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Research
Announcements, product updates and research from the team building collateral markets.
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Demystifying Slashing
Slashing is ultimately a powerful deterrent that rarely needs to be invoked. This analysis examines real-world slashing data across Ethereum, Cosmos, and Polkadot, revealing how uncommon these events are and why this security feature works so effectively despite its infrequent use.
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Building with Symbiotic: Collateral Abstraction
Shared security resolves crypto fragmentation through the abstraction of collateral from underlying security functions, improving capital efficiency and alignment.
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Building with Symbiotic: Appchains
Symbiotic’s flexibility enhances nearly any use case through increased security and decentralization while maintaining sovereignty. In this article, we’ll explore how Symbiotic can be integrated into appchain networks. We’ll start by describing an abstract protocol and identify specific areas where Symbiotic infrastructure may provide value. What’s an Appchain? Appchains are the same familiar blockchains but are designed with a much narrower scope. Major blockchains, known as generalized bloc
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Building with Symbiotic: Fast Finality
Let's imagine that Alice is sending tokens to Bob. When can Bob be truly confident that Alice has sent them to him? The answer lies in the concept of finality. The transaction is finalized when the network accepts the block containing Alice's transaction. In blockchains, data is stored, as the name suggests, in blocks. Any network participant can create a block. When blocks are created, they generally require three key elements: specifying a parent block to maintain the chain's continuity, calcu
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Building With Symbiotic: Oracles
Diving into how Symbiotic can be integrated into oracle networks.