mattdesl

@mattdesl

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Concerns raised about WalletConnect's centralisation 1+ year ago; no improvements since. These tools are parasitic for entire Ethereum/web3 ecosystem; it makes a farce of every so-called "decentralized" app that relies on it. https://github.com/orgs/WalletConnect/discussions/2123

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lack of privacy is imho one of crypto’s fundamental blockers to mass adoption. ethereum is basically a dark forest, and we shouldn’t be putting our daily activity on blast to the whole world

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Considering the importance of client diversity in Ethereum, it’s wild to see the casual acceptance of WalletConnect’s centralizing forces…

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what's the standard frontend/fullstack library for wallet connection these days? wagmi or rainbowkit, or another?

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playful experiments in elliptic curve cryptography— visualising public keys by encoding the affine X and Y curve coordinates into a graphic representation. – 256 bits are spread into 8 sRGB color stops with varying segment 'thickness' – 1 bit "Y-even" flag determines the draw direction (inwards vs outwards)

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A small example of verifying asymmetric keys on the bn254 (aka: alt_bn128) curve in JS and Solidity. Next feature would be to support hash-to-curve mapping to verify a bn254 signature. → https://gist.github.com/mattdesl/f1554460fb1fceaed76c733778a33453

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Say you wanted to prove small parts of a blob (or multiple blobs concatenated) with KZG commitments, but you don’t have access to the original whole blob(s), how would you go about doing that? Eg with: https://github.com/ethereum/c-kzg-4844/blob/main/bindings/node.js/README.md#verifykzgproof

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'Filigree' auction begins today on @thedisruptivegal at 7pm UK time / 2pm ET time. There will be two auctions, each 1hr descending Dutch auction w/ settlement. Outputs have already been curated, and will be minted serially as auction progresses. Read below for links/details. 🔗

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My interview with LeRandom, chatting about AI and some of the challenges it presents generative artists—

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Interview with @lerandomart and @monkantony on how I'm incorporating AI within my latest generative artwork, 'Filigree' (releasing tomorrow). We also dig into AI and some of the challenges it presents generative artists. https://www.lerandom.art/editorial/matt-deslauriers-on-challenging-the-image

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Filigree— 'Coral' 🪸 Auction begins April 11th: https://tdg.art/

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Filigree— Launching next week with @thedisruptivegal 👀

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Interesting research & clear paper. New scheme to support “Fair Data Exchange” in a trustless/blockchain setting. ie: allowing clients to purchase encrypted data from a server without a third party facilitating the exchange. https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/new-paper-alert-fair-data-exchange/

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Nice. Digging these composable blocks and ‘plugins’

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Filigree— 'Mountain' 🏔️ Contract deployed on mainnet. Auction begins on April 11 on The Disruptive Gallery website. https://tdg.art/

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etherscan down?

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critics: "blockchain transaction fees are too complicated" meanwhile, Mastercard's breakdown of their credit card rates... ☠️ https://www.mastercard.us/content/dam/public/mastercardcom/na/us/en/documents/merchant-rates-2023-2024.pdf

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spam filtering with ML seems risky! and moves casts toward the mysterious algo-ranking that content creators have come to loathe on Twitter/IG (ie: no links or no to certain patterns). then again, there are few options and it will probably mostly cut down on spam/noise replies. tough problem to solve…

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FID 1001 🫡 🥲

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important distinction: Warpcaster is not a token, and the devs have so far laid a credible path toward making Farcaster an open source and sufficiently decentralized protocol. having the FC community rally around a centralized memecoin feels anti-cypherpunk and goes against the network’s entire ethos. 🙄

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