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head of product/strategy @skipprotocol , co-founder @timewavelabs , squad @otherinternet__ , library @cyberneticslib , nft @foliafoliafolia — selective angel
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The squad is *so* back. In our latest
@otherinternet__
essay
@tobyshorin
@lottiland
and I challenge the possibilities and limits of crypto as an institutional technology. We ask what a protocol can do, and finally answer "what is a DAO?" (sort of)
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My personal criticisms of crypto:
- record of individual behavior permits authoritarian surveillance apparatus
- rich get richer via info/access asymmetry & immutable generational wealth
- everything becomes a money game rather than enriching public life
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The gender gap in Cosmos is really disheartening and needs to be addressed.
If you’re a woman, trans, or non-binary person at any stage of your career and want to find work in crypto, DM me and I’ll connect you to a team that’s hiring, or a woman in leadership where possible.
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Excited to share I've joined
@SkipProtocol
as Head of Product & Strategy. The Skip team is world-class and in our discussions over the last months we become increasingly excited about how MEV solutions could make the Cosmos application experience 100x better.
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you’re trying to fade an eco that was right about:
- proof of stake
- BFT
- app chains
- trustless interop
- liquid staking
- restaking
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been working on this paper for months and now finally seeing it come together it's actually fire
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Though prop 82 failed, ATOM 2.0 fundamentally changed the Cosmos Hub narrative & I’m proud of that. If nothing else, I hope this kernel of 2.0 is carried forward: that the purpose of the Hub is to help other sovereign chains thrive.
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the metaverse is a millennial delusion that presupposes we want identity to be fixed across contexts
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I've really enjoyed helping the EigenLayer team navigate all things Cosmos. Here's a short piece we co-wrote on how to connect the pieces and bring Cosmos + Ethereum closer together.
s/o to the realest
@0xkydo
@MylesOneil
@mark0baricevic
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Was asked today what I think the biggest impediments to Cosmos’ success were. My answer:
- Liquidity - liquid staking + USDC will help but we need to grow net new markets
- DevRel - Cosmos SDK has ok docs, CosmWasm is sparse, onboarding new devs is painful, knowledge is isolated
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Secret’s out, we’re building an in-protocol oracle. There’s nothing like this on the market today. Only an app-chain can marry the consensus process with proper oracle behavior and guarantee block-by-block updates.
The oracle Skip is building for app chains (Slinky) doesn’t have this vulnerability.
It guarantees the delivery of FRESH prices in EVERY block using ABCI++.
Coming to Neutron, Osmosis, Initia, Berachain, and elsewhere very soon.
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our entire concept of money is changing. a money is a medium of expression, a degree of belief, something you wear to enact social relations. we are nowhere near understanding the full extent of what digital monies can do
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For Cosmos newbies coming from Ethereum here’s a cheat sheet for starting to play around.
First get either:
- Browser wallet -
- Mobile wallet -
Then use to onboard + hop between different app chains/tokens
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being roasted by Balaji is a tremendous achievement. few have shitposted with such reckless abandon.
Not picking on
@hxrts
, but I routinely see this type of question as a kind of gotcha, and I'm always confused.
"Who will build the roads then, huh techbro?!?"
As if roads are built by anyone other than the techbros, aka the engineers!
As if roads are some difficult new…
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I'd like to talk to more early-stage crypto teams about decentralized governance, business strategy, and imminent liquid staking / MEV markets. After taking Cosmos zero to one, feel like I have a lot of learnings to share that would be valuable. DMs open.
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today's sidequest: writing a longform 'state of the Cosmos eco' on the MakerDAO forum
tried to keep it relatively impartial. coincidentally, I had a series of roadmap convos recently, so cosmos folks may find it useful as well.
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Cosmos needs the equivalent of EthGlobal. Professional team focused on high quality hackathons, connecting winners to resources in their network for continuation.
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big IBC day:
- penumbra shielded IBC on testnet
- union IBC from cosmos <> ethereum testnet with zk light client proofs
- new IBC website
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Telegram etiquette for intros:
- create group, make sure everyone arrives, send join links to those with restricted settings
- make invitees admins + chat history visible in case they add anyone
- write an intro message
- wait for both sides to say hi
- say something nice + exit
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Though imperfect, I believe I delivered what I set out to do. Now it’s time to step back from the Hub & the ICF, & to let others write the next chapter. I’ll be taking time to gather strength but plan to sick around Cosmos & look forward to the next adventure. ⚛️
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instead of compelling people to pay in ATOM (which never made sense to me) the community should simply encourage applications to let them display ATOM as a unit of account and settle in any currency. this has real utility because ATOM is the primary exchange pair
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this is wild. a candid reflection on the cosmos community from an organizational psychologist who randomly found themselves at cosmoverse.
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cosmos got a bunch of things right.
• what we got wrong: the importance of time to market
• what I hope is right but still unproven: the plurality of monies
• what’s critical but missing entirely: user privacy by default
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who cares what chain you’re using for DA or settlement when there are no users? speculation and stablecoins are the only applications that have traction. if we don’t figure out how to improve real people’s lives it’s over.
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While it’s not flashy, having excellent customer service is one of Skip’s superpowers. We’re in the war room debugging Comet when your chain halts, and the first to alert you when IBC channels expire. The team takes a lot of pride in making sure all the interchain plumbing works.
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It’s a bull market and cosmos UX still leaves a lot to be desired. Point to the number one thing we need to fix for new entrants and I’ll do my best to help.
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Ok now we do Namada, Penumbra, Babylon, Union, Polymer, Berachain, Initia and we gucci
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astonishing how little monetary policy innovation there is in crypto given that’s kind of the whole point. everyone nerd-sniped by mechanism design before they get to rebuilding money
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𝓵𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓼𝓽 𝓱𝔂𝓹𝓮 from
@tobyshorin
@lottiland
+ me : what happens when P2P economies meet new ways of being together? 𝓢𝓠𝓤𝓐𝓓 𝓦𝓔𝓐𝓛𝓣𝓗
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Eigenlayer is cool because it lets Ethereum people get Cosmos-pilled while continuing to virtue signal ETH.
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so we decided to run a little working group for celestia’s zk account model and now it’s turning a full-blown interop protocol. the possibilities here are kind of mind blowing.
What would make this REALLY powerful is if the inputs to the ZK circuit included the apphashes of any/all of the IBC clients on the host chain.
Why? Because then the ZK account can read state from anywhere else in the Interchain!
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As there seems to be some confusion:
Thorchain ⇒ cross-chain swaps between the native tokens of 2 chains
Nomic ⇒ exports fully redeemable representation of BTC over IBC
Babylon ⇒ economic security market via BTC staking + POW timestamping for long-range attack prevention
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cosmos needs more block explorer competition. there are easy 100x UX improvements.
no one has made a truly IBC-centric explorer, where IBC paths are first-class objects, not chains.
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All Cosmos SDK chains 0.46 and above can now use the DAODAO interface to build complex transactions that will be proposed to governance and executed by the chain’s gov module. Fully expect DAODAO will become the primary gov interface for Cosmos.
oh and i almost forgot..
if your chain supports the new governance proposals, the action library applies to those too:
as well as our wallet transaction builder:
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For those trying to figure out what's going on with
@lootproject
, our essay from last year tries to capture this precise social mechanic.
imply existence of a new world →
immediately distribute ownership →
community builds that world from the ground up
Really think we’re in a different era now. There was Before Loot and now there’s After Loot. Punk moment all over again.
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so to summarize, crypto-com, binance, okex build cosmos chains. optimism pivots to application-specific rollups and lands coinbase, which bag holders tout as fundamental invalidation of what we’re building. cool, appreciate your valuable contribution to the discourse.
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🍃 Meet Kudzu, a first-of-its-kind NFT virus artwork. Escaped from the
@foliafoliafolia
@bin_berlin
lab, grown in collaboration with
@billyrennekamp
@lewdmechanical
⟿
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Love this direction for the Cosmos Hub, aggregating security from Bitcoin in addition to ATOM.
Bitcoin staking is coming to Cosmos Hub. Together with
@informalinc
, we are bringing our Bitcoin staking protocol to
@Cosmos
, turning Cosmos Hub into a multi-asset security aggregator powered by $ATOM, $BTC, and ecosystem tokens.
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fully reject any kind of ‘alignment’ with coercive subtext. we’re here to build a society based on consent.
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We did a team exercise when I first joined Skip where everyone was given a little bit of ETH on Ethereum and asked to use a different Cosmos app. Complete nightmare, maybe two of us made it to the end. Now it's one click with the Skip API.
⚡️ Major upgrade for Skip API &
Cosmos <> EVM swaps are now enabled!
Take a look at how we built this uniquely, from the ground up 👇
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update, people looking for the following roles:
- ops
- biz dev
- research
- marcomm
- product management
dm if you're hiring and would like me to send folks your way
also the number of toxic comments is off the charts. hiding what I can but sorry in advance. it's a cesspool.
The gender gap in Cosmos is really disheartening and needs to be addressed.
If you’re a woman, trans, or non-binary person at any stage of your career and want to find work in crypto, DM me and I’ll connect you to a team that’s hiring, or a woman in leadership where possible.
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wild how much this industry is driven by niche technical narratives
you're working on the secular transformation of society. the opportunity is reimagining the entire concept of money. your goals are enabling new forms of human agency+holding power to account
don't fuck this up
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The promised Cosmos Hub paper revision! Including a few adjustments requested by the community: ATOM gov has additional controls to 1) direct tail emissions 2) authorize each of 12 equal tranches minted to the treasury.
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ATOM 2024 playbook:
1. INDUCE DEMAND - deploy ATOM LST protocol-owned liquidity until deepest market on all interchain DEXs
2. FILL COMMUNITY POOL - in any way possible, eg.
@EffortCapital
LST tax
3. ATOM WARS - start charging an interest rate for more rented POL a la
@zmanian
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After the AIB meltdown
@billyrennekamp
& I were literally tasked with saving Cosmos, bringing the IBC network to life. Then this year we were asked to revive the Cosmos Hub. Interchain Security would enable new functionality, while the ATOM 2.0 project gave the Port City purpose.
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scene report: Istanbul is vibrant, no signs of a bear market, everyone talking about the Roman Empire
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cosmos is the only system where new protocols can transcend the originating ecosystem. that’s important because the very best projects want to be an ecosystem unto themselves, not live in someone else’s shadow.
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Do I know anyone who works for
@MakerDAO
,
@AaveAave
or
@iearnfinance
DAOs?
@otherinternet__
is starting a horizontal initiative to improve the conditions + effectiveness of web3 labor. We’d like to interview people working for DAOs to better understand successes + challenges.
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Chains with Slinky and the Block SDK automatically recapture oracle MEV out of the box.
We didn’t mention in the announcement because it seems obvious once you’ve internalized the appchain model, but why pay Chainlink, Flashbots AND Oval for something you can easily do yourself?
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Just posted a proposal to add Skip's Block SDK to the Cosmos Hub! Seeking feedback. Will also give a short presentation on this in the Cosmoverse AEZ room tomorrow at 12:30.
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Data availability solutions need blockspace futures because rollups don’t want to deal with a large variable cost.
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the obvious meta of this trust-minimization convo is eth people want to fence the valid solution space to something eth-specific, and cosmos people want territorial recognition. meanwhile users could care less as long as there's wallet support lol
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At first glance Slinky looks like a better oracle, and it is; categorically superior. Look closer and you’ll see a novel platform for executing off-chain actions with consensus-grade performance and integrity. Slinky is a whole new way to make your application do more.
🥁 We're extremely excited to announce what we've been working on for the past year...
Introducing ⚡️ Slinky ⚡️ - the first restaked oracle aggregator, built for perps markets & DeFi that need maximal performance & minimal trust ⬇️
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the guiding light for Skip is to make Cosmos UX so good it feels like one chain. this means collaborating with teams to improve every layer of the stack: new fee markets, better cross-chain observability, faster relaying, full account abstraction. lots of work ahead 😅
Before there can be meaningful cross-chain MEV, we need to build great cross-chain applications
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biggest missing piece in cosmos is liquidity. a few potential sources:
- price increases
- new projects launching
- fiat-backed stablecoins
- lending/debt
- liquid staking
- market defragmentation via MEV/margin
- more capital efficient DEXs
anything substantial I’m missing?
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So Polkadot now going for Scheduler and Allocator. Good for them tbh.
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How I imagine Cosmos transactions could happen in the the future:
Setup: I want to buy a Bad Kid over the counter from my friend. I have a hot wallet with ATOM. My friend has a hot wallet with OSMO.
Listing: My friend puts up the Bad Kid with an asking price of 5000 Euros.
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cosmos is the frontier of experimentation for a new generation of sovereign institutions. it's wild and chaotic and messy, but also beautiful and true to its aims. it has problems, but we face them honestly and every single person knows there's no one to solve them but us.
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a year ago cosmos was known as intellectually generous and tolerant. that’s the culture I identify with, not DPS.
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the Cosmos SDK throughput bottleneck is actually P2P, not parallel tx processing
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Huge props to the
@Neutron_org
,
@informalinc
, and
@HyphaCoop
teams for a
@cosmoshub
milestone years in the making ⚛️
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Cosmos isn’t a technology or an ecosystem, it’s the choice to build a sovereign application that seeks to interoperate with others. The more sovereign your L2 the more you’ve embodied that choice to become a Cosmos app.
What about Ethereum L2s make them slightly less sovereign than a Cosmos chain?
What can't an Ethereum L2 do, that a Cosmos chain can?
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The good folks from Empire invited me and Bucky on to jam about Cosmos and the app-chain thesis. We talk about key design decisions of the Cosmos architecture, localist ideology and its implied view of liquidity.
I still get a little nervous on podcasts but trying to practice!
New pod on Cosmos ⚛️
Join
@santiagoroel
@buchmanster
and
@hxrts
to learn about:
1) Ideal product for an appchain
2) Cosmos tech vs BD strategy
3) Why
@cosmos
4) Bootstrapping validator sets
5) How appchains unlock better aps
6) Cosmos governance takeaways
Now live →…
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The Skip API is now popular to the point where we literally can’t keep track of everyone who has integrated (good problem). If you’re working with the API or want to use it to plug x-chain liquidity/users into your app drop me a line.
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It's totally fine if Thorchain doesn't want to add the IBC module, that's their choice. Right now UX is just a pain for Cosmos users. Fix is allowing Bifrost to construct IBC messages on the target Cosmos chain + pass memos. I've been working with
@Orion_9R
to make this happen.
@CBarraford
come on now, everyone knows this.
doesn't matter if ur product is useful for people.
all that matters is if you use IBC or not.
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Timewave’s v2 Covenant system is the most complex IBC application I’ve seen to date. It can orchestrate two chains negotiating a trustless deal, then autonomously execute control flow including liquid staking, LPing, share splitting, cross-chain distribution, and deal unwinding.
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update 2, had about 30 applicants + 30 employers reach out. collated everything to make 2-3 intros each. waiting on info before matching a few people but currently ~half-way done. will make my way through the remainder this wk but pausing new additions since the weekend is over.
update, people looking for the following roles:
- ops
- biz dev
- research
- marcomm
- product management
dm if you're hiring and would like me to send folks your way
also the number of toxic comments is off the charts. hiding what I can but sorry in advance. it's a cesspool.
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After working with Stride on everything from delegation methodology, LSM upgrades, protocol-owned liquidity, to UX, it's a pleasure to be able to support them. One of the most diligent, curious, and humble teams in Cosmos.
On the heels of launching stTIA, we're pleased to announce the Stride Association has completed a strategic fundraise.
$4M has been raised from Celestia-aligned funds and angels, to support Stride's modular expansion.
For the full story 👉
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narrative violation: cosmos chains renting ethereum security via eigenlayer
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I’ve found a new calling: art consulting for crypto corporate office space
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I actually think NWV is working as intended. Those voting NWV feel their minority interests have been infringed. The system thus gives the majority an added duty to ensure their position is considered. This is exactly what’s happening. We’re reaching out to listen to concerns.
If NoWithVeto is going to be used to circumvent proposal pass / fail threshold requirements instead of for its intended purpose of deterring malicious proposals we should strongly consider raising the veto threshold to 50%.
Most truly vetoed proposals meet this threshold anyway.
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@buchmanster
Hub outlook for next 6 months:
- 2 liquid staking issuers
- ATOM-backed IST
- Cosmos Builders Foundation
- Stack core devs bootstrapping their own DAO infra
- First components for interchain security & trade coalitions
Short-term also looks fine tbh
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I think we’re about to see a new generation of DAOs. More lightweight, refined, and purpose-driven.
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I did indeed make something happen
We are delighted to announce that Atom Accelerator DAO and
@OsmosisGrants
will jointly be funding Mystic labs to work on
@MetaMask
Snaps. Snaps is due to go live in September and this work will enable users to sign
@cosmos
txs using their metamask wallet.
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I see a lot of people mixing up price impact and slippage, quick reminder:
price impact = how much the price moves as a swap successively takes the best liquidity
slippage = delta between the asking and realized price due to market movement before execution
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