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Rust developer. Working on Polkadot, Substrate and Ethereum.
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Polkadot treasury call for proposals -- manual collection of validator information

NPoS relies heavily on nominators' building trusts with validators. Many wallets provide certain "scores" for validators. However, there are only so much you can do with automated scores, and they must be accompanied with manually collected information to be complete. This is what this CFP is about -- manually asking validators about why they can be trusted -- node setups, fees, postmortems, etc.

Polkadot treasury call for proposals -- offline wallet tooling that does not rely on the browser

Something like Bitcoin's Electrum, or Monero's CLI wallet. A good way to improve security is to reduce the attack surface. Browsers can do too many things, and for a wallet, it is bad.

Polkadot treasury call for proposals -- build a Mastodon community

There is currently no concentrated community in Mastodon specifically for Polkadot, so we need to build one! News needs to be bridged from Twitter regularly, and efforts have to be made to create the community. Using a cryptocurrency, you may as well want to make more things in your life decentralized!

Polkadot treasury call for proposals

In this toot thread, I list some (often bite-sized) treasury proposals that I really want to see in the Polkadot community. Like the saying goes, a good proposal is usually one that surprises us. However, if you are looking for some inspirations, here you go!

Now that the fix was already deployed, I can finally talk about the anyone-can-send zero address on Polkadot. https://that.world/~wei/polkadot/specific/zero/
The anyone-can-send zero address on Polkadot | Wei in the real world

The abuse, and the fix that depends on game thoery

Wei in the real world
Improved way of handling Ethereum transaction signatures in Frontier. It's also backward-compatible! https://github.com/paritytech/frontier/pull/482
Signed Frontier-specific extrinsic by sorpaas · Pull Request #482 · paritytech/frontier

This is based on @xlc's work. Use a Frontier-specific extrinsic struct, so that we don't have to treat Ethereum transactions as "unsigned". This is generalized to suit Frontier li...

59-ABVOTE: Allow explicit abstain in adaptive quorum biasing https://specs.corepaper.org/59-abvote
59-ABVOTE

Allow explicit abstain in adaptive quorum biasing

58-BVOTE: Blind voting for Polkadot https://specs.corepaper.org/58-bvote
58-BVOTE

Blind voting for Polkadot

Mastodon instance upgraded to v3.2.0 on social.that.world!
In the light of the recent Twitter hack, here's a reminder that #Mastodon can be more secure. Decentralization means social engineering attacks are far more difficult to be carried out. https://mikestone.me/twitter-got-hacked-is-mastodon-immune
Twitter Got Hacked, Is Mastodon Immune?

Unless you've been hiding under a rock the last week or so, you probably know that Twitter got "hacked". So, is Mastodon immune from havi...