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&lt;!-- SC_OFF --&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;md&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hot allowances are the crypto version of the traditional allowance. They are a brand new way to get your family and friends on-chain using ETH.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;How simple are hot allowances? For the receiver, they are dead simple. There&amp;#39;s no social logins, phone numbers, emails, bank information, names, home addresses, browser extensions, mobile apps, or key management. The receiver just needs a browser and enters the funder supplied password at an installation link. It&amp;#39;s 10x easier than setting up a google account and 100x easier than setting up a centralized exchange account. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;How does it work? A hot allowance splits the crypto complexity between the funder and receiver. The funder deploys the smart contract, handles key management, and funds the allowance. The funder can manage the hot allowance by stopping, restarting or sweeping the allowance funds in the contract. Since the hot allowance is a periodic payment to the receiver, if the receiver gets hacked or phished, only the claimed portion of the allowance is primarily at risk. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Technical Note: Reverse social recovery Hot allowances invert the social recovery process. Rather than someone setting up a wallet and assigning guardians to recover the account, with reverse social recovery, the guardian creates the allowance and delivers it to the user. This is the major insight that makes hot allowances suitable for crypto beginners.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Are hot allowances non-custodial? Hot allowances are non-custodial and have no hard dependencies on hotallowance.com. The funder creates the hot allowance on their local device and then encrypts the data. The encrypted data is then sent to the receiver for installation via a url link. The receiver decrypts the hot allowance locally on their device. The hotallowance.com website is not required. It just streamlines the initial handshake and helps both funders and receivers manage their allowances.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;ve created a few demo ETH hot allowances on the Ethereum Sepolia Testnet and Layer 2 Testnets. These are one-time install urls, so please only use one. Give other people a chance to try it out. If you want to create your own hot allowance (the exact same code is used for both mainnet and testnet), go to &lt;a href=&quot;https://hotallowance.com/testnet/create.html&quot;&gt;https://hotallowance.com/testnet/create.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Installation Url: &lt;a href=&quot;https://hotallowance.com/testnet/install.html?a={1{fJ37zP(3OhY)M@oQI&quot;&gt;https://hotallowance.com/testnet/install.html?a={1{fJ37zP(3OhY)M@oQI&lt;/a&gt; Security Phrase: ethRedditDemo1&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Installation Url: &lt;a href=&quot;https://hotallowance.com/testnet/install.html?a=71iPPVN0UrKVUl)(zHqU&quot;&gt;https://hotallowance.com/testnet/install.html?a=71iPPVN0UrKVUl)(zHqU&lt;/a&gt; Security Phrase: ethRedditDemo2&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Installation Url: &lt;a href=&quot;https://hotallowance.com/testnet/install.html?a=jR07z-Yb1_lE4-^09kix&quot;&gt;https://hotallowance.com/testnet/install.html?a=jR07z-Yb1_lE4-^09kix&lt;/a&gt; Security Phrase: ethRedditDemo3&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Installation Url: &lt;a href=&quot;https://hotallowance.com/testnet/install.html?a=(o4y@AsGYsuz{QtKjjuj&quot;&gt;https://hotallowance.com/testnet/install.html?a=(o4y@AsGYsuz{QtKjjuj&lt;/a&gt; Security Phrase: ethRedditDemo4&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Installation Url: &lt;a href=&quot;https://hotallowance.com/testnet/install.html?a=zqAIgdO}X8njVJy34Veo&quot;&gt;https://hotallowance.com/testnet/install.html?a=zqAIgdO}X8njVJy34Veo&lt;/a&gt; Security Phrase: ethRedditDemo5&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- SC_ON --&gt; &amp;#32; submitted by &amp;#32; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/user/crypto5000&quot;&gt; /u/crypto5000 &lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/17qq88h/new_hot_allowances_on_ethereum_simple_and/&quot;&gt;[link]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &amp;#32; &lt;span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/17qq88h/new_hot_allowances_on_ethereum_simple_and/&quot;&gt;[comments]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;

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&lt;!-- SC_OFF --&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;md&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TLDR at the bottom&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Current state of Interoperability&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;As it stands today, there is too much trust in cross blockchain transactions. Bridges act as one of he most vulnerable parts of blockchain and it’s a billion dollar issue. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The current model of blockchain bridging tends to operate like this:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Imagine you send a transaction from &lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt; chain, to &lt;em&gt;Y&lt;/em&gt; chain. What happens under the hood is, you a wallet or multiple wallets, held on both chains, as well as smart contracts to initiate transactions between chains. When you send a tractions from one chain to another, these wallets will lock up the tokens on one end, which will initiate a minting nodule on the receiving chain to mint the newly bridged tokens.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;How does the communication happen though? In reality, it’s about smart contracts initiating these lock and mint/burn modules. Oracles relay information to each chain, when a change in state and a lock up has been made on the starting chain, and should trigger a mint on the destination chain. In which case, the bridge contracts will act appropriately. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Risks in the current system&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;This type of bridging leaves a few levels of risk. You have smart contract risk, which likely includes multisig risk. So if enough ravage keys get compromised, or worse,a group of multisig key holders go malicious, then they could theoretically drain the bridge. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;You also have third party oracle risk. So if an oracle receives incorrect information, or has sine sort of issue that halts important information for a period of time, the bridging system may not be operational.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Comparing this to the Inter Blockchain Communication Protocol (IBC)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;This protocol allows sovereign blockchains that are hooked into it, to communicate freely through light client verification, without the need for multisigs or Oracles.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It goes like this:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Chain A and Chain B have a relayer, who agrees to run a light node, that will communicate between chain A and chain B. To initiate this relationship between the two chains however, there must be a “handshake agreement”, to obtain trust in each others ledger as they currently stand. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;At a high level, each one of the chains will perform this step by communicating their algorithm and a snapshot of their consensus state, containing the root hash at the latest block height. The light client then can confirm that these chains are accurately communicating their state, and that they are both compatible for IBC communication, and then the handshake agreement is over and the chains now can communicate through the relayer.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Many validators opt to run relayers, alongside their validating nodes, however, their is no requirement where only a validator can run an IBC relayer.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;IBC’s capabilities&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;In general, an IBC transaction can include, but is not limited to coin transfers. It can also transfer arbitrary data, and thanks to Interchain Accounts and Interchain Queries, it also includes cross chain smart contract deployment and execution.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;These types of base layer communications are essential for ensuring trust, in this trustless bridging system. Relayers actually can’t “miscommunicate”. It’s essentially the chains directly communicating, and the relayer simply relays directly what the chain states, and and a relayer has to sign a direct order of communication from a chain. There is not trust necessary in a relayer, as they can’t change the way the protocol is set to form direct communication. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;This sort of trustless bridging of both transactions and general information, with a direct link from each chain, is extremely important to be able to form seamless communication for cross chain smart contracts and collaborations. This type of bridging will also create a new paradigm to allow for cross chain abstraction, as multi hop IBC transactions will soon allow for any chain to connect to any chain, using the already connected relayers on each chain. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;However, I will save multi hop IBC transactions for another day.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TLDR;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IBC differs greatly from the current state of blockchain bridges. It doesn’t rely on any smart contracts, oracles or multi sigs. Rather it relies on relayers, who can utilize a light client, to form a direct communication link between blockchains.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;These relayers are able to communicate transactions, as well as arbitrary data, perform Interchain Queries and open up accounts across chains, allowing for easy execution of cross chain smart contracts. There are many different use cases coming from things such as multi hop IBC and ZK IBC, that will make even more efficient cross chain communication, and an even more abstracted IBC.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- SC_ON --&gt; &amp;#32; submitted by &amp;#32; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/user/Jcook_14&quot;&gt; /u/Jcook_14 &lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/14qx2vj/in_depth_analysis_on_the_cosmos_ibc_trustless/&quot;&gt;[link]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &amp;#32; &lt;span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/14qx2vj/in_depth_analysis_on_the_cosmos_ibc_trustless/&quot;&gt;[comments]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;

In depth analysis on the Cosmos IBC; trustless bridging through light client verification

What is a handshake domains? Handshake (HNS) is a decentralized, blockchain-based naming system that aims to provide an alternative to the traditional domain name system (DNS). A Handshake domain, also known as an HNS domain, is a domain registered on the Handshake network. The Handshake network operates by combining the security and decentralization of blockchain [&#8230;]

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&lt;!-- SC_OFF --&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;md&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Say I make a handshake deal to sell ethereum for cash to someone else. They give me cash and I transfer it to a wallet they control, a wallet that isn’t connected to a KYC exchange and ownership can’t be verified at all. Would the government/IRS or any other party investigating still assume I own those assets? I asked this in a bitcoin sub as well. Looking for perspective from the ethereum community.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- SC_ON --&gt; &amp;#32; submitted by &amp;#32; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/user/Casedb&quot;&gt; /u/Casedb &lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/13l42bx/selling_ethereum/&quot;&gt;[link]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &amp;#32; &lt;span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/13l42bx/selling_ethereum/&quot;&gt;[comments]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;

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&lt;!-- SC_OFF --&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;md&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hey guys, I&amp;#39;m trying to build a domain locked NFT minting smart contract. I have been doing whitelisted nft mints to prevent botting attacks, but those are tedious. Nobody wants to participate in my whitelisted mints because they&amp;#39;re such a pain in the a**. I have to give the minters time to give me their Ethereum addresses so I can add them to the whitelist to make the merkle root and that takes a really long time. Plus if you miss the whitelisting you can&amp;#39;t get one. Once I deploy the merkle root, anyone who never gave me their Ethereum wallet can&amp;#39;t mint the NFT.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;So I&amp;#39;ve concluded that I have to mint from a website protected with a captcha. This is really hard because people can just write scripts/bots that call the contract directly. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;My 2 plans of attack are: &lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;I could incorporate some type of CORS policy in the solidity contract that only allows minting function calls from the actual domain of my minting site... Does something like that exist. ?&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;I could make a proxy contract that does all of the minting and my captcha webpage uses this proxy contract to call the NFT contract, mint an NFT, and sends it to the person trying to claim an NFT. The biggest problems that I have with this are that: &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;I think I will have to pay the gas fees for my proxy contract to mint and send the NFT. I don&amp;#39;t know if there&amp;#39;s a way around this. &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Also I will have to expose my proxy contract owner&amp;#39;s private key in my website deployment. This means the website can&amp;#39;t be static, not to mention keeping a private key on a server is a security vulnerability.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;P.S. I want this site to be static if possible because I want to use a Handshake domain.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Does anyone know how I should procede? Is there a third option that I&amp;#39;m missing?&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- SC_ON --&gt; &amp;#32; submitted by &amp;#32; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/user/warpanomaly&quot;&gt; /u/warpanomaly &lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/12i5qbp/how_do_i_make_an_erc721_nft_contract_that_only/&quot;&gt;[link]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &amp;#32; &lt;span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/12i5qbp/how_do_i_make_an_erc721_nft_contract_that_only/&quot;&gt;[comments]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;

How do I make an ERC721 NFT contract that only accepts mint function calls from a specific domain?

&lt;!-- SC_OFF --&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;md&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;5 major french banks raided with 100B(Yes, with a B) fraud. BTC will easily break the $28.8k resistance tomorrow&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;#x200B;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;Société Générale&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;BNP Paribas&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Exane&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Natixis&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;HSBC&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;#x200B;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;This is huge. So far, what we have seen is that once trust in banks fail, BTC goes up.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;But, those bank won&amp;#39;t fail. BNP Paris or Societe Generale failing is like if Bank of America would fail.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;So, it should be fine, it&amp;#39;s just fraud. /s Lawyers and government can&amp;#39;t just give to each other a strong handshake and laugh about it.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Well, we will see tomorrow if I&amp;#39;m right.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- SC_ON --&gt; &amp;#32; submitted by &amp;#32; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/user/badfishbeefcake&quot;&gt; /u/badfishbeefcake &lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1267yde/5_major_french_banks_raided_with_100byes_with_a_b/&quot;&gt;[link]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &amp;#32; &lt;span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1267yde/5_major_french_banks_raided_with_100byes_with_a_b/&quot;&gt;[comments]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;

5 major french banks raided with 100B(Yes, with a B) fraud. BTC will easily break the $28.8k resistance tomorrow

&lt;!-- SC_OFF --&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;md&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;The P2P handshake underpins the whole network. What&amp;#39;s happening when 2 nodes on the Bitcoin network establish connection? It could be and often is home computers. It&amp;#39;s fascinating to me. I mean what are the steps in the application layer / like after TCP what&amp;#39;s involved in the Bitcoin handshake which enables two untrusted parties to share resources on the BTC network?&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- SC_ON --&gt; &amp;#32; submitted by &amp;#32; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/user/takemycover&quot;&gt; /u/takemycover &lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/11jihig/eli5_the_node_handshake/&quot;&gt;[link]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &amp;#32; &lt;span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/11jihig/eli5_the_node_handshake/&quot;&gt;[comments]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;

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