The new miners of ethereum 2.0 are expected to make a small but positive profit for creating new blocks and validating transactions on the network.
The test network for the Algorand blockchain platform – co-founded by MIT professor Silvio Micali – has been opened to the public.
Coinbase Custody has launched staking services for institutional clients, starting with Tezos and touting 6.6 percent yields.
A new proof-of-stake blockchain called the Cosmos Hub has just launched on mainnet.
Bounty0x CMO Pascal Thellman discusses some of the potential security and incentives issues with validators on proof-of-stake networks.
A new blockchain startup was launched today called CasperLabs. Aiming to build a proof-of-stake blockchain based upon the seminal work of Ethereum Foundation researcher Vlad Zamfir, CasperLabs has announced Zamfir as lead consensus protocol architect to the project.
Pantera Capital and Coinbase Ventures have joined a $4.5 million round for Staked, a firm that helps investors back proof-of-stake cryptos.
"Staking as a service" is taking off. We need to think hard about what this means for crypto's evolution, warns Michael J. Casey.
Parity Technologies has added an early version of ethereum's hotly anticipated Casper code change to its blockchain development platform, Substrate.
Most ethereum scaling technologies are a far from completed, but OpenST says it's got a solution that's ready for the "here and now."
It used to be that downtime was unheard of on blockchain networks. As new protocols and new trade-offs emerge, that's no longer the case.
Pseudonymous developer Sunny King, the creator of proof-of-stake, has a new approach for the consensus mechanism – and it revolves around hardware.
Even though it's yet to gain much notoriety, token project Spectre is innovating in a trending area – private staking for proof-of-stake blockchains.
Charles Hoskinson explains cardano's iterative approach to security, and how its interaction with academic gives it an advantage over other designs.
Less than a year since Casper was formalized, ethereum clients are starting to test a smart contract for the network's big consensus change.