Ethereum is a Dark Forest

‪I’m excited to announce that I’m joining Paradigm as a Research Partner, to help Matt Huang, Fred Ehrsam, and Charlie Noyes build a new kind of investment firm.‬ I’ve always hoped I would get a chance to work alongside Matt, who has been one of my closest friends for almost…

Interstellar is pleased to announce a preview release of Starlight, an implementation of bidirectional payment channels on Stellar. Payment channels allow parties to transact privately, instantly, and securely, while paying zero fees. Normally, making a payment on a network like Stellar involves publishing details of the payment to all observers…

Last Monday, Chain released our open-source smart contract language for Bitcoin, Ivy. Ivy is a higher-level language that can compile to Bitcoin Script, the low-level language used by the Bitcoin protocol to determine whether a transaction is authorized. Ivy makes it easier for humans to read, write, and use Bitcoin…

Sometime next week, Bitcoin nodes running the BTC1 client are expected to mine a block that would be invalid under the rules of Bitcoin Core, thus creating a fork of the Bitcoin blockchain. The names for the fork and non-fork currencies are at least as controversial as the fork itself…