Skip Go is now powering more than 25% of IBC volume — $200m+ monthly We’re so grateful devs are choosing Skip Go to onboard users from everywhere. But we’re just getting started We’re going to make x-chain swaps & transfers on sovereign chains as fast & easy as on Solana

Most crypto ecosystems go down 1 of 2 paths: 1. Prioritize trust-minimization & developer expressivity at the expense of the user (Cosmos, Polkadot). → Users in these ecosystems suffer from a ton of complexity. (Lost-in-the-sauce ecosystems) 2. Prioritize performance &

Super grateful for all the vocal support! With or without the ICF treasury, we’re committed to building a radically new & better future for sovereignty — with much more urgency, product leadership, and focus on the end-user And everyone is invited to shape that future with us!

Everyone loves IBC, but IMO it’s harmful today The problem is that it only works well for app chains. So it creates a toxic network effect: it allows app chains to vampire liquidity from other app chains but not to onboard net new users & liquidity from other ecosystems.

Does anyone actually know what the charter of the ICF says? I can't find it

Strange title but simple idea: 1. In a multichain world, interop sits between users & applications 2. So most interop products become toxic middlemen, attempting to sell an app’s own users back to them 3. The best solve is an e2e, open source application-owned interop stack

Someone asked me yesterday why Skip hasn't pivoted to L2/L3s. My answer: We do not care about scaling Ethereum. We care about helping developers build the next generation of sovereign software on their own terms Cosmos was the very start, not the end, of that journey

Study the Olympics. Lessons in that

During the market volatility, Skip Connect didn't miss a beat on dYdX The data shows that the oracle's only bottleneck is sequencer speed (since it doesn't rely on any 3rd-party operators) Connect was born for app chains, but its really going to thrive on rollups

This upgrade is going to massively improve onboarding for sovereign rollups! Once its live, folks will be able to teleport from almost any token on any chain (Cosmos, Ethereum, ETH L2s) to TIA on any sovereign rollup in a single transaction on any frontend powered by Skip Go

New ecosystems need to create new primitives. Doubling down on performance isn't enough New primitives create: 1/ Differentiation: Devs can build things that can't exist anywhere else 2/ Advantageous selection: The best devs want to build things that don't exist yet 3/

Its crazy to me Pyth tries to call Chainlink a legacy oracle. They're basically identical Legacy = 3rd party = Slow, laggy, prices. No programmability Modern = 1st-party, sovereign = Instant, fresh prices & full programmability Skip Connect is the only modern oracle

Cosmos watching Eth Twitter fight about which chains “are Ethereum”

TEEs are going to 1000x oracle performance By running your oracle in a TEE, you can make the oracle trustworthy and manipulation-resistant with many fewer operators (even just 1) This means much lower latency data AND better security properties (no collusion risk)

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