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…

The best auditing firm does not only find issues but communicates them in a way that the Web3 community can understand.  Two weeks ago I decided to read my first smart contract audit report, which snowballed into reading an additional 10 reports from different firms. From my experience, I realized that not all audits are…

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The Realization I’m not sure what it is about the “cryptos”, but I keep getting pulled back in… one way or another… Over the last six years, I’ve cultivated an interest in emerging technology, keeping tabs on the next cool thing. Back In 2016 one of the first newer pieces of tech that caught my…

Recently, I was given an opportunity to further my education in the world of InfoSec and decided on pursuing a certification in the world of DevOps, specifically securing DevOps through automation. This post is all about why I decided on that certification (or really any cert), how I accelerated that learning process (passed in 3-weeks),…