The Solana ICO is a yet another addition to the race of high-throughput blockchains. On the homepage, visitors are greeted with a figure showing Solana will support up to 710k transactions per second (TPS) on a 1gb network without data partitioning. No wonder the ICO is attracting attention.
Jeopardy! is full of tough questions, but one clue last night had millions of crypto-investors yelling into their screens. The answer was: “In December 2017 one unit of this cryptocurrency was worth 15 times more than an ounce of gold.” Any clue what the question may have been? Hint: not Bitcoin Cash.
Phantasma wants to do something several people have considered before now: they want to create a decentralized system for emails, and content distribution so that artists can get paid properly, and do it all securely and with encryption and so on and so on. The code review shows little work so far.
Zcash is a cryptocurrency just like Bitcoin and Litecoin, but with a few improvements. It uses cryptography and shielded transactions to control user privacy on a public ledger. Journalists and doctors and teachers and lawyers and aid groups need anonymity to do their jobs. Zcash could help.
A Coinbase listing is the crypto equivalent of the Holy Grail for the community behind a token. Aside from the obvious benefits - including an exponential spike in the price and volume - Coinbase listings expose tokens to a much wider audience, increasing the long-term prospects of mass adoption.
Although there are concerns that privacy coins could be used for illegal activity, there is a real need for users to be able to separate their identity from their transaction history. The Cambridge Analytica scandal was bad, but it could represent just the tip of the iceberg for cryptocurrency.
Our nOS ICO preview reveals a highly anticipated NEO-based project offering a virtual operating system and gateway to the decentralized internet. The nOS ICO places the principle of transparency at the heart of the operating system. nOS tokens confer authority, governance, and rewards for contributors.
Today, let’s look at bloXroute, a network abstraction layer for blockchains (plural). Their focus is to create an agnostic infrastructure that can be leveraged by all blockchains. They basically claim Immediate 100x scaling. All blockchains. No protocol changes. Provably neutral. Eh? Really? Yep.
