Building on Bitcoin Layers With the Hiro Platform Bitcoin is the highest-valued token on the planet, but building on the Bitcoin network was a hassle in the past; as the first blockchain, its support for smart contract development and apps was very basic. This changed with the rise of Bitcoin layer-...
Comparing Solidity With Clarity Writing smart contracts for Bitcoin was limited in the past, but with Stacks, this changed. Its Clarity programming language allows you to build Bitcoin smart contacts similar to those on the Ethereum network while being more secure than Solidity at ...
Creating a Token-Gated Web Page With Clarity This tutorial shows how to create a token-gated website using Clarity as the smart contract language. A token-gated website serves content to users with a certain amount of tokens in their wallets. In this tutorial, we will create two Clarity smart c...
Farcaster Frames Explained Frames excited enough users to make Farcaster worth their time. To be honest, I wouldn’t say I liked Farcaster at first, as it required installing a native app on my phone. In 2024, when it’s called Web3; why would anyone install a native app?! At l...
What is Quadratic Funding, and How Does it Work? The rich get richer every day, even when it comes to grant programs; however, Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, thinks that for Web3 to be truly democratic, grant fundraising should also be democratic. That brought a new dawn, a new way of...
Crafting Beautiful Light Art with Figma and Midjourney One of the most overlooked features of Midjourney is the ability to include images in your /imagine prompt. This gives you the power to influence a prompt's basic visual structure. The more details this image has, the more it will influence your resu...
NEAR Chain Abstraction Explained Web3 gives users more control over their data and payments. Still, we pay for these benefits with increased technical and UX complexity. In recent years, blockchain ecosystems have tried to improve onboarding to get a hold of the UX part, but as many...
Unleash the Power of DeFi on Bitcoin If you've been building on Ethereum and EVM-compatible chains and yet are intrigued by the potential of Bitcoin, this post is for you. We will talk about Stacks, a Bitcoin layer 2, and how it will unlock $500B+ of Bitcoin liquidity for everyday apps....
My Journey from Newbie to Hackathon Champion I was sitting in my bedroom, watching Silicon Valley, episode S4E1, when Russ asked Richard what the one thing he would build if he had unlimited time and resources. His answer was "a decentralized internet." And I was like, what the heck is that? Th...
How to Deploy Your Own Hyperlane on Polygon zkEVM gm gm gm!!! New chains are popping up by the minute, so getting liquidity there is a burning issue. Hyperlane tries to solve this with permissionless bridges. Hyperlane is a permissionless protocol, which means you can deploy your own Hyperlane on ...
Uploading Files to Arweave with Irys Arweave allows for decentralized data storage. Users pay a one-time fee to upload their data and are guaranteed permanent storage. Miners ensure data permanence by storing and replicating data in exchange for Arweave's native AR token. You can think ...
Hyperlane from A to Z gm gm gm!!! Even in a vast blockchain network with countless nodes and layers, users need help utilizing the decentralized network's complete potential because DApps use different chains. Some use Ethereum, some Polygon, some Gnosis, and so on! In th...
