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The Holiday NFTs are here!

The Chia Holiday 2021 NFTs are now available! You can redeem your corresponding CH21 CAT tokens for these limited edition NFTs by doing the following: Simply send one CH21 token (not XCH!) to the following address: xch184hksatuenaz5rddcj3kvdf3mjhs0ud5a47y90340vu8hq739q7sm2uhf6 That’s it! It’s TH

December 8, 2022

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NFTs: Exciting New Promises, Same Old Reality

Imagine you’re an artist. Oil on canvas. You’re just getting started, so you sell your paintings at a discount while you build your clout. Years go by, your audience grows, you keep creating. Finally, after decades of painting and hustling, your artwork is bringing in good money. One day an earl

November 21, 2022

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New Features Available with 1.6.1

Version 1.6.1 of the Chia reference client is now available for download. This update includes several exciting new features, which we’ll highlight in this post.  Download Offer Builder When we introduced NFTs to Chia’s ecosystem a few months ago, we only included the ability to offer them

November 4, 2022

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A New Home for the Prefarm

All 21 million XCH in Chia’s prefarm have been moved to four custom-built custody wallets. Why design new wallets from scratch? Existing web3 custody solutions rely on simple multisig contracts that can be drained of their funds in the event of a minor security breach. We knew we could do better.

October 29, 2022

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Beta Dev Tools: Blockchain Simulator, Chialisp VSCode Extension, and Bulk Minting

We know that writing code is never easy and doing it in a new language like Chialisp doesn’t make it easier, so we’re releasing beta versions of additional tools to support developers. Included in this release are three separate developer tool betas to make building in the Chia ecosystem simpler

September 30, 2022

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OCP and CDI Whitepaper: Data Sanitization Enabling the Circular Economy

Summary Chia co-authored a new whitepaper on the impact of data sanitization on the circular economy, suggesting a practical solution to data security and storage reuse. Read the whitepaper here. Background Shortly after the Chia mainnet launch, hard drives worldwide were sold out, prices increased,

September 29, 2022

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Enabling Data for Web3: Announcing Chia DataLayer

We use the web for rich, complex interactions: to engage with one another, to make purchases or to do business, for creating and storing, and for numerous other use cases. And we think of all these interactions on the web today as decentralized interactions among peers, facilitated by transparent an

September 20, 2022

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Chia x Akash Network = Plotting as a Service

How much does it cost to make a plot? What should be an easy calculation has a bit of nuance. I started creating a model with a three-year total cost of ownership for the plotting hardware, but the tricky part was how to treat the hardware utilization and depreciation. The higher the utilization o

September 12, 2022

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Cypherpunks in Sportcoats: Blockchain in the Real World

Cryptocurrencies and underlying blockchain technologies are going through a phase of euphoria – awareness is high and adoption is growing, but current use cases are often dubious. There’s confusion around the types of problems and applications that secure and sustainable public blockchains can a

September 6, 2022

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New Features Coming to 1.5.1

Version 1.5.1 of the Chia reference client is now available to download. This release includes some fun new features, which we’ll go through in this post. Business White Paper NFT Improvements NFT-for-CAT offers Version 1.4 introduced NFTs to Chia’s ecosystem. Chia NFTs are typically bought an

August 23, 2022

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Bringing Transparency and Efficiency to Carbon Markets

What if we could increase access and create real global inclusion in the carbon markets? What if we could establish clear standards and transparent pricing for a previously illiquid and obfuscated asset? What if we could establish “one”¹ price of carbon? We could increase funding for the high-

August 17, 2022

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Help Test BladeBit 2.0 with our New Chia Beta Program

Today, we are launching the Chia Beta Program, a new way for one of the largest and most decentralized communities in blockchain to help us test and refine the products we’re building at an unprecedented scale. The Beta Program represents an opportunity for the community to be involved in the dev

August 8, 2022

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Announcing Bladebit 2.0

Chia is releasing new plotting software called Bladebit Disk, utilizing the high-performance code from the in-memory plotter Bladebit, with a new architecture optimized for mainstream storage devices (solid state drives, and hard disk drives). Major new features include DRAM caching to reduce writes

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CAT1 Vulnerability Explained – CVE and CWE

Part of our commitment to the security of the Chia blockchain and community is providing transparency around security and the lessons learned when a security incident is discovered. In this spirit, we will have a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposure (CVE) and Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) of

July 29, 2022

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Upgrading the CAT Standard

Updated July 27, 2022 at 17:00 UTC ‎ Reissuance is Underway. Following the end of life (EOL) of CAT1 at block height 2,311,760 (at approximately July 26, 2022 at 9:00am PDT), we’re providing an update on the reissuance process and information on next steps for asset holders and asset issuers. A

July 25, 2022

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1.4.0 – Introducing the Chia NFT1 Standard

Today, we’re pleased to announce the launch of the next milestone of our journey: The Chia NFT1 standard on mainnet. Our NFT0 testnet release in May outlined our vision for the future of NFTs – We are seeking to leverage Chia’s sustainable, inclusive, and compliant blockchain to enable and d

June 29, 2022

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Why I joined a blockchain as CMO during “crypto winter”

☀️ A “crypto summer” school thesis I started learning about blockchain, crypto and web3 in January, after a surge of 2021 media activity that shouted, “Hey, start paying attention to this.” After months figuring out how to “speak crypto,” I realized that there are lots of low-quali

June 9, 2022

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Cypherpunks in Sportcoats: The Fundamental Value of Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains

In the not too distant past, a pack of the uninformed chanted “Blockchain not Bitcoin!” This was “proof of no IQ,” as a secure decentralized database, a blockchain, requires an incentive to compensate farmers/miners to validate transactions for third parties. Blockchains need cryptocurrency

June 8, 2022

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Our Vision for Chia NFTs

In October 2021, Chia began exploring the NFT space and the role that we can play in it. We believe the Chia blockchain provides differentiated value through true digital ownership and Chia Offer Files that enable true decentralized trading. Coming from the video gaming industry, I innately unders

May 11, 2022

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1.3.4 – Improved Token Management

We’ve done some remodeling on the GUI, so you’ll find that things have moved around. We’ve provided some notes and context (and GIFs!) for you to become familiar with the new GUI, which has incorporated community feedback and is structured to better support future features. Please take a look

April 19, 2022

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Announcing Chia Dashboards

Today, I’m excited to announce the public release of our Chia Dashboards. The site currently has 3 dashboards providing a glimpse into the blockchain and peer network. We’re building this network together – the primary goal of these dashboards is to provide an accurate and third-party verifia

April 6, 2022

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Chia Mainnet Year One

In celebration of Chia Mainnet’s first year, we share some thoughts and a nifty infographic below.‎ ‎ As we look back on the first year of Chia’s blockchain, we have a lot to celebrate; from the launch of Mainnet and rapid network growth to the developer ecosystem and engaged community,

March 19, 2022

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Cypherpunks in Sportcoats: Tech is Eating Your Fin

Those applying traditional financial industry modes of interpretation around market sizes and incumbency are doomed to fail at predicting which blockchain technologies will get mass adoption. Let’s discuss why. Marc Andressen famously coined the phrase, “software is eating the world.” Now soft

March 17, 2022

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Divided We Fork

Chia version 1.3 (coming Soon®) will have many new features and some significant upgrades. One change we’ve talked about a bit less is the upcoming soft fork to disallow negative division. This post will cover what you need to know about this change. Hard fork vs soft fork Blockchains have two

March 4, 2022

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The Clovyr Developer Challenge Results!

The Event: Over the course of February 3rd and 4th, we held a Developer Challenge in partnership with our friends at Clovyr. Focusing on the amazing chialisp development environment provided by Clovyr, we wanted to see what kind of smart-coin focused project intrepid developers could create over a

February 23, 2022

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Zoned storage – Using SMR Drives for Chia Farming?

Here is a picture of robots building a giant hard drive generated by AI, for no good reason – by Seth Jenks Special thanks to Western Digital for sending me the drives to test and being available to answer many of my technical questions! What is SMR? The Chia farmer community has figured out that.

February 22, 2022

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CHia Improvement Proposals

A flow chart for CHIPs not to be confused with CHiPS Have you ever read through Chia’s source code or protocols and thought, I have an idea to improve that? Well, now’s your chance! A CHia Improvement Proposal (CHIP) is a formal document for improving Chia’s protocols, procedures, tooling

February 14, 2022

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1.3 Beta Release

We at Chia have been working hard to bring many of our new features together into one easy-to-use release. Today, we’re proud to announce the beta release of our 1.3 client. Because this release is still in beta, we recommend that you only install it on non mission-critical systems. If you are

February 10, 2022

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The Chia Developer Forums Launch

We are excited to share with you the launch of our new Developer Community forums at developers.chia.net! In a previous blog post, we discussed our ongoing plans to overhaul our community developer documentation in a variety of ways… and this is the next step of that process. While docs.chia.ne

February 9, 2022

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Version 2.0 of the Chia Business Whitepaper

Today we release version 2.0 of the Chia Business Whitepaper. Much has changed since the first versions of this document including Chia becoming the largest and most decentralized blockchain by node count ever and being secured by 40+ EB of space. While we were at it we delivered our significant ne

February 2, 2022

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