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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 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

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