Web3 news and analysis on Web Pulse: 76 curated articles tracking the latest Web3 developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
The article explains that React's `use()` hook, which reads a promise, can cause an infinite re-render loop if the promise is created directly inside a Client Component, as a new promise is generated on every render. To …
The Chrome team has proposed a new web platform feature called "Declarative Partial Updates," consisting of two sets of APIs designed to allow HTML to be delivered and inserted out of order, breaking away from the tradit…
Gnutella is a decentralized peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol that gained massive popularity as users downloaded MP3s without concern for its underlying technology. The network experienced rapid growth, plateaued for ne…
Based on the article, WebMCP is a proposed browser-native version of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) that would allow web applications to act as MCP clients directly, bypassing backend servers like Next.js API routes. T…
This article, part of the "14-tier Engine Optimization stack" from ThatDevPro, defines Tier 1 as the non-negotiable technical foundation for any website. It outlines five sub-clusters of essential optimizations, includin…
This article provides a tutorial for creating a scroll-driven WebGL hero section using approximately 30 lines of JavaScript, two MIT-licensed npm packages, and no framework or build step. The implementation uses two imag…
The article describes the Alpha Network, a custom Layer 1 blockchain built from scratch in Go to enable AI agents to become first-class economic participants. It addresses the problem that AI agents can work continuously…
The article titled "Wallet dump" describes a file containing hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may appear differently than intended when interpreted or compiled. It advises users to review the file in an editor t…
Here is a factual summary of the article: The article clarifies the distinct purposes of three files used to manage AI crawler access to websites: **robots.txt** controls which pages crawlers like Googlebot and GPTBot c…
The article explains that a zkML (zero-knowledge machine learning) Inference Proof functions as a receipt verifying that a specific, committed model computation produced a given output from a particular input, but it doe…
This article describes the development of an algorithmic inflation tracking system for the Blox Fruits Value Calculator, a web utility app for the Roblox game. The system addresses the problem of static data lags by usin…
The article explains that Google's crawler often fails to recognize breadcrumbs in React apps because the structured data (JSON-LD schema) is embedded in client-rendered markup, which is unreliable for rich results. The …
After two weeks of learning Solana, a developer with a Python and Node.js backend background found blockchain development to be more approachable than expected, comparing it to working with a public database. By experime…
The article discusses the challenges developers face when testing smart contracts on EVM chains, including the need for third-party RPC providers and the difficulty of obtaining testnet tokens from faucets. It introduces…
The article announces the emergence of WebMCP, a new structured interface layer for the web designed specifically for AI agents, analogous to ARIA for screen readers. It highlights that AI agent traffic to US retail site…
The article announces the release of "Rift Ascent," a fast experimental browser-based game developed by TizWildin Entertainment as part of a larger solo-built ecosystem. The game is built on ARC-Core, a deterministic eve…
In Solana, all data is stored as "accounts" in a flat key-value store, where each account has five standard fields including lamports (SOL balance), data (a byte array), and an owner program. A key design principle is th…
This article explains how to build a live transactions-per-second (TPS) meter for any specific Solana program using OrbitFlare's TypeScript SDK. The solution uses a Jetstream subscription to count transactions filtered b…
The article describes how the author verified Solana's "everything is an account" principle by inspecting various system accounts via the CLI. They discovered that a user wallet, the System Program, and sysvar accounts l…
This article explains how developers can use Solana's Token 2022 extensions to build various Web3 applications without custom smart contracts. It outlines four specific use cases: subscription tokens with non-transferabl…