Layer 1 Explainer

Additional information that can be appended to a crypto transaction on a blockchain is referred to as metadata in blockchain...

Gas is the amount of ETH required by the network for a user to interact. Fees are used to pay...

Staking is a way of earning rewards for holding certain cryptocurrencies. Many crypto holders use this to make their assets...

Solana is a highly functional open source project that implements a new, permissionless and high-speed layer-1 blockchain.

“Proof of work” and “proof of stake” are the two major consensus mechanisms cryptocurrencies use to verify new transactions, add...

The Lightning Network is designed to make bitcoin transactions as fast and cheap as possible. It’s part of a newer...

Cardano is one of the biggest cryptocurrencies by market cap. It’s designed to be a next-gen evolution of the Ethereum...

The primary goal of the Merge is to transition Ethereum’s consensus mechanism from a model known as proof-of-work to proof-of-stake.

The principles behind Bitcoin first appeared in a white paper published online in late 2008 by a person or group going...