In parallel to planning the alpha build of the Valence Platform, the founding team have been working hard to figure out how to distribute the VALE tokens which will be used as credits on the network to write to and manage decentralised applications. Valence will use a variant of the Proof of Stake consensus mechanism to secure its blockchain. This …
Valence Brand Guidelines
Over the last months we’ve been taking a deep dive into what the Valence Platform is. Not only from a technical perspective but also what it represents from an aesthetic perspective as a brand. It’s been a really interesting process from start to finish and we’ve learned a lot about the platform and also ourselves. Laura Harris took on the …
Valence White Paper – Making Data Smarter
The first version of the white paper for Valence Blockchain Applications is now ready to view. Valence is proposed by Craig MacGregor and Alex Vazquez, contributors to NavCoin Core and the NavTech private payment platform. This is a working document and further technical specifications will be published over the coming months as prototyping the platform gets underway. Valence provides a …
Business on the Blockchain Made Easy
Blockchain technology has been around for 10 years, and by now it’s obvious that it has the potential to disrupt more than just the finance industry. The reasons are clear: The blockchain is programmable so it can be used for lots of things. It removes middlemen so transactions are trustless. And it’s restricted only by the speed of the internet, …
Building Smarter Blockchain Apps
In the last article, we explained why we dreamed up Valence and how it evolved out of the need to make NavTech’s subchain more versatile. You can view it here: https://valenceplatform.org/learn/welcome-to-valence Today we want to talk about how Valence will enable people to build advanced applications that interact with the NavCoin protocol, and where Valence sits in both the application architecture …
Welcome to Valence
This is the first in a series of articles that will help explain our motivation, what Valence is, how it fits in with NavCoin, and why we’re so excited about the potential this platform offers our project, and the wider vision of blockchain. We’ve been designing this platform for nearly a year, so there’s a lot to digest. We want …