Tenlent Hunt has come to an end, bringing dozens of creators together to compete to get a DPs. Ten has received hundreds of different works ranging from Memes to hand-drawn illustrations. It's time to begin the final stage, Hidden Horizon.

Two years ago, we embarked on an epic journey to design and build the first Ethereum Layer 2 that goes beyond scalability and introduces EVM smart contracts with private shared state.

Secure hardware is all around us, quietly working behind the scenes to protect our digital lives.

Imagine a world where privileged agencies have access to private data where others do not. Where secret algorithms push curated information. Where financial models can only be run by those with permission.

Is our ideological obsession with decentralization killing Web3’s future? While we endlessly debate the purity of decentralization, the real world waits for no one. It’s time we confront an inconvenient truth: Our ideological rigidity might be the very thing holding back Web3 technologies from mainstream adoption. In this post, I’ll argue that it’s not about ‘how decentralized we can get,’ but rather ‘how decentralized do we actually need to be?’, particularly when it comes to hardware and why a more pragmatic approach is key. Buckle up.

Creating on-chain applications that use randomness is a minefield. And yet, it’s super frickin’ important for a whole range of use-cases.

When I first ventured into the realm of SGX, the trusted execution environment that ships with almost all Intel server chips, my understanding was muddled with misconceptions. I held inaccurate mental models of its functioning, and, more significantly, I anticipated a different programming approach. All this made the learning process more difficult than necessary.

In his recent blog post, ‘The Three Transitions’, Vitalik Buterin delineates the key challenges that must be addressed by the Ethereum ecosystem. These issues encompass various user experience (UX) facets, such as cost, confidence to store assets, and the lack of data transparency. Ethereum’s long-term competitiveness against centralised services hinges on the ability to offer a similar UX.

We are excited to announce the partnership between Obscuro and Republic. Together we aim to bring to Ethereum what HTTPS brought to Web 2 leading to an explosion in applications and usage. Obscuro achieves this goal by building an encrypted Ethereum Layer 2, leveraging the consensus and security of Ethereum.