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frankie

1 year

I'm excited to announce we are open-sourcing Artemis, a framework for writing MEV bots in Rust. We built Artemis to make it as easy as possible to get started with searching, and designed the library to be simple, modular, and fast.

Artemis: An Open-Source MEV Bot Framework

We're excited to open source Artemis, a framework for writing MEV bots in Rust. Artemis is designed to be simple, modular, and fast.

www.paradigm.xyz

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frankie

@FrankieIsLost

2 years

Born too late to explore the earth. Born too early to explore the galaxy. Born just in time to explore the chain.

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

Surprised by how few people seem to know that correctly placing commas in your function signatures saves huge amounts of gas. The compiler recognizes the superior aesthetics and rewards you by removing a bunch of extraneous opcodes.

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@FrankieIsLost

1 year

the trump NFT contracts might have the most cursed formatting I've ever seen

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

I'm excited to announce that I've joined @paradigm as a Research Engineer, to help @FEhrsam , @matthuang , and the rest of the team as they push the boundaries in building a crypto-native investment firm.

Joining Paradigm

I'm excited to announce that I've joined Paradigm as a Research Engineer, to help Fred Ehrsam, Matt Huang, and the rest of the team as they push the boundaries in building a

www.paradigm.xyz

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

Very underrated paper on Ethereum data structures by @kamil_jezek (). A lot more accessible than the yellow paper, and with a lot less details left as an exercise to the reader.

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

I've been working on a new mechanism for selling NFT collections, as well as fungible tokens, with @danrobinson , @_Dave__White_ , and @andy8052 . It's called a Gradual Dutch Auction, or GDA. It's helpful for finding fair prices for illiquid assets.

Gradual Dutch Auctions

This paper introduces the Gradual Dutch Auction, or GDA, a mechanism that enables efficient sales of assets that do not have liquid markets.

www.paradigm.xyz

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

Just read the Tai Lopez NFT contracts, they: - transfer funds directly to 4 team wallets on every mint - implement a "dutch auction" where prices actually go up - use ERC721Enumerable but keep a separate tokenId counter - use SafeMath.sol on Solidity 0.8 - use Counters.sol

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@FrankieIsLost

1 year

out here getting mogged by copilot

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

We've reached the point in the ETHPoW saga where the Coinbase protocol team themselves are submitting PRs to the repo to get the chainID issue solved. And still no response from the team.

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

I've been working on the Art Gobblers smart contracts with @transmissions11 , with some help from @_Dave__White_ and @JustinRoiland . Today, we're excited to announce that our codebase is open source.

Open Sourcing the Art Gobblers Smart Contracts

Today, we’re excited to announce that the Art Gobblers smart contracts are open source and available on our Github repo.

www.paradigm.xyz

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@FrankieIsLost

9 months

> @CL207 coming to visit paradigm >office manager says he needs to show ID at the door >"uhh, don't think he owns that" >she says costco membership, school id, anything works >"well, he identifies as a cat, so I don't think he owns any of that" >... >she says no pets allowed

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@FrankieIsLost

9 months

people think the kimchi arb was the greatest arb in crypto but you can make a lot of money just taking ideas from cosmos and implementing them on ethereum a few months later

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

ETHPoW team quickly running out of time to release a client binary before the merge, and the closest thing they've done to changing the chainID is adding a comment in the codebase. Searchers are about to have a field day with replays if fork goes through without the change.

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

After working on a contract for a while, deploying to mainnet sort of feels like dropping your kid off for their first day of college. Except half the school is trying to mug them and you just hope you've covered them in enough kevlar.

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@FrankieIsLost

9 months

thousands of hours collectively spent on dex research to improve user welfare, and it turns out users just want a telegram bot they can send their private keys to

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

>9am, sit down at my desk ready to have a productive day. "Hmm, I wanted to refresh my memory on how the math for this AMM swap works" >9pm, fugue state. Every one of my screens open to a different broken desmos. Googling "how to learn hyperbolic geometry" as hope leaves my body

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

Join the resistance today

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

I pinged t11s about some code, and he replies "hang on, I need to finish this assembly". I figure he needs to wrap up some Yul he's writing. Turns out he means he's sitting in the middle a school assembly 😭

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

Yes, submit a PR to Solmate anon, what's the worse that could happen?

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@transmissions11

2 years

@andreasbigger @FrankieIsLost ofc!!

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

Inside every crypto dev there are two wolves. One can rotate shapes and the other is a wordcel. If you let the wordcel die, you end up building ohm forks. If the rotator dies, you end up with a failed algostable. We must all strive for balance.

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

What could go wrong?

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@FrankieIsLost

4 months

cosmos and solana really are on opposite ends of the "do you want to be right, or do you want to make money" spectrum

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@FrankieIsLost

1 year

DMing random anon accounts with 500 followers is extremely high variance, sometimes it's someone running a +100M crypto fund and other times it's a literal 12 year old

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@FrankieIsLost

7 months

solution to MEV has been achieved internally

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@FrankieIsLost

4 months

I just smashed my TV in front of 20 guests at my christmas party. someone at the table tried using ethereum for execution, not knowing it's a b2b chain. my wife just took our crying kids and said they’re all spending the week at a hotel. scaling has ruined my life and my party.

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@FrankieIsLost

3 months

if you want to build something big in crypto, build something people can speculate on. If you want to be very big, build a platform where other people can build things to speculate on. If you want to be massive, build something where the data is available.

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

I will say this again: there is simply no way to enforce any kind of royalty or fee-on-transfer mechanism on chain. You can always just trade claims on assets instead of the assets themselves. It's a social consensus issue, it can't be "fixed" with code.

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

The Paradigm Anon Council is in session

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

Down bad, have a meeting scheduled with @transmissions11 and realized it's happening during his lunch period at school. I'm officially feeling like a boomer.

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

is such an underrated way to learn solidity, it's usually what I recommend after reading the docs. Plus it's a nice warm-up for the upcoming Paradigm CTF 👀

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

what if?

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@FrankieIsLost

9 months

>crypto mech designer says his protocol pays high yield >ask if real yield or retail buying poorly priced risk >he doesn’t understand >pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is real yield and what is buying risk >he laughs and says “it's good yield” >check >it’s buying risk

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@FrankieIsLost

9 months

you: seeing the superconductor news and worried about the security of elliptic curve cryptography me: superconductor -> quantum computers and better networking infra -> block size goes up -> onchain physics simulations -> fully decentralized hamster racing

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

Few things in life will put your ego in check quicker than watching @samczsun live audit your code 🥲

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@FrankieIsLost

5 months

just one more infra layer bro. i promise bro just one more infra layer and it'll fix everything bro. bro. just one more infra layer. please just one more. one more infra layer and we can fix this whole problem bro. bro cmon just give me one more infra layer i promise bro. bro ple

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

0xb1eak

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

The ETHPoW whitepaper (linked from their official website) is pure performance art. There's a title page, a page that says "The Original Ethereum Blockchain", and then 7 pages that just say "intentionally left blank".

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

She's a 10 but thinks backing an algostable with endogenous collateral is a sound mechanism

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

Was at my local coffee shop, and noticed someone well known in crypto in line in front of me. They were speaking very loudly and poorly about a project. A reminder to practice good opsec, you never know when your friendly neighborhood anon might be waiting for coffee behind you.

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@FrankieIsLost

4 months

when I criticize Solana, the manlet army shows up screaming at me and calling me scum. when I criticize cosmos, I get an army of bad kids saying things like "we deserve this" and "we haven't lived up to our ideals". and I think both those things are beautiful.

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

Many good decisions were made when building Uniswap, ranging from mechanism design to UI/UX. But the greatest decision of them all might have been to abandon the original name for the protocol: "Unipeg"

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

A good test: get gpt-3 to generate crypto marketing copy and see how close it gets to the real thing

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

Sometimes I read a whitepaper's "novel tokenomics" and wonder if the people who were posting troll physics memes to 4chan in 2010 ended up finding their way to defi

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@FrankieIsLost

7 months

having good taste for problems is like half the battle. some great teams don’t make it just because they just picked the wrong thing to work on. also means that average teams can make it big by stumbling onto the right space

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@FrankieIsLost

7 months

My father-in-law is a builder. He is insanely gifted. We were looking at this smart contract together years ago and I asked him what it would cost to build it today. I will never forget his answer… 'We can’t, we don’t know how to do it.'

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

People have already pointed out the lack of gas optimization on the Otherside contracts, but even the structure of the contracts is pretty surprising. For one example, the public sale price is calculated using a dutch auction... but with the same starting and ending price.

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

This tweet was a joke about how far devs will go to optimize their contracts, but it seems lots of folks took it at face value 😅 So let me give a quick explanation of why a change like this can't lead to gas savings, for people less familiar with the Solidity compiler:

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

Surprised by how few people seem to know that correctly placing commas in your function signatures saves huge amounts of gas. The compiler recognizes the superior aesthetics and rewards you by removing a bunch of extraneous opcodes.

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@FrankieIsLost

10 months

at ethCC, panelists are asked to define intents: person A: "intents are constraints on the state transition function" person B: "intents are a glimpse into the subconscious, a probe into user's mind. you'll never have my intents, you'd use them to kill me" we are so back

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

Can't wait for y'all to reveal your gobblers tomorrow and see what the team has in store for you 🧪🧪🧪

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@FrankieIsLost

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

Counterpoint: At one of my old jobs, an eng was debugging by adding `print("FUCK")` in his code. He forgot to remove this, and somehow got through code review and into prod. He 2x'd our log volume with millions of lines of "FUCK" and almost brought down our Kibana cluster.

Georgios Konstantopoulos

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

@0xtuba @samczsun > Pulls up to my desk > "It's time to audit" > Opens Github, has 0 context on the code > Scans first contract for about 60 seconds > "Not sure what this function does yet but it looks wrong" > mfw critical bug

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@FrankieIsLost

4 months

Good Evening, “ETF approval” was a 20 minute sociological study conducted by Harvard University. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.

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@FrankieIsLost

1 year

most common chart in crypto?

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@FrankieIsLost

5 months

a surprising number of problems in ethereum could be solved trivially by not optimizing the network for raspberry pis, but instead we’ve decided to patch them with the most intricate rube goldberg machines you’ve ever seen

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@FrankieIsLost

8 months

I’m at an intents event today, determined to find out if anyone here actually knows what an intent is or if it’s all a huge psyop

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

Doing a survey of open-sourced MEV bots and I'm growing increasingly convinced that some of these are psyops to get new people rekt

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@FrankieIsLost

6 months

you either die as literally any project in crypto, or live long enough to see yourself become an L2

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

If your solidity codebase has more lines of code than lines of comments, you don't have enough comments

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@FrankieIsLost

3 years

Weekend hack: An implementation of RICKS -- an NFT primitive by @_Dave__White_ , @andy8052 and @danrobinson

GitHub - FrankieIsLost/RICKS

Contribute to FrankieIsLost/RICKS development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

Building a bad nft project is way easier than building a bad defi project, but building a great nft project might be harder than building a great defi project.

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@FrankieIsLost

5 months

lots of zombie cos in crypto with too much funding and too little traction, so any hint of something finding pmf is like blood in the water. starts a feeding frenzy of pivots trying to replicate it, but this almost never works. you can see it today with DA, TG bots, "AI", etc.

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

Got a few DMs about this. Some bots to learn from: • by @_supercycled • by @gakonst • by @bertcmiller Some bad bots: • Won't link, but probably not a good idea to write your bot fully in Solidity

GitHub - bertmiller/sMEV

Contribute to bertmiller/sMEV development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

Doing a survey of open-sourced MEV bots and I'm growing increasingly convinced that some of these are psyops to get new people rekt

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

What are you waiting for, anon?

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

Friday

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@FrankieIsLost

1 year

it’s pretty incredible how low-status crypto has become in tech/ai circles. feels like an important structural advantage

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

your industry: GPUs are used to train large language models which are pushing the boundaries of intelligence my industry: 16 year olds are renting GPU farms and utilizing 1000s of teraflops so we can put the word g00 a bunch of times in a contract address

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

Me 3 hours ago: "Yes @samczsun , I'd be happy to try out your new security challenges. I'm sure they won't take long" Me, 3 hours later, can't even read his wall of hand-crafted assembly anymore as tears cloud my vision: "This might have been a mistake"

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

> start playing @andy8052 's onchain game > notice one of players isn't making moves > "hmm, I wonder what's distracting them" > check the chain > they just took $4M from an exploit

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

What working with t11s is like:

t11s

@transmissions11

2 years

some of y'all aren't ready to accept that full sentence comments are based

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@FrankieIsLost

7 months

RWAs are the most egalitarian thing we've ever seen. the transfer of crypto-wealth to shoddy credit facilities for asset-backed motorcycle loans is insanely ambitious, and if it works, can really reshape the fabric of society

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@FrankieIsLost

1 year

onchain identity increasingly feels like an anti-pattern

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

How do conferences work for anons? Do I wear a robot mask around for ETH Denver? My old Sushi coworkers don't know about this account...

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

On a call with @mewn21 : Mewny: “Frankie, where did you grow up?” Me: “I grew up in *******, how about you?” Mewny: “oh sorry, I’m anon, I can’t tell”

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@FrankieIsLost

1 year

funny thing about MEV is that hundreds of thousands of hours of R&D effort have emerged as a direct result of users not wanting to spend 30 seconds setting correct slippage tolerance on their trades

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@FrankieIsLost

4 months

there's deep alpha in being able to correctly tune your skepticism in crypto--go too far in either direction and your odds of success plummet. a common failure mode for smart people is not being able to get this right and ending up blackpilled on the space.

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

I was looking over the @paradigm_ctf challenges and they've been categorized into 4 difficulty levels: Easy, Medium, Hard, and Sam. Good luck to everyone playing today! 🫡

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

A theory of meme accelerationism: crypto will increasingly compresses the timeframe between a meme's genesis and commercialization. My guess is we're about 3 days away from shape rotating NFTs or token-gated wordcel discords.

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@FrankieIsLost

7 months

launching a rollup today is more of a branding exercise than a technical endeavor (for the majority of cases). RaaS providers handle most of the complexity for you, and if you’re mostly running vanilla components, you can only really differentiate on vibes.

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

Are you using Foundry yet, anon?

tuba 🦈

@0xtuba

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@FrankieIsLost foundry changed my life. after rewriting my app in foundry, my girl texted me back and my father came back into my life after 20 years would like to thank all the contributors that made foundry possible (even @danrobinson )

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SVM rollups and the Elgin Marbles: In the early 19th century, the Earl of Elgin removed a collection of Greek sculptures from the Parthenon and placed them in the British museum. At the time, some Greeks justified the removal, saying that the placement of the marbles in such…

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@FrankieIsLost

9 months

maybe the real public goods were the generalized frontrunners we made along the way

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

In most web2 jobs, the better you are at being an IC (dev, designer, etc), the faster you get pushed away from it. On the other hand, being an IC in web3 is so high leverage that this doesn't happen as much. Feels like an under-appreciated structural advantage for crypto.

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@FrankieIsLost

7 months

you either die a centralization risk or live long enough to see yourself become enshrined

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

I saw the best minds of my generation consumed by madness (going Milady Mode)

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

What is it about the Starknet ecosystem that has so far protected it from mercenary developers? Similar stage to other projects, but totally different vibes.

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@FrankieIsLost

3 years

Continuing to speed run the paradigm blog: An implementation of TWAMM, based on the paper by @_Dave__White_ , @danrobinson and @haydenzadams

GitHub - FrankieIsLost/TWAMM

Contribute to FrankieIsLost/TWAMM development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

It's remarkable that some people can recognize a wave of technological innovation happening, and think "The first step will change the world. But every inch past it is vapor".

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

I hope you're enjoying anon

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@FrankieIsLost

5 months

a mev blackpill is that there's ~10 entities that could each single-handedly cripple ethereum if they decided to be maximally short-term value extractive. a mev whitepill is that somehow the system is still alive and well.

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@FrankieIsLost

8 months

I joke that taking ideas from cosmos and implementing them on ethereum is a better arb than the kimchi trade, but an important corollary is that cosmos teams themselves are often best positioned to capture this arb. With the rise of L2s there's a clear path forward.

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

We've officially kicked off the C4 contest!

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@FrankieIsLost

9 months

seems pretty likely at this point that the transaction as the fundamental component of user interaction in crypto is the wrong model

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@FrankieIsLost

7 months

bull case for building on a SVM L2 on eth: for the first time in history, it’s possible to signal ethereum, solana and celestia alignment at the same time

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

Wake up babe, new research engineer just dropped

t11s

@transmissions11

2 years

I'm thrilled to announce that I've joined @paradigm as a Research Engineer, to help @matthuang , @FEhrsam , and the rest of the amazing team build the world’s best crypto-native investment firm.

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@FrankieIsLost

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some crypto founders will know the ins and outs of every ethereum data structure but don't understand the basics of their own company's capital structure

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@FrankieIsLost

2 years

If smart contract devs blacklist certain marketplaces in their NFT projects, marketplaces can just change their UIs to allow sellers to wrap their NFTs and list them in a single transaction. It's a cat and mouse game and the only losers are users who are inconvenienced

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@FrankieIsLost

9 months

if you think builders censoring txs is bad, wait until solvers start censoring intents. you won’t even reach the builder unless your desired contraints on the state transition function are OFAC compliant.

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@FrankieIsLost

1 year

this is what deploying a smart contract REALLY looks like. this is what they don't want you to see when you simply "forge create". big DexEx wants to keep you in the dark.

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