*Part I: Privacy’s Implications and Design. Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) is a secure area, also known as an “Enclave,” on the CPU that is isolated from the main operating system (OS). It is designed to protect data and ensure that it is stored, processed, and kept secure. TEE is secured…

“I care about my data. It’s crucial to be able to hide certain aspects.” — an anonymous web3 user. Privacy plays a crucial role in the design of the Litentry Protocol. …

Identity is a subtle social construct that is often deconstructed in a group or political context. By observing the origin of identity, one can find that identity is in essence a coherent, information-composing, social-interaction-generated aggregate. In Symbolic Interactionism, human identity is conceptualized into different levels: role identity → group identity…

As the Litentry Crowdloan campaign for the Polkadot slot auction is more than halfway through, it is now a good time to look back at our journey so far. Table of Contents Pre-summary of Litentry Crowdloan in the Polkadot Batch 1 auction What happens to your DOT in case of…

Web3 draws a beautiful vision of how the new internet should be. The overturn of hierarchy, the rebalanced dynamic between convenience and control, the dismantling of surveillance capitalism. Though web3 laid a solid ground for decentralized storage, the system is also flawed and immature, with scattered, static data laying throughout…

After decades of suppression and neglect, psychedelics are having a renaissance. In the 1950s, Psychedelic was actively researched by scientists, hoping to find the neurochemical basis of mental disorders previously believed to be psychological in origin or treat a variety of disorders. Because psychedelic can’t be patented, most of the…

This episode is definitely the most controversial and insightful in Season 5. In this article, I try to do some legal analysis of the schemes that I found intriguing in this show. This is NOT legal advice. Data Privacy The most incisive parts of the show follow the ways in which Smithereen’s…

The SEC just released a framework for “Investment Contract: Analysis of Digital Assets.” The framework covers the SEC’s perspectives on whether a cryptocurrency is a security. …

Though the idea of decentralized exchange (DEX) is nothing new, we’ve seen a wave of DEXs based on Ethereum crashing over the crypto shores in 2018. …