South Korea’s largest public blockchain project, ICON (ICX), announced its new Loop Fault Tolerance 2.0 (LFT 2.0) consensus algorithm on April 8. The new algorithm claims to make performance ...

The properties and features certain blockchains have solely hinge upon the problems they are to solve. This simple idea has an infinite load of underlying content related to popular delusions among ...

A Feb. 3 paper authored by Nikolai Durov, a Telegram co-founder, lays out the details of Telegram Open Network’s consensus mechanism, named Catchain. The proposed solution is a Byzantine Fault ...

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One of Bitcoin’s most unique features is its consensus algorithm, which set the precedent for a Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) peer-to-peer currency system. The most common definition of Bitcoin’s ...

Blockchain projects have received their fair share of rap thanks to the energy consumption. But this may change with the usage of power-saving mechanisms. Consensus mechanisms are the lifeline that ...