Proof-of-Stake

Ethereum

Staking, Ethereum’s Mining Alternative, Will Be Profitable – But Barely

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.

Tech  ·  8 May 2019
Algorand

Turing Award Winner’s Blockchain Opens Test Network to Public

The test network for the Algorand blockchain platform – co-founded by MIT professor Silvio Micali – has been opened to the public.

Tech  ·  16 April 2019
Exchanges

Coinbase Leads Wall Street to Brave New World of Crypto Staking

Coinbase Custody has launched staking services for institutional clients, starting with Tezos and touting 6.6 percent yields.

Markets  ·  29 March 2019
Cosmos

A Blockchain to Connect All Blockchains, Cosmos Is Officially Live

A new proof-of-stake blockchain called the Cosmos Hub has just launched on mainnet.

Tech  ·  13 March 2019
Bitcoin

Validators Create New Attack Vectors for Decentralized Systems

Bounty0x CMO Pascal Thellman discusses some of the potential security and incentives issues with validators on proof-of-stake networks.

Tech  ·  24 February 2019
Ethereum

CasperLabs Is Building a PoS Blockchain With Help from Ethereum’s Vlad Zamfir

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.

Tech  ·  22 February 2019
Funding Rounds

Pantera, Coinbase Join $4.5 Million Round for Staking-as-a-Service Startup

Pantera Capital and Coinbase Ventures have joined a $4.5 million round for Staked, a firm that helps investors back proof-of-stake cryptos.

Markets  ·  31 January 2019
Cardano

Proof-of-Stake Could Lead to Crypto Banking. Let’s Avoid That

"Staking as a service" is taking off. We need to think hard about what this means for crypto's evolution, warns Michael J. Casey.

Tech  ·  21 January 2019
Ethereum

Ethereum Startup Parity Adds Casper Code to Custom Blockchain Toolbox

Parity Technologies has added an early version of ethereum's hotly anticipated Casper code change to its blockchain development platform, Substrate.

Tech  ·  1 October 2018
Ethereum

You Won’t Have to Wait for This Ethereum Scaling Solution, It Works Now

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."

Tech  ·  26 September 2018
Bitcoin

When Blockchains Go Down: Why Crypto Outages Are on the Rise

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.

Tech  ·  23 September 2018
Proof-of-Stake

The Creator of Proof-of-Stake Thinks He Finally Figured It Out

Pseudonymous developer Sunny King, the creator of proof-of-stake, has a new approach for the consensus mechanism – and it revolves around hardware.

Tech  ·  7 September 2018
Monero

A Small Crypto Coin Is Making Big Claims About a Private Proof-of-Stake

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.

Tech  ·  29 July 2018
Cardano

A $3.3 Billion Claim: Has Cardano’s Blockchain ‘Solved’ Proof-of-Stake?

Charles Hoskinson explains cardano's iterative approach to security, and how its interaction with academic gives it an advantage over other designs.

Tech  ·  12 July 2018
Ethereum

Testing for Ethereum’s Coming Consensus Change Is Moving Ahead

Less than a year since Casper was formalized, ethereum clients are starting to test a smart contract for the network's big consensus change.

Tech  ·  6 June 2018