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Development

Why Mintlayer adopts BLS signature

In order to reduce the blocksize and speed up transactions, Mintlayer settled on the use of signature aggregation. The quicker verification and the ability to hide transactions through m-out-of-n multisig aggregation made BLS signatures teh more attractive choice.

May 17, 2021
Discussions

GameStop fuss is just another reason why the world needs Mintlayer

When WallStreetBest pushed the GameStop shares to unimaginable highs by betting against the hedge funds that kept shorting, it had shown once again how decentralized finance is unquestionable necessity for our times.

April 1, 2021
Academy

A new DEX concept for the future of finance

The concept of a Decentralized Exchange (DEX) in the crypto market has been around for at least seven years, originating around the time Bitsquare was founded in 2014.

March 2, 2021
Partnership

The BlockInvest team explores Mintlayer as a potential blockchain infrastructure partner

The Team of BlockInvest, a FinTech project known as a financial instrument marketplace, is partnering with Bitcoin layer 2 Mintlayer

January 25, 2021
Discussions

Bitcoin sidechain Mintlayer is the new standard for securities and stablecoins

The financial system's future is an ecosystem of tokenized assets.

January 5, 2021
Discussions

Can Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) make use of decentralized protocols?

Central Bank Digital Currencies: a compromise between Bitcoin and fiat.

December 4, 2020
Discussions

Mission (im)possible? Dethroning Ethereum network

The Ethereum network is still congested as it was a month ago, and a month before that, starting around the same time when DeFi stole the media headlines.

November 6, 2020
Academy

Why DeFi’s Future Is With Non-Turing-Complete Smart Contracts

DeFi (short for Decentralized Finance) is not a new term, but it became a trending buzzword in the crypto community seemingly overnight.

September 3, 2020
Academy

The Future of Securities on Blockchain

The DeFi hype of 2020 is reminiscent of the ICO bubble of 2017-2018. Rewind back a couple of years, when projects were popping up left and right, using blockchain technology to solve all that is wrong in the world.

August 24, 2020
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