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Jun 14, 2022

Umba Daima’s Iris Nevins on NFTs, diversity, and wealth inequality

This week we join Iris Nevins, a former teacher and software engineering manager at MailChimp. Currently, she is the co-founder of Umba Daima, an NFT Studio building and curating community in Web3. Umba Daima creates virtual galleries featuring multicultural projects by artists worldwide, including the Black NFT Art network and The Unseen Gallery. In today's conversation, we take a deep dive into her entrepreneurial journey to talk about the current state of the creator economy, the art of curation, and how her studio is diversifying the NFT ecosystem.

May 9, 2022

Author Matthew Leising on the evolution and use of decentralized tech

This week Derek E. Silva joins author Matthew Leising, and Co-founder of DeCential Media that focuses on telling the stories of the founders, builders and visionaries who are creating a new decentralized economy and internet experience. We take a deep dive into the fascinating early days of Ethereum to discuss Matt’s critically acclaimed book 'Out of the Ether' and his quest to solve the mystery behind the 2016 DAO hack.

Apr 11, 2022

Tim Beiko on the future of Ethereum

The Ethereum network has famously been undergoing its transition towards The Merge (formerly Eth2.0) for several years. When will it be completed? And what are the most important objectives?

Apr 5, 2022

Gas Fees Explained: a Deep Dive into Ethereum’s Transaction Fee Structure

Ethereum gas fees play a key role role in the functioning of the network. But they also pose scalability challenges.

Mar 29, 2022

Welcome to Orchid, Aurora Frens!

Orchid’s dVPN is now live on Aurora on NEAR! That means anyone can use the Orchid dApp by funding it with ETH on Aurora.

Mar 21, 2022

Orchid CEO Dr. Steven Waterhouse on How Decentralized Tech Fights Monopolies

\“Often, people think about decentralization as a hedge against government control,\” said Orchid CEO Dr. Steven Waterhouse (Seven), speaking at ETHDenver, the largest and longest-running Ethereum community event in the world.

Mar 1, 2022

Orchid’s Dr. Steven Waterhouse and Jay Freeman Speak at ETHDenver

Orchid CEO Dr. Steven Waterhouse (Seven) and Head of Technology Jay Freeman (Sorek) both spoke at ETHDenver, the largest and longest-running Ethereum community event in the world.

Feb 10, 2022

Join Orchid at ETHDenver 2022!

The Orchid team will be at ETHDenver, will you? Don’t miss talks from Orchid CEO Dr. Steven Waterhouse (Seven) and Head of Technology Jay Freeman. Jay will also be a mentor and a hackathon judge.

Feb 9, 2022

A Post-Mortem on the London Hard Fork

Ethereum has long been considered the backbone of the decentralized application (dApp) world. As the first-ever blockchain with smart contract capabilities, it has the longest-lasting and most sizeable community of builders and users. And despite the fact that many more smart contract-enabled blockchains have appeared on the scene in the past several years, Ethereum is still the chain of choice for many dApp developers, non-fungible token (NFT) creators, and DeFi users. OXT itself is an ERC-20 digital asset, and we have previously outlined our reasons for choosing Ethereum.

Sep 20, 2021

Creaton’s Alexander Klus on Artistic Censorship and Privacy Protection Online

Independent creators have struggled to find ways to monetize their work in the age of the Internet. Earlier this year, some artists benefited from the emergence of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and other decentralized technologies, but challenges inherent in Web 2 design — namely, censorship and lack of privacy — remain widespread.

Sep 1, 2021

What the London hard fork means for Ethereum and Orchid

Ethereum has garnered a reputation as the most popular blockchain network for decentralized application (dApp) development. The network has the most dApps and the largest community of developers. Among other things, these were essential factors in the Orchid team’s decision to select Ethereum as the basis for its decentralized VPN marketplace.

Aug 4, 2021

What do NFTs mean for privacy?

As blockchain and crypto have continued to gain attention and popularity over the past year, non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, have surged into the spotlight.

Apr 19, 2021

OXT, the Orchid digital token, is now available on Revolut

OXT, the Orchid digital token, is available to buy, sell, and trade on Revolut, bringing the promise of online privacy to more people than ever before.

Mar 25, 2021

Starting today, it only costs $1 to get started with Orchid

It is now even easier to use Orchid’s distributed VPN service.

Mar 9, 2021

Rohan Grey joins Priv8’s expanding roster of speakers

We are thrilled to announce that Professor Rohan Grey of Willamette University will speak at Orchid’s Priv8 Virtual Privacy Summit.

Aug 5, 2020

How to earn OXT today

We know many of you are wondering what the best way is to earn OXT, Orchid’s native digital currency. There are currently a number of ways people can earn, with more planned for the future.

Apr 8, 2020

How Orchid improves privacy using a public blockchain

Orchid is an incentivized privacy network, Open Source project, and consumer VPN service aimed to deliver new levels of privacy. But what does privacy mean? How private is Orchid, which relies on pseudo-anonymous payments on Ethereum?

Apr 2, 2020

How much does bandwidth cost on Orchid?

As a dynamic marketplace, Orchid offers flexibility for users and bandwidth providers while incentivizing providers to price their services competitively

Jan 27, 2020

4 Factors We Considered Before Choosing Ethereum

When we started out designing the Orchid privacy network, we faced the fundamental decision of which blockchain Layer 1 platform to build on.

Oct 9, 2019

Orchid’s Network: Random Selection + Stake Weighting

When you wake up in the morning and flick on a light switch, do you pause to think about how many tiny fractions of a penny that electricity costs? Or do you just flick on the light so you don’t bump your head?

Oct 2, 2019

Pre-release Orchid App now available

Our initial feature is a local VPN traffic analyzer. The complete VPN service is coming soon.

May 30, 2019

Why We Need a Better VPN

As dueling interests move to control the future of the internet, users around the globe are increasingly turning to VPNs.