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Chia Team
In an effort to ensure its continued operation as a space for the Chia community, we’ve recently secured ownership of chiaforum.com (opens in a new tab). We appreciate the valuable discussions hosted there and want to continue supporting that legacy.
The current forum will remain accessible for one week starting today, December 13, so you can save any important content. After that, we plan to relaunch chiaforum.com (opens in a new tab) u…
Chia Team
Exciting updates are on the horizon for Chia farmers with the latest iteration of Chia’s new proof of space format. Earlier this year, we shared our progress on new technologies that we believe addressed two pressing issues:
Chia Team
12/4/2024: Edited to change Chia Signer Link from Testflight to App Store
Today we’re opening up the Chia Cloud Wallet for an Engineering Open Beta on Testnet! During this testing period, you’ll be able to create an account and start interacting with the Chia Cloud Wallet’s features.
Read the Getting Started Guide here (opens in a new tab) and access the Chia Cloud Wallet here (opens in a new tab). Once the vault launches on chain (Note…
Markets crave liquidity, and three factors drive liquidity - authenticity, provenance and demand. Blockchain’s inherent immutability and auditability coupled with the ability to trade peer-to-peer, anytime and anywhere support those factors. If you’d like your business to trade assets globally, 24 x 7 you should consider asset tokenization.
The act of tokenization is simply the creation of a…
Chia Team
We’re moving 1,250,000 XCH from the US cold wallet to the US warm wallet, and to keep the warm-to-cold wallet funds in balance, we’ll be moving 1,250,000 XCH from the Swiss warm wallet to the Swiss cold wallet.
Context:
When we built and launched the Chia blockchain, we set aside a prefarm of 21 million XCH for strategic development and investment opportunities (more details on the prefarm…
Chia Network, in collaboration with EcoRegistry, has introduced high-quality, tokenized carbon credits as part of their vision for "One Market"—a more efficient, transparent, and accessible trading system.
Chia Team
Today, in partnership with EcoRegistry (opens in a new tab), a global registry platform known for its scalable digital technology and innovative solutions to drive climate action, we listed high-quality, tokenized Carbon Credits on Dexie. These are listed as Offers (opens in a new tab)—the native peer-to-peer exchange capability that powers One Market.
This blog outlines the basic guidance to set your Chia Wallet up to purchase and retire…
Chia Team
We are thrilled to share how we’re thinking about the work we’re doing to build the new proposed proof of space format. Along with the new proof of space, we are developing two new plot formats, one for HDDs and another for SSDs.
While the original proof of space was a significant step forward from other consensus mechanisms, the tech landscape has continued to evolve and we need an updated…
Driving enterprise blockchain initiatives with responsible supply chain management expertise.
While the internet provides global access to information, the same cannot be said about opportunity. And opportunity remains materially dependent on equitable access to assets available across the global markets with the ability to trade freely. But the necessary infrastructure to support this need has not…
Chia Team
The developer community around the Chia blockchain always impresses. This contest represents our continued commitment to fostering a learning environment equally suited to novice and advanced developers. We want to express our gratitude to those who participated. Your enthusiasm and dedication to building the ecosystem are inspiring.
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We’ve hosted a series of spotlights to showcase the incredible Community projects built by developers, entrepreneurs, and artists pushing the boundaries of what's possible with the Chia blockchain. Together, we're building a more sustainable and decentralized future.
Recap of 2023-2024 Community Spotlights:
Chia Team
Version 2.4.0 of the Chia reference client is now available for download! This release includes a soft fork, so we recommend upgrading.
New features included with this release:
Version 2.3.0 saw the introduction of the wallet sync protocol from CHIP-26 (opens in a new tab), which includes response pagination, advanced coin subscriptions, and improved reorg handling. These changes resulted in faster and more efficient…
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In traditional finance today, an entity sending many payments to holders of their asset can easily and quickly rack up considerable fees (wire and mail fees in TradFi, and block access fees in DeFi). Those receiving payment want certainty that their payment is coming. Some may be fine waiting some hours for payment, but others may want their payment immediately.
Let’s say you have 250,000…
Traditional finance has spent a couple of centuries building business models and shaping regulations to deal with the fact that trusting people is hard, and communications used to be slow and even slower at a distance.
Stocks still only trade from 9:30am to 4pm Eastern time. Final settlement only takes one day (opens in a new tab) as of May 2024, but that’s still a whole day. Buying coffee requires trusting at least…
Chia Team
Much like the famous police box, ASIC timelords have landed... well, a bunch of boxes actually. But the result is just as timey-wimey!
Community purchasers around the world have received their units, and many are now actively contributing to the Chia blockchain's security.
This rollout wasn't just about speed (although these ASICs offer significant performance improvements for VDF weight proofs)…
Chia Team
We are back with the latest updates on the Chia Network roadmap (opens in a new tab)! This newest iteration of our roadmap reflects our efforts to further Chia’s mission of being the best and most secure blockchain for DeFi.
Blockchain is at a critical inflection point. Digitized real-world assets continue to gain momentum, and the friction holding back broader adoption must be addressed. Issuers need infrastructure…
Chia Team
Version 2.3.1 of the Chia reference client is now available for download! Upgrading to this release is optional. It includes a single update.
The Chia reference wallet now contains the Warp.green assets by default. You can add these assets to your wallet by clicking “MANAGE TOKEN LIST,” and clicking the slider next to the asset you would like to add.
If you want to use the bridge, and you do not…
Chia Team
We had a lot of community excitement and interest about Chia Network's recent acquisition of DrPlotter, and many great questions came in from our Discord community. To address this curiosity, we have compiled a detailed Q&A based on the official announcement.
Q: When will DrPlotter be open-sourced?
A: There are definitely a few components of DrPlotter that can be open sourced sooner rather than…
According to Bain research, the top luxury brands make nearly 40% of their revenues from less than 2% of their customers1, meaning these brands are more likely to engage directly with their customers. And for those customers, it’s not just about the design but also about sustainability, equity, and demand for transparent and automated concierge services.
And while profitability in the luxury goods…
Chia Team
We're excited to announce that we've acquired the DrPlotter technology—one of the major plot compression tools in the Chia ecosystem. Dr. Nick (Nicolas Halper) himself has also joined the Chia team to work on the future of plotting!
The DrPlotter technology will remain unchanged, and we're removing all fees for its use. Our long-term vision is to open-source it, but that's for another day.
The Chia…
Chia Team
Version 2.3.0 of the Chia reference client is now available for download! This release includes a soft fork, which will activate at the end of July 2024. It also includes a security fix. Everyone should upgrade their farmers and harvesters to at least version 2.3.0 as soon as time permits.
This release includes the Chialisp message conditions from CHIP-25, the wallet sync protocol from CHIP-26…
Chia Team
Our Chia Academy contest for community members opens for submissions as of this morning (May 1, 2024)!
Do you have a fantastic course idea relevant to blockchain? Want to help teach Chialisp to new and up-and-coming developers? Do you have some neat ideas on how to use the Chia technology?
Then give it a shot, and maybe you’ll win a timelord in the process! Submissions close June 1, 2024, at 0359…
Chia Team
Our previous post detailed why the new plot format will not contain “useful” data. So, you might be wondering whether we could (or should) make the plots themselves portable. This would allow Plotting as a Service (PaaS) providers to create plots for farmers without obtaining any information from them. It would also provide a safe way for farmers to sell their plots. (The reason it is not safe to…
Chia Team
With the announcement that we are exploring a new plot format for Chia, there are many open questions about exactly what the plots will look like. We’ll discuss the details once we have a proposal ready, but there’s one thing we can say with certainty right now: the new plots will not contain real user data.
At first, this might sound like a strange concept. Isn’t the data stored in plots already…
