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a16z crypto compiled all of its resources around tokens to help founders create an incentive-aligned and properly launched token. The compilation includes token do's and don'ts, a compensation primer, and how to avoid predatory VC deals. It also covers novel mechanisms for token value accrual and includes videos on launching compliant tokens.
This article explores the evolution of the Internet and proposes a new concept called the Glocal Web. It discusses the limitations of current cloud-based systems and contrasts two emerging approaches: strongly global Web3 and local-first internet. The Glocal Web combines both using Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs) as a core technology, promising to offer benefits like ownership, scalability, low latency, offline availability, and privacy.
August was one of the worst months for Ethereum mainnet fee generation since early 2020. Since blobs, L2s no longer pay meaningful ETH fees, though they continue to grow in value capture and transaction execution. However, it is generally good that fees are not prohibitively high, and its actual value could come from being the money of choice for L2s. With a current inflation rate of around 1%, it is no longer ultra-sound money but is still more sustainable than alt L1s.
Earlier today, a security breach targeted Penpie, causing a loss of funds, but quick action from Pendle's team successfully paused contracts, protecting $105M from further attacks.
UniSwap was fined $175K by CFTC for providing access to illegal crypto derivatives trading.
The claim that "everything beyond Bitcoin is worthless" overlooks the growing potential of other sectors in crypto, which are on the verge of significant breakthroughs.
Jason Derulo's silence on his JASON token since July, along with his brief promotion and deletion of a Tron meme coin, has frustrated the community.
Liverpool FC's new third kit showcases a seemingly ordinary design but features a unique detail: a vertically aligned Nike logo. This isn't a design error - it subtly honors the strides in women's football, merging tradition with empowerment. The iconic Nike logo, typically unchanged due to its vital historical and cultural significance, was thoughtfully reimagined in this context.
Luma AI's latest video generator, Dream Machine 1.6, introduces precise tools that allow users to apply 12 camera motions through text prompts. This innovation addresses a significant limitation in AI video generation by offering better control over the resulting clips. Positive feedback from early adopters highlight the considerable upgrade in dynamic motion and user-friendly options. Competing with Runway's Gen-2 and OpenAI's Sora, this advancement demonstrates rapid progress toward achieving near-traditional film quality with AI.
The Tokyo Toilet is a project in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward comprising 17 unique public restrooms designed by 16 global creatives. Among these is the "Transparent Toilet" in Yoyogi Fukamachi Kokoen, designed by Shigeru Ban, which transforms from see-through to opaque when locked, ensuring privacy. While some users have noted issues with the glass becoming opaque more slowly in colder weather, this has become a must-visit spot for tourists intrigued by cutting-edge bathroom design.
Brand guidelines are evolving into dynamic, collaborative digital tools, with AI-driven automation and suggestion-based design shaping their future. This shift will foster ongoing collaboration between studios and clients while agencies take on a more strategic role in navigating branding complexities.
AI has sparked a significant shift in technology and morality, influencing everything from intellectual property norms to generational perspectives. While AI tools democratize content creation and drive a new digital economy, they also provoke debates about quality and human values. A counter-movement favoring personalized human experiences is likely to emerge.
Designers should embrace facilitation as a core principle, not just an event-specific role. This involves supporting others to understand, collaborate, and create by building shared understanding, promoting open communication, and being mindful of power dynamics. Emphasizing facilitation encourages inclusive, community-driven approaches rather than reinforcing the outdated "designer as expert" model.
Logggos is a catalog that offers selected well-designed logos for inspiration and research. It is sorted by industry, style, and color. Weekly updates are delivered via email.
Pushkeen features the world's most extensive library of push notifications, showcasing patterns from mobile apps to enhance growth and user engagement through effective messaging strategies.
This Figma plugin applies a pixelate or 8-bit effect to image files, allowing users to adjust the sample size via a slider. It supports both raster and vector modes.
Rytmos, winner of the 2024 Apple Design Award for Interaction, combines global music genres, sci-fi visuals, and engaging puzzles. The game enables players to create music by solving levels and adding instruments to evolving songs. Developed by Floppy Club, Rytmos' design emphasizes creativity, cultural discovery, and a human touch, blending design with musical exploration.
Jane Austen's House in Chawton celebrated the author's 250th birthday in 2025 with a new identity designed by Pentagram. Inspired by Austen's love of nature, wit, and elegance, the design incorporates elements like a Blush Noisette rose and the historic ‘Chawton Leaf' pattern, setting the stage for a year-long festival of exhibitions and events honoring Austen's timeless legacy.
The success of the Oasis reunion stems from its strong brand, which evokes emotional connections and cultural significance. Design assets and the exclusivity of reunions further reinforce the band's presence and maintain its appeal.
Owen D. Pomery, an architect turned illustrator, merges architecture with illustration, creating detailed visual narratives that capture the subtleties of everyday life and space.
A product's voice is the consistent language reflecting brand personality, while tone adapts to context and user emotions.
Innovator Grotesk, a new typeface by Yep! Type Foundry, offers modern designers a blend of aesthetics and functionality with a simplified licensing model, ensuring versatility and ease of use.
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Tubular Labs' report shows a 39% increase in videos longer than 30 seconds on YouTube and a rise in TikTok clips between 1 and 2 minutes. TikTok's “Business and Finance” content is growing, with popular topics including financial tips and Latino business success. Instagram engagement is up due to more AI-recommended content, while Facebook video uploads have increased, driven by the rise of Reels and repurposed TikTok content.
Digital advertising grew 16.4% in Q2, nearly double last year's rate, but the pace is expected to slow in the coming quarters. Factors like declining momentum in retail media networks and reduced demand from certain regions are contributing to the anticipated deceleration. Overall ad growth is projected to normalize by 2025.
Readers will finish reading a carousel if the content provides them with clear and easy instructions on how to do something quickly. In your carousels, focus on one topic, use more visuals to limit the amount of words, and leverage arrows, bread crumbs, and titles. This post includes a framework to follow.
A holiday email strategy requires clear goals, such as revenue targets or list growth. Segment your audience based on purchase history and engagement. Create engaging content with interactive elements. Design emails with festive themes and clear visual hierarchy. Optimize send times using data and warm up your IP to manage increased volume. Regularly A/B test your emails to fine-tune your strategy.
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The CRE Funnel Planner is a framework that makes it easier to design a multi-step marketing funnel for your brand. It allows you to plan activities at each stage that incentivize users to continue. The framework involves identifying the goals of the user, the goals of your brand, and the series of actions that result in a conversion.
Semrush's newly-released Google AI Overview (AIO) reporting, designed to make AIO tracking far more accessible, is the first of its kind. Google Search Console offers valuable first-party AIO reporting, but it lacks filtering, which limits how much can be analyzed. An initial analysis of AIOs within the Semrush tool found that AIO placements are unlikely without a top 10 ranking (similar to Featured Snippets). Additionally, only 0.1% of Wikipedia's ranked keywords include an AIO, compared to 0.23% for Reddit.
“Sponsored Snaps” from brands will appear as unread messages in Snapchat's main Chat tab, sitting above messages from a person's contacts until they're acted on. This is the first time Snap will show ads in the most-used part of its app. The app will also start letting advertisers pay to promote places in its Map tab, where Snapchat users can see the whereabouts of their friends.
Events, both virtual and in-person, are proving highly effective. Account-based strategies are rising. Creative outbound methods are enhancing meeting bookings and adding new opportunities. Companies are also revisiting pricing and packaging to lower entry barriers and drive expansion.
Referred customers are 4X more likely to make a purchase and have a 37% higher retention rate. This article emphasizes the importance of precise and personalized messaging in securing referrals, rather than relying on vague requests. Combining strategies like NPS with a structured referral program can also help identify enthusiastic customers to drive more referrals.
Mastering search intent (ie. informational vs transactional) involves knowing what to look for, focusing on the right types of queries, and taking immediate action.
When presenting data to executives, start with a TLDR, use colors to highlight key points, and make bold recommendations.
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Stytch provides complete auth infrastructure for developers (far beyond basic widgets) _and_ built-in fraud and risk prevention in a single, API-first platform [5].
Using boolean flags in function parameters is a trap - enums should probably be used instead. Boolean flags can lead to confusion and maintenance issues, especially when dealing with multiple output types. While boolean flags can be appropriate in specific cases, enums are generally preferable for API and function parameters because they are more readable, maintainable, extensible, and future-proof.
CSS's @property is a new at-rule allowing explicit definition of custom property syntax, initial value, and inheritance. This article shows how @property enables smooth animations and transitions, demonstrated by a shiny animated button with rotating gradients, a silky smooth hover effect, and tiny shimmering dots. @property lets developers create intricate designs and complex animations, previously difficult or impossible with standard CSS.
Component testing may be the future of UI testing. While end-to-end (E2E) tests provide the highest fidelity, they are often impractical for comprehensive UI coverage due to slow execution, difficulty in managing complex states, and setup overhead. Component tests, on the other hand, offer a balance between unit tests and E2E tests, allowing for both faster and more reliable testing. Component tests are not necessarily a replacement for E2E tests, but rather a complement.
Explicit code is better than implicit code because implicit code has a higher number of WTFs per minute (basically being more frustrating and confusing). This post presents two code examples to make this point, showing how explicit code makes it easier to understand and maintain the codebase by clearly defining variables and permissions.
Jaana Dogan, a Principal Engineer at Google, wrote a post about database-related issues commonly overlooked. It emphasizes the importance of understanding nuances like ACID compliance, isolation levels, and data consistency. It also talks about the pitfalls of auto-incrementing primary keys, optimistic locking, write skews, and clock skews.
@svg-use is a set of tools and bundler plugins that facilitate the use of 'use href' for better SVG loading in a React context. It's more efficient than the current common practice of inlining SVG as JS code.
This is an open-source starter kit for building production-ready SaaS applications. It uses a curated stack of tools, including Next.js, Supabase, and TailwindCSS, organized as a monorepo with a focus on code reuse and best practices.
FetchFox is a Chrome extension for extracting any data from any website. It takes the raw text of a website and uses AI to extract data the user is looking for.
There was a subtle off-by-one error during the European Climbing Championships in Villars-sur-Ollon. A hold on the right-hand side of the wall was off by one position compared to its counterpart on the left side. Despite the error going unnoticed for years, this author spotted it because he had a reference point from a previous competition and was not visually fatigued by repeated exposure to the same wall.