Most NFT project teams explicitly or implicitly promise to help their holders get richer by doing nothing but holding the NFT and claiming / flipping whatever's next.
This is ABSOLUTE trash strategy🗑️ I'd rather help holders learn critical skills to get more successful - starting with ChatGPT Prompting & Coding.
See you all Rebels holders at 3:30pm EST today for a ChatGPT Prompting + Coding Livestream of an NFT Customization feature.
Because Zach represents everything I stand for:
1) I'm donating personally
2) $5,000 will be donated from @Rebelsbynight Treasury
3) I'm 👨💻 something to help get more donations, more soon
If you haven't, please donate.
Offering a $2,000 one-time job for Blender experts to optimize a complex Blender scene for @rebelsbynight made of several linked files + many objects and textures. It uses @LoganGardner3D 's FZRandomizer for object selection.
Goal: Have it all run on a M1 Max with 16G of RAM.
Navigating the web3 wallet landscape is hard, the technology is complex and there are lots of deceiving marketing tactics. To that end, I'm starting a series of posts to demystify wallet custody & self-custody for brands & web2 companies that are thinking about jumping into web3, starting with what I call: Custodial "Self-Custodial" Wallets 😄
Custody pertains to ownership AND control of the assets or goods. If the provider CAN sign transactions with the private keys either via direct access to the keys, or indirectly via additional actions the provider is able to perform without the customer's consent, it is a custodial solution.
For the solution to be called self-custodial, the user must be *absolutely* required to act for a transaction to get signed. This means that:
1) if the provider can disappear, transactions signing still works.
2) if the provider publishes a malicious client update for customers to install, private keys still can't be used without user actions.
3) if the provider's AWS, GCP, or HSM admin keys get compromised, private keys still can't be used without user actions.
Add these to your due diligence checklist because the self-custodial conversation will quickly turn into a "well, we have secure processes internally to make sure that X doesn't happen". Keep in mind that custodial solutions are legally required to have "secure processes to make sure that X doesn't happen", unlike self-custodial wallets.
I'm seeing more an more self-proclaimed self-custodial solutions that have online access to the customers' keys directly or indirectly and hence very much fall in the custodial category from a legal & regulatory standpoint.
Those self-proclaimed self-custodial wallets models literally have the exact same trust model as custodial wallet solutions and I believe that it's only a matter until regulators crack down on self-custodial providers with access admin access to the key management systems where the asset keys are located (among others).
As a customer, it's absolutely critical for you to get the legal & regulatory protection of a custodial provider if your provider has control or access to your assets. Providers tend to play with levels of indirections in the security model to introduce confusion without preventing their own indirect access or control to your assets.
See you at the next post!
The official Rebels patches will come out first but in the meantime, some good progress on Blender instrumentation to support other NFTs be added to your Rebel NFT.
Let me cook.
Check this talk where Riyaz and I share lessons from several high-profile crypto hacks and steps you can take not to get hacked at the @a16zcrypto Startup School.
What actions are you taking today to protect your protocol?
https://t.co/h9WU9xpTDN
I'm going to start a Twitter Space series around Web3 Security (Smart contracts, Wallets, Networks, Programming Languages..). I might move that to a podcast as well.
What are the topics you'd like to learn about around security? Who would you like to see as a guest on the show?
I don't think Twitter provides an API to lookup who has a verified NFT of a given collection in their profile picture..🧐
That'd be so useful for the entire space. NFT projects could reward people who use their NFT as a digital social identity instead of relying on staking etc..
Update on @rebelsbynight:
I'm finalizing the code for Night Mode - excited to see what your Rebel will look like with it!
We've generated the 13370 Rebels & metadata is ready. I'm done with smart contract + hardhat unit tests. 👨🏻💻 Some more clean up & deployment stuff needed on the website.
Patches went through design fixes as they were not correctly applying on specific clothes & hats but it's done now and looking good!
We are finalized on the design of the patch marketplace page & customization experience. Working with our partner on the inner mechanisms for in-metadata customization and interactions between the main & patch collections.
We also have two more surprises cooking coming to you shortly on Discord! AI-sponsored. 📚
This is barely web3's current stage of evolution.
It'll require multiple application, UX, and infrastructure improvements as well as network effects and paradigm shifts to reach its potential.
Ready for the journey.
I'm hiring for absolute top tier software engineers across backend & key management to revolutionize the industry (currently in stealth). Top team, investors, and compensation.
Feel free to DM with your github, ctftime profile etc..
I've been a long time fan of Kenny Scharf alongside Basquiat and Haring as New York's top artists. It's still crazy to me that I get to own some of Scharf's work with @UnderAquaNFT.
I'm beyond excited to see world's leading artists connect with their collectors, empower them, and connecting with one another.