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Last week on a podcast, I mentioned that smart people are focused on ZK, MEV, onchain games, and overlooked some of the next biggest nerdsnipe - restaking.
I've thought about restaking for a while & compiled "42 Restaking Rabbit Holes", and how crypto will be forever changed👇🧵
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EigenLayer is about to hit $1B in TVL in just ~24h of the cap raise:
Bookmark alert: In this super-packed post, I'll ELI5 how EigenLayer actually works (it's very simple!) and why it has 100x growth potential ⚡⚡⚡ and is here to stay for a long, long
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I organized 5 hacker houses and attended 12+ crypto conferences on 3 continents in 2022.
This year, I made a calendar of the best quality & hidden crypto hackathons & events.
Engage with this Tweet and I'll DM you my Google Calendar - will update them throughout the year 🛠️
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Personal update:
I'm thrilled to announce that I've joined EigenLayer as the Ecosystem Lead.
Today, I celebrate my first 100 days here, and there's ONLY ONE WORD to describe the experience... Ikigai.
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Eigen Labs just raised $100m from a16z, and the protocol is approaching $8B in TVL.
The EigenLayer ecosystem is a hidden behemoth, far beyond simple restaking. Unfold👇
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#hottake
I've been to 7 crypto hackathons this year. Everywhere I go I see lots of great engineering talent, but 80% of the builders don't know what to build, resulting in low impact/redundant projects.
Here's a collection of crypto startup ideas/essential problems to be solved:
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Gm. I am hiring someone to work with me and EigenLayer legends to build the AVS ecosystem, junior or senior alike! DM if interested :)
Required:
- Hustler. I work long hours plus the weekends
- Super accountable. Don’t let things slide
- Hungry. Make things work and solve
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I am generally pretty impartial about ecosystems but I just got out of a call with a developer and just learned that Starknet has some of the best UX for devs now.
"Cairo 0 was very hard, like Haskell, and very low level. But the recent update to Cairo 1 is much easier, it's
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from mcdonalds to a small startup - new year, new me :)
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Debunking EigenLayer risk concerns one by one. Scary words are being misused and misdefined - let's bust some myths 👇
Overleveraging risks: EigenLayer is not like overleveraging. It doesn't use stake for risky financial activities such that small price movements could lead to
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So after living and visiting the Bay Area and Seattle, the conclusion is that while rent in NYC is more expensive, you cut down the cost of owning a car.
NYC is the most livable city for young people without a family and a car.
This is objectively unbeatable.
NYC, I am back.
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So yeah… I ran our EthCC house without being in EthCC physically…
4 houses, 10 days, 40 hackers, 28 partners, 14 events, 14 hacker house moms/dads/helpers
Our largest and most decentralized operation ever…
This is what happened:
💻 Meet the 13-year-old VC's Hacker House
We spent a day at
@wehack247
, by
@13yearoldvc
. This is the inner workings of the Rust house where complex engineering problems are tackled. But, there's more than meets the eye with this lot.
👇
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It’s 2 pm in NYC right now, no filter.
Welcome to Beijing
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me solving all my life problems by saying the word “intersubjective”
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2023 personal recap - this was my 2nd year in crypto & it's going strong!
Went to:
• USA: Seattle, Bay Area, San Diego, Austin, Dallas, NYC
• The World: Peru, Montenegro, Turkey, China, Singapore
• Events: EthDenver, Zuzalu, Cornell IC3, EthCC, Stanford SBC, Zu/Devconnect
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A brief explanation of the 4 methods for a ZKP development flow (notes on
@BruestleJeremy
from
@RiscZero
's presentation today)
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Excited to be the only underage participant on the panel and learn from the big brains 🫡
💥The Restaking Dilemma💥
In this episode,
@TimBeiko
takes over as host to lead a conversation into the Restaking frontier!
Panelists:
-
@drakefjustin
-
@VitalikButerin
-
@dankrad
-
@13yearoldvc
-
@sreeramkannan
The most gigabrain panel we’ve ever had!
Watch!👇
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I woke up to this
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What is RISC Zero and why it's a GAME CHANGER for creating ZK apps?
Here's an easy-to-understand breakdown of how CPUs, Instruction Set Architecture, Opcodes & more come together with
@RiscZero
🧵👇
Thanks
@0xJepsen
&
@BrianRetford
for perfecting the explanation!
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Excited to work alongside the legend and do something BIG 🥳🫡
I'm excited to be joining
@eigen_labs
@eigenlayer
today!
I'll be working with
@13yearoldvc
@gajeshnaik
@html_tina
@sreeramkannan
@cjliu49
@nima_vaziri
@soubhik_deb
@zkBri
and many other amazing folks I'm still getting to know.
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Oh hi :)
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Who’s the best Devrel in crypto besides Vitalik/the obvious?
0.1 eth will be given to the best answers
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This is it, this is what we're doing at EthCC - our biggest, most decentralized operation ever ;)
Drum roll...
Introducing our July 14 - 24
@EthCC
hacker house events: trustless apps, ZK, Rust, DeFi, identity, staking, restaking
Get nerdsniped by the best founders & builders in town - aka Jessy's cracked friends ☀️
Engage to get our Google Calendar with all the events!
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Devcon summoning circle in progress...
🕯
🕯 🕯
🕯 🕯
🕯 hax0rs 🕯
🕯 🕯
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The feeling of waking up every day realizing that I am with an INSANELY innovative team will be in my memories, forever.
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If someone can tell me about a project that's more interesting than EigenLayer, I will send them 0.1 eth
Interesting =
1) something that's taking off now or in 2023 (eg a lot of zk projects are further away)
2) and something that's fundamentally opening up a new design space
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2023 crypto events & hackathon spreadsheets I've collected - engage with the Tweet and I'll send you my picks for the highest quality ones 👇🧵
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Please contact if you know any information. Brandon is one of the best and genuine people in our space 🥺🙏
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I grew up on these streets
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how to find a house big enough to host 15 ppl in Williamsburg, NY? I only see some options in Manhattan...
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Fun fun times!
Yay, it's Ethereum Day at ZuConnect 🎉
@VitalikButerin
and
@drakefjustin
, both researchers from
@ethereum
joined the panel co-moderated by
@13yearoldvc
and
@tyneslol
on Ethereum alignment and some spicy Qs from public about retina scanning and AI 🥳
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Doing a hacker house with
@daonatnet
at
#AvaxSummit
.
@DCbuild3r
@defigirlxoxo
@m1guelpf
@ruedart
@vivianphung
@0xholman
@AviSchiffmann
are gonna be here.
Who’s coming? Come visit us!
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Who wants a job in VC? I am looking for someone to replace my role as the 14 yo VC.
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"Instead of bingeing 3 hours of Netflix, if you read a book, you'd be much more productive"
False. Time is NON-FUNGIBLE. Playing & distracting yourself is GOOD. Assigning problems to yourself is NOT GOOD.
These weird tricks 10x-ed my productivity, thx to Aaron Schwartz👇
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WE ARE BACK.
WE ARE BACK.
WE ARE BACK.
WE ARE BACK.
WE ARE BACK.
WE ARE BACK.
We're hosting ~20 hackers for our
@EthCC
@ETHGlobal
Paris Hacker House!
🎯 7/14 - 7/24, 2023
👾 Theme: Trustless Apps
1st round app, engage & apply ASAP to secure a spot:
Crypto today is filled with trusted components: ideas to build trustless apps 🧵⤵️
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Finally I figured out a legit ELI5 to explain what EigenLayer is in 30s
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DM me if you're working on cool open-source projects.
Excited to support more open-source hackers!
📢 Big news! We're excited to officially announce the partnership with
@austingriffith
and
@buidlguidl
to provide a monthly Universal Basic Income to builders contributing to open source and powering the Ethereum ecosystem! 💪
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Just cast my vote for Optimism RetroPGF3 🔴🔴🔴
Felt great to support more public goods infra and high-potential developers 🫡
Good job OP on launching such an awesome initiative!
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@kellykim_xyz
@eigenlayer
Eigen lets you build any PoS system, networks and infra projects at 10x speed, 10x more security, much lower cost, and much better distribution.
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Gm. Eigen design & sound studio in progress
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I've worked closely with
@buidlguidl
&
@austingriffith
and have witnessed some of the most supportive people in the space who have built such an impeccable community of genuine builders. Really excited to see more of what's to come in the Ethereum dev community in 2024!
🏰 BuidlGuidl is punk af 🧑🎤 👨🎤 👩🎤
🌎 we stream ETH to open source devs all over the world
⚙️ we do this fully onchain using custom smart contracts
🔥 in '23 we funded more than 150 builders!!!!
🧑🏫 and we aren’t just funding, we are also educating…
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thx for 1 more night of fun at the
@smrti_lab
hacker house
#ETHDenver
!
@relyt29
@tzhen
@omarish
@lucas_tweeting
@norswap
@joshuabaekk
@0xjepsen
@itszore
@0xstormborn
@0xbilly
@odyslam_
@afk0b
@KingsongChen
@JohnShunFan
@daonatnet
@DCbuild3r
@AviSchiffmann
@kendrick_tn
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Back for some more fun 🫡
Back for some more fun 🫡
Back for some more fun 🫡
Announcing our BiGgEsT hacker house yet: The Programmable Trust House
@EFDevConnect
!
🎯 11/9 - 11/19, 2023
🧑💻 42 hackers
Engage & apply:
Crypto scales trust & trust can be programmed in a few interesting ways, this is a thought experiment 🧵⤵️
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Open innovation premium:
Human civilization flourishes with 2 types of win-win games:
1) Coordination: individuals cooperating toward a common mission
2) Innovation: creating something net-new
Eigen Lab's mission is to build humanity’s coordination engine for open innovation.
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Such a good crew, miss you guys already!
Eth Denver was great this year! We had a lot of amazing residents with
@wehack247
this year. I’m so glad to call you all my friends. So bullish on the future we are all building ❤️
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Saw Clique started from zero, and now they are here. Witnessed many good things that happened in between. A company with a crazy ability to continue to deliver and ship ship ship ✌️
Unveiling Clique’s Compute Coordination Network 🌰
Clique is excited to announce a $8m raise led by
@Polychain
, joined by
@RobotVentures
,
@Balaji
,
@sandeepnailwal
, and others.
Clique is building a heterogeneous compute coordination network. More details below 🔽
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Great overview of the current wallet space by
@lmrankhan
&
@QwQiao
and what they discussed was largely aligned with what we saw during
@EFDevcon
A thread 🧵👇...
E08: The Crypto Wallet War is coming 💣
We discuss:
- Why The Wallet War matters
- Metamask, Brave, Backback strategy
- Opensea, Magic Eden, Uniswap wallets
- The future of crypto wallets
+ more!
🔊:
📺:
🧠🧠:
@lmrankhan
,
@QwQiao
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Restaking premium:
EigenLayer is a platform to help launch decentralized networks and PoS systems at 10x speed, ease, security and distribution.
Its multisided marketplace helps bootstrap these networks via Ethereum stakers & operators, through restaking.
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if u love me engage with this tweet and tell your coolest friends about this hacker house I'm hosting in ETH Amsterdam 😎
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Zero-sum games: one winner, one loser. No new opportunities.
Positive-sum games: multiple winners, new opportunities.
Infinite sum games: endless winners, limitless opportunities. ♾
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Lowkey ran the best
#ETHDenver
afterparty with
@tzhen
&
@smrti_lab
hacker house residents, 3/5 of the world's top MEV searchers came (&many other crazy good ppl), countless ppl said it 10x their ETHDenver experience, several VCs want to write us checks to run more hacker houses🥰
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The start of a staking/restaking summer - and yes we’re hosting more people at ETHCC who are into related topics + building things around restaking :)
Introducing Stake House & Ethereum Staker's panel at
@ethcc
!
Stake House Residency on 7/20-22
Apply
7/20 Panel w/
@ObolNetwork
@alluvialfinance
@blockswap_team
@eigenlayer
@ionprotocol
@Figment_io
@berachain
@EtherFi
Panel Signup
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metamask coinbase binance hack recover hack build startup crypto vulnerability phantom moonpay terra rainbow bitcoin ethereum wallet solana rari trader joe axie lost password hacked hacker house eth maxi rugged gm crosschain bottom top bull bear uponly anon defi AMM seed round VC
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Who's an expert in restaking besides Sreeram/EigenLayer people?
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What fucked up your memory?
For me it’s:
1. Sleeping at 3am and waking up at 11am even though I get 8 hours of sleep. When I sleep/wake up matter a lot more than duration
2. Long Covid & brain fog
3. Outsourcing my memory function to note taking tools
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"Build infrastructure in the bear market and apps in the bull"
Is infra driving the apps, or are apps driving the infra?
Uncovering a myth to understand why building APPs in a bear market is key
A 🧵 on - thanks for
@delitzer
's recommendation
👇
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Big thanks to
@0xkydo
,
@NashQueue
,
@0xkrane
,
@mikeneuder
,
@VelvetMilkman
,
@soubhik_deb
,
@delitzer
,
@ChundaMcCain
and
@drakefjustin
for contributing to some of the convo
Some easy nuggets to start with👇
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99% of the crypto industry is either circlejerking or intellectual circlejerking. The most successful business model is either running a casino or launching tokens and dumping on retail. What other crypto native biz models are out there?
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It's been a great pleasure to be supported by
@nascentxyz
,
@__geometry__
, and
@paradigm
along the way!
I got to learn about DeFi & security from Nascent, Zk and FHE from Geometry, and optimizing for developer experience from Paradigm 👀
Curious about the latest cutting-edge research in crypto? Some might even make it to our
@EthCC
house 👀
We interviewed the brilliant minds behind
@Nascentxyz
,
@__geometry__
&
@Paradigm
– some of our dedicated advocates along the way.
Dive into their current research & focus👇
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@kaylakroot
Hey Kayla - just saw your chat with Sam & Phil of $AR ecosystem with
@SnapFingersDAO
- couldn't DM you but just want to let you know that it was very inspiring and gave me a different perspective on NFTs!
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is a game-changer for reading whitepapers and research papers!!
So many more papers to scan through...
@initc3org
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Zoomer*: someone in crypto who is really passionate, talented, building and likes to travel to crypto conferences
Who are the coolest zoomers* you know? Tag them below 👇
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comment and I’ll tell you what vibe your Twitter gives off
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More ideas and thoughts in this longer, work-in-progress doc (feel free to comment and I'll add to it):
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Most of crypto is just publically funded masturbatory research. They won't be implemented as promised, adopted, and almost certainly not going to be profitable on their own (not actually 2C2B). To pay back the investors is to launch a token & exit via retail, aka 2VC2Retail.
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@kaylakroot
"Why we call them atomic NFTs is bc they are the building blocks of every app and every single piece of data is an atomic NFT on the decentralized web. Everything is NFT whether you realize it or not."
$AR's value prop: storing these atomic NFTs forever without worries.
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excited about more v4 hook innovations! imo probably one of the few new innovations in crypto that will ramp up real use cases
Clique is excited to be building on v4 Hooks! 🐬
Through our attestations'
@uniswapFND
hook developers will now be able to leverage the power of off-chain data user data as well!
A 🧵 on hooks, and why we're choosing to build on them!
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Thesis 2/ Restaking needs alignment for risk control but also market efficiency
What Flashbots did to MEV is what EigenLayer does to restaking. The notion of MEV & rehypothecation exist, Flashbots & EigenLayer just opened up Pandora’s Box, and more transparency = more efficiency
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Thesis 3/ Decentralization's value grows with restaking
Currently, decentralization is not a top priority (networks often start and stay centralized).
Restaking promotes decentralization by stakers siding/prioritizing you functionally & optically, winning the mindshare game.
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@pashovkrum
I’ve been to 10+ crypto conferences the last year… arrived at the same conclusion every time (unless the conference is super small already like Cornell IC3 Summer Camp)
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@kethcode
@m1guelpf
@DCbuild3r
Not just for zoomers actually 👀
Zoom is more of a lifestyle you see…
Coming soon ™️
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There are 3 things I look for in people and projects:
1. Technical innovation
2. Impact and the bigger picture applicability
3. Productization/monetization/scalability
Many projects only hit one or two of the metrics, what are the projects/people that hit all three?
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And thx
@defigirlxoxo
@bykarenchan
@shannonlitweets
@anodime_eth
@daonatnet
@0xjepsen
@joshbaek
for telling me that you love me 😋
@ruedart
touched my heart (and everyone else's) - she made the best POAP ever
feel like I finally have frens on twitter now after
#ETHDenver
😂
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moving to manhattan, any recommended office space for a team of 4?
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This is too true and what I’ve seen as well.
What’s the best consumer apps team out there in crypto?
Ponzi and non-ponzis are welcomed.
there’s a reason everyone in crypto is building infrastructure and barely anyone is building actual apps.
it’s simple to raise millions selling the dream of building the base layer to onboard the the next hundred million users.
it’s much harder to build apps that anyone
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okay, here is the deal. you become a fellow, we give you all the ideas, okay? pick the one you like, don't like any? no problem. we will go with yours. okay, now you have your idea. let's build it out. we invite you to our slask, not telegram. we go direct to slack. you have a
📣 Announcing the EigenLayer Research Fellowship (ERF)
The EigenLayer Research Team currently has bandwidth to work with 5 fellows deeply on a topic that they care about and interests us 🤝
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Thesis 1/ Restaking is inevitable
Restaking has real yield (more usage for the same cost of capital) for users that comes from the real utility (services that need decentralized credible commitments) and real value capture in between.
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Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later by Vitalik
Shared by Amit
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One cool thing I am contributing towards is our research posts with our AVS research and engineering team: stay tuned as we have 10+ more research pieces coming out!
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Network States is super fascinating. And I just came to the realization that onchain games are probably the closest we'll have for that soon. You can run it like a state: build and piece together logic, form tribes & competition, and simulate real economies w/ asset ownership.
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There has been an explosion of tools, frameworks, and libraries for zkApps, which leads to a lack of standardization and interoperability of common circuits.
That's where OpenZL becomes useful, an open standard for zkApps
Notes on
@brandonhgomes
's talk
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Where should
@smrti_lab
@Bowenddex
@0xbeardear
and I host the next hacker house?
I am thinking about
1)
@avalancheavax
at Barcelona in March
2)
@EFDevconnect
&
#ETHAmsterdam
in April
3)
@SpaghettEth
in May
or all of them since VCs are paying for it ;)
LFG smrti pants!
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@smrti_lab
@EthereumDenver
thx everyone who helped me organized the pizza party!
@kvny2046
@ruedart
@m1guelpf
@DCbuild3r
@bryanhpchiang
@Victor928
@AviSchiffmann
@jan_ruettinger
@libevm
@LuciaKorpas
@saltyfishhhhh
@nicopei_eth
@totothree
@jh_damm
@Bowenddex
@0xbeardear
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Thesis 5/ Distribution of middleware tokens will go into Ethereum validators to "bribe" them to participate in their network, further increasing yield for network participants.
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Thesis 11/ Restaking is an oracle problem
How does slashable event detection work for non-binary or off-Ethereum slashing events?
@barnabemonnot
proposed In-protocol Eigenlayer and PEPC for enforcement guarantees w/ reduced principal-agent problem
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here's more alpha leak of 2 solid teams:
@initiaFND
zk rollup as a service
@Calderaxyz
optimistic rollup as a service
1/27 🧵 The chain/rollup-as-a-service field is furiously heating up right now.
I count no less than 9 dedicated companies that want to compete in the space (not even counting L2s and L1s that may want a part of the action). Here's a whirlwind tour!
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