Dapps power everything we have built on blockchain as we know whether that be juicy staking defi protocols or storage networks for the next generation of research. They are fascinating pieces of technology as all their interactions are public and verified with cryptography. while this is dope it also brings in a lot of cons every time you have to deposit some tokens in a pool or sell an nft on the mainnet it costs gas which is dynamic and as the no of users of Ethereum goes up so does the val...

Dapps power everything we have built on blockchain as we know whether that be juicy staking defi protocols or storage networks for the next generation of research. They are fascinating pieces of technology as all their interactions are public and verified with cryptography. while this is dope it also brings in a lot of cons every time you have to deposit some tokens in a pool or sell an nft on the mainnet it costs gas which is dynamic and as the no of users of Ethereum goes up so does the val...

Crypto has been mocked as a planet-killing machine that’s causing climate change with its carbon footprint, but is it even true? Could it be the opposite of this? Some of the biggest blockchains are carbon neutral and a few like Celo are even carbon negative many times over 8x to be precise! Carbon Markets and regenerative projects are the only hope to stop the looming climate disaster because we as a society can not cut our energy and material consumption at a speed that matches our carbon b...

Crypto has been mocked as a planet-killing machine that’s causing climate change with its carbon footprint, but is it even true? Could it be the opposite of this? Some of the biggest blockchains are carbon neutral and a few like Celo are even carbon negative many times over 8x to be precise! Carbon Markets and regenerative projects are the only hope to stop the looming climate disaster because we as a society can not cut our energy and material consumption at a speed that matches our carbon b...

Zero Knowledge cryptography is one of the most hyped sub ecosystems in web3 , you can be at any conference and someone spelling zk suddenly seems to be the serious guy but there are many different aspects of how it’s being used in scaling & making Ethereum more privacy-centric.What is ZK?Zero-knowledge cryptography is a type of cryptography that uses hash functions and cryptography schemes to prove some truth to a party as the name suggests without revealing the truth itself. How is this poss...

Zero Knowledge cryptography is one of the most hyped sub ecosystems in web3 , you can be at any conference and someone spelling zk suddenly seems to be the serious guy but there are many different aspects of how it’s being used in scaling & making Ethereum more privacy-centric.What is ZK?Zero-knowledge cryptography is a type of cryptography that uses hash functions and cryptography schemes to prove some truth to a party as the name suggests without revealing the truth itself. How is this poss...

One of the main roadmaps and visions of bitcoin base layer is using it as a store of value rather than a payment method. Bitcoin is the most decentralized and robust blockchain out there with small blocks which makes the blockspace highly valuable and increases the gas price. Which is one of the reasons Most of the transactions happen on the lightning network which stores most of the info off-chain and maintains the most important info on chain as there is not much need to keep the regular tx...

One of the main roadmaps and visions of bitcoin base layer is using it as a store of value rather than a payment method. Bitcoin is the most decentralized and robust blockchain out there with small blocks which makes the blockspace highly valuable and increases the gas price. Which is one of the reasons Most of the transactions happen on the lightning network which stores most of the info off-chain and maintains the most important info on chain as there is not much need to keep the regular tx...

When there is a global virtual machine running inside thousands of machines computing the same data it's hard to be as fast as a single server computing that data without any verification from outer sources/inspectors. This has been one of the biggest fallouts of Ethereum and its low tps which has given rise to a totally another ecosystem working on allowing Ethereum to process more transactions. Blockchains have caps on the amount of data + computation that can be fit into a single bloc...

When there is a global virtual machine running inside thousands of machines computing the same data it's hard to be as fast as a single server computing that data without any verification from outer sources/inspectors. This has been one of the biggest fallouts of Ethereum and its low tps which has given rise to a totally another ecosystem working on allowing Ethereum to process more transactions. Blockchains have caps on the amount of data + computation that can be fit into a single bloc...

Blockchain the immutable ledger which has been mocked by many for its emissions and impact but what if I told you that today's blockchains are not just carbon neutral but even carbon negative multiple times over and how this technology is totally changing the way Climate projects and carbon offseting systems work! First, we need to get some terms and ideas straight- When most organizations say that they will be carbon neutral by x year it doesn't mean that they will not be producing...

Blockchain the immutable ledger which has been mocked by many for its emissions and impact but what if I told you that today's blockchains are not just carbon neutral but even carbon negative multiple times over and how this technology is totally changing the way Climate projects and carbon offseting systems work! First, we need to get some terms and ideas straight- When most organizations say that they will be carbon neutral by x year it doesn't mean that they will not be producing...

The biggest inspiration for this note was Kevin owocki the founder of Gitcoin and his this talk We want to do a lot of good things as a society and prevent bad things from happening and causing harm but it doesn't seem that we are able to put it into action in the real world. No citizen wanted and wants a Nuclear war or Invasion of another country then why are they still happening and fear of them happening is still there? Money spent researching some existential threats is less than the...

The biggest inspiration for this note was Kevin owocki the founder of Gitcoin and his this talk We want to do a lot of good things as a society and prevent bad things from happening and causing harm but it doesn't seem that we are able to put it into action in the real world. No citizen wanted and wants a Nuclear war or Invasion of another country then why are they still happening and fear of them happening is still there? Money spent researching some existential threats is less than the...

One of the biggest selling points for Solana is its ability to provide super cheap transactions no matter the amount of activity happening on the chain because of its feature of local fee markets. But with great power comes great responsibility as gas fee is one of the biggest security measures against spam/attack vectors Solana has been dealing with the issue for a while where many different bots fill up the blockspace with useless transactions and normal users are unable to do anything. As ...

One of the biggest selling points for Solana is its ability to provide super cheap transactions no matter the amount of activity happening on the chain because of its feature of local fee markets. But with great power comes great responsibility as gas fee is one of the biggest security measures against spam/attack vectors Solana has been dealing with the issue for a while where many different bots fill up the blockspace with useless transactions and normal users are unable to do anything. As ...

Crypto being a planet killer is the popular narrative set by incumbents or as Nicholas Nassim Taleb the writer of Black Swan calls them Intellectual yet Idiot. But if anyone actually tries to dig deeper, web3 has had a way more positive effect on the climate than most of the traditional finance and tech world. Bitcoin has moved way more money efficiently which the TradFi world would have taken years and magnitude orders of carbon footprint. And of course, the ftx collapse had a severe impact ...

Crypto being a planet killer is the popular narrative set by incumbents or as Nicholas Nassim Taleb the writer of Black Swan calls them Intellectual yet Idiot. But if anyone actually tries to dig deeper, web3 has had a way more positive effect on the climate than most of the traditional finance and tech world. Bitcoin has moved way more money efficiently which the TradFi world would have taken years and magnitude orders of carbon footprint. And of course, the ftx collapse had a severe impact ...

Most of the pos chains use a simple model where the txns(short for transactions) are chosen based on whether the block proposer wants to include the txn and earn the fee from the executed computation which seems to be a good enough model for most days until something big event comes along like a hyped nft mint or some hft bots see an arbitrage opportunity filling up blocks of spam executions because when a lot of people are willing to give huge wads of money to interact with the same state it...

Most of the pos chains use a simple model where the txns(short for transactions) are chosen based on whether the block proposer wants to include the txn and earn the fee from the executed computation which seems to be a good enough model for most days until something big event comes along like a hyped nft mint or some hft bots see an arbitrage opportunity filling up blocks of spam executions because when a lot of people are willing to give huge wads of money to interact with the same state it...

I would have never thought even just a week ago that I would be 2000 miles away from my home and having the best time of my life with people I would meet just for a few days.That’s how I would describe my experience at the Solana hacker house in a few lines If I had to but a lot of stuff happened and experienced the world headfirst for the first time being alone and all on my own in the vast world.Lemme take you to the start of all this, I had just come back from my first meet-up and been try...

I would have never thought even just a week ago that I would be 2000 miles away from my home and having the best time of my life with people I would meet just for a few days.That’s how I would describe my experience at the Solana hacker house in a few lines If I had to but a lot of stuff happened and experienced the world headfirst for the first time being alone and all on my own in the vast world.Lemme take you to the start of all this, I had just come back from my first meet-up and been try...

BackgroundThis post has been inspired by the eth core dev updates and current ethereumMost of the information here is sourced from the solana main repo pull requests and issues And the Solana community calls + Notes so feel free to dig in. The main goal is to bring more eyes to upcoming proposals so that folks could contribute and get more active in shaping the Solana roadmap.This will be a series of Posts covering Simds and core solana tech so stay tuned!What are SIMDs?SIMD-0022 ( first comm...

BackgroundThis post has been inspired by the eth core dev updates and current ethereumMost of the information here is sourced from the solana main repo pull requests and issues And the Solana community calls + Notes so feel free to dig in. The main goal is to bring more eyes to upcoming proposals so that folks could contribute and get more active in shaping the Solana roadmap.This will be a series of Posts covering Simds and core solana tech so stay tuned!What are SIMDs?SIMD-0022 ( first comm...