Today, we’re diving into Rigoblock’s journey and unveiling a major upgrade to the Rigoblock protocol—a vision we’ve been working toward since our inception in 2016. Rigoblock enables anyone to deploy "smart pools," which are smart contracts designed to mint and burn pool tokens while interacting with onchain applications. Unlike a standard Ethereum wallet, smart pools have more constraints (they must be programmed for specific actions), but this trade-off offers enhanced security and granular control over operations. This makes them ideal for both individual and multi-user scenarios.

This pull request introduces the concept of Flash Allowances to Uniswap's Permit2, utilizing Ethereum's new transient storage opcodes (tload and tstore). Flash Allowances provide a mechanism for setting token approvals that are valid only for the duration of the transaction in which they are used. This approach aims to enhance both user experience and gas efficiency while maintaining or improving security.

We introduce a novel approach to constructing a Proof of Stake (PoS) resistant oracle system by leveraging Uniswap V4 hooks to mitigate price manipulation through automated backrunning of transactions. The proposed mechanism aims to enhance the reliability and integrity of on-chain price oracles in a PoS environment.

ZRX stakers are encountering problems when preparing their staked ZRX for withdrawal. This issue primarily affects users connecting to the 0x portal via MetaMask with a hardware wallet. A common problem arises from the need to correctly encode two sets of tuple parameters for the moveStake function, which is necessary to undelegate stake and prepare it for withdrawal at the next epoch. Many users, including those using Etherscan or certain hardware wallets, have found this encoding process challenging, leading to errors and failed transactions. The root of the problem is not entirely clear, but it seems related to an upgraded Web3 library used by wallet providers and MetaMask.

In the last article we saw in brief what should investors, employees and token issuers expect in terms of taxation. While in this article we will look more closely on the taxation aspects on behalf of the token issuer.

In our first two articles, we discussed Swiss blockchain regulation and FINMA’s ICO guidelines. We’ve come to the conclusion that there is still no specific rule for the ICOs in Switzerland, but it is the interpretation of the existing laws that allow a comprehensive understanding how an ICO can be treated. When speaking about ICO taxation, we feel that the same approach needs to be adopted.

In the past few years, Switzerland has became known as a “crypto nation”. For such a small country, the blockchain space has become considerably big. A lot of blockchain related startups and companies have chosen to establish themselves, legally and physically, here in Switzerland. This is evident by perhaps the most well known initial coin offering, Ethereum. The Ethereum Foundation incorporated in Zug for its ICO in 2014 which was the biggest ICO at the time. One can only imagine the challenges this raised for the Swiss authorities who had to keep up with the new technology and the new paradigms that were being established within the Swiss borders.

In traditional asset management the reward structure is based on the following two pillars:

Nowadays blockchain has become a synonym of the “new internet”.