Chorus One

Announcing the Liquid Staking Working Group

The Liquid Staking Working Group will hold bi-weekly calls starting Jan 15. The output of these calls is a research report giving a holistic overview of approaches that aim to bring liquidity to staked assets and their impact on Proof-of-Stake.

Staking Economy

Staking Economy #32: Wrapping Up 2019

A double issue featuring a recap of 2019 and predictions for 2020 from various Staking Economy readers. Also covering Cardano's Shelley launch, NEAR economics, Terra oracle, and more.

Research

In Conversation with Kyle Samani: Five Key Takeaways

Multicoin's mega theses (defi, web3, stateless money), exchanges and networked liquidity, as well as adoption (scaling, on-ramps, key mgmt) and the multi-chain ecosystem.

Staking Economy

Staking Economy #30: Validating Infrastructure

Blockchain infrastructure-as-a-Service provider Bison Trails raising $25.5m, high availability validation on Solana, taxation of staking rewards, OAN Unity launch and more.

Solana

Solana StrongGate: Open-Source High Availability Validation

An introduction to the open-source high availability protocol StrongGate that allows Solana validators to operate redundant infrastructure while eliminating the risk of accidental double-signing.

Staking Economy

Staking Economy #29: 0 to 100 (% Slashing)

Discussion of 100% slashing penalties, Celo and NEAR's PoS and economic designs, Kava mainnet, StakerDAO as well as various incentivized testnets updates.

Regen

Regen Network: How To Change The World

Impending climate catastrophe calls for immediate action. Regen Network's platform may serve as the mechanism required to coordinate stakeholders, accelerate change, and foster regeneration.

Staking Economy

Staking Economy #28: Proportional Slashing

A proposal to tie slashing penalties and stake, thoughts on on-chain governance by validators, Ethereum killers, Kava token model, NEAR Stake Wars and more.

Kava

An Overview of Kava's Token Design

This post is an overview of the blockchain and token design of Kava's cross-chain DeFi platform. It covers the three core features of the KAVA token: security, stability, and governance.

Regen

Our Partnership with the Regen Network

Learn about the Regen Network, what the network aims to achieve, and how Chorus One is planning to support their vision by partnering with the Regen team. Building the tools and incentive structures necessary for ecological regeneration.

Q&A

Celo Q&A with Marek Olszewski

Celo is building a mobile-first smart contract platform with a built-in stablecoin system to tackle financial inclusion in emerging economies. This post is a transcript of our Telegram chat with Marek Olszewski, CTO of C Labs covering various details of the Celo platform.

Staking Economy

Staking Economy #27: Transitions

Updates from Ethereum's Devcon, Aragon's PoS Chain, OpenLibra, Trustwallet's staking platform, and more staking-relevant news and content.

Q&A

AVA Q&A with Kevin Sekniqi

A discussion with AVA co-founder Kevin Sekniqi covering AVA's staking implementation and other core design features, its differentiation to other smart contract platforms, as well as timeline, launch plans, and details on the inner workings of Avalanche consensus.

Staking Economy

Staking Economy #26: Post-Mortem

Binance and KuCoin staking platforms, failed Cosmos Hub upgrade, updates from Coda and Regen testnets, Matic economics, and plug-and-play incognito validator.

Q&A

Edgeware Q&A with Dillon Chen

Transcript of the Telegram Q&A covering Edgeware (re)launch, how Commonwealth Labs got founded, protocol governance design and experimentation.

Q&A

The Future of Proof-of-Stake Q&A with Brian Crain

Transcript of the "The Future of Proof-of-Stake" discussion with Brian Crain, CEO of Chorus One. Topics include Brian's background, why he is focusing on PoS, the concept of decentralization, staking yields and lending protocols, governance, and more.

Staking Economy

Staking Economy #25: Diversification

This issue covers stake distribution and diversification on the Cosmos Hub, Eth2.0 client interoperability, Polkadot parathreads, views on staking from China, and other PoS network updates including Loom, CasperLabs, Cardano, Flow, NEAR and NuCypher.

Cosmos

Analyzing Stake Distribution and Diversification on the Cosmos Hub

The Cosmos Hub is one of the first live Proof-of-Stake networks. This analysis highlights how stake is distributed across validators and how token holders engage with the system, particularly looking at whether stakers diversify across validators.

Staking Economy

Staking Economy #24: Quo Vadis

A recap of Berlin Blockchain Week and the state of the staking ecosystem; staking AMA series; Tezos governance platform Agora and Oasis, Skale and Solana testnets

Q&A

tBTC Q&A with Matt Luongo

The transcript of our Q&A session with Matt Luongo, CEO at Thesis (Keep Network). Covering how tBTC is using the Keep Network to bring Bitcoin to Ethereum, how tBTC differs from other interoperability solutions, and more.

Terra

Risks and Rewards when Staking Luna on the Terra Network

An overview of risk and reward factors to consider when staking Luna on the Terra network. Including explanations of price stability, slashing, as well as fee mechanisms and parameters, details about unbonding and more!

Q&A

Agoric Q&A with Dean Tribble

The transcript of our Q&A session with Dean Tribble, CEO of Agoric. Including special guest Mark Miller! Going deep into Agoric's design approach to smart contracts.

Staking Economy

Staking Economy #23: History Repeats

A breakdown of the history of Proof-of-Stake, Terra staking, Harmony EPoS and testnet competition Pangea, Cosmos foundation delegations and more!

Terra

Terra Q&A with Do Kwon

Summary of our AMA with Do Kwon from Terra Money about the state of their stablecoin and payments network including questions on adoption, technology, regulatory, and more!

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