Web3 entertainment platform Playbux is planning to raise $150,000 via a token sale. It will allow pre-listing access to its engaged users through a fair community offering, managed by crypto investment platform Raiser. This novel fundraising method works by ranking users for investment opportunities based on their platform activity. Aiming to circumvent the fraud risk inherent in ICOs, this method offers an alternative community-driven fund-raising mechanism.
Messari CEO Ryan Selkis unveiled his annual crypto market predictions with his 2024 thesis, spotlighting potential trends and key players to watch. Highlights include increased crypto VC activity, the rise of DePIN (storage, compute, wireless) projects, and significant progress for privacy projects. Selkis also lists his top 10 people and projects to watch. He predicts an evolutionary leap in Bitcoin's security model and advocates for increased on-chain privacy to preserve user rights. He also details promising rollup chains' tokens and highlights the ongoing wallet war in crypto.
Dymension, making headlines for its aforementioned airdrop, is developing a new technology called 'RollApps' that combines the best features of Cosmos SDK and Ethereum EVM to scale modular blockchains. In modular chains, different specialized chains handle execution, settlement, consensus, and data availability. This post details how RollApps provide more optionality and scalability than traditional monolithic chains.
This article discusses vampire attacks as capital-efficient go-to-market strategies that reward usage of other pre-existing platforms with tokens. This reward system, exemplified by NFT marketplace Blur, has proven successful in overcoming the network cold-start problem. The author hypothesizes about the possibility of using this strategy to disrupt non-crypto platforms, provided they satisfy certain conditions, and provides examples of disruptable platforms like Chess.com, Stack Overflow, and Tinder.
This blog post from Fred Wilson, a renowned crypto VC, goes over his predictions for 2024 as they relate to web3 and AI. Wilson anticipates more regulatory clarity for web3 technologies, driving increased adoption of dapps. While he expects the crypto industry to show strength and gain traction this year, he still thinks that VC funding will remain muted for the time being.
Michael Saylor of MicroStrategy is selling $216 million of his individually owned MSTR shares to buy more Bitcoin personally and ‘meet financial obligations’.
On the back of over $2 billion in funds being stolen through hacks and exploits in 2023, Orbit Chain announced that it had been exploited for $81 million in a hack.
Drake has announced Stake's two-year naming sponsorship of the Sauber F1 team, rebranded as the Stake F1 Team, continuing his promotion of the crypto gambling site.
US prosecutors dropped the eighth charge against SBF, citing prior trial evidence and public interest in a prompt case resolution.
The Porsche Design System provides fundamentals and elements for efficiently creating aesthetic and high-quality web applications, including easy-to-use Figma and UX Pin libraries, coded Web Components, and comprehensive usage guidelines.
Telegram is releasing a new update that brings redesigned voice and video calls with animated backgrounds that change dynamically depending on the call status: ringing, active, or ended, and a revamped delete animation. The new UI looks better and has increased performance since it is less resource-intensive.
Design Week will cease publication in January and take its website offline. Published in 1986, it's the UK's first weekly magazine aimed at designers and their clients. It became a digital-only publication in 2011.
Senior designers should improve their work with developers by not leaving anything to assumptions and using auto-layout to design like a developer. They need to learn to wear multiple hats, put more effort into detailed UI, explore using different fonts, and reduce things as much as possible.
2024.01.03·chankarunaratne.medium.com·5 min read·TLDR Design Design plays a vital role in Airbnb, promoting community and connection instead of isolation and separation. Charlie Aufmann shares his insights from his time at Airbnb, including the need to design for first impressions, the importance of reputation, and how to employ disclosure effectively.
Andrea Pacheco joined Apple in 2021. She summarizes her life-changing experience with the company in this article. Through her work as a product designer, she learned to put passion into every collaborative effort, tell stories as part of any shared work, focus on big wins, and devote adequate time and attention to mastering her craft.
UX Dictionary is a community-built dictionary that helps you understand UX.
Ensure your Figma designs are polished and stakeholder-ready every time, saving you from potential revisions and boosting your design confidence.
React Aria is a collection of over 40 components with built-in behavior, adaptive interactions, top-tier accessibility, and internationalization out of the box, ready for your styles.
One of the most significant differences between Western and Eastern societies is how people view things — Western nations focus more on individual objects, while Eastern ones look more holistically. The latter are faster in dealing with high amounts of information on information-rich pages.
The synchronous, multiplayer web is brand new, and the design space around it still needs to be explored. Current solutions feel obtrusive. Ambient co-presence is sharing a space or context with others without directly interacting or continuously communicating with them.
Although many new technologies are coming out, UX won't change as much as you might think since most changes are surface-level. Keeping your skills up-to-date requires hands-on testing using new technologies so you can always stay current.
2024.01.03·jakobnielsenphd.substack.com·5 min read·TLDR Design Jambot is a virtual assistant based on the ChatGPT API directly integrated into FigJam. It's beneficial for generating ideas, doing cursory research, and learning about areas outside your expertise. Additionally, this post covers the tool's limitations so you can get the most out of it.
This page collects all the familiar navigation patterns for structuring iOS apps, including structural, overlay, and embedded navigation. Combined with Apple's Human Interface Guidelines, it's an excellent resource to enhance your iOS user interfaces.
Participating in UX design conferences is a great way to learn and network. The Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF) has compiled a global list of UX design conferences to help you take your UX design career to the next level in 2024.
2024.01.03·interaction-design.org·10 min read·TLDR Design This article shares the results from 2023 and makes predictions for 2024. The market is set to grow now that rates may be falling and inflation is in check. This means good things for the IPO and M&A markets but don’t hold your breath for 2021 numbers.
Nothing like a fantastic cross-section of 2024 predictions. This time, with a boatload more data than the first two. Great read with lots of sections you can skim if you want to hit something that piques your interest.
The article delves into the varied perspectives and concerns of different generations as they navigate the return to office work.
Freemium isn’t really a pricing model, it’s a GTM one. It’s an accelerant to capturing leads and useful when you fully understand how to convert those leads into paying customers. This article deep-dives on the topic, sharing lessons learned from switching on freemium.
Balderton Capital produced this comprehensive guide for B2B founders on effective sales strategies a while ago, but the content is still relevant today. Sharing as a timely reminder of best practices ahead of what will hopefully be a better year in 2024 for sales.
Gain insights from feedback to make data-driven decisions.
Safeguard your ads and website from fake and harmful traffic.
Create a free countdown timer to embed on emails and promotions.
Exactly what the title says but with some commentary to back it up. Always good to keep in the back of your mind as a founder.
Getting the Crunchbase take on 2024 is always a good idea and this deep-dive is as good as the next. It also adds some weight to the other predictions in this volume of TLDR Founders as it aligns nicely.
A look back at the “What Will Happen in 2023” post that Fred Wilson did as well as some perspective on what did happen and its impact. Hopefully the last of our 2023 to 2024 posts we’ll be sharing.
An in-depth take, complete with data, on why LTV to CAC is no bueno when it comes to utilizing as a SaaS metric.
The story of Flickr often gets lost in the noise of a post-social media Internet. However, it was a great product that was born from a failed startup much like Twitter was. Its “success” in selling to Yahoo! was short-lived as the opportunity was likely much, much larger.
AI is the juggernaut we all know and love these days. Its impact on SaaS has yet to be determined, so how do you go about mapping a path forward with a new or existing venture? Buckle up and give this a read (or listen).
EasyPark Group, Europe’s largest parking application operator, has disclosed a data breach impacting customer information. Data stolen by hackers includes name, phone number, physical address, email address, and partial IBAN or credit/debit card numbers.
Mortgage servicing firm LoanCare has started informing more than 1.3 million individuals about a data breach impacting their personal information. The attackers have exfiltrated data from FNF’s systems, including personal information such as names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and loan numbers.
Researchers have unveiled new findings surrounding an attack that backdoored iPhones belonging to Kaspersky employees. Operation Triangulation exploited 4 zero days including an undocumented hardware feature which allowed for an unprecedented level of access. The malware was delivered via an iMessage text that kicked off an incredibly complex kill chain that begins with a zero-day in Apple’s TrueType font implementation and includes several other complex techniques.
This blog post explains the class of vulnerabilities known as parser mismatch vulnerabilities. These are caused by two systems parsing data differently. This class of vulnerabilities includes vulnerabilities such as HTTP Request Smuggling and URL parsing vulnerabilities. Examples are included in the post.
This post walks through five different CodeQL queries that can be used to catch potentially serious bugs in the OpenSSL libcrypto API that can cause memory leaks, authentication bypasses, and other cryptographic issues. It encourages developers and code reviewers to use tools like CodeQL to build and share queries to secure their code.
The God Mode Security Rules Repository is dedicated to hosting “god mode” rules that can detect as many threats as possible with minimal false positives. It currently contains a YARA rule with a Sigma rule in progress.
This suite of tools helps decrypt data encrypted by the Black Basta group.
Store and retrieve encrypted secrets with PowerShell on Windows, Linux, or macOS and also from KeePass 2 databases on Windows.