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This article analyzes the need for Enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation in the Ethereum network to combat centralization issues. It also explores various design proposals for implementing ePBS, including the Two-slot PBS, Payload-timeliness Committee, and protocol-enforced proposer commitments approaches. Also discussed are future proposed changes to Ethereum that ePBS needs to account for, along with general challenges and concerns for the design.
This thread provides a comprehensive guide on how to efficiently use DEX swaps for the best returns. It recommends using a DEX aggregator like 1inch or DefiLlama and recommends measures against MEV such as using a Flashbots RPC. The author also stresses the importance of finding the best pools and utilizing services like Gashawk to save on transaction fees. There are ancillary benefits to consider like using DEX aggregators that have airdrops on the horizon.
This thread discusses the inherent differences and issues in Ethereum and Solana's tech and economic models. It mentions Solana's focus on better scaling by shifting costs onto dapp teams rather than users, contrasting with Ethereum's user-centered cost model. The thread also touches on decentralization, security concerns, and the implications of Solana's smart contract model. It concludes by questioning both networks' efficacy in maintaining autonomy and resisting censorship.
This blog lays out a thesis for Celestia, a new blockchain scaling technology, promising enhanced performance via modular blockchains. Its utility token, TIA, serves multiple purposes including Proof of Stake and gas payment, driving security, and rollup creation. The model is expected to provide hundreds of rollups using Celestia, forming a scalable ecosystem. Finally, Celestia has the potential to become a leading force in data availability, which may put pressure on other rollup frameworks including Optimism, Arbitrum, and Polygon.
With the bitcoin ETF approval windows coming up and anticipation around those approvals mounting, this article lays out some of the key dates you should be looking out for over the next several weeks.
This thread provides an example of a company, EZKL, integrating Icicle GPU acceleration into their ZKML system to increase efficiency. It achieved a 98% reduction in MSM times and 35% in total proof time.
This blog focuses on improving understanding of finality in rollups, emphasizing the strongest confirmation rule against double-spend attacks, and addressing complexities in rollup confirmation rules.
In a recent interview, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong confirmed that the company had no plans to launch a token for its L2 network Base, focusing instead on its integration and growth with a variety of protocols.
The updated Amazon Alexa app is now more streamlined and tailored to smart home control. Its redesign focused on putting smart home controls front and center, offering clear organization, customizable shortcuts for smart devices, and a more user-friendly interface. It also introduces a map view feature for controlling devices within your home.
Google Drive updated its home page with personalized file and folder lists based on user preferences, improving accessibility to frequently used items. The new layout introduces a Home tab that prioritizes frequently accessed content and two new chips allow users to switch between suggested files and folders quickly.
Nike is taking legal action against Skiman, a ski apparel brand in Colorado, over its logo, which Nike claims is "confusingly similar" to its iconic Jordan Jumpman logo. Skiman's founder, Stephen Fucik, designed the logo to represent a skiing trick, but Nike has sent cease-and-desist letters and asked them to cancel their trademark.
Cookie Popups are often intentionally poorly designed and incorporate dark design patterns, sometimes allowing for the breach of user privacy. They prioritize the “Accept” button, don’t allow the “Decline” option, and some require up to 5 clicks to decline them fully and are written in website-specific wordy language.
Deceptive patterns, designs that force the user to take an action not in their best interest, are prolific on the web because they are phenomenally effective at boosting conversions. It’s up to designers to out deceptive patterns when proposed or implemented and seek fairer, more ethical ways of helping businesses and users achieve their goals.
Adopting a design system by product teams is one of its most challenging production stages. This research highlights the metrics to consider when measuring the adoption of design systems, from component usage to cost reduction. It also includes the best tools for tracking progress.
Animotion lets you create CSS animations visually by dragging, resizing, rotating, clipping, and more. It has a keyframes editor, a collection of ready-to-use animations, and 29 built-in eases.
Noya combines wireframes with a design system to generate high-fidelity designs in real-time.
Useberry can be integrated easily with most popular design tools to utilize various user testing methods - recruit your own testers or choose from an extensive pool of vetted and verified testers.
This year’s Spotify Wrapped looks more fluid and free-flowing and features a range of eclectic shapes, colors, and styles. It lacks the symmetry and sense of precision of last year’s identity. This was an intentional move by the design team and it was born out of a desire to reflect the “chaotic” atmosphere of 2023.
Openness to feedback is an important skill to develop. It involves timing, setting a sufficient context, presenting iteration work and alternatives, and suggestions for validating success.
The Web Accessibility Annotation Kit is a fantastic resource for designers working toward more inclusive products. The CVS Health Inclusive Design team shares what they learned during the process, including the research, accessibility principles observed, the criteria for usability testing, and more.
Creating images with AI generators such as Dall-E and Midjourney takes some time. Stability AI's SDXL Turbo model solves this problem with a new distillation technology that enables single-step image generation with unprecedented quality, reducing the number of steps from 50 to 1.
COLE combines AI models, including fine-tuned versions of Meta’s Llama2-13B, DeepFloyd IF, LLaVA1.5-13B, GPT-4V, and the open-source graphics renderer Skia. It was developed by 12 researchers at Microsoft Research Asia and Peking University. It allows those without graphic design training or expertise to generate high-quality designs on par with trained professionals.
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Nvidia has seen a fairly meteoric rise in its share price and notoriety in the last few years. From selling chips to gamers to providing the rails that the AI revolution runs on. This profile on Nvidia's CEO, Jensen Huang, provides a deeper look into the person behind the success.
Last week, CZ, founder of Binance, pleaded guilty to money laundering violations, and the firm is being fined $4bn. This article provides an interesting teardown of Binance’s rise, the regulatory borders it flirted with, and how global regulators allowed the shenanigans to go on for so long.
The number of startups that have raised >$10m now going out of business has increased 238% in 2023 versus last year, and we still have a month to go. This record pace of shutdowns will likely continue until the end of 2024.
A collection of articles that walks through a step-by-step approach to raising funding. From putting in the work before your pre-seed, building the perfect deck, and negotiating on a term sheet.
Here are a few ideas on how to help the sales team make 2024 your best year so far.
Ramp’s former Head of Growth, Sri Batchu, had to get inventive and explore growth strategies outside of PLG, owing to their product being heavily regulated and unfit for self-serve. Here’s a breakdown of those tactics, which include referral loops, SEO optimizations, and building bridges between your engineering and sales teams.
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Ebi Atawodi is the Director of Product Management at YouTube, former Head of Product at Uber, and a former Director of Product at Netflix. In this podcast, she talks through the various components of successful product management, from how to run a strategy session to building your vision statement.
While automation will likely be the way of the future, today, it’s all about augmenting your existing processes/self without having to rip and replace everything. Don’t fall into the trap of just augmenting yourself to do your job better - thinking through what and how to automate things and viewing your role holistically will allow you to find the best use of AI for your needs.
It’s really just one thing: complexity. However, going into the details of that is important. Deals should be straightforward and fair (both ways).
Charlie Munger passed away on the 29th of November. Here are some of his top quotes, a lot of which stress the importance of keeping things simple and consistently sticking to something for a long time.
Requests for your time and energy increase as you start to build some reasonable success as a founder. Learning the art of saying no and being ruthlessly focused on a defined vision is the antidote to distraction.
Balancing your team’s focus on workflow improvements v. product capabilities can be the difference between a solid quarter and a year of cleanup. This post is focused on more mature organizations and team leaders looking to manage the balancing act.
Jason Parker discovered that witness lists and testimony, mental health evaluations, trade secrets, and other court records were publicly accessible in unredacted form by court records systems in five different states. Parker alleged that some of the vulnerabilities were as simple as incrementing a record number. In this article, Parker details the responses received from the various court systems that vary from open communication to refusal to fix the vulnerabilities.
Staples announced that it has taken proactive steps to mitigate cybersecurity risks and protect customer data. Employees reported a disruption to internal tools and online order fulfillment has been delayed. BleepingComputer attests that no ransomware was deployed and no files have been encrypted.
Hundreds of consumer and enterprise-grade x86 and ARM models from various vendors, including Intel, Acer, and Lenovo, are potentially vulnerable to bootkits and takeover. ‘LogoFAIL’ reveals significant security vulnerabilities in the image parsing libraries used by nearly all BIOS vendors to display logo images during boot.
This blog post delves into the relationship between frontend development and cybersecurity by exploring challenges, best practices, and successful implementations. The goal is to guide developers in navigating the complexities of building a secure frontend without compromising the user experience.
In this blog post, Gitlab talks about how their red team conducts security exercises that simulate real-world threats to assess and improve the effectiveness of the organization's security measures. The team uses open-source command and control (C2) tools, such as the Mythic framework, to customize and combine different open-source options to evade detection.
This blog post from AWS presents a method for using Jupyter notebooks to document incident response processes, with executable snippets. Using Jupyter notebooks for IR playbooks can aid in making more readable code for analysts as well as standardizing analysis and response. The blog post also contains a tutorial for creating a Jupyter notebook for IR in AWS using Sagemaker.
kubectl-iam4sa is a command line program for debugging IAM roles for Kubernetes service accounts. The tool requires the user to have access to the Kubernetes cluster, AWS IAM, and AWS CloudTrail.
open-appsec builds on machine learning to provide preemptive web app & API threat protection against OWASP-Top-10 and zero-day attacks. It can be deployed as an add-on to Kubernetes Ingress, NGINX, and API Gateways.
OWASP Threat Dragon is a free, open-source, cross-platform threat modeling application. It is used to draw threat modeling diagrams and to list threats for elements in the diagram.