Althea

Deborah Simpier

Posts by Deborah Simpier.

49 posts

Althea: 2025 in Review

As we step into 2026, we want to take a moment to reflect on 2025, a pivotal year for Althea’s infrastructure and ecosystem. The past year brought volatility and pressure to both the telecom and blockchain industries, but within the Althea ecosystem, deliberate, long-term work reached a defining milestone. Althea L1 was unlocked, and the Althea protocol is now ready to expand scalable and sovereign infrastructure on the L1 blockchain. Transforming the intrinsic systems of funding and operating

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Evolution of Liquid Infrastructure

Liquid Infrastructure: Aligning Capital, Operators, and Users Funding, building, and operating infrastructure, especially in telecom, has long been brittle and broken, leading to unhappy users and operators struggling under unsustainable economics. Liquid Infrastructure was developed as a set of tools that enable programmatic revenue sharing among stakeholders, aligning incentives between users and operators to create more sustainable systems. Already, Liquid Infrastructure is being deployed a

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Althea Update: Cardinal

The upcoming Althea L1 Cardinal Update is a minor feature upgrade for the Althea L1 blockchain with improvements for the dex and machine to machine payment flow. Auto Swapping and Stablecoin Fees: DeFi for Machines This new feature provides a stablecoin fee only path for unwrapping tokens from the EVM. Tokens bridged into Althea L1 are automatically wrapped into the EVM for DeFi ease of use. For embedded devices with wallets using the Althea L1 that swap on the micro-payments layer, this upgra

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Financing the Next Frontier: Liquid Infrastructure Fuels Broadband Expansion in Arizona

Althea’s Liquid Infrastructure is redefining how broadband, cellular and infrastructure networks are funded by turning physical assets into blockchain-backed, revenue-generating digital instruments. Rather than relying on slow-moving grants or rigid bank loans, Liquid Infrastructure combines tokenized real-world assets (RWA), programmable finance, and instant revenue distribution to create a transparent, automated ecosystem for financing connectivity at scale. Kamui Finance, a pioneer instituti

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Introducing The Althean Archetypes: A Limited NFT Collection Celebrating Our Community

The Althea ecosystem has grown from a bold vision of decentralized infrastructure into a thriving global community of builders, validators, network operators, and believers. Today, we're proud to introduce The Althean Archetypes - a limited collection of 18 unique NFTs that celebrate the diverse roles and contributions that make our community extraordinary. Ready to claim yours? Apply here  Celebrating Every Kind of Althean From the developers coding our iFi DEX to the technicians climbing t

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Althea Unlock Connectivity Grant Winners: Four our Future

Hawk Networks is pleased to announce  Four Our Future Indigenous Economics Ltd is the winner of the 2022 Unlock Connectivity Grant.  FOF will be building and supporting indigenous connectivity capacity building in Canada using KeyLTE, a revolutionary solution combining the world’s first home router embedded EPC (LTE core/Evolved Packet Core) with Althea’s innovative routing and billing platform. Althea is a holistic system for building networks with a unique set of “broadband legos” to build n

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Infrastructure

Althea Platform

Althea is a platform for distributed payments in a cooperative or multi-entity network. It combines a micro-transaction framework for programmatic and near real-time payments between peers. Althea network offers a powerful vision for the future by removing the friction of legacy structures and unlocking access to finance and connectivity for all. It is a solution for the inflexible payment methods and many capital inefficiencies that prohibit infrastructure investment. The internet is the esse

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Unlock Connectivity Grant 2022

Application window is open 8/1/2022 through 10/01/2022 @ 5pm PDT Application link: https://forms.gle/9mmyuAWgaNjvL1Rm9 Who can apply: New and existing network operators including municipalities, cooperatives, tribal, non-profit, and other organizational structures that operate a network. Award: up to $15,000 of LTE Equipment to build an Althea KeyLTE deployment.  Design and planning support for the build would be included with impact on your proposed grant budget. Impact: Provide a unique

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Althea Blockchain

End of Year Recap 2021

Along the journey we have pushed the boundaries of interoperability and shared infrastructure and boldly established new networks where legacy telco could not. I am excited to share with you the new frontiers we explored in 2021 and an ambitious roadmap to 2022.

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Althea Blockchain

Althea + Hub Advanced Networks Announce Commitment to Puerto Rico 5G Zone Initiative

Althea is announcing a new partnership with 5G zone contributor, Hub Advanced Networks, to build and expand new broadband networks and support telecom innovation as part of the Puerto Rico 5G Zone & Blockchain Ignition Lab initiative. PR5G Zone & Blockchain Ignition Lab is a new, non-profit, Advanced Innovation Development and Test Lab creating opportunities for individuals, products, and companies to develop cost-effective, disruptive  global solutions on the island of Puerto Rico. This coll

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Althea Blockchain

Althea FAQ

Althea: Frequently Asked Questions The FAQ for you We are excited to begin preparations for the Althea blockchain launch! The Althea blockchain is the future of telecommunications and consumer financial services. Creating a decentralized, secure, and reliable platform for Althea’s pay-per-forward bandwidth market.‌ What is Althea? Why does Althea have a blockchain? Do I need to know about or own crypto-currency to use Althea? How does Althea currently operate? How will Althea operate in the fu

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Althea Blockchain

Althea Blockchain : Time to Claim for 2019 airdrop!

Announcing the upcoming Althea blockchain launch! We are excited to begin preparations for the Althea blockchain launch! The Althea blockchain is the future of telecommunications and consumer financial services. Creating a decentralized, secure, and reliable platform for Althea’s pay-per-forward bandwidth market. About the Althea Blockchain: Last mile telecom infrastructure is siloed behind restrictive contracts and agreements that preclude an open bandwidth market. However, at deeper lay

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Gravity Bridge

Infrastructure is a shared dream for a better tomorrow, built today. It requires long term thinking, solid engineering, and most of all a shared dream for a better future. Althea created Cosmos Gravity Bridge as infrastructure for the Cosmos community. We are proud to announce Gravity Bridge - an independent and credibly neutral Cosmos-SDK blockchain providing the entire SDK community with a neutral bridge to Ethereum and eventually all major EVM chains. Learn more about the exciting futur

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Community Network

North Carolina Althea Network wins EPIC grant

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: LaShawn Williamson Wave 7 Communications, LLC Phone: 877-356-0741 ext. 1012 3125 Kathleen Ave, Suite 229 Email: lashawn@wave7comm.net Greensboro, NC 27408 Wave 7 Communications, LLC is an Internet Service Provider, empowering the rural community of Enfield, NC to not only become users of their high-speed internet, but also serve as a key part of how the network expands and grows in their town through a $154,000 grant awarded to Wave 7 from the Internet Society

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Community Network

How Smart Contracts on Blockchain Can Bring Broadband to All

Written by Isfandiyar Shaheen [https://ishaheen10.medium.com/?source=post_page-----17a1e73137e0--------------------------------] , founder of NetEquity, and shared with permission The short answer: * Smart contracts on blockchain make revenue share contracts possible between stakeholders of a broadband network. * Revenue share contracts reduce the amount of risk capital required to build and operate a broadband network. * Reducing dependence on risk capital makes it feasible for stake

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Blockchain

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 [https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2020/03/05/update-connecting-rural-america/] 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 infrastructure, making the case that there simply isn’t enough “internet pipes” to reach everyone. A quick gl

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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!

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Announcing the Cosmos 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.

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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 1. Successfully deployed a 10 validator Cosmos blockchain with the Althea-Peggy Cosmos module 2. Successfully deployed the Peggy Ethereum contract [https://rinkeby.etherscan.io/address/0x529222Ffa78B5D4d04eaA9D8037c11aAF2Fa2254] to Rinkeby 3. Successfully bridged ERC20 tokens [https://rinkeby.etherscan.io/tx/0x69fc04de904cf29c2301e134ca1

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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.

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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 what is novel here is the way this farm gets their internet connection. This Oregon farm is part of an Althea network, so instead of one, siloed monthly subscription, the farmer’s Althea router selects the best u

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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?

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