Althea

Thoughts on the Interconnection between Communications and Financial Services

Financial empowerment and the ownership and choice of communications are the key pillars to solving the digital divide. Recent numbers from Microsoft indicate that over forty percent of people in the US do not access the internet at broadband speeds, a problem that is often relegated to the lack of

Althea Blockchain

Gravity Bridge - V2

Althea is excited to announce the completion and test of the first transaction of a Cosmos based token (ALTG) to test ethereum (Goerli) using the second iteration of Althea Gravity, the Cosmos <> Ethereum bridge!

Gravity Bridge

How Gravity works

Gravity is a bridge between Ethereum and Cosmos-based blockchains. In this post, I’ll try to document how the whole system works, in an understandable way, at a medium level of detail.

Althea Blockchain

Althea Testnet #1 Launched!

Today we launched Althea Testnet #1 with more than twenty validators! A big thank you to everyone who participated and took the time to setup a node. We're looking forward to a bright future for the Althea blockchain when it's launched late next month.

Announcing the Gravity Bridge

We're proud to announce the Ethereum-Cosmos bridge, Gravity, which we will to bring to the Cosmos Hub with a governance proposal later this year.

Community Network

Althea in 2020

2020 has been a banner year for Althea. With enormous progress and a forward looking future.

Peggy

Peggy Dev Update #4

Lets take a quick walk from Rinkeby to Peggy Testnet #1 and back.

Peggy

Peggy Dev update #3

Crossing the bridge: Ethereum -> Cosmos on Rinkeby!This Saturday we hosted Peggy BrokenNet #1. Over the course of our rapid 4 hour test we Successfully deployed a 10 validator Cosmos blockchain with the Althea-Peggy Cosmos moduleSuccessfully deployed the Peggy Ethereum contract to RinkebySuccessfully bridged ERC20 tokens from Rinkeby

Blockchain

Blockchain bridges vs payment channels

Bridges and payment channels (or “atomic swaps”) are both techniques to move value and tokens from one blockchain to another (although payment channels also have many other uses). Both techniques have different tradeoffs and do fundamentally different things. They are both frequently hyped as providing cross-chain compatibility, so I wanted

Blockchain

Peggy Dev Update #2

End to end validator set updates + even more efficiency

Peggy

Building Infrastructure Collaboratively

Althea is excited to announce a partnership with Iqlusion and several Cosmos projects to form a new collaboration focused on the development of bridges, tools, and infrastructure for blockchain projects.

Peggy

Contributing to Althea Peggy

Good projects are built on good tooling. In the case of the Peggy Cosmos <-> Ethereum bridge developer tooling is a particularly complex problem. If you want to test Peggy end to end you need to build and deploy a full software stack for two different blockchains. For

Blockchain

Peggy dev update #1:

75% of the cost of your transfer across the bridge is a simple state update in an ERC20 contract. We manage to fit all the hashing and verifications for 125 signatures into 25% of the cost!

Blockchain

Solid foundations for Peggy

this investment will support our work in deploying more decentralized internet networks and the work of interoperability with Ethereum and Cosmos by developing the Peggy bridge.

Althea Community Update, Summer 2020

On a farm in Oregon, a camera system watches over a herd of goats. The does are near their time to kid, and the farmer watches over them while on-the-go with the nearby online cameras. Watching livestock with cameras has become relatively easy and commonplace in modern, rural life, but

Mesh Networks

Going Where Others Cannot

Althea's core premise is our "neighbour to neighbour, pay-per-forward" model. A model that revolutionizes how internet service is owned, provided and paid for. Why did we reinvent the wheel? What can Althea do that traditional ISPs cannot?

Press Release: Enfield, NC

Wave 7 New Press ReleaseFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New Internet Service Provider (ISP) launches in Enfield N.C., offering new way to access broadband internet. [Enfield -- June 2nd 2020] Althea, a system that enables communities to build and maintain their own decentralized internet infrastructure, today announced the upcoming build out

Press Release: Knappa, OR

Clatskanie Co-op Launches High Speed Broadband Service in Knappa, ORFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Clatskanie Co-op is excited to announce that it is ready to expand its Althea high speed fixed wireless internet service into Knappa in collaboration with local IT professional Stephen Shumaker. The central connection to fiber, located at the

Press Release: Watertown, TN

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Elwell Internet Brings Inexpensive, Reliable Internet Access to Wilson County Watertown,Tennessee,May 29,2020-- Co-Founders of Elwell Internet, Derek Elwell and Dylan Thraen,have partnered with Althea Networks to provide faster, cheaper, de-centralized wireless broadband to residents, business owners, and schools in the Wilson County communities

Blockchain

Althea Development Update #84: Operator tools, Peggy developments, and EIP-55 support

A new relay is born, our networks grew 34% between March and April We've been extraordinarily busy working on COVID rapid response and the Peggy Ethereum to Cosmos bridge. Operator toolsWe've been building operator focus tools to help Althea scale. The latest versions of the Althea firmware are tightly integrated

Blockchain

Althea Blockchain Update

We want to begin by sincerely thanking all our validators and community members who have supported our project through many months! TL;DR In 2019, we successfully completed the testing of our custom transaction library and Althea testnets 1-4.In late 2019, we began work on the design and evaluation

Africa

Althea in Nigeria

Written by Yakubu Yakubu, Nigerian Network Operator/Coordinator Diplomats Park Nigeria has the largest population in Africa at about 200million citizens. However, only 46% of the population have internet access via cellular carriers. Many people lack adequate and qualitative internet connectivity, This is due in part to inefficiency in coming

Blockchain

DeFi enabled Ethereum bridge for Cosmos

DeFi investment is just another set of rules and automation for the bridge. Not a giant leap in technology, but instead, of perspective.

Rapid Connectivity Response

Rapid ResponseTo address the immediate need for more broadband infrastructure we have put together a Rapid Connectivity Response. This is a plan to build a 100Mbps, affordable broadband network in as little as two weeks. This method can be deployed in both rural and urban environments to rapidly build or

hardware

Hardware hacking is good for business

Routers are, for all their specific quirks, just computers. Like your desktop, phone, or a server.