What if, instead of fighting over whether L1 or L2 optimizations are superior to one another, we realized that iteratively optimizing a layer makes it easier to optimize the other layer, creating a feedback loop that makes both layers more robust (akin to ADMM or momentum)

Aera 🤝 Gearbox The Gearbox ⚙️🧰 DAO has voted to use Aera to manage a portion of its treasury. It has deposited ~$1M into a non-custodial Aera vault (split between WETH, DAI & USDC) and will use Aera to automate management and optimize yield on those funds. This

Forced inclusion doesn’t prevent censorship. It has hard limits. As a result, existing rollups have worse censorship resistance than Ethereum. They do not “inherit” its security properties Click through, or scroll down for the 3 tweet version blog.init4.technology/p/the-hand-off…

I personally am waiting for the day that TGE isn’t an acronym for “college graduation for tokens” (e.g. one shot for launch to work) but rather a marker for when people figure out new continuous time mechanisms for ownership decentralization

people misunderstand the issues with low float high fdv. the issue isn't that fdv is artificially high for a small amount of float, it's that trading on the low float is encouraged. low float, high fdv, high volume is bad. if your token had some organic holders and it had low

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As always, Emperor delivers the goods — really great high-level summary of our [Mallesh Pai, K Kulkarni, Theo Diamandis] paper on intents!

FHEP2P 👀

Since D didn't enjoy us writing about infra semantics we switched it up and wrote some thoughts on lending markets and DeFi. As fast chains with low transaction fees like Solana, Monad ⨀ and MegaETH become commonplace, we can start to rethink DeFi

This is in ~1.5h!

I have to say that Claudia Sahm's PR tour dunking on overuse / misuse of her eponymous rule (which is probably what she's most famous for?) is pretty based Most people wouldn't go on tour hating on the creation they're most famous for!

DeCompute 2024 is pleased to announce Tarun Chitra as a speaker & panelist for a looked-after debate on Restaking. Co-Founder and CEO of Gauntlet , Tarun is a leading expert in DeFi and crypto network simulation.

Power Sets never seemed so lonely

This session was one of the best in KBW by jacob kim Gauntlet

don’t restake your miladys

Glad to see nothing has changed in the past decade since I left compbio, lol

OH: “All the MEV participant on MEV participant violence today on the timeline suggests that no one is making enough money until the election”

Would be kind of hilarious if we livestreamed and the audience could vote on the mute button for me and Haseeb ＞|＜