Tech – Enclave

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Blockchain

Swift Publishes Interoperability Experiment Results Appraising Chainlink

The document, titled “Connecting blockchains: Overcoming fragmentation in tokenised assets” discusses Swift’s interoperability experiments connecting to public and private blockchain networks. The document highlights the challenges of fragmentation in tokenized assets and the need for secure interoperability between different blockchain networks. The report outlines Swift’s experiments conducted in 2022 to test how the Swift network

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Blockchain

The Digital Dollar is the New Petrodollar, Because Data is The New Oil

Stablecoin leaders are singing a more pragmatic tune as of late. Paxos’ former head of portfolio management Austin Campbell spoke at the U.S. Financial Services subcommittee on digital assets. Himself, among other industry leaders, gathered in part to defend the industry and highlight good actors in the space. Austin started by noting that jobs will

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Tech

Sometimes it Really is “different this time”.

High flying stocks like NVIDIA have caused much debate over whether we are due for a crash. I had a discussion with a software engineer about the current A.I. boom in a tech savvy slack group. He believes that while NVIDA and other stocks are probably not immune to moderate corrections, the secular trend will

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Business

Make anything with Make.com

Formerly Integromat, make.com allows you to leverage low & no code to automate processes and streamline workflows. For tasks as simple as scheduled posting on social media, or as complex as building an entire app from the ground up, make.com stands out among low/no-code tools. You can think of make.com as a Zapier, or an

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Business

Bits for Digits Lists Web3, Fintech Companies up for Acquisition

Bits for Digits marketplace is a new alternative space for small companies(bits) to raise funding or to be acquired by investor and family offices(digits). It offers a niche venue for founders to make much earlier exits from their digital business privately at stages where traditional funding is less appropriate. It is poised to take advantage

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Blockchain

Oracle Pioneers: An Interview with an early Chainlink Node Operator

Behind the Nodes The Chainlink ecosystem is not only populated by numbers and code. Behind the integers, trends, and graphs lie an ever-expanding number of teams that operate Chainlink nodes. These teams comprise experienced individuals, geographically dispersed yet united by the common narrative that is Chainlink. But who are the teams operating the Chainlink nodes? Who are the people providing valuable data

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Tech

Smart Contract Basics

A smart contract is a computer protocol that facilitates, executes and enforces negotiation or performance of an agreement (i.e., contract). Smart contracts allow the performance of credible transactions without third parties. These transactions are trackable and irreversible. Smart contracts often emulate the logic of contractual clauses. They are usually executed on a blockchain to be

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Blockchain

Secure Enclave Redundancy

The Chainlink 2.0 whitepaper explores ways to “employ TEEs in ways that recognize their potential for compromise” and also recommends a non-Intel technology in open source alternative—Keystone. Keystone is based on RISC-V architecture, which has already made headway in the smart contract space. Working together, ETH Zurich and the University of Bologna have designed the

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Blockchain

Incentive Alignment Will Change the World

Is it about the reward system and org structure? How about behavioral economics? Or maybe incentive alignment. Within the defi space, it’s known as tokenomics. There are a number of new startups and thought leaders focusing on how organizations and employees within them are rewarded and relate to each other. Though it seems a concise

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Science

The Energy Cost of an Arctic City-Oasis

In a 1996 movie The Arrival, a scene of greenery and warmth is found within the frozen arctic. An artificial oasis allowing for temperate life. In this movie, it was presumably created by some alien technology. Although with our own engineering, we can show it’s possible to do today with the right amount of power.

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Business

A Marketplace of Advice

Today, Stackoverflow and Quora provide deep wells of advice and troubleshooting tips. Despite well-tuned moderation systems and large user bases, there remains a shortage of the right people willing to answer. These forums have taken the traditional approach–earn revenue by placing ads, partnering with recruiters and by offering “talent solutions”. However, the ad-based approach seems

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Tech

How Captcha’s Will Work Once AGI Hits

Like waiting in a lengthy and invasive TSA line to board a flight, the actions of a few malicious people can mean an eternal burden on everyone else. Similarly ever since the rise of spam bots, your favorite apps and forums have been increasingly irritating to use. They’re already today. Sometimes the CAPTCHA is impossible

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Science

Human Brain vs World’s Most Powerful Computer Specs

A.I. and computing power continues to increase. Determining the future of human work lies in identifying and quantifying the greatest differences between the two. An earnest attempt at comparing the best hardware in a supercomputer with our wetware. There are numerous caveats in each metric, but this serves as a valuable starting point. Critiques welcome.

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Finance

Economics of Scale in The Forgotten “WoW Killer”

No game has made Blizzard Entertainment the juggernaut that it is today more than World of Warcraft. At its peak in 2010, the game had 12 million subscribers and to date has brought in over 10 billion dollars for the company. Although, those subscriber numbers have dropped off over the years. According to a recent

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Tech

Kai-Fu Lee’s A.I. Superpowers Foreshadows the Next Arms Race

Kai-Fu Lee has mapped out the challenging artificial intelligence race between America and China in his book AI Superpowers. He has a diversified background working in the field for 35 years. He has interesting viewpoints from holding prominent positions in the US at Google and Apple. Lee is currently CEO/Chairman at Sinovation Ventures in China

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Tech

The 3D-Printing Mania Stocks of 2014, Where Are They Now?

The year is 2014 and the 3D printing craze is sweeping the nation. Media outlets panic about the onslaught of 3D printed guns that are sure to cause a national emergency. Others brace for the economic shock to be created by ordinary people printing everything form furniture to food to skin cells on a regular

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Business

Ginni Rometty Turning Privacy Into Competative Advantage at IBM

IBM’s CEO Ginni Rometty has taken a careful approach to handling user data, in line with its focus on enterprise customers. In contrast, Google, Microsoft and Amazon have been hoovers of customer information, causing plenty of controversy over the past year. This has left many analysts to wait for the other foot to drop—first the

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Business

This Gentleman Invented Three Board Games and is Now “uberizing” Enterprise Software.

It’s Appian CEO Matt Calkins, his games ordered from oldest to newest: Magnet, a game that cleverly harnesses electromagnetism in a race to the middle of the board. Sekigahara: The Unification of Japan, a conquest style game, which seems like the analog equivalent to Shogun: Total War for those familiar with digital games. Tin Goose,