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Duckpools: A Lending and Borrowing Protocol on Ergo
As innovation on the Ergo blockchain continues, another vital decentralized application within the ecosystem is emerging. Ergo alr...
January 22, 2023
Ergo and The Autolykos Consensus Mechanism: Part II
Last week, we introduced an in-depth exploration of Ergo’s Autolykos consensus mechanism. With this article, we complete the secon...
June 20, 2022
Ergo and the Autolykos Consensus Mechanism: Part I
The following is an in-depth, technical breakdown of Ergo’s consensus mechanism, Autolykos. As this is a lengthy and detailed topi...
May 30, 2022
NIPoPoWs on Ergo: Innovations in Blockchain
The Ergo blockchain is quickly becoming known within the crypto space as a leader in blockchain development and innovation. While ...
April 1, 2022
Proof of Work, Energy and Ergo
Introduction Proof of Work (PoW) was described in the original Bitcoin white paper as having two parts. The first part is digital...
March 29, 2022
What is a DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization)?
Introduction A decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) is a new type of cooperative. DAOs enable groups of any size and indiv...
March 15, 2022
How-to: Minting a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) on the Ergo Blockchain
What is an NFT? When you have a unit of currency, such as the U.S. dollar, it is interchangeable with any other U.S. dollar. One ...
March 8, 2022
Blockchain and the Case for Ergo
From the inception of Bitcoin, blockchain technology has undergone enormous advancements over the twenty-first century. Enhancemen...
March 3, 2022
Is Stablecoin Adoption on the Horizon?
Today, USD-pegged circulating stablecoins account for nearly 185 billion USD market capitalization - a 500% increase from last y...
February 24, 2022
DeFi on Ergo: Custom Token Fees
Infrastructure coins are important because we need them to pay gas fees for using decentralized finance and deploying contracts....
February 22, 2022
Ergo Explainer: Storage Rent
tl;dr: Storage rent is a fee for long term storage on the Ergo blockchain. Four years from your last transaction, you will be ch...
February 18, 2022
An Introduction to Privacy and Security in Blockchain
After the first whitepaper surfaced on the internet in 2008, blockchain technology has evolved enormously. Founders, developers,...
February 17, 2022
Smart Contracts: Protection for Digital Identity and Crowdfunding
People need to trust the owners of centralized platforms to protect their funds and privacy. On these platforms, a few trusted p...
February 10, 2022
Ergo’s Hybrid Method for Counting Costs
Introduction Checking the validity of smart contracts on a Proof of Work (PoW) blockchain has costs, both in time and resources....
February 9, 2022
Ergo: An Answer to Modern Monetary Theory Failures
In 2008, an unknown group or person released a peer-to-peer store of value and named it Bitcoin. Since then, the world’s unders...
February 8, 2022
Storage Rent and the Future of Mining
Miners are the consensus layer of proof-of-work blockchain and the security of all smart contracts relies on them establishing c...
January 27, 2022
Ergo & Blockchain: Scalability and Adoption
In this episode of the Ergo & Blockchain series, we will look at various aspects of scalability and why they are crucial for cry...
January 18, 2022
Ergo & Blockchain: Technology and Innovation
In this fourth article of the Ergo & Blockchain series, we will describe blockchain technology on different infrastructure layer...
December 28, 2021
Ergo: Building a Decentralized Future
Cryptocurrencies are still a new form of asset class. As more and more people consider investing in the blockchain industry, the...
December 16, 2021
Ergo Use Case: CityCoins
Recently, Miami's Mayor announced that the city would soon start paying residents Bitcoin yields. MiamiCoin, which launched last...
November 25, 2021
Ergo, Inflation and the Importance of a Store of Value
We have been hearing the warnings for a while now and our economies have started to signal the inevitable: rising inflation is h...
November 23, 2021
