Blockchain

A collection of 37 posts

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

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Althea in 2020

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

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/address/

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

Blockchain

Peggy Dev Update #2

End to end validator set updates + even more efficiency

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 test Peggy end to end you need to build and deploy a full software stack for two different blockchains. For the experienced this

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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!

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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 [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 tools to help Althea

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 of our custom transaction library and Althea testnets 1-4. * In late 2019, we began work on the design and evaluation

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 Colombia. A few of the homes had low-speed DSL access, but most people relied on expensive cell data plans. Many

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 [https://blog.althea.org/tales-from-the-field/], and several relays (a relay is a node that has a connecting antenna and an antenna that broadcasts to neighbors – relays make money

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 build with feature complete routing and bandwidth payment. Beta 1 will be able to, dynamically route, buy , and sell bandwidth

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…

Ethereum

Althea Development Update #61: Testnet bandwidth payments

Pragmatic bootstrapping