SmartBCH

@SmartBCH · 1 month ago

The Enhanced Random Number Generator for smartBCH

In the article "Light-weighted Manipulation-proof Random Number Generator for smartBCH", we introduced an enclave-guarded random number generator (RNG), which generates VRF outputs for smartBCH's bloc...

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@SmartBCH · 2 months ago

SmartBCH Symbol Change Upgrade on 1st Feb

In last post, we introduced smartBCH’s symbol-change upgrade. This upgrade will be activated at height 13627300, on about 1st Feb. If you are running a smartbchd node, please update your binary to the...

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@SmartBCH · 4 months ago

SmartBCH Symbol Change Upgrade and Total Supply Reduce

At present, the SmartBCH Alliance is dedicated to maintaining a 1:1 peg between smartBCH’s Native Token and the main chain BCH. This peg is primarily upheld by the benevolence of certain sBCH holders...

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@SmartBCH · 8 months ago

More about the Staking Upgrade

We introduced smartBCH's staking upgrade on Jul 17. This staking upgrade will be activated at height 11006000, about 15 Aug. This article explains more details of this upgrade. What will be upgraded?...

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@SmartBCH · 8 months ago

How to Run an AtomicSwap Market-Making Bot

Running a Market-Making Bot can help maintaining the 1:1 peg between BCH and SBCH and get some earnings. We have tried our best to make it robust and secure. This article introduces how to run it in a...

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@SmartBCH · 9 months ago

An Introduction to the Market-Making Bot for Atomic-Swap

To give members of the community a convenient and secure tool to maintain a 1:1 peg between BCH and SBCH, we have developed several tools based on AtomicSwap. The most important of these tools is the...

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@SmartBCH · 9 months ago

SmartBCH will apply the staking upgrade

In the past, when applying to become a smartBCH validator, it was possible to stake a certain amount of BCH, but the lower bound of this amount can be as low as zero. At the same time, the amount of p...

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@SmartBCH · 9 months ago

Emergency recover of smartBCH

We have developed an emergency patch to restart smartBCH using a single-validator mode. It’s an interim solution before we finish the real patch which raises the validators’ requirement by adding stak...

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@SmartBCH · 9 months ago

We need to refine the voting scheme of smartBCH

It is always easy to be a smartBCH validator. We kept the requirements low to invite more people to run smartBCH validators. For PoW votes, you only need to mine one BCH block during an epoch of 2016...

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@SmartBCH · 9 months ago

An Introduction to the AtomicSwap Tool

In order to provide community members with a convenient and secure tool for swapping between BCH and SBCH, several tools based on AtomicSwap have been developed and will soon be launched. AtomicSwap...

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@SmartBCH · 9 months ago

Coinflex Distributions Update

Dear SmartBCH users, As of today, SmartBCH Alliance Limited (the “SPV”) has received the following distributions from Coinflex: 4,281,291.42 rvUSD, received by 0x0C7a57e8dfDb8e810DeD7A03B27EfBa46b9c...

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@SmartBCH · 10 months ago

Overlooker: an enclave-based oracle for blockchain events

In cross-chain and mulit-chain applications, a fundamental component is an oracle that endorses the events that happened on a remote chain. Traditionally, oracles use quorum-based schemes to ensure t...

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@SmartBCH · 1 year ago

A whitehat hacker protects smartBCH by reporting a vulnerability

Recently, a whitehat hacker pwningpwnwpnw reported a vulnerability in smartbchd. The vulnerability is located in MoeingEVM's host_bridge . It is a bug in the C++ implementation of SEP206. The overfl...

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@SmartBCH · 1 year ago

Comments on CoinFLEX’s Restructuring Proposal

The CoinFLEX’s restructuring proposal will be voted on very soon . After reviewing the documents provided by CoinFLEX and consulting with our lawyers, SmartBCH Alliance decides to support this scheme...

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@SmartBCH · 1 year ago

Update from smartBCH Team in Early August

In the past few weeks, while under tremendous pressure, we have been working on the decentralized bridge, SHA-GATE v2 and the draft specification has been released. ( https://bitcoincashresearch.org/t...

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@SmartBCH · 1 year ago

The Bailout Plan for smartBCH’s centralized bridge run by CoinFLEX

Dear smartBCH users: As you have already known, the smartBCH community is in an urgent situation. The centralized bridge maintained by CoinFLEX is stuck now. And the native token on smartBCH, which w...

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@SmartBCH · 1 year ago

The Plan for SHA-Gate V2

Since first proposing the SHA-Gate’s scheme, nine months have since passed. The native introspection opcodes have enhanced BCH’s scripting capability, and, in the process, we have learned a lot in pra...

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@SmartBCH · 1 year ago

Light-weighted Manipulation-proof Random Number Generator for smartBCH

In our early article introducing cloud enclaves, a mechanism for building manipulation-proof random number generators (RNG) with SGX enclaves was presented. Now we are planning to implement this mec...

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@SmartBCH · 1 year ago

Let's get rid of transactions for approving/revoking tokens

Even as a DEFI beginner, you may already find SEP20 token's approving transactions are annoying: if you want to add liquidity to the CATS/FLEXUSD pool, you must send one transaction for approving CATS...

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@SmartBCH · 2 years ago

The first ahead-of-time compiler for EVM: moeingaot

We are proud to introduce the first ahead-of-time compiler for EVM: moeingaot . In the smartBCH's whitepaper, we wrote: "EVM, which is adopted more commonly than other VMs like WebAssembly, is a de...

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@SmartBCH · 2 years ago

The smartBCH mainnet will be hard forked to apply the XHedge upgrade

After the XHedge hard fork was applied to the Amber testnet on 14 Feb 2022, it has been working smoothly for seven weeks. Now we are going to apply the XHedge hard fork to smartBCH's mainnet at the...

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@SmartBCH · 2 years ago

Cloud Enclaves and their Applications in Blockchains

By Wang Kui (kui.wang@smartbch.org) Top cloud computing vendors have recently been actively marketing confidential computing services, i.e., enclaves. Enclaves provide the features of integrity, is...

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@SmartBCH · 2 years ago

The amber testnet will be hard forked to apply the XHedge upgrade

We are happy to announce that a new version of smartBCH ( v0.4.2 ) is ready and the amber testnet will be hard forked at the height of 3088100 (next Monday), based on this version. We name this hard f...

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@SmartBCH · 2 years ago

The progress on the cross-chain bridge

We are pleased to share our progress on the cross-chain bridge between Bitcoin Cash and smartBCH. With the help from BCH community, smartBCH's developers have proposed a cross-chain mechanism named S...

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@SmartBCH · 2 years ago

Bitcoin Cash’s sidechain, smartBCH, is launching with support from BCH community and miners

We are pleased to announce that we have launched smartBCH successfully on July 30th, 2021 with three nodes as the genesis validators: BTC.com, ViaBTC, and Matrixport. smartBCH is now in its first vot...

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@SmartBCH · 2 years ago

Dizzy symbolSHA256 hash power can stake smartBCH now. You can vote and elect the validators of smartBCH with bitcoincashnode in the testnet-T2: https://docs.smartbch.org/smartbch/testnets#smartbch-t2

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@SmartBCH · 2 years ago

SmartBCH Launches Billiongas Testnet and Reaches Benchmarking Goal

The Goal From the very beginning, we have had the objective of utilizing low-level optimizations to maximize EVM throughput. The medium-term goal for showcasing such efforts was to consume 1 billio...

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@SmartBCH · 2 years ago

Testnet for smartBCH, a Bitcoin Cash Layer-2 Project, Is Now Public

We are really excited to announce that, as of today, the smartBCH testnet is now live. Developers and DApp builders can now find the testnet information at https://docs.smartbch.org/smartbch/testnet...

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