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Musafir Network: Infrastructure for a Borderless Ethereum

Musafir is poised to revolutionize the Ethereum ecosystem by addressing the fractured UX of cross-chain interactions. By introducing a UX layer that offers instantaneous settlement, chain-agnostic development, and enhanced security, Musafir sets a new standard for decentralized application experiences.

Raka Finance: Your Gateway to Interest-Free Borrowing

Raka Finance is an innovative decentralized borrowing protocol that allows users to access interest-free loans by leveraging their Radix (XRD) holdings as collateral. By introducing a novel stablecoin ($RUSD) and employing cutting-edge stability mechanisms, Raka Finance is setting a new standard for efficient and secure access to liquidity in the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem

Restaker: Liquid Restaking Aggregator on Ethereum

Restaker is an innovative cross-chain liquid restaking aggregation layer built on the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). Designed to simplify and secure ETH and Liquid Staking Token (LST) provisioning, Restaker diversifies user assets across various restaking platforms, mitigating risks associated with any single LST asset.

Swoop: An Asset Consolidation Layer on Top of Wormhole

An asset consolidation layer built on top of Wormhole. Swoop simplifies the process by allowing users to consolidate assets across chains without the hassle of converting and bridging tokens individually.

A51 Finance: Empower Your Liquidity. Tailored Strategies, Total Control

This post will focus on the thesis behind the protocol. Furthermore, it will explain the design philosophy behind it, and question some of the assumptions.

A51 Tokenomics 2.0: Voted-Escrow + FOO

Ever since we started brainstorming about the v3 and what an ideal tokenomics should look like and also learning from our experience with PILOT token, we started to do in-depth research into the tokenomics of other projects, and one model caught our attention which was the ve model especially the version that LIT developed.

Uniswap Fees Comparison on Ethereum vs. L2s

In the past couple of years, Uniswap DAO has deployed univ3 on many L2s. Liquidity Providers should have more data about which L2s have been the most profitable for specific token pairs. This is our attempt to demystify some of it.

A Decentralized Bridge to Seamlessly Transfer Bitcoin to Ethereum

The decentralized Bitcoin-to-Ethereum bridge represents a significant advancement in cross-chain interoperability. By integrating advanced cryptographic techniques and consensus mechanisms, zkBTC can provide a secure, efficient, and trustless method for transferring BTC between Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Blurb Finance: One-Click Access to Maximum Yield

Blurb Finance allows liquidity providers (LPs) to deposit with a single click that it automatically distributes across various liquidity strategies to ensure the highest possible APY for the user.

Xord’s Strategic Shift to Focus on Web3 Products

Xord announces that it will be shifting its focus from providing development and consultancy services to building in-house web3 products.

Proto-Danksharding and KZG Ceremony

Ethereum is gradually moving towards the rollup-centric roadmap. One of the EIPs, which will help in scaling Ethereum is EIP-4844, popularly known as “Proto-Danksharding.”

Xord Attends Web3Dubai; A Conference for Builders and Non-Tech People

Xord became a part of Web3Dubai 2022, a conference for the builders and creators in the web3 space. Web3Dubai is […]

IBC: Sending & Receiving Data Packages

IBC provides a standard for data structures, semantics, protocol, and framework that enables every blockchain implementing IBC to authenticate and transport data among them in a permissionless manner, providing interoperability.

2D Reed Solomon Encoded Merkle Tree Construction

In our previous article, we briefly discussed the formation of the Merkle Tree using the Reed Solomon Code. In this […]

Cosmos: An Architectural Guide

The Internet is a network of independent computers connecting to share data (whether to read, write, store, or all). Similarly, connects separate blockchains. As the internet uses HTTP protocol, Cosmos uses IBC protocol.

Reed Solomon Codes: A Classical Explanation

Ever wondered how satellite communication works when there is so much noise in the environment? Or how can we still […]

Xord Organizes Web3 Disrupt: The Biggest Web3 Conference of Pakistan

Web3 Disrupt featured speaker sessions, panel discussions, multiple workshops, a hackathon, and career counseling for the attendees to get a chance to talk to professionals working in the web3 space and kick-start their careers in Web3. 

Fraud and Data Availability Proofs

In recent times, we on twitter are witnessing a frequent discussion about the Data Availability Problem and its importance. There […]

Rollups 101: The Classification

This article explores the different types of rollups i.e. Sovereign, enshrined, Smart Contract and settlement Rollups. Click to read more

Optimism Bedrock: An Early Guide

Optimism is an EVM compatible rollup, which has an upgrading coming out in Q4 of 2022 named Optimism bedrock. Read more in this publication.

Why is Resource Pricing a Big Deal in Blockchain?

TL;DR: In this article, we are gonna discuss what resource pricing in blockchain means and how we can limit and […]

Xord Launches Shield: A Testing and Development Framework for Zero-Knowledge

Shield is releasing its initial version, v.0.1.0. This version will allow users to initialize a boilerplate with Javascript/Typescript or Plonk/Groth16. Whereas in the near future, updated versions will be released with further perks and integrations.

Xord Uplifts The Web3.0 Summit As A Sponsor

Salman Khan, in his keynote speech, talked about how Xord is contributing in the form of research and development and how BlockshipDAO is creating an ecosystem to foster and accelerate the adoption of Web3 through learning tracks, events and podcasts whereas Shakeib Shaida became a part of a panel discussion where the speakers gave insights on “How far away are we from a true Web3 experience?”.

Xord From First Principles; Make Web3 Usable for 1 Billion People

Xord’s vision to onboard 1 billion users on Web3 can be imagined as our contribution to making the world decentralized, transparent, and honest. The dawn of the 4th industrial revolution is inevitable, and we are positive that through the initiatives taken by Xord, this transition can be accelerated.

VoirStudio Transitions into Xord Ventures; Now Building and Investing in Web3 Startups

Xord has always been a strong proponent of Web3. In an effort to make the vision of Web3 a reality, […]

Multi-Party Computation Protocol for Universal SNARKs

ZK-SNARKs are mostly popular for publicly verifiable computations. They rely on common reference strings (CRS) for proving and verifying. Subversion […]

The Trusted Setup of ZK-SNARK

Special thanks to Shakeib Shaida and Zainab Hasan for reviewing my article. Zero-knowledge proofs are cryptographically advanced proofs which are […]

Celestia: Turning Modularity Into Reality

Celestia is a Modular Blockchain which separates data availability layer from execution and settlement layers. Click to learn more about Celestia.

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Uniswap Fees Comparison on Ethereum vs. L2s

In the past couple of years, Uniswap DAO has deployed univ3 on many L2s. Liquidity Providers should have more data about which L2s have been the most profitable for specific token pairs. This is our attempt to demystify some of it.

IBC: Sending & Receiving Data Packages

IBC provides a standard for data structures, semantics, protocol, and framework that enables every blockchain implementing IBC to authenticate and transport data among them in a permissionless manner, providing interoperability.

2D Reed Solomon Encoded Merkle Tree Construction

In our previous article, we briefly discussed the formation of the Merkle Tree using the Reed Solomon Code. In this […]

Cosmos: An Architectural Guide

The Internet is a network of independent computers connecting to share data (whether to read, write, store, or all). Similarly, connects separate blockchains. As the internet uses HTTP protocol, Cosmos uses IBC protocol.

Reed Solomon Codes: A Classical Explanation

Ever wondered how satellite communication works when there is so much noise in the environment? Or how can we still […]

Fraud and Data Availability Proofs

In recent times, we on twitter are witnessing a frequent discussion about the Data Availability Problem and its importance. There […]

Rollups 101: The Classification

This article explores the different types of rollups i.e. Sovereign, enshrined, Smart Contract and settlement Rollups. Click to read more

Optimism Bedrock: An Early Guide

Optimism is an EVM compatible rollup, which has an upgrading coming out in Q4 of 2022 named Optimism bedrock. Read more in this publication.

Why is Resource Pricing a Big Deal in Blockchain?

TL;DR: In this article, we are gonna discuss what resource pricing in blockchain means and how we can limit and […]

Multi-Party Computation Protocol for Universal SNARKs

ZK-SNARKs are mostly popular for publicly verifiable computations. They rely on common reference strings (CRS) for proving and verifying. Subversion […]

The Trusted Setup of ZK-SNARK

Special thanks to Shakeib Shaida and Zainab Hasan for reviewing my article. Zero-knowledge proofs are cryptographically advanced proofs which are […]

Celestia: Turning Modularity Into Reality

Celestia is a Modular Blockchain which separates data availability layer from execution and settlement layers. Click to learn more about Celestia.

Painting Mental Picture of Zero-Knowledge

Introduction Learning zero knowledge can feel like an impossible task, especially for people who have very little exposure to cryptography […]

The Advent Of STARKs With IOPs

STARKs revolves around the idea of computational integrity, which essentially means that the output of a specific computation is correct. […]

Flashbots: MEV Pi-Rate Ship

Extracting MEV incurs externalities, like increasing the congestion of the network and gas wars which eventually increase gas costs for […]

ZK-SNARKs: The Low Level Working

Currently at Xord we are researching ZK-SNARKs in depth.  Although Maksym Petkus does an excellent job of explaining why and […]

Lattice-Based Cryptography: Zero Knowledge

Introduction In my previous research we discussed about Lattice-based cryptography and now we will use lattice cryptography to built our […]

Lodestar Setup Tutorial

Introduction So what exactly is Lodestar? As the name implies, it is the star that guides our path towards a […]

Strong Homomorphic Encryption

Introduction: Encryption programs are genuinely designed to destroy the relation between plain text and the corresponding ciphertext. A good encryption […]

A Roller-Coaster Ride to Open-Source Contribution in Ethereum 2.0

Introduction I want to share our roller-coaster ride to open-source contribution in Ethereum, which started with exploring the Ethereum client […]

Explaining Quadratic Arithmetic Programs

This article is greatly inspired by Vitalik explanation on Quadratic arithmetic programs(QAPs). In this article we are going to take a […]

Lattice Based Cryptography: A Post Quantum Era

Introduction: For the last few years, quantum computers have been in the news and mathematicians and cryptographers are concerned with […]

Curve DAO: A Brief Outlook To The Mechanism Of DAO

Introduction: Curve DAO token (CRV) is an Ethereum token that is powered by Curve finance. Which can be stated as […]

Zero-Knowledge Proofs: A General Understanding

Introduction Over the years, banks became quite a crucial part of the lifestyle. They provide the best user experience possible. […]

MEV: Explain Like I Am Five

What is MEV? The term MEV was initially proposed by Phil Daian in "Flash Boys 2.0," and it has since […]

Verkle Trees: A Step towards Stateless Ethereum

This is the last post of our series on stateless Ethereum. Earlier, in the previous articles we have discussed the […]

Kate Commitments: A Polynomial Scheme

Our previous article was a depiction of how polynomial commitments can create a disruptive path in building stateless clients in […]

Polynomial Commitments For Stateless Clients

In our previous article we have described what stateless clients are, why they are important and how we can achieve […]

Musafir Network: Infrastructure for a Borderless Ethereum

Musafir is poised to revolutionize the Ethereum ecosystem by addressing the fractured UX of cross-chain interactions. By introducing a UX layer that offers instantaneous settlement, chain-agnostic development, and enhanced security, Musafir sets a new standard for decentralized application experiences.

Raka Finance: Your Gateway to Interest-Free Borrowing

Raka Finance is an innovative decentralized borrowing protocol that allows users to access interest-free loans by leveraging their Radix (XRD) holdings as collateral. By introducing a novel stablecoin ($RUSD) and employing cutting-edge stability mechanisms, Raka Finance is setting a new standard for efficient and secure access to liquidity in the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem

Restaker: Liquid Restaking Aggregator on Ethereum

Restaker is an innovative cross-chain liquid restaking aggregation layer built on the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). Designed to simplify and secure ETH and Liquid Staking Token (LST) provisioning, Restaker diversifies user assets across various restaking platforms, mitigating risks associated with any single LST asset.

Swoop: An Asset Consolidation Layer on Top of Wormhole

An asset consolidation layer built on top of Wormhole. Swoop simplifies the process by allowing users to consolidate assets across chains without the hassle of converting and bridging tokens individually.

A Decentralized Bridge to Seamlessly Transfer Bitcoin to Ethereum

The decentralized Bitcoin-to-Ethereum bridge represents a significant advancement in cross-chain interoperability. By integrating advanced cryptographic techniques and consensus mechanisms, zkBTC can provide a secure, efficient, and trustless method for transferring BTC between Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Blurb Finance: One-Click Access to Maximum Yield

Blurb Finance allows liquidity providers (LPs) to deposit with a single click that it automatically distributes across various liquidity strategies to ensure the highest possible APY for the user.

A51 Finance: Empower Your Liquidity. Tailored Strategies, Total Control

This post will focus on the thesis behind the protocol. Furthermore, it will explain the design philosophy behind it, and question some of the assumptions.

A51 Tokenomics 2.0: Voted-Escrow + FOO

Ever since we started brainstorming about the v3 and what an ideal tokenomics should look like and also learning from our experience with PILOT token, we started to do in-depth research into the tokenomics of other projects, and one model caught our attention which was the ve model especially the version that LIT developed.

Proto-Danksharding and KZG Ceremony

Ethereum is gradually moving towards the rollup-centric roadmap. One of the EIPs, which will help in scaling Ethereum is EIP-4844, popularly known as “Proto-Danksharding.”

Merged: Finally... It happened!

It seems like it has been ages since we started hearing about the transition of Ethereum from PoW to PoS. Today, Sept 15 2022, 06:42:59 AM +UTC, marks the time it finally happened. Read about it in this pos

A Dive into the World of DAOs

This article presents a conceptual and factual dive into the world of DAOs, their merits, and the types of DAOs […]

Future of Polygon; Escalation with Zero-Knowledge

This article focuses on how the future of the Polygon network is moving towards Zero-Knowledge proofs. Polygon's network has increased […]

How to Fork The Ethereum Blockchain

So much has been said about Ethereum Fork. Through this article, you will learn beyond the verbal meaning of the […]

DeFi 2.0: An Upgrade to the First Generation of DeFi

This article covers the fundamentals of Defi 2.0 while discovering the need for DeFi 1.0 evolution. Several crypto users are […]

Layer 2 Solutions: Taking Scalability to New Heights

The blockchain trilemma suggests that blockchain cannot achieve scalability, security, and decentralization simultaneously. However, the layer-2 scaling solutions have come to challenge the thought system. It allows the mainchain to take care of security while maintaining scalable networks in its additional layers.

Metaverse: A Fusion of Virtual and Actual World

Several industries are beginning to see reasons to build their applications on the concept of the Metaverse. The government is seeking to hold virtual-physical meetings with leaders from around the world and artists are seeing potential in using the Metaverse to hold concerts too.

Serum: A Blend of Speed, Convenience and Trustlessness

The Serum is a decentralized exchange system built on the Solana ecosystem to provide unmatched low costs and speedy DeFi transactions. It charges as low as 0.0001 cents for transactions.

Mina: The World's Lightest Blockchain

It’s almost impossible for developers to create a protocol with these three important ingredients – security, scalability, and decentralization. These […]

Arbitrum: Scaling without Compromise

Arbitrum serves as a Layer 2 cryptocurrency platform. By implication, the security and protection of the Arbitrum interface and network come from Ethereum itself. 

Casper: The Future-Proof Blockchain

The Casper Network is a layer 1 Proof-of-Stake blockchain that improves how businesses upgrade new services and products on the blockchain.

Iron Fish: The Private Cryptocurrency

The Iron Fish project is a layer 1 blockchain that offers strong privacy transactions and wide expansion to the use of cryptocurrency.

Amphora: The Merge Event

The Ethereum community is always keen on their vision of an energy-efficient proof-of-stake network. For several years the Ethereum community […]

Loot: The First On-Chain Community-Driven NFT Platform

The Loot Project is the first on-chain community-driven NFT metaverse. With 8000 unique loot bags, Loot allows its users to channel their creativity and decide the future of Loot.

Golem: A Decentralized Cloud Computing Network

Golem is a decentralized cloud computing network built on Ethereum. It allows users to share their redundant computing power, on-demand.

Augur: Your Global, No-Limit Betting Platform

Augur is a global, peer-to-peer, and decentralized market prediction platform built on top of Ethereum developed by Forecast Foundation.

Digital Identification on the Blockchain with Microsoft's ION

Microsoft ION is a layer 2 DID network running atop the Bitcoin blockchain that allows users to create and authenticate digital identification on the blockchain.

DeFi Lending: A Primer

Introduction Today, lending is one of the most important financial activities in society. It fuels economic growth and facilitates commercial […]

Connext: A Guide To Multichain Ethereum

Connext is an Ethereum based interoperable platform that enables rapid, noncustodial transfers between Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatible chains and layer 2 solutions.

Solana: Exploring the Blockchain

Solana is a web-scale, high performance Blockchain, which aims to achieve high transaction speed without compromising decentralization.

Cryptocurrency Wallet: A Complete Guide

A Cryptocurrency wallet is a digital container that stores public and private keys for cryptocurrency transactions. 

History Of Ethereum Hard Forks

Similar to other network and software upgrades, Ethereum concerns birthed the various hard forks. It ranges from security, centralization, fees, scalability, and other Eth 1.0 limitations.
Read more in this article.

EIP-1559: An Upgrade To Ethereum Fee Model

The EIP-1559 proposal aims to strengthen the Ethereum ecosystem by making the transaction fee more predictable.

ETF: An Overview To Exchange Traded Funds

An Exchange Traded Fund(ETF) is a market that holds assets such as stocks, bonds, currencies and commodities.

Opyn: DeFi's Options Protocol

Opyn is a decentralized and capital-efficient protocol that allows users to buy, sell and create Ethereum based options.

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Xord’s Strategic Shift to Focus on Web3 Products

Xord announces that it will be shifting its focus from providing development and consultancy services to building in-house web3 products.

Xord Attends Web3Dubai; A Conference for Builders and Non-Tech People

Xord became a part of Web3Dubai 2022, a conference for the builders and creators in the web3 space. Web3Dubai is […]

Xord Organizes Web3 Disrupt: The Biggest Web3 Conference of Pakistan

Web3 Disrupt featured speaker sessions, panel discussions, multiple workshops, a hackathon, and career counseling for the attendees to get a chance to talk to professionals working in the web3 space and kick-start their careers in Web3. 

Xord Launches Shield: A Testing and Development Framework for Zero-Knowledge

Shield is releasing its initial version, v.0.1.0. This version will allow users to initialize a boilerplate with Javascript/Typescript or Plonk/Groth16. Whereas in the near future, updated versions will be released with further perks and integrations.

Xord Uplifts The Web3.0 Summit As A Sponsor

Salman Khan, in his keynote speech, talked about how Xord is contributing in the form of research and development and how BlockshipDAO is creating an ecosystem to foster and accelerate the adoption of Web3 through learning tracks, events and podcasts whereas Shakeib Shaida became a part of a panel discussion where the speakers gave insights on “How far away are we from a true Web3 experience?”.

Xord From First Principles; Make Web3 Usable for 1 Billion People

Xord’s vision to onboard 1 billion users on Web3 can be imagined as our contribution to making the world decentralized, transparent, and honest. The dawn of the 4th industrial revolution is inevitable, and we are positive that through the initiatives taken by Xord, this transition can be accelerated.

VoirStudio Transitions into Xord Ventures; Now Building and Investing in Web3 Startups

Xord has always been a strong proponent of Web3. In an effort to make the vision of Web3 a reality, […]

Xord Attends ETHDubai as the Silver Sponsor

This year, Xord attended ETHDubai as one of the Silver sponsors of the event to promote the vision of an […]

Xord; Advancing towards Research & Development

Introduction Xord has uplifted the Web3 space while creating an influential impact on the network. Although new structures still need […]

Xord Launches Blockchain Vision Paper

Blockchain technology is groundbreaking, and it holds the potential to influence every aspect of technology. The outlook of blockchain has […]

Pakistan’s First Pull Request by Xord Merged on Ethereum

Xord hits the landmark of contribution in blockchain in Pakistan by successfully getting their pull request merged on Ethereum. This story […]

Xord’s Achievements in The Year 2021

The year 2021 was a roller coaster ride. Through all the ups and downs, twists and turns, Xord continued to […]

Xord Makes Its First Pull Request on Ethereum Representing Pakistan

Xord being one of the most prominent, leading blockchain-based research and development companies of Pakistan has once again hit a […]

BlockUnblock: A Blockchain Awareness Initiative by Novon

Xord along with its research team Novon conducted the BlockUnblock R&D meetup at NED University to strengthen the blockchain realm […]

Xord introduces Blockship, a Global Blockchain Community

Xord is one of the leading international blockchain organizations that also spreads enlightenment about blockchain technology around the world. Seeing […]

Metadot Stands Runners Up in Encode's Hackathon

Metadot is a product of DAppzero which is an Xord company. Metadot has proved itself by securing the second position […]

Xord Company VoirStudio Launches Product Unipilot on Ethereum Mainnet

VoirStudio, an Xord’s venture is evolving blockchain by its outstanding product Unipilot. Unipilot has successfully resolved the liquidity optimization issue […]

Xord Exhibiting Blockchain at the GITEX Tech Week 2021 Dubai

Xord is exhibiting itself at Gitex 2021 tech week Dubai to empower and educate more people about the concept of […]

Xord Partners With Bees Social: World's First Blockchain Educational DAO

Being one of the best sites to learn about the blockchain technology to be most reliable for comparing an exchange […]

Xord Enhances the Blockchain Industry
Xord x Protokol Partnership

Xord have joined hands with Protokol for the development of their DApp. Protokol is a blockchain oriented marketing platform which […]

Unipilot successfully launched ”$PILOT” token, now aims to launch its protocol

27/7/2021, a very esteemed day for Unipilot as the liquidity for their token crossed over $1 million, and its transaction […]

Achieving Milestones Everyday; Xord joins hands with Dafi.

7/1/2021, marks the day when Xord achieved yet another milestone. The team at Xord has delivered to its new client […]

Novon; Xord’s Blockchain Research and Experimentation Center

We believe that the world is moving away from the idea of “one blockchain to rule them all”, and more […]

VoirStudio becomes the first company to be a part of Xord Ventures

Every company exists to create value for others. In a world that is constantly changing, we need innovation and the […]

Xord launches BlockApex; An in-house smart contract audit venture

Xord has been constantly expanding into uncharted territory since day 1. Taking risks and striving for more has been on the […]

Blockzero launched the world's first Flashstaking Protocol with the help of Xord

We are pleased to announce that on January 1, 2021, Xord helped Blockzero launch Flash protocol. Being the first protocol […]

TrustNet joins hands with Xord

Advancing with the vision to foster Blockchain adoption, Xord announces its partnership with TrustNet, a foundation focused on setting up […]

Uptrennd allies with Xord

Today, Uptrennd and Xord announce technology partnership to enhance and scale the Uptrennd platform. Uptrennd is an altruistic social media […]