Greetings friends, February flew by fast with the Chinese New Year holidays. I've been back in Hong Kong for a couple of weeks and the pace of development in both web3 and generative AI technologies is relentless

This is going to be the second post to be sent via Paragraph and so far from what little I've learned about its features I like it. The previous newsletter had an open rate of 61% (I hope that the remaining 39% can check their spam filters 🙏 ). There were 3 unsubscribes and this calls for the following response 😄

Many in the Ethereum community and in particular those who are building on rollups are looking forward to the Dencun network upgrade going live on the Ethereum mainnet on March 13th, 2024 at 13:55 UTC

Various rollups have announced aggressive timelines for them to incorporate support for ERC-4844 thereby lowering transaction costs on their respective L2's

A number of the rollups have stated they would be ready on day 1 so users on those rollups can anticipate lower transaction fees shortly after
Pertaining to these rollups, there are links to various tweets including from Jesse Pollak of BASE if you want to be aware of when a certain rollup is likely to support blobs via ERC-4844

Below is a summary of what was added to the various Notion pages and sub-pages during February 2024

• Account Abstraction material was within the Ethereum sub-page. Given that its usage is increasing a lot more via rollups. I moved it to its own sub-page

• The jury is still out on which standard will get traction within Modular Smart Accounts and I've just started reading and curating material on both ERC-7579 as well as ERC-6900

• The experimental ERC-404 token standard combines elements of fungible and non-fungible tokens into a single "semi-fungible" digital asset.

• I have a backlog of material related to Sui which I've just clipped to a 'To-Read' database via Notion's web clipper. I did however put in a link to a recent dev newsletter from Sui

• The folks at Alchemy have requested their own sub-page and are adding content to that sub-page

• Whilst the community on the Generative AI Telegram group is growing (it's now close to 600 members) and I'm pleased to see more members besides myself posting and commenting, I've not been able to spare time for deeper dives into topics that would require updating the Generative AI Notion pages and sub-pages. As Max Levchin formerly of Paypal wrote on X recently

  Just keeping up with product, technical, and science developments in AI is rapidly becoming a full time job. There are economies of scale in being able to grasp the technical and science ideas quicker after you get through first few, but the pace of innovation is unlike anything.

I'm expecting a deluge of content post ETH Denver and various events during March as well as after Dencun goes on Ethereum mainnet and

The following are links to public Notion pages that curate material on topics in web3 as well as Generative AI. I've also been privileged to be able to have Zoom conversations with various folks where friends/colleagues have also participated. Do watch the recordings if you have an interest in the speaker and the topics

• Curated content on various topics in web3

• Curated content on various topics in Generative AI

• Recordings of various talks that I've organized

I'm still trying to co-ordinate with Ian Rogers, CXO at Ledger and Roope Rainisto to reschedule the previously scheduled conversation which was unfortunately deferred due to Roope being taken ill. I hope that the stars align for all our schedules soon

I'm also enjoying being on Farcaster which recently has seen a surge of increased usage and I encourage you to join if you aren't there already. Here's an invite link to join Warpcast, a Farcaster client. Both you and I will get 50 warps which is an in-app currency used within Warpcast

This newsletter as well as previous ones (I still have a few old ones that I need to publish on Paragraph) is available on the web at this URL

I consolidate many of the above links via the following Linktree URL so if you think the content would interest your friends, family, or acquaintances you can share that with them

I greatly appreciate any feedback on the content that I curate and publish.

The month of Ramadaan is beginning on March 9th after sunset and for those who celebrate 'Ramadaan Mubarak' and request remembrance in your prayers.

Regards, Yusuf

PS, Elements of the cover image on Paragraph were generated by DallE-3, subsequently composited in Canva and refer to content in this post