Crypto market news: If everything goes according to plan, a joint research initiative by Samsung and the Bank of Korea could successfully implement central bank digital currency (CBDC) based offline payments via Samsung Galaxy smartphones and smartwatches. On Monday, Korean media reports said Samsung Electronics and the Bank of Korea will initiate joint research for developing an ecosystem for a CBDC. Accordingly, the company signed an official agreement with the central bank to perform research in the offline payments space.

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This is in continuation to the pilot project initiated in 2022 between the two parties, which was centered around CBDC technology enabling device to device transfers through near-field communication (NFC). The new initiative is said to be aimed at bypassing difficulties like the lack of network connectivity in South Korea’s internal locations. This is also an attempt to subvert the usage of card and cash payments in the country.

Samsung Galaxy Phones To Power Offline Payments

Samsung said that the research will focus on minimizing security issues in offline payments when made through Samsung’s Galaxy smartphones and smartwatches, as per The Korea Times report. Lee Seung-heon, senior deputy governor of the Bank of Korea, said,

“We look forward to Korea continuing to lead the way in offline CBDC technology, which is being actively researched by global central banks.”

However, the crypto market community is in principle opposing the implementation of the CBDCs, which are also based on blockchain, the underlying technology behind the cryptocurrencies.

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Cardano (ADA) has garnered attention on the cryptocurrency market due to its high market capitalization in early 2023. Furthermore, as a competitor to Ethereum (ETH), it has seen significant growth in total value locked (TVL) within the decentralized finance (DeFi) space and is also recognized as one of the most developed smart contract platforms.

However, last weekend, some news caught Cardano investors off guard. It went through a short and massive 60% reboot of the altcoin’s nodes. This event has caused concern among investors, as nodes are essential to the functioning and security of a cryptocurrency network.

Stay up to date with what happened

According to reports on Twitter, the failure occurred at approximately block 8300568 and has been confirmed by on-chain analysis tools. Despite the network having since recovered and resumed normal operations, the incident has caused some concern among members of the community who worry that it could be a precursor to a larger issue that could potentially compromise the integrity of the ADA blockchain.

A technical discussion began on Github as a means of identifying the cause of the issue and expediting the discovery of a solution. Additionally, staking pool operators are investigating the causes that may have led to the mass reboot.

One theory that has been put forward is that the reboot of certain network nodes and their branches resulted in a disruption to the Cardano network for approximately seven minutes. Input Output Global (IOG), the company behind Cardano, has stated that it does not believe this was a full network reset but rather a form of degradation. This is because the blockchain itself did not halt, but some transactions experienced delays for a short period of time.

 Divided community

According to Charles Hoskinson, the event demonstrated the importance of self-correction in fully decentralized networks and highlighted Cardano’s resilience. Some members of the cryptocurrency community concur with this perspective and argue that the diversity and decentralization of nodes on the ADA blockchain contributed to the network’s ability to maintain its operations during the event.

On the other hand, some members of the community disagree and argue that the diversity of nodes on the Cardano network is insufficient. As a result, not all nodes went offline as some were not accepting incoming connections. These discussions are taking place as the Cardano community awaits an official statement from IOG regarding the underlying cause of the issue within the blockchain. 

The number of nodes present on a decentralized network can fluctuate over time and is influenced by a variety of factors, including the popularity of the network, the degree of decentralization and the incentives for operating a node.

Currently, Cardano still has room for improvement in terms of the number of nodes on its network. To increase its presence in this area, the altcoin needs to gain wider adoption and attract more individuals to participate in staking. Additionally, setting up a node for the cryptocurrency requires a certain level of technical expertise, which limits the number of nodes.

It is also worth noting that the smart contract platform needs to increase its liquidity in order to incentivize developers to create more nodes. Despite the availability of multiple types of nodes on the Cardano network, most of them belong to the same node, which limits its ability to scale and become more decentralized.

The Cardano blockchain experienced an anomaly on Saturday evening (07:00 pm EST, between block 8300569 and 8300570) that caused close to 60% of all active nodes to go offline for a short period of time. While the blockchain did not come to a standstill, there were delays in transactions. But what happened and what was the cause?

One of the first to report the anomaly was Tom Stokes, co-founder and COO of Node Shark and operator of an ADA stake pool. He wrote: “A few hours ago over half of all Cardano nodes went offline. This is why decentralization matters,” and shared the chart below.

As the above chart shows, the network recovered to around 87% within a short period of time. However, the cause of the incident remained unknown for a rather long time. At press time, the inventor of Cardano, Charles Hoskinson, had also not yet commented.

Cardano Developer IOG Responds

A statement from the development company behind Cardano, Input Output Global (IOG), gave an explanation for the phenomenon. The company explained that a bug caused more than 50% of nodes to disconnect and restart.

“This affected relay nodes and block-producing nodes – edge nodes do not appear to have been affected,” said IOG, which went on to explain that this appears to have been triggered by a temporary anomaly that triggered one of two reactions in the node; some disconnected from a peer, others threw an exception and restarted.

According to the Cardano developer, this is a non-concerning event:

Such transient issues (even if they were to affect all nodes) were considered in the design of the cardano-node and consensus. The systems behaved exactly as expected.

Block production was only briefly impacted with a portion of the network falling out of sync for approximately https://cardanoscan.io/block/8300569 before nodes restarted.

As the company emphasizes, the impact was therefore rather minor – “akin to the delays that occur during normal operations and often seen at epoch boundaries.”

Most nodes recovered automatically without human intervention and performed a restart, depending on the choice of staking pool. Nevertheless, the company promises to further investigate the cause of the anomaly and to implement additional monitoring logging measures in addition to “regular” monitoring procedures.

Within the community, the incident sparked discussions about the network’s decentralization and whether the anomaly is worrisome. One user wrote that such an incident is not common and that it has never happened before on Cardano.

“There was one time where inefficient reward calculation over an epoch boundary slowed down nodes, that’s about it” the user explained. In general, however, the community agreed that the impact was minimal, as block creation only slowed down for a few minutes while nodes were rebooting.

Regarding the decentralization of the network, though, some users expressed concern. Some said the event revealed that Cardano’s node diversity is not good enough. The only reason not all nodes went down was because not all nodes accepted incoming connections. “The survivability here was not due to node diversity, but node robustness,” another user added.

Cardano (ADA) Price Today

The 1-day chart of ADA shows a breakout from a downtrend that has lasted more than eight months. The next major price target is the zone between $0.42 and $0.43, where former strong support which has turned into resistance meets the 200-day EMA. At press time, ADA traded at $0.374.

Featured image from Michael Fortsch / Unsplash, Chart from TradingView.com

A concerning Cardano report emerged online after Tom Stokes, co-founder of Node Shark and a Cardano stake pool operator, tweeted that half of Cardano nodes went offline hours ago.

A few hours ago over half of all #Cardano nodes went offline. This is why decentralization matters. pic.twitter.com/NXDVyKy8ep

— Tom Stokes (@eUTxO_pro) January 22, 2023

“A few hours ago, over half of all Cardano nodes went offline. This is why decentralization matters.” Stokes wrote.

There are reports that half of Cardano nodes went offline a few hours ago. The report claim the affected nodes were ‘public’ whereas the ‘private’ nodes remained online. Is this true? @IOHK_Charles @timbharrison @InputOutputHK @adamKDean

— Kappa Nupe (@donbap) January 22, 2023

According to the network synchronization chart Stokes posted, the network sync suddenly fell from 100%, where it had usually been, to slightly above 40% in the early hours of Sunday for over 300 reporting nodes.

The network sync immediately recovered back to around 87% after the drop, according to Stokes’ chart. A high-performance network is demonstrated by the original network synchronization rate of 100%. The reason for the sudden network disruption remains unknown.

A Cardano-focused Twitter account Cardano Whale debunked the report that half of the nodes went offline. “No, not true,” he said in response to a user. He added, ”Block production kept going but was slowed down for a few minutes, the network did what it’s supposed to do. There are no private nodes on Cardano.”

Cardano reputed as one of most stable networks

The Cardano node is the core component that underpins the Cardano network. Simply put, a blockchain network is just a collection of interconnected nodes, all working together to validate transactions and create blocks utilizing consensus.

Stake pools use the Cardano node to validate how the pool interacts with the network and are responsible for transaction processing and block production.

IOG’s blog post on time handling notes that synchronizing time over a network of nodes takes time. This is because time can sometimes jump back and forth by a few seconds or even hours.

Cardano has held onto its reputation as one of the most stable networks in the cryptocurrency industry as it continues to work smoothly for more than five years despite many periods of extremely high load.

• A recent report has disclosed that Dogecoin transactions have been designed to be sent through radio transmission.
• The Radio dodge technology is said to be a reliable and low-cost technology that works with the Starlink internet service.

Dogecoin has undergone several technical developments as the team seeks to back it up with real-world use cases beyond its investment use. A recent report has disclosed that Dogecoin transactions have been designed to be sent through radio transmission. In a blog post, Doge developers Mitchie Lumin and Timothy Stabbing mentioned that SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network would be used to facilitate Dogecoin transactions without the internet. This explains why the Radiododge Regional Hub was created. This has been confirmed by a Twitter page identified as “DogeDesigner.”

Dogecoin Transactions without internet access?

Yes! It will be possible with the project “Radio Doge” which focuses on using Radio tech. combined with  Starlink satellite network to enable access for people outside the reach of the internet. The 1st transaction took place in April.

It is worth noting that DOGE is not the first crypto to be sent through radio transmission. People have used concepts like “mesh networking, amateur radio equipment, and portable antennas” to get access to Bitcoin transactions without the internet. 

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Dogecoin transactions routed from the regional hub

The Radio dodge technology is said to be a reliable and low-cost technology that works with the Starlink internet service. According to reports, the offline transaction was “transmitted over HF radio to a regional hub more than 150 miles away in Colorado, USA.” The software behind the transaction is called Project Libdogecoin. It is said to be a ” C-based library of Dogecoin protocols” that operates as a building block for Dogecoin projects. 

According to Michi Lumin, the wider community would be allowed to transact through the radio as they seek to establish a low-cost open-source hardware implementation in the future. For now, the demo has established its potential utility. The Libdogecoin project in addition has plans to create “Dogecoin standard documentation, community proof of stake, layer-2 scaling for point of sale, and these radio-enabled nodes.”

The Dogecoin transactions were routed from the regional hub dodgecoin testnet using the Starlink satellite. This initiative is in line with the key objective of the asset according to the Dogecoin Foundation. The Foundation explains that they seek to make Doge a de factor worldwide currency as a medium of exchange. The Foundation also disclosed that it is currently working on other projects to prepare the ecosystem for grassroots adoption. They believe that the project could take advantage of the 1.7 billion people unbanked worldwide. The effort has been lauded by the Dogecoin community.

First Dogecoin transaction without internet, using Radio Dodge. Dodge will reach people who do not have internet access through Radio Dodge.

Dogecoin is currently trading at $0.07 after falling by 15 percent in the last seven days. The recent developments could likely have a positive impact on its price. However, this may depend on the general market performance.