Consensus News

Liquid staking allows larger proof-of-stake blockchains to help secure smaller ones, conferring benefits to the industry as a whole.

Ethereum’s transition to proof-of-stake is inching ever closer after developers agreed to a tentative date for the mainnet Merge.

The response comes after researchers in Israel alleged the mining pool has been manipulating Ethereum block timestamps to obtain higher mining rewards.

The Goerli merger requires node operators to update both their consensus layer and execution layer clients in tandem, rather than just one of the two.

The sudden dramatic spike in active addresses on the network has left many guessing about the cause.

Vitalik Buterin described a critic’s notion as an “unmitigated bare-faced lie” while sharing his thoughts on PoS voting.

The network downtime affected token transfers and miner rewards, but not devices during the 4-hour outage caused by a failure in the Consensus Group.

Cointelegraph sat down with Chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov at Consensus 2022 to get his thoughts on the crypto and NFT market.

Meltem Demirors sat down with Cointelegraph to express why the industry needs to focus on privacy and freedom when it comes to regulations.

Despite the crypto winter, the conference drew in 17,000 people to discuss the crypto regulatory landscape, Web3 development and the future of digital assets.

The difficulty bomb is designed to make mining profitability plummet in order to disincentivize miners ahead of the long-awaited Merge.

The Merge on Ethereum is closer than ever as the Ropsten testnet is set to execute its own Merge to give developers a look at what to expect for the real thing.

“The usefulness has run its course,” the OpenEthereum team wrote regarding its popular software, “we look forward to the next phase of clean, green and massively scalable blockchain infrastructure.”

NFT minting bots on Solana contributed over 4 million transactions a second, knocking validators out of consensus and crashing the network for around seven hours.

The Kiln testnet is the final public testing phase before the long-awaited Ethereum ‘Merge’ and the end of proof-of-work consensus.