There’s nothing smart about a smart contract is what you might probably say after reading this post. However, one can’t help but marvel at the kind of technical ingenuity that goes into building smart contracts. …

I know this may sound like clickbait, but I have a shortcut method that makes it possible for a programmer to quickly learn a new programming language within a day (or a few days depending on the level of focus). This will work for someone who is already a programmer…

When designing software systems, one of the important things to do is to be able to access the performance of the system to determine if it meets the non-functional requirements. One of the ways people usually do this is to build a simple version and then apply some load tests…

Blockchain is the technological breakthrough that powers almost all cryptocurrencies we’ve heard of today. But how is it architected? In this post, I break down the architecture of all the blockchains, identify all the standard components, break them down, and point out what’s missing. Blockchain Motivation There is usually a motivation for…

Open source is great. I remember one of my earlier encounters with programming I was awed by what the language could allow me to achieve. It was PHP and it was open-sourced. I later got introduced to Linux by a friend of mine, goosebumps. Since then, I’ve been an open-source-loving…

When we consider directly swapping cryptos, there have been a number of methods that have been developed by the crypto community over the years. Notable amongst these are; The use of third party escrow accounts. The use of smart contracts like atomic swaps and hash time locks. Asset (Crypto) tokenization…

In previous posts, we have mentioned how Ejara is set on a mission to develop smart contracts that could potentially make the use and adoption of cryptocurrencies much easier for the average user. Indeed we have developed and implemented some solutions (https://medium.com/ejara/storing-retrieving-secrets-on-a-public-smart-contract-925f02178d7 and https://medium.com/ejara/tezos-secrets-store-53039256eb6a) …

In a previous post- https://medium.com/ejara/storing-retrieving-secrets-on-a-public-smart-contract-925f02178d7- we introduced our approach to storing secret information on the tezos blockchain. In this post, we introduce a working demonstration of what was previously discussed and a code explanation. First, we’d like to commend the excellent Conseiljs library without which most of what you see…

With a grant from the Tezos Foundation, we are set out to develop a set of smart contracts that would make usability much easier for the average user of cryptocurrencies. One of the difficulties of use stems from the need to remember private keys or some mnemonics (random words). As…