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Supply Chain Attack

A supply chain attack is a tactic used by hackers to compromise third-party suppliers to major corporations, governments and organizations to gain valuable information. What Is a Supply Chain Attack?Supply chain attacks are increasingly prominent,…

Supply Chain

A supply chain is the collection of steps that a product or service needs to go through before reaching the final customer.What is a supply chain?In simple terms, a supply chain is the list of steps that a service, product, or commodity goes…

Side Chain

A blockchain ledger that runs in parallel to a primary blockchain, where there is a two-way link between the primary chain and sidechain.What Is a Side Chain?A sidechain is a side blockchain that is linked to another blockchain, referred to…

Shard Chain

In the world of cryptocurrencies, sharding can reduce the network congestion as well as increase transactions per second through the creation of new chainsWhat Is a Shard Chain?Sharding is the process of splitting a database horizontally in…

Relay Chain

The Relay Chain is the central chain that is used by the Polkadot network.What Is a Relay Chain?The Relay Chain is the central chain that is used by the Polkadot network. Polkadot is a heterogeneous multi-chain and translation architecture that…

Chain Split

Chain splits are another term used to describe cryptocurrency forks — the separation of a single original coin into several independently managed projects.What Is a Chain Split?Software forks occur when developers copy the codebase of an already…

Chain Reorganization

Chain reorganization is a process in blockchain technology that allows node operators to replace blocks and adopt new ones, in order to create new, longer chains of data.Blockchain technology is a complex combination of processes which ensure…

BEP-2 (Binance Chain Tokenization Standard)

A technical standard for tokens on Binance Chain.What Is BEP-2 (Binance Chain Tokenization Standard)?BEP-2 stands for Binance Chain Evolution Proposal 2. BEP-2 is a technical standard for creating and using new tokens on Binance Chain. It defines…

Beacon Chain

A blockchain that coordinates shard chains, manages staking and the registry of validators in a PoS cryptocurrency, such as Ethereum 2.0.What Is a Beacon Chain?The Beacon Chain lies at the core of Ethereum 2.0; it stores and manages the registry…