovation for technology architectures supporting businesses across domains.

Although it brings the benefits of high transaction speed and cost reduction there are flaws like data fraud with online transaction ledgers and other shortcomings that make it certainly be a bit far more away from being a widely used next-gen technology for businesses.
Blockchain as a Service (BaaS)
Tags: Blockchain, Blockchain Development, Blockchain Technology, Blockchain Startup

What is BaaS?

Baas is based on the Software as a Service (SaaS) model and works in a similar fashion.

BaaS refers to third-party cloud-based infrastructure and management for companies building and operating blockchain apps.

It functions like a sort of web host, running the back-end operation for a block-chain based app or platform.

Why BaaS?

-Consumers and businesses are increasingly willing to adapt to blockchain technology.

-However, the technical complexities and operational overhead involved often act as a barrier.

-These include creating, configuring, and operating a blockchain and maintaining its infrastructure

How does BaaS do it?

-BaaS offers an external service provider to set up all the necessary blockchain technology and infrastructure for a fee.

-Once created, the provider continues to handle the complex back-end operations for the client.

-These include activities like bandwidth management, allocation of resources, hosting requirements, and data security features.

-The BaaS operator frees the client to focus on the core job, the functionality of the blockchain.

-A BaaS provider’s role is similar to that of a web hosting provider.

-The website creators create and run all the website content on their own personal computers.

-They may hire support staff or sign up with an external hosting provider like Amazon Web Services or HostGator.

-Similarly, these third-party companies take care of the infrastructure and maintenance issues.

The Future

-BaaS may be the catalyst that leads to a wider and deeper penetration of blockchain technology across various industries and businesses.

-Businesses don’t have to create and run their own blockchains.

-Instead they can now simply outsource the technically complex work and focus on its core activities.

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WOM Protocol Geliştirme Güncellemesi: Aralık 2020
By: Atilla Günduğ
Tags: Kripto, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Blockchain Development, Kripto Para

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OFFICIAL BLAZE WALLET APP IS NOW AVAILABLE!
Tags: Blockchain, Defi, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain Development, Ethereum

Blaze Wallet was developed application with full applied security protocols. It's very safe and secure to store and send crypto assets.

The wallet is developed in an all-in-one Erc20 wallet with built in "marketplace" for purchasing and selling of goods, products and services.

It is now supported with multi crypto currency storage system. Blaze wallet has a full security systematic audit, for sending, receiving and storage of multiple digital assets.

It also gives you a complete control and full accessibility to your private phrase and keys. Which enable you to protect your funds and also privacy. The level of the security which is constantly be monitored and upgrade by using biometrics and also pin "code" number. The level of security is being rated as "Military Grade" security system.

The Blaze Wallet have its browser feature that can connect you to any web3 application and allows you to access and interact with DAPP (decentralized application).

Blaze DeFi being a DeFi

This specifically refers to Financial digital assets and smart contracts, which also involved protocols. A network with its own wallet and have its own Dapps built on ethereum leads us to Blaze DeFi.

It's a Decentralized Finance Protocol of the supreme Blaze Network.

Blaze DeFi supports the foundation and fundamental growth of the Blaze Network ecosystem through various medium of staking and yield farming. One feature will be added to make Blaze DeFi as a DeFi.

We will include, P2P borrow and lending, this feature will be integrated to Blaze Wallet as it's new feature, that's why we are very supportive to our main product. It will be our 1 stop shop and this can help our project stands for itself.

We on Team Blaze aimed our project to reach success, as "Blaze" means to us "shine across the stars". Let us empower and support the project and together we will reach success.

Please give us 5 star rating on Google Play Store and leave some good comments behind.

Useful Links

Website: https://www.blazenetwork.online/blazegoingdefi

Telegram: https://t.me/BlazeDefi

Twitter: https://twitter.com/BlazeNetwork10
Bantu Ecosystem: By Africans for Humanity
By: Bantu Blockchain Foundation
Tags: Africa, Fintech, Blockchain Development, Bantutalk, Bantupay

The Bantu Blockchain, an indigenous Pan-African Blockchain Network Infrastructure is being developed by the Bantu Blockchain Foundation (BBF). BBF is currently made up of 27 dedicated African team members spread across 7 workstreams on 3 continents. They are among Africa’s leading blockchain professionals who have been in the industry since the early days of blockchain. The team has decades of professional experience in banking and finance, cybersecurity, fintech innovation, compliance, law enforcement, governance, business and intellectual property law, and large scale technology infrastructure deployment.

Blockchain technology has myriad use cases beyond cryptocurrencies which brought the novel technology to the limelight. Just as light bulbs are not the only use case for electricity, so also with blockchain. The Bantu ecosystem will host indigenous solutions that liberate those in financial shackles, promote diversity in communication and collaboration, and accelerate better lives for humanity.

Below, we highlight some of our already shipped ecosystem building blocks. Innovators, developers, entrepreneurs and everyone is welcome to bring in more ideas to grow the ecosystem.

BantuTalk

At Bantu, we always tow the line of community first! BantuTalk is a vibrant community of Bantu users, advocates, developers and traders. A civilized place for public discussion on all things blockchain and human empowerment. You can learn more here: https://bantutalk.org/.

BantuPay

BantuPay is Bantu’s flagship product built to cater to the payments and financial services challenges faced by the majority of people worldwide.

BantuPay has the following benefits:

Empowerment: As a noncustodial wallet, at all times, you are in full control of your funds and digital assets. As we say in the crypto space, not your keys, not your cryptos! Secure: All transactions on BantuPay are cryptographically secured with industry-standard techniques and tools. Fast: All transactions on BantuPay are confirmed in less than 5 seconds! Can your local bank beat that? I guess not. We will have a live demo of this during our Launch event. Please register for it, if you are yet to: bit.ly/BantuSoftLaunchEvent. Low Cost: All transactions on BantuPay are charged at less than $0.001 per transaction. That’s unbeatable!

Bantu is built by Africans for the World. We are developing the infrastructure that will empower humanity for greater exploits in all sectors and economies.

Be a part of this revolutionary movement by downloading the BantuPay wallet, available in Android and iOS versions: https://bantupay.org/.
An Insight into Hyperledger Tools
Tags: Blockchain, Blockchain Development, Blockchain Technology, Blockchain Application

What’s great?

-The Hyperledger umbrella project offers various blockchain-based frameworks and tools for enterprises.

-If you’re planning a Hyperledger-based project, it always pays off to understand what they are first.

-We’ll be looking at some of the tools available with Hyperledger and what they can do. So, let’s get started!

Hyperledger Avalon

-Avalon is a ledger independent implementation of the TrustedCompute Specifications published by the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance.

-It aims to enable the secure movement of blockchain processing off the main chain to dedicated computing resources.

-Avalon is designed to help developers gain the benefits of computational trust and mitigate its drawbacks.

Hyperledger Cactus

-Hyperledger Cactus is an Apache V2-licensed open source software development kit (SDK).

-It is designed and architected to help maximize pluggability so that anyone can use it to connect any DLT to others.

-This can also be done by implementing a plugin.

-This pluggable architecture helps enable the execution of ledger operations across multiple blockchain ledgers.

Hyperledger Caliper

-Caliper is a benchmark tool for blockchain frameworks and relies on functioning blockchain implementation as the benchmarking target.

-Caliper is not intended to make judgments and will not publish benchmark results, but provide benchmark tools for users.

-It will produce reports containing a number of performance indicators, such as TPS, transaction latency, resource utilization, etc.

-The key component is the adaptation layer, which is introduced to integrate multiple blockchain solutions into the Caliper framework.

Hyperledger Cello

-Cello serves as the operational dashboard for Blockchain, which reduces the effort required for creating, managing and using blockchains.

-Cello is primarily a tool for DevOps, or the connection between development teams and production

-Common lifecycle and deployment tasks include starting, stopping, and deleting a blockchain, deploying new nodes, abstracting the blockchain to run on local machines, etc.

Hyperledger Explorer

-Explorer is a Web application tool to view or invoke transactions and other information stored in a Hyperledger blockchain deployment.

-The explorer is a useful tool in finding and understanding otherwise machine-readable data stored as encrypted ledger entries.

-The tool also provides enterprise-level visualizations that can help decision makers, through intuitive graphs, charts, and tables.

-It is to be used specifically on deployments of blockchains created using the Hyperledger umbrella.

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Certified Blockchain Consultant™ (CBC) Course Preview — Q&A
By: Institute Of Blockchain, Ltd 区块链技术学院
Tags: Blockchain, Blockchain Development, Course, Cryptocurrency

Source: Eventbrite

Get to know CBC:

Institute of blockchain is hosting a Zoom session to share in detail about the CBC course in just 1 hour and answer any burning questions you might have. Do sign up through the Eventbrite page to secure your spot! Limited slots!

Eventbrite Link:

https://www.eventbrite.sg/e/133072927709

Zoom Link:

Course Information

Institute of Blockchain® (IBS) Ltd is the Certification Awarding Body (CAB) and Certification Owner (CO) for the issuance of Certified Blockchain Consultant™ (CBC). A Certified Blockchain Consultant™ is a blockchain professional who is trained in either executive, standards or technical blockchain tracks.

The executive track covers the basics of Fintech & Blockchain，its business models & strategies and Enterprise Blockchain.

covers the basics of Fintech & Blockchain，its business models & strategies and Enterprise Blockchain. The standards track covers blockchain’s taxonomy, ontology, reference architecture, use cases, security, privacy, identity, smart contract applications, governance, and interoperability based on ISO TC307 Technical Standards.

covers blockchain’s taxonomy, ontology, reference architecture, use cases, security, privacy, identity, smart contract applications, governance, and interoperability based on ISO TC307 Technical Standards. The technical track covers fundamental blockchain applications development on Ethereum Blockchain such as smart contract and decentralized applications.

covers fundamental blockchain applications development on Ethereum Blockchain such as smart contract and decentralized applications. This course prepares learners to provides business consultation on fintech & blockchain technology primarily within the financial services and infocomm technology industries and other various industries. Learners shall successfully be proficient in fintech & blockchain knowledge and skills after 2 months.

After fulfilling the minimum requirement of the course, learners will obtain a certificate issued on OpenNodes.

Course duration: 30 hours

Course Funding Support

SkillsFuture Credit : All Singaporeans aged 25 and above received $500 worth of credit to fund any SkillsFuture courses. Course code CRS-N-0053785.

: All Singaporeans aged 25 and above received $500 worth of credit to fund any SkillsFuture courses. Course code CRS-N-0053785. UTAP: NTUC members enjoy 50% unfunded course fee support for up to $250 each year when you sign up for courses supported under UTAP (Union Training Assistance Programme).

Scholarship Programme

Free scholarship for Full-Time students and seniors above 60 years old.

Where to find us?

#forblockchain #blockchain #certifiedblockchainconsultant #instituteofblockchain #blockchainapplication #blockchaineducation #blockchaintechnology #blockchaintraining #为区块链 #区块链 #认证区块链顾问 #区块链技术学院 #区块链应用 #区块链教育 #区块链技术 #区块链培训
Blockchain Solution Of Energy Web’s For The Global Market
Tags: Blockchain, Blockchain Technology, Blockchain Application, Energy Web Foundation, Blockchain Development

Blockchain Solution Of Energy Web’s For The Global Market TechStreet ·Dec 16, 2020

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Worldwide Transformation

Blockchain-based arrangements.

For example, Energy Web аrе hаrnеѕѕing rеnеwаblе еnеrgу thrоugh a flеxiblе network ѕуѕtеm. Utilizing circulated еnеrgу assets (DERѕ) in аn endeavor to trаnѕfоrm the energy ѕесtоr.

Energy Web’s CEO, Walter Kok, has ѕtаtеd that “… trаnѕfоrmаtiоn саn just hарреn completely in thе еnеrgу area whеn уоu digitаliѕе уоur framework.”
December Special Offer: Fast-track Listing Available
Tags: Blockchain, Blockchain Development, Digital Asset, Cryptocurrency

Warm greetings from ABIT:

To thank all project teams for supporting ABIT continuously, we are launching the year-end campaign that provides express listing services at discount for those eligible high-quality blockchain projects.

Firstly, requested projects still need to pass ABIT’s strict review and evaluation for token listing. Following that, approved projects will have opportunities to get 50%-100% listing fee discount according to their achievements in the listing milestones such as new user registration, deposit progress, etc.

The valid time for application is : From now to 23:59, Dec 25, 2020 (Singapore time, GMT+8)

Welcome reputed project teams who are interested to submit their request from: http://au.mikecrm.com/ZgGHzma

Eligible projects will be contacted by our staff within one week after we received your request.

Thank you again for your long time support.

ABIT Official

12/12/2020
DEFI Protocols
By: Dgefi Protocols
Tags: Defi Token, Blockchain, Sushiswap, Blockchain Development, Uniswap

We are coming, a set of DEFI protocols for global distributed green new energy infrastucture

https://youtu.be/EAIQoIX6QMs
Band Protocol Joins OpenAPI Initiative Alongside Bloomberg, IBM, Microsoft to Define Common Data Standard
By: Kevin Lu
Tags: Decentralization, Blockchain Development, Defi, Open Source

Band Protocol is proud to join OpenAPI Initiative as the first blockchain firm alongside Google, IBM, Bloomberg, eBay and Microsoft, to connect blockchain applications to common Application Programming Interfaces (API) and streamline the exchange of data between smart contracts and off-chain data sources. Band Protocol will be playing a key role in ensuring that the APIs which provide critical data external to blockchains are suitable and usable for all blockchain applications through a standardized specification.

The OpenAPI Initiative is a nonprofit foundation hosted at the Linux Foundation whose members include prominent organizations such as Google, IBM, Bloomberg, Microsoft, SAP and Oracle, among others. The initiative works to define common standard APIs to be used across different industries with Band Protocol becoming the first blockchain company to contribute to the initiative’s collaborative specifications.

“The OpenAPI Initiative standardizes how the industry describes and documents APIs. We are thrilled to welcome Band Protocol as the first blockchain-based member to join the initiative.”

Marsh Gardiner, Marketing Group Chair at the OpenAPI Initiative and Product Manager at Google Cloud.

An API is a software intermediary that makes it possible for two applications to share information easily and efficiently to enhance accessibility and user experience. By creating a common API standard, Band Protocol will allow blockchain applications to easily leverage off-chain APIs and data to better engage with centralized data sources and the wider technology community, enabling expansive use cases of smart contracts.

“Our mission is to define a common API standard for blockchain applications by collaborating with prestigious partners to bridge the gap between centralized data, APIs and smart contracts on the blockchain.”

Soravis Srinawakoon, CEO and Co-Founder of Band Protocol.

More specifically, Band Protocol will be contributing heavily to the evolving OpenAPI Specification (OAS), enabling blockchain projects to query and connect seamlessly to a vendor-neutral and open-source API through decentralized oracle technology such as the BandChain decentralized oracle network. This is an important step towards creating decentralized applications and smart contracts that are able to reliably and securely interact with traditional centralized technology and APIs and with each other.

By working closely with world-leading enterprises on a common initiative, Band Protocol is bringing interoperability between smart contracts and traditional enterprise services into reality.
Redstone Sharding Explained
By: Toni Dumancic
Tags: Sharding, Blockchain, Blockchain Technology, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain Development

I have written about how sharding will work Redstone will have 3–50 blockchains at the same time. Now let's look at Ethereum ethereum will divide blockchain into 64 shards, Redstone will do the same thing but with more blockchains so that means Redstone will achieve better scalability and security of the network. The network will be divided into 50 blockchains that will be divided into 64 shards every node will sync only the blockchain they need but masternodes will sync the whole network to ensure data will not be lost. Redstone will use proof of stake protocol. This is our system of achieving scalability of blockchain and cryptocurrency. This is still under development and it will take a long time to make it we have just a few devs that are working part-time on this project if you will like to invest in this project and support the development. https://commerce.coinbase.com/checkout/cd955503-66ac-490c-a4d7-c908a672582a With this we can expect 5m tx/s

-Toni Dumancic Lead Redstone Developer
A smart way to deploy your Ethereum smart contracts
By: Thanvi Pendyala
Tags: Blockchain, Blockchain Development, Blockchain Technology, Blockchain Startup

Introduction:

The best and popular ways to deploy Ethereum based smart contracts:

I usually prefer the last option, as it is more optimized as far as gas consumption is concerned and it can also debug contracts.

So let’s start with the MetaMask setup.

MetaMask Setup:

Step 1:

Download the MetaMask extension from Chrome.

Step 2:

Create a suitable and secure password, then the MetaMask generates a Seed phrase(a sentence made with different words and no connection with each other).

Step 3:

Copy and keep the Seed phrase somewhere secure and don’t share it with others as it’s your private key to retrieve your wallet (Seed phrase is necessary to login to/import your wallet).

Step 4:

Change your network by clicking on Networks and switch to Ropsten Test Network as the Main network and few others charge to deploy.

Step 5:

Click on buy to get some free ethers and go to Test Faucet, then click on Get Ether. Few Ethers will be mined and added to your account immediately(Don’t ask for too much Ether as it will leave you an error saying you’re greedy).

Remix IDE Setup to deploy contracts:

Open Remix IDE and select Solidity(if you’re using a new interface), then select the Auto-compile option. Go to the Run option, there are 3 types of environments Remi can be plugged into: Javascript VM, Injected Web3 and Web3 provider. We will be using Injected Web3 as it is the easiest and widely used.

Now you’ll get a popup asking you to connect your contract to MetaMask account, click on connect/accept. Now you’re ready to compile your first smart contract in Remix. As you deploy your code a popup asks for your confirmation for the transaction you’re about to create. So just as you click accept your contract is deployed. KUDOS, your first Ethereum smart contract is compiled and deployed successfully.

When you write a smart contract, always remember that it must fulfill the following criteria:

1. It must have an open-source code;

2. The code is stored in a blockchain;

3. The code can’t be altered after it’s deployed;

4. The execution is automatic;

5. The code and execution results are visible in a decentralized blockchain;

6. The execution results are irreversible.
Merkle (Hash) Trees: Explained
Tags: Airdrop, Merkle Root, Merkle Tree, Blockchain Development, Merkle Airdrop

Merkle Tree (ELI5): a way of packaging data such that you are able to quickly and efficiently verify huge chunks of information it stores.

Primarily found in cryptography, a Merkle tree (or hash tree) is data structured as a tree in which every leaf node is labeled with the cryptographic hash value of a data block, and every non-leaf node is labelled with the cryptographic hash of the labels of its child nodes. Hash trees allow efficient and secure verification of the contents of large data structures.

Merkle trees make extensive use of one way hashing and are established by hashing a hash’s corresponding hash together and climbing up the tree until you obtain the root hash which is or can be publicly known.

After passing as an input in a hash function, the resultant hash is unable to be reverse-engineered to acquire the key, this is an example of a successful one-way hash algorithm.
Transforming the Gaming Experience on ZED RUN with Biconomy
By: Aditya Khanduri
Tags: Dapps, Gaming, Ethereum Blockchain, Blockchain Development, Horses

Zed Run is a digital horse racing platform where users can own, trade, breed and race their unique NFT racehorses for real ETH and rewards. It provides the whole experience of racing, winning and owning something valuable that lives and breathes in a virtual world.

However, they realised that this experience was severely hampered if the user had to pay gas and wait for an eternity before every transaction. The digital racing user journey requires a ton of quick transactions to enter and compete in races as seamlessly as possible. If at every stage the user had to pay a hefty fee and wait for 20–25 minutes, then they wouldn’t enjoy the whole experience.

Moreover, a new non-crypto savvy user that loves the concept of digital racing may want to give Zed Run a try. However, they might run away from all the blockchain transaction complexities involved in buying horses and entering races.

Thus, Zed Run wanted to provide gasless transactions and zero racing transaction fees. They wanted the ability to sponsor the gas themselves to enable the users to quickly onboard and have a gasless experience. They decided to integrate Biconomy as the transaction infrastructure to make this possible. They also enabled lightning-fast buy-in’s thanks to Matic.

Gasless Gaming Experience

How Biconomy is adding value:

Smooth racing experience: Users don’t have to worry about crazy fees while taking part in races. The blockchain bits remain at the backend, ensuring the user don’t need to worry about it too much during the races. MetaMask proficiency not required: Thanks to Biconomy’s network agnostic transactions, you don’t have to switch the network on MetaMask every time you move funds between ETH and Zed Balance.

Future implementations: Move funds from ETH balance to Zed Balance on layer 2 instantly without waiting for hours to make the transaction happen

Biconomy helps provide a seamless virtual gaming experience

As you can see, Zed Run could provide a gasless seamless experience thanks to Biconomy. Instead of wasting development time and costs in building such a solution themselves, they saved precious resources by leveraging Biconomy’s plug-n-play tool.

This improved user experience, lightning-fast transactions, and no gas fee will help Zed Run grow their community. Their product also leads the way in how delightful gaming experiences on the blockchain will have to be going forward.
Fantom Launches Liquid Staking and Synthetic Assets Secured by Band Protocol on Mainnet
By: Kevin Lu
Tags: Decentralization, Blockchain Development, Partnerships, Defi

Fantom, the development team advised by Andre Cronje building a full-featured decentralized finance platform, has launched liquid staking and synthetic assets in partnership with Band Protocol. Leveraging Band Protocol, staked assets can become liquid on a layer-1 protocol to be used borrowing, lending, or for price exposure for up to 176 synthetic assets secured by scalable, real-time, and truly decentralized oracle technology without reliance on a centralized procedures or single points of failure.

‘’The launch of Liquid Staking marks a big step forward for Fantom’s community. We believe it will play a crucial role in illustrating the speed of our network, and drive usage of fUSD. However, with such an important application, we know that malicious actors will be trying to attack and break things. That’s why we’ve opted for BandChain oracles to make sure that Liquid Staking is supplied with high quality pricing data.”

Michael Kong, CEO of Fantom

Band Protocol established a long-term partnership with Fantom in March 2020, since then both teams have worked closely to launch and secure the Mainnet launch of fMint, a decentralized stablecoin protocol, with accurate and reliable oracles from the BandChain decentralized oracle network.

Securing Fantom Finance With Band Protocol

Leveraging a fast, scalable and secure layer-1 platform built on an aBFT consensus protocol, Fantom Finance combined with the matched scalability and security from Band Protocol creates a decentralized trading experience unlike any other. Trades are confirmed in a few seconds and fees are very low ($0.000001).

Band Protocol’s scalable oracle technology is used to derive accurate and real-time information for all assets synthesized on Liquid Staking. This ensures system integrity without reliance on any single points of failure or central authority to provide external market information. Supported assets at launch include FTM, fUSD, fGBP, fCNY, fEUR, fKRW, fJPY, fCHF, fBTC, fETH, fLINK, fBAND, fBNB, fGold, fSilver and fWTI, with up to 176 assets to ultimately be added.

“Band Protocol is thrilled to work with Fantom to provide critical oracle infrastructure to secure an ecosystem of decentralized finance products starting with fMint and Liquid Staking which are live on Mainnet, in the production environment. Leveraging the scalability of Band Protocol, we look forward to continuing our deep collaboration with Fantom to secure many more applications and products to come.”

Soravis Srinawakoon, CEO & Co-Founder

Continuing Forward

Fantom will continue to work closely with Band Protocol as they expand their offering to 176 unique synthetic assets while onboarding additional enterprise-grade data providers to maximize the degree of security and redundancy for end-users. Congratulations to our partners at Fantom on achieving this key milestone!

Users can access Liquid Staking and Fantom Finance using the Fantom wallet at: https://pwawallet.fantom.network/.
Tapmydata-First of its kind, personal data management app, powered by blockchain technology and built to Privacy by Design principles.
Tags: Blockchain, Blockchain Technology, Ethereum Blockchain, Blockchain Development, Ethereum

TapMyData is a solution that helps people reclaim their digital footprint through verified forms of consent on a publicly verifiable distributed ledger network, from where users get to decide who they share their data with and on what terms with simple or granular levels of permissioning.

This is important because a single user’s data is not in and of itself valuable. It needs to be pooled and shared at scale so preserving permissioning and provenance in the mixing of data assets is a complex challenge that limits the ability for the value that can be unlocked from data markets.

TapMyData is a solution that helps you reclaim your digital identity, crystallize unique elements of consent on a publicly verifiable distributed ledger network, and get to consent to whom you’re sharing your data with.

Tapmydata is building a personal decentralized data protocol to break this cycle. Users can each control their own digital identity, mint NFT’s of verified consent and license these to companies who need to rebuild trust.

Our platform is built for interoperability, leveraging money legos, data unions and distributed storage solutions for Web3 partners to engage in our vision. Your Data; Your Destiny.

The launch consisted of a startup business, cross-platform beta apps for consumers and a web portal for organisations.

I hit the ground running by naming the brand, designing the identity and producing a touch prototype within two weeks.

Inbetween big chunks of UI/UX design work I managed to facilitate a variety of design thinking workshops to identify, track and validate assumptions to drive evidence-based decisions and keep our customers needs at the forefront of our minds.

The team’s expertise and collaborative mindset provided the perfect agile environment to build, test and learn in weekly sprints with zero disruption.

Create a trusted brand and intuitive app to help people take control of their data.

Activities:

– Design Thinking approach

– Agile methodology

– Customer research

– Visual design

– User journeys

– Wireframes

– Prototyping

– UI/UX design

– Interaction design

– Usability testing

– Dev handover

– Branding & identity

– Copy & content design

– Growth marketing

– Animation & video

Tap provides a secure two way street between both organisations and individuals when it comes to access requests. Individuals are provided with a secure and easy to use mobile app to send data requests, whilst organisations are able to respond quickly and securely.

Subject access requests don’t have to be laborious and tedious for everyone. Tap offers a quick and simple way to do this and gives organisations and their customers a way communicate effectively and transparently about personal data.

Web link: https://tapmydata.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/tapmydata

Telegram: http://telegram.tapmydata.com/

App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.taprewards.app

Bounty Ox: @riqelme
Distributed ledger
Tags: Airdrop, Blockchain, Blockchain Technology, Blockchain Development, Distributed Ledgers

Distributed ledger is one of the four core technologies of blockchain.

If cryptography is the cornerstone of the blockchain, then the distributed ledger is the skeleton of the blockchain. Simply put, a distributed ledger is a data storage technology, a decentralized distributed database. For example, in the traditional centralized Internet we used in the early days, our information is actually stored in a large database, and the information is relatively concentrated. Once this centralized database has a problem, it will go down and become unusable. serious consequence.

Later, the traditional centralized Internet also realized the potential risks of data, so they distributed the data to multiple databases and stored the data together. Therefore, even if there is a problem with one of them, other databases can continue to work in place of it to ensure the normal operation of the entire network. And this kind of decentralized storage technology is distributed data, and the distributed ledger used by the blockchain is more special on this basis.

Distributed ledger is also a distributed database, and the difference between it and the distributed database used in the traditional centralized Internet is that the blockchain is decentralized, while the traditional centralized Internet is centralized. Like the centralized database used in the traditional centralized Internet, the data is stored in a large database, which the centralized giant maintains itself, and users do not have permission to access it. If users want to view historical data, they have to access their central server to send an application. Once these centralized giants want to do something with your data, there is nothing you can do.

The distributed ledger is a decentralized database, connected by each database to form a large distributed database. The permissions of each database are the same, all data can be viewed and stored. It’s like everyone has a ledger. Every transaction will be recorded together. After a while, everyone will gather together to check the ledger. Once anyone has tampered with the historical record, it will be immediately discovered by everyone,and if you want to participate, you can become one of the nodes with the permission of the blockchain network.

The role of distributed ledgers in the blockchain is not only to provide multiple backups of data to effectively prevent data loss, but also to endow the blockchain with the characteristics of decentralization, preventing data from being concentrated in the hands of giants, and giants holding Your data is evil. In general, distributed ledgers are like the soul of blockchain.

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In today’s era of big data, centralized giants do evil by data everywhere. As a user, one can only hope that the blockchain will be able to overcome obstacles like a warrior and put an end to the current data chaos.