In the past few weeks, while under tremendous pressure, we have been working on the decentralized bridge, SHA-GATE v2 and the draft specification has been released. (https://bitcoincashresearch.org/t/the-draft-specification-of-sha-gate-v2/862). We released SHA-Gate2 CashScript covenants for reviewing. (https://github.com/smartbch/cc-covenant). We also released SmartBCH v0.4.5 (https://github.com/smartbch/smartbch/releases/tag/v0.4.5).

Dear smartBCH users: As you have already known, the smartBCH community is in an urgent situation. The centralized bridge maintained by CoinFLEX is stuck now. And the native token on smartBCH, which will be referred to as “sBCH”, is not 1:1 anchored to BCH on the main chain. As a decentralized bridge…

Since first proposing the SHA-Gate’s scheme, nine months have since passed. The native introspection opcodes have enhanced BCH’s scripting capability, and, in the process, we have learned a lot in practice. It has now come to the time we should revise its scheme and improve upon it. SHA-Gate means “Smart-Holder-Authorized…

In our early article introducing cloud enclaves, a mechanism for building manipulation-proof random number generators (RNG) with SGX enclaves was presented. …

Even as a DEFI beginner, you may already find SEP20 token’s approving transactions are annoying: if you want to add liquidity to the CATS/FLEXUSD pool, you must send one transaction for approving CATS and another transaction for approving FLEXUSD, before you can finally deposit your CATS and FLEXUSD tokens into…

We are proud to introduce the first ahead-of-time compiler for EVM: moeingaot. In the smartBCH’s whitepaper, we wrote: “EVM, which is adopted more commonly than other VMs like WebAssembly, is a de facto standard for smart contracts. However, EVM lacks certain important speedup methods, such as ahead-of-time (AOT) compilers and…

After the XHedge hard fork was applied to the Amber testnet on 14 Feb 2022, it has been working smoothly for seven weeks. Now we are going to apply the XHedge hard fork to smartBCH’s mainnet at the height of 4106000 (next Wednesday, 20 Apr 2022). The name “XHedge” of…

By Wang Kui (kui.wang@smartbch.org) Top cloud computing vendors have recently been actively marketing confidential computing services, i.e., enclaves. Enclaves provide the features of integrity, isolation, data sealing, and attestation, through which relying parties only need to trust the CPU hardware and the code running inside enclaves. …

We are happy to announce that a new version of smartBCH (v0.4.2) is ready and the amber testnet will be hard forked at the height of 3088100 (next Monday), based on this version. We name this hard fork “XHedge”, to highlight its most important feature: BCH holders can elect validators…