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CICADA: PRIVATE ON-CHAIN VOTING USING TIME-LOCK PUZZLES

Cicada is a new, open-source Solidity library designed for private on-chain voting on Ethereum. This system leverages time-lock puzzles and zk proofs to maintain voting privacy. Current on-chain voting systems are vulnerable to manipulation due to lack of privacy, but Cicada aims to mitigate this risk by offering running tally privacy, ensuring vote counts remain confidential until the voting period concludes. The tool also provides a framework that can be combined with anonymous voter eligibility protocols to enhance ballot privacy.

BITCOIN PAYMENTS

TRYING TO QUALIFY FOR A GRAVITA AIRDROP

Gravita, a fork of the Liquity protocol, has introduced a new stablecoin, leading to speculation about a future airdrop. To maximize your potential airdrop eligibility, you can follow these steps: mint Gravita's Debt Tokens, contribute to the protocol's stability pool, and provide liquidity for GRAI on Uniswap. As a little background on the protocol, Gravita is seeking to overcome limitations of Liquity, accepting bLUSD and LSDs as collateral.

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE AUTONOMOUS WORLD

This thread explains the concept of "The Autonomous World" and explores the creation of decentralized on-chain games, where rules and game states are built and managed on-chain. Advantages of these types of games include enhanced composability, asset ownership verification, and player-influenced development. However, some challenges persist, such as a lack of frameworks and scalability concerns. The goal of most of the on-chain game development going on right now is to push the boundaries of what is possible, experimenting with novel technologies like sharded rollups, zk proofs, and more.

ARRINGTON-LED GROUP WINS RIGHTS TO MANAGE CELSIUS ASSETS

Celsius, the now defunct crypto lending platform, is set to relaunch under new management after Fahrenheit LLC, led by investment firm Arrington Capital, who won the bid to manage Celsius's assets. The Fahrenheit consortium will provide resources to revive the company, which will be owned by Celsius's creditors, and in return, the Fahrenheit team will earn an annual $35 million management fee.

BINANCE ENTERS NFT LENDING SPACE, STARTING WITH ETH LOANS

MULTICHAIN EXPOSURE AFTER ‘FORCE MAJEURE’

Yesterday, rumors were swirling about strange activity from Mutichain after a ‘Force Majeure’. This prompted traders to assess what kind of exposure different protocols had, and Fantom stuck out with $650m of its TVL and $458m of its stablecoin ecosystem exposed.

EXCHANGE BITSTAMP

PLATFORM

DCG, already dealing with its bankrupt lending business, is now shutting down its TradeBlock subsidiary, which offers services to institutional investors. DCG acquired TradeBlock in 2020 but is now citing economic and regulatory concerns for the shutdown.

AN UPDATE ON METAPLEX’S NEW FEE ANNOUNCEMENT

In response to community feedback, Metaplex will not charge fees for updating, verifying, freezing, and thawing, but fees will still remain when users mint NFTs. Adjustments will also likely be made if SOL rises significantly.

AI CANON

AI is moving fast and in true a16z form, they break down the basics and give you a compendium of reading resources and research on the topic. Did we mention this is moving quickly?

NVIDIA WORTH 250X MORE IN 10 YEARS

With enthusiasm for machine learning, investor appetite for AI exposure, Nvidia stock surged nearly 30% after posting earnings - the single largest value change in a stock ever in dollar terms.

Elad Gil breaks down his thoughts on bootstrapping AI companies.

INTERVIEWS

MAXIMUM

BUILDING A STARTUP FROM SCRATCH: MY MISTAKES AS CTO

BOOK SHORT: BOARDS THAT LEAD

HOW DUOLINGO GREW ITS TIKTOK TO 6.6M FOLLOWERS

CAREER PATHS

This article discusses the reality of career paths in the corporate world and how they often lack structure and guarantees, leading to people becoming disengaged and creating their own paths for success.

EXPERIENCE

An entrepreneur details his journey in starting a newsletter-based SaaS business, investing only $2,000 despite budgeting for $5,000. This effort led to a monthly income of $15,000, all with no previous industry experience.

THREE SIMPLE STEPS TO SURVIVE AS A BURNED-OUT ENTREPRENEUR

EXPECTATIONS DEBT

Kyleigh breaks down how SEO helped Danny Postma achieve success with his business Headshot Pro, making over $300,000 since its launch in March. His marketing strategy relies heavily on SEO, driving 3000 organic visitors to his website every month.

DEVELOPER’S GUIDE TO PASSWORDLESS AUTHENTICATION

Passwordless authentication has been rising in popularity. It is more secure and convenient than password-based authentication. This article gives a thorough deep dive of the different forms of passwordless authentication and shows you how you can implement it.

API REDESIGN: SHOPPING CART AND STRIPE PAYMENT

UNCOVERING THE KEY TO A SPEEDY FRONTEND FRAMEWORK

YOU DON'T ALWAYS NEED INDEXES

Sometimes you have a lot of data. One approach to support quick searches is pre-processing it to build an index so a search can involve only looking at a small fraction of the total data. The threshold at which it's worth switching to indexing, though, might be higher than you'd guess. Unless you know from the start that you'll be searching hundreds of millions of records, consider starting with simple scans and only add indexing if you can't get acceptable performance. And even then, if queries are rare and highly varied it may still be better to do the work at query time instead of ingestion time.

WHY ENGINEERS NEED TO BE BORED

The author proposes the Pareto principle of boredom: 80% of innovation comes from being bored 20% of the time. Boredom could actually be a good thing for engineers, as it could help cultivate some invention and creativity.

NEXT.JS ENTERPRISE BOILERPLATE

Next.js Enterprise Boilerplate is an enterprise-grade Next.js boilerplate for high-performance, maintainable apps. It is packed with features like Tailwind CSS, TypeScript, ESLint, Prettier, testing tools, and more to accelerate your development.

DITTOFEED

Dittofeed is an open-source customer engagement platform built for devs. It has features like being self-hostable, journey monitoring and alerting, testing SDK to test marketing campaigns, and more.

FIR

The Fir toolkit is designed for Go developers with moderate html/css & js skills who want to progressively build reactive web apps without mastering complex web frameworks. It includes a Go library and an Alpine.js plugin.

HYPE: THE ENEMY OF EARLY STAGE RETURNS

MULTIPLE LAYERS OF ABSTRACTION IN DESIGN SYSTEMS

CHATGPT PLUGINS NOW SUPPORT POSTGRES & SUPABASE

Supabase recently contributed to the OpenAI repo with a Postgres and a Supabase implementation to help developers build plugins using pgvector.

WHY YOU SHOULD STILL READ THE DOCS

We’ve all used libraries, tools, and packages that seem almost impossible to work with. It can be easy to throw your hands up and move on to another option. This article encourages you to keep at it and explains a method for consuming and understanding documentation that can help make this process easier.

BUILDING COUNTDOKU, A MULTIPLAYER SUDOKU WEB APP

VINT CERF’S CAREER ADVICE FOR ENGINEERS

Vint Cerf, the Internet’s co-creator, gives career advice that touches on humility, collaboration, and cultivating soft skills.

SAYS

TIKTOK CEO SAYS ORACLE HAS BEGUN REVIEWING ITS SOURCE CODE

BRAIN WAVES CAN TELL US HOW MUCH PAIN SOMEONE IS IN

ACCIDENT

RIO TERM

Rio is a hardware-accelerated GPU terminal editor designed to run everywhere. It can run as a native desktop application or in the browser. Screenshots are available in the repository.

COGNITIVE LOAD DEVELOPER'S HANDBOOK 🧠

I EXPECTED

THE STRANGE STORY OF THE TEENS BEHIND THE MIRAI BOTNET

The Mirai botnet, which exploited vulnerable Internet of Things devices, was put together by three teenage boys. They rented out the botnet to paying customers and used it to attack targets of their own. Its use has affected millions of people. This article looks at how Mirai was created, the market around botnet providers, the malware behind the botnet, and the events that led to the creators' arrest and subsequent sentencing.

DEVICESCRIPT

DeviceScript brings the TypeScript developer experience to low-resource microcontroller-based devices.