diff --git a/content/en/about/index.md b/content/en/about/index.md index 8f5b5a52..4f147715 100644 --- a/content/en/about/index.md +++ b/content/en/about/index.md @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ aliases: Protocol Labs Network (PLN) Launchpad is a four-week onboarding program to train, onboard, and connect teams, projects, and companies across the PL Network. In the Launchpad curriculum, you will learn about the Protocol Labs Network and its core open source technologies: IPFS, IPLD, libp2p, Filecoin, and more. Our curriculum allows you to take a _shallow_ or **deep** dive into technical topics and PLN projects. -While you are learning, work with your teeam on something you can create using your new web3 knowledge to share with the PL Network during an upcoming demo day! +While you are learning, work with your team on something you can create using your new web3 knowledge to share with the PL Network during an upcoming demo day! - Send an e-mail to recruiting@protocol.ai about roles you are interested in - Take a look at the companies that are hiring in the Protocol Labs Network diff --git a/content/en/curriculum/web3/scaling/index.md b/content/en/curriculum/web3/scaling/index.md index c9729f83..c80ff735 100644 --- a/content/en/curriculum/web3/scaling/index.md +++ b/content/en/curriculum/web3/scaling/index.md @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ level: Blockchains with smart contracts have proven to be extremely popular and useful. This has revealed the next challenge to overcome: scaling. When too many people -uses these systems, the costs go up and performance can suffer. During its +use these systems, the costs go up and performance can suffer. During its busiest times, transactions on Bitcoin and Ethereum can cost tens to hundreds of USD$. This isn't a problem for high value transactions, but prevents average users from using these systems. Blockchains need to develop techniques to be @@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ security independently from all other chains. One chain that has only 100 nodes may therefore be less secure than a more popular chain that has thousands of nodes. -The Cosmos-sponsored reference chain provides the ATOM token. It's purpose is to +The Cosmos-sponsored reference chain provides the ATOM token. Its purpose is to act as a reference and to provide services that the other chains can use. It's latest feature is the ability to share security resources. The ATOM chain can therefore use its vast node infrastructure to benefit all of the other chains in @@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ higher-performance consensus algorithm known as “Avalanche consensus” and utilizing separate purpose-built chains for each key service. It targets thousands of transactions per second and finality below 2 seconds. -Avalanches reaches its performance goals by using statistical sampling +Avalanche reaches its performance goals by using statistical sampling techniques to quickly establish consensus among a sub-set of nodes. Avalanche uses three chains, one for transactions (X-chain), one for smart contracts (C-chain), and one for side-chains (P-chain). This allows each chain to be diff --git a/content/en/curriculum/web3/storage/index.md b/content/en/curriculum/web3/storage/index.md index a3a48a46..d6d73fe8 100644 --- a/content/en/curriculum/web3/storage/index.md +++ b/content/en/curriculum/web3/storage/index.md @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ continual basis. Nodes that cannot prove they have their portion of the data will be punished through fines (loss of collateral) and missing data will be restored from and reassigned to other nodes. -Arweave priorities ease of use over configurability, which makes it will suited +Arweave prioritizes ease of use over configurability, which makes it well-suited for simple use cases and perhaps less well suited for larger or more complex data sets that would prefer to optimize on costs, availability or other parameters.