Cryptocurrencies need a safeguard to prevent another DAO disaster

High assurance brings mission-critical security to digital funds

12 May 2017 Duncan Coutts 13 mins read

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Cryptocurrencies need a safeguard to prevent another DAO disaster

TL;DR You want to avoid the next DAO-like disaster: so you want confidence that the system underpinning your cryptocurrency doesn’t have a hidden flaw that could be triggered at any time and render your assets worthless. To get that confidence you need a high assurance implementation of the system operating your cryptocurrency. Formal methods (mathematical specifications and…

Finding a brand for Daedalus

26 April 2017 Richard Wild 6 mins read

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Finding a brand for Daedalus

Just who was Daedalus? It was the first of many questions the design team had to answer when we started work to find a logo for the digital wallet that will store the Ada cryptocurrency. Daedalus is an unusual name. We were in Riga, on an IOHK working sprint last autumn, when we got the brief to develop the visual identity and brand for the wallet, so the first thing we did was…

A trip to Malta and a Grothendieck milestone

18 April 2017 Jeremy Wood 6 mins read

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Last Monday should have been particularly jarring given the recent excitement. However, it was anything but. Sunlight was flooding the back garden and all the small birds of the neighborhood came together to perform an impromptu concert at maximum volume. I could hear them clearly through the double glazing. Spring had sprung in Dublin. And I’d just come back from Malta talking…

Smart contracts conference starts in Athens

31 March 2017 Jeremy Wood 4 mins read

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Smart contracts conference starts in Athens

Experts in law and cryptography are speaking today at a smart contracts day in Athens, organised by IOHK chief scientist Aggelos Kiayias, chair of cyber security and privacy at the University of Edinburgh as well as director of its Blockchain Technology Laboratory. Smart contracts are an emerging technology that run on the same infrastructure that supports Bitcoin: a blockchain…

Smart contracts conference starts in Athens

31 March 2017 Jeremy Wood 4 mins read

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Smart contracts conference starts in Athens

Experts in law and cryptography are speaking today at a smart contracts day in Athens, organised by IOHK chief scientist Aggelos Kiayias, chair of cyber security and privacy at the University of Edinburgh as well as director of its Blockchain Technology Laboratory. Smart contracts are an emerging technology that run on the same infrastructure that supports Bitcoin: a blockchain…