Published in Nodle·1 day agoNodle Polkadot Parachain Migration Increasing Security and Moving toward DecentralizationThe Nodle team has been busy migrating from the current solo Substrate chain to the Nodle Polkadot Parachain. This transition comes with several requirements noted in our article on March 16. Here is what will happen as we execute this great migration: What We Are Doing On Monday, May 23rd, 2022, at roughly 8:30…Nodle4 min read
Published in Nodle·Mar 31Securing Six Figures+ Worth of CryptoSpend 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…Web 36 min read
Published in Nodle·Mar 16Making History: Launching the Nodle ParachainOn 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. Then, the very next day, the Nodle Parachain successfully booted…Nodle4 min read
Published in Nodle·Jan 24Blockchain Tales: How Our Testnet Allowed Us to Catch a Critical BugOn 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…Blockchain3 min read
Oct 10, 2021Candle Auctions for Decentralized and Fair Decision MakingMost 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…Blockchain2 min read
Published in Coinmonks·Jan 7, 2021Building on Polkadot: Choosing between a Parachain and ParathreadParity 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. …Polkadot5 min read
Published in Governance Research Institute·Nov 2, 2020Challenges with Today’s Governance Models and ToolsWe 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…Governance6 min read
Published in Nodle·Oct 29, 2020Blockchain Tales: Our Mainnet Stalled; This is How We Rescued ItEarly 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…Blockchain4 min read
Published in monk_io·Oct 26, 2020Blockchain Tales: How to do NodeOps without DevOps, with Parity Substrate and Monk.ioThe 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…Blockchain6 min read
Published in Nodle·Jun 16, 2020Blockchain Tales: The Next Evolution of our Governance ModelWritten in conjunction with the Governance Research Institute. In a previous Blockchain Tales article, we shared a preliminary governance model. …Blockchain3 min read
