The Birth of the On-Chain Chip

A fascinating and wildly imaginative project has appeared recently: tapeout.net. Put simply, it lets users create their own integrated circuit on-chain. From Transistors to CPUs Before getting into the project, some background on logic circuits is in order. Strip the casing off any chip product we use today and keep decomposing it, layer by layer, and you will find that it is ultimately built from one most basic component. That component is the transistor. ...

August 18, 2026 · 4 min · Nick Yam

Blockchain Games in China

In Year 2011, I first heard about BTC. At that moment, I thought BTC as something geek and would never be a true currency. As a curious person, I dug some coins by my SAMSUNG laptop and after a period of time just forgot BTC until I heard it again in Mid-2013 when the price rushed up to $1000 per coin. I thought BTC is a shell game then and never predicted that tons of Digital Coins would appear since then. ...

August 27, 2018 · 3 min · Nick Yam