Last year, in Lithuania, Radix conducted their first Hackathon at Pillar Project’s Unconference. Out of the many innovative projects built during the Hackathon, one that had a particular mass-market application was Podium – a decentralized social network that is built to take advantage of Radix’s unprecedented scalability and end the toxicity prevalent on social media […]

This is the second part of a two-part series on how we built and deployed a test that pushed the entire transaction history of Bitcoin across the Radix ledger in less than 15 minutes. Part 1: A primer on the test and Radix (non-technical) The Code We decided to put the 1M TPS test code […]

This is the first part of a two-part series on how we built and deployed a test that pushed the entire transaction history of Bitcoin across the Radix ledger in less than 15 minutes. Part 2: How we actually built the test (technical) What is this test? These tests replay the entire 10 years of […]

Today we replayed the entire 10 years of Bitcoin’s transaction history on the Radix ledger, with full transaction and signature validation, on a network of over 1,000 Nodes distributed evenly throughout the world. For the first time since the creation of public, trustless networks, we have demonstrated a technology that can truly support even the […]

At Radix we like to think big, a useful mindset when trying to create a fast and scalable ledger that can support billions of people. With that in mind, Edgars and I (Stephen Thornton) decided to try and build something that would let us view the entire universe. However, since we were limited to just […]

We previously wrote about how gaming could be the first area to drive global adoption of cryptoassets, with the likes of non-fungible tokens offering the chance to revolutionize how collectibles and gaming intersects. For our hackathon project, we decided to port a game well over a millennium old to Radix: chess. Why? Typically, playing chess […]

Or Why the Constraint Machine Will Save the Universe … Tasked with making Radix Tempo Consensus programmable, we’ve stumbled upon a new idea we call a Constraint Machine. Humbleness aside, we believe the Radix Constraint Machine is a solution no one has asked for but everyone needs: a scalable, decentralized, real-time/offline, programmable state machine store. […]

“Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.” -Brian Kernighan Creating correctly working software is hard. Creating correctly working distributed, decentralized, permissionless, scalable software…well, that’s a whole other beast of a problem. To make it easier to think and communicate about complex software systems, software engineers use this concept called a “stack”. Simply put, it […]

Continuing our look at the output of our internal hackathon, László and I (Damián) decided to build Radix Planner, a project to allow for remote planning poker (also known as Scrum poker) running on Radix. What is it? Planning poker is a gamified technique that is useful for estimating the effort required to achieve different […]