For those who follow our awesome blog, you can see David has been talking a lot about Proof of Stake. This month he shared his thoughts with us on the Introduction to PoS and the future of Consensus and Before EOS and Ethereum: How much has Proof-of-Stake evolved since PPCoin?. His research into the field is the foundation for the architecture of Orbs’ Randomized Proof-of-Stake (rPoS) — additional information coming soon!

Orbs’ interoperability and scalability features have generated a lot of excitement over the course of our trip last week to Japan. We expect this to underpin some new alliances for Orbs in the coming weeks.

Japan Blockchain Conference

We had the great privilege of partnering with the Japan Blockchain Conference in Tokyo, one of the largest industry gatherings in the country to date. Honored by the Japan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Trade, Economy and Industry, it was clear that Japan is gearing up to becoming a global leader in blockchain. The top industry leaders in Japan attended (SBI, bitARG2, and Evercoin Founder Miko Mastumura who just announced he will be managing a new Digital Assets VC for Gumi) , alongside companies from around the world (Bitcoin.com, CoinTelegraph, and ConsenSys CSO Sam Cassatt among others). During and after the conference, Daniel and I also met up with companies like SoftBank, Huobi, Dentsu, Quoine, and many others leaders in Japan.