Sven Seven·Jul 25, 2022Deep dive into OpenBrushMy name is Danylo Semirazov — I am a CTO at Asylum and Supercolony and will walk you through our open-source product — OpenBrush, a tool for smart contracts development. I’ll explain to you what it is and why it is crucial for the future of WASM smart contracts. When…Smart Contracts6 min readSmart Contracts6 min read
Karel Kubat·Jun 16, 2022A look into Virtual Machines and Smart Contract RuntimesWritten by Karel Kubat, CTO of Composable Finance Post Material after WASM conference 2022 Virtual machines form the basis of execution environments for smart contracts. The EVM is the most dominant solution at the moment. …Smart Contracts5 min readSmart Contracts5 min read
Nazar Mokrynskyi·Jun 11, 2022Subspace road towards 1M+ TPSPost Material after WASM conference 2022 Why? At Subspace we believe Web3 is the future, which in turns means more and more apps will need to be running on chain. …Wasm Contract12 min readWasm Contract12 min read
Supercolony·Jun 8, 2022What is Parity’s “ink!”?written by Michael Muller, the Core Developer at Parity Post Material after WASM conference 2022 This is a summary of the talk “What is Parity’s ink!?” which Michael Müller gave for the Wasm Conference 2022. Michi has been a developer at Parity for a couple of years now, working mostly…Polkadot9 min readPolkadot9 min read
Abrosimov Illia·Jun 8, 2022Smart Contracts vs Centralized BackendPost Material after WASM conference 2022 Intro In this article, I want to overview the usage of smart contracts as the alternative for a centralized backend in general-purpose applications (and particularly in gaming). An important note here — I’ll talk about the smart contracts as a particular case of the decentralized…Metaverse8 min readMetaverse8 min read
Shelvenzhou·Jun 8, 2022Fat Contract: Introduce Off-chain Computation to Smart Contractwritten by Shelven Zhou, the Lead Researcher of Phala Network Post Material after WASM conference 2022 What is off-chain computation? Before introducing the off-chain computation, let’s first learn about the on-chain computation model adopted by almost all the existing smart contracts.Phala Network6 min readPhala Network6 min read
Hoon Kim·Jun 7, 2022A hitchhiker’s guide to WASM smart contract ecosystemPost Material after WASM conference 2022 Introduction Smart contracts are what allow other people to create custom use cases on top of a blockchain. For a blockchain to support smart contracts, it must have a smart contract execution environment or a smart contract virtual machine. Arguably the most popular environment is…Polkadot11 min readPolkadot11 min read
Bryan Chen·Jun 7, 2022Hybrid dApps and the future of Smart ContractsPost Material after WASM conference 2022 Historically, there were only a few options when building a blockchain protocol: build using smart contracts and deploying it to either Layer 1 or Layer 2 blockchains, or building it as a Layer 1 or a Layer 2 blockchain. Each option has its own…Polkadot9 min readPolkadot9 min read
Heorhii Lutsenko·Jun 7, 2022Smart contracts vs Custom blockchainsPost Material after WASM conference 2022 No silver bullet Fred Brooks, “No Silver Bullet — Essence and Accident in Software Engineering” Despite all of you should already know what a smart contract and blockchain are, we still need to provide simple definitions of the smart contract and custom blockchain. Ethereum’s…Blockchain12 min readBlockchain12 min read
Toma Sadova·Apr 29, 2022Tools for Smart Contracts in PolkadotMy name is Toma, I am Supercolony Market Growth Unit Lead, Product Owner of OpenBrush (tool for smart contracts in Polkadot), WASM Conference Lead, and just a girl who explores the crypto, WEB3, and Polkadot world every day. Supercolony is a venture studio. As a venture studio, we are dedicated…Polkadot10 min readPolkadot10 min read