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FRANKFURT, Germany, November 20th, 2024/Chainwire/--KYVE is entering its expansion era, introducing an enhanced web app packed with new features and collaborations to support users and unlock multi-network potential. From experienced developers to crypto newcomers, the platform aims to make it easier for users to jump in, contribute, and benefit as part of KYVE's mission to make blockchain data accessible to all. The latest updates are meant to make it easier for users of all levels to engage with KYVE’s ecosystem, fostering cross-network collaboration and data support across diverse blockchain platforms. What’s New? Staking and Participation in KYVE’s Network: The KYVE web app now features an in-app guide designed to facilitate staking of $KYVE. Participants may receive rewards in $KYVE as well as in other tokens integrated into the KYVE protocol. This feature supports a diverse range of opportunities for stakers and validators, contributing to broader participation in the KYVE ecosystem.
What is backing this? KYVE’s multi-coin funding feature and Public Goods Funding Program already partnered with SOURCE Protocol, Andromeda, a dYdX grant, Lava Network, and others to come. “We're proud to support KYVE Network in permanently archiving all historical dYdX data and further streamlining data accessibility for ecosystem participants!” – dYdX Grants on X. __https://www.youtube.com/embed/LpdwF8RVJnA__ Testing with Mainnet Faucets: KYVE’s newly introduced faucets allow users to test the platform’s features in a low-commitment environment. Whether they're exploring staking or running a validator, these faucets are designed to make it easier for new users to experiment and get comfortable before fully committing. One-Stop Access with Kado and Skip: Integrated directly into the KYVE web app, Kado and Skip simplify the process of swapping or purchasing $KYVE, removing entry barriers and making it easier for users to start participating in KYVE’s network. What This Means for Users With these new features, KYVE is unlocking a wide range of opportunities for users to support the future of blockchain data scalability while earning rewards across multiple networks. The updated web app is designed to accommodate both experienced blockchain developers and newcomers, KYVE’s new web app enhancements are designed to support contributions to the platform’s mission of preserving historical chain data while providing value to participants. As KYVE expands its solutions to more ecosystems, the focus remains on providing streamlined access, empowering users to play an active role in supporting blockchain scalability and data preservation. KYVE is dedicated to ensuring that all blockchains receive the data support they need to thrive and that all types of users can take part in this mission. About KYVE KYVE Network is a decentralized data management solution that provides specialized tools for data archiving, validating, and accessing blockchain data. KYVE's protocol ensures that only accurate historical data from a blockchain is made immutable and easily accessible for all. As a result, KYVE allows other chains to decentralize their historical data and overall data accessibility management and provides essential tooling to access this data, enabling enhanced scalability of chains and ecosystem development. KYVE is one of the most supported blockchains in the space, backed by Arweave, Ava Labs, Solana Foundation, Interchain Foundation, Moonbeam, TheGraph, Parity Technologies, Composable Finance, Zilliqa, Mina Foundation, Aurora, and NEAR Foundation. As well as VCs such as Hypersphere Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Distributed Global, Mechanism Capital, CMS Holdings, IOSG Ventures, and others.‍ Contact Head of Marketing Margaux Stancil KYVE margaux@kyve.network This story was distributed as a release by Chainwire under HackerNoon’s Business Blogging Program. Learn more about the program here FRANKFURT, Germany, November 20th, 2024/Chainwire/--KYVE is entering its expansion era, introducing an enhanced web app packed with new features and collaborations to support users and unlock multi-network potential. From experienced developers to crypto newcomers, the platform aims to make it easier for users to jump in, contribute, and benefit as part of KYVE's mission to make blockchain data accessible to all. FRANKFURT, Germany, November 20th, 2024/Chainwire/--KYVE The latest updates are meant to make it easier for users of all levels to engage with KYVE’s ecosystem , fostering cross-network collaboration and data support across diverse blockchain platforms. engage with KYVE’s ecosystem engage with KYVE’s ecosystem What’s New? Staking and Participation in KYVE’s Network: The KYVE web app now features an in-app guide designed to facilitate staking of $KYVE. Participants may receive rewards in $KYVE as well as in other tokens integrated into the KYVE protocol. This feature supports a diverse range of opportunities for stakers and validators, contributing to broader participation in the KYVE ecosystem. What is backing this? KYVE’s multi-coin funding feature and Public Goods Funding Program already partnered with SOURCE Protocol, Andromeda, a dYdX grant, Lava Network, and others to come. Staking and Participation in KYVE’s Network: The KYVE web app now features an in-app guide designed to facilitate staking of $KYVE. Participants may receive rewards in $KYVE as well as in other tokens integrated into the KYVE protocol. This feature supports a diverse range of opportunities for stakers and validators, contributing to broader participation in the KYVE ecosystem. What is backing this? KYVE’s multi-coin funding feature and Public Goods Funding Program already partnered with SOURCE Protocol, Andromeda, a dYdX grant, Lava Network, and others to come. multi-coin funding multi-coin funding Public Goods Funding Program Public Goods Funding Program “We're proud to support KYVE Network in permanently archiving all historical dYdX data and further streamlining data accessibility for ecosystem participants!” – dYdX Grants on X. “We're proud to support KYVE Network in permanently archiving all historical dYdX data and further streamlining data accessibility for ecosystem participants!” – dYdX Grants on X. dYdX Grants on X. dYdX Grants on X. __ https://www.youtube.com/embed/LpdwF8RVJnA __ https://www.youtube.com/embed/LpdwF8RVJnA Testing with Mainnet Faucets: KYVE’s newly introduced faucets allow users to test the platform’s features in a low-commitment environment. Whether they're exploring staking or running a validator, these faucets are designed to make it easier for new users to experiment and get comfortable before fully committing. Testing with Mainnet Faucets: KYVE’s newly introduced faucets allow users to test the platform’s features in a low-commitment environment. Whether they're exploring staking or running a validator, these faucets are designed to make it easier for new users to experiment and get comfortable before fully committing. faucets faucets One-Stop Access with Kado and Skip: Integrated directly into the KYVE web app, Kado and Skip simplify the process of swapping or purchasing $KYVE, removing entry barriers and making it easier for users to start participating in KYVE’s network. One-Stop Access with Kado and Skip: Integrated directly into the KYVE web app, Kado and Skip simplify the process of swapping or purchasing $KYVE, removing entry barriers and making it easier for users to start participating in KYVE’s network. Kado and Skip Kado and Skip What This Means for Users With these new features, KYVE is unlocking a wide range of opportunities for users to support the future of blockchain data scalability while earning rewards across multiple networks. The updated web app is designed to accommodate both experienced blockchain developers and newcomers, KYVE’s new web app enhancements are designed to support contributions to the platform’s mission of preserving historical chain data while providing value to participants. As KYVE expands its solutions to more ecosystems, the focus remains on providing streamlined access, empowering users to play an active role in supporting blockchain scalability and data preservation. KYVE is dedicated to ensuring that all blockchains receive the data support they need to thrive and that all types of users can take part in this mission. About KYVE KYVE Network is a decentralized data management solution that provides specialized tools for data archiving, validating, and accessing blockchain data. KYVE's protocol ensures that only accurate historical data from a blockchain is made immutable and easily accessible for all. KYVE KYVE As a result, KYVE allows other chains to decentralize their historical data and overall data accessibility management and provides essential tooling to access this data, enabling enhanced scalability of chains and ecosystem development. KYVE is one of the most supported blockchains in the space, backed by Arweave, Ava Labs, Solana Foundation, Interchain Foundation, Moonbeam, TheGraph, Parity Technologies, Composable Finance, Zilliqa, Mina Foundation, Aurora, and NEAR Foundation. As well as VCs such as Hypersphere Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Distributed Global, Mechanism Capital, CMS Holdings, IOSG Ventures, and others.‍ Contact Head of Marketing Margaux Stancil KYVE margaux@kyve.network This story was distributed as a release by Chainwire under HackerNoon’s Business Blogging Program. Learn more about the program here This story was distributed as a release by Chainwire under HackerNoon’s Business Blogging Program. Learn more about the program here here here

Fueling KYVE’s Expansion Era: A New Age Of Interoperable Data Opportunities For All

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Impulsando la era de expansión de KYVE: una nueva era de oportunidades de datos interoperables para todos

KYVEren Hedapen Aroa Elikatuz: Guztientzako Datu Interoperagarrien Aukeren Aro Berria

Impulsando a era de expansión de KYVE: unha nova era de oportunidades de datos interoperables para todos

מתדלק את עידן ההתרחבות של KYVE: עידן חדש של הזדמנויות נתונים הדדיות לכולם

KYVE の拡大時代を推進: 相互運用可能なデータ機会をすべての人に提供する新時代

ជំរុញយុគសម័យពង្រីករបស់ KYVE៖ យុគសម័យថ្មីនៃឱកាសទិន្នន័យដែលអាចធ្វើអន្តរកម្មសម្រាប់ទាំងអស់គ្នា

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Vienna, September 25th, 2024 – Morpher GmbH, a blockchain trading platform for stocks, cryptos, forex, indices and unique markets such as sneakers and watches, has released an open source data oracle to improve access to reliable trading data. A blockchain oracle is a way of bringing data into a blockchain from external sources, including other blockchains. The oracles currently available suffer from the following problems: they have limited data availability, are not actually real-time, and have to battle licensing problems or usability problems (e.g. pull oracle data is visible before its being used). Oracles represent a single point of failure: if one of the currently available oracles goes down, so do all their feeds. This leaves blockchain applications depending on real-world data at a distinct disadvantage against regular platforms. To combat these shortcomings, Morpher’s Oracle has been built as an open source protocol, with multiple data sources aggregated. This allows for an increase in speed, accuracy, and reliability of data, which is a necessity for every settlement platform to operate. The Morpher Oracle comes in two flavors: a pull basedon-chain attestation data-service and a novel intent based oracle for EVM based chains. Both will include Data Feeds for US Equities, Commodities, Forex, and Crypto from the launch. The data is available in real-time, trustable, and able to be licensed to partners/developers. Morpher’s CEO Martin Froehler stated “Existing oracles could not power a real-time trading platform like Morpher. So we developed our own next generation, multi-sourced oracle which we are now making available to other projects on Radix and EVM chains.” Thomas Wiesner, Morpher’s CTO shares his vision for the oracle as "Our vision for the Morpher Oracle is to have the dev community continue to grow its robustness, adding more data streams, increasing the number of chains and further expanding the use cases past what we can currently imagine. We want to give a new tool to bring even more trust into blockchain." “We are super excited to see the release of the Morpher oracle live on Radix and available to use from today onwards - Morpher’s stack has already proven to be incredibly flexible and I look forward to what can be built, using their many data feeds, on Radix in the coming months.”
-Piers Ridyard, CEO of RDX Works Available to use today for all developers and see how quickly and accurately the Radix coin price is shown in USD. About Morpher Morpher, headquartered in Vienna, Austria, has been at the cutting edge of decentralized finance since 2018. The platform empowers users to trade virtual copies of real-world financial markets using its proprietary protocol and MPH token. Supported by prominent investors like Tim Draper, Morpher is dedicated to making global financial markets universally accessible. For more information, visit https://www.morpher.com/new. PR Contact Nick Stein Head of Growth nick@morpher.com +436603172205 Vienna, September 25th, 2024 – Morpher GmbH , a blockchain trading platform for stocks, cryptos, forex, indices and unique markets such as sneakers and watches, has released an open source data oracle to improve access to reliable trading data. Vienna, September 25th, 2024 Morpher GmbH Morpher GmbH open source data oracle open source data oracle A blockchain oracle is a way of bringing data into a blockchain from external sources, including other blockchains. The oracles currently available suffer from the following problems: they have limited data availability, are not actually real-time, and have to battle licensing problems or usability problems (e.g. pull oracle data is visible before its being used). Oracles represent a single point of failure: if one of the currently available oracles goes down, so do all their feeds. This leaves blockchain applications depending on real-world data at a distinct disadvantage against regular platforms. To combat these shortcomings, Morpher’s Oracle has been built as an open source protocol, with multiple data sources aggregated. This allows for an increase in speed, accuracy, and reliability of data, which is a necessity for every settlement platform to operate. The Morpher Oracle comes in two flavors: a pull basedon-chain attestation data-service and a novel intent based oracle for EVM based chains. Both will include Data Feeds for US Equities, Commodities, Forex, and Crypto from the launch. The data is available in real-time, trustable, and able to be licensed to partners/developers. Morpher’s CEO Martin Froehler stated “Existing oracles could not power a real-time trading platform like Morpher. So we developed our own next generation, multi-sourced oracle which we are now making available to other projects on Radix and EVM chains.” Thomas Wiesner, Morpher’s CTO shares his vision for the oracle as "Our vision for the Morpher Oracle is to have the dev community continue to grow its robustness, adding more data streams, increasing the number of chains and further expanding the use cases past what we can currently imagine. We want to give a new tool to bring even more trust into blockchain." “We are super excited to see the release of the Morpher oracle live on Radix and available to use from today onwards - Morpher’s stack has already proven to be incredibly flexible and I look forward to what can be built, using their many data feeds, on Radix in the coming months.” -Piers Ridyard, CEO of RDX Works “We are super excited to see the release of the Morpher oracle live on Radix and available to use from today onwards - Morpher’s stack has already proven to be incredibly flexible and I look forward to what can be built, using their many data feeds, on Radix in the coming months.” -Piers Ridyard, CEO of RDX Works Available to use today for all developers and see how quickly and accurately the Radix coin price is shown in USD. About Morpher Morpher, headquartered in Vienna, Austria, has been at the cutting edge of decentralized finance since 2018. The platform empowers users to trade virtual copies of real-world financial markets using its proprietary protocol and MPH token. Supported by prominent investors like Tim Draper, Morpher is dedicated to making global financial markets universally accessible. For more information, visit https://www.morpher.com/new. https://www.morpher.com/new . https://www.morpher.com/new PR Contact Nick Stein Head of Growth nick@morpher.com nick@morpher.com nick@morpher.com +436603172205

Blockchain Trading Platform Morpher Releases  Open Source Data Oracle

La plataforma de comerç de Blockchain Morpher llança Oracle de dades de codi obert

La plataforma de comercio blockchain Morpher publica datos de código abierto de Oracle

A Morpher Blockchain Kereskedelmi Platform kiadja a nyílt forráskódú Oracle-t

ブロックチェーン取引プラットフォームMorpherがオープンソースデータOracleをリリース

ბლოკჩეინ სავაჭრო პლატფორმა Morpher ავრცელებს ღია კოდის მონაცემთა Oracle-ს

Blockchain Trading Platform Morpher Oracle ачык булак маалыматтарын чыгарат

Blockchain Trading Platform Morpher Oracle-ийн нээлттэй эхийн өгөгдлийг гаргажээ

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Blockchain Trading Platform Morpher විවෘත මූලාශ්‍ර දත්ත ඔරකල් නිකුත් කරයි

Blockchain Trading Platform Morpher wuxuu siidaayaa Xogta Oracle Isha Furan

Blockchain Ticaret Platformu Morpher Açık Kaynaklı Veri Oracle'ı Yayınladı

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Today, privacy is increasingly at risk, and restrictions are common; it's vital to have tools that keep us safe and anonymous online. Proxies and Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are two such tools that play a crucial role. They help hide our identity, encrypt our data, and even let us access content that might otherwise be blocked. But they're not just about staying hidden – they also have complex technical aspects, like how they encrypt information and route internet traffic. This article dives into the details of proxies and VPNs, explaining how they work in simple terms and showing how they can help us navigate the web more securely. Proxies and VPNs Proxies and VPNs stand as essential intermediaries, but their roles and functionalities are different. Proxies are between users and the internet, intercepting and forwarding requests from the user's device to online resources. 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By ensuring that all DNS requests are routed through the VPN tunnel, this feature prevents DNS leaks that could compromise user privacy by inadvertently revealing their browsing activity to third parties. Use Cases, Why People Choose Proxies and VPNs Proxies and VPNs serve diverse purposes for the needs of individual users, businesses, and organizations. Accessing Geo-Restricted Content One of the primary reasons people turn to proxies and VPNs is to access geo-restricted content. For example, imagine a user residing in a country where certain streaming services or websites are inaccessible due to regional restrictions. By leveraging a VPN or proxy, the user can route their internet traffic through servers located in other regions, effectively bypassing geo-blocks and gaining access to the desired content. Security Another crucial aspect is enhancing online security. Proxies and VPNs encrypt internet traffic, thereby protecting sensitive data from interception and eavesdropping. 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By concealing their IP address, users can thwart attempts by websites and 3rd parties to track their online activities or pinpoint their geographic location. Encrypting Data VPNs employ robust encryption protocols to secure all data transmitted between the user's device and the VPN server. By encrypting this data, VPNs ensure confidentiality and integrity, thwarting attempts by malicious attackers to intercept or tamper with sensitive information. This encryption is particularly crucial when using public Wi-Fi networks, where the risk of data interception is heightened. Using Proxies and VPNs System Configuration Deploying proxies or VPNs begins with configuring them across different devices and platforms to secure all network traffic effectively. This involves: Install and configure proxy or VPN client software on computers to establish encrypted connections and route internet traffic through designated servers. Users can customize settings such as server selection, encryption protocols, and privacy features to tailor their experience. PCs and Laptops: Configure proxies or VPNs directly on routers to extend security and privacy protection to all devices connected to the network. This centralized approach ensures that all network traffic, including IoT devices and smart appliances, is encrypted and routed through the proxy or VPN server. Routers: Install and configure proxy or VPN applications on smartphones to safeguard data transmissions and protect privacy while on the go. Mobile users can enjoy seamless access to geo-restricted content and enhanced security features, such as automatic Wi-Fi protection and ad blocking. Mobile Devices: Application Integration Integrating proxies or VPNs into applications and web browsers Many applications and web browsers offer built-in support for proxies or VPNs, allowing users to configure and enable these services directly within the application settings. This simplifies the setup process and ensures that all application traffic is encrypted and routed through the proxy or VPN server while other traffic goes using your direct connection or other proxies and VPNs. Built-in Support: Users can install plug-ins or extensions to enable this functionality. They provide additional customization options and may offer features such as automatic connection on startup or per-tab proxy routing. Plug-ins and Extensions: If you want to learn more about privacy and anonymity online, read and follow or for posts and updates on these topics. my article about digital fingerprints me on LinkedIn here

Proxies, VPNs: Your Online Privacy, Anonymity and More

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Phone numbers tend to max out at ten digits. Bank accounts at roughly 12. But step into the Web3 realm, and your identity is tied to a 40-character wallet address. Naturally, weaving it into everyday transactions isn’t exactly user-friendly and offers room for error—a challenge Ethereum Name Service ( ) has been addressing since 2017. ENS Operating as an open-source protocol, ENS converts these complex addresses into simpler identifiers, such as “terezabb.eth.” Having already registered over 2 million of them on-chain, ENS has established itself as the naming gold standard in the decentralized space. And this week, it’s getting an interesting upgrade. By partnering with GoDaddy, a popular domain registry, ENS will of Domain Name System (DNS) profiles with .eth names, all without any gas fees. This means that GoDaddy users can obtain an ENS equivalent and vice versa, creating a bridge between Web2 and Web3 identities. enable the integration Towards “the next billion.” DNS is a naming database that interprets readable addresses (domain names) into a unique string of numbers known as Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Similarly, ENS simplifies wallet addresses into human-readable names. While it has always been possible to bring domain names over to ENS, high transaction fees have made it difficult. To address this, ENS has introduced new smart contracts that facilitate domain name resolution within ENS at the DNS top-level domain (TLD), offering a more efficient and cost-effective solution. According to , the founder of ENS, connecting the two will streamline the way users interact with web3 domains, blending the familiarity of DNS with the potential of blockchain technology. “ENS, much like DNS, is a public good and a core part of the internet infrastructure,” he notes. Nick Johnson As such, the partnership could represent an important step toward mass Web3 adoption. While blockchain technologies have been gaining momentum, the quest to onboard “ ” of users remains central to the ecosystem’s ambitions. The lack of friendly user interfaces (UI) and well-defined value propositions are often considered the biggest barriers. the next billion The ENS-DNS integration has some potential here: The absence of gas fees lowers the barrier to entry, potentially encouraging GoDaddy's to explore Web3 by connecting their DNS domains with ENS. The initiative could play a key role in educating a broader audience about the value and possibilities of blockchain and decentralized technologies, enhancing overall awareness and understanding. 20 million users It's uncertain if DNS users will embrace this new opportunity, but the interest from traditional web businesses in exploring Web3 is undeniable. According to a , more than half of the Fortune 100 companies have engaged with Web3 since 2020, with a significant majority either already involved or planning to dive in soon. Coinbase report Decoding decentralized identities As we look toward the future of the Internet, decentralized identity ( ) is emerging as a critical element. Merging these new Web3 identities with existing Web2 frameworks seems like a compelling strategy to enhance their adoption and utility. DID The infrastructure is more prepared than ever for such advancements, and upcoming Ethereum updates, such as , could further facilitate this transition. Dencun The partnership between ENS and GoDaddy could mark an important step forward, aiming to give users more control over their online identities. Today, our digital identities are split across different platforms, each with its own identifiers. Bringing these together into a single, streamlined system could simplify user control and data ownership, strengthening the foundations of self-sovereignty and privacy. The real challenge, though, is getting everyday internet users to embrace these decentralized identities. Their success hinges on providing a digital experience that's not just secure and private but also widely accessible and user-friendly. Achieving this could pave the way for a more decentralized internet, a shift many are eagerly anticipating.

ENS Meets DNS: A Power Surge for Decentralized Digital Identities?

The presentation below is from Mikhail Lazarev, CTO at Gearbox Protocol. He presented the use cases of Gearbox Protocol in solving challenges with oracles. https://youtu.be/I46OGQDf6E4?embedable=true Below is a glossary of key concepts mentioned during Mikhail’s talk, intended as a supplement to his video presentation. GEARBOX PROTOCOL brings you onchain credit, allowing anyone to margin trade on Uniswap, leverage farm on Curve, leverage stake on Lido, and use 10X more capital on many DeFi protocols you love. Making decentralized leverage a reality thanks to Credit Account abstraction! Gearbox Protocol Gearbox Protocol uses Credit Account abstraction to bring together lending and prime brokerage in the same protocol. Lenders deposit assets to earn passive yield, while the composable leverage side users borrow these assets to create spot leverage positions, which can be used across DeFi. That could be margin trading on Uniswap, farming on Curve and Balancer, leverage staking on Lido and Rocketpool, and a lot more. All of that is made possible with Gearbox’s innovative Credit Account abstraction, creating the base layer of DeFi leverage. CREDIT ACCOUNTS Gearbox uses Credit Accounts which are isolated smart contracts with predetermined parameters. Credit Accounts encompass both the user’s funds and the borrowed margin funds. They can be deployed on any DeFi protocol and are designed to be non-custodial, ensuring that users retain ownership of their assets at all times. Users can close the account by paying off the debt or withdrawing any fund remaining. Lenders in this protocol benefit by getting high additional yield and risk tolerance. ORACLES Blockchain oracles act as bridges between the blockchain and external data sources, such as market prices, weather data, sports scores, and more. They collect data from these sources and make it available to smart contracts on the blockchain, allowing these contracts to react to real-world events and conditions. Oracles play a crucial role in enabling blockchain-based applications to interact with the broader world and expand their utility. Oracles can also help to transfer data from one isolated blockchain environment to another, thus enabling cross-chain communication. is one example of an oracle network. It is an open-source protocol with a and runs on the Ethereum Network. Chainlink recently introduced an interoperability protocol, , which is used for cross-chain transactions. Chainlink proof-of-stake consensus mechanism CCIP PRICE ORACLE ATTACK is a form of cybercrime where attackers use flash loans to exploit blockchains due to vulnerabilities in smart contracts. It is one of the most common attack methods in DeFi. Price oracle attack allow users to borrow funds without the use of collateral. In a flash loan scenario, the borrower is required to repay the loan within the same transaction, or else the smart contract will automatically reverse the entire transaction. Thus, the fund is reverted automatically if the loan cannot be repaid. Flash loans Flash loans can be used to artificially move a token’s price, allowing the attacker to exploit the anomalous pricing. Dive into more details of past flash loan attacks and how to prevent them in . this article CURVE LP TOKENS Curve liquidity pools are reserves of tokens on smart contracts in Curve Finance. They are maintained by liquidity providers that stake their assets and earn Annual Percentage Yield (APY) in return, depending on the volume of transactions. by Curve Founder, Michael Egorov, provides full details on the inner workings of the protocol. This post PRICE FEED A is a mechanism used to source price data of assets. They usually aggregate prices from several sources. They may also relay updates to the blockchain when prices change or a certain period has elapsed. price feed Popular price oracles include Chainlink Price Feeds, Compound’s Open Price Feed, and Uniswaps TWAP. Recently DeFi Wonderland have  released Price Oracle, in order to provide a truly permissionless and decentralized solution for price feeds. stETH (stETH) is a token that was created to represent Ether (ETH) that has been “staked” or deposited onto the DeFi platform, Lido Finance. When users stake ETH on Lido, they get the derivative, stETH, which can be used to perform the regular activities of Ether. Staked ETH on l is known as rETH. More information about the effects of staked ether can be found . Lido Staked Ether Rocketpoo here Also published here. Lead image by on Unsplash Shubham Dhage

How Gearbox Protocol Tackles Oracle Challenges in Defi 

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Wie Gearbox Protocol Oracle-Herausforderungen in DeFi bewältigt

Cómo el protocolo Gearbox aborda los desafíos de Oracle en Defi

Comment le protocole Gearbox relève les défis Oracle dans Defi

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Gearbox プロトコルが Defi で Oracle の課題に取り組む方法

Gearbox Protocol이 Defi에서 Oracle의 과제를 해결하는 방법

Como o protocolo Gearbox enfrenta os desafios da Oracle em Defi

Как протокол Gearbox решает проблемы Oracle в Defi

Gearbox Protokolü Defi'deki Oracle Zorluklarının Üstesinden Nasıl Geliyor?

Giao thức hộp số giải quyết các thách thức của Oracle trong Defi như thế nào

Gearbox Protocol 如何应对 Defi 领域的 Oracle 挑战

Welcome to our series "Behind the Startup," where we delve into the minds of visionary entrepreneurs and explore the stories behind their groundbreaking ventures. Today, we have the pleasure of talking to Tomer Afek, the CEO of Unruly Technologies, and one of the co-founders behind , a revolutionary layer-one crypto protocol. Join us as we discover the inspiring journey of a man who turned his passion for surfing and mathematics into a mission to reinvent the world of cryptocurrency. Spacemesh *: This author is an independent contributor publishing via our . Be it through direct compensation, media partnerships, or networking, the author has a vested interest in the company/ies mentioned in this story. HackerNoon has reviewed the report for quality, but the claims herein belong to the author. #DYOR* Vested Interest Disclosure brand-as-author program From Isolation to Innovation: How Surfing Inspired the Creation of Spacemesh Ishan Pandey: Hi Tomer, welcome to our series "Behind the Startup." Please tell us about yourself and the story behind Spacemesh? I was an unhappy and socially isolated kid, until around the age of 13 when I discovered wave surfing and the “flow experience” - a mental space where all those strolling thoughts in one’s brain instantly quiet down and only exist in the present moment. Profoundly gratifying. The ocean became my sanctuary from all my troubles. And bit by bit, thanks to my passion for surfing, I managed to break free from my social isolation and roll onwards. Tomer Afek: Later in university, to everyone’s surprise, I discovered I have a knack for mathematics and abstract thinking, and my academic accomplishments paved the way for both a career in computer science and lifelong inquiry into analytical philosophy. The first decade of my career was as a VC investor, during the late 90s to early 2000s, as the industry transitioned from big bets after long dd to higher velocity models. The 2nd decade was spent as an entrepreneur, where I’ve managed to build on some of my first-principle ideas that diverge from consensus opinions, and build some financial sovereignty for my family. This finally cleared my way for the 3rd chapter in my career as a “builder in public” entrepreneur of the most radically trustless cryptocurrency - an open source public utility. The idea for Spacemesh coalesced in 2017, after Bitcoin mining became industrialized and it was no longer feasible to expect to be profitable as a home miner. This disappointment led me to start Unruly Technologies, the developer of the Spacemesh open source protocol together with Prof. Tal Moran, Dr. Iddo Bentov, Rami Kasterstien and Aviv Eyal. We’ve set sail to reinvent “Magic internet money everyone can join via mining from home”, a protocol where such tendencies of economies of scale won’t reoccur, so as to keep the cryptocurrency money system always open, dynamic and decentralized. Ultimately, we are building this because we believe that it will pave the way for a world that is more equitable, facilitating more and better cooperation regionally, nationally, and globally. From the 14th of July 2023 to perpetuity, we have created the “People’s Coin”: a “Magic internet money, everyone interested may join via mining from home, no out of pocket expense, credit card or special mining gear required”. Ishan Pandey: Please tell us a little bit about Spacemesh and how the company aims to build a layer-one crypto protocol. Spacemesh is a public utility open-source protocol, rather than a company. I am the CEO of a company that is the developer of the Spacemesh protocol: Unruly Technologies. We raised $23m from our investors, including Polychain, Paradigm, Dragonfly, Electric Capital and more, from which we’ve supported the five year research and development process leading to the 14th of July, 2023 – when Spacemesh protocol launched its public mainnet. We employ a novel approach for consensus in the permissionless setting, used for a general-purpose programmable cryptocurrency: Instead of the commonly used PoW or PoStake, Spacemesh uses PoST (Proof of Space-Time) Rather than a Chain topology (i.e., a blockchain), Spacemesh uses a DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph), a.k.a. a “mesh” Additionally, rather than single-winner leader-election via race or lottery (“Competitive Mining”) used by all Nakamoto-based consensus including Bitcoin, Spacemesh uses a race-free, lottery-free “leaderless” voting (“Collaborative Mining”) Lastly, instead of generating a new proof for every challenge, and the resulting electricity charges, Spacemesh miners reuse the original proof continually, resulting in extremely low energy use and near-zero ongoing cost for operating a miner. As a result of these architectural novelties, we believe we have achieved qualitative improvements along the following axes, as compared with any predecessor cryptocurrency offering: Fairness The Spacemesh protocol is fairer to smaller miners (read: those mining from home using consumer-grade equipment they already own). Miners are paid their fair share of the rewards collected every epoch (2 weeks) based only on their storage commitment size. Therefore powerful (even adversarial) miners cannot receive a disproportionately high share of the rewards. Permissionless Much lower barriers to entry compared to existing permissionless cryptocurrencies: in order to join the network as a miner, all one needs is a PC with a standard GPU, free drive space and a reliable Internet. There is no need for special-purpose mining equipment and the ongoing power usage is low (hence, no huge electricity bills). Moreover, there’s no need for any deposit, a bank account or a credit card. Decentralization Critically, the above achievements (low barrier to entry, low ongoing operational cost, incentive compatibility), once combined, constitute an altogether novel Fair Distribution guarantee: Once you have joined the network by committing at least the minimum amount of storage (256gb), you will forever remain one of the active nodes that participate in the network and will get a fair share of the rewards every EPOCH: likely sufficient to recoup any electricity delta and/or hardware replacement costs. The low marginal costs for home users (with sufficient unused disk space), combined with the race-freeness property (that ensures rewards are proportional to the contributed spacetime resources) encourages small miners to join, leading to a “long tail” of small miners that cannot be priced out by even the largest whales. Low Variance/Predictability of Rewards A giant coin price with a low probability in a winner-takes-all system like BTC or Chia triggers the same psychological response as gambling with the question, "what if the next HDD I buy gets me that $3000 win?" This leads to users who do not already benefit from economies of scale buying massive farms of HDDs and slowly realizing just how bad the odds are because so many others had the same exact idea. In contrast, with Spacemesh, the rewards one gets on Day 1 will probably be very small (assuming well after genesis, i.e., at equilibrium), but one can estimate much more reliably what their earnings will be over time, and there's no massive payday possibility to trigger gambling psychology. Achieving a truly permissionless and decentralized infrastructure is anything but simple. It took us five years of iterative research and development, during which it wasn't clear if we were ever going to come out on the other side of this desert. But the satisfaction when we finally made it to the other side is like nothing else. Ishan Pandey: Spacemesh describes its protocol as "race-free", meaning that everyone gets their fair share of mining rewards. Can you please elaborate on how the mining rewards will be distributed? That’s correct. In Spacemesh, the reward is not handed out to a single miner that happened to produce the block, but is instead shared among all the miners that participated in producing the block. In other words, block production in Spacemesh is a community effort and everybody that participated and contributed to the block gets a share of the reward based on relative weight, i.e.,  you'll get a reward that's linearly proportional to the amount of storage that you've allocated to the network. Tomer Afek: The rewards per single unit of spacetime is a function of the total number of spacetime units on the mesh. For example assuming you've committed 3 units of spacetime out of a total of 10,000, during the epoch 20 weeks post genesis, you’d expect 3*191.26=~563 smesh rewards during this epoch. Ultimately fairness is the value that constitutes the domain of money, therefore it's feasible to assume most fair money system would eventually be selected for by free people, until disrupted by an even fairer money system, and so it goes. Ishan Pandey: The concept of "The People's Coin Ideal" has been gaining traction lately. How do you envision achieving inclusivity and accessibility in the implementation of The People's Coin Ideal? We live in a world of many competing money systems, the vast majority of which are based on ephemeral perceptions and flimsy promises. In our current paradigm, money is essentially about nation states jockeying for power and influence, attempting to deny the material reality of economic downturns, and creating a game called “FOREX” that can be played for fun, thrills, and profit. So, clearly more currencies doesn’t necessarily mean better currencies. Not when their foundations are so arbitrary and fragile. Tomer Afek: We use money as a utility to find consensus between all of our individual understandings of an ever-mutating reality, and as a byproduct we also create a map of valuable traits. Money, beyond facilitating trade, plays a role as the main source of signal, for what we ought to deem as desirable human traits/virtues we should copy for our own challenges. Who has how much guides us, often subconsciously, towards recognizing certain virtues or traits are desirable in our collective minds. Such maps, like the one created by the use of money, are built to address qualitative challenges, separating signal from noise, therefore considered the POV of all mankind, we need a money which freely and accurately maps and signals the most collectively selected-for traits and virtues — and how this can be used to achieve “fitness” within an ever-changing subatomic landscape. These function at peak capacity when the following two properties are optimized: When signals emerging from the map are clear and accessible. When trust in the fidelity of the signals is high. In order to achieve a high-fidelity map, we need as many sensors as possible reporting subjective observations, and a solid mechanism of rigorous synthesis and integration. For the latter to occur, a money system requires a clear basis in material logic - to exist in reference to something tangible and measurable, as opposed to a self-referential loop. By introducing this logic, such as in the form of a sampled commodity, we can reduce the ambiguity of our money system as much as possible. The map made possible by Spacemesh is also particularly useful, because a lower barrier for entry means more “sensors” in more places. The People’s Coin Ideal of a money system indeed begins with emphasis on accessibility and inclusivity, but certainly can and should achieve way more e.g. optimize for human flourishing, for opportunity space, for commons and for providing solutions for . Link here: slaying moloch together https://youtu.be/SeohwQls2GE Ishan Pandey: In the context of a Digital Gold Standard, you argue for a stable store of value. How can this stability be achieved, especially in the highly volatile and ever-changing cryptocurrency market? The last holdout against the historical wheel of transition is the financial system. Money now must also be translated from analog to digital, and the fiat system serving the inequality gap so well must be radically revised. The crisis of 2008 was the warning call, but one which has been entirely ignored. Rather than spurring the financial and monetary system to change, it ended with a reinforcement of the old model and an ever-widening inequality gap. To fix the game we must fix the tools of the game — the letters of the language of value exchange. We need new economic language and therefore new letters. We need new money! We live in the future and pay with coins of the past. The game as we know it is rigged! Tomer Afek: Digitalizing the money system does not mean paying with apps, or having fiat currency represented in pixels on a screen instead of printed cash: it means re-attaching the value of our currencies to a finite digital resource. It means a radical reimagining of what finance even means, and who has control of it - something that only a decentralized digital infrastructure can achieve. Web 2.0, the social web and its “free” entry promise was a trap, draining people of their selfhood, commercializing humans, treating them as Matrix-like batteries feeding energy to a machine that benefits the few at the expense of all others. The reinvention of money, e.g. the blockchain revolution, is therefore the key element for the redesign of the Web. We are only at the inception point of this revolution whose starting point was the Satoshi Nakamoto Bitcoin white paper of 2008. Crypto reintroduces the material logic of commodity-based monetary systems in the digital realm. We sample a finite commodity — gold in the past, energy today, spacetime tomorrow — to serve as a unit of economic measurement in the same fashion as a sampled metal rod can serve as a standard of length. This provides humanity with two important features: The inability to change “the story” — that is, the ledger — retroactively, since it introduces an unavoidable, ever-growing cost associated with altering shared coordinated reality (our ledger) after-the-fact. In the realm of money, it’s the difference between an honest and dependable system and the one we’re stuck with today. It allows for us to agree on some basic, foundational truths, and move onwards together from there. It shifts the entire game from “my word against your word” to “if you think you know better, prove it”. The inability to obscure corrupt or monopolistic practices by exploiting the vagaries and confusion inherent in a multiple-money fiat system. An immutable ledger serving as both a record and a sampled commodity means that “all the cards are on the table”. Bad actors will still try to game the system, but they will have to do so in a "public conversation", rather than shielded by a wall of noise. Ishan Pandey: Some critics argue that tying a digital currency to a gold standard might restrict economic growth and flexibility. How would you respond to such concerns and address the potential challenges of this approach? They’re incorrect. The dichotomy between elasticity and binding to commodity is a false one since both may be achieved via the digital version of the gold standard. Imagine a decentralized bank where one can deposit x Smesh and get y “orange token”; that is, each “orange token” coin equals x/y smesh, and is redeemable by a decentralized bank. Now let us assume the community of “orange token” sees increased demand and has to issue more coins - it can do so independently, using Smesh as a baseline. Let's assume it doubled to 2y “orange token” coins, and that new smesh has been deposited: within each “orange token” coin there will be x/2y smesh. Etc. With a digital ‘gold standard’ we win the best of both worlds, ideally without the worstof both worlds. Flexibility still exists - as is the nature of a decentralized, permissionless system - only now with proper accountability. Ishan Pandey: You see "Cultural Evolution" as a necessary component of cryptocurrency adoption. What role do you see individuals, communities, and governments playing in driving cultural evolution to embrace new technological and financial paradigms like cryptocurrencies? The younger generation deserves to wake up hopeful and confident about what the future holds for us, rather than being plagued by the terror and nihilism that’s so pervasive among them now. Tomer Afek: Achieving this is a huge task. The risks are equally huge.  But it’s the right thing to do, so we do it anyway. There really is no alternative to a revolution of such magnitude, for transitioning into the epoch of conscious evolution that will provide hope not only for our young people, but for all mankind. Broadly, underneath many of our problems is the same ‘savage feedback loop’: the same game theory dynamics, rewarding the short-term exploitation of words and loopholes over the longer-term, more challenging inventive and creative work of real value creation. As C. S. Lewis once asked: “if earth could be fair and all men glad and wise instead, we have prisons, smokestacks and asylums. What sphinx of cement and aluminum breaks open their skulls and eats up their imagination?” If everyone hates the current state of affairs so much, who then perpetuates it? And poet Allen Ginsburg answers: “Moloch does it”. This is a powerful answer not because it's correct (nobody literally thinks an ancient, child-eating Carthaginian demon causes everything) but because thinking of the system as an agent throws into relief the degree to which the system isn't an agent. Think of a dictator-less dystopia, one that every single citizen including the leadership hates, but which nevertheless endures unconquered - so every single citizen hates the system but for lack of a good coordination mechanism it endures. We can optimize the system if everyone agrees to stop doing this at once but no one within the system is able to effect the transition without great risk to themselves. Such multi-polar traps, where virtuous behavior is desired but consistently punished, creates a prisoner's dilemma as played by two very dumb libertarians who keep ending up on (defect, defect). There's a much better outcome available if they could figure out the coordination. But coordination is hard from a ground level view, leading to a “conspiracy without a conspirator”. Nobody is Moloch because everybody is Moloch. And yet, he still exists. So, to achieve cultural evolution, the first step is to find the right coordination mechanism. Without it, any efforts will fall into the same multipolar traps. The People’s Coin must therefore master the way to incentivize us to migrate courageously and peacefully towards a readjusted, fairer, expanding frame of the future — and not leave us duplicating past decisions. Don’t forget to like and share the story!

Cryptocurrency for the People: How Spacemesh Achieves Inclusivity and Fairness

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人々のための暗号通貨: Spacemesh が包括性と公平性をどのように達成するか

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Trouble on my left, trouble on my right, I've been facing trouble almost all my life. My sweet love, won't you pull me through? - Cage The Elephant There are a few things that come to mind when we hear the word Ethereum. world’s second-biggest cryptocurrency boy genius Vitalik Buterin dApp development to moon 🚀 ETH However, the most important word surrounding Ethereum is actually . decentralization Decentralization is where Ethereum has been truly successful. No matter if you compare new or existing layer-1s in the crypto verse, none of them will ever be able to compete with Ethereum in terms of decentralization. How has Ethereum been so successful in decentralization? open source protocol development a massive ecosystem supported through community grants large enterprises pushing tooling such as Metamask, Alchemy APIs a massive developer ecosystem building various projects - Defi, NFTs, metaverse previously mining; and now staking by exchanges, enterprises, staking pools/firms putting Ethereum’s vision first Ethereum has been able to solve a multi dimensional problem, and hence the reason why it has been so successful. Now, there is a that is aiming to increase the staking balance from 32 to 2048. new proposal There are very reasonable and plausible reasons to do so as described in the proposal. However, increasing the staking balance to 2048 is potentially bad for a few core reasons: compounding rewards will help large validator pools to earn more, spin up more validators and propose more blocks in the long run currently, Lido controls 28.46% of validators. This will only enable larger entities like Lido to control a major share of the network reduces overall democratization of the network if not decentralization with enormous large size validator entities, the chokepoints will increase. It will be easy for entities like SEC to censor or enforce unnecessary and unfair regulations around it. We have seen this plenty recently We need to look for more alternative solutions to solve the current challenges without raising the staking balance. Ethereum needs to stay decentralized and democratized. This is the way of the Ether. Just another humble opinion.

Got 2048 ETH? - The Real Slim Satoshi

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VIENNA, Austria, May 17th, 2023/Chainwire/--Pantos, a Multichain Token System conceived by the team behind Bitpanda, today announced the public release of the Multichain Token Creator. It is an easy-to-use web app that allows users to configure and deploy their own multichain tokens built on top of the Pantos Digital Asset Standard (PANDAS). Moreover, developers can configure their base token and download the contract code to extend it with their custom functionality. The Multichain Token Creator makes it easy for projects to launch on multiple blockchain networks, increasing their reach without much effort and creating more opportunities for the community and the projects themselves. Developers, users, and their assets no longer have to be locked to a single chain. “Our Multichain Token Creator is a defining innovation in the blockchain space, offering developers and projects an effortless way to adopt a revolutionary multichain token standard that drives unparalleled cross-chain collaboration and opens up endless possibilities for the future of decentralized technology,” said Marius Ciortan, the Director of Product Engineering at Pantos. For developers, the Token Creator dramatically reduces the time and complexity of developing multichain assets, enabling them to launch their tokens within minutes. Users, on the other hand, will have a smoother multichain experience thanks to the increased availability of native multichain assets through the easy token creation process. Pantos will showcase the Token Creator to the public for the first time during Super Demo at the upcoming EDCON conference, to be held between May 19-23 in Montenegro. It will also introduce the Pantos Digital Asset Standard (PANDAS) at the event. The EDCON Super Demo provides a platform for startups or projects promoting the development of Ethereum technology and its ecosystem. The Super Demo starts on the first day of the conference, May 19th, and concludes on May 22nd. Pantos began in 2018 as an in-house research project by Bitpanda in collaboration with TU Wien (Austria) and later also TU Hamburg (Germany) to establish an open standard for truly decentralized multichain token transfers and blockchain interoperability. It allows developers and users to send tokens, wrap native coins of supported chains, and create and deploy native multichain tokens easily with a few clicks. Pantos currently supports seven chains on testnet: Ethereum, Polygon, Avalanche, BNB, Cronos, Celo and Fantom; and plans to integrate more EVM and non-EVM chains continuously. Earlier this month, Pantos won the 'Best Business Model' award at the Austrian Blockchain Award Gala. About Pantos Started as a research project by the team behind Bitpanda in 2018, Pantos is an open-source protocol on a mission to make Web3 truly interoperable. It aims to become an enabler for sophisticated Web3 applications. Pantos’ cutting-edge technology allows existing and upcoming tokens to be deployed on multiple blockchain networks, giving users the freedom to choose the most suitable network for their digital assets. It secured $12.1 million in funding through an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) on Bitpanda in 2018. For more information, visit: | Website Twitter Contact Marsel Nenaj contact@pantos.io This story was distributed as a release by Chainwire under HackerNoon’s Brand As An Author Program. Learn more about the program here: https://business.hackernoon.com/brand-as-author

Pantos Releases Multichain Token Creator Which Will Help Users Deploy Tokens on Multiple Blockchains

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Pantos 发布 Multichain Token Creator，它将帮助用户在多个区块链上部署令牌

Learn how to integrate a photo booth to IPFS and make your selfie go interplanetary with web3.storage. During Web Summit 2022, the Filecoin events and creative team set up an amazing exhibition stand at the convention that attracted more than 3500 visitors wanting to learn more about Web3, the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), and the Filecoin network’s distributed storage solutions. Filecoin offers a wide range of solutions for storing and persisting files on Web3 via IPFS Protocol. One of the most popular and easy to use is web3.Storage, a “one API call to and Filecoin” solution for developers. IPFS IPFS is a web protocol that allows sharing files in a peer-to-peer network and sharing data in a distributed computer network. created an open-source protocol that enables a storage market to persist files on IPFS for a long time and with little cost. This solution solves the storage problem in Web3 and upgrades the internet as we know it to handle challenges like interplanetary communication. Filecoin Interplanetary communication to include selfies! Learn how to use a lightweight node.js application to make a photo booth software called Sparkbooth to connect to web3.storage and upload your selfie to IPFS. has How does it work? The main parts of the photo booths are: a digital camera, some lights, a computer with touch screen, some software that controls the camera to take photos and the ability to upload them to IPFS and Filecoin network. A flow of events looks like this: Touch screen receives commands from user to take a photo Photo Booth software (called Sparkbooth) will talk to the camera to take action Sparkbooth stores the photo locally on the computer Sparkbooth asks user if they want to send to a server (via web3.storage) Sparkbooth sends the photo, username, password, and success message in an API call to * *custom nodejs app fil-photo-booth-uploader fil-photobooth-uploader app will: validate the username and password change the format of the photo to what accepts web3.storage retrieves API token/key from system and send to __ __Storage web3. w__ __ sends the photo to the IPFS network and back up on Filecoin eb3.storage w__ __ will return the IPFS Content ID (CID) back to the eb3.storage fil-photo-booth-uploader will construct the http version of the CID url via IPFS gateway fil-photo-booth-uploader web3.storage fil-photo-booth-uploader returns a success message back to Sparkbooth 7 Sparkbooth receives a success message: “Your photo is sent to IPFS via . :-)” along with the URL of the photo web3.storage Sparkbooth displays the QR code generated on the screen The look? It’s just like a normal photo booth: An example of the IPFS CID url: https://bafybeiei7zadrztflc6krunhvqr3umzre7xjxfzvmyjs2ob2w7yykq63ea.ipfs.w3s.link/20221104172648.jpg An example: The entire flow looks like this: To learn more about IPFS and CIDs, please visit . proto.school Step by Step Guide Prerequisites There are few things you might need to run through this tutorial: 📸 Camera - any modern Canon 💻 Computer - any all-in-one desktop with touch screen or a laptop with touch screen 👨🏻‍💻 Photo Booth Software - Sparkbooth 7 🤖 An app server - I am using Heroku for convenience 📦 IPFS Enabled Product - a web3.storage account 🌎 Internet connection - a way to talk to WWW either wired or wireless (wifi)\ Step 1, Web3.Storage Setup Create a account via your account or email web3.storage Github Go to Account > API Token Create a new API Token, name it to anything you like (e.g. Filecoin Web Summit 2022) Copy the API key by using the copy button Save this for later You will need to put this in the fil-photo-booth-uploader application as an environment variable Step 2: nodejs app deployment For Sparkbooth 7 and web3.storage to talk nicely, we will need a little help to translate their languages. The nodejs app will help us achieve this. It will need to be hosted on a server, and we are using Heroku for it (If you know a Web3 native way to host it, please DM me. I would love to try). First go to (sign up for a new account if you don’t have one) github.com Visit the and then click on Fork. This will allow you to copy the source code to your own account or repository and allow you to connect it to Heroku. Filecoin Photo Booth Uploader Sign up with a . Heroku is like AWS, a centralized developer platform that helps run applications or servers almost for free. Heroku account Create a new app and put the event name in it. We are likely going to need a new app for each event. Under “Deployment method,” choose GitHub and then sign into your GitHub account. Authorize Heroku to pull code into itself to build the application and run the server. Under “Connect to GitHub,” search for the repo name you just forked (ex. fil-photo) then connect the code repository. Leave all the settings and  click on “Deploy Branch” to kick off the first build. Heroku is smart enough to be able to recognize the application type. Next:build and deploy it. However, before the server is working,we will need to put the username, password, and the API Token in the server environment. Heroku can access it securely without exposing them to the internet. Go to “Setting” then “Config Vars.” web3.storage Put in the following configurations, swap out the SPARKBOOTH_PASSWORD, SPARKBOOTH_USER, W3S_API_TOKEN with password, username and api token respectively. The name has to be exactly as above. web3.storage The app should be running now! You can go to “Domains” under “Settings” to find the URL to put into sparkbooth 7 later. Step 3: Sparkbooth 7 Setup The final step is to prepare the software on the photo booth laptop to talk to our custom nodejs app to complete the setup flow. \ Head to . Download , pay for or use the trial. Sparkbooth.com Sparkbooth 7 DSLR license fee Open Sparkbooth and confirm your purchase. When you open the app, it will maximize, but you can press “ESC” to exit. Go to the settings on top left: Configure “Send to Account” then enter the username and password you would like to use. The “Service URL” needs to be the Heroku app address + “/upload-w3s”. (e.g. http://fil-photo-booth-uploader.herokuapp.com:443/upload-w3s) You can test the connection by using the test button. It will result in a failure message, but the API call will still go through to the Heroku app and place a test photo in your account. You can check the test image in your web3.storage account. If you can see the “photo booth test” photo, the setup is successful! Click to check. web3.storage here w3up beta coming soon This app was built in 2022 and uses the existing web3.storage APIs. At the time of this writing, there are new beta w3up APIs available from web3.storage, which . This will make it even easier to get started writing apps that use IPFS. include front end web components for multiple frameworks Some improvement suggestions The app is not perfect! There are a few areas that could be improved: Security Even though this is just a gimmick to show ground, the security of the nodejs app is not ideal. Validating the passwords and username in application logic is not preferred. I believe we should put the application behind a firewall or API gateway that validates the authorization in the header before passing the call to our app. Experience The Sparkbooth 7 is great, but the UI does seem quite limiting. It would be good if we could customize this a bit more. Perhaps an open-source photo booth software could help us achieve this? Recent Photo Gallery Potentially, we could use a separate computer to show the latest photos to visitors. They could select the photo they would like to choose to email to themselves, display QR code again, or share it on social media. This will involve building a frontend for the fil-photo-booth-uploader, which could be a very cool project for a front-end developer. Use an decentralised app backend. Maybe someone like or is able to help. Fluence IPVM Conclusion During the three-day Web Summit, the Filecoin photo booth had an uptime of 99% and a1% outage due to the internet connectivity issues at the convention. In total, the photo booth published 934 photos to the Filecoin Network. That’s almost one thousand selfies that are ready to go interplanetary all thanks to the very handy service of web3.storage! The photo booth is also famous. On the third day, a reporter from CNN also interviewed the booth, (yes, the booth is getting famous… not me). CNN reporter interviewing the Filecoin Photo Booth at Web Summit, Lisbon, Portugal Please feel free to use this guide to build your own interplanetary photo booth for your events, gatherings, meetups, parties or just for fun. The Filecoin network now has 16EiB of storage capacity and over 300PiB of data has been stored on it. There are many ways to contribute or use this project. Learn more about getting involved . here

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Twitter v. Elon Musk Court Filing  by Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, July 12, 2022 is part of . You can jump to any part in this filing . This is assorted convos between Twitter’s former CEO Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk, pulling from HackerNoon’s Legal PDF Series here Exhibit H 2022-03-26: Jack Dorsey <> Elon Musk : Yes, a new platform is needed. It can't be a company. This is why I left. Jack Dorsey https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1507777913042571267?s,=20&t=8z3h0h0JGSnt86Zuxd61Wg?embedable=true : Ok Elon : What should it look like? Elon : I believe it must be an open source protocol, funded by a foundation of sorts that doesn't own the protocol, only advances it. A bit like what Signal has done. It can't have an advertising model. Otherwise you have surface area that governments and advertisers will try to influence and control. If it has a centralized entity behind it, it will be attacked. This isn't complicated work, it just has to be done right so it's resilient to what has happened to twitter. jack : Super interesting idea Elon : I'm off the twitter board mid May and then completely out of company. I intend to do this work and fix our mistakes. Twitter started as a protocol. It should have never been a company. That was the original sin. jack : I'd like to help if I am able to Elon : I wanted to talk with you about it after I was all clear, because you care so much, get it's importance, and could def help in immeasurable ways. Back when we had the activist come in, I tried my hardest to get you on our board, and our board said no. That's about the time I decided I needed to work to leave, as hard as it was for me. jack : ["loved" above] Elon : Do you have a moment to talk? jack : Bout to head out to dinner but can for a minute Elon : I think the main reason is the board is just super risk averse and saw adding you as more risk, which I thought was completely stupid and backwards, but I only had one vote, and 3% of company, and no dual class shares. Hard set up. We can discuss more. jack : Let's definitely discuss more Elon : I think it's worth both trying to move Twitter in a better direction and doing something new that's decentralized Elon : It's likely the best option. I just have doubts. But open jack : ["liked above] Elon 2022-04-03: Jack Dorsey <> Elon Musk : I heard good things are happening jack : ["liked" above] Elon 2022-04-05: Jack Dorsey <> Elon Musk : Thank you for joining! jack https://twitter.com/jack/status/1511329369473564677?s=21&t=DdrUUFvJPD7Kf-jXjBogIg?embedable=true : Absolutely. Hope I can be helpful Elon : Immensely. Parag is an incredible engineer. The board is terrible. Always here to talk through anything you want. jack : When is a good time to talk confidentially? Elon : anytime jack : Thanks, great conversation! Elon : Always! I couldn't be happier you're doing this. I've wanted it for a long time. Got very emotional when I learned it was finally possible. jack : ["loved" above] Elon : Please be super vocal if there is something dumb I'm doing or not doing. That would be greatly appreciated. Elon : I trust you but def will do jack : ["liked" above] Elon : Looks like there's a "verified" account in the swamp of despair over there. (promoting crypto too!) jack https://m.facebook.com/Elonmuskoffifref=nf&pn_ref=story&rc=p https://twitter.com/MattNavarra/status/1511773605239078914?embedable=true : Haha Elon : I want to make sure Parag is doing everything possible to build towards your goals until close. He is really great at getting things done when tasked with specific direction. Would it make sense for me you and him to get on a call to discuss next steps and get really clear on what's needed? He'd be able to move fast and clear then. Everyone is aligned and this will help even [2022-04-26] jack : Sure Elon : great when is best for you? And please let me know where/ifyou want my help. I just want to make this amazing and feel bound to it jack : How about 7pm Central? Elon : Your help would be much appreciated Elon : I agreed with everything you said to me Elon : Great! Will set up. I won't let this fail and will do whatever it takes. It's too critical to humanity. jack : Absolutely Elon : <Attachment-image/jpeg-Screen Shot 2022-04-26 at 15.05.00.jpeg> jack : I put together a draft list to make the discussion efficient. Goal is to align around 1) problems we're trying to solve, 2) longterm priorities, 3) short-tenn actions, all using a higher level guide you spoke about. Think about what you'd add/remove. Getting this nailed will increase velocity. jack : Here's meeting link for 7pm your time jack : [meeting URL] jack : Great list of actions Elon : We're on hangout whenever you're ready. No rush. Just working on refining doc. jack : ["liked" above] Elon : It's asking me for a Google account login Elon : You and I are in complete agreement. Parag is just moving far too slowly and trying to please people who will not be happy no matter what he does. Elon : At least it became clear that you can't work together. That was clarifying. jack : Yeah Elon 2022-04-09 to 2022-04-10: Bret Taylor <> Elon Musk : Parag just called me and mentioned your text conversation. Can you talk? Bret : Please expect a take private offer Elon : I saw the text thread. Do you have five minutes so I can understand the context? I don't currently Bret : Fixing twitter by chatting with Parag won't work Elon : Drastic action is needed Elon : This is hard to do as a public company, as purging fake users will make the numbers look terrible, so restructuring should be done as a private company. Elon : This is Jack's opinion too. Elon : Can you take 10 minutes to talk this through with me? It has been about 24 hours since you joined the board. I get your point, but just want to understand about the sudden pivot and make sure I deeply understand your point of view and the path forward Bret : I'm about to take off, but can talk tomorrow Elon : Thank you Bret : Heyo-can you speak this evening? I have seen your tweets and feel more urgency about understanding your path forward Bret : Acknowledging your text with Parag yesterday that you are declining to join the board. This will be reflected in our 8-K tomorrow. I've asked our team to share a draft with your family office today. I'm looking forward to speaking today. [next day] Bret : Sounds good Elon : It is better, in my opinion, to take Twitter private, restructure and return to the public markets once that is done. That was also Jack's view when I talked to him. Elon 2022-04-25: Jack Dorsey <> Elon Musk : Thank you ❤️ jack : ["loved" above] Elon : I basically following your advice! Elon : I know and I appreciate you. This is the right and only path. I'll continue to do whatever it takes to make it work. jack : ["liked" above] Elon

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ジャック・ドーシーは後ろ向きに屈んで、マスクにツイッターを救い、彼の「原罪」を修正させた #oops

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