we’ve been benchmarking our swap routing against the top 3 aggregators on @base along the following dimensions: - stability (response vs error rates) - accuracy (delta btwn quote and execution) - latency (time to quote) - competitiveness (output tokens relative to input tokens

Jeff Bezos is worth $238 billion, even though Amazon has a $2.6 trillion market cap. In other words, he’s created $2.4 trillion of value for other shareholders—plus trillions more for employees, customers, suppliers, governments, and other stakeholders. Jensen Huang is worth

🎯 liquidity is the ultimate adjudicator

Actually, obligatory: Two economists are walking in a forest when they come across a pile of shit. The first economist says to the other “I’ll pay you $100 to eat that pile of shit.” The second economist takes the $100 and eats the pile of shit. They continue walking until

“No Kings!,” they shouted as they begged their government to take total control of their healthcare, retirement, finances & their children’s education.

started hunting this year. many similarities to startups: high consequence decision-making based on limited (often stale) information and intuition high cognitive and physical effort being wrong more often than right is psychologically demanding. despite repeat failure and

The fact you have financial infrastructure managing billions that runs as literal code in a decentralized way across machines owned by strangers who don't trust each other is one of the great tech miracles of our time. There are cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see.

if a founder shares a chart of their dex protocol thats up-and-to-the-right, this is whats happening under the hood whether they know it or not (they do)

blew a tire in the backcountry. no cell service, ~25 miles from town, minimal food and water nw tho bc i had a spare was on a 3-5 degree forward angle and wet ground, which made getting the vehicle jacked up difficult. got the old tire off, but before i could get the new one on

the most important equity offer you’ll ever get has an 18 year vest with a 9mo cliff

bro think about it, women are the original VCs - believe in you pre-revenue - come in for the seed - encourage you to raise your burn and increase headcount

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why are you, as a Man, asking me to "Hop" on a "Call" instead of simply meeting me in the Town Square?

this is fine

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very few people have ever eaten the glass of going from nothing to something. idea → design → build → launch. that full arc. with or without ai, it’s brutal. it breaks your back & your brain. it’s one of the most honest pains there is.

"the state of crypto market making" report by @TeamLOTECH is fantastic: clear writing, beautifully designed, and information dense. highly recommended

Got upgraded on my flight to NYC this morning and everyone in 1st class had their phones out, coining their content. I looked back into the rest of the plane - everyone was posting on legacy social media. Was just a very interesting observation.