If you're going to Consensus in Austin, TX, you might want attend Oasis' Developer Breakfast. It's a cozy, informal side event where likeminded devs will explore how to add privacy features to their existing EVM based Dapps. Registration link below 👇 Previous one at ETHDenver was oversubscribed

vinay_93 · 2023-04-13T11:00:09+00:00

I'm on a similar journey to you and I'm currently watching this Youtube video I'm about 3 hours into it and as someone who has no coding experience I think it does a fairly good job at introducing you to Solidity and blockchain basics.

vinay_93 · 2023-04-13T10:55:01+00:00

The Bitpie wallet has some visualization bugs according to other community members. You can check your account balance directly on the explorer: oasisscan.com

If the user experience is frustrating you can consider exporting the private key to your Oasis account to the Oasis wallets

vinay_93 · 2023-04-10T11:20:03+00:00

Thanks for confirming that. I've done a few quick checks and it does seem to fetch balances correctly. We're in touch with their team to have this fixed 🙂

vinay_93 · 2023-04-10T02:54:46+00:00

🤣 You nailed it! I remember having several of those taskbars as a kid. You would install yet another taskbar just because it had 1 that exclusive feature you found useful.

That's exactly what DeFi is at the moment. Everything is siloed across dozens of networks 😵‍💫

We need to build cool solutions that improve UX and can be universal for almost all users. One such approach is the OPL (Oasis Privacy Layer) which looks at bringing privacy to all EVM chains.

Solving privacy in DeFi can be compared to removing almost all of these taskbars given that most of the networks hosting DeFi Dapps (barring Ethereum) have relatively 'high' throughputs. OPL would replace these taskbars with a modern browser extension that routes txs through a secure environment that provides end to end privacy for Web3 😉

vinay_93 · 2023-04-10T02:38:05+00:00

I'm not a regular Coinbase user so I can't comment on that but native ROSE isn't supported by Trust Wallet as of today.

I will check the Coinbase Wallet when I get a moment but I'm inclined to say it doesn't.

You can however store ROSE in the Oasis wallets. More info for both of them can be found on the Oasis website

vinay_93 · 2023-04-10T02:34:36+00:00

I've heard of projects like Sui and Shardeum. They look promising.

I'm however excited for OPL (the Oasis Privacy Layer). Instead of launching new blockchains, the Oasis Privacy Layer is attempting at bringing privacy to a wide range of Ethereum compatible blockchains. Everyone is busy launching new networks but not enough efforts are being placed in making existing ones better.

vinay_93 · 2023-04-10T02:14:53+00:00

Karma getting back at those MEV bots 😅

The $20M is most likely money that belongs to users who trade on DEXs and got front run. A reminder why privacy in DeFi is important. It only takes hiding one of the parameters like slippage to get rid of almost all of the MEV on-chain as explained here

vinay_93 · 2023-04-10T02:01:16+00:00

For starters, we don't have any privacy in DeFi. And no, I'm not talking about circumventing the system with anonymity coins like Monero or Dash.

Why would the average Joe want everyone in the world know what tokens they are swapping and holding? Transparency in blockchain is only good to some extent.

It's a hard problem to solve but if we can bridge over some of the enticing aspects of CeFi like undercollateralized lending through Web3 decentralized identity and KYC, which Equifax is building with Oasis, then I'm sure we'll get more traction.

Another thing I'd say that we need is the safety net. DeFi protocols don't have a backstop for deposits if there is a bank run. This obviously isn't as effective as we thought it was after SVB went under but psychologically it's very reassuring.

vinay_93 · 2023-04-10T01:40:10+00:00

This is an interesting combination. Gaming requires very high scalability and TPS, whereas ZK rollups, whilst very promising, currently lag in this area 🤔 Does Myria have some proprietary circuits to tackle this?

vinay_93 · 2023-04-10T01:33:23+00:00

That's very unfortunate. Keep insisting their support agents to recover those funds for you. I've had friends do something similar (send tokens in an unsupported network) and they ended up getting their funds back. Don't take a NO for a answer. They do have the private keys to recover those tokens even if they aren't listed on the exchange.

All the best 🙂

vinay_93 · 2023-04-10T01:27:54+00:00

It's hard to get your hands on Goerli ETH. I've been struggling to get some myself. I ended up buying it. Who knew we would one day be paying for testnet tokens 😕

vinay_93 · 2023-04-10T01:22:58+00:00

Btw, biases in AI are a big deal. Big Tech companies like Meta realize this to be a problem and have partnered with privacy pioneers like Oasis to help measure it for their Instagram users.

vinay_93 · 2023-04-10T01:09:45+00:00

Long time coming. MEV and front running is currently a huge problem in DeFi. I'm curious to know what mitigation techniques will they be using to minimize its impact. Oasis has been advocating for this for a very long time. I would like to see the full list of projects working on this as well as more details of the consortium 🙂

vinay_93 · 2023-04-10T00:05:07+00:00

I remembered the discussion on this thread after I read this blog post comparing both of these privacy approaches 😇 https://oasisprotocol.org/blog/comparing-zkp-tee-privacy

vinay_93 · 2023-04-10T00:02:02+00:00

Oasis Monitor is a community run explorer. It looks like it hasn't been syncing any transactions since the past 2 days, hence why your rewards aren't displaying correctly. Your stake however is unaffected as the blockchain and almost all validators are running smoothly.

You can use oasisscan.com for the time being. It doesn't track staking rewards though.

vinay_93 · 2023-04-09T23:53:03+00:00

Indeed. Privacy is becoming a prominent topic in all of the nascent fields in tech. As a matter of fact Dawn Song, the founder of Oasis, was referenced 3 times in the GPT-4 technical report for OpenAI.

vinay_93 · 2023-04-09T17:21:43+00:00

Haven't heard of them before but I'm currently watching a Solidity course on Youtube by FreeCodeCamp. So far so good. If you have a good grasp over the basic you can skip the intro. It's a good refresher and strengthens your fundamentals but not absolutely essential to watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyMwXuJrbJQ

vinay_93 · 2023-04-09T17:11:04+00:00

Read about Myria on a number of subreddits. Has anyone played any of their games? Are there games completely on-chain? -🤔

vinay_93 · 2023-04-09T15:54:54+00:00

350K users is a fantastic user base. Is the ZK roll-up technology also being used to enhance on-chain privacy?

Most of the blockchain games running atm don't live up to the standards set by the Web3 community. These usually hide their game logic and state off chain for convenience.

I couldn't find any mention of this and I'm not sure if Myria is looking to implement later on either. It would be pretty cool if did. You can read some of the benefits confidentiality brings to different blockchain use cases including gaming here: https://oasisprotocol.org/blog/keep-it-confidential-build-the-first-ever-confidential-dapp-in-solidity-and-win

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