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@cjliu49

3 years

VISA BOUGHT A PUNK!! Drop a picture of your credit card (both sides) to celebrate!!

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@cjliu49

3 years

You think it’s wild now, wait till coinbase supports NFTs / 721s

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3 years

any day now - the dump is coming

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@cjliu49

3 years

14.25% of punks are listed for sale 23.23% of bored apes 32.31% of pengus mean anything?

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@cjliu49

3 years

1/ 2021 and beyond: DeFi enters “1-to-N” scaling phase (vs “0-to-1” invention phase). Most of the fattest protocols are built. Credit Expansion, Yield Income, and Trading are the pillars of DeFi and each is getting crowded. Fewer blue sky/moonshot opps in the future.

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@cjliu49

3 years

L1/2/Web3: Mathematicians, Scientists, Engineers DeFi: Economists, Analysts, Statisticians NFTs: Artists, Creatives, Gamers, Community Builders DAOs: Sociologists, Political Theorists, Leaders, Philosophers Everyone will get their turn. Be here for yours

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@cjliu49

5 years

@paulg Weird and bad take, they went to RISD and Harvard, had a great safety net if they gave up

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@cjliu49

2 years

collab land should work in reverse, where it tells you everything you can join based on what's in your wallet

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@cjliu49

2 years

This is a list of my personal portfolio exposure to different crypto assets. - Only liquid stuff, completely ignores illiquid stuff and stables - Removed positions that would have rounded to 0 (<0.5%) and normalized to sum to 100 - Think I might add LUNA, ATOM, OSMO out of ETH

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@cjliu49

3 years

Im buying $coin on opening and never selling. Like an NFT, doing it for the story.

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@cjliu49

4 months

Crypto used to be at its core about subverting powerful institutions, it does not seem to be about that at all anymore

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@cjliu49

27 days

This is a beginning. Very proud to be a part of our team. Let’s keep going 🔥

EigenLayer

@eigenlayer

27 days

Announcing: EigenLayer ♾ EigenDA Mainnet Launch

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@cjliu49

2 years

First day @eigenlayer ! Thrilled to join @sreeramkannan @TokenPhysicist @bbuddha_xyz @soubhik_deb and many other awesome teammates (whose @ I don’t know yet). Building infrastructure to extend the staked ETH trust network to any crypto-economically secured distributed system.

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@cjliu49

3 years

In 2012 I interviewed at a firm 41 floors above an Occupy WS protest. My interviewer walked to the window and asked what I thought. I said their goals were good, but they’d be more effective changing the game from within. I discovered crypto in that job. Crypto is within.

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@cjliu49

3 years

Which crypto founders would be the best IRL politicians? @rleshner for sure, though I’m biased

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@cjliu49

3 years

Reminds me of the time Mark Cuban rugged Yahoo

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@cjliu49

2 years

1/9 This was really thought-provoking for me and a little sad. And it made me want to spend some time jotting down ideas for founders to extract the most value from their investors and mitigate or limit some of the issues Rooter highlights.

Rooter

@0xrooter

2 years

the idea that vcs add value is a narrative pushed by vcs to convince naive founders that they need to raise money, so the vcs can continue getting sweet deals. the reality is that you are 99% responsible for your success or failure. vcs will help move the needle by 1% maybe.

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@cjliu49

4 years

America loves gray area. Good and Evil is not black and white. It’s always “it depends.” On George Floyd there is no gray area. You watched agents of the institutionalized power of the U.S. kill a man as he begged for his life. By luck and only luck, that man wasn’t you. RIP

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@cjliu49

2 years

Two types of investors: 1 - understands a protocol from first principles and can forecast its place in the world 2 - great trend spotter and has the guts to swing hard on first pitch All say they are 1, some are 2, most are none. 2 actually best, is most adaptable and scalable

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@cjliu49

2 years

This gaming NFT interoperability thesis… if there was never enough incentive to do it in a centralized way why would there be any incentive to do it in a decentralized (public blockchains) way?

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@cjliu49

11 months

A lot of great crypto founders have a superpower that doesn’t seem highly predictable from past experiences, which is willingness and ability to engage constantly with the public. I consider it an industry specific superpower and a key feature of “founder-crypto industry fit”.

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@cjliu49

2 months

The #1 priority is shipping and shipping and shipping more. I work at ups

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@cjliu49

2 years

My advice for the bear - it helps to have dual incomes, so make sure your partner has two jobs If not, you may need to find a second partner

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@cjliu49

3 years

We're launching a new product @compoundfinance and hiring a "Compliance & Operations Associate" to work with me, @nickmartitsch , @jchervinsky , @rleshner Looking for an ambitious, energetic, detail-oriented person ready to inhale DeFi / FinTech knowledge

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@cjliu49

2 years

First-ever ATOM liquidity on an AMM outside of Cosmos, on Ethereum Uni v3, powered by @axelarcore : Very cool. You can finally buy ATOM on Ethereum and bridge to Cosmos instead of “bridging” via CEX

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@cjliu49

3 years

Right about the time @rleshner gifted all 15 employees of @compoundfinance a doppelgänger cryptopunk for Christmas

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@beaniemaxi

3 years

7 months ago, I listened to @gmoneyNFT 👇

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@cjliu49

4 years

I'm one of the signers of the @iearnfinance governance multisig using 0xb0325DbE7fA891436E83A094f9F12848c78e449b.

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@cjliu49

2 months

Love the team @eigen_labs and have full confidence we’ll out execute any challenge, and every challenger, on our mission to supercharge open innovation on Ethereum

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@cjliu49

3 years

This is my DeFi DegenScore 🚀 Check yours and find if you are Degen enough to access the Beta and make it to the Leaderboard 🏆

Beacon

The Beacon Workshop is where you mint or update your Beacon

degenscore.com

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@cjliu49

10 months

Opinion: It’s important for crypto founders to build a brand on Twitter. The goal is to factually establish oneself as an expert on a particular problem-solution, not to be cool, funny, or even smart. Both paths get followers, but one is super helpful and the other kills the co.

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@cjliu49

4 years

you also most likely won’t, and if you do it’ll take 3-5+ years, so get a good job and work hard so you have multiple high-upside bets, your quality of life isn’t dependent on crypto prices, and you can keep pushing money into the market

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@cjliu49

3 years

I have a sad theory that people like @sc know if they flex a $100k Cryptopunk it will get their exciting new NFT bought for $5 million by a *.Eth instead of $20 by nobody

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@cjliu49

3 years

fractional is brand new and so cool, we’ve mostly seen mass ownership like PartyBid where assets become fungible like protocol tokens I’m excited to see what UX is built for smallDAOs, example: 100 Parallel cards fractionalized between 3 ppl so they can co-manage a deck in-game

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@cjliu49

2 years

Rage quit ~80 $XMON between $6-8k, plus a few 0xmon NFTs. Worst trade ever. Was going through some things. GL @0xmons

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@cjliu49

3 years

it only takes 15 seconds on Clubhouse to realize it is super cool. a transformative audio social network. however i can only spend a maximum of 15 seconds on it. it makes me extremely anxious. think it's made for extroverts.

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@cjliu49

3 years

@tomhschmidt @CL207 I bid 250 ETH

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@cjliu49

3 years

10/ As an investor I think the moonshot window for finding “0-to-1” opportunities in DeFi is closing (though I think it’s just opening for Social Tokens/NFTs/DAOs). A large “blue chip” allocation makes sense. It is time for the winners to grow massively, not for new winners.

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@cjliu49

4 years

i am so darn happy my career has brought me to this industry

Coastal

@CoastalDegen

4 years

$YFI PSA - In light of recent WAIFU endorsement by @AndreCronjeTech and increasing chaos around the fork we're calling on you.. To join the YFI WAIFU Army! Don't let your memes only be dreams. Participate in YFI governance and waifu community today.

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@cjliu49

4 years

hehe = i'm just kidding haha = obligatory and meaningless hahahahha = pretty funny ahahahahha = actually really funny ha = not funny at all, i'm probably nervous he he he = that was an inappropriate joke lol = a period LOL = an exclamation mark lmao = a period but we're friends

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@cjliu49

3 years

Using FTT as collateral to trade on FTX allows you to long your longs with longs. Longs^3

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@cjliu49

3 years

@rleshner @compoundfinance 🙌🏼

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@cjliu49

3 years

Dan was first to describe Superfluid Collateral, which underlies cTokens (and aTokens, and many others). He was also first to describe “symbiotic yield farming” which underlies Yearn (and Pickle, and many others). He’s on the cutting edge. It’s Nascent now but will be huge :)

Dan Elitzer

@delitzer

3 years

Announcing a new crypto investment firm, @nascentxyz , in partnership with @josh_felker and @sidrmsh . Looking forward to many years of backing and building with the best founders and teams in crypto! 🌱🚀

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@cjliu49

25 days

Monday: 0 AVSs Tuesday: +1 AVS ( @eigen_da ) Thursday: +6 AVSs ( @alt_layer , @brevis_zk , @eoracle_network , @lagrangedev , @witnesschain , @XterioGames ) Building the future together ♾

EigenLayer

@eigenlayer

25 days

Announcing: AVS mainnet launch Six new AVSs are coming live today alongside EigenDA!

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@cjliu49

9 months

Node operators / validators headed to Stanford SBC next week, we’d love to chat @eigenlayer . If interested, send me a note to connect!

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@cjliu49

3 years

Thanks @DuneAnalytics ! Denim cap is pretty swaggy :)

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@cjliu49

4 years

First newsletter since the launch of COMP: This issue highlights some key participants in Compound governance. If you are earning COMP - consider delegating your votes to whoever you think will best represent your interests.

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@cjliu49

3 years

This makes so much more sense - as a non-loot holding developer your only incentive to build for loot community is because u get cheap user acquisition. Now u have a base of 1m users to tap instead of 8k. Most ppl will be as sticky to the community for $500 as for $500k

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@dhof

3 years

i like synthetic loot better, but just for optionality more loot mint with bag 8001+ dynamic supply increases at 1/10th of ethereum's block rate ~250k per year current cap ~1,316,005 no fee, just gas

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@cjliu49

2 years

The worst advice smart people commonly give founders is to “build community by making early adopters rich” because it detracts focus from building something people would *pay for* which is called a business model

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@cjliu49

3 years

Honorary Del-chad thank you @anildelphi @Delphi_Digital ☺️

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@cjliu49

4 years

in which i share my 2cUSDC on the average centralized exchange's mindset and model, and the strategic decision they must address today: how to adapt to adopt DeFi (or risk irrelevance)? DeFi is not a "product feature", it is a paradigm shift for your industry. place your bets!

Bankless

@BanklessHQ

4 years

We've talked about the protocol sink thesis before It states that eventually, CeFi will integrate DeFi And we've seen it happen here and there But what's stopping them from going all the way? @cjliu49 tells you why He crushes this one Read:

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@cjliu49

3 years

If BTC is up or flat tomorrow, ATH by Sunday. If BTC flashes down tomorrow, ATH by the following Sunday. Let’s go! 🚀

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@cjliu49

2 years

@SHL0MS driver's seat, i'm so stoked!

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@cjliu49

7 days

Introducing the Eigen Foundation, EIGEN token and Season 1 Stakedrop

This blog post introduces the Eigen Foundation, EIGEN token, and the Season 1 “Stakedrop”. The Stakedrop is an airdrop designed for EIGEN staking.

blog.eigenfoundation.org

Eigen Foundation

@eigenfoundation

7 days

Introducing the Eigen Foundation, EIGEN token, and Season 1 Stakedrop!

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@cjliu49

2 years

@caseykcaruso My framework is always: - product building ability - traction / gtm strategy - team - social proof - financing structure - tokenomics - community building ability Fun to compare!

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@cjliu49

3 years

7/ Option 3: The dream — institutions enter DeFi on level ground with those of us here today. They acquire gov tokens to exert influence. They abstract away technical complexity to deliver DeFi to millions of users. We should be thinking about how to make this easy as possible.

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@cjliu49

3 years

I’ve always said crypto “has a chance to be the next internet”. But random thought this morning - this outcome is now inevitable. I know many others got to this conclusion first. If you’re not long for the next decade+, then what is you doing!

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@cjliu49

3 years

1) L1/L2 - new internet & globally networked OS 2) DeFi - financial infrastructure for any tokenized asset 3) NFTs - commerce infrastructure for metaverse-first digital goods 4) DAOs - organizational infrastructure for collectives of internet-first entities (human & machine)

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@cjliu49

3 years

We should not have called it decentralized “finance” and attract scrutiny. We should call it Stupid Tokens Used For Fun, or “S.T.U.F.F.”

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@cjliu49

3 years

My fear around the massive price drop, is that the clubs in Miami are going to be full of sad people

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@cjliu49

3 years

The two non-/trades that have bothered me the most emotionally: - selling 700k XRP for $3.5k in 2015 and watching it hit $3+ in January 2018 - NOT buying more punks while checking the “For Sale” page every day for the past two months Something very special bout these pixels

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@cjliu49

4 years

Pretty good and timely quote for the $few opportunists.

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@cburniske

4 years

"Optimize for a career, not a deal." - @fredwilson

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@cjliu49

1 month

Any other innovation industries that are globally connected 24/7 on Twitter and Telegram? If you like to go fast, you like to go crypto

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@cjliu49

3 years

There were already too many crypto assets, and now you’ve gone and made it possible to buy literally almost anything digital

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@cjliu49

3 years

wow, this is so cool - check out my @oncyber_io gallery :)

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@cjliu49

3 months

When working together to accomplish something difficult, different ppl need different levels of fidelity of instruction. Some ppl need the exact next step. Some people just need to be told the general direction and to “go as far as you can.” They break it down themselves into…

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@cjliu49

1 month

Your portal to the future: h/t @weswfloyd

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@cjliu49

4 years

data on @compoundfinance $COMP distribution. currently hourly cadence, after a few days i'll change to daily. should only get more colorful as data populates. if you want to see anything else lmk - or build it yourself :) h/t @DuneAnalytics @jonitzler

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@cjliu49

3 years

Brian Armstrong Fred Ehrsam and their team predicted it better

Paul Graham

@paulg

3 years

Eight years ago, Fred Wilson predicted the future.

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@cjliu49

1 year

how to tell someone works in crypto? tabs from a screenshare today: - every google workspace app open - including 35 google docs - saved articles include, of course, one from flashbots (must read; don't understand) - and one final tab: ZILLOW 😂❤️

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@cjliu49

3 years

Handsome Unicorn walks through woods; looks at you. Large Lucky Charms and Pokemons float upward; magic noodles sprout from barren ground and guide Unicorn to Ethereum oasis. Way too many constellations fill the sky above. Hayden smiles. This is the best LSD he's had in years.

Uniswap Labs 🦄

@Uniswap

3 years

🦄🦄🦄

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@cjliu49

6 months

Points-distribution-as-a-service rollup for consumer apps

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@cjliu49

3 years

As the worlds worst trader but basic pattern matching after 7.5 years of being emotionally brutalized by BTC: 2 weeks of 30-34k chop +/- 2.5k, ppl get bored, we go back up again Long term good thing to rinse overextension now and then

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@cjliu49

3 years

Yield-farmable S&P 500 Index Fund please

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@cjliu49

3 years

5/ Imagine if Carta rolled out a private Ethereum fork, tokenized every private security registered on its platform, then made algorithmic interest rate markets, AMMs, and stablecoins available to their users. It’d be an extraordinarily compelling closed ecosystem.

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@cjliu49

4 years

We're hiring for two new roles at @compoundfinance : - Business Development Associate (2+ years i-banking/consulting): - Developer Relations Lead (engineer turned community builder/leader): We're on an amazing journey--join us!

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@cjliu49

2 months

Bob loblaw’s blob log

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@cjliu49

1 year

Thrilled for @zkBri to join the EigenLabs team, focused on engaging with the staking ecosystem! Years of experience at ConsenSys/Fei, deep ETH alignment, well-regarded across crypto, smart, gritty, and thoughtful. Don't hesitate to reach out to talk @eigenlayer and restaking! 💫

Brianna (bri.eth/acc)

@zkBri

1 year

Big news! I’ve joined @EigenLayer , and I am beyond excited to be part of this incredible team! I'm eager to dive in, learn, and contribute to the work being done in the world of restaking and shared security to hyper-scale Ethereum 💜💜💜

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@cjliu49

11 months

Looking to hire someone with deep experience in validator relations, either: (1) from the protocol side, working with many validators; or (2) from the validator side, working with many protocols. If any interest, referrals, or feedback - please get in touch!

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@cjliu49

11 months

Extremely good and interesting discussion of @eigenlayer + boundaries on Ethereum social consensus

Haseeb ＞|＜

@hosseeb

1 year

Deep dive on @eigenlayer ! New episode of The Chopping Block—me, @tarunchitra , @rleshner , and @tomhschmidt jam with @sreeramkannan on: * Explaining EigenLayer in 5 levels of complexity * Restaking! * @VitalikButerin 's thoughts on "Overloading Consensus"

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@cjliu49

1 year

My 🤖 and me

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@cjliu49

3 years

2/ Next big opportunities now focused on scale. Technical scaling, cross-chain, and UX improvements are inevitable. Institutional adoption is also inevitable — question is HOW they choose to adopt (more predictable) and WHEN (unpredictable). Three main pathways forward:

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@cjliu49

5 years

Shout out to @jaysonhobby and the entire @compoundfinance team. Huge week - added WBTC, got cTokens in BitGo, new DAI interest model, new teammates, upgraded API, and a sweet rebrand... not to mention knocking on the door of $100 million of supply. Don’t blink, more to come! 📈

Compound Labs

@compoundfinance

5 years

Meet the new Compound -- creating a simple, intuitive brand for our users & community

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@cjliu49

2 years

Old bear market: work on life outside of crypto New bear market: shop for NFTs

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@cjliu49

5 years

@chamath You spend years building up trust, a Rolodex of happy customers, an efficient operation, and then you gotta start selling counterfeits man.

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@cjliu49

3 years

fwb is at the bleeding edge of dao development. fwb gmi

Friends With Benefits

@FWBtweets

3 years

Introducing — FWB Fellowships 🐇🕳 a program promoting access for exceptional creatives into our community, awarded on the basis of merit, need, and representation. read about it in depth here ⤵️

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@cjliu49

3 years

got my founder token NFT for @MeebitsDAO 🤖 if you love meebs, join the community & get in their discord!

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@cjliu49

4 years

was lucky to get a peek under the hood of this upcoming product. an efficient, effective, and unique implementation of decentralized, tokenized perpetual swap positions. @AlphaFinanceLab is doing awesome R&D and shipping product fast. keep 👀-ing for updates!

Stella💫️️ | 0% Cost Leveraged Strategies Protocol

@stellaxyz_

4 years

1) Sneak peek on the next #Alpha product, but first let us explain how it came about! 🚀 #AlphaHomora was launched to capture unaddressed demand that we’ve seen in the #DeFi market.

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@cjliu49

2 months

Coming soon tm

EigenLayer

@eigenlayer

2 months

EigenLayer Mainnet: The Journey Begins! We're excited to announce a multi-phased approach to a secure & successful EigenLayer & @eigen_da mainnet launch!

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3 years

BAYC is showing us, in real-time, the best practices for how media franchises will launch and grow for the next 50 years. I’m excited for what’s to come (have no idea) and think they will go down in business school case study history (if business schools still exist).

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3 years

3/ Option 1: They never adopt DeFi. Imo not a risk. DeFi has proven its superiority in many ways vs. legacy financial markets infrastructure. It, or something like it, WILL feature heavily in the future of finance, and WILL reach the mass market. It’s just a matter of time.

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Testing something

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@cjliu49

3 years

@gmoneyNFT 4 months backpacking, highlights were sunrise in Bagan, vipassana in Nepal, Everest base camp trek, Varanasi (the wildest city I can imagine), Holi 2x in 2 days, 12 BJJ gyms in 6 countries, befriending strangers all over Life highlight. So grateful to have experienced it once

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@cjliu49

3 years

Think NFTs could push development of software/physical infrastructure that enables humans to merge perception of Ethereum block # time with perception of IRL clock time, creating potential for all IRL events to be tracked on-chain, which would have huge, weird, permanent effects

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@cjliu49

3 years

tfw you said you were going to get ready for lunch, but hid in the bathroom to buy a chromie squiggle

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@cjliu49

4 years

brand new @compoundfinance asset pages! check out how the USDT market has 5x'd in size today (and no sign of it slowing down) with a 10% Supply APY. $COMP distro starts in T-16 hours.

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@cjliu49

5 years

@tristajaye Rough. Sharing your story will change the life of the next 23-yr old in the same situation! 👏🏼

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@cjliu49

3 years

Would love to read research/analysis on the history of new file formats and how ecosystems developed around them. What competed w/MP3’s? How important is hardware? How does FOSS play? Then directly analogize learnings for NFTs today. Possible to crowdfund such work @viamirror ?

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@cjliu49

1 year

A ton of fun and a total privilege to be on Empire with Sreeram, Yano, and Santi. This pic is from 2013… my tradfi / sadfi days. But also the year I learned about Bitcoin!