It’s time for another weekly recap, so let’s take a look at how the market fared after a few weeks of drops and hard times, and see if the predictions of the most bearish traders and analyst became true, or the low period worked as buildup for new momentum:
SKALE– Accessibility As A Goalpoint
We have talked many times about the inherent benefits that would arise if developers, specifically app-oriented, switched their focus to start building their projects on top of blockchain, taking advantage of the global reach and almost flawless security that can be achieved with it. However, working on such a different backbone can be difficult and discouraging to some developers, but how can this process be simplified?
Last Week’s Best – 16 – Presearch
The internet has become the largest repository of information that has ever existed, with more than half of the world’s population having access to the 2.5 million terabytes of data that are generated every day. And most of that access is gained through the most useful tools of the current day: search engines. But can Presearch set the precedent as the first community-driven, decentralized engine in the world?
Top 10 Recap - November 23rd, 2019
Last Week’s Best – 15 – BLOCKv
In this week’s feature covering the best performing token reported in our Weekly Recap, we will talk about BLOCKv: an interesting take on how to apply blockchain technology to new aspects of our everyday life, specifically those that could benefit greatly from a decentralized way to store digital assets.
Top 10 Recap - November 16th, 2019
Staked – Old-School and Modernity, Together
In a landscape as volatile and unpredictable as cryptocurrency, companies and projects take inspiration from concepts in real world banking and finance, and the one that has risen quite the number of eyebrows is compounding. Staked plans to implement compounding in a secure, scalable and decentralized way.
Last Week’s Best – 14 – Minexcoin
In this week’s feature where we cover the best performing token of the last few days, we will talk about Minexcoin, a project that aims to build a solid network suitable for payments based on a stable, low-volatility token that allows for asset trading between different blockchains without contacting third parties. We will discuss about how they plan to do so and the possible reasons of the rise of their token last week, so let’s take a deeper look.
Top 10 Recap - November 9nd, 2019
Hacken – Living with the Enemy
As technology moves forward, the sophistication of the malicious systems that intend to force their entry into the databases, which is why the defense mechanisms need to become more robust to prevent the data from falling into the wrong hands. Hacken is a company focused on exactly that: keeping the upper hand against these malicious users to ensure the security of any project.
Top 10 Recap - November 2nd, 2019
Solana – Futureproof Time-Based Technology
Many are worried that sharding goes against the principles of blockchain in which the whole of the information is readily available at any given time, and that is the motivation behind projects like Solana, where they focus on tackling the issue from a different angle than reducing the amount of data that needs to be validated.
Last Week’s Best – 12 – ETHLend
Top 10 Recap - October 26th, 2019
Research Papers Series - 1 - IOTA Foundation
We are announcing a new series of content in which we will release a monthly paper that will review a specific topic in detail, with technical explanations when available, and this month’s release is already published!
For our first edition, we covered the IOTA Foundation and their incredibly ambitious vision of Tangle technology implementation as a replacement for blockchain in several economic sectors. You can find it, along with our previous and future releases, in our Research page, so go check it out!
Last Week’s Best – 11 – Chiliz
Welcome back to our weekly special feature, where we quickly review the best performing token of the past week, as seen in our last Weekly Recap, along with trying to discover the reason of their climb. This week we will cover Chiliz, a project that wants to implement the benefits of blockchains and tokenization into one of the most profitable landscapes: sports.
Top 10 Recap - October 19th, 2019
Quantum Computing – Can There Be Too Much Progress?
Given that the current state of blockchain is entirely based on the processing limitations of hardware to properly encrypt the data that’s stored in the blocks, a big step forward like quantum computing poses a threat to this system. What are our options? Is the future of blockchain as grim as it seems?