Spend enough time in web3 and you will inevitably accumulate some amount of wealth. Every token you have, every interaction and transaction you do ends up producing value back to you one way or another. Sadly such value generation also attracts bad actors who are looking at your own holdings…

On Thursday, March 10, 2022, the Nodle Network was able to secure a parachain slot on the Polkadot relay chain thanks to the incredible support of our community, which locked the equivalent of $42 million for the next 96 weeks. …

On Tuesday, January 18, 2022, we performed some manual testing on a Substrate runtime upgrade on our test network (release 2.0.14, which had been pending for a few weeks), before deployment on the main network. After the deployment of the upgrade, we noticed that some of our pallets seemed to…

Most decentralized decision-making systems such as Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO), or even bidding systems, are often prone to an issue commonly referred to as “sniping”. Typically, somebody may decide to put some money, or tokens, at the last minute in favor of a proposal to make sure their choice is…

Parity recently announced the release of Rococo V1, a “Parachain Testnet” for projects and developers to test their Parachains and see how well they can interoperate between each others. Although this release focuses on parachains there is another alternative to these that can sometimes be more interesting: parathreads. …

We are all familiar with today’s main governance systems which could be registering to be able to vote (as an identity), choosing a leader whether it is for running a country or a company, or recommending a potential business solution for the best interest of the project. Sadly, they all…

Early morning CEST on Monday, October 19, 2020, we detected an issue on Nodle’s main network. It appeared that all our validators were offline and block production had stopped. This seemed to be due to a generalized issue on our infrastructure located on Google Cloud. After restarting the validators, block…

The NodeOps and DevOps challenge Infrastructure management is hard. But blockchain infrastructure is harder. Much, much harder. With blockchain infra, you have to ensure that your nodes are highly available and that their keys are kept safe and secure. The current go-to tools to achieve that are Terraform and Kubernetes (+ Helm). These tools are…

Written in conjunction with the Governance Research Institute. In a previous Blockchain Tales article, we shared a preliminary governance model. …