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

18 Dec 20212 min read

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

04 Oct 20215 min read

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

16 Sept 20216 min read

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

20 Aug 20211 min read

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

20 Jul 20213 min read

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

27 Jun 20218 min read

Decentralization

NetEquity and Althea announce strategic partnership to build broadband networks by using smart contracts

NetEquity Networks and Althea Networks have entered into a strategic partnership to finance, build and operate last-mile broadband networks. Our first project will be in rural Nebraska where we will leverage the fiber optic network owned by OPTK Networks (“OPTK”).

01 Jun 20212 min read

Gravity

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.

18 May 20214 min read

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

30 Apr 20214 min read

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!

29 Mar 20213 min read

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.

25 Feb 20219 min read

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.

13 Feb 20212 min read

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.

18 Jan 20212 min read

Community Network

Althea in 2020

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

04 Jan 20217 min read

Peggy

Peggy Dev Update #4

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

21 Dec 20203 min read

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

27 Oct 20202 min read

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 to write this piece to explain their differences. Just a note on terminology in this piece- when I say “bridges”, I mean bridges such as the xDai, wBTC, our

17 Oct 20206 min read

Blockchain

Peggy Dev Update #2

End to end validator set updates + even more efficiency

27 Sept 20203 min read

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.

16 Sept 20203 min read

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 the experienced this represents hours of setup work, for the inexperienced this is an unassailable barrier to contribution. For this reason we've invested a large amount of work in test tooling for Peggy including an all up inte

12 Aug 20202 min read

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!

12 Aug 20203 min read

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.

20 Jul 20204 min read

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

06 Jul 20204 min read

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?

06 Jun 20204 min read

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 the upcoming build out of a new network in Enfield. Wave 7 Communications started in April 2020 is one of the first Althea networks to launch in the Halifax County

04 Jun 20202 min read