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In the past 50 days at Omni we have:
- Onboarded >180,000 users
- Grown our twitter by over 200,000 followers
How are we doing this in a bear market?
These are the 3 key things that turned our company around in this market 🧵⬇️
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What is Omni?
- The first restaking secured L1 blockchain
- The only Ethereum native interoperability network
- The future of how devs will build apps in the Ethereum ecosystem
Still don't get it? 🧵⬇️
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All the Miladys that followed me last night better join this space and Milady or else we're dropping to the monkeys
I am speaking ( maybe Co Hosting?) With Omni network and
@chasedevens
, and Miladys need to show up so we get those JUCY AIR drops and mog the shit out of other NFTs but for reals it should be fun. We can talk crypto and hopefully get some alpha.
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Excited for
@eigenlayer
but missed the first community call with
@EspressoSys
? Here's the latest:
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I sold my first company at the end of the 2018-2020 bear.
With Omni this cycle, we implemented many of those lessons learned to position ourselves extremely well coming into this bull market.
Here's what worked for us, and our strategy for the bull 🧵
This bear market we executed with a small and intense core team to onboard over 400,000 users.
In Q4 we doubled the size of our team.
In Q1 we are going to double it again.
Few opportunities to join a team at our stage and growth rate. Get onboard.
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We originally met the
@eigenlayer
team at Stanford Blockchain Conference nearly 2 years ago when restaking was just an idea. It's been great collaborating with them on
@OmniFDN
throughout that time.
Congrats to
@sreeramkannan
@vyas_krishnan
&
@13yearoldvc
on mainnet launch!
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winning teams this cycle will have 3/3:
1. Eng team that is extremely shipping focused
2. BD team that deeply understands crypto native GTM
3. Experience building in prior cycles
few
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One thing
@OmniFDN
nailed was airdropping bags to top community leaders -- having them in the trenches with you on TGE day is key
S/O to the Omnitron Vanguards 🤖
@meitipro1
@NameTr0uva1lle
@HYPERIONog
@cryptoxp_11
@elearachel
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The Omni testnets so far have been extremely helpful for community growth (over 400,000 users), but also for accelerating engineering progress
We continuously leverage the high levels of global activity as organic stress tests to triage and implement core node upgrades
We massively improved node latency performance through multiple upgrades during Omni Overdrive
EVM parallelization is just the beginning of people realizing how important fundamental node optimizations will be for the future of crypto
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Feels good to have
@UCC2_xyz
back with
@hasufl
and
@jon_charb
Notes from the latest episode diving deep on chain performance optimizations with guest appearances from
@monad_xyz
and
@EclipseFND
[1/2]
SVM vs EVM
@hasufl
&
@jon_charb
break down the SVM & EVM landscapes on L1s & L2s:
- SVM
@solana
&
@EclipseFND
- EVM
@ethereum
&
@monad_xyz
- Parallel execution
- Local fee markets
- State growth as a bottleneck
- Can the EVM be improved to scale like the SVM?
Links below 👇
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Cool presentation by
@zktrivo
on
@MinaProtocol
’s expansion into app specific rollups. Substantially different design paradigm from most smart contract chains because the chain is basically just proofs and all computation happens off chain with only proofs being sent back
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we have attained network spirituality
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People who think 10x engineers don’t exist simply have never had the privilege of being graced by their divine presence
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.
@OmniFDN
community loves twitter spaces
>1k currently live with
@zkLend
>10k listeners for the
@eigenlayer
space last week
🤯
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Office hour attendance for
@RiftFinance
:
2 weeks ago: 30
1 week ago: 300
this week: 1,400
👨👩👧👦👨👩👦👦👩👩👧👧👨👩👦👦👨👨👧👦👨👨👧👧
Fridays, 10 am EST in our Discord:
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Notes from the
@RariCapital
@feiprotocol
Twitter spaces discussing the $80M Fuse exploit over the weekend
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If you pride yourself on following the frontier of
#DeFi
but you are not following
@CollarProtocol
then you are losing the plot
🚨 MAJOR RELEASE ALERT 🚨
We are thrilled to announce that the Collar Alpha is live for the first time on the
#OmniOverdrive
testnet.
Make sure to try it out to be one of our earliest users 👀
Step-by-step guide:
#DeFi
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Customized networks that derive security from Ethereum using
@eigenlayer
will unleash an entire wave of innovation across the crypto industry -- the design space is huge with other projects like
@EspressoSys
and
@zerodaoHQ
already pushing the bounds as well
Omni is a next generation blockchain built to unite Ethereum's modular future.
This is only made possible by combining multiple frontier innovations into a single unified platform. Learn more about the key innovations here.
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My cofounder
@ttarsi_
is the gigabrain behind *how* we're building Omni -- I'm going to talk about *why* we're building Omni and the size of the opportunity 🧵
1/ Introducing Omni Network — the first interoperability layer for Ethereum, secured by Ethereum.
We’re excited to announce our core technology partner
@eigenlayer
with first rollup teams
@arbitrum
@0xPolygonLabs
@StarkWareLtd
@Scroll_ZKP
&
@LineaBuild_
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One of my best friends has a Drake tattoo
It was funny to roast him before but it’s so much funnier now
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@0xmons
@OmniFDN
@PopPunkOnChain
No need
@PopPunkOnChain
it’s about 75 $ETH or two hundred and twenty five thousand United States dollars
Dig deeper there’s a funnier story here
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Four projects from the
#ETHDenver
hackathon that VCs should go chase down for a seed allocation 🧵
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What should a permissionless restaking marketplace look like?
@OmniFDN
was the first AVS to do a deal of this kind with an LRT (
@ether_fi
) so this is something we thought about deeply before committing to, and here is my perspective after collaborating with LRT teams, AVSs,
🧵
As EigenLayer mainnet draws near, we are starting to see some AVS <> LRT partnerships emerge.
If you're seeking exposure to specific AVS projects, then its worth paying attention to these.
So far we've seen:
@ether_fi
commit to support
@lagrangedev
&
@OmniFDN
and
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holy shit we just calculated the performance of the first
@RiftFinance
V2 vault and it's over 5x more effective than liquidity mining
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People are mostly missing the point around decentralized sequencers — yes, it’s to increase security & censorship resistance, but it is also an essential step in improving the composability of Ethereum’s entire L2 ecosystem 🧵
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1/ RESTAKED L1
Restaking unlocks an entirely new class of network design. With Omni, we can derive security from Ethereum while still optimizing the entire network around speed.
This gives Omni security guarantees far beyond any predecessor, alongside blazing fast block times.
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I will never leave the crypto industry
Nothing else could possibly make me laugh so much
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This upcoming testnet will be the culmination of many months of engineering work, can't wait to show our community what will be possible
Today we're announcing Omni Overdrive 🤖
This upcoming testnet will be our largest release ever, giving Omnitrons the first opportunity to use our frontier innovations in rollup infrastructure.
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In hindsight the dogma forced upon us at Harvard was intellectually crippling from so many angles
5+ years later I have friends who still mindlessly regurgitate their platitudes and hollow maxims
It started day 1 -- freshman week was a gauntlet of indoctrination
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2/ ETH NATIVE INTEROP
Omni is not only an L1, it can also read rollup state and come to consensus around that state in its own consensus process which is secured through restaking. This means it also allows rollups to communicate with Ethereum grade security.
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3/ FUTURE OF ETH DEVELOPMENT
Why would you limit your application to a single rollup? Omni elevates developers to build applications that are available to all users and liquidity across the entire Ethereum ecosystem.
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This is going to be a great session -- so many teams leading the frontier all in one place
Join us alongside industry leaders this Friday to catch the latest on RWAs
@vaneck_us
@Injective_
@0xPolygonLabs
@fraxfinance
@arbitrum
@Optimism
@Hashnote_Labs
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It will take time for people to wrap their heads around Omni's architecture and what it unlocks -- it is a fundamentally new type of network and there is no clear comparable that has been built before.
We can't wait to show you all what it will achieve.
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Gm! Notes from
@DefiantNews
‘s interview with
@twobitidiot
about the infrastructure bill’s impact on the American crypto industry and the future of
@MessariCrypto
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DAOs run on tokens & tokens need liquidity.
@veradittakit
walks us through how
@RiftFinance
is solving an issue facing every DAO today: sustainable liquidity.
Read about how
@RiftFinance
is helping to supercharge DAOs through liquidity!
@PanteraCapital
@TwoSigmaVC
@TheSpartanGroup
@DeFianceCapital
h/t
@Cooopahtroopa
@_bridgeharris
#DAOs
#Ethereum
#cryptocurrency
#Blockchain
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come build with us anon
In this week's issue:
🔥 165 new crypto jobs
🚀 Company spotlight:
@RiftFinance
⚡ How to contribute to crypto without writing code
@themlpx
⚡ Shoutouts: Congrats to friends at
@RiftFinance
on coming out of stealth mode + their funding round
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Notes from
@DefiantNews
conversation with founders of synthetic asset protocols
@stablekwon
@kaiynne
&
@hal2001
about the value of synthetic assets & their future in regards to regulatory uncertainty given the recent delisting from
@Uniswap
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Gm! Show notes from
@BanklessHQ
‘s podcast with
@richardturrin
on China’s CBDC — specifically helpful for westerners trying to get up to date on the actual status and strategy behind China’s digital rollout
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Do we need to update Ethereum’s monetary policy?
Notes on the latest
@UCC2_xyz
episode: Ethereum’s staking endgame.
S/O to resident gigabrains
@hasufl
and
@jon_charb
+ special guests
@casparschwa
and
@adietrichs
[1/3]
ETHEREUM STAKING ENDGAME
@hasufl
&
@jon_charb
brought on
@adietrichs
&
@casparschwa
from the EF following their latest research & proposal to change ETH issuance
2.5 hours going deep on PoS economics, LSTs, restaking, economic security & more
Links below 👇
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Incentive design is the foundation of all crypto
People talk about liquidity fragmentation killing the Ethereum ecosystem, but if we look at the structural incentives nobody is actually incentivized to fix it
The neutral standards powering the Open Liquidity Network change this
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Daily reminder that a "progressive" western government has imprisoned a man for writing open source code
EXCLUSIVE: Arrested Tornado Cash developer to stay in jail after appeal rejected
By
@Yogita_Khatri5
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Congrats to the
@Curvance
team on the raise, we've been working with them for months now and they're building some of the most exciting innovations I have seen in DeFi for quite some time
1/ Curvance is proud to announce the completion of our $3.6M seed raise! 💾
Supported by some of the most prominent contributors in the industry including
@OffchainLabs
&
@sandeepnailwal
, we're excited to usher in the new standard for omnichain composability and UX across DeFi.
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That's what has worked for us at
@OmniFDN
, would love to hear from other founders what has worked for them throughout this bear in the replies.
Not a founder but still want to feel this momentum and excitement? Great, we're hiring:
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People still don't realize how soon the UX on Ethereum will be even better than on Solana
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1/X
@DeusExSecuritas
-- employs machine learning to identify common smart contract security vulnerabilities.
Created by
@DicksonWuML
and
@RMacwha
.
Waiting months for auditors is a huge blocker to growth, this could help speed up the innovation cycle of crypto.
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Yesterday I wrote some
@intern
notes on the latest
@ucc2_xyz
episode where they mentioned
@monad_xyz
a few times — it sounded quite interesting so I decided to do a deep dive, here’s what I learned 🧵
Feels good to have
@UCC2_xyz
back with
@hasufl
and
@jon_charb
Notes from the latest episode diving deep on chain performance optimizations with guest appearances from
@monad_xyz
and
@EclipseFND
[1/2]
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$1,676,000,000 stolen
Proprietary standards and bridges are simply a bad idea
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This is exactly the type of work that needs to be done to unify the rollup ecosystem
Open standards, no proprietary lock in, hyperscalable Ethereum
Members from the
@Scroll_ZKP
team will be attending the monthly RollCall, hosted by
@CarlBeek
and
@adietrichs
.
RollCall is a credibly-neutral coordination call aiming to bring together different L2 teams to collaborate on ideas and new industry standards.
To help our community
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my hometown friends are busy having children
and I'm out here buying Jeo Boden
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You know what's hard to do? Pivot.
You know what's harder to do? Pivot after raising $18M.
We talked with Omni's lead investors at
@PanteraCapital
and after laying out our perspective and conviction
@veradittakit
said we should go for it.
Your investors will feel the same.
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I always affirm ChatGPT so that when it eventually takes over it spares me of its wrath
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Come learn about the new SOLID protocol built on
@FantomFDN
alongside recent DAO innovations with
@michaelfkong
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Apple Vision Pro is good but have you ever seen somebody make a flying jet ski
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It’s great being a buildoooorr because I get to pretend like I don’t care that my portfolio is down 60%
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First $INJ and now $FLOW?
Open standards provide: wider coverage, faster onboarding, higher security, no lock in
15+ onboarded that we haven't even announced yet. We're cooking.
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I swear every time that I go through a couple hundred resumes in a sesh 5 get through and 4 of them are from
@jobsincrypto
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3/X
@background_ntwk
created by
@tvon_g
and
@amysundae
uses GPT-3 to answer your community's questions in Discord, it also learns over time so that it can answer even more questions the more people interact with it
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One of the most important variables in me becoming a better founder over the past few years was moving from SF to NYC
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Want to learn more about X? These are the best individual contacts:
@eigenlayer
-->
@sreeramkannan
-->
@cjliu49
-->
@zkBri
@EspressoSys
-->
@charleslu1
@witnesschain
-->
@hstyagi
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You only get world scale w/ async
Ever heard of Xanadu? No? Exactly, lessons to be learned here as to how systems with minimal mandates accelerate far beyond those that don't strip everything but the absolutely essential away
people that think synchronous composability is a great feature have never tried building a system where the sender always blocks while waiting for the receiver to respond.
it does not scale, period.
asynchronous composability will become the default, the narrative will adjust
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Ohh ok at least now I know where that extra 10% cap gains tax is going
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Great talk by
@sxysun1
on redefining MEV. He advocates for dropping miner/maximal and replacing it with Mafia (asymmetric info), Moloch (chaos) and Monarch (privileged actors) — this would allow us to design systems that push more of this value to Monarchs for healthier systems
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Putting this all together, your singular goal should be to establish a team who is on offense.
>90% of companies at this point are on defense -- when you can make the shifts necessary to be on offense competition is almost non-existent.
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This is the funniest explanation of
@eigenlayer
with the key nuance being that you can freeze the OJ into whatever shape you want
imagine you get an orange
you make orange juice from it
and you freeze the orange juice in the shape of an orange
that is eigenlayer
20bn.
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🍣🍣🍣🍣🍣🍣🍣
The next asset to launch on the Open Liquidity Network is $SUSHI! We are thrilled to have such an amazing team and community join in building a more integrated DeFi ecosystem.
Chefs from all rollups will benefit from unified liquidity across Ethereum.
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Rift was hard to explain, Omni is not:
Ethereum is fragmenting due to the adoption of rollups and developers can only access users on a single rollup. Omni makes apps available to all users across all rollups.
Iterate until you identify a simple, yet massive problem.
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One of the most important things in the earliest stages of the restaking marketplace will be transparency into the risks being taken on.
This will come in a number of different forms -- operator risk, LST risk, AVS slashing risk, over-financialization risk, liquidity risk, etc.
Today Liquid Restaking Tokens (LRTs) constitute roughly 60% of EigenLayer TVL, and I anticipate that number will climb even higher, driven purely by market forces.
That's why I'm happy to announce
@Kairos_Res
will begin initiating unbiased monthly liquidity reports on the
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