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Blockchain Project Thundercore Releases Code for 'Pala' Consensus Protocol

Blockchain provider platform ThunderCore announced the open-sourcing of a new consensus protocol called Pala.

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Staking, Ethereum’s Mining Alternative, Will Be Profitable – But Barely

The new miners of ethereum 2.0 are expected to make a small but positive profit for creating new blocks and validating transactions on the network.

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Turing Award Winner's Blockchain Opens Test Network to Public

The test network for the Algorand blockchain platform – co-founded by MIT professor Silvio Micali – has been opened to the public.

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Coinbase Leads Wall Street to Brave New World of Crypto Staking

Coinbase Custody has launched staking services for institutional clients, starting with Tezos and touting 6.6 percent yields.

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A Blockchain to Connect All Blockchains, Cosmos Is Officially Live

A new proof-of-stake blockchain called the Cosmos Hub has just launched on mainnet.

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Validators Create New Attack Vectors for Decentralized Systems

Bounty0x CMO Pascal Thellman discusses some of the potential security and incentives issues with validators on proof-of-stake networks.

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CasperLabs Is Building a PoS Blockchain With Help from Ethereum's Vlad Zamfir

A new blockchain startup was launched today called CasperLabs. Aiming to build a proof-of-stake blockchain based upon the seminal work of Ethereum Foundation researcher Vlad Zamfir, CasperLabs has announced Zamfir as lead consensus protocol architect to the project.

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Pantera, Coinbase Join $4.5 Million Round for Staking-as-a-Service Startup

Pantera Capital and Coinbase Ventures have joined a $4.5 million round for Staked, a firm that helps investors back proof-of-stake cryptos.

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Proof-of-Stake Could Lead to Crypto Banking. Let's Avoid That

"Staking as a service" is taking off. We need to think hard about what this means for crypto's evolution, warns Michael J. Casey.

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Ethereum Startup Parity Adds Casper Code to Custom Blockchain Toolbox

Parity Technologies has added an early version of ethereum's hotly anticipated Casper code change to its blockchain development platform, Substrate.

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