by Jay
2025-08-14
10 min read
What Open-Source Servers Are Optimized for Web3 Endpoints?
Short version: If you need high-throughput, low-latency Web3 endpoints you don’t have to buy a black‑box gateway. Today’s best open-source servers—Erigon, Reth, Nethermind, Besu, Geth (EVM); Solana validator with Geyser; Graph Node and Subs
by Jay
2025-08-14
13 min read
corda for digital assets lifecycle management: Designing Issuance-to-Settlement Workflows
Digital assets move faster when workflows are designed for regulated markets. This post shows how to build issuance-to-settlement on Corda 5 with concrete architecture choices, flow designs, config snippets, and operating metrics drawn from
by Jay
2025-08-14
11 min read
TEE + ZK: Where Trust Ends and Verification Begins
A concise description: In 2025, confidential computing (TEEs) matured and collided head‑on with zero‑knowledge verification. This guide shows decision‑makers when to trust hardware, when to demand math, and how to ship hybrid TEE+ZK systems
by Jay
2025-08-14
12 min read
would rolling up thousands of tiny proofs into one aggregated proof noticeably cut latency for cross-chain oracle updates?
Low-latency TL;DR: Aggregating many tiny proofs into a single proof reduces on-chain verification time and fee overhead and can slash tail latency when blockspace or verification throughput is your bottleneck. But it does not beat source/de
by Jay
2025-08-14
10 min read
Privacy-First DeFi with Private Proving: Threat Models That Still Hold Up
A practical field guide to designing, shipping, and operating privacy‑preserving DeFi in 2025—focusing on “private proving” architectures, what can still go wrong, and concrete patterns to avoid it.
by Jay
2025-08-13
11 min read
Wrapping STARKs to SNARKs: When Proof Compression Actually Pays Off
Short summary (for listings): Wrapping STARK proofs into tiny, EVM‑friendly SNARKs can slash L1 gas and latency—if your pipeline and risk profile fit. This post gives concrete thresholds, emerging practices, and real‑world stacks (RISC Zero
by Jay
2025-08-13
13 min read
zkVM Ergonomics: Writing Rust for Proofs Without Losing Your Mind
A practical, decision-maker’s guide to shipping real Rust that proves correctly on modern zkVMs (RISC Zero, SP1) — with concrete patterns, performance levers, and 2025-era pitfalls to avoid. Expect code snippets, setup checklists, and the l
by Jay
2025-08-13
11 min read
Verifiable Data Solutions for Surveillance, Market, and Indicative Data Streams
> Summary: Decision-makers can now ship verifiable data streams with production-grade building blocks: W3C Verifiable Credentials 2.0 and Data Integrity for provenance, C2PA for camera- and media-grade authenticity, SCITT and Sigstore for t
by Jay
2025-08-13
11 min read
Verifiable Data Package and Verifiable Data Feed: New Primitives for Web3 Apps
Enterprise-grade Web3 needs data you can independently verify, reuse across chains, and plug into onchain logic with predictable cost and latency. This post introduces two practical building blocks—Verifiable Data Packages (VDPs) and Verifi
