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What would you like to see built in the DeFi community?

Posted: 27 Apr 2019 09:21 AM PDT

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Posted: 27 Apr 2019 05:40 PM PDT

Cehhiro and Lucas here. We're a QA duo. Lucas is a senior QC analyst, and I'm almost 3 years into web3. We are offering single or recurrent QA checks for your project. We work with Agile methodology, so you won't have to wait for results. We are entering a point in crypto where bad UI, bad UX, and front-facing bugs are not features, but reasons for users to stick to using centralized tech. One small, yet crucial step in the right direction is to avoid views like the one below:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/bi4d3c/why_is_the_uiux_of_dapps_so_poor/?st=jv06o2jl&sh=91eb99ac

How can you work around that? QA. From experience and looking at established businesses, the ratio of dev to QA is around a healthy 3:1. In crypto you'll often find a dev to QA ratio of 5:0. If your project can't afford to hire an in-house QA, let us know.

Reach out at cehhiro@cehhiro.com, send a DM, or reach out via Twitter @Cehhiro.

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Why is the UI/UX of DApps so poor?

Posted: 27 Apr 2019 03:21 PM PDT

**Originally posted in r/ethdev but decided to also post here since there's more eth builders here.

Hi guys, just a little note before I begin - I have little knowledge of the blockchain and DApps space, and in fact haven't really used any DApps at all.

But out of curiosity, I began reading about DApps a few days ago from blogs, tutorials and Reddit. One thing that I keep seeing are complaints about the UI/UX of DApps, and also many who partly blame the poor growth of DApps on UI/UX quality. Given that I mainly work in the frontend space, this is of course very interesting to me, but also something that doesn't really make much sense to me.

Now as I have said I haven't really explored and used any DApps yet, but before I do so, I would like to ask you guys just why this is the case. One Redditor mentioned that this is because most of the people working on DApps come from the backend world, and some others also said that it's because at this early stage, UI/UX is simply not a concern yet (function over form). While it makes sense, I find it quite hard to believe that proper companies staking their futures on DApps will not even try to invest in at least one competent frontend engineer. So is there more to the story? Could it also be due to the nature of blockchain/DApps/smart contracts programming that is causing such an issue?

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EDCON 2019 Keynote presentation – full footage

Posted: 27 Apr 2019 05:40 AM PDT

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How Decentralized is DeFi? A Framework for Classifying Lending Protocols. Written with input from Brendan Forster of Dharma, Robert Leshner of Compound, Nik Kunkel of MakerDAO, Antonio Juliano of dYdX, Varun Deshpande of Nuo, and Emilio Frangella of AAVE.

Posted: 27 Apr 2019 07:09 AM PDT

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Investing in volatility based cryptofunds and the Countinghouse fund

Posted: 27 Apr 2019 02:22 PM PDT

I'm wondering what experience people have with volatility based cryptofunds. There is a fund called Countinghouse, based in Australia, which apparently uses volatility to increase its value. Obviously funds like these are extremely risky and normally I'd stay far away from anything like this, but I have a few friends who (on paper) have made money on this particular fund, and the fund seems to grow rather steadily. On the other hand, I can barely find any information on this fund outside of its home page https://www.countinghousefund.comwhich doesn't exactly make me less skeptical.

What is the general concensus on investing in volatility based crypto funds? Anyone have experience with Countinghouse specifically? The fund seems to literally grow week by week (barely any negative weeks), too good to be true or the result of a good algorithm?

Thanks.

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The District Weekly — April 27th, 2019

Posted: 27 Apr 2019 11:10 AM PDT