With the London hardfork anticipated for August 4th, we thought it would be pertinent to go over some key facts, reminders, and clarifications for EIP-1559! Notes EIP-1559 is a “transaction pricing mechanism that includes fixed-per-block network fee that is burned and dynamically expands/contracts block sizes to deal with transient congestion.” The…

Tezos Africa! Last week stakefish hosted a special call with the Tezos Africa Baker community providing guidance on topics spanning infrastructure, business, and governance. This seminar and open Q&A event has been a part of stakefish’s on-going initiative to promote and support strategic geographic decentralization efforts globally. …

F2Pool is proud to be leading the way in its commitment to sustainability as a blockchain infrastructure service provider. We have committed our resources to establish initiatives exploring and designing both short term and long term projects that aim to offset our carbon footprint. …

F2Pool is officially supporting the Flashbots organization and the goals of minimizing the negative impacts of MEV. What is Flashbots? Here is the official description of Flashbots from their documentation¹: Flashbots is a research and development organization working on mitigating the negative externalities of current miner extractable value or “MEV” extraction techniques and…

Uniswap began with the launch of v1 in late 2018 as an experiment in a new kind of digital asset market. Unlike traditional markets composed of buyers and sellers trading assets between each other, Uniswap is what’s known as an automated market maker (AMM). In an AMM, market participants called…

The various reasons as to why empty blocks have been mined in the past have been covered extensively¹ ² ³. Many reasons have been due to technical inefficiencies that have now been remediated, but some still will inevitably persist. As an example, expedient block propagation and download times had at…

TL;DR f2pool has made the switch from reCaptcha to hCaptcha to block malicious automated traffic, all while: Maintaining user privacy Supporting all regions around the world Assisting accessibility challenges Until recently, we used reCaptcha for malicious traffic mitigation. However, due to a variety of issues and concerns with user privacy…

This is the third and final post on the series diving into the concepts, data, and actionable insights of decentralization transparency on the Ethereum 2.0 Beacon Chain. Part 1 can be found here. Part 2 can be found here. Just trust me. How many times have we seen the assumptions of good behavior…

This is the second post in a series diving into the concepts, data, and actionable insights of decentralization transparency on the Ethereum 2.0 Beacon Chain. Part 1 can be found here. Part 3 can be found here. The state of ignorance in which commanders frequently find themselves as, regards the…