Tag: blockchain
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Integritee’s Polkadot Crowdloan
Now that we’ve celebrated winning a parachain on Polkadot, it’s time to get to work as Integritee’s lease period starts on August 27! If you’ve contributed to our Polkadot crowdloan, you are entitled to TEER tokens. The amount you’ll receive depends on our rewards structure. Learn how to check your TEER rewards. Thanks to the…
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Blockchain: Back to Basics
We are releasing a series of articles explaining the nature and mechanics behind blockchain technology. In this article, you’ll learn about the basics surrounding the underlying concept, including its main features. A blockchain is a digital set of sequentially connected blocks that work as a ledger, recording information. There are some major differences between a…
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Monthly Wrap-Up July 2022: Winning a Slot on Polkadot, Integrating with Karura & Much More
The heat wave wasn’t the only thing raising the temperature at Integritee this July! Our team had its hands full completing integrations with other projects, running a crowdloan campaign for a slot on Polkadot — and succeeding! — and preparing juicy articles to help everyone understand the world of blockchain. Read through and check all…
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From Web 2.0 to Web3: A Step Forward
Imagine being rushed to the emergency room one day for serious injuries from a car crash. You’ll be asked to provide all your private information to the clerk so you can be admitted. What if after a few months, your bank calls asking for the thousands of euros you spent on airplane tickets, hotels, and…
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Polkadot: The Next Step in Integritee’s Growth and Development
Integritee has achieved all of its key roadmap targets since securing a Kusama parachain in January. But now it’s time for the biggest one yet: securing a Polkadot parachain slot. Obtaining a Polkadot slot will play a vitally important role in providing the stable infrastructural basis necessary to attract enterprise clients and bolster the value…
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How Integritee combines the benefits of Web2 and Web3 technologies
Web3 has a lot of promise, but there is a fundamental problem that hinders adoption: the blockchain trilemma. While the trilemma is sometimes used as a tool for competitive analyses between blockchains, Web2 infrastructure can also be positioned within it. A centralized server is akin to a network with only “one node”. This provides a scalable…
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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…
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Integritee Achieves Feature-Complete Sidechains
Integritee completed a significant milestone today — feature-complete sidechains. This achievement paves the way to a future of unpermissioned access to trusted execution environments (TEEs) on Substrate blockchains such as Polkadot and Kusama via a fast, second-layer network. Most blockchain networks tend to be transparent by nature, with transactions published on a public ledger. As…
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Enterprise-Focused Securitee Expands Integritee’s Ecosystem
Integritee is tackling the traditional enterprise market with a new subsidiary company, Securitee, a cutting-edge confidential computing service that provides unparalleled security for either hosted or on-premises data processing. Securitee, based in Berlin, offers scalable confidential computing infrastructure to meet the emerging data needs of enterprises seeking robust security and confidentiality. This perfectly complements Integritee’s…
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The Integritee Mainnet is Live!
We did it: Yesterday, our mainnet was launched. This is a huge milestone as we prepare for the first real-world use cases to be deployed on Integritee. In combination with our token sale and exchange listing scheduled for next week, we are closer than ever to realizing our vision of providing the foundation for privacy-preserving…