Blockchain Basics

Bridge Tokens Between Chains — Step-by-Step on Using Stargate, Across, and CCTP Learn exactly how to move assets across chains securely and efficiently. This guide covers three industry-standard options—Stargate, Across, and Circle’s CCTP (for native USDC)—with practical tips, verification steps, and safety best practices. Disclaimer: This tutorial is educational only and not financial, legal, or […]

Bitcoin Runes: What They Are, How They Work, and Who’s Building on Them Runes is a fungible token protocol that lives on Bitcoin’s native UTXO model. It was designed to reduce baggage from earlier token experiments (like BRC-20 inscriptions) and to make token state easier to index and move, without leaving the main chain. This

What Is Web3? A Beginner’s Guide to the Decentralized Internet Web3 is a vision for an internet owned by its users and built on open protocols where you hold your own keys, your data is portable, and applications run on blockchains instead of purely company servers. If Web1 was the “read-only” web of simple pages,

Hybrid Consensus Models Blockchains combining PoW, PoS, or others for security + scalability. TL;DR: No single consensus is perfect. Hybrids blend mechanisms (e.g., PoW + PoS) to balance trade-offs: PoW adds objective, sybil-resistant cost (hashpower/energy), while PoS adds fast finality and capital-based security. Many networks also mix in VRF randomness, BFT committees, and sharding to