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@0xMims

10 months

Notes on Solana Fees: I wanted to try to summarize a few things on the Solana fee mechanism. Just some notes I’ve compiled from watching others so far, still learning, of course. Solana’s transaction fee mechanism consists of a priority fee and base fee (similar to ETH). Most

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what about avax

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@0xMims

4 months

Today is my first day on the research team with @Blockworks_ / @blockworksres . Sad to move on from FranklinDAO, but happy to start forward in an industry I love. I wish you all the best!

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@0xMims

3 months

Seeing snarky quote tweets to Franklin’s blaming universities for the Compound’s DAO issues. Major votes against the Golden Boys prop came from universities: ChicagoDAO, CalBlockchain, UMich, FranklinDAO.

Franklin Bi

@FranklinBi

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I can’t believe a Compound governance attack happened. How can that be possible when their VCs made the supremely wise decision of delegating their voting power to university clubs, exposing those young adults to unbounded legal exposure forever and setting them up as regulatory

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@0xNIC0 @solana This is a joke right? What exactly do you mean by decentralization here?

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@0xMims

2 years

A thread on some lame predictions I have for the New Year, some on L2s, some on DeFi, and some on myself!

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@0xMims

2 years

Since everyone’s on the “RealYield” train with GMX and Umami, I thought it might be worth it to look at a lesser known protocol: @GainsNetwork_io / $GNS. A thread explaining its basics 👇🧵🍏

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@0xMims

2 years

@Bond_Protocol released their new bond products today. It's been in development by some of the minds behind @OlympusDAO . It's an important step towards solving liquidity issues in DeFi. Here's a thread on what you should know 🧵👇

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@0xMims

3 months

@pseudotheos @MessariCrypto @Delphi_Digital @nansen_ai @coinmetrics Hey man don’t forget @Blockworks_ @blockworksres

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@0xMims

2 years

A few months ago, @dYdX announced a v4 transition to Cosmos from their Starkware zk-Rollup. This was the beginning of the question of whether App-specific L1s are more advantageous than App-specific rollups. @joykchen and I compared them based on all available info 🧵 A thread.

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@0xMims

10 months

Criticisms of Solana Fees: I want to briefly touch on the criticisms of solana fees. The next post will be on the current proposed solutions. 1. Fixed base fee isn’t responsive: a base fee fixed on a signature isn’t enough for really high loads. It needs a multiplier on the

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@0xMims

3 months

great game @kamigotchiworld being built by some great people. Pocket monster/kamigotchi type game with skill trees to develop your “kamis”. It’s in testnet but if this is testnet, mainnet release is gonna be sick.

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@0xMims

3 years

Wondering what's going on with zkrollups? Here's an update!

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@0xMims

2 months

So this never happened.

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@0xMims

6 months

@0xPolygon unveiled its new AggLayer infrastructure solution, calling it a game-changer for interoperability. Is this Polygon's answer to the Optimism Superchain? I read their docs and watched @_bfarmer 's presentation on the ETH Preconf Call so that you don't have to.

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@0xMims

3 months

@mrjasonchoi I got visibly sick because I am wearing a garmin watch and just took my creatine and multivitamin

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@0xMims

2 years

Hey! You've probably seen all the news of new stablecoins in the works, e.g. $GHO, $crvUSD, and $SILK and a few others, but you should probably know what differentiates many of these upcoming projects. Let's get started by showcasing $crvUSD from @CurveFinance A thread. 1/7

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@0xMims

10 months

Hopefully this served as a helpful post for some, it’s just a few things I’ve spectated so far. If you want to see the deep details of this check out these dudes: @0xShitTrader (his Umbra Research work is sick) @jon_charb (his podcast interview with @SolBeachBum talks about the

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@0xMims

10 months

Proposed Solutions to the Fee Mechanism: 1. Base fee multiplier: have a base fee that accounts for resources used instead of one standardized payment of 5000 lamports. Something with a multiplier on how much Compute Units used by the transaction. Essentially (Signature Cost +

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@0xMims

2 years

Let's do a modular overview of Fuel, an L2 specializing in modularity coming to its next testnet cycle in Q1 of 2023. So, what is Fuel, how does it work, and how does it continue the trending change in VM innovation? A deep dive. 🧵

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@0xMims

3 months

Saying students were put at legal risk is one thing. Blaming the management of the DAO on university actors is another. Inaction is a DAO problem that’s solved by better incentive systems.

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2 months

this is what good data looks like

Blockworks Research

@blockworksres

2 months

We just made our @Solana dashboard available to everyone 🔥 Let this be your one-stop shop for all things Solana data. Track TEV stats, validator and staker cash flow, transaction activity/segmentation, and more! Let's take a look at the highlights 👇

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@0xMims

7 months

@JasonYanowitz @robin_linus , @januszg_ , @lightcoin , and @redvelvetzip Best people I can recommend imo.

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@0xMims

2 years

Let's do a brief overview of one of the blockchains centered around the old "ETH-Killer" alt L1 thesis from 2021/22. A thread.

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@0xMims

3 months

enjoy a picture of my cat

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@0xMims

1 year

oh and another thought; I think there's merit to saying that Frax is riding the narrative waves with its recent pursuit for an L2. Like, I understand sector specific networks (i.e. Sei) but an entire DeFi protocol to have its own L2 seems like cutting bread with a sword.

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@0xMims

9 months

Everyone talking abt the solana phone but no one is talking abt the ethOS phone. Few.

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@0xMims

3 months

I am under allocated.

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@0xMims

2 years

@ChainLinkGod @statelayer That’s just $UST

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@0xMims

4 months

Have to tweet enough so that I can dilute Boccaccio’s presence in the bwr analyst twitter list

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@0xMims

2 years

New substack, please I beg you criticize me

Basic guide to Sequencer Decentralization

The following post serves as an introduction to sequencer decentralization as I see it, and a few different projects and ideas for sequencer decentralization.

4pollo.substack.com

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@0xMims

2 years

oh yeah, officially settled in Spain now so that’s cool. Still need to find a gym, every place here is cardio central god have mercy

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@0xMims

4 months

LETS FUCKING GOOOO based proto New York (don’t @ me)

sadaf.eth

@sadaf_eth

4 months

Welcome to the New Internet 🌐 Keep an eye out for more ENS billboards in a city near you! 📍Center City, Philadelphia

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@0xMims

2 years

@veH0rny things made by neworderdao

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@0xMims

2 months

@stockmart_ @Blockworks_ @whosknave @Lightspeedpodhq this wasn’t me man leave me out of this

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@0xMims

10 months

@blknoiz06 man if i go to bed after this tweet and see akash/render up i'll cry

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@0xMims

8 months

@cryptoaioli @coinbase @base @Backpack @phantom @solana Tbh uniswap probably eats Phantom’s lunch as the wallet friendly app eventually.

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@0xMims

2 years

Thanks for the 200 everyone! You’ll be happy to see more from me soon. Don’t forget to check out the research group I’m part of @franklin_dao

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@0xMims

2 years

@0xDinoEggs Best ways to judge a rollup, fun experiments/metrics to use to measure rollups against each other, similar to how everyone uses TPS on L1s to gauge for scalability you know?

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@0xMims

2 years

First, here are some protocols/networks I'm intuitively feeling positive/curious about: Umami Finance Y2K Finance Kwenta Cosmos

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@0xMims

1 year

can't believe i'm thinking of buying twitter blue just to cold dm better.

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@0xMims

2 years

- go see more movies, genuinely love going to movie theatres - take my grandpa fishing (i'd like to return the favor at least once) and finally: fail, and keep failing, over and over and over and over and over again, until i get the result i'm satisfied with.

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@0xMims

2 years

If you like this thread, see my substack for long form takes, and stay tuned for a comparison w/ @DebondProtocol + @Bond_Protocol this coming week. See my recent Frax post here before then: Si habla español puede verme en la cuenta @ApolloEspanol

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@0xMims

1 year

ETH aligned? U mean Solana perpendicular right

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@0xMims

2 years

@0xfbifemboy Tbh not sure, they use algorand to teach at my uni, I’ve never really seen it anywhere aside from being shilled on r/cryptocurrency

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@0xMims

2 years

Sequencer decentralization is an important concept in the future of rollup development. The sequencer is the component of a rollup tasked with ordering and batching transactions to be submitted to the L1 for approval. Almost all rollups have centralized sequencers. A thread 🧵.

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@0xMims

2 years

@permanentgainz @arbitrum cmon man im tryna to go to bed

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@0xMims

2 years

Lord forgive me but it’s time to start eating chicken rice and miscellaneous green again

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@0xMims

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Blockworks Research

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Blockworks Research

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@0xMims

9 months

Howdy folks, check out my delegate proposal for @jito_sol

Delegate Proposal - Darren Mims

Identity and background What is the delegate’s identity and background? Hello everyone, my name is Darren, and I’m a core contributor to FranklinDAO and head of written research for the Research...

forum.jito.network

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@0xMims

2 years

@pseudotheos @apolynya Didn't this one actually happen though? It's not necessarily a bad idea.

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@0xBalloonLover This got overlooked hard by the fee discussion.

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@0xMims

4 months

Hello folks! I'm running for Arbitrum's Multi-sig Support Service to help streamline the operations related to all ArbitrumDAO's multi-sigs. Feel free to vote for me in snapshot tomorrow!

Arbitrum Multi-sig Support Service (MSS) Nomination Thread

Application Template for Multi-sig Support Service (MSS) Prerequisite: I have read and oblige by the above prerequisites: Yes I choose to opt into MSS chair: Yes Personal Information: Full Name:...

forum.arbitrum.foundation

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@0xMims

7 days

yea so I wish I bet more than 50 bucks @TrustlessState

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@0xMims

3 months

slowly and then all at once

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@0xMims

3 months

first flashnote in the books

Blockworks Research

@blockworksres

3 months

1/ ArbitrumDAO governance has reached a critical juncture with three new proposals that could significantly shape the DAO's future: - ARB staking - New transaction ordering policy - Increasing the base gas fee What is Blockworks' research perspective on these proposals? A 🧵

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@0xMims

2 years

I'm trying out paragraph, might just migrate over here and stop using substack. Here's something new, a quick little summarization of what's happening in the CBDC world. Expect a lot more soon.

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@0xMims

1 year

@adamscochran I mean people forget about the success of Snoo NFT tradeables

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@0xMims

2 years

@Bond_Protocol , @Darrenlautf , @DAdvisoor , @OlympusAgora , @OlympusProBonds , @OlympusDAO , @kamikaz_ETH , @llamaintern , @nansen_intern , @DefiIgnas , @CryptoSnooper_ , @crawlieio , @mattnosleep , @corleonescrypto

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@0xMims

2 years

@VitalikButerin , @glenweyl , and @pujaohlhaver , recently published a paper on the possibilities of Soulbound Tokens (SBTs). SBTs are tokens that are non-transferable and can be issued to a Soul (user’s wallet). A 🧵 summarizing some of the paper's highlights. 1/24

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@0xMims

2 months

@EffortCapital yeah i was just about to say you said this for ORE and look how that turned out. lol, just lol.

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@0xMims

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@drakefjustin what the EF's thoughts are for the long-term development of EIP-1559 and EIP-4844 price markets.

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@0xMims

5 months

a lot of good things on the horizon

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@0xMims

2 years

7. Aptos will do an any%speedrun to ghost chain status, mass migration to Sui, only to have a repeat. Diabolical tokenomics + cringe histories with FTX, Saber, etc + mercenary users will make for a short boom, massive sell off, and a flatline.

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@0xMims

2 years

@GwartyGwart Imagine the nft projects moving to base

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@0xMims

23 days

in my ideal world you’d own no car and be happy

me

@mememe69696969

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crypto bros will have 1M in their ledger but take the bus and not have a license

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@sassal0x I think you’re missing a key crux to the argument here. People aren’t worried about cash flow revenue for ETH alone, it’s a combination that ETH has low cash flows currently, and what maybe the most valuable layer in the “modular” stack — execution — was conceded to rollups. We

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@0xMims

2 years

wow am i happy that my chosen cex is coinbase

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@0xMims

2 years

@arjunnchand Devcon Bogota discussion on YouTube, @argentHQ , and @FiftyFinney has a good substack post on it

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@0xMims

1 year

@0xDinoEggs this is actually an idea I have, maybe I’ll try to make it one day

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@0xMims

2 months

I take it back ORE sucks. The stake multiplier isn’t high enough to make staking worth it, and even if it was that just leads to a long term centralization problem. pure meme, you live and learn. Maybe I’ll keep mining tho and insta dumping

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@0xMims

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@Ace_da_Book What? There are entire sections of the roadmap not completed? There’s still quantum resistance implementations, further data availability upgrades, hell this year the EF will break its record again and achieve the biggest ETH Hardfork to date.

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@0xMims

4 months

@nickwh8te @solana @farcaster_xyz Sure, but its basically confirmed/obvious that the blinks are going to be an all encompassing solution for both X/other platforms and for whatever native platform is already in development.

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@0xMims

2 years

@SolanaLegend No one's ignoring the centralized state of L2s. There's a reason it's a recurring topic at every conference. L2s aren't any more extractive than your avg alt L1 (aptos).

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@0xMims

2 years

• State of AVAX NFT Market The Avalanche NFT market is very small and has room for growth. It ranks 12th in NFT sales behind WAX blockchain, Cardano, and others, according to CryptoSlam. AVAX NFTs are most dominantly traded on OpenSea or Joepegs (Trader Joe NFT marketplace).

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@0xMims

2 years

@asimfiles @avalabsofficial @avalancheavax congratulations man

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@0xMims

2 years

11. if this point isn't obvious, then this tweet sums up my view for 2023 very well.

FranklinDAO

@franklin_dao

2 years

@JonWong2002 “Modular blockchain stacks and cross-chain infrastructure are low-hanging fruits that will see great adoption and even more VC investment in 2023. We will see massive growth in the use of DA layers (EigenDA and Celestia), bridges, and the Cosmos ecosystem.” 5/14

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@0xMims

10 months

me when i get the sol phone in 2 days and the airdrop is worth 2 cents

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@0xMims

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@lmrankhan @howdymerry . @whetstonedotcc ’s Doppler

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@0xMims

2 years

ETH dumped 10% overnight. This is why I exclusively invest in high quality blockchains like Cardano. The price clearly reflects its fundamentals.

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@0xMims

2 years

1. More unfinished L2 tokens are to be released. Probably the ARB token followed by 1-2 zkr tokens (expecting Stark and zkSync). None of these tokens will be used for anything apart from governance right now, but will later be used to further decentralize rollups down the line.

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@0xMims

3 months

One of the cool underrated features is definitely the ingame chat with farcaster. It’s a simple game rn, but I enjoy actually signing in and trying to finish my quests.

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@0xMims

3 months

A friend shared this with me and it was a terrifying read lol. If I interpreted it right, the tldr is that our experience of existence is either discrete (our past version of ourself dies constantly?) or we can teleport and not die in the process. It never crossed my mind that

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@0xMims

9 months

@kelxyz_ Surprised no one has made a sniff token for farcaster. “Fartcaster” + rhymes with wif. no brainer

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@0xMims

2 years

- go back to learning a third language after getting a job - run 5ks more consistently (ran in 1 for 2022, going for 3+, at least 1 while studying abroad) - blah blah broaden social network blah blah friends - have another neurodevelopment moment like at devcon this year

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@0xMims

2 years

Recently, @SynapseProtocol made the announcement that it will be launching an optimistic rollup, “Synapse Chain” in the future. Paired with this was the information for a future SynV2. A summary of all the information in the announcement 👇🧵

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@0xMims

1 year

@TrustlessState Inb4 Polygon, Risc0, Starkware, Matter Labs, Aleo, something else I’m prolly missing

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@0xMims

2 years

6. Eigenlayer. few. oh and also Celestia (many).

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it’s time

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If Ethereum is concerned with its “moneyness” then it should rug LSTs enshrining liquid capability to raw ETH with some monetary policy

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@0xMims

2 years

If you caught me in early 2022/late2021 you'd know I was essentially bullish on every single alt l1. Now I feel far different, and I'm more or less automatically pessimistic about most L1s, bar Cosmos, and even then I am skeptical. Here's a few L1 predictions.

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@0xMims

2 years

Finally, the GNS team is extremely active and are soon to launch v6.2 and plan to bring single sided staking for the $GNS token in the coming 2 weeks. I hope you enjoyed this thread and learned something new! 7/7

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2 years

hope you enjoyed my basic ass predictions. if you notice an absence of MEV content it's because that's kinda a dark forest for me (thank you ill be in town until jan 31st). hopefully, I can develop a question to answer that'll be worthwhile for myself and for creating an audience

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@0xMims

3 years

@blknoiz06 The biggest part of AAVE v3 is that it allows for liquidity bridging. There’ll be bridges approved through governance proposals and AAVE’s aTokens will be burned on the initial network transfer and minted on the destination network. Basically more cross chain interaction.

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@0xMims

2 years

So why are bonds necessary in crypto? Many protocols suffer from liquidity issues and treasury risks. Commonly protocols launch a liquidity incentives program to bootstrap liquidity through yield farming on their platform. This has mixed results.

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💸 contd. Current subnets in development take advantage of this advantage heavily, notably SHRAPNEL with its NFT looting system and Dexalot, a centralized limit orderbook platform. A subnet that can deploy parallel processing with low finality would be killer for both these apps.

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@GamingOnAvax

2 years

Gaming on Avalanche took huge steps in 2022 and it’s still just the start. 2023 is going to be huge, let’s honor 2022 with a recap thread. 0/32

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Thesis: Optimism will eventually outperform Arbitrum Let me explain! A thread 🧵

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2 years

So, Messari thinks that this stablecoin may increase Curve's revenue by anywhere between 40-100%. If you want to read their prediction DM me. We'll see what happens! By the way, I'm rebranding my substack to check it out now! 7/7

denotes | Darren Mims | Substack

Click to read denotes, by Darren Mims, a Substack publication. Launched 3 years ago.

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