Alephium

🔗Developers, Alephium is calling! 💫#Alephium’s protocol is built for developers, by developers. It allows them to build decentralized apps in a secure & comfy way! With super-fast transactions at scale, strong #security, and a unique setup that keeps things efficient, #ALPH is here to help developers create cutting-edge #dApps without breaking a sweat. 🫵Are you ready to start building on Alephium? 🌐Start building with Alephium nodes NOW: https://lnkd.in/dxUrJaJz

Roadmap to Danube, Alephium’s next Network Upgrade It has been nearly three years since Alephium’s mainnet launch, a period marked by steady evolution and growth. With past upgrades Leman (March 2023) and Rhone (June 2024), the protocol has come a long way: Alephium’s virtual machine is now even more featureful, secure & dev-friendly, while BlockFlow algorithm has grown both more resilient and accessible. The foundation we’ve laid down is solid, thanks to the hard work of the core contributors & the support of the growing & active community. And it shows! The number of ecosystem projects, dapps, tools, users & addresses is steadily growing, as is hashrate and interest from partners in our common infrastructure. The Danube Network Upgrade Thanks to all of you for helping us choose the name of the second-longest river in Europe, connecting west and east, from the black forest to the black sea. It’s been one of the most important natural infrastructures of Europe for the past millennia, and it will show to be as important for Alephium, its builders & users over the coming years. Now that the core stack has matured, we are ready to push forward on robustness and performance, taking the protocol to mass-adoption levels. This is the core purpose of the Danube network upgrade, aimed at refining both the structural and user-focused aspects of the protocol. This is an early version of what’s included in the network upgrade roadmap. This is what we’re already working on. As time goes by, some additional features may be added, while others might roll out in future updates if this upgrade’s scope becomes too large. Read more about it here: https://lnkd.in/eRu6-G-9

I had an insightful chat with Maud Bannwart, COO of Alephium, to better understand their chain. 🔑 Here’s what I learned: • Sharded Proof-of-Work Architecture: Alephium’s sharding mechanism enables over 10,000 TPS • Faster Block Time: With a reduced block time of 16 seconds (soon to be 8), Alephium is focused on improving user experience for decentralized applications like DeFi. • LIquid Mining: Alephium is bringing the DeFi flexibility of liquid staking to the world of proof-of-work mining. 👉 Watch the full video here: https://lnkd.in/eWbTX2hm

🛡 Ledger x Alephium Alephium is thrilled to announce its integration with Ledger hardware wallets. This will allow Alephium users to safely self-custody their $ALPH and all other tokens offline! 🔐 All recent Ledger devices You can now securely store, send tokens, and interact with dApps using all Ledger wallets, including the Nano S+, Nano X, Stax, and Flex. Your assets are protected offline, ensuring top-tier security. ⚡️ Set it up today It is available NOW on Alephium’s browser extension! Follow the link to see how to set it up. Alephium is working on integrating Ledger support on the desktop & mobile wallets. More on that very soon! https://lnkd.in/efp_pDYv 🛠 More Hardware Wallets news soon!

Alephium 🤝 Zelcore! Alephium’s mainnet is now officially integrated with Zelcore, one of the most trusted multi-asset wallets in crypto! This integration marks another key milestone in Alephium's ever-growing ecosystem, offering users a simple and secure way to manage $ALPH across both desktop and mobile platforms. Alephium combines innovative sharding, expressive sUTXO, and efficient Proof-of-Less-Work to secure scalable dApps for real-world applications. With Zelcore, users can securely store, send, receive, buy, and swap $ALPH, on both our mainnet and Ethereum (wALPH), all while enjoying the seamless experience that Zelcore’s wallet interface provides. As Alephium continues to build out its ecosystem with new dApps, tools, and partnerships, Zelcore’s inclusion provides users with enhanced access to our innovations. This collaboration not only increases accessibility but also highlights Alephium’s commitment to delivering a secure, scalable, and user-friendly blockchain. https://lnkd.in/e7nzwgtv

Thank you DIA Association for organizing such a fluid yet precise X Space. Thank you Linx Labs & AlphBanX for bringing your unique builders insights. "Our mission is to make DeFi accessible to everyone, so that more people can benefit from this transformative technology." - Linx Labs If you didn't catch it live, replay it here! https://lnkd.in/ea2-Tg6X

🔮 Oracles are now available on mainnet! DIA Association oracles will allow dapps builders to do all sorts of things that weren't possible before... Why is it a big deal and why are they key for a chain like Alephium? Let's dive in! 👇 🛠 Let's listen to our builders first! Linx Labs said "Oracles turn DeFi smart contracts from isolated computers into informed financial agents. They're the bridge between blockchain and reality." And AlphBanX added "An oracle is important for Alphbanx, because it serves as a reliable source of external data, especially for price feeds. Our contracts require real-time data like the current price of cryptocurrencies, exchange rates, or interest rates, to function correctly e.g manage collateral ratios, liquidations and more." ❓ What is an oracle? Oracles are like bridges for smart contracts, they bring real-world data (like token prices) to the chain.  They allow smart contracts to make decisions based on events happening off-chain. Without them, smart contracts wouldn't have access to outside data. 👁️ That's where DIA Association comes in... It has now integrated its oracle infrastructure into Alephium. Two main kinds of oracles are now available to builders of dApps & services (on group 0). And these will allow them to do things that were previously hard or impossible... 💱 Price feed oracles These provide real-time asset prices, absolutely key for DeFi! DIA’s xMarket product delivers accurate and reliable real-time price data for tokens like ALPH, USDT, wBTC, and ETH. For example, a lending market needs those to calculate liquidations. 🎲 Randomness oracles These generate true randomness, which is essential for fair games, lotteries, and all things GameFi. DIA's xRandom product offers verifiable, distributed randomness, ensuring trustless and unbiased outcomes in applications where it matters most. 🔗 Why is this important? Builders will be able to leverage oracles to do cool things from parametric insurance to synthetic assets, prediction markets or dynamic NFTs reacting to real-world events, provably fair gaming, smart grid utilities, voting systems... ...anything goes! 🎙️ Join us for a X Space! Join us next Wednesday as we dive into the thriving Alephium ecosystem for a conversation about what oracles will unleash! AlphBanX and Linx Labs will join Maud Bannwart & Cheng Wang for a X space DIA Association https://lnkd.in/eRyHFtzM

🔮 Les oracles de DIA débarquent sur l'écosystème DeFi d'Alephium. Cette étape ouvre la porte à une nouvelle génération d'applications décentralisées sur cette #blockchain en Proof of Work ⛓️ *Collaboration commerciale Les détails 👇 https://lnkd.in/eAe3CRBm

Great news! #ALPH erc20 is live on our Zelcore wallet! Now you can securely store, send, and swap Alephium tokens with ease. 🎉

🧨 Oracles are now available on mainnet. This is huge for DeFi builders. DIADATA has officially deployed its cross-chain oracle infrastructure on Alephium, paving the way for a new era of DeFi innovation on our network! We are thrilled to announce our partnership with DIA, which brings their cutting-edge cross-chain oracle solutions to Alephium. This collaboration will introduce a range of products to our ecosystem, including token market price feeds, random number generation, fair-value feeds, and more. With this integration, Alephium solidifies its position as the smart contract enabled PoW chain with the largest TVL, and enables the next wave of DeFi innovation. Several projects leveraging DIA’s Oracle, including AlphBanX and Linx Labs are already preparing to launch. This exciting news follows another major milestone on July 20, 2024, when two leading ASIC manufacturers, BITMAIN and ICERIVER, unveiled their $ALPH miners. We couldn't be more excited about this strong vote of confidence in the Alephium ecosystem and the exciting developments on the horizon! Read More about it here: https://lnkd.in/dtiqME4Y