Author: Jamie Gluck

From Ethereum Email Experiments to Building Parasol: Neon Labs CEO Ivan on Scaling Solana the Right Way
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From Ethereum Email Experiments to Building Parasol: Neon Labs CEO Ivan on Scaling Solana the Right Way

In a wide ranging conversation on The Blockopedia podcast, Neon Labs CEO Ivan sat down with The Blockopedia’s Co-founder Mohammad Ahmad Khan to walk through a decade of building across Ethereum, Polygon and Solana, and to explain why his newest project, Parasol, might be the missing piece for sophisticated DeFi on Solana.Few people in Web3 have watched as many ecosystems evolve from the inside as Ivan has. Long before he became CEO of Neon Labs, he was an engineer who stumbled into crypto almost by accident. In 2015, after discovering Ethereum through its ICO, his team built an email platform on top of it called Lemon Email. It launched in 2017, right as ether's price exploded, leaving them with what he jokingly calls the world's most expensive email product. It wasn't a financial succ...
A Stranger Texted. Then she lost $280,000. Now There Are Attorneys Who Want to Help Get It Back.
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A Stranger Texted. Then she lost $280,000. Now There Are Attorneys Who Want to Help Get It Back.

MDF Law a New York fraud firm is connecting victims with a pig butchering attorney at zero upfront cost. Free consultations. No fees unless money comes back.She thought it was a wrong number.The first message came on a Tuesday. Something like “Hey, is this Sarah?” She told him no, wrong person. He apologized. But then he kept talking easy, warm, nothing about it that tripped any wire. Within two weeks they were exchanging messages every morning. By month three she trusted him more than she trusted people she’d known for a decade.Then came the crypto platform. Her balance, on screen, climbed to $410,000. When she tried to pull it out, she was told she owed $61,000 in taxes first. She paid. Then there were compliance fees. Then the account went dark. Then so did he.She lost $...