Over the New Year, a test Saito node we call Marathon created its millionth block. In doing so over 10 million transactions were validated and bundled into blocks at a rate of about 1 block every 5 seconds with an…

Node Worthy 28: Blockchain in 2019 (live panel discussion) It was a pleasure to be invited to talk on the last Technode Tech in China panel for the year. You can listen to the panel discussion on the Technode Node…

Vitalik Buterin just wrote an important paper. It matters because it addresses the fundamental economic nature of attacks on blockchains, and specifically that the cheapest way to attack a POW or POS blockchain is to undermine its incentive structure. Attackers…

December has been a hugely exciting and busy time for Saito. Not only has this month seen huge progress from the core development team on our forthcoming Eames Testnet, which will run on our first software release theoretically capable of…

We are very pleased to have been invited by the Tsinghua International Blockchain Association to attend and present at their December 5 meeting. This has been an exciting few weeks for Team Saito as some of our key ideas have…

Anyone who knows Saito knows that we’re obsessed with economic attacks. From inception to our TechCrunch panel last Tuesday, we’ve stressed that vulnerabilities in blockchain are almost always economic at heart. Given this, the most fascinating part of the Bitcoin Hash War for us…

This post is about where Saito is in terms of blockchain scaling, the technical challenges that we face and our roadmap for processing even larger amounts of data moving forward. If you’re technically-minded and interested in on-chain blockchain scaling, please get…

This post is inspired by a tweet whose author was asking, in English as a second language, about the “docs” needed to register with a crypto exchange. Most of the replies he’d received were general answers about KYC (know your…