Moledao·Sep 17What a Smart Contract Audit Can — and Cannot — Guarantee“Audited” is one of the most reassuring words in Web3. It is also one of the easiest to misunderstand. An audit can uncover important…
Moledao·Sep 10How Upgradeable Smart Contracts Change the Meaning of “Immutable”Smart contracts are often described as immutable. Once code is deployed, the blockchain keeps that code and executes it according to the…
Moledao·Aug 15How Long Until You Earn ¥1M a Year in Web3? The Real Divide Is Solving Million-Dollar ProblemsOn August 9, Moledao’s Web3 Career Lab held its first Chinese-language AMA. Our guest was Phoebe Peng, Chief of Staff at ABFinance, and the…
Moledao·Aug 14Why Airdrops Struggle to Tell Users From Wallet FarmsA protocol wants to reward the people who used its product before a token existed. It scans on-chain activity and finds thousands of active…
Moledao·Jul 28How Account Abstraction Is Fixing Ethereum’s Wallet ProblemPicture the first ten minutes of someone’s life in Web3. They’ve heard about a decentralized app they want to try, they download a wallet…
Moledao·Jul 24How Web3 Interviewers Use Token Pay, Async Teams, and Motivation Questions to Screen CandidatesIf you’ve sat through more than one Web3 interview loop, you’ve probably noticed the shape of it. The technical rounds come first, and they…
Moledao·Jul 23How Zero-Knowledge Proofs Let You Prove Something Without Revealing ItImagine a bank asking you to prove you earn enough to qualify for a loan. The usual way to do this is to hand over pay stubs, tax returns…
Moledao·Jul 21How Consensus, Rollups, and Smart Contracts Combine to Run Web3Most explanations of Web3 start in the wrong place. They open with a token, a protocol name, or a headline-grabbing exploit, and try to…
Moledao·Jul 20How Ethereum Actually Scales: Rollups, Sidechains, and the Modular ShiftEvery blockchain that wants to support millions of users eventually runs into the same wall. Ethereum hit that wall early, and rather than…
Moledao·Jul 19Mapping the Web3 Ecosystem: Value Flow from Infrastructure to ApplicationsIt’s tempting to talk about Web3 as if it were one undifferentiated market — a single thing called “crypto” that goes up or down as a unit…
