Blockchain for Enterprise
People tend to overestimate how easy it is to create a blockchain. Just because you were able to deploy a network doesn’t make you an expert on blockchain. As a matter of fact, even an intern can do it in minutes. Here, try it. You know what else is easy to deploy? A webpage. Creating a blockchain is easy, and you can do it at zero cost and effort for as long as you don’t care about the design and spec of your network. Understanding the engineering constraints to design a secure and functiona...
Blockchain for Enterprise
People tend to overestimate how easy it is to create a blockchain. Just because you were able to deploy a network doesn’t make you an expert on blockchain. As a matter of fact, even an intern can do it in minutes. Here, try it. You know what else is easy to deploy? A webpage. Creating a blockchain is easy, and you can do it at zero cost and effort for as long as you don’t care about the design and spec of your network. Understanding the engineering constraints to design a secure and functiona...
Can They Really Sell Your Eyeball Scans? A Technical Review of World
Here I am, resurrecting my blog like a dusty necromancer coming back for one last summon. And what brought me back from the digital grave? Larpers. Everywhere. People posing as crypto 'experts' when they haven’t done the actual work of researching whatever the hekk it is they are talking about. It’s all vibes and appearances and no substance. Lately, the Orb and World has been made an antagonist in the Filipino crypto scene. And everyone suddenly became a data privacy expert and mor...
Can They Really Sell Your Eyeball Scans? A Technical Review of World
Here I am, resurrecting my blog like a dusty necromancer coming back for one last summon. And what brought me back from the digital grave? Larpers. Everywhere. People posing as crypto 'experts' when they haven’t done the actual work of researching whatever the hekk it is they are talking about. It’s all vibes and appearances and no substance. Lately, the Orb and World has been made an antagonist in the Filipino crypto scene. And everyone suddenly became a data privacy expert and mor...
A Stark Focus on StarkNet's Cairo 1.0
I haven’t escaped Cairo hell yet when the Cairo 1.0 rolled out, promising ZK-STARK-provable computation with simpler syntax and better security through an intermediate representation they call Sierra. Now after a few traumatic attempts at understanding the old version of Cairo (excuse me I’m quite normie), my fear was that the addition of this new steps will make it more complex, but luckily I was proven wrong.A Quick Rundown on How Cairo WorksCairo is specifically designed for creating valid...
A Stark Focus on StarkNet's Cairo 1.0
I haven’t escaped Cairo hell yet when the Cairo 1.0 rolled out, promising ZK-STARK-provable computation with simpler syntax and better security through an intermediate representation they call Sierra. Now after a few traumatic attempts at understanding the old version of Cairo (excuse me I’m quite normie), my fear was that the addition of this new steps will make it more complex, but luckily I was proven wrong.A Quick Rundown on How Cairo WorksCairo is specifically designed for creating valid...
Blockchain Legos: The Modular Stack
If you’ve been here long enough, you would have already heard of the blockchain trilemma where you can only pick two out of three between security, speed, and decentralization. But that is so 2020. Some years ago, we expect one single blockchain to perform various functions for us. For instance, Ethereum has become congested because it was juggling between validating incoming transactions, arranging them into blocks, executing them, and finally keeping all these growing records available at a...
Blockchain Legos: The Modular Stack
If you’ve been here long enough, you would have already heard of the blockchain trilemma where you can only pick two out of three between security, speed, and decentralization. But that is so 2020. Some years ago, we expect one single blockchain to perform various functions for us. For instance, Ethereum has become congested because it was juggling between validating incoming transactions, arranging them into blocks, executing them, and finally keeping all these growing records available at a...
Demystifying the Quantum Threat
In da past two weeks, I have encountered at least 3 people who talk about quantum menace as if it will be the end of all existing blockchains today. So here are some facts:Most blockchains today rely on elliptic curve signatures (like ECDSA/EdDSA). These are not post-quantum secure. A sufficiently powerful quantum computer could forge signatures and spend funds from exposed keys. This is probably where they’re coming from.Hash functions like Keccak256 (used in Ethereum) are more resilient, ev...
Demystifying the Quantum Threat
In da past two weeks, I have encountered at least 3 people who talk about quantum menace as if it will be the end of all existing blockchains today. So here are some facts:Most blockchains today rely on elliptic curve signatures (like ECDSA/EdDSA). These are not post-quantum secure. A sufficiently powerful quantum computer could forge signatures and spend funds from exposed keys. This is probably where they’re coming from.Hash functions like Keccak256 (used in Ethereum) are more resilient, ev...
