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What is Native Account Abstraction? RIP-7560 Explained

Ethereum continues to be the home for the majority of on-chain activity despite the network facing ongoing challenges with scalability and efficiency.  At the forefront of solving this are rollups, as a Layer 2 solution, offering a way to handle transactions off the main Ethereum chain. However, the status quo

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What is a Web3 API? A Beginner's Guide (2024)

Today, developers face many challenges while building in web3. Most of these challenges stem from either the nascency of the technology or its rapidly evolving nature.  Also, web3 development requires developers to use several tools, from blockchain networks to smart contracts, oracles, etc. Most of these tools are not natively

What are the Best ZK-Rollup Projects? (2024)

Blockchains grapple with scalability issues, which lead to slow transaction processing times and high costs. To address this long-standing issue, zero-knowledge (ZK) rollups have emerged as a promising solution.  ZK rollups are Layer-2 solutions that bundle multiple transactions off-chain and submit a concise proof of their validity to the main

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What is zkSync Era? The Developer's Guide (2024)

Zero-knowledge (ZK) is an area of growing interest in the blockchain space. Especially, the Ethereum community is striving to employ ZK in the pursuit of solving two key issues of the Ethereum blockchain — privacy and scalability. The core of ZK's promise lies in its zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs). These

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What is Transaction Nonce in Ethereum?

Ethereum processes over a million transactions every day, serving as the backbone for hundreds of onchain protocols, blockchain games, and dapps (decentralized applications). This heavy traffic is verified and processed by a global network of nodes and more than 800k active validators all spread across the globe.  While this node

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What are Dynamic NFTs? (& How to Create Them)

The NFT market (non-fungible tokens) is evolving into the next phase. PFP and art collectibles — the previous drivers of growth are being overtaken by new initiatives. Phygital collectibles like toys that are linked to NFTs and utility NFTs are grabbing the headlines today. However, there’s another exciting development in

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Goodbye Goerli, Hello Sepolia!

On Jan 1st, 2024, the Goerli testnet will be officially moved to EOL (End of Life) status. This means that the Ethereum Foundation will not actively maintain it any longer. This includes Ethereum Goerli as well as the Goerli testnets for L2s (eg: Arbitrum Goerli, Optimism Goerli, Base Goerli etc.

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What is a Fiat Onramp?

For web3 mass adoption, bridging crypto with traditional finance seamlessly is crucial. Despite this, over 50% of fiat-to-crypto transactions fail post-KYC completion, as reported by Cointelegraph Research. Even more striking, the abandonment rate during the purchase process can soar to 90%.  The current state of fiat-crypto integration is plagued by

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The Ultimate Roadmap to Blockchain Development

Blockchain technology is revolutionizing the global digital economy, and it is now being practically applied across industries — including finance, gaming, social media, and more. As we move towards a more decentralized digital world built on the blockchain, it opens up new career and job opportunities. In the Ultimate Roadmap to

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Launch Production-Ready Appchains with thirdweb and AvaCloud

We’re excited to partner with AvaCloud to bring our full suite of web3 tools to developers on every Avalanche Subnet. Developers will now be able to easily deploy high-performance blockchain infrastructure on Avalanche with just a few clicks, with our full web3 development toolkit compatible out-of-the box. Avalanche’s

What is Onchain Data? A Beginner's Guide

In the blog, we will explain how onchain data works, which onchain metrics are most important, and how to track & view onchain analytics for any app or smart contract. What is onchain data? Onchain data refers to all the information recorded and stored directly on the blockchain. It includes

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What is an Optimistic Rollup?

Scaling has long been a challenge for Ethereum, causing bottlenecks and high fees. The average transaction fee on the network is expensive for the average user and at times, has reached as high as $200 and this is not a good sign for web3 in general.  Ethereum’s aim to

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Web3 Game Development: The Ultimate Guide (2024)

The gaming world has been slow to adopt web3 and blockchain.  First, developers are doubtful of blockchains’ current ability to handle massive gameplay and gamers’ base. Second, the whole idea of decentralized systems with new wallets, seedphrases, gas fees, etc., is new and can be confusing.  Apart from that, web3

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What is Farcaster?

Farcaster is a decentralized protocol for building web3 social media apps. Learn more about what it is, how it works, and how to build on it.

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What are Embedded Wallets?

Embedded wallets are digital wallets that are integrated into an application and allow users to take action without leaving a website. Unlike traditional web3 wallets, which require users to go through a learning curve, embedded wallets are designed to onboard users effortlessly, even if they have little to no prior

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Powering Consumer Crypto with thirdweb Engine

TLDR: thirdweb Engine is an open-source HTTP server that makes it easy for developers to launch scalable web3 apps, reliably and securely. Engine provides a blockchain server with a simple API interface that lets developers create backend wallets and make unlimited blockchain transactions using familiar HTTP calls to any EVM

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What are Digital Collectibles? (& How to Create Them)

Online businesses and brands are going back to the drawing board to understand and find ways to use non-fungible token (NFT) collectibles. These unique digital assets, anchored in blockchain technology, have opened up vast opportunities for every business online, especially those working with brands' intellectual property (IP).  They represent

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What is Polygon zkEVM?

Polygon is already a giant in web3 and shows no sign of slowing down. Their suite of rollups, protocols, and infrastructure is expanding and numbers-wise, they have processed over 2 billion transactions since inception. Their aim — make Ethereum transactions quicker and cheaper.  In this pursuit, zero-knowledge (ZK) tech plays an

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What is Web3 Gaming? The Ultimate Guide

Gaming has seen explosive growth over the last decade — becoming a behemoth of an industry that’s worth over $200 billion. But the gaming industry continues to face two age-old problems: 1. For developers: To create a game on traditional infrastructure, developers need to build complicated backend systems that take

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What is the Polygon CDK? The 5-Minute Explainer

Polygon CDK is a framework to build a network of modular, ZK-powered blockchains. Learn more.

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What is the Superchain? The Complete Guide

The Superchain is a vision to create a unified framework for Ethereum Layer 2 networks, all built on the same open-source tech stack.

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thirdweb to Discontinue Solana Support on October 9th

Refocusing resources to enhance web3 development

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What is an Appchain? A 5-Minute Explainer

An appchain, as the name suggests, is an app-specific blockchain network — built to increase throughput & scalability.

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The Developer's Guide to the Web3 Stack

Everything you need to know about building the ultimate web3 stack, with examples of tools for every layer. Learn more.

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What is Web3 eCommerce?

eCommerce is growing at a rapid pace. It’s forecasted to grow by 56% in the next few years and reach about $8.1 trillion by 2026. We can attribute this growth to consumers increasingly favoring the convenience of shopping online. Similarly, businesses recognize the potential of a borderless marketplace.