Staking Economy Staking Economy #19: Big Tech goes BFT Libra announcement and implications, takeaways from Cosmos week in Berlin, Algorand auctions, Tour de Sol, and a potential Tezos fork.
Cosmos Delegation Vouchers - A Design Concept for Liquid Staking Positions A Proof-of-Stake design concept allowing for tokenized staking positions to be used in decentralized finance applications. Implemented as part of the Cosmos Hackathon Berlin by Chorus One and Sikka.
Staking Economy Staking Economy #18: Locked and Loaded Novel forms of staking (Edgeware lockdrop, dxDAO reputation, Nexus Mutual smart contract cover), interesting insights into blockchain fee models and challenges of operating blockchain infrastructure.
Research The Case for Incentivized Testnets An overview of the concept of testnet competitions in PoS networks. Covering what purpose they serve and why they are a useful tool to bootstrap a staking community.
Staking Economy Staking Economy #17: Alliances and Attacks The 17th newsletter issue covering Harmony staking details, Ava launch, Tezos Athens upgrade, Polkadot PoC-4, discouragement attacks and smart contract delegation.
Research The Internet of Blockchains: Part 3 - Network Effects & Proof of Stake The third part of the Internet of Blockchains series covering why crypto network effects might be stronger than anything we've seen before.
Technology Our Commitment to Security and Transparency Publishing the results of a first security audit of Chorus One's validation infrastructure.
Staking Economy Staking Economy #16: Reorgs and Reports Prysmatic's ETH2.0 PoS testnet, Binance hack and reorgs vs. finality, NYC blockchain week, a comprehensive PoS research report and more.
Cosmos Proposal #4 Evaluation: Token Issuance on the Cosmos Hub A summary of the proposal to issue fungible tokens directly on the Cosmos Hub (#4) including the reasoning for our "No" vote.
Staking Economy Staking Economy #15: Rewards and Representation Staking rewards in ETH2.0, Polkadot's NPoS consensus, the Cosmos transfer upgrade process, staking wallets and thoughts on staking yields.
Cosmos The Top Cosmos Wallets to Safely Store and Stake your Atoms A curated list of the top wallets to store and stake your Cosmos Atoms. Featuring Lunie, imToken, Cosmoswallet, WeTez and validator delegation tools.
Terra Announcing the Chorus One Terra Validator The Chorus One Terra validator allows LUNA holders to stake their tokens to receive rewards for transactions processed on the stablecoin network.
Research The Truth About Staking Yields This analysis explains the impact of staking on token ownership and the implications on what the network overall is paying for security comparing Proof-of-Stake and Proof-of-Work networks.
Loom Loom’s Ecosystem and Competition Loom is tackling multiple markets with their layer-2 scaling solution to Ethereum. A big focus lies on the gaming market, where Loom has already managed to attract multiple projects to their platform. This article introduces the main competitors and some of the projects building on Loom.
Research The Internet of Blockchains: Part 2 - Cosmos Network Effects The second part of the "Internet of Blockchains" series. Taking a look at the Cosmos Network with a focus on network effects.
Cosmos Proposal #3 Evaluation: Atom Transfer Enablement v2 Facts about the history and details of the transfer enablement governance process on the Cosmos Hub. Including a timeline and Chorus One's evaluation.
Staking Economy Staking Economy #14: Staking Goes Mainstream Cosmos Hub launch, Coinbase Custody launching Tezos staking, various protocol, funding and validator news, (de)centralization in Cosmos and other important staking-related topics.
Research The Internet of Blockchains: Part 1 - Cosmos, Loom & Interoperability In this series of posts we argue in favor of interoperability between blockchains and positive sum thinking in contrast to the emerging one-chain-to-rule-them all maximalism.
Cosmos An Overview of Cosmos Hub Governance An overview of the governance process on the Cosmos Hub. Covering how a proposal is submitted, how deposits are collected, how the voting happens, and how the final outcome is determined.
Cosmos The Magic of Application-Specific Blockchains The second part of the 3-piece blog series on the key ideas of the Cosmos Network. Covering application-specific blockchains and the Cosmos SDK.
Research The Chorus One Vision At Chorus One we are building a community of engaged token holders that work together to shape the future of decentralized networks. Learn about our vision and how we are going about it in this post.
Cosmos Cosmos Delegation Tutorial A step-by-step tutorial on how to delegate your Atoms to a Cosmos validator using the gaiacli Terminal. No additional software required. Working on Mac OS X or Linux.
Cosmos Cosmos Staking Primer (+Reward Calculator) A comprehensive overview of staking details and implications for delegators (rewards, risks, unbonding) in Cosmos including a reward calculator to model returns from staking.
Cosmos The Key Ideas Behind the Cosmos Network This three part series covers the key ideas behind the Cosmos Network and how they fit into the history of blockchain protocols. Part I covers PBFT, Security Bonds and the Validator and Delegator roles.
Staking Economy Staking Economy #13: Launch Time Loom Network staking launch, data, and content. Cosmos mainnet, Game of Stakes post-mortem. Validator architectures and attack vectors.
