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Passkey Smart Accounts: A Wallet You Open With Your Fingerprint
How FairWins turned Face ID into a real, self-custodial crypto account — no seed phrase, no browser extension, nothing to write down
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There’s no official ETC client
Disclosure: I maintain chippr-robotics/fukuii, a Scala 3 execution client that continues IOHK’s Mantis. The developer behind White B0x contributed to it until July 2026, then started fukuii-project, a separate, ground-up…
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Compliance as Code: On-Chain Screening, KYC/AML Programs, and the Travel Rule
Sanctions screening is one pillar of a BSA/AML program — not the whole house. On a public blockchain, that distinction gets sharp fast: if your screening check lives only in…
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Passkeys and Smart Accounts: A Wallet With No Password to Write Down
Remember the crypto wallet that handed you twelve random words and told you to guard them with your life? That is where most normal people quit. There is a better…
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What Is DeFi Lending, and Where Does the Yield Come From?
Where does crypto “yield” actually come from? It’s worth being blunt about, because the honest answer separates real earning from too-good-to-be-true schemes. DeFi lending is the oldest idea in finance…
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What Is a Stablecoin?
Ever wonder how a crypto app can hold “200 dollars” for you when crypto prices swing all day? The answer is stablecoins — and they’re the quiet foundation under nearly…
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What “Be Your Own Bank” Actually Means
Who actually holds the money in your bank account? Not you — the bank does. Crypto offers a different deal called self-custody, sometimes described as “being your own bank.” But…
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How we added Bitcoin to an EVM-native app (without a seed phrase)
FairWins was born EVM. Every address was twenty bytes of 0x…, every networkwas a numeric chainId, every balance read went through an RPC provider, andevery signature came from a passkey-backed…
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Futarchy, Private Markets, and the Long Arc of Governance
A Quiet Moment After the Fork The holiday break creates a rare kind of space. Space away from delivery timelines, governance calls, and the constant pull of near-term decisions. It…
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Ethereum Classic: Proof-of-Work Smart Contracts and Global Censorship Resistance
Published on ethereumclassic.org November 17, 2025 Ethereum Classic is currently the largest proof-of-work smart contract platform. The network operates at roughly 300 terahashes per second (TH/s), according to public hashrate…
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