Easy off-chain commitments to future on-chain actions (airdrops, relays, gas payment delegation, and more!) — 2019 Note: This blog post was written (and not published??) a year ago in April 2018, but I’ve decided to publish it anyway because it’s part of the fun history of how meta transactions became everyone’s favorite UX pattern. …

Blockchain-backed Art — This is the second of a three part series dedicated to creative people interested in the blockchain. Looking for Part 1 or Part 3? An Artist’s Guide to the Blockchain / Part 1 Explore the potentials of this emerging technology, and become an active participant to help shape what’s to come.medium.com An Artist’s Dictionary for the Blockchain A huge dictionary of crypto terms; Part 03 of “An Artist’s Guide to the Blockchain”medium.com

Notify your Discord and website when streamers go live with your Extension! — This is a guest post by Matt Condon (Thanks, Matt! 👋), one half of the two-person team at dot that builds the Stickers Extension. The Stickers Extension turns any stream into a canvas for viewers where viewers receive rare digital stickers that they place on-stream for everyone to see in…

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A huge dictionary of crypto terms; Part 03 of “An Artist’s Guide to the Blockchain” — What follows is a ton of definitions and background for the various terms you’ll see thrown around the web! Looking for Parts 01 and 02? They’ll provide additional background and context for the terms defined below. An Artist’s Guide to the Blockchain / Part 1 Explore the potentials of this emerging technology, and become an active participant to help shape what’s to come.medium.com

A walk down scaling lane. — 2018 is the year of scaling for Ethereum, so here are some solutions and the tradeoffs they each come with. Firstly, if you’re interested in an in-depth but reader-friendly discussion of various scaling tech, read Josh Stark’s quintessential piece on layer-2 scaling solutions. Making Sense of Ethereum’s Layer 2 Scaling Solutions: State Channels, Plasma, and Truebit For ethereum 2018 is the year of infrastructure. This is the year when early adoption will test the limits of the…medium.com

Explore the potentials of this emerging technology, and become an active participant to help shape what’s to come. — This is the first of a three part series dedicated to creative people interested in the blockchain. It is a collaboration between Jake Fry, of Rkey, and Matt Condon, of XLNT. Looking for Part 2? An Artist’s Guide to the Blockchain: Part 2 Blockchain-backed Artmedium.com What is “Blockchain”?

Why do we see all these “Ethereum killers” that innovate on a single idea but provide not much else? — The issue with most of the new technologies we see being created (like sharding techniques, different virtual machine architectures, etc) is that they provide a valuable solution that would make sense to be integrated into existing projects, but the incentive structures don’t make that feasible.

Looking forward to an XLNT future for tokenized assets. — Shout out to the team behind XLNT for contributing to these ideas: Anthony, Calvin, Joe, Matt, Mert, Nate, and Paul. TL;DR: What is XLNT? XLNT is a showcase, marketplace, and creator portal for cryptocollectibles, art, in-game items, and any tokenized asset, the canonical location for profile metadata on the decentralized web, a framework for…