Crypto & DeFi

At Babylon launch, the Radix Public Network will undergo a permanent upgrade to enable programmability, a new execution engine, a new transaction model, and more powerful native assets. All existing assets, stake, and accounts will automatically be migrated, and there will be an easy way to transition from the current Radix Desktop Wallet to the new Babylon Radix Wallet for iOS and Android.

Discover how aggregation and enhanced user experience, the winning formula behind Web2 giants, will shape the future of Web3 adoption. Piers Ridyard, CEO of RDX Works, explores the importance of multi-chain communication protocols like LayerZero and the role of user-focused public networks in providing seamless, unified experiences.

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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?

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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