In an attempt to make some of the work that we do more accessible, David has put together a six minute non-technical introduction to one of the key solutions introduced by Saito. The problem identified and solved in this video…
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In most blockchains the peer-to-peer network does the heavy-lifting: giving data to lite-clients, collecting fees in return, and sharing those fee-paying transactions with the network. And since these activities cost a lot of money at scale, it’s useful to ask…
This month saw our Eames TESTNET create its 21,601st block. The original genesis block was then dropped from the chain before creating the next block. To be valid, the 21,602nd block had to include the ‘rebroadcastable’ transactions from the original…
In our inaugural episode of the Saito Social, Richard and David sit down with Amy Chen from the Cortex project. We were just getting our feet wet recording, but this was a fun show for us because — as it…
Curious about the next big thing in the blockchain space? If you haven’t experienced on-chain gaming yet, be sure to visit the Saito Arcade and try out one of our first three on-chain games: Chess, WordBlocks or Twilight Struggle. Although…
Today we are delighted to release the first version of the Saito Game Engine (SaGE). Chess, WordBlocks and Twilight Struggle are available to start with, and are listed on our Saito Arcade. If you have thoughts on what we should…
Richard and I are just back from a roughly two-week trip to California. Richard wrote earlier about our experiences with the Stanford Blockchain Conference. Rather than rehash his opinions, I thought I’d share some broader thoughts on how Silicon Valley…
On Thursday, February 7 Richard and I had the good fortune of presenting Saito to a select group of people we now know in San Francisco. It was a smart crowd that was constantly thinking ahead of where we were…
Stanford feels like the promised land to anyone used to Chinese academia. The campus opens with a palm-lined drive that leads to manicured lawns and stately sandstone buildings. You can breathe the air. There are Rodin sculptures scattered through campus.…