1confirmation Newsletter - Issue #69
Wallets are critical infrastructure for cryptocurrencies. Most people believe that UX for crypto is still years away from being mainstream usable, but in reality a lot of new UX research just needs to be marketed better and implemented in existing wallets.
We explain the history of wallets and recent improvements in wallets UI/UX including wallet SDKs, smart contract wallets, and meta transactions. Read more in An Overview of the Crypto Wallet Landscape.
Required reading this week
Mutability in Crypto and Recent Moves by the SEC
Scott Kupor shares some thoughts on the SEC's recent enforcement actions and their impact on crypto regulation.
Proof of Stake’s security model is being dramatically misunderstood — medium.com
Viktor Bunin explains why applying existing PoW security frameworks to PoS is not accurate for understanding PoS's security model.
A New Sidechain Design for Bitcoin — blog.deribit.com
Hasu and Su Zhu explain the two different approaches to bringing Bitcoin to other chains – wrapped approach and synthetic approach – and the design tradeoffs for each approach.
Dare To DeFi (Away From) Ethereum — www.tokendaily.co
Mohamed Fouda looks at Ethereum's DeFi competition on other chains such as EOS, Cosmos, and Tezos and concludes the developer sentiment is still largely in favor of Ethereum.
Ali Yahya asks what are the most important open questions in crypto that will have the greatest bearing on the eventual shape of the crypto landscape and on the outcomes for the best companies in it.
1confirmation portfolio reading this week
Brave reaches 8 million monthly active users and delivers nearly 400 privacy-preserving ad campaigns — brave.com
There are now 8 million monthly active users for Brave and nearly 400 privacy-preserving ad campaigns using BAT, with a stellar 14% click-through rate compared to 2% industry average.
Voting and Staking from the Ice Box — blog.coinbase.com
Coinbase security engineer Adam Everspaugh, Ph.D. provides a deep dive into what it takes to enable MakerDAO voting from Coinbase Custody's cold storage system.