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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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XM Partner Code PY8GQ Launched By VistaForex

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New York City, United States, July 27th, 2026, FinanceWire

XM Partner Code PY8GQ is now available through a new partnership with VistaForex, offering traders a compelling 100% deposit bonus along with additional promotional advantages designed to support successful trading journeys.

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The partnership underscores VistaForex’s dedication to partnering with top-tier brokers to deliver exceptional value to its community. By using XM Partner Code PY8GQ during account registration at the dedicated link, new clients can seamlessly unlock these benefits and experience XM’s comprehensive trading environment.

Key Benefits of XM Partner Code PY8GQ through VistaForex:

  • 100% Deposit Bonus, effectively doubling initial trading capital.
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  • Access to XM’s multi-regulated, secure trading platforms with negative balance protection and 24/5 support.

Traders are encouraged to visit the official partnership page to register and activate their benefits: https://vistaforex.com/xm-partner-code/.

About VistaForex

VistaForex is a premier resource hub for forex traders, offering expert insights, broker reviews, and exclusive promotional opportunities to help individuals navigate the financial markets with confidence and success.

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XM is a leading global broker providing online trading services in forex, CFDs, and other financial instruments. With a focus on innovation, transparency, and client satisfaction, XM serves traders worldwide through reliable technology and competitive trading conditions.

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K3 Capital Extends a Credit Facility to Galaxy through Accountable’s Vault Infrastructure on Monad

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Dubai, United Arab Emirates, July 27th, 2026, FinanceWire

Accountable today announced the launch of an onchain facility extending credit from K3 Capital to Galaxy, available on Monad to allocators through Accountable’s yield marketplace. The facility launches fully subscribed at $30 million in committed capital, with additional capacity to be opened as LPs complete onboarding in the coming weeks, targeting $100M in deposits. Denominated in AUSD, the facility is structured so that the deployment of capital to Galaxy, facility status, and interest activity remain independently verifiable onchain for the duration of the loan. 

“With this vault, K3 Capital extends a structured credit line to Galaxy, fully deployed and verifiable onchain on Monad. Our Vault-as-a-Service gives operators like K3 the flexibility to configure credit products to their specific requirements, while the Data Verification Network provides independent, continuous proof of capital deployment and facility activity for the facility lifetime,” said Wojtek Pawlowski, Co-founder and CEO of Accountable.

Allocators deposit AUSD into the vault; K3 manages LP supply; Galaxy borrows demand and blends different individual loans to improve overall liquidity for depositors. Accountable’s verification layer provides ongoing proof that capital has been deployed as described, that the facility status matches what is reported, and that interest is accruing and being distributed as scheduled. 

K3 Capital’s Edge

With ~$400M in assets under management, K3 Capital runs one of the largest delta-neutral DeFi funds in the market and ranks among the top asset managers & operators across lending platforms and vault infrastructure providers such as Midas, Euler and Accountable. Galaxy, an industry-leading name across digital asset markets, is committed to building the digital asset ecosystem. Credit markets are a core part of Galaxy’s Global Markets franchise and bringing credit trading onchain is an extension of its mission to evolve digital asset market infrastructure.

“Traditional credit products run better on DeFi rails. DeFi composability allows users to derive further utility – whether it is locking their yield on Pendle or borrowing against their vault shares, there is always something to do.” said Kiril Nikolov, Founder of K3 Capital.

What sets the facility apart

The K3 x Galaxy Lending Vault is designed around four structural advantages that together define the product’s edge for institutional allocators:

– Professional Liquidity Management: The vault pools liquidity and yield generation with predictable redemption horizons for LPs. Each loan carries a 90-day maturity and is rollable, with up to 30% of principal eligible for monthly redemption. Accountable’s verification layer provides continuous tracking of capital deployments to Galaxy, facility status and onchain transactions associated with the facility to validate their returns and use. 

The Borrower is a Publicly Traded Company: Galaxy(Nasdaq: GLXY) is a publicly traded company subject to regulatory reporting obligations across more than a dozen U.S. and international regulators. The borrower in this facility is far from being an opaque counterparty but an institution with public financial disclosure, quarterly earnings, and audit obligations built into how it operates. Galaxy’s public filings demonstrate total equity of $2.8 billion and cash and stablecoin holdings of $2.6 billion as of March 31, 2026. Accountable’s infrastructure complements Galaxy’s existing reporting framework by providing allocators with zero-knowledge cryptographic proof of the vault’s underlying data and loan health, without exposing proprietary trading strategies or sensitive counterparty data. This is the first time an onchain credit facility of this kind has been extended to a borrower with this regulatory and disclosure profile.

– Native DeFi Composability: Liquidity tokens representing vault positions are fully composable across DeFi protocols on Monad. Allocators can port their positions into protocols such as Pendle for principal/yield splitting and fixed-yield hedging, as well as secondary lending markets. By combining these different primitives, vault depositors can improve not only their returns but also the liquidity, predictability and overall flexibility of their assets. 

Institutional Distribution on DeFi rails: Built on Monad’s high-throughput settlement layer and denominated in Agora’s AUSD, the facility benefits from deep liquidity, institutional on/off-ramps, and broad distribution across the Monad ecosystem. AUSD’s cumulative transfer volume exceeds $73 billion to date.

The vault is built on Vault-as-a-Service, Accountable’s framework for deploying onchain capital products with verification embedded from day one, and is listed on YieldApp, Accountable’s marketplace for verifiable yield.

Depositors can confirm that AUSD has been deployed to Galaxy, independently verify the size and status of the outstanding facility, and follow interest accruals and repayments as they occur.

Accountable has been operating verification infrastructure since 2024, with institutional clients spanning market making, stablecoin reserves, tokenized vaults, and onchain credit, including Galaxy, Keyrock, RockawayX, and Valos. The K3 facility represents a structured credit arrangement between two named institutional counterparties, deployed onchain with continuous, independent verification of capital flows. It arrives as institutional allocators increasingly require continuous visibility into the positions they are underwriting, and as onchain infrastructure matures to meet that standard.

About K3 Capital

K3 Capital is a BVI-registered investment fund and a spin-off from one of the largest centralized lenders and asset managers in the digital-asset space. Since launching in 2021, the team has operated under a strict delta-neutral mandate, managing a nine-figure portfolio across multiple market regimes and liquidity conditions: from being among the earliest and largest liquidity providers on Curve and Lido during the heights of DeFi Summer to navigating the Terra Luna and FTX collapses, and the Stream Finance incident more recently. K3 Capital is among the few teams in the industry with a multi-year operating history without a single material technical or economic loss from exploits. https://www.k3.capital/

About Galaxy

Galaxy Inc. (Nasdaq: GLXY) is a global leader in digital assets and data center infrastructure, delivering solutions that accelerate progress in finance and artificial intelligence. Our digital assets platform offers institutional access to trading, advisory, asset management, staking, self-custody, and tokenization technology. In addition, we develop and operate cutting-edge data center infrastructure to power AI and HPC workloads. Our 1.6 GW Helios campus in Texas positions Galaxy among the largest and fastest-growing data center developers in North America. The Company is headquartered in New York City, with offices across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Additional information about Galaxy’s businesses and products is available on www.galaxy.com.

About Accountable

Accountable is the new standard for real-time financial verification that allows institutions to prove assets and liabilities privately. Built for both traditional and crypto-native markets, the platform enables counterparties to demonstrate financial health without exposing sensitive details like API keys, wallet addresses or trading strategies. At its core is the Data Verification Network (DVN), a privacy-preserving system that powers real-time proof of both onchain and offchain activity. On top of DVN, Accountable offers Vault-as-a-Service, a framework for structuring and managing capital onchain, and YieldApp, the first marketplace built on DVN, surfacing verifiable yield opportunities. Learn more at https://www.accountable.capital/

About Monad

Monad is a high-performance, institutional-grade Layer 1 blockchain purpose-built to power the financial layer of the internet. Fully EVM-compatible, Monad delivers 10,000 TPS, 400ms block times, 800ms finality, and near-zero fees, without requiring specialised hardware. The network runs on consumer-grade machines, supporting accessible participation and decentralized network operation: over 200 independently operated validators across 30+ countries and 55+ cities secure the chain today.

About Agora

Agora is a stablecoin issuer and infrastructure platform building the monetary network for global settlement. Agora issues AUSD, an institutional-grade, fully backed U.S. dollar stablecoin built for financial products, fintechs, and applications. Agora provides the platform for treasury management, settlement, and cross-border flows.

Disclaimer

This press release is provided for informational purposes only. It does not constitute investment, legal, tax, or accounting advice. Nothing herein constitutes an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities or investment products in any jurisdiction. Any participation is subject to definitive documentation and applicable law.

Digital asset credit arrangements involve substantial risk and may not be suitable for all parties. Risks include, without limitation, borrower and counterparty credit risk, collateral volatility and potential shortfalls, liquidity risk, and risks arising from the use of blockchain networks and smart contracts. You may lose some or all of the allocated assets and there is no guarantee of principal protection.

Any interest or economic terms are indicative only and not guaranteed. Fees, expenses, losses, and enforcement costs may reduce or eliminate interest and/or principal.

Availability is subject to eligibility requirements and jurisdictional restrictions. The regulatory status of digital asset products is evolving and may vary by jurisdiction. Any participants should consult their advisers before entering into any transaction.

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Virtuix Poised for Growth After Meta Launch: Omni One for Quest Drives Consumer and Commercial Demand

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New York, United States, July 27th, 2026, FinanceWire

Virtuix Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: VTIX) is entering a new growth chapter following the launch of Omni One for Quest in collaboration with Meta. While the company will review its upcoming Q1 fiscal 2027 results on August 13, investors’ focus centers on the long-term commercial momentum sparked by this strategic product launch.

A Consumer Catalyst

The Omni One for Quest brings Virtuix’s full-body locomotion technology to Meta’s massive XR user base. With over 20 million headsets sold, Meta’s platform serves as the primary mainstream gateway for virtual reality, and integrating Omni One promises to convert casual users into deeply engaged participants.

For consumers, the value proposition is straightforward: an accessible, room-scale 360-degree treadmill that heightens immersion for gaming, fitness, and social XR without complex setup hurdles. Pre-launch demonstrations highlighted intuitive assembly and a growing content pipeline, reducing buyer hesitation and positioning Omni One as an immediate top-line catalyst.

Expanding Beyond Consumer Gaming

Beyond gaming, Omni One for Quest unlocks substantial commercial and institutional opportunities:

●  Fitness & Wellness: Full-body movement paired with gamified workouts creates new subscription opportunities and recurring software revenue.

●  Enterprise & Education: Combining Omni One hardware with Quest software enables cost-effective, repeatable simulation environments—from industrial safety drills to soft-skills training—without the overhead of custom VR rigs.

●  Defense & Healthcare: Defense clients are testing Omni One for scalable mission simulation with AI-driven analytics, while healthcare partners evaluate therapeutic applications where controlled motion tasks deliver clinical value.

Strategic Leverage of Meta’s Ecosystem

Partnering with Meta provides an ecosystem advantage far beyond branding. Virtuix gains direct access to Meta’s developer community, store distribution, and an estimated 6 million active users, initiating a virtuous growth cycle:

  1. Richer content drives hardware adoption.
  2. Increased hardware deployment incentivizes third-party development.
  3. Expanding libraries elevate user engagement and customer lifetime value.

To handle anticipated demand, Virtuix has optimized manufacturing and streamlined supply chain logistics to handle production of up to 3,000 units a month, resulting in an estimated $100 million in annual revenue potential.

Outlook: A Foundational Inflection Point

Management frames the Omni One for Quest launch not as a single-quarter boost, but as the foundation of a multi-segment growth strategy that is accelerating Virtuix’s sales momentum. If early adoption signals hold, bringing Omni One to Meta’s ecosystem could mark the defining inflection point for Virtuix’s next expansion phase.

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