While Blockchain is the core aspect of Web3, in my mind, Web3 represents the interplay between the Web and Blockchain. It is a holistic, all-encompassing term for all sorts of apps built on the Web that interact with the Blockchain.Some of them can be completely Blockchain-based, with only an interface to interact with them; others…
Oracles are one of my favorite blockchain features(?), don’t know if they are features but they are awesome. They allow you to use real-world data in your smart contract, and I’m all about real-world use-cases. One of the Oracle leaders is of course Chainlink. They have a solid network of oracles and also a very…
In traditional finance, you trust the payment processors to store your credit card information, they are highly regulated companies, and if they mess up it’s possible to get your money back by reversing transactions. In the beginning, when the only crypto payments were with native currencies like BTC or ETH you could not let someone…
This is Part 2 of the Full Stack NFT project series. The 4 main categories that we are focusing on in this series are: The focus in this Part 2 is uploading both images and metadata, to a decentralized storage network called IPFS, that are going to be accessed by our Smart Contract and later…