• Thursday

    • Coinbase rescinding job offers, Gemini cutting 10% of workforce.
    • Aleo is an ecosystem for privacy. They have a blockchain, devtools, an IDE, etc. https://www.aleo.org/
    • Prime brokerage / prime broker is just a trading platform at large scale, like for hedge funds. They offer most broker services from the actual trading, to analytics, etc etc.
    • HSM = hardware security module. I always forget.
    • Lottie files are for animations.
    • Nathaniel Chastain, manager at OpenSea, is getting in trouble for insider trading: he would buy NFTs right before they were scheduled to appear on the featured section of the website.
    • Consensus. Austin. Reviewed speakers and created my schedule (on their ios app).
      • SBF.
      • Kimbal Musk.
      • Dan Schulman (CEO paypal).
      • Balaji.
      • CZ.
      • Snowden.
      • Dinwiddie lol.
      • Kasparov.
      • Ryan Selkis (messari).
      • Zac Prince (CEO blockfi).
      • Jeremy Allaire (CEO circle).
      • Kyle Samani (multicoin).
      • Ryan Berkun (CEO teller).
      • Michael Gronager (CEO chainalysis).
      • Abby Johnsoin (CEO fidelity).
      • Neal Stephenson (author, cryptonomicon, seveneves).
    • Schlep filter/blindness: ignoring ideas out of your areas of familiarity.
    • Stytch.
      • https://stytch.com/
      • Platform for onboarding/login. Provides SDKs to add to sites for signup, engagement, more.
      • Secure.
      • Offers classical password logins, as well as passwordless. Mostly biometrics.
      • Supports secret codes, emails links, many forms of login.
      • Also offers oath (login with google, facebook, linkedin, etc).
      • Supports web3 logins (eth and sol wallets).
    • Set up the nanny cam for the fish. Plugged in. Decent quality. 2.4 GHz wifi. Can record video and photograph. Can talk as well as hear.
    • Deleted my personal ec2 volume. Was costing like a dollar a month but I have no instances running.
    • Went to Uniswap’s headquarters in soho for happy hour.
    • Anti-web3 blog, interesting alternative viewpoints: https://web3isgoinggreat.com/
    • Stripe deepdive: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2022/05/26/stripe-exclusive-interview-collison-brothers-95-billion-plan-to-stay-on-top/?sh=bb3ef435a1b7
    • Starkware, a blockshare security suite: https://starkware.co/
    • Husky is datadog’s event system: https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/introducing-husky
    • If you put .gitignore in .gitignore, it respects .gitignore by not adding .gitignore: https://rubenerd.com/git-ignores-gitignore-with-gitignore-in-gitignore
    • Good learnings from startup software audits: https://kenkantzer.com/learnings-from-5-years-of-tech-startup-code-audits