In this article we discuss how hashing functions and public key cryptography can be combined to allow us to use digital signatures, which help in making and receiving decentralized transactions.

In the next article in our primer series we discuss symmetric key algorithms, why are they useful and how are they used in Radix.

This post is designed to act as an overview to hashes and hash functions, as well as briefly explore how Radix utilizes them.

A quick summary of the first Radix hackathon that happened at Pillar’s Unconference in Lithuania.

This article explores what is sharding and why it is hard to shard a distributed ledger.

This article explains the impact of denial of service attacks on a distributed network like bitcoin and ethereum.

Lastly – as the last in our consensus series, we cover voting and virtual voting as a form of consensus. This is an old algorithm with a new twist, as popularised by Hashgraph.

Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) derives its name from Proof of Stake (PoS) but is different in both concept and implementation.