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Behind High Energy Consumption of Blockchain: PoS Consensus Mechanism To Be A Solution
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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Cyprus IVF Centre Explains Why Similarly Graded Embryos May Develop Differently
Nicosia, Cyprus, 6th Nov 2026 – Cyprus IVF Centre has shared patient information explaining why two embryos that receive the same grade do not necessarily have the same potential.

Embryo grading is based on visible characteristics, including cell development and morphology. It provides valuable information about embryo quality during IVF treatment.
Embryo grading assesses an embryo’s appearance and development; it does not determine its chromosomal status. Genetic testing, where clinically indicated, evaluates a different aspect of the embryo and likewise cannot guarantee implantation or treatment success.
However, grading cannot fully predict an embryo’s developmental potential or implantation outcome. Even embryos with the same grade may behave differently, as factors beyond their appearance can influence development.
At Cyprus IVF Centre, the embryology team considers embryo grading alongside other relevant developmental and clinical information when assessing embryos for treatment.
Embryo grading supports the assessment of embryos. It does not guarantee implantation or treatment success.
“Two embryos can receive the same grade and still develop differently. Grading gives our embryology team valuable information, which we consider alongside other developmental and clinical information when assessing embryos. Embryo grading is an important part of the picture, but never the whole picture.”
— Ümit İnak, Director, Cyprus IVF Centre
Patients considering treatment are welcome to ask the team how their embryos will be assessed and what grading means for their own treatment. More information is available at:
Medically reviewed by the Cyprus IVF Centre Medical and Embryology Team, 5 November 2026
About Cyprus IVF Centre
Cyprus IVF Centre, home of Team Miracle, is an IVF and fertility clinic in Cyprus providing assisted reproductive treatment for UK and international patients. Fertility care is supported by clinical and embryology teams, with laboratory processes forming an integral part of its treatment services.
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Canary Capital Launches the First U.S. Spot Staked INJ ETF (Ticker: INJC)
Brentwood, Tennessee, USA, November 6th, 2026, FinanceWire
Canary Capital Group LLC (“Canary Capital”), a digital asset investment management firm, today announced the launch of the Canary Staked INJ ETF (Ticker: INJC), listed on Nasdaq. The Fund seeks to provide exposure to the price of INJ, the native token of the Injective blockchain network. In addition, the Fund also seeks to earn additional INJ through participation in the Injective network’s proof-of-stake validation process, with net staking rewards reflected in the Fund’s net asset value.
“The Canary Staked INJ ETF gives investors access to a blockchain purpose-built for finance through a familiar exchange-traded structure, while also enabling investors to benefit from potential staking rewards,” said Steven McClurg, CEO of Canary Capital. “Injective was designed from the ground up for trading, tokenization, markets, and financial applications. We believe investors are increasingly looking past the largest digital assets and toward the specialized networks building the next generation of on-chain financial infrastructure.”
Injective is a Layer-1 blockchain designed to serve as the technological foundation for on-chain finance. Its purpose-built architecture offers developers pre-built, plug-and-play financial modules, including a fully onchain order book exchange module, enabling rapid development of tokenization, trading, derivatives, and other financial applications. INJ is used to secure the network through staking, to participate in governance, and to pay transaction and trading fees.
The network also features a unique Community Buyback mechanism that regularly removes INJ from circulation using a portion of revenue generated by applications on the network. Injective has tokenized over $1 Billion in assets to date*, ranking it among the top blockchains for Real-World Assets (RWAs). As of October 22nd, 2026, Injective had processed more than 3.13 billion transactions and permanently burned more than 7.27 million INJ (~$58 million USD) across its monthly token buybacks. In addition, the analytics platform Token Terminal reports approximately 257,300* monthly active addresses on Injective.
Recent upgrades include Injective Mint, which enables institutions to issue and manage tokenized assets with controls over ownership and transfers. Injective also showcased CypherOS which provides a full stack privacy platform capable of enabling confidential trading, transactions and tokenization. Also, over $25 million* of the native USDC stablecoin has been issued on Injective to support payments and settlement across the network.
“Investors can now gain exposure to INJ through the brokerage accounts they already use,” said Eric Chen, Co-Founder of Injective Foundation. “We built Injective to bring financial markets onchain. Canary’s launch connects that mission to a broader base of investors, giving them a familiar way to access the asset that powers Injective.”
For more information on INJC, click here.
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About Canary Capital
Canary Capital is an investment management firm that blends rigorous risk management, strategic foresight, and innovative thinking to deliver private placement strategies, crypto hedge fund solutions, treasury management solutions, and publicly traded funds, with a focus on enterprise technology.
About Injective:
Injective is the first blockchain purpose-built for finance, enabling users, institutions, and AI agents to trade, tokenize, and transact at scale. Proudly made in America, Injective provides foundational blockchain infrastructure for global markets, with embedded financial primitives spanning stablecoins, real-world assets, payments, and programmable perpetuals through a unified onchain engine. Injective is used by Fortune 500 companies, banks, fintechs, and governments to power an open economy where any asset can be accessed anytime, from anywhere. Builders can deploy across multiple virtual machines like EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) and WASM (WebAssembly), connect to native financial modules, and launch markets with deep liquidity from day one. INJ is the native token powering the rapidly growing Injective ecosystem and the new internet economy.
*As of October 2026
USDC – USDC is a stable digital dollar enabling fast, cheap, global blockchain transactions.
The Canary Staked INJ ETF (Ticker: INJC) is an exchange-traded product that is not registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “1940 Act”) and therefore is not subject to the same regulations and protections as ETFs and mutual funds registered under the 1940 Act. Investing involves risk, including the possible loss of principal. An investment in INJC is subject to a high degree of risk and heightened volatility and is not suitable for investors who cannot afford the loss of their entire investment.
The Fund’s investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses should be considered before investing. The prospectus contains this and other important information, and it may be obtained at https://canaryetfs.com/INJC/prospectus/. Read it carefully before investing.
An investment in INJC is not a direct investment in INJ. Staking rewards are not indicative of the Fund’s performance, are not guaranteed, and may change frequently, including experiencing significant declines. Digital assets, such as INJ, are a relatively new asset class, and the market for digital assets is subject to rapid changes and uncertainty. Digital assets are largely unregulated and digital asset investments may be more susceptible to fraud and manipulation than more regulated investments.
INJC is subject to rapid price swings, including as a result of actions and statements by influencers and the media, change of assets, and other factors. There is no assurance that INJC will maintain its value over the long-term.
Staking provides the Trust with the opportunity to create and earn additional INJ. The Trust will be entitled to all INJ generated by the Trust’s staking, after deduction of certain staking-related expenses. This additional INJ will increase the net assets of the Trust, benefiting Shareholders.
Certain of such INJ may be treated as income to the Trust and may be held for future distribution to Shareholders, subject to procedures and requirements disclosed elsewhere in the Prospectus.
Staking comes with a risk of loss of INJ. None of the Fund’s assets, including any staked assets, are subject to the protections enjoyed by depositors with Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) or Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC) member institutions. The staked assets may also be subject to “slashing” penalties. Slashings occur when a validator attests to two different histories of the chain and penalties occur when a validator is offline for a prolonged period of time. The Fund itself will not engage in staking activities, including the operation of a validator node. Instead, the staking program will be administered by the Fund’s sponsor, who will utilize service providers including the custodians and staking providers. While the Fund’s sponsor does not expect the activities of the staking providers to result in slashing penalties, there can be no guarantee that slashing penalties will not occur. Furthermore, the custodians’ and staking providers’ liability to the Fund for the actions associated with the Staking Program is limited, and the custodians and staking providers may lack the assets or insurance in order to support the recovery of any losses incurred. Accordingly, there can be no guarantee that the Fund would recover any of its staked assets, or the value thereof, if it is subject to slashing or penalties.
The Fund is new with a limited operating history.
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FX Junction Publishes Marketplace Review Showing Copy Traders Favor Longer Verified Track Records Over Higher Returns
Fomboni, Comoros, November 6th, 2026, FinanceWire
FX Junction has published findings from a review of copy-trading activity on its marketplace, revealing that investors tend to follow traders with longer verified trading histories rather than those with the highest returns. The review highlights the importance of established trading records in investor decisions and provides insight into copy-trading behavior across the platform.
In copy trading, also called social trading, an investor links their own brokerage account to the account of another trader, known as a signal provider. From that point, every position the chosen trader opens is mirrored automatically in the investor’s account, scaled to the amount the investor has allocated. The investor’s money never leaves their own broker; what is shared is the trading decision, not the capital.
Across the platform’s verified signal providers, the distribution of copying activity is the point. Fewer than six in ten of them have attracted copiers; the rest have none.
Among those who are copied, the allocation runs against the return table. The five best-performing accounts on the platform, with total returns between 197 and 273 percent, together account for less than half a percent of all copying links. Their verified track records run from under seven months to just over fifteen. Accounts ranked below them returning 192 and 182 percent hold more than a quarter of all copying links on the platform and their verified histories are more than three times longer than the longest record among the top five.
Measured Across The Whole Marketplace, The Pattern Holds:
Length of record: providers with at least one copier have a median verified history of 21.6 months. Providers with no copiers have a median of 8.8 months.
Returns: the median total return is 25.2 percent for copied providers and 26.8 percent for providers with no copiers – effectively the same.
Own capital at stake: the median account equity of a copied provider is 25,237 US dollars, against 3,741 US dollars for providers with no copiers.
The platform’s wider counters stood at 41,008 registered members, 26,261,890 trades executed and 12,681 linked trading accounts as of 4 November 2026. Member funds always remain with the trader’s own broker. FX Junction does not hold client capital.
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 backed by a Swiss investor through Pine Group SA, and its U.S. expansion led by Ryan Novak.
For more information about the company, visit: https://www.fxjunction.com
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FX Junction does not provide investment advice and individual traders should make their own decisions or seek independent advice. The value of investment can go down as well as up and may receive back less than the original investment.
Trading in Leverage products carries a high level of risk and may not be suitable for all investors. Past performance of an investment is no guide to its performance in the future. Investments, or income from them, can go down as well as up. May not necessarily get back the amount that invested. All opinions, news, analysis, prices or other information contained in the communication and on the website, are provided as general market commentary and do not constitute investment advice, nor a solicitation or recommendation to buy or sell any financial instruments or other financial products or services.
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