Cryptography Showing 18 Articles
Explore the concept of blockchain sharding, a technique used to improve scalability issues associated with Layer 1 networks.
What Is Sharding and How Does It Work?
Learn about zk-rollups, a Layer 2 solution for blockchain scalability that boosts transaction speeds and reduces network congestion with zero-knowledge proofs.
What Are Zk-Rollups? The Layer-2 Scalability Technique
Rollups are a Layer 2 scaling solution used by Ethereum and other Layer 1 blockchains. Learn about two approaches to rollups, optimistic and zero-knowledge.
Optimistic vs. Zero-Knowledge Rollups: What’s the Difference?
EIP-4844 (also called proto-danksharding) is a planned upgrade to the Ethereum protocol that lowers fees and increases the protocol’s transaction throughput.
What Is EIP-4844 in Ethereum and How Can It Benefit Users?
Maximal Extractable Value entails selecting and ordering transactions within a block to be added to a network chain for financial gain beyond the usual rewards.
What Is Maximal Extractable Value (MEV)?
Token standards are the guidelines for programmers to build tokens. Learn how the major token standards (ERC-20, BEP-20, ERC-721, ERC-1155) work and what they offer.
What Are Token Standards?
Merkle tree data structures are used in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. Learn why they're vital in blockchain and other computer science applications.
Merkle Trees and Merkle Roots Explained
End-to-end encryption turbocharges your privacy by ensuring only the intended recipient can decrypt messages you send them. Learn more at Binance Academy.
What is End-to-End Encryption (E2EE)?
The introduction of Mimblewimble marks a notable milestone in blockchain history. The Mimblewimble protocol may allow for more privacy and scalability.
What Is Mimblewimble?
Hash functions and public-key cryptography are at the core of digital signature systems, which are now applied to a wide range of use cases.
What Is a Digital Signature?
When combined with cryptography, hashing algorithms can be quite versatile, offering security and authentication in many different ways.
What Is Hashing?
In this article, we will cover what a Threshold Signature Scheme is and what are the potential advantages it brings to the blockchain space.
Threshold Signatures Explained
PGP has been an essential tool for data protection and is now used in a wide range of applications, providing privacy, security, and authentication.
What Is PGP?
Cryptographic systems are currently divided into two major fields of study: symmetric and asymmetric cryptography. Find out the differences in this article
Symmetric vs. Asymmetric Encryption
Symmetric key algorithms are widely applied in various types of computer systems to enhance data security. Learn about Symmetric Key Cryptography
What Is Symmetric Key Cryptography?