gm and welcome to my first post in a series covering my journey through DAOpunks cohort_3! I’m still surprised I made it to the top 3 of the cohort but I will do my best to make the most of this opportunity over the next six weeks. This initial post will likely be lengthier than subsequent ones, as I introduce DAOpunks, why I participated in this cohort, and what I ended up doing during my first week.WTF is DAOpunks?DAOpunks is an NFT collection and public goods grant platform that grew out o...

gm and welcome to my first post in a series covering my journey through DAOpunks cohort_3! I’m still surprised I made it to the top 3 of the cohort but I will do my best to make the most of this opportunity over the next six weeks. This initial post will likely be lengthier than subsequent ones, as I introduce DAOpunks, why I participated in this cohort, and what I ended up doing during my first week.WTF is DAOpunks?DAOpunks is an NFT collection and public goods grant platform that grew out o...

We use metaphors to make abstract or unfamiliar ideas easier to grasp. But in computing many of these metaphors have a half-life, after which they cease to make sense for newer audiences. Take the 💾 floppy disk, which used to visually represent the act of saving work or progress. The idea of using that metaphor in this day of SSDs and cloud storage would feel antiquated. It was already antiquated when internal hard disks were being used to save work more often. It would also be confusing to ...

We use metaphors to make abstract or unfamiliar ideas easier to grasp. But in computing many of these metaphors have a half-life, after which they cease to make sense for newer audiences. Take the 💾 floppy disk, which used to visually represent the act of saving work or progress. The idea of using that metaphor in this day of SSDs and cloud storage would feel antiquated. It was already antiquated when internal hard disks were being used to save work more often. It would also be confusing to ...

Security is a game of cat and mouse that is evolving with new threats every week. Security and wallet clients are intertwined, contributing to the concept of security UX. But this landscape can put stressors on wallet client developers and can hinder the delivery of other necessary quality-of-life features. Not to mention persistent security UX issues that still need to be addressed, like obscure signature request messages. I argue that we should move towards an ecosystem where we do not have...

Security is a game of cat and mouse that is evolving with new threats every week. Security and wallet clients are intertwined, contributing to the concept of security UX. But this landscape can put stressors on wallet client developers and can hinder the delivery of other necessary quality-of-life features. Not to mention persistent security UX issues that still need to be addressed, like obscure signature request messages. I argue that we should move towards an ecosystem where we do not have...

Voyageur MVP’s Three PillarsI’ve shared a bit about what I wanted to accomplish with my security education platform, Voyageur. But these are the three main pillars I wanted to focus on towards getting an MVP out:Cutting-edge security education that goes deep into topics while also providing high-level summaries to get the critical message acrossQuizzes that put learners into scenarios that they may find themselves in in the dark forest of crypto, not just making them recite information they r...

Voyageur MVP’s Three PillarsI’ve shared a bit about what I wanted to accomplish with my security education platform, Voyageur. But these are the three main pillars I wanted to focus on towards getting an MVP out:Cutting-edge security education that goes deep into topics while also providing high-level summaries to get the critical message acrossQuizzes that put learners into scenarios that they may find themselves in in the dark forest of crypto, not just making them recite information they r...

It’s been a busy Week 2, but not the way I had intended! My intention for most of August is to work predominantly on Voyageur, a new security awareness learning platform for web3, and variations of it for hackathons. But since coming back to Japan, many opportunities have opened up that are not directly related to Voyageur. The past week has still been mostly working on SHILLing activities rather than BUIDLing Voyageur. So this week’s post will be about how I am juggling all these new commitm...

It’s been a busy Week 2, but not the way I had intended! My intention for most of August is to work predominantly on Voyageur, a new security awareness learning platform for web3, and variations of it for hackathons. But since coming back to Japan, many opportunities have opened up that are not directly related to Voyageur. The past week has still been mostly working on SHILLing activities rather than BUIDLing Voyageur. So this week’s post will be about how I am juggling all these new commitm...

gm! The past week was still a lot of work for Bankless Japan, rather than my intended work with Voyageur and the hackathons. This week was a reminder of how I need to setup a project for success if I’m going to continue web3 development while being a core contributor to Bankless Japan.Building is a MuscleOne thing I realized a long time ago is that I actually don’t enjoy programming. Rather I program to achieve an end result I want, such as getting a product out the door that I or my friends ...

gm! The past week was still a lot of work for Bankless Japan, rather than my intended work with Voyageur and the hackathons. This week was a reminder of how I need to setup a project for success if I’m going to continue web3 development while being a core contributor to Bankless Japan.Building is a MuscleOne thing I realized a long time ago is that I actually don’t enjoy programming. Rather I program to achieve an end result I want, such as getting a product out the door that I or my friends ...

gm DAOpunks! Let’s get to it while I still have Wi-Fi at the airport…The PivotBetween the time I applied for cohort_3, and receiving news that I was one of three DAOpunks that received a grant, something happened. It was a decision I had made abruptly and one that is turning out to have been a great decision. It was to return back to Japan sooner than I had planned. To work with Bankless Japan at the WebX conference and make a subsequent trip to Seoul for Ethcon and the Korean Blockchain Week...

gm DAOpunks! Let’s get to it while I still have Wi-Fi at the airport…The PivotBetween the time I applied for cohort_3, and receiving news that I was one of three DAOpunks that received a grant, something happened. It was a decision I had made abruptly and one that is turning out to have been a great decision. It was to return back to Japan sooner than I had planned. To work with Bankless Japan at the WebX conference and make a subsequent trip to Seoul for Ethcon and the Korean Blockchain Week...