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11 May 2020 7 minute read 4 comments Factomize
One of the hurdles that we frequently run into when developing is the question: “did this actually improve the product?” This can lead to some very interesting discussions about where the actual bottleneck is. One of the ways is to have a specific te...
9 May 2020 6 minute read 0 comments PegNet
Currently, onboarding and deboarding of authority nodes is done by whoever has access to the network skeleton key. That key is hardcoded in the factomd codebase. Whoever has access to the private key essentially controls the authority set. There are...
29 Feb 2020 10 minute read 1 comment PegNet
At the time of writing, adding a new asset to PegNet is possible but it is a laborious manual process: Find at least two APIs that provide free and reliable* data for the market price Create a polling adapter that is able to read the API endpoint an...
20 Jan 2020 4 minute read 3 comments PegNet
One of PegNet’s selling points is decentralization — officially there is nobody in charge of PegNet. It works as long as the people using it agrees to play by the same rules, which at the moment is done by everyone using the same software: pegnetd. A...
13 Jan 2020 4 minute read 5 comments PegNet
PegNet is the CPU mineable stablecoin and synthetics network for DeFi. As a mineable token, people often want to know if it was fairly launched and if there was a premine. I have gone back through history to showcase that PegNet was, in fact, fairly...
26 Nov 2019 1 minute read 5 comments PegNet
PegNet, which is a mineable stablecoin and synthetics network for DeFi, rewards its PoW miners that act as decentralized oracles with PEG. PEG is the only mineable token on the network and does NOT have a maximum supply but it will often contract. In...
3 Nov 2019 4 minute read 1 comment Factom Inc
Reasons Factom is a fit for Regulated Industries: At its core, a blockchain is an encrypted distributed ledger that immutably records the transaction history for a network and is accessible to all of its participants. Transactions are secured to the...
1 Nov 2019 1 minute read 0 comments Factomize
Welcome to the November 1st, 2019 edition of the Factom Protocol newsletter. In case you missed it, here's the October 15th edition. We've seen serious mining traction for PegNet, the Factom Asset Token (FAT) Protocol reached a milestone, and Factom...
29 Oct 2019 4 minute read 2 comments Factom Inc
The 2009 release of Bitcoin marked the genesis of what has now become widely known as blockchain. Its use of proof-of-work consensus was the first example of a way to immutably record transactions for digital assets across a public network in a manne...
25 Oct 2019 2 minute read 1 comment Factomize
PegNet is a groundbreaking stablecoin network that creates the foundation for decentralized finance. It is truly novel technology that allows for decentralized, digital versions of cryptocurrency, fiat currency, precious metals, and other assets that...
