Decentralized Storage Nodes: How Filecoin and IPFS Preserve Web3 Data
Learn how Filecoin storage nodes work, from Proof of Replication (PoRep) to sealing pipelines, hardware requirements, collateral staking, and retrieval latency.
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Research-led explainers and practical guides for people navigating Web3 infrastructure.
- Web3 infrastructure
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18 published guides
RPC Nodes Explained: The Critical Gateway Between Wallets and Blockchains
Understand how JSON-RPC nodes connect wallets and dApps to blockchains, the privacy risks of default public endpoints, and how to run your own private RPC.
Akash Network Explained: How Decentralized Cloud Compute Works
Discover how Akash Network creates a decentralized marketplace for cloud compute, container deployment via SDL, reverse auctions, and GPU nodes for AI workloads.
How to Run an Ethereum Validator: Staking, Hardware, and Setup
Step-by-step tutorial on solo staking an Ethereum validator: client pairs, consensus and execution sync, key generation, fee recipients, and slashing safety.
Helium Network DePIN Guide: Mobile, IoT, and Mining Economics
Explore the Helium DePIN ecosystem: LoRaWAN IoT coverage, 5G Mobile hotspots, Solana migration, subDAO mechanics, and Proof-of-Coverage reward dynamics.
Hardware Wallets vs Multisig: Web3 Cold Storage Security Guide
Compare hardware wallets with multi-signature smart contract vaults: key isolation, Safe protocol, seed phrase attack vectors, and optimal cold storage setups.
Decentralized AI Compute Nodes: How GPU Subnets Process LLM Workloads
Explore how decentralized AI compute nodes handle LLM inference and training, GPU VRAM requirements, proof of work verification, and network latency.
Solana Validator Guide: Hardware Specs, Staking, and Cost Reality
A practical breakdown of running a Solana validator node: RAM and NVMe hardware demands, vote transaction costs, and uptime responsibilities.
What Is Grass? A Practical Network Overview
Learn what Grass says it does, how network participation works, and the safety checks to make before you install anything.
What Is Dawn? Decentralized Broadband Explained
A plain-language framework for evaluating decentralized broadband projects like Dawn: infrastructure, coverage claims, costs, and participant risk.
Gradient Guide: A Safer Way to Evaluate Participation
A project-agnostic safety checklist for evaluating a new Web3 participation program before connecting a wallet, installing software, or sharing hardware.
Nodepay Tutorial: Setup and Account Safety Basics
A security-focused setup checklist for any browser-based Web3 participation service, with clear boundaries around wallets and permissions.
How to Research DePIN Projects Without Chasing Hype
A repeatable evaluation framework for DePIN projects: real infrastructure, operating costs, governance, security, and transparent incentives.
Best Crypto Nodes for Beginners: Choose by Responsibility
Compare light clients, full nodes, and validators through cost, hardware, security, and operational responsibility — not promised returns.
AI + Crypto Trends: Infrastructure Questions That Matter
A grounded view of AI x blockchain through compute coordination, provenance, verification, incentives, and real user demand.
Web3 Infrastructure Explained: The Systems Behind a Chain
Nodes, validators, RPC providers, indexers, bridges, and wallets explained in one practical map of modern blockchain infrastructure.
How to Secure Your Crypto Wallet: A Threat-Model Guide
Secure a crypto wallet with a practical threat model: seed phrases, phishing, malicious approvals, device hygiene, backups, and recovery.
Beginner's Guide to Running a Blockchain Node
How to run a blockchain node responsibly: full, light, and archive nodes, Ethereum and Bitcoin hardware needs, secure host setup, syncing, monitoring, and maintenance.