You shouldn’t trust a third party with your money or identity. So then what? Blockchain and cryptocurrency “prophets” haven’t been telling you the whole story... When you use a blockchain, you are 100% responsible for your assets be it value or identity. The technology has seen slow adoption precisely for…

I joined Harmony Protocol last year to work on application layer development with a focus on NFTs and collectibles. I was impressed by an older, more mature and predominantly immigrant executive team, complimented by young, eager developers either working while in school or already with a few years of big…

There’s buzz lately about creating a “decentralized Internet” (again). This makes perfect sense in the wake of privacy concerns, hacks and regulations. The knee jerk reaction is to point fingers at big tech. The extreme reaction is to draw up specifications for a new Internet; coincidentally, the plot of Silicon…

Introduction When coding in JavaScript we’re given 2 main choices for building complex objects: classical inheritance or object composition. The later in JavaScript is a combination of functional inheritance and concatenative inheritance. You define a factory function to create your object state. Then you concatenate this object with a copy of…

The days of disruption, radical token models, value capture theses and spreading crypto gospel to anyone who will listen are over. Make room for blockchain transformation, value creation and adoption. Maturation is a good thing. Despite the shift, what was once the cypherpunk’s vision of the future — an internet…

Don’t be evil: a cute slogan. Now a rescinded promise. Can’t be evil: a model for future organizations and business. Companies will transition from trusted terms of service to establishing contractual agreements of service digitally. Proving an immutable level of service will be the new norm and a unique selling…

Smaller bundles, code splitting and easy monolithic library breaking! Maybe you’re not using materialize wrong, but here’s my story and use case for tweaking in my projects. Continue reading if you are: Using create-react-app / webpack / es6 modules Moderately concerned about bundle size Enjoy knowing you’re only using what…

It’s about time the blockchain and cryptocurrency community takes a stand against impractical applications. Everyone can’t seem to stop talking about governance, especially the elusive, “decentralized autonomous organization”, or DAO. In the purest DAO, anyone with internet access and capital can participate. Participation is pseudo-anonymous like the Bitcoin network. The…

There’s no shortage of excitement around non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Their ownership is akin to owning a popular cryptocurrency like bitcoin, a cryptographically secured form of digital scarcity. The difference? Owning an NFT means owning a universally unique digital item; no 2 are the same. NFTs are still nascent and there…