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The first leveraged crypto ETF in the US, Volatility Shares' 2x Bitcoin Strategy ETF, ticker BITX, is set to launch on Tuesday after the SEC chose not to deny its application. This 2x ETF allows investors to double up on their exposure to bitcoin. The ETF will track the CME Bitcoin Futures Daily Roll Index. This development follows numerous traditional investment firms, like BlackRock, filing for bitcoin ETFs with the SEC over the past couple weeks.
In an about-face from earlier this year, the IMF is now suggesting that banning crypto assets might not be an effective long-term risk management strategy for countries. Instead, the IMF recommends focusing on addressing the factors driving crypto demand, enhancing transparency, and recording crypto transactions in national statistics. The institution believes that countries should mitigate risks while leveraging the potential benefits of technological innovation associated with crypto assets. This stance contrasts with the IMF's previous position, which considered the possibility of imposing outright bans on crypto.
JPMorgan Chase has introduced euro-denominated payments for corporate clients using its JPM Coin, expanding its live blockchain application. Launched in 2019, JPM Coin was initially used to move dollars. The system allows wholesale payments clients to transfer dollars or euros within their JPMorgan accounts globally or make payments to other bank customers using the chain. JPM Coin enables always-available and fast payments, making it easier for corporate treasurers to manage liquidity than with traditional methods.
Crypto data providers Nansen and Kaiko have partnered to offer institutions a comprehensive view of insights across centralized and decentralized exchanges. By combining Nansen's comprehensive coverage of on-chain data with Kaiko's evaluation of price volatility, liquidity risks, and market movements, the collaboration aims to help companies better navigate the fragmented nature of transactions in the crypto space. Additionally, the partnership gives users programmatic access to both on-chain and market data without requiring multiple integrations like it would have before.
Visa’s crypto team recently wrote a paper describing the differences between monolithic and modular blockchain technologies. Monolithic blockchains, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, focus on security and decentralization but face scalability challenges. In contrast, modular blockchains aim to optimize specific tasks for efficiency and scalability. They break down the blockchain into interconnected modules, offering flexibility and customization. The article compares the two approaches across various factors, including scalability, adaptability, security, and developer familiarity. The paper makes the point that as the technology advances, the spectrum of modularity in blockchain design will continue to expand, catering to specific use cases and driving future innovation.
This thread provides an in-depth walkthrough of Zora's ZoraNFTCreatorV1.sol contract, which is used when creating ERC721 Drops or Editions on Zora's website. The thread explains how the contract interacts with other components, the functions it contains and how they operate, and the differences between Drops and Editions. It also provides a link to the GitHub repo containing the contract, so you can use it to learn how to build a contract with similar functionality.
This blog explains how crypto apps struggle to auto-scale like traditional cloud-based apps due to the constraints of their underlying networks, leading to higher usage costs. While some attempt horizontal scaling across multiple chains or vertical scaling via offchain logic, such methods have had limited success. The author proposes that an alternative approach of customized, vertical scaling might offer a promising solution.
Alameda, SBF’s infamous hedge fund and part of the FTX empire, is attempting to reclaim $700 million it previously gave to "super networkers" Michael Kives and Bryan Baum of K5 Global. A court filing alleges that Bankman-Fried intended to expand his influence among celebrities and political figures via Kives and Baum. FTX and Bankman-Fried had been known for their extensive spending in sports, arts, and politics. K5 Global denies any wrongdoing and calls the lawsuit meritless, arguing that they believed Bankman-Fried was legitimate when entering into their business relationship with him.
This article explains how LLMs like ChatGPT can enhance blockchain interfaces, assisting user intent translation into transactions and enabling AI-managed projects, potentially helping to foster mass adoption.
Creditors of the bankrupt crypto lending platform, Celsius, have accused crypto market maker Wintermute of colluding with Celsius executives to manipulate the price of the platform's native cryptocurrency CEL through illicit market practices.
Matter Labs, the team behind Ethereum L2 rollup zkSync, has published a “ZK Credo” document outlining its vision for the “Internet of Value.” The principles emphasize trustlessness, security, reliability, censorship-resistance, privacy, scalability, accessibility, and sovereignty, with a focus on enabling user groups to exit or fork from the network at minimal cost.
Mythical Games' free-to-play game, NFL Rivals, has surpassed a million downloads despite launching in a tough crypto environment during NFL's off-season. CEO John Linden reports that about 10% of players have interacted with the marketplace for trading cards.
Venture Capitalist Bryce Roberts examines the relationship between the scale of a venture and the associated risks, with a focus on how much capital is required to sustain it.
This article examines how Artificial Intelligence technologies can be used to help alleviate the increasing amount of knowledge that people and businesses are expected to acquire in order to stay competitive in their respective fields.
Brian Chesky offers valuable insights into how Airbnb has embraced a design-led approach, highlighting key aspects such as empowering designers, product marketing, design systems, and product release cycles. This discussion provides valuable information for understanding how Airbnb has fostered a culture of design excellence within the company.
This article provides advice on how to create an exceptional software engineering team that is highly productive and motivated. It includes tips on how to hire well, create a welcoming environment, promote collaboration, and empower team members to succeed.
This article provides an overview of twelve common challenges that single-person businesses face and how to avoid them in order to create a successful business.
Minimize bad decision making by tracking the right KPIs for your business.
Michael Houck lists out his top 20 books he feels founders should read to help maximize their success.
The article teaches that while having impressive coding skills is part of the equation, it's the ability to collaborate with the team and set goals that truly makes one a senior engineer.
Jason Lemkin discusses the qualities of a bad startup CEO/founder in Silicon Valley that can lead to an unsuccessful venture, such as not being fully committed to the long-term success of the business, being too reactive and emotional, being dishonest, not being able to build great software, and being too slow.
It appears that JPMorgan recently experienced an incident where individuals were replying to everyone in the company. As founders, we can consider implementing certain rules, promoting proper etiquette, and providing training to prevent such occurrences in our own organization.
The tech IPO market may be down but the art market continues to buck trends. This time, an actual painting is going to IPO which is potentially a very interesting precedent.
UUIDs are commonly used as keys in PostgreSQL databases. However, UUID’s come with their own downsides. The most important of these downsides is a loss of temporal locality. The trouble with picking random values is that they lose any correlation between the order of inserts and the order of IDs. This can lead to a loss of performance.
Managing environment variables in React Native is crucial for any project; it can be sometimes tricky and challenging. With all the options available out there, people tend to get lost and have a lot of questions. This article defines the best method for managing environment variables and outlines why it’s the right way and how you can replicate it in your own React Native applications.
Platform engineering brings velocity, stability, and a product mindset to engineering. Platform engineers support the software delivery velocity and system stability of engineering organizations. This article breaks down some lessons that are not only useful for platform engineers, but for all software engineers, such as focusing on outcome over output.
Most people have something that they are thinking about doing, but they aren’t - maybe because they think it’s a bad idea. Many people do or avoid things because they assume other people think the same. However, it’s worth asking yourself some simple questions in order to analyze an idea to see if it really is that bad. Usually, it’s more worth it to try that new idea you have and fail than not try at all.
Facing an uninterested or confrontational interviewer can be one of the most challenging obstacles that you'll face during the hiring process. While there's no singular way to approach or address this situation, there are a number of options you can take under consideration during and after the interview. For example, you can engage the interview with stories, ask them about their successes, reframe the experience, and even address the issue directly.
Anime.js is a lightweight JavaScript animation library with a simple, yet powerful API. It works with CSS properties, SVG, DOM attributes, and JavaScript Objects.
Mailpit is a multi-platform email testing tool & API for developers. It acts as both an SMTP server and as a web interface to view all captured emails. Mailpit offers many features, such as message tagging, advanced mail search, a REST API, and configurable email storage.
AI.JSX is a framework for building AI applications using Javascript and JSX. While AI.JSX is not React, it's designed to look and feel very similar, while also integrating seamlessly with React-based projects. With AI.JSX, you don't just use JSX to describe what your UI should look like, you also use it to describe how Large Language Models, such as ChatGPT, should integrate into the rest of your application. The end result is a powerful combination where intelligence can be deeply embedded into the application stack.
Google Domains, the third most popular domain registrar, is shutting down and selling its customer accounts to Squarespace. This move has raised concerns about the sale of personal information, seemingly contradicting Google's policy of not selling such data to third parties. The company's silence on the matter has allowed competitors to capitalize on the situation and has raised questions about the future of other Google services.
Google is likely to discontinue any service that it cannot directly monetize with ads at a large scale. Its primary business is advertising, not products or services, and this is reflected in their poor customer service. The recent discontinuation of Google Domains and the neglect of Google Home/Nest are examples of this. Users of Google's products and services are warned to always have a backup plan, as any Google offering could be discontinued without much notice.
This article introduces six AI companies that are competing with OpenAI: Adept AI, Inflection AI, Runway, Aleph Alpha, AI21 Labs, and Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI). These companies are developing innovative AI technologies, ranging from AI assistants and creative tools to large language models and AI platforms.
a16z explains their JavaScript stack for getting started with AI.
Refresher of how React's Virtual DOM works and why it is performant.
An engineer works with Svelte and SvelteKit for a whole year in production and breaks down the good, the bad, and the ugly.
An open-source resume builder and parser for job seekers.
The European Parliament recently voted on regulation that would, among other things, require smartphone manufacturers to make their device’s batteries more easily user-replaceable.
The new GitHub Code View brings users many new features to improve the code reading and exploration experience. GitHub’s engineering team overcame a number of unique technical hurdles in order to deliver these features without compromising performance. The team had a few guiding principles on which they refused to compromise while building the new Code View, such as the importance of speed, intuitiveness, and ease of use. In this article, they dive through the challenges they faced and how they solved them in detail.
There are many different ways to create animated logos, for example, using SVG or GIF files with animated icons. However, these types of animations can be demanding on website performance and can slow down your website. Lottie is a JSON-based animation format that is only half the size of other animation formats. This article introduces Lottie’s features and walks readers through the process of creating a Lottie animation and integrating it into a Vue 3 application.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), a key protocol in client-server communications. It explains the process of establishing and terminating a TCP connection, known as the 3-way handshake, and how TCP handles lost segments during this process. The article also discusses TCP keepalive, a mechanism for checking client status, and how TCP manages various edge cases, such as when the client or server goes offline.
Frontend pull requests often contain common mistakes which can cause nasty bugs, jangled nerves, and wasted time. But they can be easily avoided by following this list of 7 small (but crucial) rules.
Sometimes, a team collectively hits a wall and experiences burn out. There will always be signs that lead up to this. This article outlines what some of the tell tale indications of burnout are and how you can help your team get out of a slump.
Svelte 4 has been released. Svelte is a JavaScript framework that’s an alternative to React and Angular. Its goal is to be efficient, tiny, and extremely easy to write. Svelte 4 results in a 75% reduction in package size, a better developer experience, updated docs, and many other features.
Unkey is an open source API key management solution. It allows you to create, manage, and validate API keys for your users. It’s built with security and speed in mind.
The venture capital firm a16z has published AI Getting Started, a Javascript “AI getting started stack” for weekend projects, including image/text models, vector stores, auth, and deployment configs.
Doing an internship is a great way to start building your future career, but there's something that often confuses people - the fact that software engineer internship salaries are usually split into three groups. By understanding the trimodal nature of internship salaries, you can make better choices about your career path and income expectations. Most internship salaries fall into 3 categories: “most companies” pay $15-30/hour, top big tech, finance, and consulting pay $40-$70/hour, and the top trading firms and hedge funds pay $60-150/hour.
As Al becomes universally integrated into our digital lives, learning prompt engineering - the art and science of instructing AI effectively - is as vital as learning to code was at the dawn of the digital revolution. Well-crafted prompts can mean the difference between receiving useful insights or artificial gibberish. This article will teach you how to get the most out of AI and successfully execute prompt engineering.
This article lays out the history of the VR headset market from the first Oculus headset in 2011 to today explained with 11 charts. It demonstrates market interest over the years, how the Vision Pro’s specs compare with the existing headsets in the market, and how the gaming market uses VR headsets.