Adam Gagol

Co-founder

Co-founder of Aleph Zero. Received Ph.D. in mathematics for his work on applications of the probabilistic method in combinatorics. During his doctoral studies, he was a beneficent of a SET project for interdisciplinary research and SSDNM fellowship for mathematical sciences. While his main domain is combinatorics, he is open to new technologies and has 4 years of experience in data science and machine learning applied in neuroscience research. He has been working as a freelance consultant in various areas spanning from mathematical modeling to deep learning. One of the authors of AlephBFT, Aleph Zero's peer-reviewed consensus protocol presented at ACM's Advances in Financial Technologies 2019 in Zurich.

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Dev Updates: Bridging to Terra, Focusing on Validators and Staking

The first weeks of 2022 have been a busy and productive time for our development team. The main focus of our efforts has been centered around bringing smart contracts to the Aleph Zero blockchain. We have prepared and launched the Smartnet—a brand new test environment, where smart contract developers can experiment and get familiar with

Adam Gagol

Feb 8, 2022

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Smartnet is Live: Start Using Experimental Aleph Zero Smart Contracts

We have the pleasure to announce the release of Aleph Zero Smartnet—an experimental network dedicated to exploring the smart contract capabilities of the Aleph Zero blockchain. The Smartnet is accessible at smartnet.alephzero.org. Make sure to check out our hands-on tutorial over at Aleph Zero Docs. More extensive documentation will follow, including tutorials targeted specifically towards

Adam Gagol

Jan 27, 2022

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Development Update: Finished Network Revamp, Preparing to Launch Smartnet

Last month, most of the development team was preoccupied with strengthening the Aleph Zero chain, as well as upgrading its infrastructure and tooling to scale the network further. Besides that, we also put a lot of effort into the architecture of Aleph Zero validation, delegation, and staking, as well as WASM smart contracts — these

Adam Gagol

Jan 14, 2022

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Recycling the Agreement: Distributed Consensus on DAGs

In recent years, we have witnessed a growing number of new-wave DAG-based cryptocurrencies. It started (most likely) with DAGCoin¹ in 2015, which was followed by many other projects, such as IOTA, Byteball, Hashgraph, Chainspace, PARSEC, Fantom, and, of course, Aleph. In this article, we will first share our view of why DAGs are receiving increased attention

Adam Gagol

Aug 20, 2019

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