Gm fam. Welcome to the Cross Chain Weekly - the weekly email that makes you a smarter blockchain insider. The crypto community has reached an important moment. Decisions being made by legislators and regulators in DC and around the country will impact the future of how we can build, buy, sell, and use crypto. Coinbase is taking action with #Crypto435. Let’s dive into the highlights….
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Anon wake up… Vitalik broke the internet again. High transaction fees seem to draw the majority of attention from the all-knowing twitter critics as a reason for Ethereum’s lack of adoption. But, are they missing the forest for the trees? Vitalik thinks so. The reason most opt for centralized solutions instead of on-chain decentralized alternatives according to Vitalik? Wallet experience.
Good user experience is not about the average case, it is about the worst case. A UI that is clean and sleek, but does some weird and unexplainable thing 0.723% of the time that causes big problems, is worse than a UI that exposes more gritty details to the user but at least makes it easier to understand what's going on and fix any problem that does arise.
Vitalik journals about his various experiences through the years with wallet UI/UX and offers lessons learned to improve this bottleneck. User experience in web3 has improved exponentially in the last few years, but there is much more to accomplish. Read the full piece here.
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News from Outside the Coalition
Tezos signs up Google Cloud as a validator on its blockchain
Hacking the hacker: Jump & the High Court of England’s stealthy operation
Funding
Sei Network developer raising funds at $400M token valuation
Blocto crypto wallet closes Series A round at an $80M valuation
Out Run the Rat Race
Dapper Labs said to lay off 20% more of its full-time employees
10T’s Tapiero is launching a crypto PE firm backed by Alan Howard
Upcoming Events by Crypto Nomads
ETH Denver side events // Feb 24 - Mar 5, Denver CO
Women focused events at ETH Denver // Mar 1 - 2, Denver CO
Next sale dates for EthCC in Paris // March 15th @ 10am CET
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