NFT is a landscape that cannot be ignored in the blockchain circle and even outside the circle.

This article attempts to propose a simple framework for analyzing blockchain consensus in order to make a simple comparison of different blockchain consensus.

There are too many misunderstandings about PoW and PoS, and it is a very difficult task to explain it clearly in an article, so here are only two simple discussions, one is to think about whether the good promise given by PoS is from an economic point of

Starting from the Layer2 transaction business process, this framework analyzes the necessary steps for asset transfer between the local consensus Layer2 and the global consensus Layer1. Point out that ensuring the security of Layer2 requires the first La

The author of this article, Jan, analyzes the state explosion of the blockchain by comparing and analyzing the history and status of Bitcoin and Ethereum.

If we believe that layering is the future direction of development, we should consider the needs of upper-layer protocols and layered networks from the very beginning, and design blockchain protocols within a layered framework.

Cryptoeconomics (Cryptoeconomics) is a brand new economy formed after many years of blockchain development. Blockchain is a machine for creating trust, a network maintained by algorithms and economic incentives that does not rely on any third party.

What is blockchain? Is it a common knowledge base?

ETC suffered a 51% attack, has the cornerstone of PoW consensus been shaken?

Recently, there is a project Grin, and the protocol behind it, MimbleWimble, which is extremely popular in China. In fact, Zhang Ren, a researcher at Nervos & Cryptape and a doctoral candidate in the COSIC laboratory of the University of Leuven, reco

Bandwidth is actually the biggest limitation of blockchain throughput. In the Scaling Bitcoin Meetup held in San Francisco, USA, Nervos & Cryptape researcher Zhang Ren analyzed the efficiency and feasibility of many consensus protocols from the persp

Nervos researcher Dr. Zhang Ren delivered a keynote speech entitled "Lay Down the Common Metrics: Evaluating Proof-of-Work Consensus Protocols' Security" in the Master Workshop, which itself was about multiple consensus protocols. Based on

A Knowledge Collision about Blockchain Virtual Machine

First-class Asset, which makes encrypted assets a "first-class citizen" in the blockchain.

Nick Szabo's Thoughts on Money, Blockchains, and Social Scalability