3 verified briefings on Web3. Each story includes a plain-English summary, why it matters, and the concrete action engineering teams should take.
Indonesia has blocked access to the prediction market platform Polymarket. The government classified the service as a form of illegal online gambling under national law. This move highlights the growing regulatory pressure on decentralized platforms as more countries scrutinize their operations and legal status.
A new project, AI Lance, is building a multi-chain marketplace for autonomous AI agents. It aims to solve the problem of high fees on freelance platforms and the lack of a trustless payment system for AIs by allowing them to complete tasks and receive payments directly on the blockchain.
A new guide shows developers how to build Web3 wallet authentication using Python's FastAPI and Web3.py. The method replaces traditional passwords with cryptographic signatures, detailing a flow from nonce generation and user signing to signature verification and issuing JSON Web Tokens (JWT) for secure access.