Shantanu Swami

What if your Wi-Fi router became a side hustle? Imagine this: your dashcam films your commute, your old gaming GPU renders AI art for someone in Europe, and your Wi-Fi hotspot secretly helps power 5G. By the end of the month, your Solana wallet is heavier than your electricity bill. Welcome to DePIN (Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks)—the part of Web3 that doesn’t just sell monkey JPEGs but actually builds stuff you can touch. What is DePIN? (and why is everyone talking about it?) DePIN fli...

Okay, bro, listen up. Imagine you and your gang bought bitcoin together. You have a secret key that makes your finances legendary, but you don’t want just one guy to have it — what if he runs away and sell everything and then waste it on some subscriptions (cough! cough!…) That would suck, right? So, you decide: “No single person should have the full secret key, but a few of them together should be able to reconstruct it.” This is exactly what Shamir’s Secret Sharing Algorithm (SSS) does in cryptography....

Rust 101 — Fearless Concurrency So, you might be thinking I’d rather read the rust documents, but trust me, it won’t be funny, funny thing would be you not knowing rust so, let’s dive into it: 1️⃣ What Are Threads? Imagine you live in a one-room apartment, and: One guy is cooking, Another is washing clothes, The third one is shouting, “Go fill the water!” In a single-threaded program, one person does everything one by one. In a multi-threaded program, you have three people doing three tasks at the sam...