The increasing utilization of blockspace across different chains has sparked the search for dynamic pricing models. Strategies for efficient use and more accurate pricing of resources, such as storage and bandwidth, can prevent mispricing and wastage. The paper "Dynamic Pricing for Non-Fungible Resources" explores the use of multidimensional blockchain fee markets, optimization of fees for system-wide benefits, and appropriate resource pricing to prevent transaction spam attacks. By factoring in the marginal cost of each resource used, the proposed pricing model could herald a new standard in blockchain transaction efficiency.
Over 730,000 smart accounts have been deployed on Ethereum and Eth L2s, with 53% of those being created in the last month, driven by greater adoption of the ERC-4337 standard. Usage of this new standard has topped 1.6 million transactions, driven by heavy utilization by social network CyberConnect and NFT project ZTX. In addition to simplifying user experiences, dApps using ERC-4337 have also sponsored $430,000 worth of gas fees for users.
Canto is transitioning to an Eth L2 network, using zero-knowledge proofs for enhanced privacy. The move will rely on Polygon's Chain Development Kit. Canto, which primarily focuses on real-world assets, initially launched as an L1 blockchain with an EVM-compatible execution layer. This transition follows similar moves by other L1 blockchains, focusing increasingly on Ethereum.
Japan is set to revise its legislation to give startups, particularly those operating in the crypto space, the green light to raise funds through digital assets, such as cryptocurrency, from venture capital firms. The amendment, expected to be presented to parliament in 2024, will diversify the asset range accessible to limited partnerships and boost investment into a relatively underexplored sector in the country. Japan is also considering crypto and token tax exemptions to further encourage investment.
Nine US Senators are backing Senator Warren's Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act, a bill targeting crypto's illicit use, with the stated aim of enhancing regulatory tools.
This thread discusses the challenge of bots on social platforms that distort value, especially for real users. Solutions to this problem include tools like Worldcoin and zkCaptcha.
The nonprofit Creating Restorative Opportunities and Programs (CROP) helps formerly incarcerated individuals reintegrate into society and the workforce through a year-long Ready 4 Life program. The program focuses on personal development, career training, employment services, and stable housing while equipping participants with UX design skills.
The web typography world enjoyed an explosion of creativity in 2023. Richer typefaces, 3D styles, bold fonts, and various other interesting typography trends have taken over the world of web design. So far, there have been a lot of bold fonts, brutalism, highlighted text, #d typography, animated typography, and monospaced fonts.
The iPadOS 17 update brings a redesigned lock screen for customizing wallpapers, fonts, and widgets. It also includes support for live activities to track things like Uber Eats orders, sports matches, and timers.
7 Books for Establishing a Solid Foundation + Some Handy Figma Plugins for Practical Application. These books cover essential design principles, typography, business aspects of design, universal design principles, grid-based design, and the intersection of artificial intelligence and UX.
90% of UX design content on LinkedIn/Twitter focuses on visuals, Figma, and design systems - the hard skills are just a fraction of what companies evaluate designers at. Hard skills account for less than 25% of the total designer evaluation formula at Twitter (the rest are: getting things done, creating strong relationships, and improving the team). Hard skills were just one of 4–10 competencies at other companies.
Unlike lawyers, doctors, or engineers, designers can practically slap any label on and roll with it. Ultimately, it’s not about the titles, it’s about the process and the craft. Designers should ditch the title obsession and embrace the versatility that comes with their role.
Whether it's a simple empathy map or a highly detailed visual narrative showing how multiple personas experience a particular flow, this article has you covered. This article analyzes the top 32 customer journey mapping tools with pros, cons, and pricing.
An in-depth analysis and comparison of 5 monospaced fonts, their legibility, coding ligatures, and what they look like in action. The fonts examined are Fira Code, Commit Mono, Cascadia, Victor Mono, SF Mono, and Recursive.
The Steve Jobs Archive has introduced a part-time fellowship program to help a new generation of creative and technologically gifted people achieve their creative potential. Nine young creators will receive guidance, resources, and financial support over the coming year. The group comprises musicians, engineers, storytellers, and more.
Instacart Storefront platform will feature a conversational search feature powered by OpenAI's ChatGPT, allowing customers to ask open-ended questions. Caper Carts, the company's AI-powered smart carts, will enable customers to order made-to-order items like deli sandwiches or custom cakes directly from their Caper Cart and get notifications when their order is ready. The speed and precision of camera and weight sensors are about to be improved with new AI models.
It's only a few decades late, but now it's possible to create, edit, and save transparent PNG images in MS Paint. The tool will also adopt layers, including a potentially new file format. The revamped Paint is available to Windows Insider testers in both the Dev and Canary channels, the two bleeding-edge and less-stable versions of Windows 11.
Providing feedback to creative teams takes practice. Feedback should be given when it makes the most sense. It's crucial to explain why the work is not hitting the bar. The format needs to be considered since it influences the message. Remember to consider that feedback is a conversation. Feedback is also about listening so both parties can benefit.
Elon Musk is planning to transition X to a paid-for platform for all users to address rampant bot activity. Musk did not specify how much the plans would cost or what features would be included at the lowest tier. This could improve ad impression quality for advertisers, but would also reduce the audience size significantly.
WordPress released an ActivityPub plugin that allows users to connect their blogs to other social media platforms on the fediverse. The fediverse refers to a decentralized social network that allows users to have an account on one service and post on other services. The WP plugin works with many tested federated platforms, including Mastodon, Pleroma/Akkoma, Hubzilla, and Pixelfed.
Viral loops are powerful because they’re cost-efficient, scalable, and provide brand exposure. 3 ways to create virality include helping users share their achievements on social media, building incentivized referral programs, and making a product embeddable. This article includes real-life examples from Duolingo, Intercom, and Strava.
Hotjar is a product experience tool that offers insights into customer behavior. The company grew non-branded organic search traffic by 734% in 3 years and grew its paying customer base by 1,398% in the same period. To achieve that, it embraced product-led content, clustered content around the customer journey, and powered keyword research with customer insights.
Polygon Labs is a blockchain platform that grew rapidly through several community development initiatives. This post discusses the intersection of growth, partnerships, and community in tech startups.
This report takes a look at the future of the email marketing channel. With this information, it can help you develop a roadmap, allocate resources, and see where top companies are applying AI to their strategies. No information is required to download the report.
Each page or blog post should target 3-10 organic search keywords in a cluster. This post explains 9 simple steps to create keyword clusters to use for content creation or optimization. The process includes selecting your primary keyword, using an SEO tool to identify related terms, and researching each one to ensure they have similar search intent.
The words we use, or don’t use, impact decisions and money. Money words can persuade users to action. This guide outlines the psychology behind copy best practices, such as making the consumer the grammatical subject of a sentence, focusing on the benefits users gain, and avoiding lose-money words that distract.
A study of search results found that singular keyword results are often different from their plural counterparts. Specifically, singular keywords often lean towards informational searches, while plural keywords are more about shopping. Moreover, Google will display different features in the search results, indicating varied user intent. Marketers should include the most appropriate version of the keyword in the page URL.
This article explores how the framing effect can be used to improve user engagement and provides examples from YouTube, HelloFresh, Gmail, and Google Search. It also gives examples of how the tactic can be damaging if used incorrectly or unethically.
Despite local rental restrictions across various cities including NYC most recently, Airbnb continues to thrive. Its latest marketing campaign shows how they are differentiating from hotels to grow.
Apache Kafka is used to move messages between backend components. Paypal’s Kafka fleet consists of over 85 clusters that process over 100 billion messages per day. This article goes over how Paypal introduced Kafka-specific client libraries, config services, and more, in order to scale Kafka to such a large number of clusters. Furthermore, its Kafka clusters are able to handle peaks in usage smoothly, with Black Friday bringing in 1.3 trillion messages a day.
Complex hover animations can be created with just an `img` tag using CSS mask animations. This tutorial provides visual code examples of various animated effects achieved using solely mask effects. Some of the examples include a circle reveal, a diagonal reveal, and a zig-zag reveal.
ChatGPT isn’t going to replace programmers, but it will probably create greater expectations for productivity once AI developer tools get better. However, ChatGPT does bring improvements to the developer experience, like removing the boring work of creating boilerplate or writing documentation. It allows developers to move faster and work on more interesting parts of software engineering.
While skill mastery and technology expertise are vital, being a good developer doesn’t automatically mean you’re efficient. There are other key traits and habits that signify an efficient software engineer, such as planning software design ahead of time, making proper tradeoffs, and more.
HyperDX helps engineers figure out why production is broken faster by centralizing and correlating logs, metrics, traces, exceptions, and session replays in one place. It is an open source alternative to Datadog and has a focus on developer experience.
Superflows makes it simple for developers to add an AI assistant to their software product. This allows users to chat with the product naturally, while Superflows makes calls to the software’s API to answer questions and perform actions for users.
One programmer’s elbow injury gave her an insight into the degree to which software engineering caters mainly to non-disabled people. For example, for those who are visually impaired, it can be hard to write code or look up documentation on the Internet, where accessibility isn’t always consistent. There are also disadvantages for those who don’t speak English, as most programming documentation is English-first. As a result, there is work to be done in the software engineering field to make it more accessible to everyone.
One of the most challenging parts of being a boss—whether you have one direct report or hundreds—is having difficult conversations. Whatever the issue is, direct and clear communication is essential, even when that can be challenging. Whether you need to talk about compensation or deliver a not-so-stellar performance review, this post shows you how to proceed.
Maintenance programming is the act of maintaining old code that’s already running. Doing so can help you get better at debugging, optimizing code, and more.
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