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5 Other Events That Need a ‘Conclave’
Jeff Benson · Follow 2 min read · -- Edward Berger’s new religious potboiler Conclave is about the behind-the-scenes political machinations at play during a Catcholic conclave. A conclave is when 100-something (that’s the number of people that gather, but it could also refer to their ages) cardinals gather to pick a new pope in a series of secret ballots.
Trends in the Manufactured Housing: Unlocking Investor Opportunities
Expert Opinion As the wider real estate market cools, manufactured housing communities remain a hot asset. By Alex Kane, Senior Vice President, Sam Neumark, Senior Vice President & Jeff Benson, Managing Director at Northmarq | April 22, 2024 at 04:00 AM X Share with Email sending now... Thank you for sharing! Your article was successfully shared with the contacts you provided. As the wider real estate market cools, manufactured housing communities remain a hot asset.
A Short Historical Overview of Ethereum Scaling
The Ethereum blockchain can host non-fungible tokens (NFTs), games, decentralized exchanges, and a range of applications. But it doesn’t have the capacity required to simultaneously handle thousands of transactions from all those applications. It’s more comfortable at around 15 transactions per second, far off the pace of, say, credit card networks. Developers have long looked for a way to increase the blockchain’s throughput and reduce network congestion.
Review: The Solana Saga Has Been Built. Now Will They Come?
When you think of sagas in the context of crypto, you might imagine soap operas involving SBF or Terra instead of fun-filled adventures and epics. The Saga, the long-awaited phone by Solana Labs subsidiary Solana Mobile, hopes its own story is riveting and has a happy ending. The smartphone, which is now available for pre-order and will retail at $1,000, is meant to be a one-stop shop for users who want to mint NFTs, trade crypto, and navigate web3 on the go. I spent the last week testing it out.
What Is NFT Wash Trading? A Market Manipulation Technique
Talk to an Adam Smith devotee and they’ll likely tell you that markets are everywhere. But what to do when the market for your asset isn’t especially dynamic? In the crypto world, some people resort to advertising, others to airdrops and token incentives. But there’s a darker method: Why not just make it look like there’s a larger market than there is? Welcome to the world of wash trading.
A Basic Guide to Base, Coinbase’s Ethereum Layer-2
Ethereum network speeds can be slow, and the cost of using it can be prohibitively expensive, especially for small transactions. In 2023, Coinbase stepped in to help solve the problem. Its approach: to build a layer-2 (L2) network atop Ethereum. This explainer will quickly get you up to speed on L2s and other projects working to scale Ethereum, and then dive into what Base says it can bring to the table. Layer-2 networks are blockchains that run atop other (layer-1) blockchains, such as Ethereum.
Get Ahead of the Curve, the Exchange for Stablecoins
You’ve probably heard of crypto exchanges like Coinbase and Kraken, where people can buy, sell, and trade coins and tokens while the exchange takes a cut. Decentralized exchanges remove financial intermediaries from the equation and reduce that cut; in a sense, the exchange doesn’t exist — there’s just a protocol. Curve Finance is one such decentralized exchange, but with a twist: It’s designed for stablecoins, which are pegged to a fiat currency like the U.S. dollar or to another digital asset.
A Short Guide to Aave, DeFi's Largest Lending Protocol
In the physical world, if you need money, you go to a bank and apply for a loan. If you have extra, you might put it in a certificate of deposit to earn interest. The bank, meanwhile, lends out some of that money to customers looking for loans. The question that decentralized lending protocols ask is: Why do you need a bank? The largest such protocol, Aave, allows people to take out loans or lend to others without calling up Wells Fargo.
Blur Sails Past OpenSea
Weekly News Recap: 🌊 OpenSea loses marketshare to Blur, ☃️ Coinbase layers up for winter, 🙅 Dapper Labs gets denied, 📴 Polygonscan issues, 📉 massive layoffs, and more!
Thinking Through CC0 and IP for NFT Communities
Welcome to Web3 Water Cooler, a moderated Slack chat about a trending topic in crypto. This week’s participants are Orca Protocol’s Chase Chapman, Austin Hurwitz of Venice Music, and IP lawyer Nuzayra Haque-Shah. NFTs are a web3 innovation, but the intellectual property frameworks surrounding them have been borrowed from a web2 world.
What’s After Proof of Stake for Ethereum?
Ethereum’s biggest-ever upgrade — the move to a proof-of-stake consensus mechanism — is right around the corner. But while the Merge should add security and sustainability, it doesn’t include sharding, the long-anticipated method of scaling the network. In Part I of our conversation with Ethereum Foundation (EF) researcher Danny Ryan, who’s helped coordinate the upgrade process, we discussed what the Merge is designed to bring in terms of security and stability.
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