Blockchain firm Elrond has invited hackers to attack its network during its upcoming incentivized stress test. According to an announcement on June 2nd, Elrond’s upcoming incentivized stress test will include a variety of different attacks on the network. BREAKING: Super excited to announce Battle of Nodes today! The final step before the #Elrond Mainnet launch is starting on Thursday. Years of work, internet scale performance, dawn of a new blockchain era. Ready to stake

Open blockchain platform Harmony announced that it will now support staking along with sharding, aiming to create a blockchain infrastructure that attains high scalability. On May 19, 2020, Harmony claimed it is the first to ever integrate staking into a blockchain network also utilizing sharding to attain high transaction throughput. Sharded PoS is now a reality! On Saturday, May 16 at block 3375104, Harmony's Mainnet entered its first #staking epoch and in so doing, claime

South Korean based blockchain firm Bloom Technology claims to have created a new technology that is able to speed up transactions on the blockchain. On Dec. 3, United Press International reported that the CEO of Bloom Technology, Lee Sang-yoon said that the firm’s Lotus Chain technology has been able to reduce blockchain transaction processing times to fractions of a second. A Single Blockchain Transaction Takes Between 0.13-0.23 Seconds Bloom Technology has reportedly said t