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Stateless Infrastructure Source Stateless Infra from Polynya What is Stateless Infrastructure For this blog: stick with blockchain = any chain achieving real-time strict global consensus (including rollups); stateless infra = not a chain, no consensus (or loose consensus), but decentralized complements that interact with the above mentioned blockchains. Current statement: in blockchain world, we have been attuned to honest-majority assumptions, trust running as many nodes as possible is import outside of blockchains, things operate with an honest-minority assumption, as long as there’s one honest party Servers - This one’s obvious and a well-known quantity. Servers with redundancy - Add redundancy and the ability for anyone to spin up a server, and you get some decentralization but also retain the max efficiency of traditional servers. These are maximally decentralized constructions, running peer-to-peer, but there’s no consensus (or loose consensus) run with an honest-minority assumption, and even a network with 10-100 nodes is perfectly decentralized can be certain types there’s one node, thx validity proofs don’t need more (storage proof) Stateless infra can enable a lot of features incorrectly attributed to blockchains, but without the burden of consensus can have a state but not a real-time strict consensus state with strict state transitions associated with blockchains Why do we need stateless infra Current statement: ...

On Crypto Source On Crypto essay by Arnaud Schenk In this essay, Arnaud explains how we approached crypto in the past and how we can progress now towards tools for conspiracy ideology. Crypto space can be summarized into two unaligned baheviors: early believers, mostly drive by cypherpunk ideology mindless and speculative, mostly drive by the gain and care about the good health of the crypto space → Rethink the way to build? ...

Sufficient Decentralization for Social Networks Source: Sufficient Decentralization for Social Networks by Varun from Farcaster. Challenging problems with decentralizing social networks → Scaling networks are a series of messages passed between users through a centralized server. enable users to choose any server they like to store their messages and sign each one with a public/private key public key become a unique identifier for the user, and messages are tamper-proof Alice {write message} → facetok server ⟷ {read message} Bob Alice {write message} → Alice’s server → {read message} Bob → {write message} Bob’s server ...

Justice as Fairness In this article Li Jin and Katie Parrott, questionning around the fairness of Web3. They base their analysis on the framework provide by John Rawls - A Theory of Justice. How can we better design platforms and governance systems to promote fairness and avoid walking on the same path as Web2? What kind of internet should we be creating? Web2 and Web3 have similar promises: Empowering individual creators and removing intermediaries Wrest back prower from a small number of extractive, centralized institutions Everyone with an internet connection can participate But Web2 fails on these points, and Web3 will follow a similar path if you don’t start to think about it now. ...

Signal > Noise Source: Minimalism Life Why did I choose this article? Good parallel with the crypto space I recognize myself inside, and this year I tried to establish more clarity about what I do and consume, why I do it, and whether I really need to consume it. Is it valuable for me? Can I use it right now or later? With our world brimming with constant distractions, how do we figure it out? ...

How founders should think about marketing Source: Startup Archive interview of Tony Fadell The argues: we must be able to articulate the “why” of what you’re building before we build it. How it’s often happened in company: Tech and product teams develop products. They call the marketing team and ask them to tell a story about the product and get it out to the world. The marketing team will try to create a story around ‘what is our product’ and not ‘why we have built this product’. express “you’re bringing or the pain you’re killing for your end customer?” => The product and the marketing both need to be created at the beginning together. That will keep every stakeholder in sync and help the team tell a cohesive, non-fictional story. ...

UX is not a flows In this article, Pavel.P questioning and put a new prespective to see flows. Source: UX Is Not Flows by Pavel Pekanov “Stop to looking UX from a perspective of minimizing the number of steps, pages and clicks” → what exactly makes an “experience”. | Interactions → Flow → Experience Interactions - action/reaction User does an actions (input), then the platform does something with that (output) A sequence of interactions creates a flow. Flow - start at a point A and getting to point B ...

Start with why? Source from Simon Sinek I found this video very valuable for providing a simple framework to set up the basics for a new initiative. I start all of my product initiatives, and that helps me to write and communicate a logical flow to the stakeholders. That provides a self-introspection to define and explore our core motivations. Why we do it? = problem statement what’s your cause / purpose / belief why your organization exist? How we do it? = user story (process, behavior) ...

In this post, I will only provide an introduction to Intent and its risks. Resources used: Lagrangian Intent Research Introduction Today, we have two ways to interact with a Blockchain: By using a centralized exchange, we delegate the control of our keys and funds to third parties. This provides a better user experience, but we do not retain any sovereignty. Self-custody and self-interaction with the blockchain: We maintain control of our keys and initiate our blockchain interactions. We must be prepared to navigate a jungle, which entails higher risks of scams, but it also allows us to retain our sovereignty. Well, Intents are in between. You keep your sovereignty, but you enable “how much I accept to delegate to third parties”. ...

Speculation as go-to-market Strategy DeFi From Variant: https://variant.fund/articles/speculation-as-go-to-market-strategy-defi/ All builders know Boostraping methods are the sinews of war for crypto product. Users are worried about their money and the risk of a new smart contract. => team needs to provide a compelling product to reassure future users and give them good incentives. Currently, the most successful project achieves rapid PMF by enabling financial speculation => purpose: providing the initial liquidity spark for the protocol properly function ~ New DeFi entrants should focus on providing UX that welcomes speculators ...