Documenting the process of building PdfLib.sol, a library of probability density functions in solidity, and explaining some of it's features.

It’s been 1 month since I moved to Berlin. Overall I think it’s a great place and I can see myself staying here for a while, which is strange cause there are many things that when reviewed separately are quite negative. It all kinda works together tho...

The transition from EOA to Smart Contract Account (SCA) is a huge win for users, but what does it mean for developers? Having a more versatile accoun...

In this previous post I gave some details about the Optimism RPGF grant Peter Ferguson and I received. We are incredibly grateful for the grant and t...

Incredibly grateful for the grant we received from Optimism for our work on Forum last year! A short description of what we were awarded for, and gen...

On a technical level the validators of Ethereum work to reach consensus on the correct state of the network, and although not a simple task, there is at least a well defined set of operations to run, check, and agree upon. But move up a few layers, beyond the world of bits, and you find a much messier, more human, level of consensus that needs to be settled. The world of Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) is the arena in which any changes to the blockchain must prove themselves not mathema...

There have been many blockchain projects where the answer to ‘could it be done’ is yes, and ‘should it be done’, is no… this is another one. There isn’t much point to write your name directly onchain. But there are cases where writing exact bytecode to an address is more than just an exercise in understanding how contracts are deployed at a low level.BackgroundThis article came about while integrating a very cool library from Ledger into our contracts at Forum. The details of the library aren...

Would you rather own a Claude Monet painting or a Crypto Punk NFT? While both collections have sold pieces for tens of millions of dollars, they seem worlds apart culturally. Monet fills grand museums and is considered one of the most influential painters of all time; Crypto Punks find themselves as Twitter profile pictures, with critics unable to comprehend why anyone would want to buy a pixelated head. At first glance the only similarity between the two collections is a price tag which few ...

If someone sent you a message today saying “QWERTYUIOP”, you probably wouldn’t be all that impressed… But take things back to 1971 when Ray Tomlinson sent this as the first ever ‘electronic mail’ and you would have felt very different.