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Mintlayer Node - May 2022 Progress Report
Since beginning work on our new codebase in November of last year, Mintlayer has made significant progress towards our next testnet. A substantial amount of time has been devoted to the architecture and design of our node.

Mintlayer and Portal DeFi Cooperate To BUILD A Better Future
Mintlayer team and RBB Lab are pleased to announce a new collaboration with Portal DeFi, which is backed by Coinbase. Portal DeFi and Mintlayer have a shared vision.

Mintlayer Moves Off Substrate
In view of irreconcilable incompatibility between substrate and Mintlayer's long term goals, Mintlayer has decided to port its existing feature base off Substrate and on to its own node written from scratch. In this article we explain the rationale behind this and decision in fair detail.

Disrupting Asset Tokenization: an Introduction to Mintlayer's ACL
While the centralized system of handling stock issuance has served well so far, now there is a technology to decentralize the process althogether: it is possible to stock issued directly as a token. The aim is to do this with Access-Control List.

Bitcoin-Based protocol Mintlayer raises $5.2 million
DeFi Protcol Mintlayer has secured $5.2 million via seed funding round. On top of this raise, it has formed a strategic partnership with San Marino innovation.

Why Mintlayer adopts BLS signature
In order to reduce the blocksize and speed up transactions, Mintlayer settled on the use of signature aggregation. The quicker verification and the ability to hide transactions through m-out-of-n multisig aggregation made BLS signatures teh more attractive choice.

GameStop fuss is just another reason why the world needs Mintlayer
When WallStreetBest pushed the GameStop shares to unimaginable highs by betting against the hedge funds that kept shorting, it had shown once again how decentralized finance is unquestionable necessity for our times.

A new DEX concept for the future of finance
The concept of a Decentralized Exchange (DEX) in the crypto market has been around for at least seven years, originating around the time Bitsquare was founded in 2014.

The BlockInvest team explores Mintlayer as a potential blockchain infrastructure partner
The Team of BlockInvest, a FinTech project known as a financial instrument marketplace, is partnering with Bitcoin layer 2 Mintlayer