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The Build Blockchain newsletter was published weekly from June 2018 to September 2020. Its 109 issues are preserved here as an archive. Follow its author @BenDiFrancesco.
- 🦄 Revenge of the Unicorn — Issue No. 109
- 🍣 The Sushi Saga and the Future of DeFi — Issue No. 108
- 🦊 MetaMask Changes Its License — Issue No. 107
- 🦏 Medalla Goes Live — Issue No. 106
- 🔩 Augur v2 Launches — Issue No. 105
- 🌾 What The Heck is Yield Farming? — Issue No. 104
- 🧨 Twitter Attacked — Issue No. 103
- 🚎 The State Of State Channels — Issue No. 102
- 🧱 The Weird World Of Cryptovoxels — Issue No. 101
- 💯 A Montage Of The First 100 — Issue No. 100
- 2️⃣ Validium And The Layer 2 Two-By-Two — Issue No. 99
- 👩💻 HackMoney Recap — Issue No. 98
- 📤 Antifragile — Issue No. 97
- 👻 The Ghost Of Satoshi — Issue No. 96
- 📼 Tapes And Tokens — Issue No. 95
- 🏦 The Internet's Reserve Currency — Issue No. 94
- 🛳️ Checking In On 2020's Crypto Must Ship List — Issue No. 93
- 🚪 Reentrancy Returns — Issue No. 92
- ♨️ Steem's Demise And Hive's Rise — Issue No. 91
- 🍌 Could The US Dollar Be Crypto's Killer App? — Issue No. 90
- 🏰 Keep: The Tech Bringing Bitcoin To Ethereum — Issue No. 89
- 🏴 How MakerDAO Survived Black Thursday — Issue No. 88
- 🦠 What The Hell Just Happened? — Issue No. 87
- ⚙️ The Messy Work Of Decentralized Governance — Issue No. 86
- 📸 Flash Loan Attacks — Issue No. 85
- 🦄 Reflections On ETHDenver — Issue No. 84
- 🔷 Aztec Brings Confidential Transactions To Ethereum — Issue No. 83
- 🎟️ Weird DeFi — Issue No. 82
- 🔏 The State Of Privacy In Crypto — Issue No. 81
- 🍱 Rollup Roundup: Understanding Ethereum's Emerging Layer 2 — Issue No. 80
- 🚢 The 2020 Crypto Must Ship List — Issue No. 79
- 💠 Crypto's Most Underrated In 2019 — Issue No. 78
- 🌸 Zcash: Blossoming Or Wilting? — Issue No. 77
- 🦚 Istanbul Hardfork — Issue No. 76
- 🍗 Thankful For Crypto — Issue No. 75
- 😎 Why Dai Matters — Issue No. 74
- 🌶️ Return Of The DAO — Issue No. 73
- 😬 Two New Networks — Issue No. 72
- 🦊 MetaMask Extensibility — Issue No. 71
- 🔋 Power Plays: Libra And China — Issue No. 70
- 🎞️ Optimistic Rollup — Issue No. 69
- 🔮 Future In Flux — Issue No. 68
- 🍰 Layered Limitations — Issue No. 67
- 📂 Filecoin And Fork Dates — Issue No. 66
- 7️⃣ Seven Clients — Issue No. 65
- 💔 Breaking Changes — Issue No. 64
- 📙 Just Bitcoin Things — Issue No. 63
- 🔐 Compounding Lock-In — Issue No. 62
- 🗳️ DeFi Governance — Issue No. 61
- 🌉 Building Bridges — Issue No. 60
- 🏋️ Weighing The Downsides — Issue No. 59
- 💰 Future Funding — Issue No. 58
- 🧱 Money Legos — Issue No. 57
- 👁️🗨️ Political Ruminations — Issue No. 56
- ❄️ Frozen — Issue No. 55
- ♎ Libra Announced — Issue No. 54
- 📈 Up And To The Right — Issue No. 53
- 🍞 Upgrades Baked In — Issue No. 52
- 🦈 SNARK Bites — Issue No. 51
- 🦃 Istanbul Sneak Peek — Issue No. 50
- ☯️ Bitcoin And Ethereum — Issue No. 49
- ♎ Libras And Beacons — Issue No. 48
- 📛 ENS Upgrades — Issue No. 47
- 🎭 Decentralization Theater — Issue No. 46
- 💞 Friendly Forks — Issue No. 45
- 🥩 What's At Stake — Issue No. 44
- ⚒️ Mining Machinations — Issue No. 43
- 🔭 Cosmos Goes Live — Issue No. 42
- 🥊 DeFi's Heavyweight — Issue No. 41
- 🍾 Constantinople Is Live — Issue No. 40
- 📻 Bitcoin Radio — Issue No. 39
- 🗃️ Filecoin Opens Up — Issue No. 38
- 🤫 Privacy Problems — Issue No. 37
- 💶 Broke Moneymakers — Issue No. 36
- 😃 Grin — Issue No. 35
- 🛑 Constantinople Stopped — Issue No. 34
- ⚔️ Attacks — Issue No. 33
- 🛸 Beam Me Up — Issue No. 32
- 🕵️♀️ Private Premine — Issue No. 31
- 🦌 Zuck Bucks — Issue No. 30
- 🎬 Constantinople Take 2 — Issue No. 29
- 🌀 Attacks & Death Spirals — Issue No. 28
- 🗡️ Sneak Attack — Issue No. 27
- ⏫ Ethereum Upgrades — Issue No. 26
- 🏢 Building Beats Forking — Issue No. 25
- 🚔 Enforcement Arrives — Issue No. 24
- 📜 Founding Document — Issue No. 23
- 🛡️ Bulletproof — Issue No. 22
- 🍴 What the fork? — Issue No. 21
- 🔍 Detecting DApp Usage — Issue No. 20
- 🏰 Constantinople Cometh — Issue No. 19
- 🐜 More About Bugs — Issue No. 18
- 🐛 Bugs Happen — Issue No. 17
- 🏗️ Bitcoin Core Infrastructure — Issue No. 16
- 🐕 Such Technology — Issue No. 15
- 🗄️ Filecoin Files An Update — Issue No. 14
- 🌱 Zcash Sapling — Issue No. 13
- 🐢 Slow And Steady Bitcoin — Issue No. 12
- 🌹 What's In A Nameservice? — Issue No. 11
- 🌺 A Thousand Flowers Bloom — Issue No. 10
- 🛍️ Ethereum Proposal Grab Bag — Issue No. 9
- 👩💻 Developer Incentives — Issue No. 8
- 🎰 A Busy Week For DApps — Issue No. 7
- 🌐 Is the web right for crypto? — Issue No. 6
- 🔬 Zcash Under The Microscope — Issue No. 5
- ⚡ Lightning In A Bottle — Issue No. 4
- ⚖️ Security And Securities — Issue No. 3
- 💎 EOS is No-Go...for now — Issue No. 2
- 🔒 Blockchain Protocol Security — Issue No. 1