By Sumi Maria Abraham, Research & Development Engineer, Kerala Blockchain Academy Ethereum is renowned for its programmability and is currently home for approximately 3000 DApps and 5000 smart contracts. Though this number calls for a big shout out, it could have been much more extensive. The dearth in blockchain such…

By Anju B Nair, Senior Technical Content Writer Kerala Blockchain Academy With the maturing of blockchain technology, many concepts that early existed as theories are now starting to take shape. The blockchain products such as cryptocurrencies and NFTs have made it possible to build a fully functioning economy inside a…

By Sumi Maria Abraham, Research & Development Engineer, Kerala Blockchain Academy The much-awaited Ethereum Merge has finally happened. Ethereum successfully transitioned from Proof of Work to Proof of Stake on September 15, 2022. Ethereum is now an environment-friendly blockchain, cutting energy consumption by 99.95%. Changing the consensus mechanism of a…

By Sumi Maria Abraham, Research and Development Engineer Kerala Blockchain Academy. Hoping you’re literate on how to write a smart contract in solidity and deploy it to a test network, lemme start guiding you to build a simple decentralized application or DApp around a smart contract. Let’s get started. Aim…

By Sumi Maria Abraham, Research & Training Engineer, Kerala Blockchain Academy Ethereum 2.0 journey was kickstarted by the Beacon chain launch, termed Phase 0 of the Ethereum 2.0 roadmap. This phase aimed to introduce and test the proof of stake consensus in the Ethereum context. The consensus mechanism is the…

By Lekshmi Pg, Research Fellow Kerala Blockchain Academy Technically, a “token” is another word for cryptocurrency. But it has now taken on a couple more specific meanings depending on several contexts. The first is to ascribe all cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. And the second is to explain certain digital…

By Sumi Maria Abraham, Research & Development Engineer Kerala Blockchain Academy. Do you remember discussing on how programmability went into practical in the Ethereum Blockchain?? If you have missed reading the early piece of information, kindly refer here. We saw there a simple, smart contract deployed on a test network…

By Sumi Maria Abraham, Research and Development Engineer Kerala Blockchain Academy The Ethereum ecosystem is growing by leaps and bounds, thanks to surging popularity of DApps in areas like finance (decentralized finance, or DeFi apps), arts and collectibles (non-fungible tokens, or NFTs), gaming, and technology. The home to the world’s…

By Sumi Maria Abraham, Research and Development Engineer Kerala Blockchain Academy In 2008, when Satoshi Nakamoto introduced bitcoin- the decentralized currency, it raised some red flags. It experienced some significant highs and lows before settling itself in the seat of a preeminent cryptocurrency in the world. Now 13 years old…