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Newsletter #0: Zero-Knowledge Proofs

Decoding Coding • 19 implied HN points • 26 Jan 23
🔮 Crypto Blockchain Security Privacy Web3
  1. Zero-knowledge proofs let someone prove they know something without giving away the actual information. It's like showing you can perform a magic trick without revealing how it’s done.
  2. These proofs have been around since the 1980s and have evolved into important applications in areas like finance and identity verification, especially in Web3 technologies.
  3. ZKPs have key properties like completeness and soundness, but they also come with challenges like being complex to implement and vulnerable to quantum computing attacks.

Quant Letter: December 2023, Week-2

The Parlour • 12 implied HN points • 13 Dec 23
🕹 Technology Quantitative Blockchain Machine Learning Finance Social Sciences
  1. The ML-Quant website has been revamped and is now free for all users to enjoy the newsletter.
  2. Research papers on SSRN cover various topics like volatility modeling, portfolio asset selection, and sentiment analysis using machine learning.
  3. In the field of quantitative finance, there have been recent advancements in areas such as optimal portfolio selection, volatility forecasting, and financial sentiment analysis.

Navigating Web3 Analytics: A Guide for Data Professionals

Web3 for Analytics Engineers • 1 HN point • 13 Jun 24
🕹 Technology Blockchain Decentralization Data Analysis Cryptocurrency Analytics
  1. Web3 is a decentralized internet on blockchain tech, aiming for user ownership and benefits for many people.
  2. Blockchain technology, at the core of Web3, offers immutability, decentralization, transparency, and cryptographic security.
  3. Web3 analytics introduces opportunities like decentralized data storage, on-chain data analysis, smart contract analytics, DeFi analytics, and NFT analytics.

#31

The Nibble • 12 implied HN points • 28 Oct 23
🕹 Technology AI Blockchain Data Streaming services Deep fakes
  1. AI and technology are constantly evolving, like GPT-4 reaching a plateau
  2. New initiatives and organizations are emerging in the field of AI safety, like the Frontier Model Forum
  3. There are developments in using blockchain for AI compute and image generation, like AI on Blockchain
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Introducing: Klima the world's first carbon currency

Activist Futurism • 39 implied HN points • 14 Sep 21
🔮 Crypto Environmental Activism Currency Blockchain Decentralized
  1. Klima is the world's first carbon currency, backed by carbon offsets and incentivizing the absorption of carbon.
  2. KlimaDAO aims to build a monetary system that prices in carbon, rewarding pro-climate actions.
  3. Activists and supporters of transformative social change are now being drawn into the world of crypto through the introduction of Klima, the 'apex of environmental activism'.

29/8/2022: Real World Crypto Day tại Hà Nội

Thái | Hacker | Kỹ sư tin tặc • 19 implied HN points • 28 Aug 22
🔮 Crypto Cryptocurrency Blockchain Cybersecurity Encryption Privacy
  1. Real World Crypto Day in Hanoi on 29/8/2022 featured experts discussing important topics like lattice cryptography and security vulnerabilities in popular blockchains.
  2. The event covered a range of practical cryptography topics like key management, secure API design, and research on password storage and encryption techniques.
  3. Vietnam faces a shortage of security solution designers despite having skilled hackers, highlighting the importance of developing more comprehensive cybersecurity expertise.

FYI XYZ Co. 1st Blog from a Startup in Web4

FYI XYZ Co. (Coming Soon) • 1 HN point • 31 May 24
🕹 Technology Startups AI Web Entrepreneurship Blockchain
  1. When starting a project, it is valuable to stay small, focused, and maintain a close connection with the product and users. This allows for rapid iteration and quick adaptation to challenges and feedback.
  2. Successful projects prioritize user needs, iterate quickly, and have a strong, motivated team with diverse skills. Continuous improvement and responsiveness to feedback are key to achieving success.
  3. The concept of Web4 represents the next stage of the internet evolution, integrating AI, IoT, blockchain, enhanced user interfaces, semantic web, big data, and personalization. It promises more personalized, efficient, and secure digital experiences, but poses challenges like privacy concerns and digital divide.

Axie Infinity

Thái | Hacker | Kỹ sư tin tặc • 39 implied HN points • 25 Jul 21
🔮 Crypto NFTs Blockchain Gaming Investing Cryptocurrency
  1. Axie Infinity is an online game where characters called Axies are like virtual pets that can be bought and sold as non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The cheapest Axie costs around $200, with the most expensive one ever sold for about $60,000.
  2. Sky Mavis, the game studio behind Axie Infinity, recently received a $7.5 million investment for the NFT-based game. They have a cool and talented young team.
  3. AXS is the coin associated with Axie Infinity, currently priced at over $40 with a market cap of over $2 billion. Sky Mavis will allocate a portion of AXS to gamers and use another portion for staking rewards.

Grant Orb: Your Expert AI Grant Writer

Crypto Good • 9 implied HN points • 25 Feb 24
🕹 Technology AI Generative AI Blockchain Web3 Nonprofits
  1. Grant Orb is an AI grant writer that can create winning grant proposals in minutes with just a brief project outline, saving up to 95% of your time.
  2. AI is transforming the nonprofit sector by making grant writing more efficient and accessible to organizations of all sizes.
  3. Generative AI technology like Grant Orb can quickly and intelligently create compelling grant proposals, allowing organizations to focus more on their mission and fundraising goals.

Issue #90: The ASX Turns To Tata For Help With CHESS Replacement, The FCA Gives Go Head To Klarna For Payment And Credit Services, And The Definitive Podcast On Visa

Fintech Radar • 8 implied HN points • 29 Nov 23
💰 Finance Regulation Funding Insurtech Payments Blockchain
  1. Governments are tightening regulations on BNPL services, impacting fintech firms.
  2. Consumer-facing fintech startups face challenges in a crowded market, leading to pivots.
  3. Nubank's innovative offering of transferring credit card limits for personal and business use showcases opportunities in fintech.

🔮E07: Decentralised AI

Let Us Face the Future • 17 HN points • 06 Jul 23
🕹 Technology AI Blockchain Startups
  1. Decentralised AI is an alternative way to build AI systems that distributes machine learning computations across multiple independent nodes.
  2. Decentralised AI is currently at the R&D stage with few commercial products available, but it holds promise due to the GPU crunch, maturation of privacy-enhancing technologies, and concerns about AI monopolies.
  3. Decentralised AI competes with centralised AI by offering no single controller, efficient economic activity, and greater data access, though it may face challenges in performance compared to centralized systems.

4/4/22 Colin Huang Flashback: Inverting Capitalism AKA C2M

Tech Buzz China Insider • 19 implied HN points • 05 Apr 22
🕹 Technology E-commerce Entrepreneurship Innovation Blockchain Investing
  1. Colin Huang discussed the concept of inverting capitalism, suggesting ways for the poor to profit from the rich.
  2. He explored the idea of 'reverse insurance', where the rich pay the poor for certainty of production capital allocation.
  3. Huang's writings challenge traditional capitalist notions and propose alternative mechanisms for wealth distribution.

The "TransferX" project

Steve Kirsch's newsletter • 8 implied HN points • 05 Feb 24
🕹 Technology Blockchain Cryptocurrency Software Security Innovation
  1. TransferX is a project aiming to revolutionize the transfer of value and information securely and instantly.
  2. The project intends to create a parallel, abuse-resistant economy by making existing mechanisms for identification, transfer of value, and transfer of information obsolete.
  3. The goal is to make value transfers faster, easier, and safer than credit cards using public blockchains, with instant confirmations and high security.

#51

The Nibble • 4 implied HN points • 15 Mar 24
🕹 Technology AI Blockchain Programming Web Development Tools
  1. New developments include the introduction of AGI technologies, major upgrades in Ethereum like Dencun, and innovations in AI models like Figure AI's humanoid robot.
  2. Tech updates such as the release of TypeScript 5.4, Node.js 21.7.0 with native text styling, and the acquisition of Fig autocomplete by Amazon showcase evolving trends in the industry.
  3. Interesting discoveries like the impact of marking files with 'linguist-generated' attributes, and quirks in JavaScript's interpretation of numbers starting with 0 highlight intriguing tech-related insights.

Initializing an EIP-2535 Diamond for deployment and upgrades

EIP-2535 Diamonds • 7 implied HN points • 28 Jan 24
🕹 Technology Smart Contracts Blockchain Ethereum
  1. In smart contract systems, a unique method is required to initialize state variables in proxy contracts or diamonds.
  2. EIP-2535 Diamonds offer a better way to initialize by writing a single initialization function for all facets.
  3. The recommended approach is to use composition instead of inheritance for initialization to keep code clean and efficient.

Spring Cleaning and Easter

The False Consensus Effect • 19 implied HN points • 02 Apr 21
🎨 Art & Illustration Painting Exhibition Blockchain Social media Creativity
  1. Spring signifies renewal and fresh starts, like cleaning the house and spending time with loved ones during Easter.
  2. The text delves into themes of self-reflection, the impact of knowledge, and the conflict between different belief systems.
  3. Exploration of how societal norms, land ownership, and individual freedom intersect in modern America.

How I buy crypto at the best price

Steve Kirsch's newsletter • 4 implied HN points • 03 Mar 24
🔮 Crypto Investing Trading Blockchain Bitcoin
  1. The author shares a technique to buy and sell crypto on Coinbase with ease, which could be advantageous in the current market.
  2. With new money entering through Bitcoin ETFs, the price of Bitcoin is predicted to increase significantly.
  3. Paid subscribers will receive exclusive access to the author's method of buying crypto, potentially giving them an edge in trading.

How to equitably resolve the Black Lives Matter funding scandal using Ethereum: a lesson for future movements.

Activist Futurism • 19 implied HN points • 08 Mar 21
🔮 Crypto Funding Blockchain Ethereum Activism
  1. Imagine a movement token whose value increases with the perceived social impact of the movement, a new way to fund protests.
  2. Activists in the Black Lives Matter movement are demanding equitable distribution of funds after a significant amount was revealed to have been amassed by the foundation.
  3. A potential solution to the funding scandal is presented using Ethereum and a new funding model that rewards early movement builders and aims to fairly distribute resources among a movement's participants.

Impact DAO Beginners Course

Crypto Good • 9 implied HN points • 30 Apr 23
🔮 Crypto Blockchain Cryptocurrency
  1. Join the Impact DAO Beginner's Course to learn how to build decentralized impact communities.
  2. The course is free and delivered in 7 bite-sized modules to help you start quickly.
  3. Learn from experienced Impact DAO builders and get certified upon course completion.

Seeing like a protocol

The price of agency • 9 implied HN points • 10 Apr 23
🕹 Technology Blockchain Cryptocurrency Ethereum
  1. Protocol credibility is strengthened by mechanisms that enhance introspection and agency.
  2. Protocol development involves constant interaction with the environment and balancing the community's will.
  3. A credible protocol must only see and defend what is deemed important by the community, even if it extends beyond the protocol's execution.

#50

The Nibble • 2 implied HN points • 09 Mar 24
🕹 Technology AI Blockchain Cybersecurity Social media Software Development
  1. Amazon purchased a 100% nuclear-powered data center for $650M in Pennsylvania, highlighting a move towards clean energy but raising concerns about actual environmental impact.
  2. India's Ministry of Electronics and IT mandated significant AI firms to avoid bias and secure government approval before deploying AI models, sparking debates and criticism.
  3. Sony filed a patent for 'Super fungible tokens' for gaming, aiming to attach value to in-game items for potential real-money trading, introducing a new concept in gaming.

The Non-Transferable Future of Web3

Crypto Good • 3 implied HN points • 16 Jul 23
🕹 Technology Blockchain NFTs Web3 Cryptocurrency
  1. Non-transferable NFTs are changing the speculative culture of Web3 by focusing on earned tokens that can't be bought or sold.
  2. These non-transferable tokens showcase individuals' complex identities, opening up social and economic opportunities online and offline.
  3. The use of non-transferable NFTs can lead Web3 into the mainstream by emphasizing self-sovereign decentralized identities.

Inside Look: City DAO, Community-Governed City on the Blockchain

Crypto Good • 3 implied HN points • 05 Jul 23
🔮 Crypto DAOs Blockchain Governance NFTs Decentralization
  1. City DAO is the first community-governed city on the blockchain with a unique Network State concept, started in Wyoming.
  2. Notable figures like Vitalik Buterin and Brian Armstrong are early citizens of City DAO, participating through Citizen NFTs.
  3. City DAO's governance model has evolved over time, exploring trends like moving away from direct democracy and focusing on productivity in decision-making.