We have just announced a seed financing round for our project, Moonbeam: $1.4 million from many of the most prominent venture capital firms in the blockchain industry. It’s a big milestone for us, but I’d like to take a moment to pause and explain how this fits into our overall vision for the project. We […]
User experience (UX) in crypto products is generally poor for a simple reason: there simply isn’t that much investment going into it. Investment goes mostly into cryptography and technical research and backend engineering. Even front ends for blockchain based applications are often “just enough to get the job done.” I start with this observation because […]
/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/ux-in-crypto-1000.png3491000Derek Yoo/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/PureStake_Logo-Horizontal-340x156-300x138.pngDerek Yoo2020-07-30 06:00:412020-07-29 16:39:23The Importance of UX in Crypto End User Adoption
Why isn’t broader crypto mass adoption happening? At some point, everyone working in the crypto space has asked themselves why mass adoption hasn’t happened. Some common assumptions for why this is the case are that the technology is not mature enough, that it isn’t scalable enough, and that the dev tools are so much worse […]
/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/wheels-on-a-suitcase-1000.png3491000Derek Yoo/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/PureStake_Logo-Horizontal-340x156-300x138.pngDerek Yoo2020-07-09 09:11:252020-07-22 11:51:23Wheels on Luggage: Crypto Mass Adoption is Not a Technology Problem
As part of today’s 2.0.7 upgrade, Algorand released an important update to its Algod API — one that significantly alters the endpoints and will require some changes in order for you to use them. It also introduces a lot of great new functionality that wasn’t available in the previous version. NOTE: PureStake has already released […]
/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/algorand-api-v2-indexer-1000.png3571000Tim Baldwin/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/PureStake_Logo-Horizontal-340x156-300x138.pngTim Baldwin2020-06-16 14:57:252020-06-24 10:26:19Algorand API v2 and Indexer v2: What It is and How to Prepare
I heard Malcolm Gladwell tell a story about spaghetti sauce in a TED talk back in 2004 and it’s one of those stories that has stuck with me and that I still think about from time to time. The story has become somewhat well known to marketeers who are drawn to its conclusions about horizontal […]
/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/tomato-sauce-blockchain-1000px.png3491000Derek Yoo/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/PureStake_Logo-Horizontal-340x156-300x138.pngDerek Yoo2020-06-10 07:00:502020-06-10 10:30:49How Spaghetti Sauce Can Help Us Identify the Best Blockchain
A Look at Our Seed Financing for Moonbeam
/in Blog /by Derek YooWe have just announced a seed financing round for our project, Moonbeam: $1.4 million from many of the most prominent venture capital firms in the blockchain industry. It’s a big milestone for us, but I’d like to take a moment to pause and explain how this fits into our overall vision for the project. We […]
The Importance of UX in Crypto End User Adoption
/in Blog /by Derek YooUser experience (UX) in crypto products is generally poor for a simple reason: there simply isn’t that much investment going into it. Investment goes mostly into cryptography and technical research and backend engineering. Even front ends for blockchain based applications are often “just enough to get the job done.” I start with this observation because […]
Wheels on Luggage: Crypto Mass Adoption is Not a Technology Problem
/in Blog /by Derek YooWhy isn’t broader crypto mass adoption happening? At some point, everyone working in the crypto space has asked themselves why mass adoption hasn’t happened. Some common assumptions for why this is the case are that the technology is not mature enough, that it isn’t scalable enough, and that the dev tools are so much worse […]
Algorand API v2 and Indexer v2: What It is and How to Prepare
/in Blog /by Tim BaldwinAs part of today’s 2.0.7 upgrade, Algorand released an important update to its Algod API — one that significantly alters the endpoints and will require some changes in order for you to use them. It also introduces a lot of great new functionality that wasn’t available in the previous version. NOTE: PureStake has already released […]
How Spaghetti Sauce Can Help Us Identify the Best Blockchain
/in Blog /by Derek YooI heard Malcolm Gladwell tell a story about spaghetti sauce in a TED talk back in 2004 and it’s one of those stories that has stuck with me and that I still think about from time to time. The story has become somewhat well known to marketeers who are drawn to its conclusions about horizontal […]