How to Stake LPT on Livepeer

In this Livepeer staking guide, we will show in a straightforward way how to stake your LPTs to an orchestrator. We obviously suggests that you stake to us, but this will work even if you want to stake with a different orchestrator. If you don’t already own Livepeer Tokens – LPT – you can buy […]

How to Delegate AVAX on Avalanche

Staking your AVAX tokens is fairly simple on the Avalanche platform now that the Avalanche network is launched. In this short tutorial, we will explain how to delegate your AVAX using the AVA wallet. This tutorial assumes that you own AVAX. If you don’t, you can acquire AVAX on Binance and other exchanges. Also, in […]

What’s the WorkLock NuCypher Coin Distribution?

Distributing tokens as part of launching a new digital asset is fairly common. New tokens are distributed through ICOs, IEOs, and airdrops among more popular means. Over the years, other companies have found innovative ways to launch their cryptocurrencies and chains. Livepeer innovated with the Merkle Mine that allowed ETH addresses to “mine” LPTs, while […]

PoS, Validating, and Staking in Cryptocurrency – A Layman Overview

In order for cryptocurrencies to remain secure, fair, and decentralized, they need a system of achieving distributed consensus among all the computer nodes processing transactions and writing new blocks. There are a number of different means for achieving this consensus. One of them is known as proof-of-stake (PoS). PoS is essentially an algorithm run on […]

February 2020 Update

DeFiCrypto.dev is officially launched. Going forward, once a month we will post a rapid-fire update about what’s new in our little DC Dev world. This past month, we’ve launched our Livepeer orchestrator / transcoder node and started participating in NuCypher’s Come and Stake It incentivized testnet. Oh, and yes, we’ve launched this site, today. Livepeer […]