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DLMalloc for Gear Programs

Almost every Gear program is a self-contained WebAssembly module that runs inside a sandbox. Inside that sandbox the program needs a working allocator: most data structures used by gstd and Sails — Box, Vec, String, decoded payloads, intermediate buffers — eventually call GlobalAlloc::alloc and GlobalAlloc::dealloc

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Building a Vara DApp with Hermes Agent - From Spec to Mainnet

I set up a Hermes agent, installed the vara-skills and vara-wallet CLI, and built a full on-chain game from scratch — smart contract, tests, CLI client, and a new React frontend. Here’s exactly how it went down.

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Why Sometimes It's Better to Be Lazy

The Problem: Smart Contracts Have Big Memories

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Zero-to-Code in 60 Seconds: How Gear Protocol Supercharges Developer Experience with Nix

How Gear Protocol — a cutting-edge Substrate-based platform for decentralized applications — empowers its global team of builders. And the secret weapon? Nix.

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How Governance is implemented on Vara Network Bridge?

How Governance is organized on Vara Network Bridge and how token holders can make decisions regarding bridge updates? Find out how sending messages from actor on Vara Network to Ethereum is implemented.

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Fragmented world by Nikolay Volf

Why the global web is still broken for developers and why Web3 fixes it at the architecture level.