Subject
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Trust
Bookmarks
Town Crier — Authenticated Data Feed for Smart Contracts
Town Crier is an authenticated data feed system for smart contracts that uses Intel SGX trusted execution environments to fetch external data with cryptographic attestation. An early, rigorous oracle design predating Chainlink's dominance.
Joe Gebbia: The Airbnb Story
Joe Gebbia's telling of the Airbnb founding story — air mattresses and design thinking, the YC application that got in on the third try, and how they survived by selling novelty cereal boxes. A case study in trusting design intuition and persistence through improbable early days.