Kate SillsComposable AccessIn Part 1, I talked about how DeFi legos are only one type of composability: composable services that require standardized, transferable…Mar 4, 2023Mar 4, 2023
Kate SillsComposable Services & DeFi LegosWhen people talk about composability, they’re usually talking about composable services. But what *are* composable services?Mar 4, 2023Mar 4, 2023
Kate SillsinAgoricOffer Safety: Partitioning Risk in Smart ContractsAt Agoric, we’re a technology company solving a problem that dates back at least to Thomas Hobbes. In the 1600s, Hobbes pointed out an…Mar 9, 2020Mar 9, 2020
Kate SillsinAgoricPreventing Reentrancy Attacks in Smart ContractsIf you like JavaScript promises, you might like a solution to reentrancy attacks called eventual-sendsJan 28, 20193Jan 28, 20193
Kate SillsinAgoricPOLA Would Have Prevented the Event-Stream IncidentThe JavaScript world was rocked this week by news that the popular npm package event-stream included malicious code that attempted to…Dec 1, 20188Dec 1, 20188
Kate SillsWe All Need PhilosophyI wrote this a year ago as a Facebook post. For background, I was raised Catholic, went to a Baptist-run elementary school, and now I…Nov 11, 2018Nov 11, 2018
Kate SillsintezosThe Forgotten Contracts"Smart contracts aren't legal contracts," they say. They're right. But that's missing the point.Jun 5, 20187Jun 5, 20187
Kate SillsinTezos CommonsAn Interview with Sabita Furtado, co-founder of Kalhatti, a startup on the Tezos blockchain.May 11, 2018May 11, 2018