Category: Chia.net

The metaverse has not experienced widespread or significant adoption thus far. This may be because the existing technology caters to an audience that either doesn’t desire it or doesn’t yet grasp it. Presently, the metaverse seems to target NFT creators and gamers, but in reality, the limited number of active creators are promoting their products…

We’re excited to officially welcome you to the Chia Network Discord server! As of today, our new public channel is open to the community and we encourage you to join us. Beam me to Discord! We’ve outlined specific instructions and requirements to guide your transition from Keybase to Discord. These steps will ensure the utmost…

Version 1.8.0 of the Chia reference client is now available for download! This release features user experience improvements, including updates for notifications, WalletConnect support, DataLayer permissioning, and NFT caching. Download Critical Security Patches This release includes patches that are critical security updates for all network users. It is highly recommended that all network nodes upgrade…

The Chia Trading Card Game (ChiaTCG) is an open-source, proof-of-concept Web3 game that serves as a reference product to support adoption among game developers and jumpstart their journey using Chia technology. It demonstrates how each of the Chia primitives come together to build the technology infrastructure for our CODE framework. The ChiaTCG With the open-source…

The new version of our green paper is updated to explain the consensus algorithm we actually deployed. It is very similar to the consensus algorithm described in the first version of our green paper. It’s still using proofs of space and time, and even the units of weight the blockchain is measured in are still…

The Chia ecosystem experience means a lot to us. If you’re on Keybase, you’ll see many of us are very active in the community; you may also have some opinions on how it feels to use Keybase compared to other apps you may currently use – like Discord. We initially chose Keybase for the comprehensive…

We’re committed to real-world blockchain utility, meaning we must recognize the industry’s pain points and build the tools to address those challenges – with security front-of-mind. So, we built our custody solution, which we used to secure the prefarm. That bespoke tool merged several existing Web3 custody features into a single solution. While the custody…

Version 1.7.1 of the Chia reference client is now available for download! This release focuses on user experience improvements, including updates for Key Management, WalletConnect support, notifications, offers, and NFTs. We’ll cover the updates for end users, and developers. Download General User Experience Improvements Wallet Updates We’re introducing an array of GUI wallet improvements to enhance…

I’m excited to share that, moving forward, we’ll provide quarterly database checkpoints as part of our ongoing release improvements. You can access these checkpoints via BitTorrent, the peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol our founder Bram Cohen invented. Checkpoints are the first step to a better peer-to-peer sync model. What does this mean for you? You’ll have secure…

We’re thrilled to celebrate the second anniversary of our Mainnet launch with you! It is incredible to think about how far we’ve come in such a short time, from a zoom call with dozens of community members to over 100,000 nodes globally (and even in-person events today across six continents!). The growth, scale, and adoption…