@_choppingblock
1. bankless should be farther bottom right
2. MoZ is nowhere near as degen as Gwart
3.
@hosseeb
-- no need to be humble, you guys are more upstream than you think
@bridge__harris
FF's crypto venture investments are still mostly beta but at least you guys are probably trending in the right direction
thiel's bitcoin trade still undefeated
Espresso is building a marketplace for rollups to sell their sequencing rights. We wrote up a detailed post on our market design: a combinatorial lottery that sells execution tickets for rollups or bundles of rollups. Please give us feedback on the design:
@tbr90
@MariaShen
many of those funds have killer pnls but are not necessarily driving the industry forward
undoubtedly great to be an lp in those funds
the first consumer crypto vc that brings on a credible celebrity/influencer as a venture partner will have provided more value than all other consumer crypto vcs with their braindead thinkpieces.
the market wants thots, not thoughts
consensys's organizational incompetence makes eigenlayer look like a competent silicon valley startup
more broken than the mechanisms that the seal team six mechanism designers theorize about
the reason why good crypto founders are in short supply is that there aren't many people with the skills willing to take massive legal + reputational risk
prices for tier 1 rounds will continue to be astronomical given this supply/demand dynamic
i know nobody cares because this is crypto but soliciting stake sounds an awful lot like asking users to deposit money with the expectations of profit based on the efforts of others in a common enterprise
study intersubjective + vague legalese
Solana validators make money in 3 ways:
i) Issuance (new SOL is issued by the network or "mined")
ii) MEV (traders tip validators to execute transactions in a certain way)
iii) Block rewards (base fees and priority fees)
when validators take a % commission — they're taking
@GarrettHarper_
solana's greatest strength is/was its laser focus on products and users.
the new meta of teams forgoing product development in favor of needlessly "vertical integrating" will have negative effects on solana's culture and value proposition.
armani speed running the sam arc out of japan is a dangerous game
unless you’re an investor, where you get a cheap call option on financial upside with no legal risk
JUST IN:
@Backpack
smashes another daily trading volume record – $1 billion! Huge achievement by
@armaniferrante
,
@yver__
, and the entire team. This rivals some exchanges' annual volume!
1/ We’re happy to announce a new strategic partnership with
@foundersfund
which will equip Alliance-accelerated founders with increased access to resources and mentorship.
To kick off this partnership, Alliance co-founder
@lmrankhan
sat down with several Founders Fund team
almost every interesting crypto protocol is backed by one of the five big vcs
past the seed/series A stage there is no more selection alpha because everybody knows who the winners are
the same is true in the normal startup scene except for it’s at the series A/B stage
the fugazi that we call the crypto industry is the result of leaders being solely selected for verbal intelligence to convince investors and retail that there will be someone else to buy their bags
every cycle a CEX has imploded but this time it’s different because it’s being run by a non-technical employee from a CEX that blew up last cycle and an open-source dev that was backed but not endorsed by the FTX deep state
Chamath is right actually. It is midwit to have an opinion on geopolitics 10k miles away coming to you through 7 dimensions of psyop. If all you want to hear is "bad thing is bad" then you're not a serious person
PSA: Celestia and EigenLayer are NOT competitors.
Data availability and restaking are different and complementary tools.
Data availability lets a rollup inherit security from an existing chain.
Restaking uses an existing token as collateral for economic security.
0 chance firedancer goes live this year
great team and project but also a jump fugazi
the amount of grant money jump is getting from this could solve world hunger
firedancer is the biggest upgrade for any blockchain in the industry this year — along with 4844
TL;DR — new, performant validator client for Solana built by people specializing in performance
we wrote a post covering everything about it here:
the real reason to back undifferentiated scam projects run by <25 year olds is that they are much less likely to be targeted by the SEC and you as a vc can get in at a $80m val and sell at $8b
crypto either needs to dramatically lower the dev barrier to unlock the long tail of developers (unlikely) or nerdsnipe 100x more people to have a health(ier) ecosystem with reasonable prices and more checks and balances
Oil enabled nations to lift themselves out of poverty by creating technologies never before possible
Digital oil enables network states of degens to emerge via generational wealth creation by creating new renditions of the same ponzis
The great stagnation is over
Ethereum is digital oil, but defi primitives are the refineries that turn crude blockspace into usable products. What side accrues the most value?
Not many people realize, but Rockefeller made far more money from refining oil than extracting it. Study 19th century industrialism