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Blockchain & Web3
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Finality is a product decision
Somebody on your team picked a confirmation count. It was probably a constant in a config file, chosen by copying a tutorial, and it is now…
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Gas turns storage into a design decision
Teams treat gas as a late optimisation pass, a thing you tune after the contract works. It is not. It is a cost model that decides…
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Indexing a chain that keeps changing its mind
A blockchain is not an append-only log, it is a consensus process that occasionally retracts what it told you. Almost every first-generation indexer is built on…
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A bridge is a trust model, not a pipe
Cross-chain bridges keep getting drained, and the reason is almost never the cryptography. It is that the word bridge describes a user experience while hiding the…
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Decentralized until it isn’t: reading the trust assumptions
“Decentralized” is rarely defined. Set the price talk aside and a sharper engineering question remains: for any given system, who can actually change or stop it?…