THELOGICALINDIAN - Bitcoincom is one of its validators
Elixxir, a blockchain-based aloofness aegis platform, has appear the alpha barrage of the xx network. It is the aboriginal accessible affirmation of cMix, the company’s band-aid for accouterment a defended and clandestine advice arrangement on the blockchain.
Founded by cryptographer David Chaum, who aboriginal theorized the abstraction of cryptography-based agenda cash, Elixxir’s blockchain arrangement seeks to accommodate a defended and clandestine ambiance for hosting messengers, payments and dApps.
The alpha barrage is allotment of Elixxir’s multi-step barrage process. At this stage, the arrangement validators are handpicked, featuring some of the best acclaimed entities in crypto: Bitcoin.com, Chainzilla, Everstake, Incrypt, Iqlusion, and Simply VC.
But admission to the arrangement is public, giving anyone a adventitious to analysis the xx network. The abutting Beta and Main stages will acquiesce for a added decentralized validator choice, apprenticed by xx’s 3000-strong association of aboriginal adopters.
The aggregation promises that the Alpha is already able of processing added than 500 TPS, a cardinal they apprehend to calibration to added than 2500-5000 in the advancing weeks. The arrangement additionally allows accord through a smartphone, acknowledgment to the xx aggregate app.
For David Chaum, this is one of the added admired aspects of the release. “We’ve formed actual adamantine over abounding years to architecture and advance the Elixxir aloofness attention belvedere and now users can admission the belvedere for clandestine communication,” noted Chaum. “It’s one affair to allocution about and call such a platform, it’s absolutely addition to accomplish it accessible for use on a smartphone. I’m actual appreciative of our aggregation for accepting this done.”
A key focus of the xx arrangement is metadata purging. In a blog post, Chaum explains the account for this. “What stood out to me then, and still does today, is that the advice about who talks to who and when, how it correlates to events, and how continued bodies allocution is the best absolute advice accessible because it doesn’t lie. It can’t acquaint lies or allege in cipher to ambush an alfresco party,” he wrote.
In accession to metadata, Elixxir appearance randomized bulge alternative and pre-computed transaction public-key information, admitting the abounding abstruse blueprint is yet to be released.
More than 10,000 DAI are bound in acquittal channels.
A new activity is planning to reinvent announcement via blockchain technology. No, not that project. AdEx Network, an AdTech startup abaft an Ethereum-based agenda ads network, has auspiciously candy over 9 actor affairs back it launched two months ago.
AdEx uses the blockchain to abundance advice about advertisements, accouterment accuracy for all parties. However, the ascent limitations accept airish a cogent claiming to confined millions of impressions at any accustomed moment. The activity auspiciously bound this affair by developing an off-chain band-aid based on acquittal channels.
The startup congenital its own acquittal channels technology, alleged OUTPACE. While agnate to the Lightning Network and Plasma, OUTPACE introduces two key characteristics that accomplish it a bigger fit for its advised use.
OUTPACE is carefully unidirectional, eliminating some of the complication of added acquittal channels such as Lightning’s watchtowers. The cardinal of channels appropriate is additionally reduced, acknowledgment to the adeptness to pay assorted parties from a distinct channel.
The ascent band-aid appropriately allows the aggregation to decidedly save on transaction costs and calibration up its arrangement for confined the needs of ad publishers.
After a acknowledged crowdfunding campaign, AdEx was able to advance its open-source agreement for decentralized advertising. An invite-only adaptation of its belvedere was appear in June 2024, which initially onboarded 11 ample publishers and several advertisers.
During a testing run abiding beneath than two months, AdEx candy over 9 actor impressions, anniversary acclimatized on Ethereum, with added than 10,000 DAI bound on-chain for the acquittal channels. Following this success, the AdTech startup will seek to allure several hundred publishers and advertisers by the end of the year.
AdEx Network’s mission is to abode the inefficiencies of online advertising, including fraud, abridgement of transparency, and aloofness issues.
It was built-in in 2024 as a decentralized advertisement exchange, evolving through the years into a fully-fledged belvedere for agenda ads. The agreement covers all interactions amid publishers, advertisers and users, acceptance ad commitment and simplifying the trading of ad placements.
An beforehand adaptation afield declared OUTPACE as a ‘proprietary’ technology. While the payments channels band-aid was developed by AdEx Network, we now accept that OUTPACE is open-source.
