Niraj @niraj Twitter profile

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Niraj

6 months

Today, @akileshpotti and I are excited to reveal Ritual ( @ritualnet ) to the world.

Ritual is building a sovereign, execution layer for AI. Our first phase, Infernet, is the first product of its kind to enable developers to access models both on-chain via smart contracts and...

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Niraj

@niraj

4 years

Found this old (egregious) email I sent to Evan Spiegel a few years back 😂 Always shoot your shot!

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3 years

2017: ICOs 2018: Layer 1s 2019: Bitcoin 2020: DeFi 2021: ???

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6 months

So are we @ritualnet

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6 months

Thinking a lot about centralization and decentralization these few days.

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6 years

Continue to keep recommending @a16z 's Crypto Canon as the best place to start/grow your crypto knowledge. Awesome resource.

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@niraj

5 years

Dream hire: a data "bounty hunter". They'd be tasked with acquiring any obscure, hard-to-attain data I'm interested in (i.e. how many HFs in the world own bitcoin?)

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2 months

real

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@niraj

4 years

Excited to announce the launch of , a new forum for Compound governance! As Compound continues to scales up, it's imperative that the community gets involved in long-form discussions around the future of the protocol.

Compound Community Forum

Forum for Compound protocol governance discussions

www.comp.xyz

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3 months

We’ve decentralized money, compute, finance, property rights, art, gaming… why not AI?

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@niraj

6 years

TIL Apple has a hedge fund subsidiary called Braeburn Capital in Reno: . Manages $270bn 😮

Braeburn Capital - Wikipedia

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4 months

जैसा दृष्टि, वैसी सृष्टि

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4 years

Hedge funds should hire frugal moms as portfolio managers

Ramp Capital

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4 years

Galaxy brain

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5 years

Coming soon.

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@niraj

5 years

Would love a “Goodreads” for academic papers - comment/annotate, discuss, track, share, upvote. Often find the discussions behind new publications fascinating, but they usually only happen in private chats.

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@niraj

1 month

There's more to crypto than life.

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@niraj

3 years

read this so you’re not behind in 2021

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@niraj

7 years

. @stripe has one of the strongest design teams I've ever seen. Almost every developer product I see today takes inspiration from their work

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@niraj

4 years

Now two crazy DeFi exploits in the past 24 hours, both ERC-777 related. This trend will continue to accelerate (just like it did with centralized exchanges) – any team shipping code *must* invest heavily in economic and security audits.

Spencer Noon 🕛

@spencernoon

4 years

BREAKING: lending protocol @dForcenet exploited, AUM drops from $25M to $19K in a matter of hours Should we really be surprised? Although not directly related, the company is widely thought to have copied @compoundfinance ’s code h/t @defipulse @TheBlock__ @defiprime

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6 years

Would be really interesting to see “hash rate derivatives” - a derivative that tracks the hash rate of a crypto network. Could be useful for miners wanting to hedge adverse return risk in networks they’re mining.

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@niraj

4 years

I just have no idea how we trusted anyone before Bitcoin

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@niraj

2 years

Who’s building the modern-era LVMH? What new luxury brands of today will still be around in 20 years?

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@niraj

2 months

proud to have @ilblackdragon as an advisor to @ritualnet since day 1 been massively helpful across technical design, strategy, and much more constantly pushing forward crypto, AI, and the intersection 🫡

Illia (root.near) (🇺🇦, ⋈)

@ilblackdragon

2 months

I was honored to speak at the @nvidia GTC event today with Jensen Huang and all the "Attention Is All You Need" coauthors! I got to share some of we've built at @NEARProtocol . Session videos are available in case you missed it:

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2 years

Broadway St in SoHo is becoming the new Sand Hill for crypto VCs.

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@niraj

4 years

20 crypto unicorns and counting...

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@niraj

5 years

@alexcornell Also more consistency with timer

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@niraj

5 years

Futures market for Maker CDPs stability fee on @veil : . This is where DeFi gets sick 🤟

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@niraj

8 years

Just made my first “angel investment” on Republic (). Very interesting concept- think kickstarter, but you’re funding

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@niraj

4 years

Request for Product: Crypto newsletter aggregator that dedpulicates the same articles and only presents unique info.

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@niraj

4 months

Prediction: We’re going to see a major financial institution launch an Ethereum L2 this cycle.

intern ⨀

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4 months

it sounds like Larry Fink got racked with his absolute boys last week, had an epiphany about crypto and is now fully entering the crypto rabbit hole

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5 months

If Narrative Follows Price, Ideology Follows Power.

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@niraj

4 years

might fuck around and cop me a dna sequencer

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@niraj

5 years

Would be interesting to see a “doomsday fund” that invested in hedges across a number of verticals: water, gold/other precious metals, gun corps, oil, uranium, bitcoin.

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@niraj

3 years

Huge. One of the first-ever DAO mergers and many more to come...

NuCypher ✜

@NuCypher

3 years

#CodenameKEaNU is a go, Proposal RC0 has been approved by both communities, and @NuCypher + @keep_project will unite via a network upgrade. Check here for details and next steps:

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Niraj

@niraj

11 months

. @TheStalwart : “…blockchains are important infrastructure in a world of AI. Blockchains will allow people to prove what’s theirs. Blockchains will allow people to prove they’re themselves. Blockchains will allow AI models to run in a transparent manner. The pivot is coming.”

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@niraj

8 years

@elonmusk

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@niraj

7 years

Wrote up some of my thoughts on ARKit and why I think it’s exciting > "ARKit and the mainstream adoption of AR"

ARKit and the mainstream adoption of AR

ARKit has been getting a ton of attention recently, and rightly so. Several demos showcasing the technology from @madewithARKit have been going viral on twitter. I believe it's the most exciting...

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@niraj

4 years

Uber has unbundled the taxi, and is now rebundling it. Drivers have independently been adding cab TVs, snack machines, and overhead ads to generate more income. Good that Uber is taking the reins to avoid more ad value leakage (and grow margins).

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Uber will start putting ads on top of some of its vehicles

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@niraj

4 years

@nikillinit @NeerajKA My neighbors growing up couldn’t pronounce my name so they ended up calling me Roger for 10 years

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Niraj

@niraj

8 years

New post from last night on the commoditization of machine learning: . Thanks for the proof @Ritwik_G

The Commoditization of Machine Learning

I recently saw a tweet from Ilya Sukhar that particularly resonated with me: Google needs to make "Parse for AI" to wedge themselves deeply into apps even when on other's platforms/cloud. — Ilya...

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@niraj

7 years

Replacing “I don’t have time for X” with “I don’t want to make time for X” is such a powerful statement - really puts things in perspective!

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@niraj

4 years

Throwback to simpler times:

Y Combinator Closes New $8.25 Million Fund, Sequoia Is Lead Investor | TechCrunch

Startup incubator Y Combinator has just closed $8.25 million new fund led by Sequoia Capital with Ron Conway, Paul Buchheit, Aydin Senkut, XG Ventures, and Geoff Ralston participating. The new fund...

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@niraj

5 years

The biggest blocker to Ethereum's success will not be scalability or usability - those will be figured out eventually - it's finding usecases that warrant its existence

Alex Skidanov (alex.near)

@AlexSkidanov

5 years

What is the biggest blocker of Ethereum mainstream adoption?

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@niraj

4 years

DAOs as tokenized businesses (reduced OpEx & trust making them superior to fully-centralized cos): - MakerDAO: Tokenized “central bank” - Compound: Tokenized lending desk - Binance: Tokenized exchange - Uniswap: Tokenized market maker What else?

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6 years

The number of new/compelling Layer-1 chains being created is approaching zero. Market feels oversaturated at this point and most interesting innovation areas have already been explored (at least for this "generation" of technology)

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@niraj

8 years

@elonmusk I like this guy

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7 years

@elonmusk look at his bio change 😂

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@niraj

2 years

Congrats to @_bfarmer @dlubarov and the @mirprotocol team on the acquisition. It’s been nothing short of a pleasure to work with this team since the earliest days and I’m excited to see them continue their work at Polygon!

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Polygon acquires ZK-rollups startup Mir Protocol for $400 million (via @Yogita_Khatri5 )

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5 years

Cool chart showing the evolution of global fund managers "most crowded trade". Not a surprise that many HFs are moving more into treasuries.

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Niraj

@niraj

7 years

@collision just hire @patrickc !!!

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@niraj

8 years

Loving @patrickc ’s LinkedIn Profile :D

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3 years

DAOs collectively owning non-financial web3 property: - hosted git and DAO management via @radicle - crypto-native domains via @ensdomains @hns - hosted front-ends via @ipfs @filecoin @arweaveteam - social media via @bitclout_ What else?

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@niraj

4 years

yeezy yeezy yeezy just jumped over jumpman

Kim Bhasin

@KimBhasin

4 years

🚨 Kanye West's Yeezy business is worth as much as *$3 billion*, according to a valuation by Bank of America that we reviewed and verified. He is the sole owner of Yeezy. Story with @alexanders101 :

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6 years

New blog post: Hostile Chain Takeovers I explore different blockchain attack vectors, and how they can be used for good and evil 🤓

Hostile Chain Takeovers

(source: Roger Ver w/ modification)This blog post was inspired by a recent long conversation with Jay, Nicola, and Jesse about value in blockchains. In a previous post, Dillon and I explored the...

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@niraj

4 months

Verkle trees are like Ozempic for blockchains. Excellent at reducing bloat.

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Ethereum is the only chain with a long-term plan to solve state bloat Verkle trees allow for witness data to be small enough to be attached to every block. Meaning validators and nodes can become stateless, and all state can be stored (much more efficiently) off-chain

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7 years

Beautiful.

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@niraj

7 years

@astrokatey @bec

Sam Levin

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7 years

Men who are the most upset about diversity initiatives are often the least qualified for their jobs, research shows

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@niraj

6 years

Underrated path for getting into crypto: academia. If you like cryptography/distributed systems/PL design, there’s a lot of relevant research topics in the space.

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@niraj

6 years

Going to start threading some cryptocurrency/blockchain requests for startups - no use just sitting in my notes forever!

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@niraj

4 years

Excited to be partnering with @coindcx . It’s been awesome working with @smtgpt @nrjkhandelwal and the rest of the team this past year. Looking forward to what’s next! 🚀

The Block

@TheBlock__

4 years

JUST IN: BitMEX operator, Polychain lead $3 million Series A for Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX (via @Yogita_Khatri5 )

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Niraj

@niraj

8 years

Would appreciate a read :D - I just published “2015, the year I fell in love with reading (again)”

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@niraj

8 years

Awesome stuff from @bhorowitz + @a16z team: "A16Z’s Low-Key Diversity Outreach" (via @theinformation ): ...

A16Z’s Low-Key Diversity Outreach

In 2011, Soldsie co-founder Chris Bennett got an email from venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz inviting him to a talk on leadership. When Mr. Bennett showed up, he was surprised that a large...

www.theinformation.com

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4 years

Anyone working on @CurveFinance for BTC-on-ETH coins (tBTC, imBTC, wBTC, etc)?

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@niraj

7 years

@quil_j @AnthonyCabling @Trashvis and drake's like a distant third on that list lol

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@niraj

6 years

+1. Keep finding myself typing a question on Google and appending "reddit" to the end of it. I much prefer seeing a discussion about WHY someone made a choice, rather than just the choice itself.

John Backus

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6 years

Reddit is a great tool for bootstrapping new intellectual interests. • Google to find subreddits. Usually there are several. • Raid subreddit sidebars and wikis for links, discussions, FAQ • Take blogs you like and search by domain. Ex:

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@niraj

5 years

SNARKs are digital signatures for computation

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3 months

bet more.

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@niraj

6 years

I just published “Ethereum SAT”, a quiz to test your Ethereum knowledge! Take it here: .

Ethereum SAT

Test your knowledge of Ethereum and its underlying technology! About four years ago, Olaf Carlson-Wee of Coinbase released a reddit post looking for more support staff to join the company. He...

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8 months

Interesting report on global crypto wealth stats from @HenleyPartners : Crypto-natives are a rapidly growing force in the global economy.

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@niraj

3 months

. @sreeramkannan to #ClosedInnovation

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@niraj

5 years

Would love to see an Investopedia for cryptography/computer science/math - a user contributed dictionary where the best explanations are voted to the top.

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@niraj

8 years

Love looking at consumer products and seeing how they've changed over time :o (via )

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@niraj

1 month

my ai gf is being mean to me :((

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@niraj

1 year

@pythianism can split accrued fees btwn given chain (which brings demand) and ETH restakers (which brings trust). It forces us to reimagine econ value for l1/l2/etc coins outside of just security/monetary premium/speculative demand

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@niraj

6 years

if you can't reason about an opposition's point, you don't understand their side well enough

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@niraj

7 years

Co-authored a piece w/ @wileycwj on product ecosystems and how large companies use them to dominate markets

Notes on synergy, network effects, and ecosystems

A first-principle formalism of a high-level technology strategy that enabled Google, Amazon, Netflix, and Uber to dominate markets…

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@niraj

3 years

Insane watching this @PolymarketHQ Basquiat market move in real time

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@niraj

8 years

@IanKarmel @themrsqueenbee seriously. How are you going to insult one of America's top 100 ians??

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@niraj

2 years

“you’ve set mathematics back a month” what a legend

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@niraj

4 years

Why don’t traditional brokerages make it easier for you to lend shares of stock? Are they lending themselves and pocketing the spread? Perhaps something a synthetic AAPL erc20 token can offer users before traditional finance...

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5 years

my brain is my hardware wallet

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@niraj

4 years

I've never seen so many people rave about a crypto product this early in its lifecycle. Excited for @PolymarketHQ 🚀

mrboson 🔭

@mrdotboson

4 years

I really like @PolymarketHQ . Smooth AF ux thanks to @magic_labs . Denominated in USDC. I didn't even need ETH for gas. Took me no time. So impressed. We have arrived.

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6 years

Super excited to be backing @CodaProtocol - a talented team working on critical infrastructure for the space.

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@niraj

5 years

the bear market has made it cool to be cynical again

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@niraj

5 years

@banisgh Getaway in Brooklyn is an alcohol-free bar

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@niraj

4 years

Excited to be partnering with Polymarket. They're tackling a huge market no one's cracked yet, and have been executing very well. Information markets might be one of the first DeFi markets that regular people use. And it's live -- Go place a trade on !

Shayne Coplan

@shayne_coplan

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I'm proud to announce @PolymarketHQ 's new $4m fundraise led by @polychaincap + @naval @balajis @1confirmation @rleshner @paraficapital & more They'll be joining us on our mission to harness the power of free markets to combat misinformation. (continued)

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@niraj

4 months

Crypto weaves through periods of pragmatism and idealism, usually coinciding with changing market cycles. After years of narrative austerity, get ready for narrative panacea.

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@niraj

5 years

FinTech firms are expanding their product offerings to the same basic service (interest-bearing savings accounts). AUM is the name of the game here.

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@niraj

2 years

Crypto VCs want to be DJs, and DJs want to be Crypto VCs

Bleacher Report

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6 years

these hash function randomness distributions make for beautiful artwork

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8 years

I just published “Analyzing The Podcast Renaissance”

Analyzing The Podcast Renaissance

With the birth of podcasts in 2005, the popularity for the search term increased exponentially. Many things were happening at this time — Apple added support for podcasts on the iPod/iTunes, and many…

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Lots of awesome decentralized projects w/o ICOs often get overlooked - Althea is a great example. Decentralization of ISPs to make internet more of a public utility:

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8 years

Wrote a piece on the rise of student VC programs and the value prop to student & firm!

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5 years

Secure staking and validation for Cosmos from Polychain Labs: . Congrats to @rwitoff @defunctzombie @BenPerszyk for getting it over the finish line.

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@niraj

6 years

Really good piece on the early days of D. E. Shaw (via @dillchen ) How a Misfit Group of Computer Geeks Transformed Wall Street

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@niraj

4 months

We up too hot in the business.

Saneel Sreeni

@sanlsrni

4 months

. @BitMEX perp 100x, five minutes, whoa

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@niraj

2 years

if you weren’t already massively bullish on @eigenlayer 🚀

calvin

@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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The market value of *all* investable assets sits at $164.5T USD as of Oct 2023, per @StateStreet . Crypto currently sits at ~$2T, 1.2% of all assets in the world. What ratio will crypto constitute 5 years from now?

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@niraj

4 years

. @willwarren89 2 years ago:

Will Warren 🍵

@willwarren

6 years

@MustStopMurad @blairlmarshall @0xProject Governance is the only thing that matters in decentralized networks. If it isn't obvious to you now, it will be in 3-5 years :)

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Cool 2014 paper from @josephbonneau @socrates1024 , replacing Bitcoin's use of ECDSA with hash-based signatures. Leads to stronger quantum resistance properties and easier to reason about security (no asym key crypto)

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Loving @patrickc ’s LinkedIn Profile :D

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