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            <title><![CDATA[Modular Economic Security: Bridge Disaster Insurance]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Using Eigenlayer and shared economic security to insure users against bridge risk between heterogenous chains.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Building with Modular Security Legos]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Motivation of modular interoperability and an overview of Hyperlane interchain security modules]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Interchain Accounts and Queries for the EVM]]></title>
            <link>https://medium.com/hyperlane/announcing-interchain-accounts-and-queries-783452e23ff2</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[An introduction to two developer primitives that vastly simplify building crosschain applications]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum and How It Works]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Introduction to Ethereum, the EVM, and the DApp stack]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Consensus and Industry]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Introduction to consensus algorithms and the industrial ecosystems surrounding Bitcoin PoW]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Framework for Abstracting Blockchains]]></title>
            <link>https://medium.com/rice-blockchain/abstracting-blockchains-enabling-stateful-applications-1ea694843939</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A framework for identifying and understanding the modular components of blockchains]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Digital Currencies and Networks]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[History of money, digital currencies, and network effects]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Building decentralized knowledge using incentives]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Discussion of "Synapse": an economically sustainable and secure Wikipedia]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[HackerNoon: What on Earth is a Smart Contract?]]></title>
            <link>https://medium.com/hackernoon/what-on-earth-is-a-smart-contract-2c82e5d89d26</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Notes from Rice Blockchain lecture on smart contracts]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[HackerNoon: Academic Diploma Validation Using Ethereum]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[HackRice project for validating academic credentials without the National Clearinghouse]]></description>
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