Author: Leonor
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Sidechain 101: What are sidechains and why do we need them on Polkadot?
When it comes to scalability, Polkadot is one of the leading blockchain platforms. So why did Integritee feel the need to develop a second-layer sidechain protocol for Polkadot? In this post, we will take a look at the origin of sidechains and why they are needed on Polkadot. Then, we will describe how Integritee has…
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Monthly Wrap-Up April 2022: Networking, Technical Updates and Business Growth
Our team has been here, there, and everywhere over the past month, talking up a storm and making sure that everyone knows about us. At the same time, we’ve achieved the key milestone of occupying our Kusama parachain slot. Networking effects Bitcoin 2022 was a clear highlight of the month, especially participating in the Polkadot &…
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Monthly Wrap-Up March 2022: Migrating to Kusama & Building Our Community
A quarter of the way through 2022, with our technical team working steadily to prepare for migrating our solo network to Kusama, we are making strong progress on community building and raising Integritee’s profile. Here’s what has been keeping us busy in March. Talking it out In an informal events series with our GameFi partner Ajuna, we’ve…
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Update On Integritee Parachain Migration
In January, thanks to the overwhelming support from our community in backing our crowdloan campaign, we achieved our goal of securing a Kusama parachain. As we already had an existing solo chain, the next step was to move it over to Kusama. Although the process was delayed somewhat by unfortunate technical complications, we are on track…
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What Should Integritee Present at Polkadot Decoded 2022? You Decide.
Integritee makes it easy for developers to create dapps and services in the Polkadot ecosystem that protect the privacy of users. We have had a long connection with Polkadot and Kusama; in 2019 and 2020, we received grants from the Web3 Foundation and Polkadot Treasury to develop the first links to trusted execution environments (TEEs).…
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TEE Time with Integritee
At Integritee, we love keeping our supporters in the loop, but it can feel a bit one-sided. While we share a lot of information on the blog, in our newsletters and social channels, it’s more a broadcast than a conversation. Even on Telegram, there isn’t much scope to have a serious exchange. We’d like to…
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A Healthier Approach to Wearables
Everybody wants a fitness tracker, but nobody wants that much of their personal data exposed. Here’s how providers can protect sensitive information while still offering all the smart benefits. From pedometers to smartwatches, wearables have risen in remarkably little time to a popular must-have. Whether you want to improve your sleep habits, your fertility, or…
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Event Series: Learn How Integritee Is Taking Gaming to the Next Level With Ajuna
Did you know that the Integritee Network can be used to power a new generation of fast, decentralized, Web3 games? Through our partnership with the games platform Ajuna Network, we will enable fast, graphically rich, Web3 games that balance performance with decentralization. But how do Web3 games work in practice and how does Integritee fit…
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Monthly Wrap-Up February 2022: A New Listing, Sidechains & Other Updates
Business expansion, an exchange listing, and feature-complete sidechains: this is just a small sample of the Integritee news this month. Indeed, things have been developing extremely rapidly in February across all areas of the Integritee project, so we thought it might be a good time to pause and take stock. This post takes a look…
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TEE 101: How Intel SGX works and why we use it at Integritee
Integritee uses a technology known as trusted execution environments (TEEs) to process sensitive data off-chain. But what exactly are TEEs and how do they work? In this post, we will take a look at one of the most common & powerful TEE architectures, which we also use at Integritee: Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX). Data…