Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Penpie, built on top of tokenized yield platform Pendle, suffered an exploit on Wednesday, crypto observers reported. The alleged exploiter drained roughly $27 million of crypto assets including various types of staked ether (ETH), Ethena’s sUSDE and wrapped USDC stablecoin from the protocol, blockchain data shows. Later, it converted the proceeds
How Decentralized AI and Zero-Knowledge Proofs Will Democratize Compute
In late July, Mark Zuckerberg penned a letter explaining why “open source is necessary for a positive AI future,” where he waxes poetic about the need for open-source AI development. The once-nerdy teen founder, now turned into the wakeboarding, gold chain-wearing, and jiu-jitsu fighting “Zuck,” has been branded as the messiah of open-source model development.
Engineering over AI
For the last few months, I have been working on something new – building code generating LLM agents that actually work and produce high fidelity results. The space is probably in peak of its hype curve and it seems like many teams have lost focus on what really matters, the engineering part. There’s just too
PropelAuth (YC W22) is hiring engineers who love to write
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Writing a book in the age of open source
About a year ago, and I set out to write our first book. A book for aspiring Engineering Managers. We quickly realized that writing was a much larger undertaking than we had anticipated. We also found ourselves overwhelmed by the numerous tools used in the industry. As engineering managers, we knew one thing for certain:
How Xavier Worthy gives Chiefs options they haven’t had since Tyreek Hill
The Kansas City Chiefs’ wide receiver room has famously been a revolving door since their landmark 2022 trade of star Tyreek Hill to the Miami Dolphins. Not that Chiefs fans are complaining. The strategy has paid off massively, as the Chiefs have won back-to-back Super Bowls since the trade, thanks to superstar quarterback Patrick Mahomes
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For men only? Lack of women winners for million-euro science prize draws protests
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