Explainers

April 2024 Technical Update

Geeq introduces the counterparty NFT, which requires both parties’ signatures before there is a transfer of the asset’s deed. This reduces risk.

Introducing Geeq’s Unbeatable NFTs

Tokenize, organize, transfer, and trace your on-chain assets with unparalleled security. This is the revolutionary blockchain technology that was promised ten years ago.

What happens if nodes are malicious at Geeq?

Malicious nodes are automatically identified and isolated. They are flagged, so users can ignore them. They become irrelevant.

Geeq’s Durable Proofs. Don’t trust. Verify.

Simplicity at work. Geeq’s proofs are immediate, irrefutable, lasting, and stateless. All data are available on-chain.

NFT Mint Account

A standard account type with the authority to issue or create unique tokenized assets.

Maximal blockchain security at Geeq

Geeq has re-invented blockchain technology to include 6 layers of security. The result?

All signal, no noise. These are the ingredients of Geeq’s secret sauce. For technical readers only.

May 2023 Tech Round-Up

In May’s update, we highlight and explain the completed work on Geeq’s network communications and messages. These fundamentals scale.

How Geeq dApps settle every transaction on-chain

Geeq introduces its proprietary scaling solution for decentralized applications (dApps). It’s simple, obvious, and only possible because we’ve re-constructed blockchain technology from the ground up.

Geeq Demystifies : The Hardworking Hash

An introduction for non-technical readers to a very useful concept in blockchain – the hash. A little knowledge goes a long way.

How will Geeq Data improve your life?

Geeq Data reduces the costs of discovering and sharing contemporaneous attestations and it is possible precisely because of the security features of Geeq’s extraordinary blockchain technology

How does Metadata help with Visibility? Will I lose my Privacy?

A brief overview of how the Geeq Data environment resolves the demand for data visibility and data privacy. First for private, then public and hybrid solutions.

Geeq Talks Micropayments at Scale

Lun, Stephanie, Eric and John reveal how Geeq’s bearer token technology is the breakthrough needed for micropayments at scale.

Walkthrough #4 – Send a Transaction

When anyone sends a valid transaction to an active honest node, each honest node updates its Current Ledger State correctly. The result? You can relax!

Walkthrough #3 – The Event Log

Here is a quick runthrough of what happens as soon as you start v0.1. Please see v0.1 FAQs for definitions of the terms.

Walkthrough #2 – The Genesis Block

Every chain launched on Geeq’s platform is equipped with the tools it needs to thrive in the decentralized future.

V0.1 Walkthrough #1 – Orientation

What to expect when you open Geeq’s Testing Framework v0.1.

Geeq’s Introduction to Web-Staking

These are the terms you should know before you Stake your tokens directly from your wallet.

Geeq’s Limitless Applications

The Geeq platform is application-agnostic. That means it is possible to build any blockchain-based application, powered by its own decentralized network, using Geeq’s protocols and automatic payment systems to crowd-source your blockchain(s).

Video: Geeq’s Leaderless Protocol

Here is a simple video to explain how Geeq turns the tables on blockchain networks, so the power over your tokens stays where it belongs – with you.

Ready, Set, Test: Testing Framework is Here!

It’s the day we’ve all been waiting for – Geeq’s Testing Framework v0.1 is live!

Why is There No Mining at Geeq?

Welcome to Geeq’s level playing field – blockchain with no mining.

What Makes Geeq’s Technology So Special?

By re-examining the data that honest users will need to make decisions, rather than what network participants may want them to believe, Geeq solves the information game by re-engineering the idea of consensus.

What is Blockchain Technology?

Protocols define the set of rules that agents are supposed to follow when they update and store the database on their own computers.

When is Blockchain Useful?

The primary economic value of a blockchain is to provide a dependable data set that is acceptable to all parties who wish to coordinate on some, but not all, dimensions with each other and do not wish to trust a third party.

What is a Blockchain?

A blockchain is an electronic ledger made up of blocks (containing groups of transactions or data) which are appended sequentially.

Geeq’s Introduction to Encryption

Happy New Year, Geeqs! Let’s start the year off with an entry level explainer of the encryption underlying public and private keys. Knowledge is power.

Geeq™ Value Proposition – An Add-On Approach to Enterprise Adoption

An insider’s guide for those seeking blockchain solutions to their enterprise problems.

Truth, Honesty, Geeq, and the Importance of Declarative Programming

Blockchain is data and data are bytes. To say a blockchain is correct is to make a declarative statement that its bytes satisfy certain logical relationships to one another.

Geeq’s Limitless Applications

This week, we highlight how Geeq‘s secure, scalable, and efficient multi-chain platform will support the exponential growth of data services in smart cities.

Geeq™ Value Proposition – Insurance

Insurance is a difficult information problem. Can Geeq help? As a data service that provides symmetrically available information, yes.

Geeq’s Limitless Ecosystem

The desirable properties of blockchain depend critically on its security model. John Conley explains why Proof of Honesty should be the basis of security in the future.

Geeq™ Value Proposition – DeFi 2

DeFi continues to be a red hot topic in Geeq’s rapidly growing community, so we were inspired to follow up with another installment of our explainers.

Geeq™ Value Proposition – DeFi

DeFi’s mission is to set up a permissionless, secure, expansive and decentralized ecosystem – so is Geeq’s.

What is Geeq’s “Edge Security”?

Edge Security is the feedback that non-technical blockchain users needed, to feel secure about truly decentralized blockchain.

SFBW: Geeq on Panel Discussion at Macro.WTF

UPDATE: Now with a link to the video for the panel discussion “Money in an International Context”.

Geeq™ Value Proposition – Core Strength

UPDATE: Now with Video! A description of one of the high points in the Blockchain Brad interview.

Geeq™ Value Proposition – Interoperable Blockchains

Video: An excerpt from the Blockchain Brad interview reveals how Geeq’s interoperable blockchains moves blockchain from theory to function.

Video: Geeq™ with Jessica Walker

Geeq CDO Stephanie So and Malta-based Host Jessica Walker talk about security, freedom, and partnerships in blockchain.

Video: Geeq™ with Bruce Porter, Jr.

The most fun interview to watch to date: Geeq John P. Conley with Bruce Porter, Jr. @NetworksManager in Malta about Proof of Honesty and the importance of blockchain for all of future civilization.

Geeq™ at #CESC2019 and #SFBW

Founder John P. Conley was all over San Francisco Blockchain Week 2019. UPDATE – Now with Links to SLIDES of both talks!

Algorithmic Monetary Policy – SFBW 2019

UPDATE: Now with links to video and Slides! John P. Conley introduced Geeq’s Algorithmic Monetary Policy and Stabilized Token to the public at SFBW.

Glossary of Geeq™

To ensure everyone in the community remains on the same page, we’ve constructed this ‘Glossary of Geeq™’.

What is Proof of Honesty?

Proof-of-Honesty™ (PoH) is the proprietary protocol that sets Geeq™ apart from the existing field of blockchain platforms.

What Does Being ‘Fault-Tolerant’ Even Mean?

In this article, we will be explaining what it means to be ‘fault-tolerant’ when it comes to distributed systems and what it looks like.

Geeq™ Featured on the David Pakman Show

Geeq partnered up with The David Pakman Show, and David did a great job of explaining Geeq to his audience in his own words.

Video : Geeq™ at UC – Berkeley

Geeq Chief Economist John Conley and Professor Greg LaBlanc (Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley) preview their fireside chat as part of the Blockchain for Enterprise course for the UC – Berkeley School of Law.

Video: Geeq™ on Satoshi Talk

Chief Economist John P. Conley sits down with Enda Xue and Zhen Liu for a Satoshi Talk.

Cost Estimates for IoT on a Single GeeqChain™

Geeq’s multiple chain platform provides blockchain-backed IoT solutions where separate devices (or kinds of devices) can be logged on separate chains.