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Beyond Code: Exploring Developer Experience at Paxos
Blockchain 101: Elliptic Curve Cryptography
Simple Multisig: How it Works and Why It’s Awesome
Blockchain technology is about combining fundamental cryptographic primitives to build useful, trusted features like transfers and asset issuance. Defining a secure signing scheme for multi-signature
Ethereum Smart Contract Testing Guidelines
In a way, developing smart contracts is a throwback to a time where software was disseminated on cds with code that, once installed, must be
Convenience and Security: Paxos’ Third-Party Authorization Design for BUSD and Beyond
In September 2019, we partnered with Binance to launch a new stablecoin called Binance USD (BUSD). BUSD is regulated by the New York Department of
Meet ‘Kevin’ — the immutable data store that brings functional programming paradigms to our persistence layer
Paxos offers automation to the confirmation and settlement processes in the commodities and FX spaces through its Post-Trade Service.
Istio Mesh Expansion on AWS
By Srinivas Gumdelli & Nathan Typanski Migrations to Kubernetes are inherently messy. While progress has been made in recent years with StatefulSet and persistent volumes,
Designing Paxos Standard’s Minimal Smart Contract
This blog post discusses the design of the PAX ethereum smart contracts with an emphasis on our minimalist contract design philosophy.
How to Build a Great Engineering Team
Over the past few years, I’ve had the opportunity to build out a world-class engineering team at Paxos, a fintech startup on an ambitious mission to enable the movement of any asset at any time in a trustworthy way.
Shrink your ops team by putting the Dev in DevOps
Every software system requires an exhaustive amount of configuration and maintenance: from provisioning servers, deploying code, installing and upgrading services, to storing data, managing DNS records and applying security protocols, there is a tremendous amount to consider.
Should I Migrate to an Async Framework?
The main problem with (traditional) synchronous code, is that processes hang while waiting for external data.
Why aren’t distributed systems engineers working on blockchain technology?
For the last 15 years, I have predominantly worked on Distributed Systems of various size and complexity. Over the last couple of years, I have become
Write Fast Apps Using Async Python 3.6 and Redis
One of the common complaints people have about python and other popular interpreted languages (Ruby, JavaScript, PHP, Perl, etc) is that they’re slow.
The Blockchain is Evolutionary not Revolutionary
Many people across the technology and financial industries are dubbing blockchains as the greatest innovation since the Internet.
How Will Blockchain Technology Revolutionize Asset Management?
Although asset managers initially explored Bitcoin as a new investment opportunity, it is digital securities settlement infrastructure inspired by Bitcoin’s underlying technology, blockchain, that may have a greater impact on buy-side firms.