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Blockchain bridges vs payment channels

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

Peggy Dev Update #2

Peggy Dev Update #2

End to end validator set updates + even more efficiency

Building Infrastructure Collaboratively

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.

Contributing to Althea 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

Peggy dev update #1:

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!

Solid foundations for Peggy

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.

Althea Community Update, Summer 2020

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

Going Where Others Cannot

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 Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New Internet Service Provider (ISP) launches in Enfield N.C., offering new way to access broadband internet. [Enfield -- June 2nd 2020] Althea [https://althea.org/], a system that enables communities to build and maintain their own decentralized internet infrastructure, today announced

Press Release: Knappa, OR

Clatskanie Co-op Launches High Speed Broadband Service in Knappa, OR FOR 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

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

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

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

Althea Blockchain Update

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

Althea in Nigeria

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

DeFi enabled Ethereum bridge for Cosmos

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 Connectivity Response

Rapid Response To 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

Hardware hacking is good for business

Hardware hacking is good for business

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

Althea Development Update #83: Rust static binaries and OpenWRT

Althea Development Update #83: Rust static binaries and OpenWRT

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

March Community Update

March Community Update

In the US, 65% of consumers get their internet from just two cable providers. These providers charge too much for slow service and leave behind many Americans who can’t access the internet due to cost. But what if anyone could start or grow a network? What if we could

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

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

Deborah Simpier is Althea's new CEO!

Deborah Simpier is Althea's new CEO!

I’ve been working on Althea since 2015, when I started researching what was possible at the intersection of blockchain and networks (Justin, our CTO, had actually been working on similar concepts since 2013, but we didn’t meet until several years later). Justin and I wrote Althea’s whitepaper

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

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

2019 - A Year in Review

2019 - A Year in Review

2019 has been a key year for Althea. We implemented our billing software and grew our network in Oregon. From there, we launched a training and onboarding program which brought in new network organizers, each starting a new Althea network in their community. In the latter part of the year,

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

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