November 3, 2020

This week’s newsletter summarizes a discussion about bi-directional
upfront fees for LN and relays the results of a small survey among
experts about their preferences for taproot activation. Also included
are our regular sections with updates about various projects. Action items None this week. News ● Bi-directional upfront fees for LN: continuing a previous
Lightning-Dev mailing list thread about upfront fees (see Newsletter
#120), Bastien Teinturier posted
a proposal to have both … … More

Level up your crypto finance game five times a week. Get on the Bankless Program. Subscribe nowDear Bankless Nation,You’ve likely given dozens of DeFi apps the ability to withdraw funds from your wallet. Guess what? They still have this ability unless you turn it off. 😱And what happens if one of those contracts gets exploited? Or the DeFi app turns into a rug pull? Lost funds. Game over. Please insert more tokens to continue.But with a bit of Ethereum wallet hygiene you can protect… … More

It was an exciting week of educating, learning, and celebrating for the Nervos team in China, as they took part in the sixth annual Shanghai International Blockchain Week.body[data-twttr-rendered=”true”] {background-color: transparent;}.twitter-tweet {margin: auto !important;} — @NervosNetworkfunction notifyResize(height) {height = height ? height : document.documentElement.offsetHeight; var resized = false; if (window.donkey && donkey.resize) {donkey.resize(height);resized =… … More

Hello Defiers, today is election day in the US and naturally, the question on many people’s minds is who will be the leader of the global superpower for the next four years. We’ve had that answer on the same day for most elections in recent history. But this time it’s different as it’s not clear that enough states will have enough of their votes counted by tonight. That’s because many states have broadened access to mail-in voting in response to the pandemic, and th… … More

This installment of The Pomp Letter is free for everyone. I send this email to our investors daily. If you would also like to receive it every morning, join the 85,000 other investors today.Subscribe nowTo investors,I’ve spent the last few days talking with many of the smartest investors I know. My goal was to get an understanding of how they are thinking about various markets and assets, while also identifying what they are excited or worried about. Here are a few takeaways that I found i… … More

a.image2.image-link.image2-645-1456 { padding-bottom: 44.29945054945055%; padding-bottom: min(44.29945054945055%, 645px); width: 100%; height: 0; } a.image2.image-link.image2-645-1456 img { max-width: 1456px; max-height: 645px; } It’s November 3rd (for most of the world) which means Uniswap turned 2 years old today and what an incredible 2 years it has been for the proto… … More

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Plenty of third-generation blockchains are looking to replace Ethereum, and Solana is taking the lead, especially when it comes to DeFi.  It’s just hosted the launch of Serum Swap, which is the first product from Serum, which eventually plans to release the first completely decentralized derivatives exchange providing trustless cross-chain trading.  A project headed by […] … More