Derrick - Investing at Big Brain
@zeebradoom
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🇨🇦 | My Own Thoughts | Investing @BigBrainVC | @UCBerkeley CS & Haas | Prev @DCGco Analyst, @PanteraCapital intern | @calblockchain
Toronto - Berkeley - New York
Joined September 2017
My old (hacked) tg has started messaging my contacts. It: 1. Sends you to a legit-looking Zoom website (it ends in https://t.co/yA5AWWl7CF) 2. The video will work and my face will be there moving (they recorded my face when I got hacked) 3. The audio wont work and there will be
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I don't think people realize how large this loss is, a sizable portion of DeFi is gone. The DeFi TVL that farmers worked so hard for, protocols poured millions in token rewards to incentivise, stablecoins were backed by.
This is a massive loss. It's unclear how this will be settled in between xUSD/xBTC/xETH holders and lenders against these tokens, so let’s go over all stablecoins/vaults that have (in)direct exposure to Stream. Best we can tell, these stablecoins have indirect exposure: Elixir’s
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Lots of smart folks are stepping away from crypto research because they believe there is less to research. There are still many frontiers that requires creative thinking! Some really interesting areas off the top of my head to do technical research: - Prediction markets (how
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I’ve spent years collecting the best dashboards to actually understand what’s happening on-chain 🧠Here’s my personal list — from MEV to L2s to DeFi (and beyond). Tag your favourite if I missed one ↓ (I'm currently collecting prediction market dashboards, — follow to see them
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I've been using @PicassoMarkets for a while, it's still in beta/testnet but use my code to join! Super fun prediction markets game where you draw what you think the market will look like! https://t.co/hYTOIpanjt
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How do I tell if polycule earns rewards when I limit order in the rewards band?
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Event was so much fun! It was an honour cohosting Whitepaper Reading Club with @PanteraCapital @0xfishylosopher Had amazing turnout, and lively discussion on x402 (including @coinbase 's design) ! One of the conclusions we came to was that the benefits of using x402 primarily
Whitepaper Reading SF [01] at Berkeley on x402 (@CoinbaseDev) Summaries: https://t.co/RRL6CIK9pb,
https://t.co/TXd5n6DQte Paper: https://t.co/yfKM3UVYk1 Event: https://t.co/r1MbR1SuhT Thank you @zeebradoom, @sanjayamirthraj (@CalBlockchain) and @BrianSeong for putting this
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At its core, yield comes from just a handful of places: - LP (@Uniswap , @0xStableFlow , @debridge , @matchaxyz ) - Lending (@aave , @maplefinance , @3janexyz ) - Funding rate (@HyperliquidX , @DriftFDN ) - Staking (@LidoFinance , @ether_fi , @eigenlayer ) - MEV (@titanbuilderxyz
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Where is the prediction market for the clash royale world finals?
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Co-hosting a Whitepaper Reading Circle with @0xfishylosopher on Monday, November 3 from 4-6 pm in @CalBlockchain 's new co-working space! Going over x402 and Agentic Payments ! Comment for an invite : )
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Imagine this crypto city was redrawn for 2025. What new landmarks would appear — and which old ones would crumble? 🌆
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My hot take in governance is that having a single token to represent equity and also voting power is naive in a permissionless system. Two-token systems should be the norm - my current favourite is what @m0 does! Anyone know any other protocols that use multiple tokens to
one seat in the @arbitrum security council was just bought by @blockful_io for ~5,400 USD via @lobbyfinance to... prove a point basically!
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Prediction markets are fascinating because they can’t hold latent capital. (My take on prediction markets) In DeFi, “dumb money” (idle LP funds on Uniswap, Compound V2, etc.) props up protocols. That capital provides stability and allows DeFi protocols to be built on top which
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