After the initial GA release back in February, the Hyperledger project has just released version 1.1 of Sawtooth, which mostly focuses on making it simpler to add new consensus algorithms and brings W ...

CockroachDB, a scalable relational database, also uses Raft, as does YugaByte, another new SQL database, and Neo4j, a graph database. Other databases have adopted the Calvin consensus algorithm, ...

Move over, Proof of Work. Proof of Stake is the hottest new algorithm on the blockchain scene. Bitcoin’s Proof of Work (PoW), the initial consensus algorithm that helped kickstart the broader ...

A Hong Kong-based Matrix AI Network is developing a prototype of a new hybrid PoS/PoW consensus algorithm. This update was shared with Cointelegraph by Owen Tao, the company’s CEO. Tao described ...