Web3 & Crypto Foundations
Adjacent building blocks — stablecoins, tokenized assets, zero-knowledge, and the payment rails behind on-chain commerce.
- Stablecoins
- Tokenized assets
- Zero-knowledge
- Payment rails
What Are Stablecoins? Types, How They Work, and Risks
Learn how stablecoins aim to track a reference asset, compare fiat-backed, crypto-backed, and algorithmic designs, and understand their risks.
Top Fully Homomorphic Encryption Schemes: BFV, BGV, CKKS and TFHE
A practical comparison of BFV, BGV, CKKS, and TFHE by data type, bootstrapping cost, workload fit, maturity, and available libraries.
Top Rollup Types: Optimistic, ZK, Validium and Volition Compared
Compare optimistic rollups, ZK rollups, validiums, and volitions by data availability, security inheritance, withdrawal delay, cost, and networks.
Top Zero-Knowledge Proof Systems: Groth16, PLONK, STARKs, Halo2 and Nova
A practical comparison of Groth16, PLONK, STARKs, Halo2, and Nova across proof size, proving speed, setup, verification, and EVM fit.
Bringing WebMCP to Namefi: let your agent work with your domains
How Namefi brings agents onto its website with WebMCP, shared MCP contracts, domain search, cart tools, and DNS plans you can review.
Top Blockchain Consensus Mechanisms: Proof of Work, Proof of Stake and Beyond
A clear guide to blockchain consensus mechanisms—Proof of Work, Proof of Stake, Delegated Proof of Stake, BFT consensus, and how each secures a network.
Top Cryptographic Primitives Behind Every Blockchain
A guide to the core cryptographic primitives that make blockchains work—hash functions, digital signatures, Merkle trees, elliptic-curve crypto, and commitments.
Top Blockchain Privacy Technologies: Zero-Knowledge Proofs, FHE, MPC, TEEs and Ring Signatures
A plain-language guide to the five leading blockchain privacy technologies—zero-knowledge proofs, FHE, MPC, TEEs, and ring signatures—compared side by side.
Top Blockchain Scaling Approaches: Rollups, Sidechains, Channels and Sharding
A learner's guide to blockchain scaling — optimistic rollups, ZK rollups, sidechains, payment channels, sharding, and data availability layers compared.
Top Blockchain Virtual Machines: EVM, SVM, MoveVM, WebAssembly/RISC-V and CairoVM
A guide to top blockchain virtual machines—EVM, SVM, MoveVM, WebAssembly and RISC-V VMs, and CairoVM—comparing languages, execution models, and ecosystems.
Perfect vs Computational Zero-Knowledge: What the Distinction Actually Means
Zero-knowledge protocols can provide perfect, statistical, or computational privacy. This guide explains those definitions, why proof-system families do not have one universal flavor, and how privacy differs from soundness and post-quantum security.
Introducing Route402 — an x402 facilitator router
A multi-tenant router that lets you integrate x402 once and route requests by policy and facilitator capability, without pushing routing logic into your app.
Google Unveils ‘Universal Commerce Protocol’ to Power the Next Generation of AI Shopping Agents
UCP is an open-source commerce standard for connecting AI shopping surfaces with merchants and payment providers.
What Are xStocks? How Tokenized Stocks Work and Their Risks
Understand what xStocks are, how they work, how they differ from owning shares, and the custody, trading, and eligibility risks to check.