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Building cross-chain dApps with Etherspot

Building cross-chain dApps with Etherspot

The adoption of Web3 technologies has brought with it a host of interoperability solutions connecting dApps and their underlying blockchains. Most users are familiar with cryptocurrency bridges like Multichain, but equally important are the developer tools that sustain innovation in the space. On Fantom, one such tool is Etherspot. Etherspot

Fantom General Update | September 26 2022

Fantom General Update | September 26 2022

Your overview of the last 2 weeks. PebbleDB ready for pre-release Recent performance studies & testing of the research team suggest that PebbleDB database-driven nodes handle I/O reads with far greater throughput efficiency than LevelDB. The bandwidth usage could be reduced by ~90%. That’s a big upgrade for

Fantom Ecosystem Spotlight – Minimax

Fantom Ecosystem Spotlight – Minimax

In game theory, “Minimax” refers to a decision rule used to guide a user to the best possible outcomes. The concept is more or less central to the subject of this week’s spotlight. Minimax Finance is a multi-chain yield aggregator that combines ease of use with advanced features like

Introduction to PebbleDB Pre-release

Introduction to PebbleDB Pre-release

What is PebbleDB? PebbleDB is a key-value database developed by Cockroach Labs. Written in Go, it is based on a port of LevelDB with additional features and optimizations inspired by parts of RocksDB. PebbleDB is an alternative to the default LevelDB currently used for the persistent storage of events, transactions,

Fantom General Update | September 12 2022

Fantom General Update | September 12 2022

This happened in the Fantom ecosystem in the last two weeks. Fantom Research: Narrow Gateway Hurdles As part of our ongoing research series, this update goes into depth around experimentation using PebbleDB as an alternative for LevelDB. In production, we observed a significant reduction in I/O bandwidth usage by

Fantom Ecosystem Spotlight – OneRing

Fantom Ecosystem Spotlight – OneRing

In J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, one of the famous fantasy novels that inspired OneRing Finance’s branding, the dwarf Thorin Oakenshield tells the hobbit Bilbo: “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” Few people, we

Faster with Off-The-Chain Testing

Faster with Off-The-Chain Testing

Performance Engineering is crucial to making blockchain software more efficient. One of the primary reasons for performance engineering is to run software with fewer resources. For example, when performance engineering is applied effectively, blockchain software will run faster and consume less energy, which is vital for climate change and saving