Tag: blockchain
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Ethereum Merge From The Developer’s Perspective
Ethereum’s transition to PoS aka the merge is here. It’s been running smoothly for more than 3 days now. And it has already reduced Ethereum’s energy consumption by 99.99%. As discussed in the last article, we know that the merge is all about replacing the PoW consensus layer with the PoS consensus layer, all while…
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The merge is coming!
The most awaited, most discussed, most anticipated “the merge” is finally happening in a few days. This upgrade is regarded as the most significant upgrade in the history of Ethereum. But, exactly what is going to happen? What entails after the merge? Let’s understand exactly what is all this fuss about, why this merge is…
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Merkle trees explained – Part 3: Merkle verification in Solidity and Javascript
In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, we have explored what are merkle trees, definition, concept and how merkle trees can be used to check the proof of inclusion. In this part, let’s checkout how we can perform merkle verification in smart contracts and in javascript. Merkle Verification in Smart contracts First thing…
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Merkle trees explained – Part 2: How verification of presence works
In part 1 of this article, we tried to understand what merkle trees are and the concept behind. We know that merkle trees help us in verifying whether a particular data point is the part of the tree ( merkle root ) or not. In this part, let’s go through exactly how this process of…
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Merkle trees explained – Part 1: What are merkle trees?
If you are a dev / techie and if you have a high level understanding of blockchains, you surely have heard this buzzword: “Merkle trees”. Wikipedia says: In cryptography and computer science, a hash tree or Merkle tree is a tree in which every “leaf” (node) is labelled with the cryptographic hash of a data block,…
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Solidity tips and tricks #1: Unchecked arithmetic trick
In my attempt to use my twitter and linkedIn to share interesting things and insights in Web3 on Ethereum, EVM, smart contracts, which I come across in my daily work as a web3 dev. Here we go:Announcing – “Solidity Tips and Tricks Series”. Solidity Tips and Tricks #1: Unchecked Arithmetic trick Before solidity compiler version…