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🧠 We’re hiring founding engineers at
@ethglobal
to bring our developer community onchain in 2024
We're looking for Fullstack Engineers to work directly with myself to ship products for 100,000+ developers building onchain apps & infra
See the role here:
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Ah, the 7th day of 2019. Today, I:
+ woke up at 6am
+ mediated for 15m
+ exercised for 30m
+ read a book
+ got to inbox zero
+ started lying about everything
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It's official! Driverless cars will definitely arrive before driverless printers.
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Today
@ETHGlobal
turns 4 🎂
We've helped onboard over 30k people who have collectively:
📺 Watched 100k hrs of talks/workshops
🧰 Created 3500 projects
💰 Won $3M in prizes
🤑 Raised $200M+ as companies
👩💻 Gotten hired in the hundreds
Thank you for being part of our community!
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Pi day is just a fake corporate day created by math companies to sell more math
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Sia basically just launched a decentralized Firebase!
Great to see web3 becoming as seamless as web2 development
A new era is upon us. We are proud to announce the launch of SkyDB - the final building block by Skynet that enables next-generation applications to compete with the siloed centralized web.
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This is my favorite moment from this weekend's NFT Hackathon by
@ETHGlobal
182 NFT projects came out of it!
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Excited to be announcing Packs!
A new primitive by ETHGlobal that enables great onchain and offchain experiences
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Factually the best crypto investor out there - super excited to see what you build!
After 6 years of running Scalar, I have bittersweet news that I'll be transitioning out of being a full-time investor and going back to building.
Starting Scalar with
@jcliff42
has been one of the highlights of my career and I know how fortunate I’ve been in the process. I was
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Wow Sia network is nearing 5GB/min of uploads 🔥🔥🔥
Storage on Sia reached a new all time high this week of 797 TB 👏 Can't wait for that 1 PB mark 🙌
In March, Sia has averaged 5 TB per day of growth 🥳
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Super excited to be interviewing
@Jack
tonight in Waterloo!
We'll be covering history of Square, taking risks, life advice, and a little bit of crypto🔥
Catch
@Jack
tonight as our keynote speaker for
#HackTheNorth
2019! 🎉
Jack is CEO and Chairman of
@Square
, CEO of
@Twitter
, and co-founder of both. He will be joining us during opening ceremonies for a fireside chat remotely.
Check out the livestream at !
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Humbled to be reminded again that I need a new professional headshot but glad to be part of
#ForbesUnder30
!
Congrats to my amazing colleague
@svangel
@TheRealKartik
on
@Forbes
30 Under 30. Well-deserved!!! I hope you enjoy your celebratory donuts :).
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Inspired by this tweet we asked
@chamath
and
@vkhosla
to chat with 3k students at
@HackTheNorth
and they said yes! Some amazing anecdotes from their early careers - thanks for sharing those stories with the students
I had a long call with
@vkhosla
yesterday. We talked about investing, tech companies and technology in general.
He is simply the best venture capitalist of our generation.
The breadth of his intellect, curiosity and success is mindboggling...someone should be documenting it.
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I'm extremely proud to share that
@liamihorne
,
@madebyklau
, and I are announcing a scholarship for Waterloo students in the name of the late Dean Pearl Sullivan to reward those who like to build.
She changed our lives and we hope to pay it forward
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To counter Zoom fatigue I've been using a lowpass filter & equalizer on incoming audio for last 2mo. Removing high freq and softening all voice has made a real difference in calls feeling less digitized
Mac already has APIs builtin & you can use apps like
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Excited to be interviewing
@VitalikButerin
and
@ethereumJoseph
tomorrow on what 2020 means for ethereum!
#ETHLondon
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Looking forward to interviewing
@VitalikButerin
and
@balajis
at
#ETHSanFrancisco
tonight!
Watch it live on
About to open
@ETHSanFrancisco
with a fireside with
@VitalikButerin
and
@balajis
! Tweet
#ethsanfrancisco
with questions and we’ll ask them on stage and on the livestream at 8 PM PST!
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🤯 ETHGlobal Community has produced 1 OP {Stack, Mainnet} project every 8 hours since the last RetroPGF round!
@optimismFND
badgeholders! We made it easier for you to learn about ETHGlobal's impact:
Since RPGF2, we've added:
🧠 1700 Developers
🗺️ 79 Countries
🔴 640 Projects
🎙️ 25 Workshops/Talks
🔵 Largest OP Stack Event
on avg, 3 projects/day have been created by our community.
👇
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This is going to be transformational for web3!
The Internet is about to change forever. We are pleased to announce Skynet, a decentralized CDN and file sharing platform to serve as the foundation for a Free Internet.
Try now at . One day, you’ll say you were among the first!
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Reasons for having an office in a remote first world (short thread):
1) Access to printer
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So much of what I've achieved is because of Pearl. You never forget the people who take a chance on you and treat you as an equal.
I still remember our last chat where we both knew it'd be our final one and all she cared about was my happiness.
She will be deeply missed.
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Excited to announce our investment in
@BisonTrails
- an incredible team assembled by
@joelallouz
and
@aaronhenshaw
moving the staking ecosystem forward!
JUST IN: Bison Trails, a Libra Association member, raises $25.5 million Series A to expand its blockchain infrastructure offerings
@BisonTrails
,
@Libra_
,
@blockchaincap
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Every 6 weeks in 2022, 45 projects were built and deployed to Optimism via ETHGlobal!
Excited that ETHGlobal was nominated for Retroactive public goods round and hope we see some love this week
🔴✨ We're thrilled that ETHGlobal has been nominated for the education category by
@kelvinfichter
in
@optimismFND
's Retroactive Public Goods Funding Round
#2
.
We're honored to be a part of this experiment and excited to share our recent impact on the Optimism ecosystem.
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Excited to be partnering with
@DavidVorick
,
@ZachHerbert
, and the Sia team to bring decentralized storage to masses. Seed-based file recovery feature in v1.4.1 is going to blow your mind!
We are thrilled to announce a $3.25M funding round led by
@BainCapVC
with participation from a powerhouse group of investors! Read more on our official press release and stay tuned!
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I used to read 50-100 books a year on average. Last year I read 7. Can't say it made any noticeable difference in my life. Just ended up substituting that time towards learning other things and fostering relationships
I don’t understand this trend of book shaming for what people read or if they don’t read much. Some people like to read just for fun and it’s not about learning. Some people prefer to learn in different ways e.g. blog posts, videos, traveling, experience, etc. All of it is okay.
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I absolutely love that
@1inchExchange
website still has this message. Congrats to
@deacix
,
@k06a
, and the rest of the team on today's milestone!
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Looking to add an exceptional Event Planner on the ETHGlobal team
If you know anyone interested in planning events across 6 continents, please share!
ETHGlobal's events team is growing!
We're looking for a talented event planner to help run events for thousands at a global scale! 🌎
Sound interesting?
Apply today! 👇
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Couldn't be more bullish on the future of Ethereum. Liam is the best of the best!
I'm incredibly excited to share today that I'm becoming CEO of
@oplabspbc
to scale both Ethereum's technology and its values.
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The energy, drive, passion and curiosity to experiment is what makes this community great. Hats off to
@ethindiaco
for an amazing event!
#ETHGlobal
#BUIDL
And finally! HUGE THANKS to all! This would never have happened without the hard work of the organizers, hackers and sponsors. Not only did we
#buidl
projects but we continued to grow our community. Until next year
@ethindiaco
!
#ethereum
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My setup:
✉️ Superhuman
📆 Fantastical
✏️ Bear
✅ Todoist
🔎 Alfred
👥 Notion
👨🏾💻 VSCode
💬 Telegram
👨🏫 Mathematica
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Just saved 4 seconds on my trip by immediately standing up after the plane landed
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I interviewed
@VitalikButerin
in December about applications of blockchains and how smart contract platforms can be leveraged to solve problems. We talk about his role at EF, Devcon4, project ideas, scaling research, and zkSNARKs! Check out the talk here:
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Super excited to be backing
@haydenzadams
and the Uniswap team!
Excited to announce our Series A!!!
We are thrilled to welcome
@a16z
crypto,
@usv
,
@VersionOneVC
,
@variantfund
,
@paraficapital
,
@svangel
, and ACapital as investors, and to welcome back our seed investors
@paradigm
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Excited to be judging at the
@NEARProtocol
Rainbow Hackathon and can't wait to see all the creative ETH <> Near bridge applications that'll come out of it!
Signup as a hacker here:
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Sending articles to Pocket is basically the equivalent of /dev/null for me
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So glad to be officially working alongside
@harshrajat
and
@Riijo
1/⭐Excited to announce EPNS has raised its Series A! 🔔
We raised $10.1M USD at a valuation of $131M!
Next up for EPNS: Continue building the communication protocol for the entire Web3 stack.
Dive in & celebrate with us👇
Let's $PUSH for
#web3comm
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We realized this earlier in the year
@ETHGlobal
and have been aggressively making changes towards porting/mirroring all educational and web3 content on multiple platforms - decentralized and centralized.
Showcasing technical progress should not be censored!
“YouTube suspended my account for posting a DeFi hackathon video”
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What a great perspective on the crypto opportunity in India!
My bit on how VC investments will shape up in the Indian crypto ecosystem!
Co-authored with
@desh_saurabh
!
Simple takeaway:
"Let's invest in India" quoting CZ
@cz_binance
The🐉 had its time and now the 🐘is set to awaken! 🇮🇳
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Did a guest lecture today
@UWaterloo
encouraging physics undergraduate students to go into tech - hope it works!
Great discussion with
@TheRealKartik
today! Loved learning about all the things you learn in a physics degree!
@uwaterlooalumni
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Super excited to be attending
@dezentral_io
and judging at
@ETHBerlin
. This is going to be an incredible weekend! ✈️ 🇩🇪
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Was going through my
@RobinhoodApp
2020 recap and noticed I was user 105! Totally forgot that I spent 2 days gaming their original waitlist system to go from rank 350k to 3
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Looking forward to working with
@willwarren
and
@abandeali1
!
0x Labs has raised $70M in a Series B round led by
@GreylockVC
to continue expanding Web3’s core exchange infrastructure 🎉
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Crop Insurance as the Yield Farmers put it is going to be essential.
Convexity Protocol by
@alexisgauba
@aparnalocked
@snarkyzk
is an extremely powerful framework to help protect and hedge your assets as DeFi grows.
Glad our investment in
@opyn_
is finally public!
We're super excited to have raised a seed round to build a safer DeFi 🙂
- Hedge your ETH risk and protect your Compound deposits at
- Start building at
- Join the conversation at
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Wrote a simple 40 line bot over the weekend to send Telegram messages to Todoist so I get to take actions on messages and also a hack to keep individual messages unread. Just forward messages to the bot and it shows up on my todo list!
Source:
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Just insured some of my DAI from
@compoundfinance
deposits using
@opyn_
🔥
Super quick and neat workflow in getting the tokens insured and excited for to see a world where DeFi protocols come wrapped with insurance!
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Programmable private smart contracts on top of ethereum that work with mainnet protocols via zk rollups!!
Today, we're very excited to release Aztec 2.0, our Layer 2 zkRollup network 🚀 Aztec is building the infrastructure for scalable and programmable private payments on Ethereum, running off the DeFi capital system💸
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It's been an incredibly exciting year for
@ETHGlobal
and the developer community here - can't wait to talk about what's coming in 2019!
thank you for an incredible year of
#BUIDLing
on ethereum 🙏
we can't wait for even more in 2019! 🎉
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Super excited about AZTEC launching on mainnet. Can't wait to start using zkDAI and sending private payments!
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It's always been about hackathons.
Until now.
Introducing: Pragma
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Having brought over 1000 developers into the Ethereum ecosystem so far, the complete season of
@ETHGlobal
events is out! Excited to see hundreds of new projects and bring thousands more into this community!
#BUIDL
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Super excited to have
@spencernoon
taking over
@ETHGlobal
twitter! 🕛
Absolutely pumped to be doing a takeover of ETHGlobal twitter! 🦄
Follow me -->
@ETHGlobal
I'll be covering your favorite
#Ethereum
topics:
- Hackathons
- Dev trends
- EG all-star alums
- EG community spotlight & more
Plus commentary from yours truly marked by the clock 🕛.
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Super excited to announce the next wave of EF Grant recepients! Lots of ambitious projects and talented teams working on fundamental problems that'll move this ecosystem forward 🎉
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Oh yeah, it's happening 🚀
👋 Hey
@ethereum
!
🎉 Get your calendars ready for the first 5
@ETHGlobal
events of 2020:
🇬🇧 ETHLondon (March)
@ethlondon
🗽 ETHNYC (May)
@ethnewyork
🇰🇷 ETHSeoul (June)
@ethseoul
🇮🇳 ETHIndia (Aug)
@ethindiaco
🌐 ETHOnline (Q1)
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Just got these amazing socks from
@hackclub
for being a long term donator! Thanks
@zachlatta
and team!
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On behalf of the rest of the a_capital team, we're super excited to be partnering with
@replit
!
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Last year ETHGlobal ran 7 in-person hackathons, 7 conferences, 6 coworking spaces, 3 meetups, and 6 async hackathons, with ~14,000 hackers from 128 countries
We also had 3000 people attend Pragma which is a conference series that kicks off the hackathon weekend
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Today, I'm proud to announce that Optimism's co-founder,
@Karl_dot_tech
, is stepping into the role of CEO at
@OPLabsPBC
! I will continue to work closely with Karl in an advisory role at OP Labs, focusing on vision, strategy, and execution.
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I think they just tokenized Banksy - each shredded strip can now be valued
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Excited to be backing
@1HowardWu
and Aleo for really pushing the envelope on building private decentralized applications!
Today, the Aleo team is proud to announce our $28M raise from industry-leading investors to build the first platform for fully private and decentralized applications. We’re thrilled to work with our lead Series A investor
@a16z
and other first-class supporters.
Thread 👇(1/6)
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I'm finally glad to announce
@uwaterloo
hackathon for this fall -
http://t.co/ylzBU0Q49i
@mhacks
@pennapps
@lahacks
@hackmit
@mlhacks
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Help shape how thousands of developers transform the new web. Join us at
@ETHGlobal
and lead the marketing efforts for this ecosystem!
(proficiency in memes and emojis preferred but not required)
🎉 Hey Ethereum - we're hiring a Marketing, Comms, and Content Lead!
🦄 Help us on-board thousands of developers by communicating
@ETHGlobal
's mission, growing our audience, and creating content that serves the community.
👉
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Can't wait for the upcoming launch of Element —
structured products on ethereum are about to get a massive boost!
Excited to be an investor and glad to be working with
@wjvill
,
@jonnyrhea
, and team
1/ Introducing Element
Element brings liquidity to fixed rate income, allowing anyone to buy BTC, USDC, and ETH at a discount. The transaction costs are low and there are no hidden fees or locked terms. We like to say “not locked yield, fixed yield”.
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We're super excited to announce ETHBerlin as part of the
@ETHGlobal
series of hackathons!
IT'S ALIVE! sponsors, speakers and volunteers can apply now. We will launch the hacker form in the upcoming days :)
#ETHBerlin
#BUIDL
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Excited to be backing
@NEARProtocol
- one of the most talented team and impressive projects in this space! Can't wait for others to use their scalable decentralized computing platform
1/
@NearProtocol
announced its $12.1M fundraise today led by Metastable and
@Accomplices
with participation from
@ElectricCapital
@PanteraCapital
@multicoincap
@scalarcapital
@svangel
@coinbase
@ideo
Thanks
@DanielGKuhn
and
@coindesk
for covering.
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There’s a lot more coming!
A super cool platform created by
@ETHGlobal
that manages your re-submissions to multiple hackathons at a time:
@EthereumDenver
,
@EthParis
, and
@ETHCapeTown
!!!
Guess that there are too many similarities between the applications of an applicant so this platform come to tackle it!
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Proud to be investing in
@aztecprotocol
as a_capital. Tom (
@trpocock
), Zac (
@Zac_Aztec
), and team have managed to stretch the limitations of what's possible on the EVM, and can't wait to see what developers do with universal SNARKS!
Announcing our latest round of investment from A_Capital, Coinbase, and other leading institutional investors. These funds will be used to build out our developer tooling for AZTEC and add universal SNARKs to our offering. 🚀
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Excited to announce what I've been working on with
@liamihorne
and
@ethanwilding
and looking forward to seeing amazing things come out of
@EthereumDenver
this weekend!
We’re proud to announce the launch of ETHGlobal - the world’s largest ethereum hackathon organization
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We're super excited to be leading the investment in Rome Tools and even more excited for rome to become the de facto toolchain for your project!
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Just open-sourced and updated my boilerplate for
@vercel
projects!
◆ next.js 9.4
◆ mobx-react
◆ sass compiled
◆ tailwind.css enabled
◆ babel/decorators support
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Decided to opensource a tool I built for myself to manage being & scheduling meetings in different timezones
+ Instantly find local time in various cities
+ Get airports/currency
+ All computed offline
If you use
@alfredapp
check out the extension here:
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Being able to communicate with all L1 contracts on L2 without modifications + privacy guarantees is the next wave of DeFi.
Excited for everyone to try out Aztec Connect!
We're thrilled to announce that Aztec Network has raised a $17 million Series A led by
@paradigm
to bring programmable privacy to Web3.
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Excited for
@opyn_
to take on the $300T options market with the new fundraise — congrats on adding an amazing set of partners!
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Huge congratulations to
@alexisgauba
,
@aparnalocked
, and
@snarkyzk
on getting v2 to mainnet + seeing $100M+ in volume on the protocol!
This changes what's possible with defi
🍄 It's the moment we've all been waiting for... Opyn V2 is live on mainnet!
Head over to to try it out
Check out Opyn v2 new features, security & audit details, and more in the latest blog post:
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Here are the 12 incredible projects from the latest
@ethglobal
hackathon
Great mix of defi, scaling, and community tools!
Announcing the 12 Finalists for the ETHOnline hackathon!
→ See Demos tomorrow 12 PM ET:
🌧️ Liquid L2
📂 Batua
🏦 Flashbank
🛑 Stoploss
🕵️ Syndicate
🤝 Unite
☮️ Mindful
⚔️ Protekt Protocol
🐊 Croco Finance
🛰️ Space-dX
🕳️ Erdstall
💸 DePay
↓ Thread ↓
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Our engineering team builds the software that powers all this, including:
☁️ The API that manages attendee data
🛠️ The internal tool the team uses to execute on the events
💻 The user-facing dashboard used by hackers, judges, partners, speakers & other attendees at our events
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Okay this one backfired - there's actually an Apple Store under this
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Excited to announce our investment in
@TradeOnBlade
!
@jeffbyun
and team are working on a new derivatives exchange and can't wait for others to try out the platform.
Blade raises $4.3M from Coinbase, SV Angel to reshape cryptocurrency derivatives trading by
@lucasmtny
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It's my Twitter Anniversary and I can't believe I've been a user for 11 years! I've learned so much from everyone here and met so many amazing people and excited for many more years of this
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+ More developer activity onchain
+ More Perks for being a developer
ETHGlobal is headed onchain.
Today we're excited to announce Community Packs 📦 with the goal to give more value to everyone in our ecosystem.
These Packs combined:
1️⃣ Make it easier to Grow onchain
2️⃣ Make it easier to Stay onchain
3️⃣ Make it easier Build onchain
👇 Read on
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