Proof-of-Stake is a method to achieve a distributed consensus. It makes it possible to secure a blockchain by providing the right economic incentives to push for honest transaction validation. It is an alternative to the Proof-of-Work used on Bitcoin. What are the...
The Proof-Of-Authority (PoA) is a consensus method that gives a small and designated number of blockchain actors the power to validate transactions or interactions with the network and to update its more or less distributed registry. It works as follow: according to...
''Decentralized finance is the concept of decentralization through cryptocurrencies, applied to the mechanisms of finance'' Offering financial products or financing solutions today requires applying for authorisation as a credit institution from the ACPR and the...
Since 2017, ICOs have become a popular fundraising model. But how these funds are really used by the projects managers? What are the rights of a token owner? Coinhouse tried to answer the fundamental questions. Ethereum project as a starting point In september 2014,...
Can a digital asset be unique, indivisible and valuable? Cryptokitties, Etheremon or Decentraland are cryptoassets projects based on the concept of non-fungible tokens. Coinhouse has a look at this new concept to understand its uses, the utility of these tokens and...
Since it reached worldwide fame in 2017, the blockchain has been portrayed as a miracle solution to all of the world's problems: finance, energy, storage, supply chains, democracy, every current issue seemed to have found a solution through this miraculous technology....
In the Blockchain ecosystem, any asset that is digitally transferable between two people is called a tokenThese tokens are issued on a blockchain, most often on Ethereum. Depending on the properties assigned to them, they have different classification and uses....