External data to the smart contract (from outside the blockchain) can be provided only, as parameters (arguments) of its call. Oracles are software running outside the blockchain, which listens for "requests" by smart contracts for external data,…

The recent news about 1400 bitcoins loss caused a lot of buzz: the amount of Bitcoins worth about 16.3 million $, not any kind of exchange hack, all happened using Electrum wallet - one of the oldest and still very popular Bitcoin wallet. I share…

With the new release of Hyperledger Fabric 2.0 the lifecycle of chaincode has been changed. It implies also the changes in the chaincode deployment process - what basically means that commands used to deploy chaincode in < 2.0 release (no matter if…

Truffle Suite is the tool pack dedicated to Ethereum developers (focusing on smart contracts). That very actively developed project is currently one of the most popular frameworks for implementing, testing and running Ethereum based decentralized…

zk-SNARK (Zero-Knowledge Succinct Non-Interactive Argument of Knowledge) is the protocol of zero knowledge proof. ZCash cryptocurrency will be the one of first opened blockchain projects, which will utilize the implementation of this fascinating…

Lisk is dedicated to develop custom blockchain based applications using Javascript. After Alpha SDK release it's possible for developers to prototype first custom applications. Technology is awaited by project investors since some time already. In…

Sharding is going to be scalability solution in upcoming Ethereum 2.0 and the enhancement hope for many other blockchains. Scalability is the speed key factor of the blockchain. This word is used to describe all the technology solutions which have…

The news about releasing the Ethereum Studio developer environment was today published on the Ethereum blog. How does look like the new IDE and can it compete with popular RemixIDE? Let's take a look on the new tool and check what it offers.

Lisk is one of the blockchain projects, whose primary focus is to enable building highly efficient blockchain based applications (dapps). The term "Lisk" at the moment can be called to describe the Lisk Core blockchain (with the native LSK…

The blockchain technology spreads. Mainly this can be visible in the context of cryptocurrencies popularity gain (which can be noticed by rising Bitcoin price). Blockchain became useful or even created plenty of new branches like tokenization which…