Over $111 billion of ETH is staked, representing 28% of the total supply. Stakers are issued rewards from issuance, priority fees, and MEV. Restaking has grown to $19.4 billion on Ethereum and offers benefits like unified security and efficiency while introducing risks such as impacts on base chain security, centralization pressures, and complexities for node operators. Cosmos introduced replicated security in 2023, allowing Cosmos Hub stake to secure consumer chains and mandatorily restake ATOM.
Nate Silver, a statistician and journalist known for founding analytics site FiveThirtyEight, has joined Polymarket as an advisor, as the company focuses on prediction markets for news events. Polymarket has risen to prominence as the leading prediction market for the 2024 presidential election, with over $400 million in trading volume in 2024, all secured by smart contracts on Polygon. Silver expects investors to use prediction markets to understand and hedge against political risks.
2024.07.18·links.tldrnewsletter.com·2 min read·TLDR Crypto Chaos Labs developed a Sybil Detection Platform to enhance risk models by identifying wallet and whale concentration in DeFi applications, which it has since refined to apply across various verticals, including social applications. Its clustering algorithms help optimize incentive strategies and explore non-DeFi use cases, revealing that some application user bases could be over 98% Sybil, posing challenges in distinguishing genuine user interactions from AI-driven activities.
This retrospective post from an onchain gaming developer highlights what they would do differently if they could start again.
If L2s are onchain hubs, L3s are "onchain servers" that settle to L2s but have full customization and unique capabilities.
This article argues against choosing political allegiances based solely on candidates' stances on cryptocurrency, warning that the approach could lead to support for policies that ultimately conflict with the broader values of freedom and decentralization that underpin the crypto movement.
The U.S. Attorney's Office in DC has initiated a "civil forfeiture" to recover $2.5M in USDT lost to pig butchering scams, aiming to seize crypto from Thai accounts linked to fraudulent investment schemes.
Microsoft has released its AI-driven Designer app, akin to Canva, on iOS and Android. The app offers features like prompt templates, enabling users to easily create and customize stickers, greeting cards, emojis, clip art, wallpapers, and more using text prompts. It can also edit and restyle images with AI and there is an upcoming "replace background" feature. Microsoft is integrating Designer into tools like Word and PowerPoint through Copilot and enhancing Microsoft Photos on Windows 11 for more seamless photo editing.
Notion's brand revamp's playful, primary-colored illustrations reframe the app from a productivity tool to a creativity-saving system. A collaboration with creative agency Buck, the campaign, which showcases AI-enabled features, focuses on user emotions and Notion's freedom from mundane tasks. The makeover introduces diverse, heroic characters and intricate textures to reflect unique workflows.
Apple has released a significant redesign that emphasizes a curated user experience for its Apple Store app on iPhone and iPad. The redesigned app features a new navigation bar with tabs like For You, Products, Go Further, Search, and Bag. The Go Further tab provides users with information and usage tips for their existing devices, while Today at Apple now includes instructional video content. Other updates include interface tweaks, new icons, and enhanced privacy settings.
Key traits of good product designers: predictability, time management, attention to detail, adaptability, effective note-taking, and passion. Great designers continuously improve themselves through communication, discipline, curiosity, observation, and understanding of the importance of usability.
2024.07.18·links.tldrnewsletter.com·9 min read·TLDR Design A spaghetti map is a visual tool that tracks the flow of products, information, or people within a process to optimize workflows and improve efficiency. This guide covers everything from defining and analyzing the spaghetti map to identifying inefficiencies and implementing improvements, enhancing team collaboration, reducing errors, and boosting customer experience. Easy-to-use software like Mural can facilitate creating, sharing, and managing spaghetti maps to streamline processes and improve project management.
Blend modes in Figma enable designers to create various effects by defining how two or more layers interact through mathematical pixel adjustments. With 19 blend modes offering flexibility in complex interface designs, you can darken, lighten, and enhance the contrast between layers. Practical application of blend modes includes adjusting opacities and experimenting with different modes to achieve the desired visual effects, enhancing user interfaces with dynamic backgrounds and better visibility.
Generate unique color schemes, font recommendations, and image collages that come to life on inspiring mockups with AI.
Explore and use various free Figma components, including UI elements and data visualizations.
Transform your selfies into stunning brick art images and videos with various styles and fast turnaround.
Coca-Cola aims to promote togetherness at the Paris Olympic Games with specially designed cans that look like they're hugging. A collaboration with three French artists, the campaign underscores the power of sports to unite people by featuring the iconic hug motif on the beverage company's packaging and advertisements. Coca-Cola plans to extend this theme by showcasing real-time hugs captured in Paris and across social media and metro stations during the Games.
2024.07.18·links.tldrnewsletter.com·1 min read·TLDR Design Science fiction has significantly shaped design, inspiring iconic furniture and futuristic concepts often seen in films and exhibitions. The Vitra Schaudepot's year-long showcase, "Science Fiction Design: From Space Age to Metaverse," explores this influence with over 100 objects, featuring works by notable designers like Eero Aarnio and modern pieces by Andrés Reisinger. This exhibition intertwines various timelines and realities, making it a compelling destination for enthusiasts of design and innovation.
The 2024 UX Salary Report reveals detailed salary data for UX Researchers, ReOps Specialists, and UX Designers, segmented by experience, seniority, and location. It highlights considerable anxiety in the UX research job market, noting that companies are becoming more selective with longer hiring timelines. As of mid-2024, UX salaries are generally higher at larger organizations and continue to rise with experience and seniority. However, recent data shows a slight dip in middle to senior-level salaries.
The #RIPCartoonNetwork trend highlights the struggles of the post-pandemic animation industry, which is experiencing layoffs and project cancellations.
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 3.5 offers rapid prototyping capabilities and allows creators to quickly generate and interact with prototypes, enhancing product development efficiency.
Despite advancements, ARIA's effectiveness in changing element behavior or appearance remains limited.
2024.07.18·html5accessibility.com·3 min read·TLDR Design Chinese-owned platforms Shein and Temu have rapidly grown to challenge Amazon's dominance in the U.S. ecommerce market driven by aggressive marketing, innovative supply chain management, and a focus on under-served demographics, despite facing logistical pressures and ethical scrutiny.
After years of contentious relationships with academic researchers, Meta is opening a small pilot program that will allow a handful of them to access Instagram data in order to study the app's effect on the well-being of teens and young adults. Documents released by a whistleblower in 2021 showed that the company's own research has repeatedly found that Instagram can harm teenagers, especially teenage girls. Some are skeptical about how helpful Meta's pilot program will be, since the tech giant has ultimate control over the data that is handed over, but many agree it's a small step in the right direction.
This article examines the impact of social media saturation, where over 5 billion users and constant content production create a chaotic landscape for brands. Audiences struggle to engage with the overwhelming amount of content, so brands should focus on originality, understand their audience's preferences, and set new success metrics. It is important to think creatively and have a flexible strategy when navigating the complexities of modern social media.
Wednesdays and Thursdays stand out as peak days for email marketing across industries, with higher open and click rates noted. Businesses in food and beverage experience peak open rates on Tuesdays and click rates on Fridays. Apparel and accessories favor Tuesdays for open rates and Wednesdays for clicks, mirroring trends in health and beauty sectors. Sporting goods, surprisingly, show Sunday as the top day for click rates, differing from other sectors.
Including a pricing page on your site helps prospects understand your offerings without needing a sales interaction, preventing them from turning to competitors for pricing information. Transparency reflects confidence in your product, making it easier to handle objections early. While some argue that complex products require sales conversations to determine pricing, the friction created by hiding prices often outweighs the benefits. Hiding pricing pushes the potential sticker shock to the sales conversation, which decreases sales efficiency and increases CAC.
Blog posts can be effective for driving organic traffic and revenue. This post provides 7 blog post templates: How-to post, List post, Beginner's guide, Review post, Statistics, Response post, and Alternatives.
SEO 2.0 is a combination of SEO, AI-assisted workflows, no-code/low-code tools, and a team of AI-assisted writers. This course covers 7 lessons including how to capture demand profitably, building high-quality content, creating linkable assets using AI, and more.
CommandBar, a B2B digital adoption tooling company, has reached around 25M end users and is growing at 300% each year. The company achieved this growth by deeply understanding user pain points when designing its product, repositioning the brand into its own category, and providing an extremely personalized sales strategy. Its marketing strategy includes high-quality blog content that actually keeps readers engaged, sponsored podcasts and newsletters, and incentivizing customers to leave reviews on comparison sites.
Follower count is not a vanity metric. Today, follower growth is important for expanding the marketing funnel. Focus on shareability for static content and using series content to attract followers for short-form videos. Series content is a consistent content type that includes “on the next episode” type of language or thinking within the content.
The Web Developer extension has a setting that allows you to disable JavaScript.
Content that struggles with conversions is often missing simple language, a relevant offer for the funnel stage, a discount code, or social proof.
This free virtual event on July 25th covers tactics to optimize ad spend, latest tools, and current trends and challenges of media buying.
Notion sped up its web browser application by implementing SQLite caching using WebAssembly. It faced challenges with cross-origin isolation and data corruption due to concurrency issues when multiple tabs accessed the database simultaneously. Notion resolved these issues by developing a SharedWorker architecture where only one tab actively interacts with the SQLite database while others can still make queries. It also addressed regressions like slower load times and performance issues on slow devices by loading the WASM SQLite library asynchronously and implementing a “race” mechanism between SQLite and API requests.
The first step to building a well-designed GraphQL schema is to identify the core types in your domain, like Company and JobListing, and then define the relationships between these types. Next, plan query and mutation operations that clients can perform on your API, such as creating or updating job listings. Finally, document your schema thoroughly and use tools to visualize the relationships in your schema.
Virtual threads in Java do not offer a clear advantage over Open Liberty's existing autonomic thread pool for typical cloud-native Java workloads. Open Liberty is an open-source, modular, cloud-native Java application runtime. In CPU-intensive workloads, virtual threads perform worse, with lower throughput than Open Liberty's thread pool. However, virtual threads do ramp up faster from idle to maximum throughput compared to Open Liberty's thread pool due to its thread-per-request model.
Persisted queries are essential for a solid GraphQL API. Authorization is a challenge regardless of API style. While there is a need for `dataloader` to address performance concerns, the claim made by others that authorization problems are unique to GraphQL is untrue. GraphQL encourages continuous evolution, not breaking changes. It allows for precise tracking of API usage.
Python's datetime module can cause confusion when converting between timestamps and datetime objects due to timezone issues. The time.time() function returns a timestamp relative to epoch (UTC), while datetime.datetime.now() returns a timezone-naive object in the local timezone. This discrepancy can lead to incorrect results when converting timestamps back to datetime objects on systems with non-UTC timezones.
This developer, who completes Advent of Code in a new programming language every year, chose Zig for 2023 and found it to be a modernized C with a unique approach to error handling and type manipulation. Zig's standout features include detectable illegal behavior and comptime, which offer improved error detection and type-level programming capabilities respectively. However, Zig could benefit from enhancements in developer experience, including a better language server, clearer error messages, and improved documentation.
Google Docs has introduced new features to convert Markdown to Docs content and vice-versa, export Docs as Markdown, and import Markdown files as Docs.
2024.07.18·workspaceupdates.googleblog.com·1 min read·TLDR Web Dev Magic CLI is a command line utility that uses LLMs to help you use the command line more efficiently.
This is a CodeMirror component for React. CodeMirror is a code editor component for the web, with a rich, comprehensive API that is easy to configure. This React-specific component supports React hooks, TypeScript, and more.
The tech job market is facing a downturn due to rising interest rates, which affect different types of tech companies differently. On top of that, the hiring process in tech is often broken, relying on standardized practices like coding tests and behavioral interviews that may not accurately assess a candidate's abilities or experience. Companies often have unrealistic expectations and job descriptions, leading to burnout and high turnover.
David Buchanan bought a Rabbit R1, a device that has been criticized for its poor performance. He developed a tethered jailbreak that gives root access to the device without making any permanent changes. He also found that the device logs extensive user data, including GPS location, WiFi network name, and nearby cell tower IDs. While Rabbit Inc. has since addressed the logging issue and added a factory reset option, Buchanan is still releasing his jailbreak tool to help other researchers analyze the device.
The JPEG format became the dominant way to share digital photos online due to its lossy compression, which allows for smaller file sizes and faster transmission over the internet. Unlike the GIF, which was created by a single person, the JPEG is a complete standard designed to meet a range of industry needs. The format's success is due to its ability to balance the need for photorealistic images with the requirement for efficient delivery in limited bandwidth environments.
Cloudflare's latest report reveals that nearly 7% of internet traffic is malicious, driven by events like wars and elections, with DDoS attacks being the primary weapon of choice.
The term "IC" (individual contributor) has negative connotations of laziness and lack of ambition.