Reliability and Redundancy Upnode utilizes an active-standby validator setup across different geographic regions to enhance reliability and redundancy. For our routine maintenance, we will first reroute traffic to our standby server before carrying out maintenance on the active server. Both datacenters operate on distinct architectures. Datacenter 1 utilizes nodes within
The Cosmos daemon binary, commonly known as Gaiad, is the primary command-line tool for interacting with the Cosmos SDK blockchain. Gaiad allows users to run full nodes, validate transactions, manage keys and accounts, and much more. In this blog post, we will dive into the most common Gaiad commands, providing
Celestia is the first modular blockchain network that offers data availability and a consensus layer, as well as settlement layers. By combining Celestia with Rollkit, developers only need to focus on creating the execution layer for a new blockchain. This marks a significant shift from traditional monolithic blockchains, where the
The scarcity of Goerli testnet Ether (gETH) has become a pressing concern for the Ethereum community, and while the exact cause remains to be thoroughly investigated, three primary factors seem to be contributing to the issue: 1. The recent Ethereum 2.0 proof-of-stake (PoS) merge has halted the mining of
TLDRThe total cost of the infrastructure is roughly $2,500 per month. The operating team is also costing $20,000 every month. To run an NFT market, you need at least $22,500 per month when you add both costs together. More than 70% of total expenses are paid to
A new artificial intelligence called ChatGPT lets you ask it any question and get a response. However, the given response might not be accurate. Thus, a skilled human is still required to confirm and improve the response. ChatGPT has advanced to the point that it has a foundational knowledge of
IBC (Inter-Blockchain Communication protocol) is an interoperability protocol built to enable communication between pairs of cosmos chains. However, we can’t use IBC communication with unsupported chains like Ethereum or EVM chains. IBC communication has been actively used to bridge coins between different cosmos chains, such as bridging ATOM from
The collapse of Mt.Gox Mt.Gox is the first and largest bitcoin exchange during 2010–2014. By 2013, it controlled over 70% of all bitcoin trading volume worldwide. It was the target of the most significant hacking incident in history in February 2014, which resulted in the theft of
FTX crisis publicly started after CZ tweeted that Binance would liquidate all FTT tokens they have. However, the bubble has been growing up since the 2021 bull market. The main problem is that FTX gives users deposited funds to Alameda Research to invest in new crypto projects. Investing is an
Top-tier NFT marketplaces usually have a mechanism to prevent hackers from selling their stolen NFTs. For example, Opensea flags these NFTs as “under review for suspicious activity” to warn users not to buy them. Having flagged for suspicious activity dramatically impacts the hacker’s earnings from selling these NFTs, as
We have deployed an example contract at 0x96de8CA0aB2c29d8dB7C99EA02FEe8faA79a0898 Can you think of a way to rug-pull this contract? If you have no idea, this blog will show you! Sometimes, this kind of contract may pass the audit too! You can hide any function from Etherscan by utilizing a proxy. This
Did you know that you can quickly deploy a phishing token that can impersonate anyone of your choice? We will show you how by using an example from a fake Arbitrum token. Journey of a fake Arbitrum token In June 2022, someone deployed a fake Arbitrum token at 0xbb3530ac51ded9c48bb74da82e803cfa334500ea by
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A layer-one blockchain alternative to Aptos is Sui. Sui’s co-founders are former Facebook employees. Sui employs the parallel processing capability of the Move programming language. Sui recently raised $300 million with a $2 billion valuation. On October 26, 2022, Sui launched its formal developer grant program. This blog will
Aptos is a new layer one blockchain from Facebook’s original Diem development team. Aptos tend to keep Diem as authentic as possible. In contrast, Sui tends to improve Diem a step further. This blog will compare Aptos with Solana and EVM in performance, reliability, tokenomics, and smart contract language.
Vanity wallet addresses such as multiple leading zeros wallet addresses (0x00000…) have many advantages. One of them is that it helps reduce gas usage on each transaction. For this reason, many MEV bots are using this kind of address. Not only are MEV bots using this, but typical users looking