Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about how fintech is disrupting the financial industry in Asia. While blockchain technology promises transparency and ...

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The term Layer 1 refers to the underlying blockchain architecture in the blockchain ecosystem. However, transaction speed suffers when the mainnet gets busy, causing costly transactions to the end ...

The emergence of blockchain technology has created tremendous opportunities—but also tremendous challenges. Perhaps the greatest challenge is scalability. Well-known blockchains such as Ethereum and ...

It has reshaped our way of thinking about finance, ownership, and digital trust. From powering cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin to underpinning both decentralized finance, otherwise known as DeFi, and ...

Distributed ledger technology has the potential to solve some of the most prominent problems in the global economy, such as providing financial services to the 1.7 billion people that comprise the ...

When the concept of blockchain technology was introduced to the world back in 2009 with Bitcoin (BTC), the primary focus was on providing a decentralized and secure distributed database technology ...

Abstract, the layer-2 network rolled out this week by Pudgy Penguins, is off to a muted start despite offering a series of incentives to new users. The platform's native decentralized exchange, NOXA, ...

For more than 20 years we have been using Layer 3 connectivity powered by dynamic routing protocols to route traffic between data centers, but adoption of virtualization and geo-clustering ...