Ever wondered what it is like to create a mobile wallet like Rainbow or Trust Wallet? Being a wallet developer unlocks superpowers to understand how accounts, transactions and providers work. In this tutorial, we will build a simple web3 wallet with the WalletConnect Web3Wallet SDK via React Native Expo, which…

Social recovery, atomic batch transactions, and paymaster for new users. When the first iPhone came out, it had limited functionality so there was a software called Cydia to “jailbreak” and download extra apps outside of the AppStore. Apps such as Camcorder and the flashlight were used to bypass the operating…

Mobile Curiosity Spent two years building web 2.0 mobile apps and was recently wondering why web3 wallet adoption is not higher. Desktop wallets (i.e. Metamask and Phantom) are a great introduction to the blockchain. However, it is inevitable that mobile wallets will have to be more popularized. Rainbow, Argent, Zerion, Trust Wallet…

Generative art is something I have always been fascinated by. Self-expression to create art with randomness and algorithms. The more I learn about it, I am drawn to the intersection of web3 and generative art which led me to Artblocks. …

Web3 is here to stay and education will a larger driver to bring new people into the space. Particularly with regards to development and user onboarding, more people are dipping their toes with DAO contributions and learning. Web3 Education represents a paradigm shift between Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 …

From state-wide California lockdowns, Black Lives Matter (BLM) riots, and seeing my local cafe owner break down in tears, I experienced lockdown through the lens of a local and global scale. It could be described as the black swan event that unpredictably changes history’s course. This is a reflection piece…

Written in March 2021 & Published in August 2021. This is an overview of crypto and my story of getting back into the industry. …

Written in 2017. Published in 2021. After 3 weeks of solo traveling in Vietnam and having a lot of time to think, read and write, my views on the construct of money have changed. Is our current financial system is broken? Money isn’t necessarily the paper. It is a mere…

Understanding Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is like playing Super Mario. You learn the basics in Lvl 1 as the game guides you through the actions. Then it gets harder and has several levels till the end. It’s easy at first but progresses to get more difficult. After re-entering the Crypto Rabbithole…