Category: Blockchain

Blockchain related articles

Woonkly Security Audit (DEX & STAKE)

Heloisa CeniNo Comments

Reading Time: 6 minutes

Introduction CoinFabrik was asked to audit the contracts for the Woonkly project. First we will provide a summary of our discoveries and then we will show the details of our findings. Summary The contracts audited are from the STAKESmartContractPreRelease repository and DEXsmartcontractsPreRelease repository at GitHub. The audit is based on the commit 779522de8afcf9285d660abdcc0fb10a62f6f659, and 49777cd67d0227c21437236ab9f42b501a864895 […]

Censorship of Harmful Data in Blockchains

Hartwig MayerNo Comments

Reading Time: 17 minutes

Public blockchains allow insertion of arbitrary data. Even specific-purpose blockchains like Bitcoin already contain a lot of non-financial data. Although this data insertion can be beneficial in some use cases (e.g. proof of existence), it can also cause damage. If a blockchain contained videos with instructions on how to torture someone, there would immediately be broad consensus that this data must be deleted. But since blockchains are supposed to be immutable databases, the question is: what can be done if this happens?

Æternity State Channels: A Peer-to-peer Browser Game

Mariana SofferNo Comments

Reading Time: 13 minutes

Æternity is a promising blockchain platform with great potential for many application scopes. One such great feature is the native support for state channels.

In this article we will explore how we built a peer-to-peer browser game to explore this Æternity capability; along examine related features of the platform such as ForgAE and companion tools and the Sophia functional contract development language

A Short Guide Through the Universe of Blockchain Based Micropayment Systems

Hartwig MayerNo Comments

Reading Time: 7 minutes

Micropayment take place in pay-as-you-go software service models, micro donations, and the Internet of Things (IoT). In these contexts payments for values which are usually under the smallest unit of fiat money (e.g. $0.001) are needed. Prepaid cards can solve this problem. Another approach uses cryptocurrencies in the blockchain, having the advantage of allowing exact […]

Dockerized Ethereum Private Testing Environment Compatible with MetaMask and Remix

Leandro RawiczNo Comments

Reading Time: 2 minutes

The purpose of this configuration is to generate a Docker environment of 2 nodes connected together running on Geth and monitor them using Ethstat (at localhost:3000). Then we can use MetaMask as well as Remix to connect to the first node (localhost:8545) to send simple transtractions, like sending Ether, or complex transactions like the creation or call of a smart contract.