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 #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
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
Blockchain Althea Development Update #74: Automated Xdai bridge what we’ve done in this release is design a fully automated a bridge, the user merely has to deposit ETH and the router takes care of the rest. The money will be exchanged for DAI, then transferred across the cross-blockchain bridge to become Xdai.
debugging Althea Development Update #73: For want of a transaction A minute later when the gateway tried to validate that same payment again it chose the same failed node at random. It wouldn't get a third chance.
Blockchain Launching the Althea blockchain Up to now, we've been running our networks on the Ethereum blockchain. The reality is that Ethereum simply isn't suitable for our use case. Ethereum's great for manual, medium or high value, sophisticated transactions...
debugging Althea Development Update #71: Transaction amnesia As I slapped this solution together I got a bad feeling. What if the full node lied to us? I really couldn’t think of a situation in which it would but I just couldn’t shake it.
Ethereum Althea Development Update #70: Dueling scripts Put on your night time sunglasses because I have a tale from our cyberpunk future, or present as it may be. How a poorly coded smart contract disrupted an ISP in rural Oregon.
Altheamesh Faster, Cheaper Internet in Medellin Colombia Before the Red Medellin team brought in Althea's innovative technology, options for internet access were limited in Comuna 13, one of the sprawling urban communities on the hills surrounding Medellin
Altheamesh March Update We were so busy building and growing I think we missed an update in February! We now have 23 users in Clatskanie, and several relays (a relay is a node
Blockchain Althea Development Update #65: The Quantum Leap we released payments and then immediately set about doubling the size of our test network. In doing so we had raised the bar for the quality of our features and interfaces.
Blockchain Althea Development Update #63: Beta 1 Right now Beta 1 rc2 is churning it’s way through the build system Once this release passes QA in a couple of days we will have out first Althea
Internet Metered Bandwidth on Althea In this post I’m going to explain Althea’s billing system and how it provides more transparency, choice, and control than the traditional…
Blockchain Althea Development Update #60: Teaching people to setup real gear Globetrotting and training