Setting Linked Variants to Your ENS Name Boosts Safety and Functionality — If you’re deep into web3 and active across the ecosystem, in any typical week you’re signing multisig transactions, voting on Snapshot or Agora, minting NFTs in a hot wallet before sending them to cold storage, or trying to chase the next 100x memecoin in the degen Olympics. Suffice to say…

Learn How This Zero-Dependency Protocol Is Aligning Capital, Risk Management, and Ethos — Ajna Finance launched on Ethereum Mainnet in July, and it was big news. The major crypto media outlets covered it, and why wouldn’t they? Ajna is a DeFi playground built by veterans from MakerDAO, and it enables anyone to permissionlessly create a lending pool for nearly any digital asset. In…

After Two Years of Courtship, Web3’s First Experiments in Decentralized Publishing Are Stirring Things Up — For as long as BanklessDAO has been in existence, two projects within the DAO, the Editorial and Publishing Arm and the Newsletter Team, have shipped hundreds of newsletters and articles to help the crypto curious find their way into and around web3. The Editorial and Publishing Arm adopted the Bankless…

As With Many Greek Myths, It’s All Guts, Glory, Gods, Grifters, and Gensler — A few weeks ago, those with an interest in the state of play for crypto in the U.S. watched in bewilderment as Aaron Kaplan, founder and co-CEO of an unknown company called Prometheum, sat before the United States House Financial Services Committee and testified that the path is clear and…

The InterPlanetary File System Brings Censorship-Resistant Storage to the Digital Universe — Today is a big day! You just got news that one of your favorite artists is about to drop an NFT collection. There’s nothing quite like the anticipation: all that well-engineered Solidity underpinning the collection’s blockchain deployment, and if you’re lucky, a tidy and responsive front end from which to…

How You Connect to the Blockchain Matters for Privacy, Security, and Usability — We all understand how to use MetaMask and other web3 wallets, right? You just download the extension or app, set up a wallet and record your seed phrase, add some ETH, and you’re off and running. It’s just that easy, right? Well, sort of… If you’re interested in pseudonymous financial…

Understanding the Power and Potential of the EVM — Let’s get this part out of the way: not all blockchains are created equal. The native functionality of all blockchains that existed prior to 2014 — including Bitcoin and its hard-fork copycats — was largely limited to peer-to-peer payments. Although Bitcoin developers are slowly adding functions atop its network, Bitcoin…

Shard Blobs Will Decrease Layer 2 Fees While Preparing the Network For Sharding — This story originally appeared on Bankless Publishing. The longer I spend in the cryptoverse, the more I am drawn to the architecture behind blockchains and the infrastructure we use to access these networks. I’m not really technical in the developer sense, but I am fascinated by the ways in which…

A Whirlwind Tour of Baseline Concepts for the Crypto Curious — Even if you’re brand new to crypto, you’ve probably heard of the Bitcoin and Ethereum networks. You may have even read about or interacted with Solana, Avalanche, Binance Smart Chain, Fantom, Cardano, or Algorand. On top of these better-known blockchains, there are hundreds (thousands?) of other blockchains in the cryptoverse. …