Thoughts

With everything happening in DeFi now, is it safe to say this is the end of DeFi? Well, how did it all begin? The concept of decentralized finance was born in 2009 when bitcoin launched, became more practical when Ethereum came onboard in 2015, before it became a mainstream in 2020 during DeFi Summer. Now it looks like the end is here. Except that things become more stable and we study previous key events. This year has been a tough one not just for DeFi and companies operati

Take a pause... While there are blueprints from years of experience on how to run a startup community, there isn't one direct way to start from scratch and grow your startup community. This is because different startup have different mission and scope, the community needs to be tailored to help the team achieve their mission, and the community needs to get value for their support and contributions. If you've ever jumped into a community, find them discussing things that are o

The payment rail and stablecoin development have been evolving fast, as well as bad actors getting more sophisticated. You must have come across posts where senders mistakenly send funds to the wrong wallet addresses , especially with the rise of clipboard malware that replaces copied wallet addresses with attacker-controlled addresses before the user pastes -- retaining the first and last two characters to maintain disguise, as well as wallet poisoning. This indicates one th