More than two years after starting work, the development team behind Raiden - a second-layer network for Ethereum, functionally similar to the Lightning Network on Bitcoin - has announced the mainnet launch of the alpha version of its product called Red Eyes...

Large companies are already taking a close look at blockchain technology or adopting it. Although the technology did not appeal to all leading companies straight away...

These days it is hard to find someone who has not heard of cryptocurrency and related things. Yet far from everyone understands how blockchain works and what it is for. Let us make sense of it without unnecessary terminology or convoluted phrases.

A soft fork is a soft update of a cryptocurrency protocol that is compatible with older versions of the software, in which the network continues to operate as a single whole and is not split into separate chains.

A node is a computer connected to a cryptocurrency network that stores blockchain data and verifies transactions according to the protocol rules, sustaining the operation of a decentralized system without a single center.