Offshift Pilot Client-Side Guide

The following documentation serves as a guide for interacting with the Offshift Pilot from the client side.

What is True Randomness, Anyway?

No seriously, what’s randomness? To answer this question, we’ll be covering coin flips, cryptography, lava lamps, Chainlink, and even quantum mechanics.

Offshift December Community Call & PriFi AMA Recap

Offshift’s Moonriver Bridge, Burn-and-Mint Mechanism, blogs, op-eds, and more key community updates. December was as busy as ever. Here’s what happened.

Offshift & the Anti-Idea Execution Paradox

As long as I can remember, I’ve had sort of an obsession with the “real.” I can’t stand small talk. I have a very limited capacity for bullshit. I loathe spammers and scammers. I’ve always had a keen awareness of the brevity of a lifetime and it’s driven me to avoid giving time and energy to things that aren’t meaningful.

Offshift Launches Ethereum-Moonriver Cross-chain Bridge on Meter Passport

The Offshift Ethereum-Moonriver Bridge is now live on Meter Passport , where users can send XFT between the Ethereum and Moonriver blockchains. Moonriver is Moonbeam’s community-led sister parachain on Kusama. To streamline cross-chain transfers and simplify user experience, the Offshift Ethereum-BSC Bridge has also been migrated to Passport, which will facilitate all cross-chain XFT transfers going forward.

Bulletproofs, zkSNARKs, and zkSTARKs Walk into a Blockchain

We dissect a trio of zero-knowledge cryptographic proofs and explain why Offshift selected Bulletproofs as the best fit for our PriFi solution.

Zero knowledge proofs (‘zk proofs’ or ‘zks’) are amongst the foundations of modern cryptography. At Offshift, zks are a bedrock of our PriFi technology. In conjunction with a decentralized oracle network, zk proofs enable our users to mint zkAssets, our proprietary line of fully private synthetics.

But what exactly is zero knowledge? The fundamental question at the heart of zero knowledge cryptography is whether “person A” (the prover) can prove to “person B” (the verifier) that they know a secret without exposing the secret itself. In general, zero-knowledge proofs help to verify confidential transactions. Historically, they have seen substantial use in blockchain applications, with three different types of zero-knowledge proofs owning the lion’s share of attention and utilization in cryptocurrency.