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Behind High Energy Consumption of Blockchain: PoS Consensus Mechanism To Be A Solution

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The energy consumption of Blockchain

Recently, Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla, posted on Twitter saying that: Bitcoin can consume too much in mining and transaction process, such excessive fossil fuel consumption will result in negative impacts on the ecosystem. The Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin also noticed the high power consumption problem in Blockchain technology. He presented that Ethereum would change its consensus mechanism from PoW to PoS to reduce the power consumption caused by the mining process in PoW-based technologies like the Bitcoin. From a global view, energy consumption issues are concerned by an increasing number of countries. To urge the efficient power usage, many countries and organizations have set up environmental protection plans, such as the UN’s SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) and the US carbon neutrality, etc.

In this context, the future development of a technology need to consider the sustainable development and environmental friendliness as one of the important metrics and goals. As an emerging technology for privacy protection, Blockchain presents excellent protection capabilities. However, such capabilities rely on the large-scale computing resources and result in a large amount of power consumption. Part of the reasons for such high power consumption are due to the PoW (Proof of Work) consensus mechanism which has high demands on the performance of the Blockchain nodes.

Besides energy consumption, other concerns of the consensus mechanism

The technology of the base layer of the Blockchain has the advantages like anonymous, Immutable, decentralized and so on. To achieve these advantages, Blockchain enhances the privacy and protect the transaction process by increasing the cost of network participation. The core concept of the early-stage PoW consensus mechanism is based on the workload cost.  The credibility need to be proved by the cost of a lot of work. In this case, the machines that maintain the ledgers (also referred to as mining nodes) need to continually crack complex math puzzles to obtain Bitcoin as rewards. This computing process not only needs to rely on a large amount of computing resources, but also sacrifices part of the scalability on the Blockchain to ensure safety. When it comes to the boosting growing of transaction volume, this mechanism will not be able to meet high-speed and large-scale processing demands. Based on such limitations of PoW, PoS (Proof of stake) is gaining more and more attention to work as a consensus mechanism with low resource consumption and guaranteed decentralization, safety and scalability.

In a PoS-based Blockchain system, nodes do not have to consume much power to compete for accounting rights. The priority of accounting rights is measured by the amount of stake holdings. In this way, the nodes no longer consume a large amount of electricity to calculate the hash functions, thereby solving the high energy consumption issues in PoW mechanism. In spite of the improved efficiency in PoS, the safety of the mechanism is affected. Therefore, in order to ensure the reliable operation of PoS, the researchers need to develop reliable algorithms from the trade-off among the decentralization, safety and scalability.

Unique advantages of PlatON PoS

With the issues caused by the PoW mechanism has been widely criticized, more and more Blockchain technologies inclined to choose or transit to the PoS-based consensus mechanisms. This results in a boosting growing of the PoS-based Blockchain frameworks in recent years. As the world leader in computing privacy area, PlatON has rooted and researched in privacy computing technologies many years. PlatON’s research and practice in consensus mechanisms are also forward-looking. The PPoS (PlatON PoS) consensus mechanism uses off-chain identity, credit mechanisms and procedural arrangements to provide a scheme to select a number of verification nodes from many participating nodes as fair and randomly as possible. Hence, PPoS can effectively inhibit bribery, collusion, etc., and reduce the consensus cost and improve the system scalability by optimizing technical details. Meanwhile, ensuring the decentralization and scalability, PlatON further enhances the system safety by combining the experiences in computing privacy area. The Alaya network based on PlatON PoS has been operating stably and efficiently for a long time, successfully solving the problem of over-centralization of the system, reducing network communication complexity and message complexity, improving consensus efficiency and the entire Blockchain transaction processing performance. In this case, the safety and liveness of the technology are verified. PlatON has been able to improve its PoS mechanism through its attention to every detail, continuous attempts, active exploration of cutting-edge areas, and forward-looking plans in the future development. Next step, PlatON will continue actively promoting the efficient network operation with high-quality code, providing efficient, high-availability, distributed and sustainable infrastructure applicable for diverse industrial and commercial use cases, and supporting the exchange of data flows in the global world.

References:

1.PlatON has launched the “Rally around the Galaxy” and launched a comprehensive simulation test, https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/UeIRWj2lKJ7b1umSqU8_yQ

2. [Long Article Explained] What is the Giskard Consensus Mechanism? | Technology Cloud Atlas, https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/4yHenrGH0E7zzLBuN58BJg

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Michelle Kam commits to a home and commercial sales expansion for 2027

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  • Michelle Kam is formalizing a pledge to expand her practice beyond pre-construction condos into homes and commercial sales, with a set of concrete client-facing commitments starting this year and building toward what growth in the 2027 market will take.

A pledge, not just a plan

Ontario, Canada, Sep 15, 2026, ZEX PR WIRE — Michelle Kam has spent most of her career known for pre-construction condos, lofts, and townhomes in Toronto. That work is not going away. But Kam is now putting a formal pledge behind something she has been building toward for a while: a wider practice that includes homes and commercial properties.

This is a commitment with specifics attached, not a vague plan to “grow the business.”

The three commitments

Kam is naming three things she will do differently starting now.

First, every buyer meeting will include a homes and commercial conversation, not just a condo one. Kam says too many buyers assume she only handles condos because that has been her public focus for years. Going forward, her intake process will ask about business space and freehold homes as a matter of course, not as an afterthought.

Second, she is committing to publish market commentary that covers homes and commercial sales alongside condos. For years, her public writing leaned almost entirely on the pre-construction and urban condo market. Kam is pledging to keep a running commentary on what is happening in Toronto’s broader housing market, including how policy shifts and cross-border economic pressure show up in local pricing and demand as the market moves toward 2027.

Third, Kam is committing to bring her high-volume sales background to bear on commercial transactions. She built her reputation working with Concord Alex and Baker Real Estate on high-volume, pre-sale deals. She is pledging to apply that same discipline (tight timelines, careful paperwork, clear buyer communication) to commercial clients who are used to slower, less structured service.

Why now

Kam points to conditions that make this the right moment rather than a random pivot.

“Buyers who came to me for a condo five years ago are now looking at homes, or they’re running a business and need commercial space,” Kam says. “It would be strange for me to only be able to help with one part of that.”

She also points to broader market conditions heading into 2027. Changes coming out of the new US administration have added uncertainty to interest rates, cross-border investment, and material costs, all of which touch commercial real estate directly. Kam says growth in that kind of market takes patience, since financing and permitting timelines are slower to react than a condo presale cycle. She wants to be someone her clients can call about any of it, not just condos.

“I don’t think buyers should have to find a different agent every time their needs change,” Kam says. “I’d rather be the person who can walk them through a condo purchase this year and a commercial lease a few years later.”

What growth in 2027 will take

Kam says real growth in a market like this will not come from a single announcement. It will come from small, practical steps taken consistently over the next couple of years.

That means clients start seeing homes and commercial listings included in the same market updates that used to focus only on condos. It means buyer consultations run slightly longer, since they now cover more ground. And it means Kam is personally taking on a small number of commercial files herself this year, rather than routing them elsewhere, so she understands the deal structures before she claims expertise in them.

“I want to actually do the work before I claim to be an expert at it,” Kam says. “That’s always been how I approach anything new.”

Kam adds that the 2027 market will likely reward agents who can move between property types without losing their footing, since buyers themselves are moving between them. “People aren’t staying in one lane anymore,” she says. “Their agent shouldn’t either.”

A pledge tied to a track record

Kam built her practice from a smaller footing into a full-service business over more than a decade. That history, growing by adding capability rather than replacing what came before, is the model Kam says she is following again.

“I didn’t stop doing resale when I moved into pre-construction,” Kam says. “I added to what I already knew. This is the same idea, just applied to homes and commercial space.”

Kam says she expects the commercial side of her business to take longer to build than condos did, since the buyer relationships and deal structures are different. She is not promising a fast turnaround. She is promising to show up for it consistently, year over year, through 2027 and beyond.

About Michelle Kam

Michelle Kam is a real estate broker based in Toronto, Ontario, and broker/owner at Re/Max City Accord Realty Inc. She graduated with honours from York University and built her career in Toronto’s condo, loft, and pre-construction market before opening her own brokerage, City Accord Realty Inc., which she ran for over a decade prior to joining the Re/Max brand in 2016.

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FX Junction Reaches 40,600 Members and 26 Million Trades

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September 15, 2026

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Fomboni, Comoros, September 15th, 2026, FinanceWire

The platform confirms its place among the global leaders in social trading

FX Junction, one of the world’s leading social networks for forex and CFD traders, now has 40,602 registered members and has processed 26,001,872 trades through the platform. Members have linked 12,556 live trading accounts to the network, held with 1,169 supported brokers, and the platform is available to users in more than 50 countries. 

The numbers place FX Junction among the top group of social trading platforms operating at a scale of tens of thousands of verified members and tens of millions of executed trades. Unlike discussion-based communities, where performance claims cannot be independently checked, the FX Junction model is built on trading accounts connected directly through MetaTrader, so that every statistic displayed on a member’s profile is derived from actual broker data.

“These are not marketing estimates; they are counts taken from connected trading accounts,” says Syam K.P., analyst at FX Junction. “Twenty-six million executed trades across more than twelve thousand linked accounts is a data set that very few social trading platforms can put on the table. What it tells us is that the market has moved past the stage where a screenshot was enough. Traders want to see a verified track record before they follow anyone, and platforms that cannot produce one are gradually losing that audience.”

Syam K.P. adds that growth in the number of linked accounts is, in the company’s view, the more relevant indicator than the headline membership figure: “Registration costs a trader nothing. Connecting a live account and making a track record public is a different level of commitment, and that is where the real size of a social trading network shows.”

The company notes that member funds always remain with the trader’s own broker. FX Junction does not hold client capital and acts solely as the layer connecting traders and replicating positions between accounts. Trading in leveraged instruments carries a high risk of loss.

About FX Junction

The investment and trading platform FX Junction is one of the world’s leading social trading networks. In the area of CFDs and forex, FX Junction had already established itself as one of the global leaders among social platforms for traders.

FX Junction was founded in 2011. The company’s launch was supported by a Swiss investor through the parent company Pine Group SA, alongside U.S. executive Ryan Novak.

For more information about the company, users can visit: https://www.fxjunction.com

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ClearLeaf Expands to Guatemala with New Product Registration

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Costa Rica, 15th Sep 2026 – ClearLeaf, a Costa Rican agtech leader specializing in sustainable, non-toxic crop protection, today announced it has officially received product registration for “GotaBlanca 0.05 SL,” in Guatemala. This milestone marks a significant step in the company’s expansion across Latin America, providing Guatemalan farmers with a powerful, eco-friendly and worker-friendly tool that protects yield quality, meets the residue standards their export buyers require, and keeps harvest crews working. 

ClearLeaf Expands to Guatemala with New Product Registration

GotaBlanca 0.05 SL, a fungicide presentation of the GotaBlanca line has already been cleared for use in Guatemala’s large melon sector, with other crops currently in line for approval.  GotaBlanca’s safety profile is so compelling that it has been cleared for use with no “re-entry period” – meaning it can be applied up to the day of harvest with no health concerns. For growers, that also removes the waiting days between application and picking: crews can enter the field right away, harvest windows stay on schedule, and no one is asked to trade safety for the calendar.  

 GotaBlanca 0.05 SL, will be distributed in Guatemala by Colono Agropecuario. The Colono Group has distributed ClearLeaf’s products across the region since the company’s inception, and is one of the largest agrochemical distributors in the region.  By leveraging Colono’s extensive network and deep technical expertise, ClearLeaf ensures that farmers across the nation have immediate access to this innovative technology to improve yield quality and safety.

“The Guatemalan market is increasingly prioritizing sustainable agricultural practices to meet both local and export demands,” said Lawrence Pratt, CEO of ClearLeaf Inc. ” We are excited to bring our commitment to providing effective, science-backed solutions while safeguarding the health of farmers, consumers, and the environment “.

“We are thrilled to bring GotaBlanca to Guatemala,” said Victor Arroyo, Central America Regional Manager at Colono Agropecuario. “Adding GotaBlanca to our portfolio in Guatemala allows us to offer producers a modern tool that delivers harvests free of residues and not only improves profitability but also ensures soil recovery and the protection of our environment. This partnership reinforces our commitment to a more productive and precise vision of agriculture in Guatemala.”

The approval in Guatemala follows successful commercial results in other regional markets, including home market Costa Rica, as well as Panama, Honduras, and Nicaragua. Recent large-scale trials have demonstrated GotaBlanca’s ability to replace multiple toxic pathogen control products simultaneously, lowering input costs for producers while maintaining or increasing yields.

GotaBlanca 0.05 SL will be available in Guatemala in the coming weeks.

 

About ClearLeaf

ClearLeaf is a Costa Rican-based company dedicated to empowering farmers with safe, sustainable solutions that optimize crop production while minimizing environmental impact. Its patented GotaBlanca technology offers a “farm-to-fork” approach to crop protection, ensuring safety and traceability from the field to the end consumer.

For more information, visit clearagro.com or contact media@clearagro.com.

 

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