Summary Oasis Labs have officially launched the Oasis Network with a consensus validator set of 75 members. Network inflation starts at 20% and reduces gradually to 0% in 48 months. The Oasis Network’s layout separates consensus and execution layers, increasing scalability and transaction throughput. ROSE tokens are now transferrable and…

Monitoring is a crucial part of any blockchain infrastructure operation, due to their critical uptime requirement. This is especially the case for nodes operating on the Pocket network, where consumers require the on-demand use of the decentralised nodes’ API services. Follow this guide to install PANIC for Cosmos on a…

PANIC for Oasis is a lightweight yet powerful open source monitoring and alerting solution for Oasis nodes by Simply VC. The tool was built with user friendliness in mind, without excluding cool and useful features like phone calls for critical alerts and Telegram commands for increased control over your alerter. …

Latest update: May 2020 This guide will go through the basic commands that cGLD holders will need to run on the Celo network. This will allow interaction with the Celo Protocol and manage Celo Gold holdings. If you haven’t already, check out our Step-By-Step cGLD Ledger Tutorial. The official CeloCLI…

Latest update: May 2020 In this guide, we’ll be going over the steps required to store your Celo tokens in the most secure way possible. We will do this by using Celo CLI and a Ledger Nano S Hardware Wallet. Prerequisites for this guide: Knowledge using a command-line interface Windows/Mac/Ubuntu…

An upgrade has been released for the Kusama network, v0.7.0, which requires all validators to upgrade imminently to start validating on the new Kusama CC3 chain. Check the following official Git document for a more in-depth explanation of the CC3 Upgrade: How to validate on Kusama The following changes have…

Our world is becoming increasingly connected, and with a big part of our lives being online, our data, credentials and other confidential information are inevitably ending up in the wrong hands. The general public has become increasingly aware of their right to data privacy and in exerting caution when giving…

In this short intro, we’ll go through the steps required to set up push notifications, emails and automated phone calls related to validator uptime, voting power and network statistics. The software to be used is Simply VC’s self-hosted and open-source alerting tool, PANIC. Situations alerted: Missing blocks Validator voting power…

Following the early September release of Kusama CC1, which ran using the Polkadot v0.5.0 release, the Polkadot team have initiated Kusama CC2 with the release of v0.6.0. This guide will go through the steps required to upgrade an existing validator setup running on Kusama CC1 to Kusama CC2. …