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铁山 | @ThielFellowship | @MIT | @YCombinator W16 | Founder @BLUR_io @BLAST 0x7c8a0c5a58dcbb822cd59be9d5e5f676a3e32504 on Blast Mobile
Joined February 2022
blast did more txns than eth yesterday and hit a new ath as well. excited for next week!
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$97m has been secured in a multisig by Blast core contributors. Took an incredible lift in the background but I’m grateful the ex munchables dev opted to return all funds in the end without any ransom required. @_munchables_ and protocols integrating with it like @juice_finance.
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the best onchain products make you feel something . i first experienced this with nfts, and now experiencing this again with fantasy.
Haven't had this much fun since 2021 NFTs . Will make a post later about the mad 28 hour sniping, buying, selling and Degenning I did to get this SICK lineup ready for the main 😂. But for now. VALHALLA Crew 😁🍻. @PacmanBlur @screentimes @wardaddycapital @0xMakesy
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excited for share to card holders!.
Heroes $1,250,000 Payout 🤝. Exciting news! We've successfully distributed the First Week Heroes Payout. ⚡️ 409 ETH .✨ 7,500 FAN pts per hero on average.🟡 2,480 Blast BOLD . You can view the rewards on the Hero Page. The on-chain distribution will begin soon, coinciding with
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interesting trend: whenever volume comes back to nfts (and it always does), it comes back most strongly to blur
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big shout out @zachxbt for all his support behind the scenes on this as well!.
$97m has been secured in a multisig by Blast core contributors. Took an incredible lift in the background but I’m grateful the ex munchables dev opted to return all funds in the end without any ransom required. @_munchables_ and protocols integrating with it like @juice_finance.
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Beanie resurfaced yesterday. We believe he’s trying to opportunistically use Blur’s launch to re-establish himself. Beanie does not have any influence or involvement with Blur whatsoever. His only connection is a negligible investment in the seed round.
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my lineup has 0 great cards and only 1 goated card (@TravisBickle0x). who should i buy for a better lineup next round?.
So far my tier list for @fantasy_top_ heroes looks like that.Thank you @0xLawl for this amazing tier list
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Two of the biggest opportunities we see for NFTs are reducing transaction costs and institutional-grade NFT perps. Hundreds of millions have been spent on gas trading NFTs, and perp volume is 6x bigger than spot. These opportunities require an L2.
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I've seen a number of misunderstandings about Blast spreading around. While many of these are humorous memes, it's important to set the record straight on a few points:.
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i want to use more dapps on blast, but given my role, i think it's important i do so transparently. to that end i've loaded up 50 eth on a fresh wallet (0xc61b1152b3b560eaf264608aaa6fc586be6e6264). what should i do first?.
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have been seeing some confusion on whether the airdrop allocation is being increased or the gold is being increased. the actual size of the airdrop is being increased to accommodate the delay.
The Blast airdrop is launching June 26. We know this is past our initial estimate of May and we’re sorry for the delay. The airdrop allocation will be increased to account for this. There will be two final Dapp Gold distributions before the airdrop.
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as we head into launch i’m seeing incredible excitement around blast projects. this is great to see, but I also want to share a word of caution. excitement also means that scammers will come out of the woodworks to take advantage of the situation. please be careful and do your.
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1/5 The vast majority of volume in traditional markets and token markets come from a handful of market makers (literally less than 10). Trading activity from MMs looks very different than trading activity from collectors. I'm seeing a lot of confusion on my timeline about this.
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I don't usually comment on these kinds of discussions but I will say this:. We launched in October 22. Since then, some floor prices have gone up, some floor prices have gone down. One of the few times floor prices went up in concert was when we injected liquidity into nfts via.
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seeing some speculation that the blast airdrop timeline was moved to time the market. in general i think trying to time the market is a pointless exercise. the timeline was moved because the eng lift for what we're working to build required it. delays suck, and we put in.
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gm gm. wanted to highlight some issues and changes we’re actively working on (most important ones highlighted in bold). will post updates as they get resolved. issues we’re currently fixing.- having less points after migrating to mainnet (this is due to referral points not.
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The Blast Airdrop is officially 3 weeks away!..There will be one final Gold distribution before the airdrop. .Dapps must distribute all Gold and Points to users by June 25, 8am ET in order for it to be counted. Here’s how it works:..• Points and Gold must be in User EOAs in
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my favorite part about reviewing big bang submissions is seeing all the high-potential founders who haven't yet been discovered by ct. excited to support their journeys on blast!.
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gm gm. you may have noticed we've been radio silent recently. we're currently heads down in development. we haven't shared updates because we don't want to skew timeline expectations. we're close now, and will be sharing updates very soon. thank you for your patience.
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blast activity has been silently growing and hitting new aths
GM. Blast flipped Base in user fees for the last 24hr. Boolish ahead of TGE.
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very cool to see usdb now the #5 most traded stablecoin in the world, all from onchain dex volume on blast
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22 hours to go!.
IT’S TIME FOR $BLAST. The Blast Foundation will airdrop BLAST to the community tomorrow, June 26 at 10AM EST, 10PM HKT, 4PM CET. Q2 highlights and tokenomics below 👇
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This is a great proposal. Excited for the Uniswap community to implement this, and for the Blur community to be able to learn from Uniswap's experience!.
🧵 Biggest week in Uniswap Protocol Governance. ever?. I just proposed a large-scale upgrade to the system. Specifically, I believe we should upgrade the protocol so that its fee mechanism rewards UNI token holders that have staked and delegated their tokens. 🦄.
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Update: At around 8pm PT today, we detected a bug in our message processing that affected some bids that were cancelled in the last 80 hours. Once we detected the error, we disabled bid accept functionality. 36 affected bids were accepted during a 30 minute period. We’ve since.
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excited to distribute the first round of blast gold this week, right as a lot of great dapps have sprung up.
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as a builder i tend to stay heads down as it allows me to ship faster, but i hear you guys that this mindset is suboptimal from an ecosystem perspective. at the end of the day i think shipping always moves the needle more than talking, but as an ecosystem it's important that the.
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this is the program i wish existed when i first started building in the space. excited to work 1:1 with teams to launch their mobile dapps!. key details:.- $250k funding.- 1:1 mentorship.- 1m blast gold.- blast multiplier along with additional promotion to get your app in front.
The next billion onchain users will come from viral mobile Dapps. So–we’re arming builders with $250k and 10 weeks of hands-on support to incubate the next viral crypto applications on mobile. ANNOUNCING: The Mobile Big Bang Bootcamp:
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A TLDR about me. Before working on Blur, I:. - Dropped out of high school to go through Y Combinator at 17. - Studied Math with Computer Science at MIT. - Received the Thiel Fellowship to leave MIT and start Namebase. - Sold Namebase to Namecheap.
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the system was updated yesterday to factor in a more accurate estimate for the total gold amount, which is a good amount less than the previous estimate. for clarity:.total points = 1/2 airdrop.total gold = 1/2 airdrop.total points = total gold.total points / total gold = ratio.
Hmmmm. My 54k gold was worth around 1.8 B points or something and that way it looked like my points farm was 3x as rewarding. All of the sudden now my Blast Gold is more valuable than my points that I have been stacking since day 1. What's happening? A twist @Blast_L2
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the path forward is becoming clearer. onchain is going to become unimaginably better.
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one of the best predictors of success is how fast a team ships. well done @TravisBickle0x on shipping revenue sharing so quickly. excited to share all fantasy revenue back to my card holders!
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i think the blast governance mechanism is severely misunderstood atm. the goal isn’t for the community for actively participate in governance (that never works). the goal is for the community to be able to intervene if governance ever goes astray by being able to veto proposals.
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prediction: wallet extensions won't be a thing by eoy 2026. going all in on mobile w blast.
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very cool to see this level of activity in blast nfts. much more to come from here
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At this point, Pacman is synonymous with my own identity, and the name is much easier to pronounce than my IRL name. I'll continue referring to myself as Pacman and using my vtuber for calls. I'm excited to keep building Blur with the community to grow NFTs together!.
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blast as an ecosystem has monetization levers that don't exist anywhere else:. - gas fees (every l2 has).- yield on usdb (no l2 has, but exists in point solutions like ethena and maker).- yield on eth (no l2 has, but exists in point solutions like lido). blast uses maker and lido.
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chains are app platforms with payment rails built in. blast has the opportunity to become the best app platform with a higher yield payment rail than any other chain. the blast app is a critical step 1 towards that end state and i’m excited to work with teams to take full.
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Incredibly excited to close out the year with this milestone. Web3's power is that wins for protocols are wins for the entire community. However, I think much more can be done to make sure that value creation goes to the end-users who are the lifeblood of the on-chain economy.
Blast has reached $1.1 Billion in TVL! . 85,836 community members are now earning yield (~4% for ETH and 5% for stables) + Blast Points. Excited to share all that we've been working on behind the scenes in the new year!
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the next 12 months are going to be an incredible period of growth for the onchain economy. if you're active in the space, this is the time to dig in and pay attention. every cycle's new big winners are built during the bear.
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vesting creates a bad experience for your most loyal users . loyalty must always be rewarded . lesson learned.
vesting. never again.
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usdb has silently become one of the largest stablecoins in the world. does anyone have data on dapp tvl for stablecoins? usdb is #11 in terms of mkt cap, but i bet it's higher in terms of usage
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there's been a desire to allocate incentives to native assets since phase 1, but at the time a chain allocating incentives directly to third party teams had never been done before. we decided to exercise caution and only allocate incentives to dapps. now, the foundation team has.
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while korea is a big crypto market, california alone has a 2.5x larger gdp with a smaller population size (40m vs 50m ppl). really puts into perspective how big the us market is!.
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reminds me of when ft flipped eth nft volume. well done @fantasy_top_.
IT WAS WRITTEN IN THE STARS ✨ . Our collective @fantasy_top_ volume just flipped OpenSea’s daily ETH NFT volume. Unreal. Chart: @punk9059
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love this initiative to reward studying blast! topping off the prize pool with 5 eth :).
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congrats to everyone who participated in jackpot 2!.
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this means you can now deposit to blast dapps directly from cexes. no bridging required, drastically reducing the friction required to onboard users. take predict as an example. this is what their onboarding for new users looked like pre gdl:.install metamask -> go to binance ->.
Introducing Blast’s Global Deposit Layer!. You can now deposit to any Blast address or dapp from any Cex (ie Binance, Coinbase) and any fiat onramp (ie Visa, Mastercard, Apple Pay, Paypal, MoonPay). Here’s how it works 👇
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this is easy to build on @blast_l2.
someone pls figure out how prediction markets can offer interest on the money tied up in longer term bets
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building anything significant typically takes a lot of time. this creates a challenge in the crypto market which is fast paced and impatient (it's also what makes it fun). the market is global and highly competitive, so it doesn't make sense to talk too much until you're closer.
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as you start succeeding there’s a tendency to move up in layers of abstraction. it’s alluring bc abstraction feels high leverage, but it’s a trap bc success is always in the details. if you study top founders in the world they’re always deep in the details. it’s surprising at.
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dapps can give you points + gold + their own airdrops on top. but right now many dapps are still in the process of integrating with the points api to do this. as they progress you'll see this reflected in your airdrop page more clearly. with that said, we're actively thinking.
Might be missing something about @Blast_L2 airdrop but. Why would we deposit into dApps and give them control over Blast points if we are already earning points with our funds sitting risk-free in our wallets?. What's the point to use protocols enabling leveraged positions if.
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building is a turn based strategy game where each significant turn can take months or longer to make. it’s a privilege to play and contribute to the market. this upcoming launch sets the stage for blast’s next moves. looking forward to 2025 :).
We've been heads down for months, and we're finally close to launch. We're putting in final touches on Blast's mobile platform, tokenomics updates, and other key announcements. Everything will go live next month. Thank you for your patience and support. Stay tuned!
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excited for one of the biggest pain points for blast devs and apps to be solved tomorrow.
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my dms are open for anyone interested in launching their game on blast!.
I agree with @beast_ico . If you’re an onchain gaming protocol looking to revive your product and community - you should be on Blast. @zed_run is a great example. It’s not too late, get in @PacmanBlur DMs.
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This is what the ideal implementation of the Points API looks like. Well done @wasabi_protocol!.
🟢Realtime Blast Points Live🟢. Track your Blast Points real-time on Wasabi’s UI. Points earned will be pushed to Blast every hour make sure you stack ‘em up!. Thanks to the @Blast_L2 team for providing a great API & making this super easy to implement
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by the time we’re done the concept of “bridging” to blast will no longer exist.
reducing friction to bridging on and off blast are a high priority. more bridging options coming!.
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couldnt be more excited for the next big bang. its the program i wish existed when i first started building in crypto.
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very cool to see blast txs continue to climb even though the blast app and the next big bang aren't even live yet
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don't let the scammers win. always dyor.
everyone excited about blast launch but it's also going to be a feasting ground for scammers. don't rush to be first, don't click links without verifying through multiple sources, if it looks too good to be true it is. not worth risking your entire stack to claim a few $.
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really looking forward to january.
We've been heads down for months, and we're finally close to launch. We're putting in final touches on Blast's mobile platform, tokenomics updates, and other key announcements. Everything will go live next month. Thank you for your patience and support. Stay tuned!
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Strong agree. I’ve done my best to include community members in rounds historically, but I think it’s possible to do much better. Focusing on building rn but continuing to think on how best to include the community in ecosystem upside in the background.
It’s a damn shame that ‘dealflow’ . (in an industry that’s supposed to be democratized towards access for all). is gatekept to those who are already wealthy or connected. one of the biggest shames of the industry tbh. who’s fixing this?.
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excited to meet with blast builders and users tmw at lunch! . this will be the first irl blast event and we'll have a gift for attendees :).
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you can add fantasy cards to your jackpot. since fantasy uses privy, you need to import your privy wallet into metamask. then you can add fantasy cards to your jackpot deck as well . as a bonus, you can also use that to earn the socialfi multiplier.
@PacmanBlur Can we get the option to add a fantasy top card to the jackpot pool?.
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incentives are useful for bootstrapping network effects. once the network effects are established, incentives can gradually be reduced over time. the network is the value
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Blur Core Contributors have no exposure to SVB. We hope everyone takes precautions to stay safe in these uncertain market conditions.
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reducing friction to bridging on and off blast are a high priority. more bridging options coming!.
UPDATE: It's now just as easy to withdraw size from Blast as Base and Arbitrum. Withdraw up to 950 ETH / $600k USDB from Blast. Instantly.
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great questions and an incredible writeup from zora. highly recommend following him if you're in blast or web3!.
Blast gold allocations, new dapps, and the road head 🚀. If you care about Blast, read this post. Today I had an insightful 1 hour call with @PacmanBlur, and I’m here to give you the lowdown. A few days back, I posted my thoughts on the last @blast gold distribution, and
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alliance is a great program for builders. i'll be speaking at the hackathon tuesday may 21 at 230pm, and judging as well. highly recommend joining! deadline in 3 hrs.
The application deadline for @MVPHackathon is today at 5:00 PM ET. If you’re building novel crypto products on @Blast_L2, apply to bring your idea to MVP and learn from MVP Hackathon speaker, @pacmanblur. Apply ASAP at
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congrats on hitting jackpot 3!.
I just won 108.12 Gold by holding tokens and NFTs on Blast! Add tokens and NFTs to your Blast Jackpot deck to win Gold.
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pumpfun showed the power of innovating on token launch designs. baseline’s token launch mechanism is extremely novel and i’m excited to see it in action.
Introducing $MACHI, the unruggable memecoin on @Blast, powered by @BaselineMarkets. Registration starting soon 🧵
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update on the issues I mentioned previously. issues we’re currently fixing.- having less points after migrating to mainnet (fixed).- not earning points despite having a balance on mainnet/users seeing 0 points per hour (fixed).- not seeing the # points dapps have distributed to.
gm gm. wanted to highlight some issues and changes we’re actively working on (most important ones highlighted in bold). will post updates as they get resolved. issues we’re currently fixing.- having less points after migrating to mainnet (this is due to referral points not.
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blip 2 has already been approved by the progress council and based on community feedback points will be granted to blast holders retroactively since time of tge. in general incentive matters can be changed by the foundation without the need for governance but this idea was.
Sold it and took a big loss of around 27 ETH, compensate it with my airdrop and now up 20 ETH overall :/ (with 75% still vested). Something that could have changed my life, turned into something that I didn't expect at all lol. It is what it is, now at least I able to farm the.
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fee switches are often seen as binary, but this limits protocols' ability to adapt to market conditions. higher fees work when markets are hot, and lower or zero fees are better when markets cool. proposals considering dynamic fees based on trailing 30d volume or decisions by a.
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internet businesses tend to be multiples larger than their traditional counterparts, and crypto businesses tend to be multiples larger than their internet counterparts. internet-native fantasy sports is a $20b industry. it wouldnt surprise me to see cryptonative fantasy sports.
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thanks for hosting me @RyanSAdams @TrustlessState! rly enjoyed the convo.
LIVE NOW - Everything you want to know about Blast . w/ @PacmanBlur, Founder of @Blast_L2 and @blur_io
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the bear market in 2019 was actually depressing. nothing worked. there were no users. now we have defi, perp dexes, nfts, stablecoins with yield, and most importantly, a sizeable population of onchain users who are highly active (both in transaction count and size) and.
One of the mistakes I regret is leaving crypto in the bear market because I/we could have scooped up many high quality projects for pennies and those positions could potentially have made us millions. I really think crypto will never drop back down to the prices we saw in 2023.
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when we started working on the blast app, there were features i thought were important but not necessarily possible. i was optimistic, but mobile platform restrictions and feasibility were big unknowns that needed r&d to confirm. fast forward to today and these features are live.
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bringing on a chief of staff to work directly with me and contribute to blast!. reach out through the job portal if you're interested in building something great from the ground up :).
Hiring announcement. We're hiring a Chief of Staff, working directly with @PacmanBlur. Reach out if you would like to contribute to Blast
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very cool to see that usdb had $233m in 24h trading volume, putting it right under ethena which had $239m in 24h trading volume. all that volume was driven by onchain dex volume as usdb only trades on blast atm.
usdb has silently become one of the largest stablecoins in the world. does anyone have data on dapp tvl for stablecoins? usdb is #11 in terms of mkt cap, but i bet it's higher in terms of usage
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as the election cycle heats up, prediction markets with native yield will enable greater capital efficiency and better price discovery. excited to support prediction markets building on blast!.
Phase 2 Gold Distribution 1 is now live!. In this distribution, 9.5 million Gold has been allocated to existing Dapps, and 0.5 million Gold has been allocated to new Dapps. Prediction Markets (new category) received the highest Dapp Category weight of 4. Learn more.
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If you have any questions or other concerns, please reach out! In the meantime we’ll continue working to build Blur for the years to come.
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When we started working on Blur 401 days ago, I had a conversation with @_anishagnihotri on whether to doxx or build pseudonymously. I was 50/50 on both choices, but Anish pointed out that being pseudo gave me optionality to doxx later on. It's hard to say no to free options!.
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these dashboards are awesome. love that it even tracks native dapps vs multichain dapps
I'd like to give a shout-out to @jenndefer .for her insightful video exploring the data behind the Blast blockchain! 😊. It's great to see the community coming together to analyze and discuss the progress and potential of Blast ecosystem. My L2 Landscape Dash Link:.
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first jackpot hit! congrats @KaptajnAhab and everyone else with the winning token in their deck.
I just won 2142.538 Gold by holding tokens and NFTs on Blast! Add tokens and NFTs to your Blast Jackpot deck to win Gold. @pacmoon_ babyyyyyyyy
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Seeing a lot of confusion about getting logged out so posting here to clear that up. Blast Mobile will set you up with a completely new passkey-based wallet. It's not meant to import your existing wallets. When you update your app it will automatically prompt you to create a new.
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technological and app store limitations have restricted crypto’s ability to meet users where they are, on their phones. it’s finally possible to change that. robinhood took retail trading from 15% mkt share to 30% mkt share. we can do the same for crypto. this next cycle will.
honestly gotta say @PacmanBlur ‘s talk at the @blast lunch made me bullish. If you read between the lines (and look at the featured apps on the mobile interface), the strategy for going toe-to-toe w an incubent is clear. godspeed.
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For context, we accepted a small investment from Beanie before his full background was revealed. Upon seeing the record, we distanced ourselves from him and never interacted with him outside of necessary legal communications.
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this is honestly huge.
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great analysis as always from zora!. one of the best things about silicon valley is how meritocratic it is. if you can build, it doesn't matter your background. you'll get support from the entire ecosystem. it's the only reason i was able to get a software job at 16 and then do.
Over the past two weeks, I've had back-to-back calls with founders from four different projects in the @blast ecosystem. These conversations weren’t just about closing deals or formalizing partnerships; sometimes, the real value comes from simply engaging with builders, sharing.
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Beyond excited for this!.
We're partnering up with @blur_io as our recommended marketplace experience for DeGods on Ethereum. We will be hosting a 1:1 Twitter Spaces with Blur founder @PacmanBlur & @frankdegods on Saturday. Set reminder:
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