Hacker News·4yWeb3 is centralized (and inefficient!)
Web3 platforms are in fact centralized, just as Web2 was. Web3 firms are for-profit businesses, and so are the VC firms backing them. You can easily run Nextcloud from your old PC instead of subscribing to Dropbox, but you can’t easily host a “dApp” on your MacBook instead of the public blockchain.
Hashnode Web3·4yWhat is Web3.js - An Introduction Into the Web3.js Libraries
Web3.js is a collection of libraries that allow you to interact with a local or remote Ethereum node using HTTP, IPC, or WebSocket. It allows you to send ether from one account to another, read and write data from smart contracts, and so much more. The main difference between ethers.js and web3.JS is how they handle key management and interaction with the Ethereum blockchain.
Hashnode·4yBuilding with Polygon
Polygon is a set of platforms and protocols to scale the public blockchains. Polygon has seen exponential growth over the past year. It's easy to use and doesn't sacrifice the security and decentralization provided by Ethereum. It leverages the Ethereum technology and has solutions that talk to the Ethereum Network.
Hashnode Web3·4yHow to Build a Web3 Login with Web3.js Library
Authenticating a user in web3 only requires the user to connect to their crypto wallet on their web3 platforms, such as OpenSea. This article demonstrates how to add web3 login authentication to your website using the Web3.js library. The fastest way to add Web3js into your project is by including the Web 3.js CDN in your project HTML file.
Coins Bench·4yMetamask (mysterious) provider explained.
Metamask (mysterious) provider explained by Szymon Kolber. API allows websites to request users' accounts, read data from blockchains the user is connected to, and suggest that the user sign messages and transactions. By destructing it we’re able to determine if a user is using a metamask account.