On October 23rd, Celestia Labs announced the results of the proof-of-concept Mammoth Mini testnet, with an average permissionless data throughput of 27 MB/s. Many improvements to Mammoth Mini (e.g. FBSS) have ended the research phase and entered the design phase. Others (such as Vacuum! and the redesigned QUIC-based p2p stack) are in the prototype and MVP stages, and iterative improvements are underway. The core developer community hopes to present these improvements when they are ready for depl...
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has completed a proof of concept exploring the use of digital credentials for international trade and CBDC-based cross-border transfers. The proof of concept is part of Project Desft, a project by the Bank of Ghana and the Monetary Authority of Singapore exploring how technology can be used to facilitate the participation of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises in international trade in developing countries. Maxwell Opoku-Afari, First Deputy Governor of the Bank of G...
Decentralized Computing Network io.net announced a strategic partnership with OpSec to enhance cloud computing services, which aims to combine io.net decentralized GPU resources with OpSec's innovative cloud infrastructure to simplify and improve cloud operations for developers and enterprises. The two parties will also develop a proof of concept to demonstrate how to efficiently deploy OpSec's nodes in io.net distributed network.