The Challenge Hub season is over, and the winners have been drawn 🥳🥳🥳

One lucky winner takes home the Canyon Endurance CF 5, but there are more surprises across the prize list. Thank you to everyone who spent the season picking podiums with us and the Slovenian Cycling he draw, start to finish ⏬

Trivia night is on tonight in the Oasis Discord at 21:00 CET.
Come for the questions and stay for the arguments about the answers.

discord.gg/62zG63WJ6v

There’s a new rider in town 🚴

Privana has been training on Oasis, putting in the miles in closed testing.

It’s private DeFi, so your trades and your strategy aren’t on display for everyone.

We’ve got something for you on Monday.

Keep an eye on our socials 👀 @PrivanaFinance

1/ Decoded: the ballot box

most onchain votes are public while they're still open
that means anyone can see who voted, which way and with how much voting power, and a vote you can watch halfway through tends to steer the second half

2/ late voters follow the early lead, large holders can wait to see where things are going before they commit, and people who disagree with someone powerful think twice before doing it in public

3/ on Sapphire, a confidential contract can keep each vote in encrypted state until voting closes and then publish only the result

the counting rules sit in public code, so the tally can still be checked, and nobody gets to watch the room while it votes, simple stuff :)

The dirty secret of MEV protection: value recovery often doesn’t make it back to the user

"accept all cookies" has become the most clicked button nobody reads 🍪

Privacy in Everyday Life

last week we covered the ASOS breach, now we ask:
when a company you use tells you it's been breached, what's the first thing you do?

breaking: "we take your privacy seriously" is still not a privacy policy

1/ Every time your wallet shows a balance, it asks a server for it

unless you run your own node, that server belongs to someone else, and it sees which addresses you asked about, from which IP, and when

2/ that adds up fast

if you keep five addresses in one wallet and it checks all of them from your home connection, whoever keeps the logs can tie the five together, and you never had to send a transaction for it to happen

3/ a few habits help: spread your addresses across different providers, send requests through a proxy so your IP and your addresses never travel together, or run your own node

same theme as Tuesday's Decoded, since who gets to see a read matters as much as what it returns

Mainnet swap, done @PrivanaFinance . Then I went looking for it on the explorer, and I found nothing 🤫

Mainnet swap ☑️

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Last year, Oasis invested into @SemiLiquidx to accelerate institutional adoption

Today it’s Lombard Systems, with a $4M pre-seed and seed raise led by @etherealvc and a new standard that lets institutions lend against tokenized assets without them ever leaving custody
n progress & evolution🥂

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Read the announcement & learn more about Lombard:

prnewswire.com/news-releases/…
lombardsystems.com

Trivia night is on tonight in the Oasis Discord at 21:00 CET

bring a friend, a good guess, or both

discord.gg/62zG63WJ6v

1/ Decoded: the doorman

on most chains anyone can read any contract for free, and that's fine when everything inside it is public

a confidential contract has a harder job, because before it shows a private balance it needs to know who's asking

2/ on Sapphire, a plain read reaches the contract with no sender at all, so typing someone else's address into a call gets you nothing

3/ you prove who you are by signing: a dapp has you sign one Sign In With Ethereum message per session, and a backend can sign each query

3/ the contract checks the signature and only then answers, so your private data goes to you and nobody else

a good doorman works the same way, he doesn't care who you say you are, he looks at the pass