ETHENA: THE TRILLION DOLLAR CRYPTO OPPORTUNITY (18 MINUTE READ)
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Ethena's USDe has emerged as the fastest-growing stablecoin in history, offering high yields from simplifying trades like arbitraging Bitcoin perp funding rates. Two key catalysts - declining interest rates and the USTb coin backed by BlackRock's reserves - could drive further adoption. The ENA toke
THE INFINITE BOOKSHELF: EIGENDA EXPLAINED (25 MINUTE READ)
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EigenDA, the primary Actively Validated Service on the EigenLayer restaking platform, offers a high-throughput data availability solution for Ethereum. It boasts 15MB/s bandwidth by separating consensus from DA and direct communication from an operator instead of peer-to-peer. The dual staking model
SCROLL PARTNERS WITH BINANCE (2 MINUTE READ)
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Scroll's partnership with Binance is strategic and aims to mimic Tron's success in dominating the stablecoin P2P trading market in developing countries by capturing market activity through similar partnerships.
A LOOK AT POLKADOT IN 2024 (15 MINUTE READ)
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Polkadot, once hailed as an “ETH Killer” and the fifth most valuable crypto, has lost mindshare and developers over the past few years. However, the protocol has continued iterating, and has recently introduced upgrades to enhance scalability. It boasts strong decentralization metrics and active dev
BLACKROCK CEO CALLS BITCOIN “AN ASSET CLASS IN ITSELF” (1 MINUTE READ)
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Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, sees Bitcoin as an “alternative to other commodities” and believes digital assets will become more prevalent.
AVALANCHE FOUNDATION TO BUY BACK NEARLY 2M AVAX SOLD TO TERRA IN 2022 (6 MINUTE READ)
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The Avalanche Foundation will repurchase the 1.97 million AVAX tokens it sold to Terra's Luna Foundation Guard before Terra's collapse for $45.5M — lower than its current market value.
How to Prevent Another Europa Clipper Transistor Panic
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Yesterday, NASA successfully launched the Europa Clipper, the largest spacecraft the agency has ever built for a planetary mission. Clipper is now successfully on its multi-year journey to Europa, bristling with equipment to study the Jovian moon’s potential to support life—but just a few months ago
How to Prevent Another Europa Clipper Transistor Panic
11 days ago
Yesterday, NASA successfully launched the Europa Clipper, the largest spacecraft the agency has ever built for a planetary mission. Clipper is now successfully on its multi-year journey to Europa, bristling with equipment to study the Jovian moon’s potential to support life—but just a few months ago
How to Prevent Another Europa Clipper Transistor Panic
11 days ago
Yesterday, NASA successfully launched the Europa Clipper, the largest spacecraft the agency has ever built for a planetary mission. Clipper is now successfully on its multi-year journey to Europa, bristling with equipment to study the Jovian moon’s potential to support life—but just a few months ago
How to Prevent Another Europa Clipper Transistor Panic
11 days ago
Yesterday, NASA successfully launched the Europa Clipper, the largest spacecraft the agency has ever built for a planetary mission. Clipper is now successfully on its multi-year journey to Europa, bristling with equipment to study the Jovian moon’s potential to support life—but just a few months ago
That's Not an Abstraction, That's Just a Layer of Indirection
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Not all abstractions in software are beneficial. While good abstractions hide complexity and simplify development, layers of indirection often masquerade as abstractions, adding cognitive overhead without real value. Abstractions are not free: they come with costs in performance and complexity.
Apple Study Exposes Deep Cracks in LLMs' Reasoning Capabilities
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A new study by Apple engineers revealed that while LLMs may appear to reason mathematically, they are actually prone to failures when confronted with seemingly trivial changes to benchmark problems.
How Figma Migrated to Kubernetes
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Figma migrated from AWS ECS to Kubernetes because as the team's needs became more complex, they were hitting the limitations of ECS. Kubernetes, on the other hand, lets Figma avoid vendor lock-in, benefit from the open-source community, and hire engineers with previous Kubernetes experience. Figma m
Python 3.12 vs Python 3.13 – Performance Testing
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A benchmark of Python 3.12 and Python 3.13 found that Python 3.13 generally outperformed Python 3.12, showing a geometric mean improvement of 1.08x on the AMD system and 1.05x on the Intel system. However, Python 3.13 experienced performance drops in some benchmarks, especially in areas like coverag
Upgrading Uber's MySQL Fleet to Version 8.0
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Uber's MySQL infrastructure underwent a major upgrade from version 5.7 to 8.0 to address security concerns and improve performance. The company went for a side-by-side upgrade approach to minimize downtime, reduce risk, and allow for thorough testing. The upgrade was a multi-stage process with node
Reviewers can often hinder code review progress by nitpicking endlessly ("Death of a Thousand Round Trips"), using reviews as leverage for unrelated tasks ("Ransom Note"), or by constantly contradicting each other ("Double Team"). Reviewers shouldn't act as gatekeepers but keep the project's success
HTML Whitespace is Broken
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There are numerous issues with whitespace handling in HTML, from unexpected rendering inconsistencies to formatting problems. A possible solution is quoting strings in HTML to clearly differentiate between significant and insignificant whitespace. A more pragmatic solution would be adding a new HTML
Teaching the World's Largest Programming Lesson
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This author taught 1,668 students the basics of Python in a Guinness World Record attempt for the largest programming lesson. The lesson was designed for beginners and covered topics like algorithms, basic syntax, conditional statements, loops, and importing external code. He used Sudoku as an examp
A Basic Test of OpenAI's Structured Output Feature Against Financial Disclosure Reports and a Newspaper's Police Blotter
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OpenAI's Structured Output API feature can be used for data extraction from images. This article shows how to define a data schema using Pydantic and then use OpenAI's gpt-4o-mini model to extract data from screenshots of financial disclosure reports and newspaper police blotters.
Splitting Engineering Teams into Defense and Offense
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A startup founder's 4-person engineering team tackled the challenge of balancing customer support and feature development by splitting their team into "defense" and "offense" roles. Two engineers focused on long-term projects in uninterrupted blocks while the other two handled customer support, bug
REPETITIVE MARKETING TASKS → SINGLE CLICK AI AUTOMATIONS (SPONSOR)
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Bardeen is the first business-ready AI agent for marketers. Companies like Deel, Miro, and Kearney already use Bardeen to scale innovative GTM tactics. BOOK AN EXPLORATORY SESSION WITH A BARDEEN EXPERT TO SEE HOW YOU CAN, TOO. Here are just a few of the automated playbooks you can run in just one cl
REPORT LOOKS AT THE LATEST TRENDS AND CHALLENGES IN CREATOR MARKETING
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74% of brands, driven by the need for creative short-form video content, are increasing their investment in creator marketing this year. Those who spend over $1M annually on creator marketing report that it's their highest ROI tactic. However, challenges remain in measuring results and finding the r
WHY CREATIVE STRATEGISTS ARE NOW THE HOTTEST JOB IN MARKETING
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Creative strategists are increasingly crucial in performance marketing due to the impact of privacy measures and AI-driven ad algorithms on advertising approaches. With social ad spending reaching $247 billion, creative quality has become the key driver of ROI, making strategists essential in connec
PLAN YOUR 2025 GTM STRATEGY ON ONE SLIDE
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Companies face challenges such as ensuring product-market alignment, targeting new personas effectively, and clarifying investment priorities to prevent resource misallocation. This post presents an eight-question framework to tackle these issues that focuses on growth opportunities, product value,
THE DNA OF A GREAT PRICING PAGE
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A transparent pricing page is key for customer decision-making, especially for younger generations who seek clear and accessible information. Companies should present prices openly with a simple structure that highlights value metrics, easy-to-understand pricing, and prominent CTAs above the fold. I