The series of testnets leading to the launch of Tgrade was coordinated and run by the team at Confio with the support of the validator community. There has been no Tgrade testnet since launch, and there is a need to run a testnet, partly so there is an environment close…

The last mile, is a big opportunity for innovation and is one that Figaro has embraced with the first steps of building a smart contract-driven platform on Tgrade. Figaro is a blockchain-based solution to the last-mile problem in logistics. The name Figaro pays homage to the main character of Gioacchino…

For the initiated, buying tokens and navigating your way through the various platforms, wallets, and transfers is fairly straightforward. For many people who perhaps have dipped into tokens through a centralized exchange, buying tokens from a Decentralised Exchange may seem a little daunting. Tgrade’s native token, TGD, is listed on…

Why do we need Central Bank Digital Currencies? Central banks are connected through a web of intermediaries, and there is a strong case for wholesale Central Bank Digital Currencies to use blockchain to move their assets securely between each other. …

There are many articles, tweets, blog posts, and commentary that draw parallels with the early 2000s and how the summer of 2022 crypto crash resembles the dot com crash. …

Processes tested The Oversight Community has had a busy time since launch with a bunch of applications for Engagement Points, to the governance of allocating points, punishing a couple of validators who did not start their nodes and dealing with the governance of the chain. Action taken The process of selecting the Genesis set…

Why Tgrade? What does Tgrade offer that others do not have? In an earlier article, I made the case for Tgrade, and in a follow-up article, how a business might build on Tgrade. Now that Tgrade is running mainnet, where are the businesses, and what are they building? The journey…

In an earlier article I set out what the role of the Oversight Community is in the context of Proof of Engagement and how the Oversight Community is up and running. The Oversight Committee is fully fluent in the tooling built to manage the governance, of adding proposals and voting…

The design of Trusted Circles was to have a very open way of implementing the connection between a blockchain address and identity. The basic creation of a Trusted Circle and linking of identity may be as simple as people vouching for each other, such as saying, “I know Alice, she…