The Control - Issue #41
Identity is an important missing piece of infrastructure that many decentralized applications need. There's been a lot of attempts to tackle decentralized identity in the cryptocurrency space since Namecoin launched as the first Bitcoin fork in 2011, but none of them have really worked at scale yet.
We examined decentralized identity from a historical context and also looked at current identity projects in our latest piece: Understanding Decentralized Identity.
Required reading this week
Finality in Blockchain Consensus — medium.com
Alexis Gauba explains the tradeoffs between absolute finality and probabilistic finality in PoS consensus and how different projects approach this issue.
WebAssembly & The Future of Blockchain Computing — medium.com
Raul Jordan explains the current limitations in Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and how the WebAssembly compiler addresses these shortcomings.
Bitcoin as a Privacycoin: This Tech is Making Bitcoin More Private — bitcoinmagazine.com
Bitcoin is not really private – but these projects are making significant improvements to Bitcoin privacy.
Understanding Web 3 — A User Controlled Internet — blog.coinbase.com
Emre Tekisalp outlines Web 3, focusing on the shortcomings of today’s web, what the Web 3 stack is, and how developers can build on it.
Identity and Reputation in Web 3 — sinahab.com
Sina Habibian describes the different design patterns for identity, claims, and reputation.
Liberal Radicalism a la Buterin, Hitzig and Weyl — our.status.im
Great summary of a bombshell research paper by Vitalik Buterin, Zoë Hitzig, and Glen Weyl (author of Radical Markets). Titled "Liberal Radicalism: Formal Rules for a Society Neutral Among Communities", they explore how to use quadratic voting to fund public goods like open-source projects.
1confirmation portfolio reading this week
Announcing Bug Bounties for the dYdX Margin Trading Protocol — medium.com dYdX is seeking input from the broader community to help find bugs in the dYdX Margin Trading Protocol in advance of launch.
The bloXroute Scalability Solution — medium.com
bloXroute explains its architecture and implementation and what makes it different from other scaling solutions.
Single collateral Dai — 9 months in review — medium.com
A look at how the Dai stablecoin has held up since it launched nine months ago.
0x and Harbor unlocks global liquidity for real-world tokenized assets — medium.com
Harbor partnered with 0x to build a security token stack based on Ethereum open standards. David Sacks, co-founder of Harbor, joined the board of 0x.