34 million dollars have been lost forever in an Ethereum NFT smart contract. What a waste. Because of software defects, the contract has reached a state where the money has been locked inside the smart contract and cannot be retrieved, not even by the responsibles. No one can revert this. Read more…
When introducing Ethereum, I mentioned DAOs as one of the applications. Today, I’m going to explain to you in more detail what is a DAO, how they are created, and give you some examples. Let’s start. What is a DAO A decentralized autonomous organization is a new type of organization Read more…
Tokens have come to stay. Most people are looking into DeFi but there are other use cases that are as disruptive or more. I’m talking about creator economy tokens. Tokens that somehow represent creators or allow them to earn from their creations maintaining a connection with its audience. The creator Read more…
NFTs have a very bad reputation. “Have you paid for that? You’re paying for a jpeg! I have already copied it”. Today, I want to make you understand what they’re and what are the possibilities that it brings. To make you understand NFTs we’ll explore the concept of fungibility, some Read more…
When talking about NFTs and crypto art the first thing that comes to mind are the CryptoPunks. They have defined the current NFT standard and have become the most valuable art pieces on the blockchain. Even Jay-Z has bought one. They’re being sold for millions at top level art auction Read more…
When talking about NFTs most people think in pictures, avatars and speculation. Even though all of that exist -and it’s fine- I want to explain an use case where NFTs have utility in new ways. I’m talking about mirror.xyz, an innovative crypto platform. Mirror is hard to understand at first Read more…
In the last article, I wrote how it’s a NFT collection launch and my experience at the DystopianPunks V2 launch. Now we’re going to close the circle and explore how it’s the revealing and my experience. The collection – DystopianPunks V2 The collection is an avatar type of collection. That Read more…
Even though I don’t see myself collecting NFTs, the best way to understand new trends, technologies and use cases is by using them. Last week I decided to go to the launch of the new DystopianPunks. They had a low entry price, Punks aesthetics and I really like the art Read more…
Open source software is great. It allows all the stakeholders to check the code. And in many cases, to reuse the code. The problem is that users can’t very that the server is executing the published code. It could contain some modifications that may not be acceptable by the user. Read more…
The truth is something that we search but we don’t even know even if it exists. Can we create truth? Can we create a system that allow us to all agree on what reality is? Blockchains have created a truth system for its cryptocurrencies, but, can we extend this to Read more…