Background A journalist asked the following question; “With high yields being long gone and DeFi seeing almost zero growth since Terra, we want to know what could be the next thing for DeFi? A lot of chatter is centered at bringing real-world assets to blockchain like investing in US Treasuries…

I’ve spent years developing Dapps. Building is an incredibly fulfilling journey, however, it comes with frustrations. This article will focus on the technical aspects of those frustrations and how I’ve used what I’ve learned to guide Fantom into the best Dapp developer environment. Callback hell Dapp webapps are prone to…

Goal: fUSD and economic abstraction go hand in hand, for Fantom, we want to be able to provide builders, partners, and users, a predictable and budget-friendly system. This means being able to allocate fees in either FTM or fUSD and able to predict future costs based on usage. This allows…

Fastest confirmation times (sub 900ms finality) True finality (no longest chain rule, when a transaction is seen by the network it is final — can’t be rolled back by a chain reorg) Synchronous RPC (not asynchronous fire and forget, but synchronous to receive confirmation, only possible on Fantom due to…

Rich data sources are what evolved the internet. Static pages turned into dynamic data thanks to APIs (oracles). As APIs (oracles) evolved in the traditional web, they allowed completely new apps that weren’t previously possible. It was key behind the web’s evolution from web1.0 (static) to web2.0 (dynamic). A personal…

A few days ago we shared a letter with Fantom Foundation team, as a distributed foundation it can sometimes be difficult to align everyone. Working in isolation or small team silos often makes us create our own vision and mission statements. …

The signal-to-noise ratio in crypto is incredibly low. The noise frequency is incredibly high. Simply put, it is easy to get caught up in the latest narrative, and it is easy to forget to look at data objectively. Crypto time, just like everything else in crypto, (I believe) is distorted. …

If you read the title, and saw the oxymoron, you get it. A decentralized system can not have a centralized controlling entity or benefactor. If there is an authority, or team, or foundation that you expect needs to take a certain action, then it is simply not a decentralized system. …

16 June 2018 — Fantom raised $40,000,000 (mostly in ETH @ $450-$700). Dec 2018 — Fantom sells the ETH to USD for an average price significantly less than it raised. Fantom has less than $5,000,000 left. Major expenses include $3,000,000+ in listing fees for exchanges, $500,000+ “sponsorship fees” for “influencers”…