Category: Chia.net

We are excited to announce that today our new Bug Bounty program has gone live with the support of Bugcrowd! This program is initially rolling out to a curated list of select security researchers managed by Bugcrowd while we iron out any kinks and get the program up to full speed. After that, Bugcrowd will be…

Bram and I are no real fans of the current patent regime around software for a host of reasons. We, however, are realists about needing patent protection to defend ours and other developers’ ability to innovate and use new blockchain related technologies to solve real world problems. That is why today we are announcing that…

Chia Blockchain – Bluebox Timelord AMI Release We have released a publicly accessible AMI (Amazon Machine Image) for Amazon Web Services. AWS makes it very fast and easy to deploy a Bluebox Timelord to an EC2 instance that you can control and manage in your own AWS environment. Once the image has been deployed, no…

On March 17th, 2021, the roughly 15 chia engineers responsible for launching mainnet had just finished the “go, no go” checklist for launching Chia version 1.0.0. For the past several weeks the entire Chia team had been on high alert, working long hours, ironing out the final details that would allow the blockchain to finally…

TL;DR: The Chia token standard is going to be called CAT1 We’re in the process of making a real standard for tokens which will guarantee interoperability for developers who follow it, and it needs a name. In the past we’ve used the term ‘coloured coins’ in our documentation and code to refer to tokens built…

Version 1.2.6 Released! We’ve released version 1.2.6, which is to address a bug-fix with nodes. While this is technically a bug-fix version, we want to stress the importance of this update being applied to your own nodes, and encourage you to update to it at the earliest convenience. Last week a bug was detected in the nodes…

Targeting a circular economy for storage Chia is excited to announce that we are joining the Open Compute Project to contribute to sustainability in storage. OCP is mainly known for open, modular, and vanity-free hardware that runs hyperscale data centers like Facebook and Microsoft, but OCP 2.0 is laying out a new strategy to meet sustainability and circularity goals…

TL;DR Chia is launching the Chia Cultivation Grant to invest in independent developers who are looking to create new and exciting tools to benefit the Chia ecosystem at large. Chia Networks is excited to announce the Chia Cultivation Grant program. As we are committed to growing and nurturing the Chia ecosystem, we realize that we can’t (and…

Earlier this year, I wrote a blog post about Chia and SSD endurance. The Chia proof of space construction requires a lot of sorting on temporary storage space to make the plot format secure and efficient for quick verification later in farming. The Chia plotting workload is only required to be performed once per plot during the initial…

In addition to a new consensus algorithm, with Chia we’ve also built a new on-chain programming environment called Chialisp which is just as powerful as Solidity while also being far more auditable, and scalable. It also fosters much better software development practices. As an example of the power of on-chain programming in Chia, and how…