Tag Archives: White Paper

Metronome (MTN) – cross-chain cryptocurrency

Metronome proposes multi chain portability to achieve endurance and enhance decentralization.

In a system managed by autonomous smart contracts, decentralization provides MTN community with self governance.

Portability is an key feature of the project.  Cross chain property allows tokens to longer endurance in the event new, smarter chains are available and mainstream.

One positive result of cross-chain ability could be broader price discovery.  And if trading interest gets critical mass in multiple chains this could grant greater price stability to MTN.

Check their owners manual, and see how this predictable supplied, cross-blockchain, ERC-20 compliant token presents itself.

LegalThings One (LTO)

LegalThings One proposes a platform for contracts dubbed as ‘Live Contracts‘.  Live contracts are agreed in commercial/legal terms but allows some parameters to interaction.  Such parameters are formalized so that they may be interpreted by code.  After interactions are made so that parties agree then each party sets a node to run contract as specified.Continue reading→

Cardano (ADA) – Proof of Stake Smart Contract Platform

Will Cardano deliver the hype?  It’s a lot to deal with.  Their SL Mainnet is live, and their progress seems to be following their roadmap.

As a multi layer protocol Cardano is a bold proposition; one layer being an account, then a layer for smart contracts, and an identity/compliance layer on top.  First to third generation crypto covered in one ecosystem.

Development is open source and patent free.  Check out its backbone: ‘Ouroboros’ directly from the whitepaper.  Spoiler: it’s PoS.

EOS White Paper

“EOS.IO Technical White Paper

The EOS.IO software introduces a new blockchain architecture designed to enable vertical and horizontal scaling of decentralized applications. This is achieved by creating an operating system-like construct upon which applications can be built. The software provides accounts, authentication, databases, asynchronous communication and the scheduling of applications across hundreds of CPU cores or clusters. The resulting technology is a blockchain architecture that scales to millions of transactions per second, eliminates user fees, and allows for quick and easy deployment of decentralized applications.Continue reading→

Gnosis (GNO)

Gnosis is an Ethereum based platform designed for wisdom of the crowd applications.

Gnosis layers enable 3rd party applications targetting market predictions and Ethereum oracles.Continue reading→

Stellar payment protocol

Stellar is a open source consensus protocol, forked out of Ripple.

White paper by David Mazières from Stellar Development Foundation “introduces a new model for consensus called federated Byzantine agreement (FBA). (…) and Stellar Consensus Protocol (SCP), a construction for FBA. Like all Byzantine agreement protocols, SCP makes no assumptions about the rational behavior of attackers. Unlike prior Byzantine agreement models, which presuppose a unanimously accepted membership list, SCP enjoys open membership that promotes organic network growth. Compared to decentralized proof of-work and proof-of-stake schemes, SCP has modest computing and financial requirements, lowering the barrier to entry and potentially opening up financial systems to new participants”