someone-build

There should be a polymarket leaderboard for addresses with the most accurate fulfilled positions and/or most profitable trades

Many, actually!

Most at the intersection of crypto x real life:
- Stablecoin payment processors replacing POS Visa & Mastercard devices & fees is the most obvious one
- Better capital formation mechanisms bringing back ICOs, but in a way where teams are held accountable through milestone deliverables, ragequitability of funds & chances of being replaced as executors
- Easier ways of bootstrapping token economies in the real world, creating liquidity where there is non a-la Grassroots Economics & q/acc

...

If you're in the space and feel like you need a direction on something the build, here's a couple casts worth of good ideas

math

Engineering

Absolute mad man repairs a 30 year old scanning electron microscope, at home, in his garage, alone (mostly)!

Absolute mad man repairs a 30 year old scanning electron microscope, at home, in his garage, alone (mostly)!
https://youtu.be/Kqx9blbYDB0

Great expression of why twitter will likely be abandoned by everyone that isn't a professional twitter poster (it does make me sad that farcaster is never included in stuff like this, though)

Great expression of why twitter will likely be abandoned by everyone that isn't a professional twitter poster (it does make me sad that farcaster is never included in stuff like this, though) 
https://youtu.be/D4ghgVq9z4M

cryptography

I guess we might not be totally screwed if NP isn't hard

I guess we might not be totally screwed if NP isn't hard
https://www.quantamagazine.org/cryptographers-discover-a-new-foundation-for-quantum-secrecy-20240603/

Where did all the anarchists in crypto go? I came into this space when it was filled with people building tools and protocols that would sever reliance on state actors and ancient bloated institutions. People used to recoil when government or political parties were mentioned, because they could be captured by authoritarians or an adversarial mob. We were building a trustless base layer of last resort, it would literally be impossible to exclude anyone from using it. Those were the values and aspirations that pulled me into this space.

Is anybody here aware of anyone building reputation markets? I just finished listening to the latest win-win and I think the idea is super intriguing.

Is anybody here aware of anyone building reputation markets? I just finished listening to the latest win-win and I think the idea is super intriguing. 
https://youtu.be/xHQ--MYQOlI

faust

Decentralized Weather data could be intreseting. we can build up automated insurance for natural disasters on top of that

Cool analysis of the zen 5 CPU layout. Some interesting stuff in here

Cool analysis of the zen 5 CPU layout. Some interesting stuff in here
https://youtu.be/bPLKa4crk8A

learnonline

Noticed today when doing a simple math problem that I never factor things and get stuck as a result. Found some factoring practice problems and am going to work through them over the next few days to get comfortable with it and prime my brain to pattern match when it'll be useful

Ethereum

Noir

Spent the night playing around with noir again. It's been a few months since I checked it out last, and I feel like it's at the point now where I'm having fun figuring it out. Reminds me of how solidity felt around 2017~2018.

Are there any wallets that exist primarily as a secure library for apps to import and then build their own UI off of?

Happy petrov day! Remember to take a moment in the day and appreciate not living in a nuclear wasteland

One of my old favourite browser extensions was reddit comments for youtube, it would replace the regular youtube comments with the comments from where it was posted on reddit and tabs to switch between the posts. I think this would be a very cool thing to do with farcaster comments and FIP-2

How to dope silicon at home and not break the bank

How to dope silicon at home and not break the bank
https://youtu.be/1dFj-tGn8DI

crypto is hated and reviled, and the three years i've been here indicate to me that that's not gonna change for at least another 10 years

that's not "10 years to become mainstream"

that's "another decade to become legitimate"

progress is exponential, but progress is not a single path. and the internet has created thousands of different paths. crypto is only one of them

so compare the growth of crypto to the growth of the internet all you want, but it's wrong. the internet started as "unfamiliar" which hindered its growth. crypto is known as (and is, in its current form, undeniably) dangerous to consumers

and inb4 "but it's inherently secure" -- gtfo. teach your sweet aunt about how to secure her tokens, i dare you

and inb4 "oh it's a UX issue" -- no. it's PR issue. America Online had a UX issue. nobody was saying "those free AOL CDs will steal your money and also billions of dollars and also destroy the global economy"

Banger thread, a lot of work needs to be done to rehabilitate the image of crypto

Space

Very cool to see artists depicting a future of space development!

Very cool to see artists depicting a future of space development! 
https://whaleoil1.artstation.com/

Glue and coprocessor architectures:

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/09/02/gluecp.html

If anybody has read Vitalik's glue post and is interested in learning about ASIC design, here is an open source tool worth checking out.

If anybody has read Vitalik's glue post and is interested in learning about ASIC design, here is an open source tool worth checking out.
https://openlane2.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

Interested in ZK, FHE, PUFs, hardware, system design, ai safety, and smart contact security.

cqb

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