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A short explainer on technological stacks used in distributed ledger networks, such as blockchain and DAGs

One of our hackathon projects - a poker planner, that can be used for voting and organizing work, using a decentralized network

The year 2018 from the Radix perspective - an overview of our achievements, including a testnet, our very first hackathon and the growth of our community.

Our opinion on Bitcoin and its mechanism of releasing new supply - and why the economic design of BTC might ultimitely lead to its demise.

An overview on why blockchains cannot scale effectively - regardless of proposed methods of improving them and how Radix DLT solves this.

A short explainer on bulding on top of the Nano Ledger S - one of the most popular hardware cryptocurrency wallets on the market

Why are DAGs not the answer to the problems with blockchain scalability. How can distributed networks scale without centralization?

What's the Byzantine General Problem and what it has to do with distributed public networks, such as blockchain? The answer is consensus algorithms.

An overview of proof of work (POW) consensus algorithm - and an explanation on how it solves the so-called Byzantine Generals Problem

Solving the Byzantine Generals Problem with Proof of Stake and how POW does this in a different manner to Proof of Work (PoW).

A proposition of solving the so-called Byzantine Generals Problem with the use of virtual voting on a decentralized network

Overview of one of the most misunderstood and dangerous attack types in decentralized networks - the Sybil Attack.

Explainer of eclipse attacks - what are those, how does an attacker exactly profit from executing it and ways of prevention.

An overview of one of the most notorious attacks in distributed networks - the double spend attack, with a breakdown of different attack types

A explainer of the concept of sharding - what is it and why is it an interesting proposition for scaling distributed networks.

A short explainer of the most popular attack in the Nakamoto Consensus - a chain split, including different types of chain splits

How can pricing mechanism be implemented in decentralized networks - an article inspired by the presentation by Vitalik Buterin

Why are non-fungible tokens interesting and how can they be the driver for mass adoption, particularly for gamers

An overview of our first public hackathon, including the overview of all project and the winner - Podium, a decentralized Twitter

Our internal hackathon winner - the Command Line Interface project, allowing for the use of off-ledger smart contracts

A short overview of the concept of sharding and how will it allow the Radix Public Network to scale massively

Decentrasign - one of our internal hackathon projects, focused on immutable timestamping of documents and identity authentication

An overview of our first internal Radix hackathon, with a short overview of each project and the winner - the CLI interface

Information regarding our manual transfer from the old, archival Radix channel to the new one.

Our overview of all the madness that happened in cryptocurrency during 2018 - the bearmarket, bitcoin cash, stable coins and more!

How does Radix aim to change the world? Find out here!

A short overview on how to implement an alias system on the Radix Public Netowk, including registration and resolution.

An explainer on hashes, Merkle Trees, Merkle Proofs and their role in distributed networks

A primer on symmetric keys and sessions keys - with an explainer on the role of keys in distributed, decentralized networks

Explainer on signature use in public, distributed networks and their role in verifying messages, identity and more.

An explainer on public key cryptography and its use in public, distributed network - ie signing and encrypting content

A primer on constraints and way decentralized applications can work on a public, decentralized network

An explanation on hashes and hash function - with an overview of their uses and applications in a public, distributed network.

We explain what decentralization means to us and how we mean to achieve it, including our take on decentralized applications