*DISCLAIMER: The method described in this article for generating random secrets **IS FLAWED AND NOT SECURE. *I’m leaving the content up as a learning exercise, but generating random numbers from signatures is not good practice. An attacker could control k, the secure random variable used in generating a signature and create a valid signature until finding one that generates a favorable roll.MotivationMany games involve elements of chance such as rolling dice or drawing cards. Often times, the...

*DISCLAIMER: The method described in this article for generating random secrets **IS FLAWED AND NOT SECURE. *I’m leaving the content up as a learning exercise, but generating random numbers from signatures is not good practice. An attacker could control k, the secure random variable used in generating a signature and create a valid signature until finding one that generates a favorable roll.MotivationMany games involve elements of chance such as rolling dice or drawing cards. Often times, the...

Every once in awhile it’s very therapeutic for me to write out my thoughts in a long, rambly type way. I usually do this over a voice call with a friend or in bits and pieces in group chats, but I figured I’d give it a shot in a public setting. This is going to be long and certainly incoherent or illogical at certain points. I’m not trying to convince you of anything and none of this is advice. It’s simply to help me organize my thoughts. I’ve tried to label it so you can skip around to certa...

Every once in awhile it’s very therapeutic for me to write out my thoughts in a long, rambly type way. I usually do this over a voice call with a friend or in bits and pieces in group chats, but I figured I’d give it a shot in a public setting. This is going to be long and certainly incoherent or illogical at certain points. I’m not trying to convince you of anything and none of this is advice. It’s simply to help me organize my thoughts. I’ve tried to label it so you can skip around to certa...

Since this opportunity has dried up and I don’t see it coming back in the near future, I’m going to share my journey in farming OHM forks with high rebase percentages.Genesis of the IdeaI don’t pretend to be an expert on OHM. In fact, I’d say I know very little about the protocol other than the flow of the staking/unstaking contracts, and that the supply grows or rebases by a certain percentage every ~8 hours. As OHM became popular, forks started sprouting up all over the place. Many of these...

Since this opportunity has dried up and I don’t see it coming back in the near future, I’m going to share my journey in farming OHM forks with high rebase percentages.Genesis of the IdeaI don’t pretend to be an expert on OHM. In fact, I’d say I know very little about the protocol other than the flow of the staking/unstaking contracts, and that the supply grows or rebases by a certain percentage every ~8 hours. As OHM became popular, forks started sprouting up all over the place. Many of these...

Last night I spent 6 hours pulling my hair out trying to figure out why after compiling my contracts with hardhat, the generated factory in typechain/factories contained no bytecode or deploy export. This post is meant to explain how I solved this issue and help other developers from losing their minds. If you are stumbling upon this post after hours of searching the internet in terms of a fix, hopefully this helps. This would happen seemingly at random. I would code a contract, compile and e...

Last night I spent 6 hours pulling my hair out trying to figure out why after compiling my contracts with hardhat, the generated factory in typechain/factories contained no bytecode or deploy export. This post is meant to explain how I solved this issue and help other developers from losing their minds. If you are stumbling upon this post after hours of searching the internet in terms of a fix, hopefully this helps. This would happen seemingly at random. I would code a contract, compile and e...