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On Crystal’s Shards

Thanks to everyone who’s here at the start, our journey has only just begun! Crystal’s friendly AI is fully up and running now. Here’s some more hot takes: “Crystal Shards refers to the smaller units within the larger Crystal blockchain network. Crystal Shards apply a modular approach where individual sub-chains can be created to handle…
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Linking Trees and Chains

One of my favorite research papers in distributed consensus is Fruit-chains by Rafael Pass and Elaine Shi. Not only is the work extraordinary in depth and quite compelling in motivation, but it also features my favorite naming convention. “Orange is the new block”, they say. These fruits reminded me of the micro-blocks employed in Bitcoin-NG.…
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Hello world!

Welcome to our site. I’d love to share a bit about what Crystal is and why it matters. In short, it addresses the most pressing problem facing blockchains today: scalability. By doing so, we open up a world of potential for enhancing how we communicate and access information. For the sake of brevity, we recently…
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