10 Most Actively Developed Crypto Projects
Data from santiment. Their methodology is elaborated here. Development is measured via Github events, which are defined here. 10. Filecoin – FILFilecoin is an open-source decentralized
Tokenized Communities: The Beginning
Crypto has already revolutionized finance. Crypto is revolutionizing art. And crypto is revolutionizing community. We already know about many ways in which Web3 is pushing
Nimbus + Nethermind: Kintsugi tutorial
Diagram courtesy of Mikhail Kalinin's Engine API design space document. Note that this diagram dates from the Amphora era, and so is not strictly accurate.
Nimbus: Execution Layer
While client diversity is crucial to a resilient Ethereum, it alone would not warrant such a huge engineering effort on our part. Our high level vision, and the main reason we're rolling our own execution layer client, is for easy and seamless integration with Status - both desktop and mobile.
A wallet is a profile
The concept of a wallet is deeply entrenched in the culture of cryptocurrency, investing, trading, DeFi, Web3. It is a requirement for participation, after all,
Zero-Knowledge Proofs II: Web3
It's scaling season. The year of scaling. The decade of the scale. Thanks to modularity, coordination, and the ceaseless innovation of Web3 builders, the scalability
v1.17 Release - Private Profile Pics, Faster
Status v1.17 introduces private profile pictures, messenger and wallet improvements, and of course, lots of bug fixes. Get your new Status here. Chat ImprovementsImages
Zero-Knowledge Proofs I: Intro
What is a zero-knowledge proof?Consider a login page. To log into your account, you typically provide a username, to identify yourself, and a password,
Modular Ethereum
The cryptocurrency landscape has, in recent history, been dominated by monolithic blockchains. That is, blockchains that attempt to handle all of the responsibilities of execution,
Nimbus update - Pre-merge interop!
Nimbus is nearing merge readiness. We have passed all the merge spec tests. And while we're waiting for a compatible execution client, we have everything you need to start experimenting on the consensus side.
Town Hall #79 - September 27, 2021
Here's a recap of our Town Hall for this month—we've got updates from People Ops, Mobile, Growth & Retention, Security & Infrastructure, Keycard, Vac,
Crypto as a Public Good: Privacy
That the individual shall have full protection in person and in property is a principle as old as the common law; but it has been
v1.16 Release - EIP-1559 is here!
Status v1.16 introduces EIP-1559 support; wallet, keycard, and chat improvements; and lots of bug fixes. Get your new Status here. Update in the App
The importance of client diversity in the run up to the merge
Note that Nimbus tends towards privacy by default making it harder for crawlers to detect it - nevertheless, the magnitude of the skewed client distribution
Why discourse on Twitter is awful
[T]here's a widespread belief that existing social media platforms suck, and that we need better ones. And this is true for different reasons: centralized