Keeping up with crypto twitter is somewhat of a necessity if you work in the industry. But it really does damage to one’s attention span. Not to blame my dwindling ability to concentrate on external factors, but I think it’s definitely been a primary contributor recently. …
crypto/blockchain researcher
An illustrative case study & how insurance can be realized on the blockchain
▶ This is an article in API3’s Redefining Trust series.
Most people are familiar with insurance — a contract that reimburses a customer for the damages they sustain after a pre-specified incident. After a personal injury, health…
A brief history of insurance, and what it means for Web 3.0.
The growth of any industry necessitates sophisticated insurance products. The risks inherent in exploration and entrepreneurship must be mitigated and managed. It is no different in the nascent crypto/blockchain space …
Someone in the API3 Telegram channel asked this question:
I still don’t fully get why smart contracts need oracles, why is it that smart contracts are not able to query APIs the same way regular apps can? …
My thoughts on the state of the blockchain space
I was asked to answer several questions for a media feature, but the article was unfortunately shelved, and I didn’t want my responses to go to waste :)
I realized while answering these questions, that this was the first time I publicly talked about blockchain really “high-level” — even though…
This is an introduction to one element of API3's technical design.
The API3 solution to the API connectivity problem requires an ecosystem with a large number of first-party oracles. Airnode’s role in this is to make first-party oracles a reality.
Airnode
Airnode is an oracle node specifically engineered for API-provider operated…
This is a series of excerpts from an email exchange I had with Ayndryl, site admin and one of several contributors to Forgotten Languages.
It’s a pretty fluid discussion that curvedly touches on: linguistics, computer programming languages, cognitive psychology, Turing machines, quantum mechanics, and philosophy [having the final word].
If…
This is a post summarizing this excellent research paper by Tim Roughgarden.
I will give an overview of the EIP-1559 proposal, restate Roughgarden’s “Ten Key Takeaways”, and offer a bit of a high-level and intuitive explanation for the proofs/arguments in his paper. (You can also just skip to the conclusion.)
Background: Transactions in Ethereum
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This is kind of a Part 2 to my post How Mesa DEX Works which I wrote on November 27th, three days before the API3 public token distribution. During the distribution — in fact, right at the beginning — a previously untapped exploit was used by an attacker to purchase…
