Justin Kilpatrick

Althea Whitepaper

Updated Althea and Althea L1 whitepaper

Case Study - TreeLink in California

The Althea technology and platform is a powerful set of composable tools for building networks in even the most challenging environments. Components like a flexible billing system, automatic revenue share system, smart routing and monitoring are like “broadband legos” for building networks virtually anywhere. In 2020, that’s exactly what

Gravity Featured

The Gravity well: Pulling DeFi capital to Cosmos

Migrating years of infrastructure and onboarding from Ethereum is a hard climb. Using Gravity, well, it's as easy as falling.

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!

Althea Blockchain Featured

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.

Featured

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.

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 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/

Blockchain

Peggy Dev Update #2

End to end validator set updates + even more efficiency

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 Featured

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 Featured

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.

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?

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 [https://blog.althea.net/rapid-connectivity-response/] and the Peggy [https://blog.althea.net/defi-enabled-ethereum-bridge-for-cosmos/] Ethereum to Cosmos bridge. Operator tools We've been building operator focus

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.

hardware

Hardware hacking is good for business

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

compilers

Althea Development Update #83: Rust static binaries and OpenWRT

A four car pileup of complex codebases, starting with static binary building on Rust.

Althea Development Update #82: Direct router deposit with Wyre!

With the new Beta 11 release users can now use the Wyre widget to buy and send funds directly to their router. We've been dreaming about a system like this for a very long time. While Wyre pay isn't available in every state or region where

abuja

Althea Development Update #81: Phone client Beta 0 and the many fixes of router Beta 11

Without further delay, here is the Althea for Android app. You will need to use it with Beta 11 RC6 or later of the Althea router firmware. You can find a list of supported routers here.

Althea Development Update #80: Phone client networking, MCD upgrade

Happy new year everyone! Since my last blog post [https://blog.althea.net/althea-development-update-79/] I've managed to implement the alternate network design I proposed. Phone client design proposed in update #79, now implemented and functionalThe major hudles where as follows. 1. Turns out Ipv6 multicast sockets need to

Althea Development Update #79: Things Android won't let you do

Android devices as IPv6 mesh network participants Recently we've been working on a phone client for Althea [https://blog.althea.net/althea-development-update-78-building-a-phone-client/]. Our first design was to have every phone as a Babel node, advertising it's own routes and generally functioning independently. It turns out Android

Android

Althea Development Update #78: Building a phone client

It would be great for people to be able to buy a connection directly via their phone. You can’t really compete on price with something people already own.

debugging

Althea Development Update #77: Hiding in plain sight

Since our last update I’ve encountered a couple of bugs where the problem had been hiding in plain sight. In one case for weeks and another for a year or more. Discovering root causes long term subtle bugs is both satisfying and important to create a better product.

latency

Althea Development Update #76: Automatic connection tuning

Now we're exploring that we can do with multihomed users and connections

latency

Althea Development Update #75: Chasing latency

We apply latency control judiciously throughout at every Althea node in the network, with the ultimate goal of fairly allocating bandwidth at any given bottleneck.