Archive - BabylonChain

Checkpointing Babylon to BTC

TL;DR In a nutshell, Babylon implements the following mechanisms to checkpoint itself to BTC: An epoching mechanism that disables validator set rotation…

Sep 23, 2022 •

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Checkpointing Consumer Zones to Babylon via IBC

TL;DR In the previous blog post Babylon: Bitcoin Security for Cosmos and beyond, we described the general architecture of Babylon.

Sep 22, 2022 •

Kamilla Nazirkhanova

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[Babylon 101, blog 5] Bitcoin Security Beyond Unbonding

TL;DR PoS chains such as Cosmos zones can achieve Bitcoin-level safety for their transactions by using Babylon with a slow finality rule.

Sep 3, 2022 •

Ertem Nusret Tas

[Babylon 101, blog 4] Censorship Resistance via Babylon

Censorship Resilience

Sep 2, 2022 •

Ertem Nusret Tas

[Babylon 101, blog 3] Babylon for Fast Stake Unbonding

Sep 1, 2022 •

Ertem Nusret Tas

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Kamilla Nazirkhanova

August 2022

[Babylon 101, blog 2] Why is Stake Unbonding so Slow?

TL;DR Proof-of-Stake blockchains such as Cosmos zones allow fast confirmation of transactions but very slow unbonding of stake, with repercussions on…

Aug 31, 2022 •

Ertem Nusret Tas

[Babylon 101, blog 1] Babylon: Bitcoin Security for Cosmos and beyond

A Bird's Eye View of the Project

Aug 30, 2022 •

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Ertem Nusret Tas

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Kamilla Nazirkhanova

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