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Flash News: OKX Ventures Makes a Seed Round Investment in Type 2.5 zkEVM Kakarot

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Thursday, November 16, 2023

SINGAPORE, Nov. 15, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- OKX Ventures , the investment arm of leading Web3 technology company OKX , has issued updates for November 16, 2023.

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  • SINGAPORE, Nov. 15, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- OKX Ventures , the investment arm of leading Web3 technology company OKX , has issued updates for November 16, 2023.
  • OKX Ventures today announced its seed round investment in Kararot , a Type 2.5 Zero-Knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine (zkEVM) written in Cairo, a Scalable Transparent Argument of Knowledge (STARK)-based Turing-complete language for writing provable programs on blockchain.
  • Kakarot aims to scale Ethereum by leveraging the capabilities of Cairo and Starkware's technology.
  • OKX Ventures Founder Dora Yue said: "We are honored to participate in the seed round of investment in Kakarot, a Cairo language-based zkEVM.

New InfiniBand Specification Enables Data Centers with Enhanced Switch Density and Scale Out Features

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Wednesday, November 9, 2022

The new 1.6 specification enables the build out of 256-port top-of-rack (ToR) switches, up from 64-ports.

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  • The new 1.6 specification enables the build out of 256-port top-of-rack (ToR) switches, up from 64-ports.
  • Additional features in the 1.6 specification include extended OpCodes for generalized transport function classes, as well as for enhanced Memory Placement Extensions (MPE) that will further reduce latency in distributed memory applications.
  • Volume 1 Release 1.6 includes two major updates, one of which is the support for large radix switches, enabling significant cost and power reduction.
  • The other significant addition is the new MPE Verify Operation which provides data verification without the need for ULP techniques.

The Original Bitcoin Protocol: What is It and Why Does It Matter?

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Monday, August 30, 2021

CALGARY, AB, Aug. 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- In the last 10 years, concepts like blockchain and digital currencies have moved from small online communities to being supported and utilised by some of the world's largest organisations. With the rise in popularity, and the numerous different digital offerings, MNP, a leading national, accounting, tax, and consulting firm in Canada, has undertaken an extensive report [insert link to report], examining which Bitcoin implementation best fits the original vision presented by Satoshi Nakamoto's White Paper which created the concept of Bitcoin. 

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  • Satoshi Nakamoto's whitepaper "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" sets the stage for MNP's analysis.
  • Satoshi's whitepaper, emails, forum posts, and original source code define the protocol (the rule set for Bitcoin as a data network) and the key elements that make Bitcoin a functional technology.
  • MNP's findings indicate that Bitcoin SV is most representative of Satoshi Nakamoto's original intention and design for Bitcoin.
  • In addition, the Genesis hard fork restored key aspects of the original functionality of Bitcoin script, the programming language used within the Bitcoin protocol.

The Original Bitcoin Protocol: What is It and Why Does It Matter?

Retrieved on: 
Monday, August 30, 2021

Satoshi Nakamoto's whitepaper "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" sets the stage for MNP's analysis.

Key Points: 
  • Satoshi Nakamoto's whitepaper "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" sets the stage for MNP's analysis.
  • Satoshi's whitepaper, emails, forum posts, and original source code define the protocol (the rule set for Bitcoin as a data network) and the key elements that make Bitcoin a functional technology.
  • MNP's findings indicate that Bitcoin SV is most representative of Satoshi Nakamoto's original intention and design for Bitcoin.
  • In addition, the Genesis hard fork restored key aspects of the original functionality of Bitcoin script, the programming language used within the Bitcoin protocol.

The Original Bitcoin Protocol: What is It and Why Does It Matter?

Retrieved on: 
Monday, August 30, 2021

Satoshi's whitepaper, emails, forum posts, and original source code define the protocol (the rule set for Bitcoin as a data network) and the key elements that make Bitcoin a functional technology.

Key Points: 
  • Satoshi's whitepaper, emails, forum posts, and original source code define the protocol (the rule set for Bitcoin as a data network) and the key elements that make Bitcoin a functional technology.
  • Along with the whitepaper, MNP reviewed the publicly available emails, forum posts and original code left by Satoshi.
  • MNP's findings indicate that BitcoinSV is most representative of Satoshi Nakamoto's original intention and design for Bitcoin.
  • In addition, the Genesis hard fork restored key aspects of the original functionality of Bitcoin script, the programming language used within the Bitcoin protocol.