Topic
web3
- Pincaster
If you haven't checked it out, it's worth taking a look at Farcaster, a new permissionless protocol for building social networks. Think permissionless Twitter — a protocol for communities to build their own Twitters.…
- Buying the Constitution
A group of crypto folks online are congregating with intent to bid on a first edition printing of the US Constitution in an auction. From the FAQ: We’re buying the US Constitution. For the first time in thirty-three y…
- Taking Back Our User Accounts
Identity management on the internet has been broken for years. We all have 800 distinct logins to different services, registered to different emails with different passwords. Plus your personal data exists in a morass…
- Infinity Possibilities
Packy McCormick is onto something with his recent pieces on web3 and the emergence of the "metaverse" being enabled by Ethereum. This week he writes about Axie Infinity, a NFT-powered Pokémon-like PvP game built on th…
- Weekend Reading: DeFi Yields, Cloudflare's Internet, and Standards in Logistics
📈 How Are DeFi Yields So High? This is a great primer on yield farming in DeFi from Nat Eliason. Seeing the insane 1000% APYs on some DeFi products, you have to wonder if it's a Ponzi scheme (hint: sometimes it proba…
- Ethereum Name Service
I've bought a couple of domains on ENS recently, which is an a decentralized, on-chain version of DNS running on Ethereum. Go to ens.domains and connect your ETH wallet, then you can search for available names just li…
- ETH's First Quarter, 2021
James Wang looks at the state of Ethereum as if it was a software company. If it was a business hosting an earnings call each quarter, what would we think of its financial and performance metrics? Ethereum isn't just…