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Solana is one of the world’s cheapest and fastest public blockchains. It has a block time of 400 milliseconds and transaction fees of less than $0.01. Solana’s native token is SOL. Fractional sols ar...
Fantom is a network of blockchains where transactions are finalized in a second and cost a fraction of a cent. Its main use cases include payments, digital identity, and medical records. Fantom uses ...
Terra is the second-largest Decentralised Finance (DeFi) blockchain - after Ethereum. The total value locked (TVL) in Terra is over $15 billion. Terra is an open-source public blockchain protocol for...
Celo is a proof-of-stake mobile-first blockchain that "makes financial dApps and crypto payments accessible to anyone with a mobile phone". It has an average block time of 5 seconds and is ...
Polkadot is not a conventional blockchain. It is actually an ecosystem of interconnected blockchains called parallelized chains (parachains). Parachains are application-specific and they plug into a s...
Algorand is a new-gen blockchain that is bridging the decentralized and centralized world of finance. Its native crypto is ALGO. Algorand Standard Assets run on the blockchain's "Layer-1" a...
The Ethereum blockchain is slow and costly. Polygon has a bunch of products and services to solve this problem. Polygon’s software development kit enables the building of Ethereum sidechains — blockch...
Avalanche is a popular Decentralised Finance (DeFi) blockchain. The top DeFi protocols that run on Avalanche are AAVE, Trader Joe, Wonderland, Benqi, and Curve. What I like the most about Avalanche i...
Binance Chain, the first blockchain from Binance, is optimized for fast decentralized trading but lacks smart contracts and strong programmability. That's why Binance Smart Chain (BSC) was created. It...
Ethereum is NOT a blockchain. It's NOT a cryptocurrency either! It's actually a protocol (a set of rules or procedures) like "HTTP" or "HTTPS". Multiple independent blockchains run...
The much-awaited Government of India report on blockchain and virtual currencies is finally available for the public. The report: promises a massive boost to the blockchain sector in India, and deliv...
Imagine a world without computer databases. There would be no e-commerce, no ATMs, no Internet banking, no Facebook, no Gmail, no WhatsApp! Almost everything that makes the Internet so powerful and us...