A LinkedIn recruiter pitched me a remote "Software Engineer at a DEX" project this week. Reasonable comp range, tech stack squarely in my wheelhouse. After a couple of friendly exchanges, she asked me to "review the codebase before the technical interview" and sent me a GitHub repo link plus a Calendly invite for the call. The repo was malware. It didn't get me, but it's something developers shoul
If you’re coming from Web2, identity probably means a username and password. You sign up for a service, create credentials, and the platform stores your data. Whether it’s GitHub, your email, or a banking app, your identity exists because a company manages it. Solana works differently. On Solana, your identity starts with something called a keypair. This is made up of two things: a public key and
TL;DR: I built ChessDada — a free multiplayer chess platform inspired by old Yahoo Chess. No signup, no download, just instant browser-based chess. Built with Node.js, Socket.IO, and chess.js. Modern chess sites are bloated. Chess.com forces you through signup. Lichess defaults to account creation. The "5-second click and play" experience that made Yahoo Chess legendary in the 2000s is essentially
Key Takeaways Multichain user journeys span social discovery, multiple chains, and offchain touchpoints so analytics tools must unify all data sources into a single user profile to avoid making decisions on structurally incomplete information. Web3 conversion cycles are far shorter than Web2 with users moving from first touch to transaction within a single session, making real-time attributi
The EU's Digital Product Passport (DPP) requirement is moving from regulatory text to technical reality. Under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), products sold in the EU must carry a DPP—a machine-readable identifier linking to standardized lifecycle data. For developers and compliance teams, 2026 marks the year where pilot programs transition to real deployments. Here's wha
Key Takeaways Web3 community tools span five distinct categories covering messaging, data collection, social platforms, quest and reward gamification, and token-gated access management, each serving a different engagement goal. Spreading moderation across too many platforms weakens community presence so teams should build depth on one or two core platforms that match their audience before ex