1. Top of mind: On staking; plus, a pulse check on crypto policy & regulation On staking This past week, the SEC announced charges against…
1. Debate, grow, build: Programming languages & crypto Sam Blackshear, Noah Citron, Eddy Lazzarin, and Sonal Chokshi What are the differences between…

January 2023

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November 2022

1. Beyond the news: Why DeFi matters, and how There’s been a lot of news lately around FTX [see our last regulatory roundup], which shows what can…
1. Beyond the news: Mainstreaming & use cases for NFTs Punk6529, Chris Dixon, Sonal Chokshi; Kevin Rose; Scott Kominers; Pyrs Carvolth, Maggie Hsu…

October 2022

1. Standards: Generalized property testing for ERC4626 vaults 🔐 Tokenized vaults face a key composability issue: different implementation details can…
1. Trend deep-dive: the metaverse, crypto, more Elena Burger, Herman Narula, Sonal Chokshi "Metaverse" is a hot topic, one that is vastly covered but…
1. Fundamentals: On consensus ▶️ Andrew Lewis-Pye “Consensus” describes the mechanism for coordinating and maintaining blockchains; it’s about how…

September 2022

1. Resource: The Zero Knowledge Canon 📚 Elena Burger, Bryan Chiang, Sonal Chokshi, Eddy Lazzarin, Justin Thaler, Ali Yahya et al Zero knowledge systems…
1. Top of mind: The meaning of The Merge Ali Yahya The Merge – the major Ethereum upgrade that happened early Thursday morning – will go down as one of…
1. In focus: Proof of stake blockchains; beyond The Merge to Ethereum roadmap & hot topics with Tim Beiko; Sonal Chokshi, Valeria Nikolaenko, Tim…
1. *New* resource: ‘Can’t be evil’ licenses, an easier way for creators to license NFTs Miles Jennings et al Two decades ago, copyright licensing…