Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about how fintech is disrupting the financial industry in Asia. Solana is a high-performance public blockchain platform ...

A mainnet, short for “main network,” is the primary blockchain network where actual transactions occur, and the native cryptocurrency is used. It is not the same as testnets or experimental ...

Hard forks and easier access to GPU computing hold the potential to alleviate developers’ work, which can offset the increased complexity of writing code and the ever-growing demand for compute power.

Blockchain is becoming more accessible to developers, making it easier to create real-world financial solutions. Blockchain technology, with its complexity, often pushes people away instead of drawing ...

In October 2019 Chinese President Xi Jinping noted: “We must take the blockchain as an important breakthrough for independent innovation of core technologies, clarify the main direction, increase ...

Blockchain is not just a platform to trade Bitcoin anymore - it has transcended its beginnings to impact various industries profoundly, and now blockchain developers are taking the distributed ledger ...

Starting with just a handful of pioneers a few years ago led by Arbitrum and Optimism, there's been a rapid multiplication of layer-2 networks atop Ethereum, designed to provide an alternate venue for ...