Written by: Andrew Drury, Software Engineer @ Hypotenuse Labs Figure 1: Highstreet reimagines retail in the metaverse TL;DR: We created a Web3 marketplace for Highstreet, the first-ever commerce-centered metaverse. This case study focuses on how we launched 3 phygital products (physical and digital) in the marketplace and reduced turnaround times…

Dev Insights by Hypotenuse Labs — This is a technical write-up of the system we built for developers to launch their NFT collections on Aptos. We provide details on: The inspiration for the project The move modules for our escrow-less marketplace Code snippets for creating a token using the aptos standard library Extra features to compliment…

Ahead of the curve Disclaimer: tokenomics is a rapidly-changing field. Because of this, information in this post may go out of date. This blog post is not financial or legal advice of any sort. As an investor, it’s easy to get lost in the FOMO and dive into a cryptocurrency…

On September 17–19, our team at Hypotenuse Labs came back from a weekend of judging, mentoring, giving our prizes, and presenting workshops for students at Hack the North 2021! Most of our team members (and our entire founding team) are alums from the University of Waterloo where Hack the North…

Disclaimer: due to the rapid progress being made in this field, information in this post may go out of date. This blog post is not financial or legal advice of any sort. Introduction We are excited to announce the creation of an open-source oracles framework for DFINITY’s Internet Computer (IC)! This…

Disclaimer: decentralized finance (DeFi) is a rapidly-changing field. Because of this, information in this post may go out of date. This blog post is not financial or legal advice of any sort. Introduction We are excited to introduce AlgoSwap, a decentralized exchange protocol for the Algorand blockchain. It enables traders to…

Disclaimer: All material in this post has been used with permission. Certain details omitted for client confidentiality. tl;dr Optical Character Recognition (OCR) can help turn your scanned documents into useful data, automate your manual processes, and save massive amounts of time and effort. Sounds straightforward — but what actually goes…

TL;DR: In 2 weeks, we built an open-source live feed of Chia Network’s Keybase community. Check it out here! Overview Chia Network is a “decentralized open source global blockchain which is less wasteful, more decentralized, and more secure”. It was founded by Bram Cohen, the creator of BitTorrent. Building a strong…

A fun tale of when software is much easier said than done. — Disclaimer: All material in this post has been used with permission. Certain details modified for client confidentiality. TL;DR: “Just read in data from Excel files. Easy!” We were wrong. When geometry, image analysis, and a little creativity come together to save a client countless hours of struggle. Shameless plug: if…