In this blog post we explore the importance of consensus algorithms like Proof of Work (PoW) and Proof of Stake (PoS) in the blockchain and cryptocurrency sectors. It focuses on how these algorithms affect transaction speeds, costs, and environmental impact, with a special emphasis on Ethereum's transition from PoW to PoS ('The Ethereum Merge'). The post highlights the need for market makers and liquidity providers to understand these changes to adapt their strategies in the evolving crypto landscape. It concludes by stressing the importance of staying informed about blockchain technology for making effective decisions in this rapidly changing field.

Eager to get a quick rundown of t3rn's October highlights within 3 minutes? You've come to the right spot. We're delighted to present the strides and accomplishments made by our team throughout October, characterized by notable progress. In this update, we delve into the significant progress we've made in our recent Kusama Parachain acquisition, a glimpse into the future of our UI and our pioneering efforts in Web3 innovation.

XCM (Cross-chain Message) plays a crucial role in enabling communication between blockchains within the Dotsama ecosystem. This technology simplifies the development of multichain DApps by facilitating cross-chain functionalities like asset transfers and remote executions. The article delves deeper into the mechanisms of XCM, channels for communication between blockchains, and the registration of foreign assets, among other facets. Read the article to explore the potential of XCM in advancing cross-chain interoperability and what the future holds for this promising technology.

The DeFi (Decentralized Finance) revolution has taken the financial world by storm, offering a decentralized and inclusive alternative to traditional finance. While Bitcoin kickstarted this movement in 2009, Ethereum's introduction of smart contracts in 2015 paved the way for DeFi's monumental growth. In this blog post, we'll explore the evolution of DeFi, including its rise and adoption by established institutions. We'll also dive into the world of Cross-Chain DeFi, discussing its benefits, challenges, and innovative solutions like t3rn.

At this year's Polkadot Decoded, we unveiled Snorkel, an innovative, trustless oracle solution built utilizing t3rn’s novel technology. Blockchains and cryptocurrencies have limitations, and oracles, while useful, introduce their own set of challenges. Snorkel is designed to address these issues by offering a secure, reliable, and transparent solution for price feed data as well as the transaction costs. Today, we're taking a closer look at its architecture and the innovations that make it unique and valuable.

In the ever-evolving landscape of blockchain technology, challenges such as scalability, transaction costs, and interoperability become increasingly evident as networks grow. These limitations hinder mass adoption and practical utility. Layer 2 solutions are innovative protocols designed to address these challenges by scaling blockchain networks more efficiently. This article delves into the intricacies of Layer 2 solutions, exploring their algorithms, economic impact, and future potential.

sub0 Europe 2023 is here! It’s a developer conference focused on the Polkadot ecosystem, Substrate, Web3, and blockchain technologies. The event will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, on September 19-20, 2023. The event boasts a diverse lineup of keynote speakers, deep-dive sessions, and hands-on workshops, making it the ideal learning ground for both seasoned developers and newcomers. Our Founder and CTO, Maciej Baj, will be there talking about Building Trustless Price Feeds with Eth2 Light Client.

Dive deep into the world of blockchain interoperability with this insightful blog post. Learn how interoperability connects various blockchain networks, enhances data sharing, and boosts overall user experience. Explore various interoperability techniques, their potential risks, and how solutions like t3rn are driving the blockchain industry's future. Key topics: Blockchain Interoperability, Decentralized Exchanges, Blockchain Networks, Interoperability Challenges, t3rn, Polkadot Ecosystem.

In the relentless pursuit of blockchain advancement, we constantly explore innovations that build bridges across different ecosystems. Today, we're excited to introduce Snorkel, a proof-of-concept interoperable application that demonstrates the potential of trustless cross-chain state access. Snorkel is underpinned by a suite of straightforward solidity smart contracts between the Eth2 testnet Sepolia and t3rn's contract registry, leveraging the power of the Eth2 Light Client.

In the realm of blockchain technology, attestation plays a crucial role in establishing consensus among participating validators. Attestations serve as votes, allowing validators to express their view of the chain's most recent justified block and the first block in the current epoch. In this blog post, we will delve into the intricacies of attestations, exploring their components, and the importance of their aggregation for efficient network communication.

The blockchain ecosystem has experienced remarkable growth, giving rise to an increasing need for multichain and interoperability solutions that ensure seamless integration and communication between different networks. Explore the future of the crypto industry with our comparative analysis of top multichain projects. Understand blockchain bridging, cross-chain technology, and the potential of decentralized multichain ecosystems.

Ethereum's Altair Light Client protocol (ALC) has sparked a lively debate. As part of this conversation, we at t3rn, who are building an Ethereum light client, want to share our perspective. In our view, a sync committee validator that has malicious intent is malicious. This doesn't mean the validator is actively signing malicious headers, but that the validator has the intent and the technical capabilities to execute and coordinate such an attack.

Although Polkadot's primary goal is to easily connect various blockchains, Ethereum, is not yet efficiently connected to the Polkadot ecosystem in a trustless way. This blog post will explore the benefits of implementing such an Ethereum light client enabled parachain, the opportunities it would create for developers, and the potential impact on the Polkadot ecosystem.

Welcome back to the third and final part of our blog series on Executors, a crucial actor in the t3rn ecosystem. In this post, we will dive deeper into the world of Executor incentives, which are a critical component of t3rn tokenomics, learning about liquidity, execution value, and execution speed.

t3rn is partnering with Subsquid, a team focused on providing on-chain data and custom indexers for blockchain data processing. The integration aims to improve data accessibility, enhance data analysis capabilities, and offer a better user experience for t3rn users. By leveraging Subsquid's technology, t3rn intends to attract more developers and businesses to its platform, ultimately becoming a leading hosting platform for multichain smart contracts.

At t3rn, we believe that the best way to build a strong and robust ecosystem is to open it up to the community. That's why we're excited to announce that we're now an open-source project. This means that our code is available for anyone to view, use, and modify. We welcome developers, researchers, and enthusiasts to join us in building the new paradigm in multichain programming.

Welcome to the second part of our three-part blog series about Executors, a crucial actor in the t3rn ecosystem. In the first part, we covered the role of Executors in the t3rn ecosystem explaining all relevant aspects. In this new post, we will dive into the Execution Lifecycle, which is essential for anyone looking to become an Executor.

Hey everyone! In case you haven’t heard yet, we have some exciting news to share with you all! Our project has just acquired a parachain on the Polkadot network, which is a big step forward for us. Maybe you are wondering what all the hype is about. Here are the answers to some of your most frequently asked questions.

We are incredibly proud to announce that t3rn has successfully acquired a parachain on the Polkadot network and that our shell has been successfully deployed. The acquisition of a parachain symbolizes the next step for t3rn and secures the slot for the next upgrades.

This blog post will explain a crucial actor in the t3rn ecosystem, the Executor. Anybody can become an Executor, generating yield by executing multichain transactions. This document aims to explain Executors in detail, covering all relevant aspects of the t3rn ecosystem.

t3rn has successfully completed its second grant from the Web3 Foundation, which has allowed us to focus on the development of the XBI standard, a high-level interface that enables trustless and seamless communication between parachains. Now, it is open source and available for the wider blockchain community.

It's been a really exciting year for the t3rn community. From our strategic funding round to the many technical developments of the protocol, not to mention the growth in the community, there are a plethora of reasons to celebrate, despite the dire market conditions. Let’s go through the top highlights of 2022!

sub0, the must-attend event for developers interested in the Polkadot ecosystem, was held at the trendy LXFactory in Lisbon on November 28th and 29th. Team t3rn was on the scene, soaking up all the exciting developments and insights. Here are some of our thoughts and impressions.

It's been a busy few months at t3rn, with the team focused on building a robust multichain offering, growing our community and completing a successful Strategic Sale. Now, we are excited to share our strategy towards obtaining a Polkadot parachain.

A couple of weeks ago, we decided to do a runtime upgrade of our testnet on Rococo. We felt pretty confident about the upgrade. The upgrade transaction was included in block 845420, thereby updating the runtime. We expected the chain to continue producing blocks, but we were not so fortunate. And that was on a Friday afternoon. Yeah, great.

We are thrilled to announce that t3rn raised $6.5m in a strategic funding round led by Polychain Capital, the world’s premier digital asset investment fund, with participation from Blockchange, Lemniscap, D1 Ventures, Huobi Ventures, Figment Capital, Bware Labs, MEXC, Open Process Ventures, NetZero Capital, etc.

t3rn is a project that is all about community. We are building a solid and supportive group of like-minded individuals who are passionate about trustless technology and its potential to change the world. That's where our Conductors, the official ambassadors, come in, playing a vital role in growing our community.

‍It has already been a month since team t3rn attended DappCon22 in Berlin, so we wanted to make a quick summary of what happened and share some of our thoughts on the latest developments in the Ethereum ecosystem and beyond.

One of these new activities is t3rn Direct, our official AMA (Ask Me Anything). We had our first session on DATE, and we're planning to host these events regularly.

The goal of this presentation is to educate builders and programmers in the Polkadot ecosystem about XBI (Cross-chain Binary Interface), an XCM-based binary interface for smart contracts, developed by t3rn and funded with a grant by the Web3 Foundation.

As we progress towards Mainnet, and the t3rn ecosystem grows, we’d love to share with you all the roles involved in making t3rn, t3rn.

Have you ever wondered who is the team building the protocol, what motivates them and what is it like to work together? We take a deep dive into what makes t3rn tick.

t3rn is a smart contract hosting platform, allowing trustless cross-chain smart contract execution that guarantees success or full reversion of all execution effects in a multichain transaction.

XBI is the standard we are working on that primarily focuses on communicating between different virtual machines.

‍The Web3 Foundation has commissioned t3rn with a second grant to create XBI, an innovative XCM-based standard for smart contract communication.

The t3rn team is excited to announce the addition of three new members to the marketing team. With backgrounds in Defi, NFTs, Growth Hacking and strategy, these individuals bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to the team. 

After months of development our team launched t3rn’s Rococo Parachain, t0rn. With this new phase, so many key details of t3rn will be validated, which will be reaffirmed in this blog post.

The t3rn team is thrilled to share our latest development updates, starting with the t3rn testnet last preparations for the t3rn release as Rococo parachain. Over the last few weeks, we have primarily focused on the following:

The first quarter of 2022 saw the t3rn team expanding, with crucial hires made across development and operations. 

If you meet us through the CoinList announcement, we welcome you into our community.

The t3rn development team has been working hard to prepare our product for new integrations, developer adoption and a public testnet release. 

t3rn is thrilled to announce the first showcase of our technology in action, in partnership with Composable Finance, the cross-chain DeFi platform.

t3rn is thrilled to announce the latest additions to the t3rn team, spanning development, marketing and operations; we have added a Head of Operations, a senior Software Engineer and a Developer Advocate to the team.

We are thrilled to share our latest development update. Our team has made advances in different aspects of the project, such as implementing our unique Volatile Virtual Machine, providing a handy API fetch_contracts to access on-chain contracts and benchmarking in preparation for the t3rn MVP.

Inspired by real conductors (a material or device that transmits heat, electricity, or sound), the t3rn Conductors Program will empower the most engaged members of the t3rn community to spread knowledge and awareness about the t3rn project.

The t3rn team is excited to share our full Development Roadmap. Openness is a key values of the t3rn project and sharing our Development Road is another step in maintaining full transparency on what the t3rn team are working on at all times.

Welcome to the first t3rn Development Update, a retrospective review of the development of the t3rn protocol. After completing our Web3 Foundation grant and delivering a proof of concept of our unique Gateway solution t3rn joined the Substrate Builders Program where we established an accountable, three milestone development roadmap.

t3rn is thrilled to announce that we have concluded our seed sale, led by Polychain Capital, with participation from IOSG Ventures, Digital Finance Group and a selection of key angel investors totalling $1.35million of investment. The funds will allow t3rn to grow the team, specifically in development, marketing and human resources, while ramping up marketing efforts to raise awareness around the t3rn project.

t3rn has become the latest member of the pioneering Patract Wasm Contract Alliance, an initiative to promote the large-scale popularization of Wasm contract technology. Learn more about what this exciting collaboration will mean for t3rn

t3rn is very proud to be a part of the latest Web 3.0 Bootcamp cohort. The Web 3.0 Bootcamp will offer incubation and project acceleration from the likes of Parity, Web3 Foundation, Wanxiang Labs and New Chainbase. Prior bootcamp alumni include Acala, Phala, Plasm and many more top tier projects. Learn more about what joining the Web 3.0 Bootcamp means for t3rn in this blog post.

We are thrilled to announce our first hires to team t3rn. ‍We have hired in the marketing and development departments, bringing on two Software Engineers and a dedicated Community Growth Manager. Learn more about our new team members in this blog post.

t3rns initial development was made possible through the Web3 Foundation Grants Program, as part of the grant conditions, t3rn was to deliver a full proof of concept. In this blog post learn more about our individual milestones and what the delivery of our final milestone proved

t3rn has become part of the Substrate Builders Program, a Parity initiative that provides all of the support that an ambitious project needs to fulfill its potential. Find out more about how being part of the prestigious program will help t3rn develop, grow and provide value to the t3rn ecosystem and all of its participants.

The core team behind t3rn have been working in the blockchain space for years and offer a fine balance between development, marketing and strategy. We are building a product around what we perceive to be the core principles of blockchain technology, as well as the shortcomings that we can see in this incredible technology today. But this is only the beginning, t3rn is now hiring!

t3rn is a protocol created with support from the Web3 Foundation, to bring full smart contract interoperability to the Polkadot ecosystem, through our unique Circuit solution. Find out more about the problem that t3rn solves, why it is important and the key features of the protocol.