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zefram.eth

@boredGenius

1 month

gonna try posting more on @farcaster_xyz will start running frame experiments there when i get the time follow me here:

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zefram.eth

@boredGenius

3 years

Does anyone want this browser extension

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@boredGenius

11 days

non-transferable airdrop✅ most tokens go to VCs✅ vesting starts immediately for VCs✅ tiny airdrop alloc✅ points trading encouraged but traders get rugged✅ spend a lot of effort banning VPNs✅ insiders know the precise block number of snapshot✅ it’s so over

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@boredGenius

2 years

- UST collapses - Yellen declares all decentralized stablecoins (DAI, MIM, LUSD, FRAX, FEI etc) risky - Stablecoins banned in the US, only government issued “digital dollars” allowed Gonna happen innit

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@boredGenius

2 years

aped into a herman miller chair and a 49-inch samsung ultrawide monitor only about 1 eth maybe y'all should invest in yourselves rather than random NFT drops

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@boredGenius

2 years

Dug around the mochi contracts and it's comedy gold - Price oracle for $mochi is literally just a number set by a hot wallet (who needs chainlink lmao) - The mochi token is upgradeable by a 1-of-3 multisig ("multisig") with no timelock - The same multisig owns 99.5% of all mochi

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@boredGenius

2 years

Thanks for the free money

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@boredGenius

2 years

The company that built Stable Diffusion, literally modern day magic, is valued at $1 billion. Aptos, a VC bukkake ghost chain, is valued at $2 billion. There’s obviously something very wrong here.

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@boredGenius

10 months

this timeline was created by Hideo Kojima

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@boredGenius

2 years

Simping for evil pharma bro Martin Shkreli is gonna set a new low of the public perception of crypto I find it morally problematic even as someone heavily into crypto

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@boredGenius

3 months

wtf you can now restake your restaked staked ETH this is not a drill

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@boredGenius

2 years

Introducing VestedERC20 It is a wrapper that linearly vests an ERC20 token to its holders. It's also an ERC20 token itself, so you can transfer it around & plug it into other primitives. Also uses black magic fuckery so deployment is only 69925 gas.

GitHub - ZeframLou/vested-erc20: A wrapper ERC20 token that linearly vests an underlying ERC20...

A wrapper ERC20 token that linearly vests an underlying ERC20 token to its holders. - ZeframLou/vested-erc20

github.com

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zefram.eth

@boredGenius

2 years

SBF is blatantly trying to kill DeFi and decentralization in general. SBF, FTX, and Alameda have repeatedly demonstrated that their sole purpose is to extract as much value as possible out of crypto with zero regard for its development. Start treating them with zero respect.

SBF

@SBF_FTX

2 years

1) As promised: My current thoughts on crypto regulation.

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@boredGenius

2 years

Introducing CREATE3 Factory It makes deploying a contract to the same address on multiple chains super duper easy! Usable now on 7 chains

GitHub - ZeframLou/create3-factory

Contribute to ZeframLou/create3-factory development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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@boredGenius

2 years

many such cases

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zefram.eth

@boredGenius

4 years

Thanks @iearnfinance @AndreCronjeTech . Now I don't have to pander to VCs to fund building my crazy DeFi & DAO ideas. I imagine many other builders are in the same position. If you think this space is exploding now, wait till the new wave of builders do their thing.

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zefram.eth

@boredGenius

10 months

Voting has begun for @CamelotDEX 's temp-check proposal to request 9 million $ARB from the @arbitrum DAO for liquidity incentives on the Camelot exchange. As someone still holding his $ARB airdrop bags, I believe this is a TERRIBLE proposal. Why? Here are some numbers👇

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@boredGenius

1 year

@DefiLlama launched a DEX aggregator It’s over for the other guys 🫡

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@boredGenius

2 years

What if we simply pegged ETH to $100k

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@boredGenius

2 years

Wow sudo has already flipped looksrare in volume by 3x Without any incentives New paradigm

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@boredGenius

2 years

The sanctioning of Tornado Cash is illegal and obscene. It is a fundamental attack on crypto, DeFi, and on privacy. The standard "if a North Korean can use it, then it's illegal" applies to far more than just TC.

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@boredGenius

5 months

Uniswap v4 is going to change everything, and you’re not prepared. You probably have heard of Uni v4 and its “hooks”. To the untrained eye, Uni v4 is only an incremental update like a new iPhone. To devs like me, however, Uni v4 signals a revolution in the largest market…

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@boredGenius

3 years

Introducing Name, a @lootproject derivative NFT. How can any adventurer journey without a name? Now you're covered: any loot holder can claim a Name NFT for free that includes a randomly generated name.

Name (for Adventurers): NAME Token | Address 0xb9310af43f4763003f42661f6fc098428469adab | Etherscan

The Contract Address 0xb9310af43f4763003f42661f6fc098428469adab page allows users to view the source code, transactions, balances, and analytics for the contract address. Users can also interact and...

etherscan.io

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zefram.eth

@boredGenius

1 year

Introducing the Universal bridge, a unified interface for sending messages from Ethereum to other chains and rollups. It lets you implement things like cross-chain governance without relying on third-party protocols like layer zero.

GitHub - ZeframLou/universal-bridge: Unified interface for sending messages from Ethereum to other...

Unified interface for sending messages from Ethereum to other chains and rollups. - ZeframLou/universal-bridge

github.com

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@boredGenius

2 years

Dear god writing a contract that integrates with Uniswap v3 makes me want to quit being a dev and become a trader instead That's how bad it is

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@boredGenius

2 years

Good thread 🧵 about why layer zero is highly sus A great analogy by @trayvox : layer zero is basically a bridge run by a 2/2 multisig. Their security relies on the two signers not colluding to rug. Would you trust your money with a 2/2 multisig?

trayvox

@trayvox

2 years

@LayerZero_Labs has launched, and @StargateFinance has >3B$ TVL, but have any apes actually read the docs or looked at the code? TLDR: The team can rug LP’s even when the oracle is honest with many of the contracts owned by an EOA.

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@boredGenius

2 years

I am finally done with college🍾 Time to use 100% of my power on crypto

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@boredGenius

2 years

OK @0xMaki and I are assembling a team of anons to do a crypto fellowship in the metaverse If you’re interested to be a mentor/help organize pls comment below

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@boredGenius

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@boredGenius

2 years

Introducing Playpen Modern, gas optimized staking pool contracts supporting ERC20 and ERC721 staking

GitHub - ZeframLou/playpen: Playpen is a set of modern, gas optimized staking pool contracts.

Playpen is a set of modern, gas optimized staking pool contracts. - ZeframLou/playpen

github.com

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zefram.eth

@boredGenius

6 months

This kyber hack is keeping me up at night Off by one wei and tens of millions of dollars gone If you’ve done any kind of complex math in a smart contract you’d probably feel the same

Doug Colkitt

@0xdoug

6 months

26/ And that's because the "reach quantity" was the upper bound for reaching the tick boundary was calculated as ...22080000, whereas the exploiter set a swap quantity of ...220799999 That shows just how carefully engineered this exploit was. The check failed by <0.00000000001%

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@boredGenius

2 years

The layer zero "ultra light node" apparently just accepts whatever number of confirmations is claimed by the oracle lmao "Mr. Oracle, you claim your block has a quintillion confirmations, can I verify this?" "Just trust me bro"

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@boredGenius

3 years

I made (probably) the first Solidity Quine NFT, and it's so cool I need to tell everyone about it. TL;DR: The content of the NFT is its smart contract source code itself. Check it out:

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@boredGenius

2 years

Um guys, I did more digging into mochi and it's even worse than I thought (didn't consider this possible) Turns out all the collateral (yes, all $136.3M) used for minting USDM can also be instarugged Here's how👇

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@boredGenius

2 years

The idea that you need an audit to launch a protocol is the biggest psyop in crypto

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@boredGenius

6 months

Kyber hacker taking a little nap after stealing millions of dollars😴

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@boredGenius

3 years

Create Merkle tree ERC-20/ERC-721 airdrops for 212.5k gas (0.0425 ETH at 200 gwei) Comes with customizable claim page No need to clone that Uniswap repo anymore No longer have to be technical to make cheap airdrops Mainnet beta👇

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@boredGenius

3 years

As a "smart college kid", this is an atrociously bad take. Sam is part of the generation that was supposed to fix climate change. They have the money, the power, the connections. And they used it all to show us ads and hook us on social media. But of course we are to blame.

Sam Altman

@sama

3 years

Spoke to some really smart college kids recently. Almost universally, they had a belief that climate change was an unstoppable disaster and the most pressing issue of our time.

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@boredGenius

2 years

Excited to share some alpha about the new project I'm building. It's honestly the best idea I've come up with ever, so I hope you like it too!

Timeless Finance

@Timeless_Fi

2 years

Introducing Timeless Timeless is a yield tokenization protocol that offers Perpetual Yield Tokens (PYTs) and Negative Yield Tokens (NYTs). Timeless enables yield speculation, yield leveraging, and yield hedging, all with deep liquidity via Timeless AMM.

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@boredGenius

2 years

Martin Shkreli is gonna be the next crypto megalomaniac innit

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@boredGenius

2 years

Why is crypto twitter so ded rn Is everyone playing elden ring

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@boredGenius

2 years

Play to earn is dumb It’s basically yield farming, except you have to play a shitty mobile game to get your yield. The games are so bad, people hire third world citizens to play the game for them. Also the game economy is closed, so players have limited upside.

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@boredGenius

2 months

So Cowswap single-handedly solved LVR & MEV and nobody is talking about it?

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@boredGenius

2 years

Are anime pfp nfts the new OHM forks

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@boredGenius

3 years

OK this is getting ridiculous I think it's safe to say that L2 season has begun

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@boredGenius

2 years

The only way to get a quote from a uni v3 pool is apparently actually make a swap, see how many tokens you get, revert with the error message being the encoded quote, wrap the whole thing in a try-catch block, and decode the quote in the catch block WTF

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@boredGenius

2 years

Introducing Trustus, a trust-minimized method for accessing offchain data onchain.

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@boredGenius

2 years

investing in legit builders when there's blood in the streets is probably the best thing you can do for your wallet

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@boredGenius

2 years

According to @nansen_ai , sudoswap already has more users than x2y2 and looksrare *combined*, by a huge margin (38%) Probably nothing

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@boredGenius

2 years

the path of the gas optimizer is paved with black fucking magic shit

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@boredGenius

2 years

When has the play "take something popular in tradfi and put it in defi" ever worked? All of the most successful defi apps (Uniswap, Aave, Curve) are extremely different from tradfi counterparts. Whereas tradfi stuff like options and fixed rate seem to have zero pmf in defi.

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@boredGenius

2 years

I built a new AMM this week What have you done this week, my dear anon?

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@boredGenius

3 months

why are all the zk rollups underperforming optimistic rollups? zksync, the biggest zk rollup, has only $140m TVL. optimism has 6x that and arbitrum has 20x. are zk rollups cursed or something?

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@boredGenius

2 years

@cobie Clueless non-technical VC tries to school chad blockchain researcher on blockchains 🤡🌎

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@boredGenius

3 years

Revolutionary new protocol. Need 15 testers. Might give uncertain amount of token allocation. DM me to apply. If you think you’re worthy.

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@boredGenius

2 years

fyi if your "trustless" protocol can be drained and have its incentives flipped on its head by one party tweeting "here's the contents of the hash I just posted, relay it and I'll split the profits 50-50" you might not want to call it trustless

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@boredGenius

2 years

Time to deploy all your front ends to arweave

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@boredGenius

2 years

I think I just invented minimal proxies with immutable variable support The cost of deploying a @sudoswap AMM pair went from 270k gas to 170k gas

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@boredGenius

10 months

Having a highly technical skill like coding as your best skill kinda sucks Even if you get really good, only other nerds can understand why and how you’re good Whereas if you were in music/art it’s easy to show a random person your work and have them get it

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@boredGenius

2 years

To new builders in the space: don’t build a DeFi project under any circumstance, leave DeFi to elderly autists like me. You will be infinitely richer and happier building monkey jpegs, and you can retire in 6 months.

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@boredGenius

2 years

Hey @CurveFinance if I forked your contracts, gas optimized them, and deployed them to mainnet will you sue me?

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@boredGenius

3 years

OHM > BTC

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@boredGenius

5 years

Introducing Pool DAI: A no-loss donation protocol enabling people to pool money together, lend it out, and donate the interest to a cause. Powered by @compoundfinance @KyberNetwork @graphprotocol @blocknative @MakerDAO Live on Ethereum Mainnet.

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@boredGenius

2 years

This Twitter account documents the descent into madness of a DeFi dev as he realizes he should've put all his time & money into thicc femboys and monkey jpegs instead of autistic financial products Thank you for participating

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@boredGenius

2 years

Unpopular opinion: Cosmos has cool tech (e.g. IBC) but is ngmi in the long run due to newer techs (e.g. rollups) with better pmf and security

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@boredGenius

6 months

after sending all my money to a 3-of-5 multisig I suddenly felt a sense of peace and security, knowing that the centralization of finance, the sale of unregistered securities, and the empowerment of trusted intermediaries has always been the core mission of blockchain technology

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@boredGenius

30 days

This shows that trying to comply with the SEC by e.g. blocking certain tokens / users in the frontend is the wrong path We gotta go full cypherpunk so that the only way to shut down DeFi is to nuke the entire internet and jam all electromagnetic signals on Earth

Uniswap Labs 🦄

@Uniswap

30 days

Today Uniswap Labs received a Wells notice from the SEC And we're ready to fight This is the latest political effort to target even the best actors in crypto like Uniswap and Coinbase All Uniswap products and the Uniswap Protocol are unaffected

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@boredGenius

2 years

There are so many ways to rug mochi immediately without warning 1) Dump the 99.5% mochi supply 2) Upgrade mochi, do infinite mint, dump 3) Set mochi price to infinite, use mochi to infinite mint USDM, drain curve LPs 4) Use the 99.5% supply to mint like $50B USDM, drain LPs again

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@boredGenius

5 years

Introducing Pooled cDAI, an ERC20 token template allowing people to pool DAI together, lock the DAI into @compoundfinance , and send the interests to a beneficiary. Locked DAI can be withdrawn *at any time*. Kinda like generalized @PoolTogether_ . #DeFi

GitHub - ZeframLou/pooled-cdai: Pools DAI, converts it into Compound DAI, and sends interests to a...

Pools DAI, converts it into Compound DAI, and sends interests to a beneficiary. Users putting DAI into the pool receives Pooled cDAI (pcDAI), an ERC20 token which is 1-for-1 redeemable for DAI at a...

github.com

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@boredGenius

3 years

Extension is pending review by Google, but here's another teaser

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@boredGenius

2 years

I've said it before and I'll say it again: @sudoswap will be the new paradigm of NFT trading If opensea is the coinbase of NFTs, then sudoswap is the uniswap of NFTs In a few months we will look back and be shocked at how people could only trade NFTs using shitty orderbooks

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@boredGenius

2 years

Finally have my honorary tubby cat yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee #NewNFTProfilePic NFT by TubbyCatsDeployer

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@boredGenius

1 year

@tolstoybb Yes criminals like poor people and people living outside of first world countries Don’t forget about people who work in industries that 70 year olds find distasteful. Or people who protest against the government.

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@boredGenius

4 years

Me seeing Ampleforth blacklisting the KuCoin hacker:

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@boredGenius

2 years

CorruptionGold If you have @dhof 's corruption NFT you can mint Do what you will

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@boredGenius

2 years

If you're building in DeFi today, I strongly recommend not talking to VCs at all and just launch a token instead. Most VCs are only investing in NFT projects, so they'll only waste your time. Launching a token & bootstrapping your protocol lets you retain control & move fast.

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@boredGenius

1 year

The CT main character => prison pipeline is real

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@boredGenius

10 months

@0xSisyphus I thought you were financially stable with the $60m from Anubis rug

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@boredGenius

1 year

@AndreCronjeTech Andre we’ve already solved the great question of how to combine blockchain and AI, the solution apparently is just launching an ERC20 token with AI in the name😂

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@boredGenius

2 years

There will be 100x fewer crypto dramas a la sushi if everyone building DAOs just read this

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@boredGenius

2 years

So what would an actually *trustless* layer zero-like generalized bridge look like? Here are some ideas. 1) zk bridge: Actually run an Ethereum light client onchain that verifies blocks, rather than blindly trusting the oracle. This can be done practically using zk-SNARK...

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@boredGenius

2 years

Remember, any mention of “regulation” means adding the government as a middleman. The point of crypto & blockchain is to eliminate middlemen & replace them with code. Crypto regulation (beyond trading) is an oxymoron and a nonstarter.

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@boredGenius

2 years

Doing airdrops in waves and disqualifying dumpers in later waves is literally just single sided staking but dumber

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@boredGenius

2 years

Invented a new type of financial product and AMM today Time to build @88mphapp

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@boredGenius

2 years

Introducing a new toy in the Playpen -- xERC20 It's a special case of an ERC20 staking pool where the rewarded token is the same as the staking token. This enables staking positions to be represented by an ERC20 token. Like xSUSHI, but better.

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@boredGenius

1 month

I love how we went from “20% fixed rate yield is unsustainable and will burn billions to the ground” before Luna exploded to “40+% yield is perfectly reasonable and will last for years to come” In less than 2 years

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@boredGenius

10 months

holy crap they invented room-temp superconductor

The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor

For the first time in the world, we succeeded in synthesizing the room-temperature superconductor ($T_c \ge 400$ K, 127$^\circ$C) working at ambient pressure with a modified lead-apatite (LK-99)...

arxiv.org

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@boredGenius

3 years

Alpha leak: @0xmons will eat opensea's lunch It's not even close, EtherDelta vs Uniswap type of difference And the smart contract dev team is one other projects could only dream of

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@boredGenius

3 years

I've done it folks An ERC-1155 token where each token ID is also an ERC-20 And the code is actually not disgusting Finally, 1155s you can *actually trade* (it's horrendous no good 1155 AMMs exist) Ofc will be heavily used in @88mphapp v3 FRBs

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@boredGenius

3 months

man I cannot believe we still don’t have a decentralized & scalable stablecoin that doesn’t blow up

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@boredGenius

2 years

@FrankieIsLost > wants to implement block list > scans through an entire array to see if address is blocked instead of using a mapping, making transfers extremely expensive And this guy expects to be taken seriously

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@boredGenius

2 years

Imagine being so utterly braindead as to think that sudoswap is a “centralized marketplace” It’s literally the most decentralized NFT marketplace that’s ever existed 100% on-chain, immutable, and decentralized These people probably think uniswap is a CEX smh

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@boredGenius

2 years

I propose that all ERC-20 tokens should impose a 10% transfer tax that goes to the founders If transfer taxes are null, there’s no incentive to keep building for the long term. Will make a PR in the openzeppelin repo soon /s

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@boredGenius

6 months

Everyone keeps making new L2s with less yearly revenue than a single McDonald’s location

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@boredGenius

2 years

Solidity devs are programming the socio-economic foundation of the rest of history

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@boredGenius

2 years

I wish I had the confidence to be the non-technical CEO of a protocol with possibly the worst tech in the space, shit on an industry leader for “copying” their tech, proceed to be absolutely destroyed by said leader, and still pretend to have won the argument.

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@boredGenius

2 years

Built out a huge upgrade to @Uniswap that makes it easy to incentivize v3 liquidity The next logical step is Convex for Uniswap?

Timeless Finance

@Timeless_Fi

2 years

Introducing Bunni, a protocol that makes Uniswap v3 liquidity composable. Bunni uses fungible ERC-20 tokens to represent LP positions instead of NFTs, which makes it far easier to integrate Uniswap liquidity in other apps.

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@boredGenius

3 years

Zero coupon bonds are coming soon to @88mphapp . UNI, 3CRV, BTC, and more🐸. And by soon I mean I'm literally just waiting for our auditors to give the OK.

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@boredGenius

2 years

Temple paid themselves 16M salary in less than a year, delivering a grand total of pretty much nothing. Has there been a team that raised >8 figures from the public that isn’t a slow rug?

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@boredGenius

2 years

Can someone please tell me how to ape into Celestia thanks

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