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A World of Digital Payments
As more and more people work from and stay mostly in the confines of their own homes, cash payments have faced large declines and digital payments have faced truly explosive growth. Traditionally, many groups and individuals have been restricted from switching over to mostly digital payments by either digital exclusions, because the businesses or financial […]
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A Reflection on How Far We’ve Come
On January 3rd of 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto mined the Genesis block—number 0—of Bitcoin, earning a 50 BTC reward. In the years to follow, crypto adoption grew and grew. It grew from small message boards on the internet (where 10,000 BTC were spent on two Papa John’s pizzas!) to formalized exchanges, from Bitcoin and proof-of-work alone […]
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Blockchain Gaming Expands Stay-At-Home World’s Horizons
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to sweep the global landscape, people across the world are learning to get accustomed to their new stay-home-world. Certain sectors such as broadcast media, commodity delivery, and gaming are seeing unprecedented growth; whereas, other legacy industries are being forced to innovate after decades of stagnancy. However – all-in-all – there’s […]
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Our Focus on Developers in 2020
Our focus in 2020 is centered around utilizing all of the consistent progress we have made over the last years in developing significant assets for developers looking to build advanced applications and technology. Numerous technologies built from hundreds of thousands of lines of code have been developed across our platform and continue to be developed […]
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OPEN End of the Year Update
2019 has been an exciting year for the industry. We have seen a catalyst in activity across decentralized finance, gaming, scaling, and developer tools. However, often times, the industry forgets how nascent blockchain technology truly is, and how early we are on this journey towards mainstream adoption – many times expecting overnight transformation across industries. Bitcoin […]
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Emerging Blockchain Use Cases: DeFi
Over the past 2 years, the blockchain space has started to see projects achieve real traction. Although extremely early, the movement of decentralized finance or DeFi has been achieving real progress with over $500 million in value currently locked up. The premise of DeFi, as conveyed in its name itself, is to challenge the traditional […]
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OPEN Platform API Documentation Overview
Hello OPEN Community, Given our recent developer engagement initiatives, we would like to provide community members with an overview of our various and extensive Open Platform Documentation resources to help and encourage developers to contribute to our ecosystem. In this update, we want to highlight the Open Platform API Documentation to help developers engage with […]
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OPEN COMMUNITY UPDATE
Hello OPEN Community, We have been continuing our development as scheduled during this interesting period of the blockchain and distributed ledger technology industry. We are flushing out our development roadmap and have begun our development of the OPEN State. Development has been consistently progressing since 2017 and will continue to progress throughout 2019 and 2020. […]
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OPEN DApp Development Competition
Hello OPEN Community, We are excited to announce the launch of the OPEN DApp Development Competition! Along with our new developer portal and bug bounty program, we want to continue to focus on bringing talented developers to engage the OPEN ecosystem. Developer Resources: OPEN User Tools We have spent a significant amount of time […]
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Bug Bounty Program
Hello OPEN Community, We would like to provide further details surrounding the bug bounty program launch! The bug bounty program allows us to recognize and reward members of our developer community for helping us find and address potential bugs that may be found in the use of our open source platform or chain. Like […]
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