Purpose: This “Entrepreneurship In Web3 Lec 5: Web3 landscape (III)” is likely the most practical presentation Balaji has delivered. Many of the mental frameworks and problems listed could easily inspire multiple future startups. I highly recommend watching the presentation.  Disclaimer: This is not a polished blog post. Below is more like a parietal transcript, with…

D-Squared Musings – Week 2 Crypto Security 💗 Vulnerability impacting multiple zero-knowledge-proof systems  Education 📜 Awesome Web3 Security List 🧑‍💻 Web3 Developer Report Electric Capital (2021) Miscellaneous 👷 Interlocking foam flooring 

D-Squared Musings – Week 1 Crypto Security 📜 Ethereum Smart Contract Auditor’s 2022 Rewind (Patrick D.) 🔏 Security of ZK Systems Education 🤖 Trail of Bits Echidna Course “Learn to Fuzz like a pro” Miscellaneous 🧠 Intermittent Fasting Experiment for mental clarity 💀 A Beginner’s Guide to the End

Zero-knowledge proofs or ZKP for short. This is a topic I’ve known about for years, but my understanding of it was vague (to say the least). If I had to explain it to a five-year-old, my explanation would be…  “It’s a way to prove something, without sharing knowledge about that thing with another person”  Which…