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Decentralized Architecture: What’s Behind Blockchains?

Fueled by ever new highs in cryptocurrency prices, there is currently a lively debate about blockchains. Some praise the “self-sustaining” currencies as saviors in times of crisis, while others see their excessive power consumption as a climate killer.

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Deploying a WebAssembly smart contract on Oasis Ethereum

One of the cornerstones of Ethereum 2.0 is the migration from the “classic” EVM to a WebAssembly-based virtual machine. In this post, I explain how to deploy a compiled WebAssembly contract to the Oasis Ethereum chain.

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The many ways of testing Smart Contracts in Ethereum
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Verification of smart contracts

Smart contracts are used to execute code on blockchains. A variety of business cases are now represented with such contracts. Ethereum is a popular platform for this purpose. However, as with all software, the question arises of how to ensure the quality of the code.

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Aeternity Smart Contract Deployment

The Forgae framework offers developments tools to easily test and deploy Aeternity smart contracts, and start a local environment on the developer’s workstation.

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Aeternity Smart Contract Development
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Ethereum Contracts with Truffle Framework

There are many ways of development for new Smart contracts for Ethereum. Truffle Suite is one of them. It gives the developer the power to focus more on business logic than on operations.

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Blockchain Mining: Embarrassingly Parallel?

In this blog post, we are going to look at three different approaches at mining new blocks in a blockchain using Rust, all of them using multiple threads, and we’re going to compare their runtime performances with each other and with that of the two single-threaded solutions from the previous post.

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Blockchain Mining with Rust