The Filcoin plus trust & safety lead collaborated with Starboard to build a robust analytics platform designed to provide valuable insights about data cap verification and allocation in the Filcoin ecosystem. This article outlines the motivation behind the development of the Fil+ client dashboard and its potential to provide stakeholders…

Filcoin Plus Fil+ scales the utilization of the Filecoin network to store humanity’s information. Respectful behavior and reputation in the Fil+ community matter. If a stakeholder engages in personal attacks, please contact the Trust & Transparency WG Lead @RG on Filecoin Slack. Individuals may be removed from all future Fil+…

Recent reports of abuse within the Fil+ program have surfaced and the community has voiced concerns about the lack of visibility on Fil+ disputes and how they are handled and addressed. While disputes and disagreement are inevitable in community-centered governance, transparency and accountability are core tenets of the Fil+ program…

The uptick in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) has led to a substantial increase in cybercrime targeting the blooming DeFi industry. I posit that the DeFi industry must find ways to self-regulate by collaborating to develop a foundational knowledge and content base aimed at educating users of DeFi applications about the associated…

This article is written as a memo addressing Cybersecurity innovation at Amazon. Landscape Overview Ransomware attacks today are costing governments and businesses billions of dollars and interrupting their operations. A recent ransomware attack on the City of Baltimore cost the city over $18M, and local governments from Riviera Beach and Lake City…

Cities, as we historically know, were formed around concentration of resources, more specifically, food. While historians continue to argue about the origin of cities, there is no doubt that cities today are economic powerhouses that propel society and those who inhabit them to push beyond the limits in every possible…

My favorite way to describe a city is as a complex living organism that fuels the unintentional collision of people, ideas, and stories. This conceptualization was most evident during my recent travels to Mexico City, a fascinating mecca where the interplay of food, culture, ambition, and intercultural exchange is at…

Image credit : https://www.elmhurst.edu/blog/cybersecurity-vs-information-security/ Relationship between Design, Usability, and Cybersecurity The relationship between design, cybersecurity and computer system users is largely broken. While companies, organizations, and individuals are attempting to fix this relationship by making it easier for each other to understand and work together, the efficiency maximizing nature of a computer system user and the…

Systems Design Engineering is an interdisciplinary community of practice that focuses on, you guessed it, systems. It merges pedagogies and frameworks from digital user experience design, service design, systems engineering, and rapid & physical prototyping to find and intervene points of leverage within the system to affect asymmetric upside. — As technology disrupts industries and economies, we tend to focus on the outcome more often than the process. Coupled with a lack of exposure to building physical things outside of certain disciplines, we often find ourselves consuming products and services today that often might only exist on the internet. We…