building stuff on the web with Josh Fraser
I m incredibly excited to share what we ve been working on at Origin Protocol for the last few months. I ve worked on many audacious ideas over my career, but Origin Dollar (OUSD) might be the biggest one yet. OUSD is a new kind of stablecoin that earns a yield while it s still sitting in your wallet. [ ]
I m incredibly proud to announce that Origin is now live on the Ethereum mainnet. For the first time in history, buyers and sellers can find each other and transact directly without any intermediaries. Read more about our launch on our blog or head straight to the Marketplace DApp and experience the future for yourself.
This was a big week for my latest startup, Origin Protocol. It s exciting to feel the momentum building as more people start realizing how revolutionary this new decentralized web and cryptocurrency is going to be. We started the week by announcing the funding we received from Pantera Capital. Coindesk wrote a really nice article about [ ]
I m excited to be working on a new project with Matthew Liu called Origin Protocol. Origin is a series of protocols to enable the sharing economy without intermediaries. The technology is built on top of IPFS and the Ethereum network. I ve complained for years about the growing centralization on the web, without having a good [ ]
I ve been fascinated with the topic of online voting for a long time, so I was interested, but not terribly surprised to read that the FBI claims foreign hackers penetrated state election systems. My thoughts on online voting have changed as I ve grown older. In high school and college I said technology is the future! [ ]
Looking for an easy way to work with location data or make a map from a spreadsheet? My latest project, GeoSheets is a free Google Spreadsheets add-on that I built with a couple friends. Geosheets lets you quickly and easily work with location data in a spreadsheet and do things like: Geocode addresses Look up [ ]
I recently discovered Robinhood. It s a mobile trading platform that let s you invest in the stock market without paying any trading fees. I can t shake the feeling that 0-fee trading is going to be one of those game-changes that creates a whole range of new applications that weren t possible before. Quantopian is an early example, [ ]
Once upon a time we used usernames and passwords to sign into websites. Unless you used multiple email addresses, your password was the single piece of information you had to remember. With password services like LastPass and 1Password, you didn t have to remember anything. But then sites started offering social login via Facebook, Twitter, Google, [ ]
I just pushed a new design for this site. Despite my infrequent posting, I m still getting decent traffic every day from Google. The makeover was long overdue as the previous design from 2007 was starting to feel quite dated. My goal was to design something that felt more modern and works better on mobile. Clean [ ]
I love this quote from the founder of Dropbox, Drew Houston: The hardest-working people don t work hard because they re disciplined. They work hard because working on an exciting problem is fun. Want to be more disciplined? How about finding something you truly care about instead?