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camiinthisthang
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The Developer's Guide to Building Cross-chain Dapps
December 8th, 2022
TLDR:
October 5th, 2022
I’m just going to say it: there’s been a ton of money thrown into blockchain, but the results have been pathetic in comparison.
September 18th, 2022
TL;DR: Livepeer is a decentralized video processing network and developer platform which you can use to build video applications at a rate of up to 10x cheaper than web2 service providers. The network of distributed Orchestrators provides transcoding, the process of formatting your video to be optimal for all devices and network speeds, and enabling applications like Glass.xyz, a creator-owned video platform.
My Villain Origin Story: The Reality for Latino/Black Kids In Silicon Valley
September 18th, 2022
For as long as I can remember, I have always wanted to be a teacher. My mom tells the story of how I would sit all my teddy bears down, facing a whiteboard, and stand up there and teach them. I never considered another career, much less a career in STEM. I have always been bad at spatial stuff (building legos, drawing, etc.), so I never could imagine myself as someone who could create things. While I was in high school, my history class participated in Code.org’s Hour of Code. This was the first time I heard the term “coding,” and this experience made me realize that this is something I could be good at. That Hour of Code showed me that I don't have to be good with my hands to build cool things.
September 18th, 2022
TL;DR: The Graph is an indexing and query protocol that allows developers to build APIs with data from the blockchain. The data from these APIs can be queried via the GraphQL query API. To build a decentralized API, a developer creates a subgraph that defines:
Ethereum Scalability: Why Everyone Should Be Thinking About Fuel
September 8th, 2022
Fuel is a modular execution layer that delivers maximum security and the highest flexible throughput for the Ethereum ecosystem. Fuel features fraud-provable trust-minimized light clients that deliver better security and trust-minimized liquidity bridging.