The Lightning Network is a time-locked off-chain payment channel. This means that users can fix BTC off-chain, i.e. away from the Bitcoin blockchain, and ...

Non-fungible tokens (NFT) are unique crypto tokens that cannot be increased indefinitely. They are also often referred to as digital collectibles because ...

Decentralized finance (DeFi for short) is the generic term for classic financial services that are processed via a decentralized platform - such as a ...

Unregulated issuance of utility tokens, mostly for corporate funding purposes. An Initial Coin Offering (ICO) is a method of corporate financing. The ...

A Security Token Offering (STO) is an event at which digital securities are issued. For an STO definition, one must first ask oneself: what are security ...

challenges The blockchain also faces challenges. There is always a 51 percent chance of an attack, even if it is unlikely. There have also been ...

Proof of Work und Proof of Stake Proof of Work and Proof of Stake are the two dominant consensus mechanisms on different blockchains. They ensure ...

Forerunners of today's  blockchain  already existed in 1991. The two researchers Stuart Haber and W. Scott Stornetta developed the ...

Blockchain Applications Blockchain technology can be applied to anything that needs to be managed. Logistics in particular has so far established ...

Most technologies involve a trade off, an exchange relationship. In the case of blockchain, for example, this is scalability: although the network is ...