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The Radix Olympia Betanet is now live. Welcome!

The CEO of Radix DLT Piers Ridyard recently conducted an in-depth Q&A session. Some excellent questions were put forward via Telegram and answered by Piers.

It’s getting very exciting for the Radix team as we enter the final two weeks leading up to the long-awaited Radix Betanet. With the deadline in sight, the team is pushing every ounce of willpower into the code. In this blog series, we present the different members of the Radix team to the community.

The crypto space progresses at great speeds, and the fact we are now into Q2 is testament to that. Looking back at the last quarter there is a strong sense of growing momentum, both with Radix and the industry as a whole.

In the run-up to the launch of the Olympia Betanet on April 28, we have put together a short FAQ addressing common questions we have seen from the community. In the main, the questions cover:

The CEO of Radix DLT, Piers Ridyard, recently conducted two Q&A sessions with leading Chinese Telegram crypto communities, Golden Finance and MXC Exchange. Piers was asked some excellent questions around Cerberus, Radix’s next-generation consensus mechanism, general design approaches to the network, and general industry questions.

Every two weeks, Radix DLT’s Founder Dan Hughes hosts a technical ask-me-anything (AMA) session on the main Radix Telegram Channel. There are always great discussions around Cerberus, Radix’s next-generation consensus mechanism, general design approaches to the network, and of course general industry questions.

Radix Report – March 18th 2021. Never a dull moment in crypto as NFTs (non-fungible tokens) have their break-through moment and the foremost NFT artist, Beeple, is thrust into the mainstream spotlight with the sale of his largest pieces to date going for $69m (of course it did) at Christies auction.

The Radix team is composed of passionate, multi-talented, and hardworking individuals from around the world. In this blog series, we introduce them two at a time . Today we sat down with Ben and Mikael, and asked them about their experience, expertise, and critically, what makes them so excited about Radix.

Just over a week ago we announced our April 28 launch of the Radix betanet, a temporary test network ahead of the Olympia mainnet launch. We also launched our Validator Community Proposal Program for those who wish to run one of the 100 validator nodes on betanet.We wanted to provide a quick update on betanet, particular for those interested in validator node-running.

Every two weeks, Radix DLT’s Founder Dan Hughes hosts a technical ask-me-anything (AMA) session on the main Radix Telegram Channel.

Read the last two-weeks of news from Radix including how the team is shifts gears towards our first major public milestones in Q2 - Betanet followed by Olympia, our name for the first Radix mainnet.

The Radix DLT team is pleased to announce that we will be launching our “betanet” network on April 28th, 2021. This will mark the end of our “drop 3” internal milestone (more on our drops here), and the completion of the bulk of core Radix development intended for the first public network release by end of Q2.

Every two weeks, Radix DLT’s Founder Dan Hughes hosts a technical ask-me-anything (AMA) session on the main Radix Telegram Channel.

Radix give an insight into how the Radix network operates, including the desktop wallet and the command line interface to manage validators.

Radix launch GoodFi, a non-profit initiative with Aave, Chainlink, Messari, mStable to further education and research for the DeFi industry.

The Radix public network roadmap is split into a sequence of major releases each named after a city that bore one of the wonders of the ancient world.

Welcome to the first fortnightly Radix Report - a quick rundown on what has happened in the world of Radix in the last two weeks and a great way of staying up to date with the work the Radix DLT team is doing on getting the decentralised finance protocol up and running!

DeFI made history, seeing the year out with US$15.442 BN in TLV. 2020 was also incredibly busy for Radix - take a look at our highlights.

New DLT platforms claim to provide high scalability, but only Radix has figured out how to do so without breaking the composability.

Bitcoiners, is the most direct path to adoption of Bitcoin through adoption of DLT and the emerging DeFi application space?

EVM-style computation was never designed for the incredibly specific needs and environment that a public DLT represents; the Radix Engine is.

Radix Key Milestones and Deliverables - Cerberus consensus & DeFi whitepapers; RPN Drop 1; partnership with University California Davis.

The Cerberus Whitepaper describes Radix's breakthrough multi-shard consensus protocol that enables unprecedented DLT scalability.

Radix partners with Argent to provide a seamless experience for token holders - a secure wallet with no custodian, no seed phrase, no borders

Radix DLT announce a partnership with Object Computing and Noether DLT to develop an Ethereum-based smart contract platform for the Radix ledger.

Radix partner University of California Davis to formally analyze and prove the security and scalability of Cerberus’ consensus design.

DeFi needs to be built on a protocol that enables fast, secure development of commercial applications while maintaining composability.

The Ren Protocol helps Radix move one step closer to enabling seamless bridges between the Ethereum, and Radix DeFi ecosystems.

The Radix DeFi Whitepaper explains how each of the four Radix platform technologies work to create the first truly layer-1 protocol for DeFi.

We're excited to provide an update on our RPN-1 Network, including a video demonstration of a working drop-1 network

An overview of ingredients that are necessary to create a succesful decentralised public network/blockchain, fueled by a token.

Why are decentralised public networks the future and how to build them - a Radix Distributed Ledger Technology perspective

A short overview of differences between sybil protection and a consensus algorithm, with an eli-5 style explanation.

A short overview of our Public Network Roadmap, with explanation of used terms and links to our Github for reference.

An update on Radix DLT's 2020 plans and technical path forward

How Radix communicates with its community

We're delighted to release our new consensus whitepaper - Cerberus. Cerberus creates a multi-lane superhighway, capable of processing massive numbers of transactions in parallel. Through the Cerberus consensus protocol, we are tackling one of the most pressing issues facing the blockchain industry, that of scalability.

We've decided to move to open source - as the only way moving forward to keep Radix transparent, anti-fragile and a public good.

What were the different approaches considered by Dan Hughes, our Founder? Read more about how we made our way Bitcoin experiments to Cerberus

Smart contracts in currently available public networks are riddled with problems - The Radix Engine is a solution.

An explanation of how smart-contracts work with Ethereum (EVM) and Hyperledger with Radix Engine proposed as an alternative.

This blog post discusses barriers for public network adoptions with a particular focus on one of them - buildability.

Radflix - a hackathon project giving the possibility to stream movies using tokens and a distributed ledger

How did Google Cloud make it possible for us to achieve 1 million transactions per second during our tests?

An in-depth technical description of us creating the 1 million transaction per secon test using the Tempo consensus algorithm.

A short overview of our 1 million transaction per second test, run on the Tempo consensus algorithm in June

A description of how can the full 10 year Bitcoin ledger history be replayed in under 30 minutes, while using Tempo

A short overview of one of our internal hackathon projects - a Radix Universe visualizer, providing a graphical representation of a network.

Another internal hackathon project - creating a chess game on ledger, by utilising the functionalities of the Radix Engine

An ELI5-style blog post, explaining how exactly does the constraint model - part of the Radix Engine - work