Step 1: Synthetic commodity asset Non-discretionary monetary policy Denationalized Only monetary usage Examples: BTC, (gold) See: Synthetic Commodity Money by George Selgin Has:Price volatility $A_{price}$

Cryptography is typically bypassed, not penetrated. – Adi Shamir Filippo Valsorda, along with other famous cryptographers (e.g. the well-known cryptographer and professor at Johns Hopkins University Matthew Green), recently started a bounty to find the hash-seeds for the NIST curves (P-192, P-224, P-256, P-384, and P-521). These curves are widely supported by HSMs, either local or cloud, and secure signing hardware in mobile devices, such as Apple's Secure Enclave and Android devices with the Titan M2 chip. For more information on the bounty and the history of the issue, it is best to read the original bounty announcement. Why is this important for Ethereum? Ethereum is the amalgamation of distributed systems and asymmetric cryptopgrahy. There is no way to compromise on the security of these two cornerstones. Cool, but what's the deal now? Well, the bounty tries to find the preimage (i.e. a preimage is the data that is input into a hash function to calculate a hash) of (among others) the secp256r1 curve parameters, which is currently in discussion of being added as a precompile via EIP-7212 (see the ongoing discussion here).

A Deterministic Address Contract Factory based on CREATE3 CREATE3 is a combination of the create and create2 opcode allowing contract deployments to deterministic addresses solely depending on a provided salt. An immutable and permissionless CREATE3-based factory deployed on many chains to the same address (e.g. via Nick's method) could provide some real value. Some contracts to get inspired from: Chronicle Protocol's Greenhouse Factory Arachnid's Deterministic Contract Factory

General Stuff How to install foundry?https://getfoundry.sh How to get Sepolia ETH? https://www.infura.io/faucet/sepolia https://sepoliafaucet.com/ Got a Sepolia RPC handy?

Summary of Andrea Corbellini's blog series ECC: A gentle introduction. Introduction Elliptic Curves The set of points described by the equation: $y^2 = x^3 + ax + b$ where $4a^3 + 27b^2 \neq 0$ (required to exlude singular curves).