In this two-part article, we dissect the technical aspects of staking and restaking, while exploring the tension between composable capital efficiency and the value of decentralization
In this two-part article, we dissect the technical aspects of staking and restaking, while exploring the tension between composable capital efficiency and the value of decentralization
Read how we believe Kakarot is positioned to benefit from advancements in EVM design, ethereum tooling and Starknet’s proving framework and we expect it to emerge as one of the top scaling solutions.
The 12-week program offers two distinct routes to equip builders and founders with the knowledge, funding, and network needed to successfully launch their projects on the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM)
As smart accounts bring more logic to the user’s direct control (e.g. batched transactions, customised gas payments), they are well-positioned to improve crypto UX and accelerate Web3 adoption. This article posits that it can be achieved through the shift from externally-owned accounts to modular smart accounts and the shift from generalised wallets to specialised smart wallets.
The 12-week program comprises an accelerator and a builder fellowship program, both designed to provide founders and builders with the necessary knowledge, funding, and network to launch their projects successfully on the Safe{Core} Smart Account Standard and scale it for different use-cases.
Current token incentive programs by Web3 infrastructure projects are unsustainable. We propose a novel Value Alignment Program for Safe (and other infra projects) to capture & distribute value with their ecosystem projects through token swaps and revenue sharing.
The Cosmos ecosystem was designed with the vision of creating an internet of blockchains. The philosophy behind the architecture was that each project should be able to spin up their own dedicated blockchain, modify it to a large extent based on their application requirements, and retain the security properties while having the ability to interoperate with each other. All the modules of the CosmosSDK and Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) were designed with this purpose in mind. This architecture did solve a lot of problems that exist in other blockchain architectures like limited scalability, network congestion, and less flexibility for developers. However, this approach had a few challenges of its own.
The 12-week program offers two distinct routes, designed to provide founders and builders with the necessary knowledge, funding, and network to successfully launch their projects on Cosmos’ Partner Chains
Native cross-chain applications are the future of web3 dApps. Just as algae developed into colonies to leverage collective strength, or as animals developed specialized organs for new functionality, going cross-chain is a step change in the evolution of dApps.
What will the endgame of an interconnected web3 look like? We believe that all bridges will evolve into cross-chain messaging or “Arbitrary Message Passing” (AMP) protocols to unlock new use cases
LongHashX, the accelerator arm of early-stage venture firm LongHash Ventures, launches LongHash Web (LHW), an on-chain contribution network enabling mentorship and advise for early-stage builders of Web3 infrastructure and applications.
Privacy in Web3 will require innovative new products and technologies to provide users a way to hide their identity while making it hard for criminals to hide their activity.
Web3 gaming’s potential lies in the long tail of innovation. To unleash that, we need infrastructure to lower barriers. While adoption is early and more pieces are needed, an ecosystem has clearly emerged. Across the lifecycle, from technical to financial, this blueprint shows how you can lean on the building blocks of Web3 gaming infrastructure.
ReNFT is a multi-chain NFT rental protocol and platform that can be whitelabel integrated into any Web3 project to enable collateral-free in-house renting, lending, and reward sharing (scholarship automation).
There is a fundamental misalignment between web3 values and the communication platforms we use today. The centralised cloud servers underpinning Telegram, Discord, and Twitter open risk avenues not only for centralised companies to monetise our influence, but governments to access our personal data.
The Cosmos ecosystem has piqued the interest of investors, developers and users significantly in the past one year. We try to understand this ecosystem by answering 5 simple questions.
Formerly known as Gnosis Safe, which was the successor to the Gnosis Multisig, everyone’s favorite multisignature wallet has rebranded to Safe. Safe is a configurable smart contract account that aims to solve the issue of private keys being the single point of failure. This article delves into the history, features and future of Safe.
The concept of “the blockchain’’ is already outdated today. When someone says they are building in Web3 or on blockchain, you might ask: “which one?” Sure, pockets of tribalism or “chain maximalism” exist, where people claim the supremacy of their favourite blockchain.
With a market cap representing less than 1% of the entire crypto market, we remain in the nascent stages of social tokens. We’re so early that social token thought leaders are yet to agree upon a definition. Put simply, however, they can be seen as representations of fractional ownership of a brand, individual, or community.
Witness the next generation of Web3 at our LongHashX Demo Day. This year, we will be hosting Demo Day in the Cryptovoxels Metaverse, in collaboration with Protocol Labs.
If DeFi is about programmable money, then DAOs are about programmable power. While they often intertwine, the design of DAOs has taken a life of its own. In this rapidly evolving landscape, let’s take a look at 3 archetypes, and where they break down.
We strongly believe in the philosophy of decentralization: the core of Web 3.0 and a key enabler of power for communities to drive decisions on how protocols improve and evolve. As Web 3 projects shift to a decentralized governance model, we look to shed light on how you can do so through our Web 3.0 Governance Blueprint.
Learn how to transition gradually to a decentralized governance model, from establishing the degree of decentralization to incentivizing community participation
What do you do in a bear market? If anyone says that they know with 100% certainty how the crypto market will move, they’re likely either lying or overconfident (otherwise please DM me the future too). But even in uncertain market conditions, opportunities still abound.
While transparency is a core tenet of Web 3.0, a segment of users have been concerned with the completely open records of their on-chain behaviour. Potential privacy leakages and security threats associated with transfers across protocols have become pertinent threats to their usage. With DeFi already at $63.45B in TVL (according to DeFi Pulse), these threats call for urgent action.
DeFi today is not yet suited for mainstream adoption, with fragmented offerings, suboptimal UI/UX, and lack of education. How do we break through these barriers?
Web 3.0 has given the ability to anyone to be their own bank and Asset Manager, increased transparency and control over investment decisions, and introduced composability among DeFi projects, enabling investors to connect “money Legos” to create previously unimaginable financial products.
It is nigh impossible to overlook the explosion of interest in NFTs in the past year. From artist Beeple’s $69M auction at Christie’s, to NBA’s Top Shot moments grossing over $230M in sales, and the more bizarre like Jack Dorsey’s $2.9M sale for his first Tweet, the list of creators and celebrities issuing these unique, Non-Fungible Tokens grows by the day. Why is there such fervor?
In bull markets, investors both retail and institutional flood in seeking life-changing wealth. But as the numbers go up and down, and each day grabs us in new twists and flashes of red and green, it bears reminding that the intangible value of crypto can be equally or sometimes even more rewarding than tangible wealth.
We believe supporting innovation starts with understanding it. As the breadth of invention and adoption of blockchain continues only to accelerate, our team took the opportunity to speak with some of the foremost and leading investors to provide a fresh take on a topic that has intrigued and frustrated the industry in turn: tokenomics.
You may recall the Cambrian explosion of ICO projects in 2017–2018, where projects largely printed their own money to raise capital, in the form of “utility tokens” which more often than not simply introduced friction in the usage of platforms.
Let’s see. Unprecedented yields, constantly rising TVLs, and more mature, sophisticated products being constantly launched. If you’re plugged into the DeFi ecosystem, this could well be one of the most exciting times of your life.
2020 turned out to be a stellar year in the land of crypto/digital assets, with BTC hitting an all time high above USD34K, and DeFi’s Total Value Locked growing from USD1B in January to USD15B in December. According to The Block, Bitcoin’s on-chain transaction volume has also increased by 42% from $672 billion in 2019 to $960 billion in 2020.
AMMs have played a huge role in driving DeFi and democratizing liquidity provision but they can come with heavy limitations. A new wave of innovation will be needed for mainstream users to better manage their risks and continue participating in this revolution.
Investors often wonder about the industry’s unquenchable confidence in the potential of blockchain technology. Many bearishly suggested that decentralized ledger technology remains just another tool for enterprises to eventually cut costs or do business more efficiently.
In this article, we walk through why it’s a good idea, how you can become one, and go deep into how you can prepare to become a parachain. It may sound daunting, but every step of the way, we at LongHash are here to help!
In this two-part article, we dissect the technical aspects of staking and restaking, while exploring the tension between composable capital efficiency and the value of decentralization
In this two-part article, we dissect the technical aspects of staking and restaking, while exploring the tension between composable capital efficiency and the value of decentralization
Read how we believe Kakarot is positioned to benefit from advancements in EVM design, ethereum tooling and Starknet’s proving framework and we expect it to emerge as one of the top scaling solutions.
The 12-week program offers two distinct routes to equip builders and founders with the knowledge, funding, and network needed to successfully launch their projects on the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM)
As smart accounts bring more logic to the user’s direct control (e.g. batched transactions, customised gas payments), they are well-positioned to improve crypto UX and accelerate Web3 adoption. This article posits that it can be achieved through the shift from externally-owned accounts to modular smart accounts and the shift from generalised wallets to specialised smart wallets.
The 12-week program comprises an accelerator and a builder fellowship program, both designed to provide founders and builders with the necessary knowledge, funding, and network to launch their projects successfully on the Safe{Core} Smart Account Standard and scale it for different use-cases.
Current token incentive programs by Web3 infrastructure projects are unsustainable. We propose a novel Value Alignment Program for Safe (and other infra projects) to capture & distribute value with their ecosystem projects through token swaps and revenue sharing.
The Cosmos ecosystem was designed with the vision of creating an internet of blockchains. The philosophy behind the architecture was that each project should be able to spin up their own dedicated blockchain, modify it to a large extent based on their application requirements, and retain the security properties while having the ability to interoperate with each other. All the modules of the CosmosSDK and Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) were designed with this purpose in mind. This architecture did solve a lot of problems that exist in other blockchain architectures like limited scalability, network congestion, and less flexibility for developers. However, this approach had a few challenges of its own.
The 12-week program offers two distinct routes, designed to provide founders and builders with the necessary knowledge, funding, and network to successfully launch their projects on Cosmos’ Partner Chains
Native cross-chain applications are the future of web3 dApps. Just as algae developed into colonies to leverage collective strength, or as animals developed specialized organs for new functionality, going cross-chain is a step change in the evolution of dApps.
What will the endgame of an interconnected web3 look like? We believe that all bridges will evolve into cross-chain messaging or “Arbitrary Message Passing” (AMP) protocols to unlock new use cases
LongHashX, the accelerator arm of early-stage venture firm LongHash Ventures, launches LongHash Web (LHW), an on-chain contribution network enabling mentorship and advise for early-stage builders of Web3 infrastructure and applications.
Privacy in Web3 will require innovative new products and technologies to provide users a way to hide their identity while making it hard for criminals to hide their activity.
Web3 gaming’s potential lies in the long tail of innovation. To unleash that, we need infrastructure to lower barriers. While adoption is early and more pieces are needed, an ecosystem has clearly emerged. Across the lifecycle, from technical to financial, this blueprint shows how you can lean on the building blocks of Web3 gaming infrastructure.
ReNFT is a multi-chain NFT rental protocol and platform that can be whitelabel integrated into any Web3 project to enable collateral-free in-house renting, lending, and reward sharing (scholarship automation).
There is a fundamental misalignment between web3 values and the communication platforms we use today. The centralised cloud servers underpinning Telegram, Discord, and Twitter open risk avenues not only for centralised companies to monetise our influence, but governments to access our personal data.
The Cosmos ecosystem has piqued the interest of investors, developers and users significantly in the past one year. We try to understand this ecosystem by answering 5 simple questions.
Formerly known as Gnosis Safe, which was the successor to the Gnosis Multisig, everyone’s favorite multisignature wallet has rebranded to Safe. Safe is a configurable smart contract account that aims to solve the issue of private keys being the single point of failure. This article delves into the history, features and future of Safe.
The concept of “the blockchain’’ is already outdated today. When someone says they are building in Web3 or on blockchain, you might ask: “which one?” Sure, pockets of tribalism or “chain maximalism” exist, where people claim the supremacy of their favourite blockchain.
With a market cap representing less than 1% of the entire crypto market, we remain in the nascent stages of social tokens. We’re so early that social token thought leaders are yet to agree upon a definition. Put simply, however, they can be seen as representations of fractional ownership of a brand, individual, or community.
Witness the next generation of Web3 at our LongHashX Demo Day. This year, we will be hosting Demo Day in the Cryptovoxels Metaverse, in collaboration with Protocol Labs.
If DeFi is about programmable money, then DAOs are about programmable power. While they often intertwine, the design of DAOs has taken a life of its own. In this rapidly evolving landscape, let’s take a look at 3 archetypes, and where they break down.
We strongly believe in the philosophy of decentralization: the core of Web 3.0 and a key enabler of power for communities to drive decisions on how protocols improve and evolve. As Web 3 projects shift to a decentralized governance model, we look to shed light on how you can do so through our Web 3.0 Governance Blueprint.
Learn how to transition gradually to a decentralized governance model, from establishing the degree of decentralization to incentivizing community participation
What do you do in a bear market? If anyone says that they know with 100% certainty how the crypto market will move, they’re likely either lying or overconfident (otherwise please DM me the future too). But even in uncertain market conditions, opportunities still abound.
While transparency is a core tenet of Web 3.0, a segment of users have been concerned with the completely open records of their on-chain behaviour. Potential privacy leakages and security threats associated with transfers across protocols have become pertinent threats to their usage. With DeFi already at $63.45B in TVL (according to DeFi Pulse), these threats call for urgent action.
DeFi today is not yet suited for mainstream adoption, with fragmented offerings, suboptimal UI/UX, and lack of education. How do we break through these barriers?
Web 3.0 has given the ability to anyone to be their own bank and Asset Manager, increased transparency and control over investment decisions, and introduced composability among DeFi projects, enabling investors to connect “money Legos” to create previously unimaginable financial products.
It is nigh impossible to overlook the explosion of interest in NFTs in the past year. From artist Beeple’s $69M auction at Christie’s, to NBA’s Top Shot moments grossing over $230M in sales, and the more bizarre like Jack Dorsey’s $2.9M sale for his first Tweet, the list of creators and celebrities issuing these unique, Non-Fungible Tokens grows by the day. Why is there such fervor?
In bull markets, investors both retail and institutional flood in seeking life-changing wealth. But as the numbers go up and down, and each day grabs us in new twists and flashes of red and green, it bears reminding that the intangible value of crypto can be equally or sometimes even more rewarding than tangible wealth.
We believe supporting innovation starts with understanding it. As the breadth of invention and adoption of blockchain continues only to accelerate, our team took the opportunity to speak with some of the foremost and leading investors to provide a fresh take on a topic that has intrigued and frustrated the industry in turn: tokenomics.
You may recall the Cambrian explosion of ICO projects in 2017–2018, where projects largely printed their own money to raise capital, in the form of “utility tokens” which more often than not simply introduced friction in the usage of platforms.
Let’s see. Unprecedented yields, constantly rising TVLs, and more mature, sophisticated products being constantly launched. If you’re plugged into the DeFi ecosystem, this could well be one of the most exciting times of your life.
2020 turned out to be a stellar year in the land of crypto/digital assets, with BTC hitting an all time high above USD34K, and DeFi’s Total Value Locked growing from USD1B in January to USD15B in December. According to The Block, Bitcoin’s on-chain transaction volume has also increased by 42% from $672 billion in 2019 to $960 billion in 2020.
AMMs have played a huge role in driving DeFi and democratizing liquidity provision but they can come with heavy limitations. A new wave of innovation will be needed for mainstream users to better manage their risks and continue participating in this revolution.
Investors often wonder about the industry’s unquenchable confidence in the potential of blockchain technology. Many bearishly suggested that decentralized ledger technology remains just another tool for enterprises to eventually cut costs or do business more efficiently.
In this article, we walk through why it’s a good idea, how you can become one, and go deep into how you can prepare to become a parachain. It may sound daunting, but every step of the way, we at LongHash are here to help!
In this two-part article, we dissect the technical aspects of staking and restaking, while exploring the tension between composable capital efficiency and the value of decentralization
In this two-part article, we dissect the technical aspects of staking and restaking, while exploring the tension between composable capital efficiency and the value of decentralization
Read how we believe Kakarot is positioned to benefit from advancements in EVM design, ethereum tooling and Starknet’s proving framework and we expect it to emerge as one of the top scaling solutions.
The 12-week program offers two distinct routes to equip builders and founders with the knowledge, funding, and network needed to successfully launch their projects on the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM)
As smart accounts bring more logic to the user’s direct control (e.g. batched transactions, customised gas payments), they are well-positioned to improve crypto UX and accelerate Web3 adoption. This article posits that it can be achieved through the shift from externally-owned accounts to modular smart accounts and the shift from generalised wallets to specialised smart wallets.
The 12-week program comprises an accelerator and a builder fellowship program, both designed to provide founders and builders with the necessary knowledge, funding, and network to launch their projects successfully on the Safe{Core} Smart Account Standard and scale it for different use-cases.
Current token incentive programs by Web3 infrastructure projects are unsustainable. We propose a novel Value Alignment Program for Safe (and other infra projects) to capture & distribute value with their ecosystem projects through token swaps and revenue sharing.
The Cosmos ecosystem was designed with the vision of creating an internet of blockchains. The philosophy behind the architecture was that each project should be able to spin up their own dedicated blockchain, modify it to a large extent based on their application requirements, and retain the security properties while having the ability to interoperate with each other. All the modules of the CosmosSDK and Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) were designed with this purpose in mind. This architecture did solve a lot of problems that exist in other blockchain architectures like limited scalability, network congestion, and less flexibility for developers. However, this approach had a few challenges of its own.
The 12-week program offers two distinct routes, designed to provide founders and builders with the necessary knowledge, funding, and network to successfully launch their projects on Cosmos’ Partner Chains
Native cross-chain applications are the future of web3 dApps. Just as algae developed into colonies to leverage collective strength, or as animals developed specialized organs for new functionality, going cross-chain is a step change in the evolution of dApps.
What will the endgame of an interconnected web3 look like? We believe that all bridges will evolve into cross-chain messaging or “Arbitrary Message Passing” (AMP) protocols to unlock new use cases
LongHashX, the accelerator arm of early-stage venture firm LongHash Ventures, launches LongHash Web (LHW), an on-chain contribution network enabling mentorship and advise for early-stage builders of Web3 infrastructure and applications.
Privacy in Web3 will require innovative new products and technologies to provide users a way to hide their identity while making it hard for criminals to hide their activity.
Web3 gaming’s potential lies in the long tail of innovation. To unleash that, we need infrastructure to lower barriers. While adoption is early and more pieces are needed, an ecosystem has clearly emerged. Across the lifecycle, from technical to financial, this blueprint shows how you can lean on the building blocks of Web3 gaming infrastructure.
ReNFT is a multi-chain NFT rental protocol and platform that can be whitelabel integrated into any Web3 project to enable collateral-free in-house renting, lending, and reward sharing (scholarship automation).
There is a fundamental misalignment between web3 values and the communication platforms we use today. The centralised cloud servers underpinning Telegram, Discord, and Twitter open risk avenues not only for centralised companies to monetise our influence, but governments to access our personal data.
The Cosmos ecosystem has piqued the interest of investors, developers and users significantly in the past one year. We try to understand this ecosystem by answering 5 simple questions.
Formerly known as Gnosis Safe, which was the successor to the Gnosis Multisig, everyone’s favorite multisignature wallet has rebranded to Safe. Safe is a configurable smart contract account that aims to solve the issue of private keys being the single point of failure. This article delves into the history, features and future of Safe.
The concept of “the blockchain’’ is already outdated today. When someone says they are building in Web3 or on blockchain, you might ask: “which one?” Sure, pockets of tribalism or “chain maximalism” exist, where people claim the supremacy of their favourite blockchain.
With a market cap representing less than 1% of the entire crypto market, we remain in the nascent stages of social tokens. We’re so early that social token thought leaders are yet to agree upon a definition. Put simply, however, they can be seen as representations of fractional ownership of a brand, individual, or community.
Witness the next generation of Web3 at our LongHashX Demo Day. This year, we will be hosting Demo Day in the Cryptovoxels Metaverse, in collaboration with Protocol Labs.
If DeFi is about programmable money, then DAOs are about programmable power. While they often intertwine, the design of DAOs has taken a life of its own. In this rapidly evolving landscape, let’s take a look at 3 archetypes, and where they break down.
We strongly believe in the philosophy of decentralization: the core of Web 3.0 and a key enabler of power for communities to drive decisions on how protocols improve and evolve. As Web 3 projects shift to a decentralized governance model, we look to shed light on how you can do so through our Web 3.0 Governance Blueprint.
Learn how to transition gradually to a decentralized governance model, from establishing the degree of decentralization to incentivizing community participation
What do you do in a bear market? If anyone says that they know with 100% certainty how the crypto market will move, they’re likely either lying or overconfident (otherwise please DM me the future too). But even in uncertain market conditions, opportunities still abound.
While transparency is a core tenet of Web 3.0, a segment of users have been concerned with the completely open records of their on-chain behaviour. Potential privacy leakages and security threats associated with transfers across protocols have become pertinent threats to their usage. With DeFi already at $63.45B in TVL (according to DeFi Pulse), these threats call for urgent action.
DeFi today is not yet suited for mainstream adoption, with fragmented offerings, suboptimal UI/UX, and lack of education. How do we break through these barriers?
Web 3.0 has given the ability to anyone to be their own bank and Asset Manager, increased transparency and control over investment decisions, and introduced composability among DeFi projects, enabling investors to connect “money Legos” to create previously unimaginable financial products.
It is nigh impossible to overlook the explosion of interest in NFTs in the past year. From artist Beeple’s $69M auction at Christie’s, to NBA’s Top Shot moments grossing over $230M in sales, and the more bizarre like Jack Dorsey’s $2.9M sale for his first Tweet, the list of creators and celebrities issuing these unique, Non-Fungible Tokens grows by the day. Why is there such fervor?
In bull markets, investors both retail and institutional flood in seeking life-changing wealth. But as the numbers go up and down, and each day grabs us in new twists and flashes of red and green, it bears reminding that the intangible value of crypto can be equally or sometimes even more rewarding than tangible wealth.
We believe supporting innovation starts with understanding it. As the breadth of invention and adoption of blockchain continues only to accelerate, our team took the opportunity to speak with some of the foremost and leading investors to provide a fresh take on a topic that has intrigued and frustrated the industry in turn: tokenomics.
You may recall the Cambrian explosion of ICO projects in 2017–2018, where projects largely printed their own money to raise capital, in the form of “utility tokens” which more often than not simply introduced friction in the usage of platforms.
Let’s see. Unprecedented yields, constantly rising TVLs, and more mature, sophisticated products being constantly launched. If you’re plugged into the DeFi ecosystem, this could well be one of the most exciting times of your life.
2020 turned out to be a stellar year in the land of crypto/digital assets, with BTC hitting an all time high above USD34K, and DeFi’s Total Value Locked growing from USD1B in January to USD15B in December. According to The Block, Bitcoin’s on-chain transaction volume has also increased by 42% from $672 billion in 2019 to $960 billion in 2020.
AMMs have played a huge role in driving DeFi and democratizing liquidity provision but they can come with heavy limitations. A new wave of innovation will be needed for mainstream users to better manage their risks and continue participating in this revolution.
Investors often wonder about the industry’s unquenchable confidence in the potential of blockchain technology. Many bearishly suggested that decentralized ledger technology remains just another tool for enterprises to eventually cut costs or do business more efficiently.
In this article, we walk through why it’s a good idea, how you can become one, and go deep into how you can prepare to become a parachain. It may sound daunting, but every step of the way, we at LongHash are here to help!
In this two-part article, we dissect the technical aspects of staking and restaking, while exploring the tension between composable capital efficiency and the value of decentralization
In this two-part article, we dissect the technical aspects of staking and restaking, while exploring the tension between composable capital efficiency and the value of decentralization
Read how we believe Kakarot is positioned to benefit from advancements in EVM design, ethereum tooling and Starknet’s proving framework and we expect it to emerge as one of the top scaling solutions.
The 12-week program offers two distinct routes to equip builders and founders with the knowledge, funding, and network needed to successfully launch their projects on the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM)
As smart accounts bring more logic to the user’s direct control (e.g. batched transactions, customised gas payments), they are well-positioned to improve crypto UX and accelerate Web3 adoption. This article posits that it can be achieved through the shift from externally-owned accounts to modular smart accounts and the shift from generalised wallets to specialised smart wallets.
The 12-week program comprises an accelerator and a builder fellowship program, both designed to provide founders and builders with the necessary knowledge, funding, and network to launch their projects successfully on the Safe{Core} Smart Account Standard and scale it for different use-cases.
Current token incentive programs by Web3 infrastructure projects are unsustainable. We propose a novel Value Alignment Program for Safe (and other infra projects) to capture & distribute value with their ecosystem projects through token swaps and revenue sharing.
The Cosmos ecosystem was designed with the vision of creating an internet of blockchains. The philosophy behind the architecture was that each project should be able to spin up their own dedicated blockchain, modify it to a large extent based on their application requirements, and retain the security properties while having the ability to interoperate with each other. All the modules of the CosmosSDK and Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) were designed with this purpose in mind. This architecture did solve a lot of problems that exist in other blockchain architectures like limited scalability, network congestion, and less flexibility for developers. However, this approach had a few challenges of its own.
The 12-week program offers two distinct routes, designed to provide founders and builders with the necessary knowledge, funding, and network to successfully launch their projects on Cosmos’ Partner Chains
Native cross-chain applications are the future of web3 dApps. Just as algae developed into colonies to leverage collective strength, or as animals developed specialized organs for new functionality, going cross-chain is a step change in the evolution of dApps.
What will the endgame of an interconnected web3 look like? We believe that all bridges will evolve into cross-chain messaging or “Arbitrary Message Passing” (AMP) protocols to unlock new use cases
LongHashX, the accelerator arm of early-stage venture firm LongHash Ventures, launches LongHash Web (LHW), an on-chain contribution network enabling mentorship and advise for early-stage builders of Web3 infrastructure and applications.
Privacy in Web3 will require innovative new products and technologies to provide users a way to hide their identity while making it hard for criminals to hide their activity.
Web3 gaming’s potential lies in the long tail of innovation. To unleash that, we need infrastructure to lower barriers. While adoption is early and more pieces are needed, an ecosystem has clearly emerged. Across the lifecycle, from technical to financial, this blueprint shows how you can lean on the building blocks of Web3 gaming infrastructure.
ReNFT is a multi-chain NFT rental protocol and platform that can be whitelabel integrated into any Web3 project to enable collateral-free in-house renting, lending, and reward sharing (scholarship automation).
There is a fundamental misalignment between web3 values and the communication platforms we use today. The centralised cloud servers underpinning Telegram, Discord, and Twitter open risk avenues not only for centralised companies to monetise our influence, but governments to access our personal data.
The Cosmos ecosystem has piqued the interest of investors, developers and users significantly in the past one year. We try to understand this ecosystem by answering 5 simple questions.
Formerly known as Gnosis Safe, which was the successor to the Gnosis Multisig, everyone’s favorite multisignature wallet has rebranded to Safe. Safe is a configurable smart contract account that aims to solve the issue of private keys being the single point of failure. This article delves into the history, features and future of Safe.
The concept of “the blockchain’’ is already outdated today. When someone says they are building in Web3 or on blockchain, you might ask: “which one?” Sure, pockets of tribalism or “chain maximalism” exist, where people claim the supremacy of their favourite blockchain.
With a market cap representing less than 1% of the entire crypto market, we remain in the nascent stages of social tokens. We’re so early that social token thought leaders are yet to agree upon a definition. Put simply, however, they can be seen as representations of fractional ownership of a brand, individual, or community.
Witness the next generation of Web3 at our LongHashX Demo Day. This year, we will be hosting Demo Day in the Cryptovoxels Metaverse, in collaboration with Protocol Labs.
If DeFi is about programmable money, then DAOs are about programmable power. While they often intertwine, the design of DAOs has taken a life of its own. In this rapidly evolving landscape, let’s take a look at 3 archetypes, and where they break down.
We strongly believe in the philosophy of decentralization: the core of Web 3.0 and a key enabler of power for communities to drive decisions on how protocols improve and evolve. As Web 3 projects shift to a decentralized governance model, we look to shed light on how you can do so through our Web 3.0 Governance Blueprint.
Learn how to transition gradually to a decentralized governance model, from establishing the degree of decentralization to incentivizing community participation
What do you do in a bear market? If anyone says that they know with 100% certainty how the crypto market will move, they’re likely either lying or overconfident (otherwise please DM me the future too). But even in uncertain market conditions, opportunities still abound.
While transparency is a core tenet of Web 3.0, a segment of users have been concerned with the completely open records of their on-chain behaviour. Potential privacy leakages and security threats associated with transfers across protocols have become pertinent threats to their usage. With DeFi already at $63.45B in TVL (according to DeFi Pulse), these threats call for urgent action.
DeFi today is not yet suited for mainstream adoption, with fragmented offerings, suboptimal UI/UX, and lack of education. How do we break through these barriers?
Web 3.0 has given the ability to anyone to be their own bank and Asset Manager, increased transparency and control over investment decisions, and introduced composability among DeFi projects, enabling investors to connect “money Legos” to create previously unimaginable financial products.
It is nigh impossible to overlook the explosion of interest in NFTs in the past year. From artist Beeple’s $69M auction at Christie’s, to NBA’s Top Shot moments grossing over $230M in sales, and the more bizarre like Jack Dorsey’s $2.9M sale for his first Tweet, the list of creators and celebrities issuing these unique, Non-Fungible Tokens grows by the day. Why is there such fervor?
In bull markets, investors both retail and institutional flood in seeking life-changing wealth. But as the numbers go up and down, and each day grabs us in new twists and flashes of red and green, it bears reminding that the intangible value of crypto can be equally or sometimes even more rewarding than tangible wealth.
We believe supporting innovation starts with understanding it. As the breadth of invention and adoption of blockchain continues only to accelerate, our team took the opportunity to speak with some of the foremost and leading investors to provide a fresh take on a topic that has intrigued and frustrated the industry in turn: tokenomics.
You may recall the Cambrian explosion of ICO projects in 2017–2018, where projects largely printed their own money to raise capital, in the form of “utility tokens” which more often than not simply introduced friction in the usage of platforms.
Let’s see. Unprecedented yields, constantly rising TVLs, and more mature, sophisticated products being constantly launched. If you’re plugged into the DeFi ecosystem, this could well be one of the most exciting times of your life.
2020 turned out to be a stellar year in the land of crypto/digital assets, with BTC hitting an all time high above USD34K, and DeFi’s Total Value Locked growing from USD1B in January to USD15B in December. According to The Block, Bitcoin’s on-chain transaction volume has also increased by 42% from $672 billion in 2019 to $960 billion in 2020.
AMMs have played a huge role in driving DeFi and democratizing liquidity provision but they can come with heavy limitations. A new wave of innovation will be needed for mainstream users to better manage their risks and continue participating in this revolution.
Investors often wonder about the industry’s unquenchable confidence in the potential of blockchain technology. Many bearishly suggested that decentralized ledger technology remains just another tool for enterprises to eventually cut costs or do business more efficiently.
In this article, we walk through why it’s a good idea, how you can become one, and go deep into how you can prepare to become a parachain. It may sound daunting, but every step of the way, we at LongHash are here to help!
