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Optimism about the Ethereum ETFs being approved in May has decreased as experts continue to share their opinions. VanEck CEO Jan van Eck stated that he believes the company's ETF application will be rejected in May and CoinShares CEO Jean-Marie Mognetti said he does not think any Proof-of-Stake coins will be approved this year.
a16z has released an open-source code for Jolt, a zero-knowledge virtual machine (zkVM), marking a commitment to deep tech R&D. Jolt, which supports RISC-V ISA and Rust language applications, uses cryptographic techniques to enhance the scalability, speed, and privacy of blockchain operations. This tech can be integrated into zkEVMs and blockchain-based ZK applications.
Franklin Templeton’s Digital Asset Division released a one-page report on EigenLayer. The report introduces the restaking narrative, describing it as a way to secure multiple networks simultaneously and increase the yield from staking ETH. EigenLayer’s immense growth over the past year is attributed to the potential token airdrop to stakers. It has captured over 1% of the total ETH supply with over 2 million ETH restaked in the protocol.
Much like how broadband revolutionized the utility of the internet, Layer 2 scaling solutions have brought new possibilities for blockchain applications. This article expands on how Arbitrum, a portfolio company, is leading the L2 landscape in terms of total value locked, revenue share, and developer activity. It also covers other stories, including how UNI’s fee switch legitimizes token value, regulatory updates, and debunks arguments about the death of crypto.
Christie's inaugural auction for Bitcoin Ordinals will showcase the "Ordinal Maxi Biz" collection curated by ZK Shark. Bidding will be open from April 9 to 16 on the Christie's website. The sale reflects the growing cultural significance of Ordinals in the web3 and digital art space.
Arthur Hayes, chief investment officer at Maelstrom and co-founder and former CEO of BitMEX, recounts personal experiences of missed opportunities and unexpected market resilience in the face of anticipated downturns. Drawing parallels between skiing and trading, the narrative explores financial strategies and predictions, ultimately choosing caution in trading activities until potentially more favorable conditions emerge in May.
Instead of basing a token on a meme, creators could focus on specific projects or groups to generate attention and create utility.
PayPal USD, a stablecoin issued by PayPal and Paxos, experienced a 38% drop in market cap in March, falling from ~$304 million in February to $188.5 million.
Monad Labs, an EVM-compatible alt-L1, aims to improve transaction throughput - it claims to have processed about 10,000 transactions per second (TPS) in its testnet phase, compared to Ethereum's TPS of ~20.
The token will be distributed with an initial airdrop to users and communities, giving recipients the chance to participate in governance, stake, and trade.
The LEGO Group's new brand identity, influenced by its heritage of fostering creativity through play, merges existing elements with comic book-inspired graphics to create a cohesive design system. Developed with Interbrand, it emphasizes storytelling, playfulness, and simplicity, aiming to maintain the brand's global appeal while remaining consistent and innovative.
The new version of Google's enhanced image-generating tool, Imagen 2, has been launched inside the Vertex AI developer platform. The model family can create and edit images with text prompts, similar to OpenAI's DALL-E and Midjourney. With Imagen 2, users can now remove unwanted parts of an image, add new elements, and expand an image's borders to create a wider field of view. As part of the upgrade, users can create "text-to-live images," which are short, four-second videos from text prompts.
Adobe has revamped Frame.io, incorporating extensive workflow and tagging features to simplify project management for creatives. It will be rolled out first for Free and Pro users, with team/enterprise updates expected later in the year. The update introduces a customizable metadata framework for organizing media and enhances the review process with detailed feedback options, including emoji reactions and anchored comments.
A comprehensive approach to building a cohesive and scalable design system, from laying the groundwork and aligning with company goals to defining design foundations and creating reusable components. By utilizing tools like Figma, teams can ensure consistency across products, streamline workflows, and maintain a shared design language to improve design practices steadily.
Andrea Burgueño and Izzi Cain, co-leads of the Service Design Guild at IBM, have advanced the company's service design practice and mindset. They focus on holistic experiences and employee-customer interactions to deliver delightful products. Through education, cross-collaboration, and the adaptation of service design frameworks, they aim to scale the impact within IBM. They are exploring the integration of AI tools to further this goal.
Attention to detail results in unique, beautiful, and memorable products. Nonetheless, the rush to ship fast and constantly makes it difficult to focus on user experience details. Yet, we must find time to make our products special and unique and, most importantly, consider the customer's journey.
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The medium has always influenced typographic design. Designers are now exploring new frontiers in type design, particularly in spatial computing and AR/VR, ushering in an era of experimental typography to redefine how typography is experienced and engaged with.
By critically examining Personas, we can see their value and more problematic consequences. We can overcome the limitations of traditional personas and celebrate the full spectrum of human diversity by embracing frameworks like JTBD and Empathy Maps and encouraging continuous user exploration and awareness, ensuring that every user feels seen, understood, and valued in the products we design.
Assumptions can make you move faster, but the problem is that they’re not based on facts. In some situations, it is more effective to turn ideas into hypotheses, which serve as starting points for proving or disproving a position. Translating assumptions into hypotheses reduces risk and enables you to build a learning process.
Project commissioned by DeepMind that features interpretations by 13 artists on key themes in AI, aiming to demystify complex concepts through over 100 dynamic images and animations.
Using icons enables information to be conveyed quickly, universally, and memorably as they exploit our brain's ability to process visual information quickly.
Responsive images in web design fluidly adjust within CSS layouts based on properties like width, height, and aspect ratio to suit different viewport sizes.
Poor marketing pipeline performance and slower sales velocity in 2023 are predictive of soft revenue growth in 2024 if companies don't make changes. The majority of companies across SMB, mid-market, and enterprise segments missed their revenue targets in 2023, with those that cut GTM funding suffering the most.
Google Cloud Next 2024, held in Las Vegas, featured numerous announcements focused on AI, devops, security, and cloud technologies. Key highlights included AI-powered tools for app database management, a focus on data sovereignty partnerships, generative AI security products, the Gemini Code Assist tool, Nvidia's Blackwell platform coming to Google Cloud, updates to Google Workspace, the enhanced Imagen 2 tool, and Google's first custom Arm processor, Axion.
Common pitfalls VC-backed companies fall into include losing focus on essential business growth and sustainability due to the pressure of meeting VC expectations and milestones. It is important to maintain a balance between using VC funds for growth and retain the creativity and frugality of a bootstrapped company. Metric tunnel vision can be dangerous. Focus on real, profitable business practices.
Sequoia presents a framework for understanding product-market fit (PMF) based on three distinct archetypes: "Hair on Fire" (solving an urgent, obvious need in a crowded market), "Hard Fact" (solving a problem customers have accepted as a fact of life), and "Future Vision" (enabling a new reality through visionary innovation). The path a company takes depends on how customers relate to the problem being solved, and each path requires different operating priorities to succeed, with legendary companies often evolving through multiple paths as they introduce new products over time.
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In this interview, Bob Moore, CEO of Crossbeam, discusses his new book "Ecosystem-Led Growth" and how leveraging partner data and relationships can significantly improve customer acquisition, account expansion, and access to new markets. He emphasizes the importance of operationalizing ecosystem data across the entire go-to-market team, not just the partnerships team, and shares insights from his experiences as a three-time founder, highlighting the potential of ecosystem-qualified leads and the role of proprietary data in the age of AI.
This article provides advice on how to prepare for and handle board meetings effectively. It emphasizes the importance of regularly monitoring key metrics, comparing performance against forecasts, proactively communicating bad news, and presenting information concisely to the board.
This article discusses the concept of a "rebuilding year" in professional sports, where teams trade their best players for future prospects, and applies this framework to businesses deciding whether to focus on current growth or future investments. Companies should carefully consider factors such as their growth rate, market opportunities, and available resources when deciding whether to prioritize winning today or building for tomorrow. Have explicit conversations with the team and board to ensure everyone agrees on the chosen strategy.
VCs are currently focusing their investments on AI, standout SaaS deals, and seed deals with strong teams or innovative products, despite a general downturn in venture funding.
The concept of Jevons paradox states that when a resource becomes more efficient, its consumption tends to increase rather than decrease.
Product managers and designers working with AI face the challenge of designing a delightful product experience that cannot be fully predicted due to the non-deterministic nature of ML models.
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Orca’s 2024 State of Cloud Security Report [3] highlights risks found in actual production environments, based on data captured from billions of cloud assets [3] on all major public cloud providers. The researchers found that basic security practices are still lacking [3]. Even more troubling, many risks reside on exposed and public assets — for example, 21% of organizations [3] store sensitive data in a public-facing storage bucket.
Hackers are exploiting vulnerabilities in 92,000 D-Link devices to take control remotely. The vulnerabilities exist in end-of-life devices no longer supported by the manufacturer. Users should update firmware or replace outdated hardware to protect against these attacks.
Microsoft fixed two actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in the latest Patch Tuesday, addressing malware attacks. One vulnerability involved a malicious driver signed with a valid Microsoft certificate, while the other bypassed a security feature to deploy malware on Windows systems.
Hackers have been leveraging hijacked Facebook accounts to impersonate legitimate AI services like MidJourney and OpenAI’s SORA to trick users into installing malware. The pages utilize Facebook ads that pushed communities that supposedly allowed members to test new features but instead posted links to download malware masquerading as beta versions of the software. One particularly successful campaign operated a MidJourney page that amassed 1.2 million members over nearly a year.
This post discusses the history and evolving threat of vulnerable drivers in Windows operating systems, highlighting the need for monitoring and prevention strategies. Microsoft recommends a defense-in-depth approach that leverages technologies like Memory Integrity, Smart App Control, and the Vulnerable Driver Block List to enhance security against driver-based attacks.
This technical blog post details the vulnerabilities and exploits that led to the discovery of issues in CD Projekt Red's GOG Galaxy 2.0 gaming platform related to Denial-of-Service and Local Privilege Escalation (assigned CVE IDs 2023-50915 and 2023-50914). It highlights the risks associated with insecure interactions within the platform. The vulnerabilities involve inter-process communication and filesystem manipulation and can lead to potential exploitation for impactful attacks.
A tutorial from AWS on how to create security events for testing IR playbooks. The solution generates findings for a list of included CVEs that can be detected for GuardDuty, Inspector, or sent to a SIEM. AWS recommends that these should be run in a dedicated, sandboxed environment as a purple-teaming exercise.
Wiz maintains a database of cloud-focused incidents, actors, tools, and techniques. The website uses a collection of database tables that are filterable and it can also be subscribed via RSS feed.
gram is Klarna's locally hostable threat model diagramming tool. It is a webapp for engineers to collaboratively create threat models for their systems, providing an accessible way to document a system as a data flow diagram with threats and controls attached. The repository has a quickstart section to step through setting up the tool.