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Michael Silberling

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Data @OPLabsPBC building @Optimism | Go Gators 🐊 | Tweets are my own and I’m sorry for them | fc: msilb7

South Florida
Joined May 2009
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Michael Silberling
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building things
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Michael Silberling
2 years
👀 Optimism transfers are now live for me on @coinbase
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Omg people are doing inscriptions on LinkedIn now
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Michael Silberling
3 years
A bit of Yearn narrative with data ( @iearnfinance ): Yearn's top vaults each manage hundreds of millions of dollars, but only from a few thousand addresses. From the outside, it may seem like this is a bunch of whales doing whale things. But in reality, it's mostly smaller fish
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Finally made a *super simple* dashboard to solve one of my biggest block explorer pain points. Enter an address, return all of the contracts that they created on Ethereum, Optimism, and Polygon ~with links to Etherscan~:
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Michael Silberling
2 years
It's been absolutely wild to see the recent crypto support for Ukraine. I set up this dashboard to ~try~ to track everything that's happening: Continuing to build this in real-time, let me know what I'm missing / if you have a chart to contribute!
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Michael Silberling
3 years
Dune's trending dashboards are the new signal for "wtf is happening" in crypto
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Michael Silberling
4 years
@wongmjane Solved it
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Michael Silberling
3 years
Inspired by @BanklessHQ 's panel, I put up a VERY early, basic EIP1559 dashboard with @DuneAnalytics showing Eth burnt, tip spent, ratio of tip to burn, % of transactions with the 1559 structure, and fee change over time.
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2 years
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A lil preview of experimenting with the @DefiLlama API - Trying to track where value is moving within crypto/DeFi for a given period: Sector size = Sum of Net Flows In/Out of each app over the last 7 days Color = Blue if net inflow (+), Red if net outflow (-).
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Michael Silberling
4 years
It's silly that I ever thought I was good at this sport.
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Rob Friedman
4 years
Luis Castillo, 99mph Fastball and 87mph Changeup (home plate view)
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Michael Silberling
2 years
Hidden gem: You can now mint NFTs on @viamirror ON OPTIMISM I minted my NFT of our announcement blog for 0.0002 ETH ($0.66) 🙂
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Optimism
2 years
Scaling the technology alone is not enough. If we want to scale our networks, we must scale our values alongside them. In pursuit of this mission, we are excited to announce the Optimism Collective.
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Blobs are just Ethereum Stories
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Michael Silberling
3 years
WE ARE LIVE. Side-by-Side @DuneAnalytics Dashboard of Uniswap v3 activity on Ethereum versus Optimism. Track Volume, Fees, TVL, # of Users, and the most popular trading pairs over time as both deployments ramp up.
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Michael Silberling
2 years
Oh wow, all-time high in daily transactions today. Who knew.
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based. optimistic. zoratastic.
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Michael Silberling
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~* Some Personal News *~ This week I started full-time with @optimismPBC to do cool data stuff and help grow Optimistic Ethereum! And what a time it is join ⬇️
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Optimism
3 years
🎊🎉🌈 Network upgrade complete: EVM Equivalence is LIVE on Optimistic Ethereum! EVM Equivalence means that means that deployment is a breeze, network stability is at an ATH, and tooling. just. works. Here's what to keep in mind as the upgrade is now live 👇
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stay out of this
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optimism always wins
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Michael Silberling
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lil something I don't think I've shared... Optimism - L2 Transaction Fees & L1 Security Costs 🔴✨ ✉️⛓ 🧬 L2 Fees Collected 📤 L1 Batch Submission Costs ⛽️ L1 Gas Used per L2 Tx 💻 Calldata Compression Ratio 🗃 Batch Size & Timing 🔴✨ Fun & More
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Michael Silberling
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Blob math (pt 2): What happens when we hit congestion, when will that be? Blobgas is priced like Eth L1. There's a target per block. Above target, price goes up. Below, goes down. Today, rollups use ~22% of the target (T28D); so we're ~4x growth away from blobgas price > 1 gwei
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Michael Silberling
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Blob math: everything is free until you hit congestion
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Michael Silberling
1 year
Sybil hunting is an endless & winless arms race. Our approaches need to be attack-resistant ~by design~. Here’s how Optimism drop #2 iterates towards this:
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Optimism
1 year
Today Optimism is announcing OP Airdrop #2 . 11.7M OP distributed to over 300k unique addresses to reward positive-sum governance participation and power users of Optimism Mainnet. Read on for details on eligibility criteria and distribution.
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Michael Silberling
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Past midnight UTC, and we can look back on the first major OP Chain fee spike Post-4844: - Base saw a rush of activity from transactors that were ~seemingly not fee sensitive. - When L2 congestion pricing kicked in, activity didn't start to decline until L2 gas hit 4 gwei (!?!)
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Michael Silberling
3 years
While large whale depositors and DeFi apps drive up the TVL, the majority of users skew towards retail scale. I'm interested to follow this over time (I hold YFI). If you do as well, or want to look at other vaults, check out my @DuneAnalytics dashboard:
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Michael Silberling
2 years
LOOK AT THIS GRAPH
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Michael Silberling
3 years
The best part of the Elon interview was Elon interviewing Vlad
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Michael Silberling
1 year
Did a lil @MessariCrypto subgraphs + @DefiLlama prices api magic to make OP grants program measurement way easier 🤜🤛
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Michael Silberling
6 months
Biggest story today in crypto imo
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Optimism
6 months
RetroPGF Round 3 results are here! 30M OP was granted to contributors building the public goods that power the Optimism Collective.
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Michael Silberling
2 years
This view from is sick. Among just a subset of the most used apps, Optimism is creating $7.78 of value for every $1 in protocol fees.
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Michael Silberling
2 years
Largest month for Transactions and Gas Used in @optimismFND history 👀
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@TalkinBaseball_ Former players should have to play the real fences
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Michael Silberling
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v excited to launch a clearer path for analytics contributions and impact to the Optimism Collective / cc @chuxin_h Become a #NumbaNERD 🔴✨ - Info: - Role sign-up: - WIP Project Board: More to come!
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Michael Silberling
1 year
If you're using Base on a non-Coinbase Wallet wallet, watch out for bad/high priority fee recommendations. You don't need a 1.5 gwei priority fee (I did 0.001). About 41% of transactions are paying fees that are too high!
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Michael Silberling
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testing something
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Michael Silberling
3 years
Can confirm: ETH was net deflationary yesterday + burn is ticking up again in recent blocks. Now, can we go back to low gas prices... please?
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Michael Silberling
2 years
I have accomplished everything that I wanted to this week. #ETHDenver
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Michael Silberling
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Finally knocking something off my todo/ to learn list from 2022. ShroomDK from @flipsidecrypto . Let's see if we use more python than sql in 2023
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Michael Silberling
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finally more points
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Michael Silberling
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Touch sand
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Michael Silberling
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Experimenting with the new Optimism datasets in @flipsidecrypto 🔴✨ 72k addresses have already gone through the new @optimismFND "Get Started" program and claimed Optimistic Explorer NFTs!
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Michael Silberling
4 months
Once again: “Kids, this is why we don’t count ‘active addresses’”
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Douglas Mun
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*Evolution of click farm fraud.* 1st generation click farm fraud, fully manual labour.
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Michael Silberling
2 years
How much could you save for your users on Layer 2? Enter any Ethereum Transaction to compare its gas fee -vs- what the same transaction would cost on Layer 2 @optimismPBC 🔴✨ Challenge: Who can find the apps with the greatest potential savings? 👀
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Michael Silberling
2 years
Do I have FOMO for not being at DuneCon? Yes. But since nobody is online, my @DuneAnalytics queries are also running faster than ever. Checkmate.
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Michael Silberling
1 year
Optimism - Bedrock Migration Impact 🛏️🪨 Follow along LIVE, starting @ 16:00 UTC +~4: 🔴 % Savings and Projected Total User Savings ✨ L1 Gas Paid per Tx (Efficiency), L2 Gas per Second, L1 Data KBps, Compression Ratio 🔥 Rollup Economics & Network Usage
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Michael Silberling
2 years
OP Summer in data, a few weeks in… 🔴✨🏖️ aka, Michael rambles about cool charts and metrics for a few tweets. Also, join our Twitter Space in ~2 hours to hear more from projects with live #OPSummer programs!
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Optimism
2 years
Join us tomorrow for a special #OPSummer incentives Space featuring guests @rubicondefi @thalesmarket @TheLayer2DAO and @lyrafinance to learn about how each of these projects are using their OP incentives. ⏰: August 5th, 1800 UTC
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Michael Silberling
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I'll say it: There are too many OP Stack chains Need help tracking everything 😬
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Michael Silberling
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Since there are a lot of threads referencing our OP & L2 Dashboards... What is demand like for an explainer on OP Stack Chain economics: - How L2 transaction fees are calculated - Where costs on L1 come from - How to explain net onchain revenue (margin) & comparisons across L2s
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Michael Silberling
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New lil dashboard: App Growth on Optimism After Quests 📺✨ 🔗 ⚖️ Measure usage since tv baby mints turned off vs a baseline Pre-Quests 📊 Optimism Transaction growth +55% (+29% within Quest apps) 💻 14/18 apps had increased transaction usage, 10 > 2x'd
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Michael Silberling
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ok made this by minute because we love the chaos. Logarithmic Version
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Slowly adding some of my own charts
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Michael Silberling
3 years
I wrote a bit about my exploration into @DuneAnalytics and early findings from analyzing @Uniswap v3 data as I fall deeper and deeper down the crypto rabbit hole.
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lol etherscan had to add more decimal places cheaper than ever to mint on the superchain
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Michael Silberling
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OP Mainnet = Chain ID 10, the chain formerly known as Optimistic Ethereum, and for a bit Optimism Optimism = The Superchain, The Collective Optimism is not a single chain (had to wait until April 2 to start standing on my soapbox clarifying language)
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Michael Silberling
2 years
Update for this week (last 7 days net dollar flows between DeFi apps): - MM Finance on Polygon +$338M - Instadapp +$181M, Aave +$149M on L1 (people trying to farm ethpow?) - WBTC +$254M on L1 👀 interesting Interactive version here (updates every 6 hrs):
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A lil preview of experimenting with the @DefiLlama API - Trying to track where value is moving within crypto/DeFi for a given period: Sector size = Sum of Net Flows In/Out of each app over the last 7 days Color = Blue if net inflow (+), Red if net outflow (-).
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I've been bridging from L1 -> L2 with this for <$2 This is the most magical product ever
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Optimism
2 years
🚨 Red alert! Depositing small (≤ 0.5) amounts of ETH to Optimism just became ~5x cheaper and ~15x faster! Warp Speed is a custodial bridge enabling one of the cheapest deposit fees of ETH in the ecosystem. Optimism Bridge: Warp Speed engage! ☄️🔴✨
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Michael Silberling
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docs pages like this are all that analysts want 🙏 shout out @redstonexyz
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Michael Silberling
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What did you call me
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Michael Silberling
2 years
stop funding private bads start funding public goods 🌞
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Omg blobs fixed everything
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Michael Silberling
2 years
2 weeks live with calldata compression -> Fees lowered by 20% this week.
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Michael Silberling
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Talking to myself in Slack channels while everyone is in Denver
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Michael Silberling
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Year 2 ends today, year 3 begins tomorrow. Time flies when you’re having fly times.
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Michael Silberling
3 years
~* Some Personal News *~ This week I started full-time with @optimismPBC to do cool data stuff and help grow Optimistic Ethereum! And what a time it is join ⬇️
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Michael Silberling
1 year
Summertime on Optimism
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Base
1 year
ᴏɴᴄʜᴀɪɴ ꜱᴜᴍᴍᴇʀ 🟡
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Michael Silberling
2 years
Can we do the next NFT mint on L2 🤷
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Michael Silberling
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What's even more mind-bending is when you look at who some of the whales actually are. Some are legitimate whales, but the DAI vault's largest holder is @AlchemixFi (76% of TVL) and WBTC's is @BadgerDAO (91%), which are themselves collections of more individual participants.
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Michael Silberling
2 years
Trending on @DuneAnalytics > Trending on Twitter 🔴✨
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Michael Silberling
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Even cooler - RetroPGF Round #2 Results are posted onchain! So you can build RetroPGF dashboards in @DuneAnalytics , @flipsidecrypto , or whatever your tool of choice is! (v excited to see these) See the queries below to pull data from the Optimsim AttestationStation (ATST) 👇
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Optimism
1 year
Huge news: the results of RetroPGF 2 are in! 🌞🌱 This experiment in retroactive public goods funding is driving growth of the Optimism ecosystem by allocating resources to the projects and people that have demonstrated positive impact.
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Michael Silberling
3 years
This was probably the most ambitious and complicated crypto analytics dashboard I’ve put together yet. And hopefully one of the most impactful 👇
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Llama
3 years
Introducing: @AaveAave Treasury Analytics Dashboard by Llama Real-time, open-source, and transparent financial reporting for DeFi. 👻 🤝 🦙
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Michael Silberling
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New @Optimism Foundation Mission Request: Badgeholder Onchain Analysis 👀 ⛓️ Understand badgeholders' onchain activity, compared vs a baseline 🔴 Can we evaluate them across multiple addresses? How onchain are they? Is there any skew? 🟣 Other indications from social activity?
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Michael Silberling
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omg
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Jesse Pollak (jesse.xyz) 🛡️
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the @coinbase smart wallet is the most important new product since @base and the most consequential consumer wallet launched in the last 5 years. it's the last piece to bring billions of people onchain — because it "just works." see for yourself
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Michael Silberling
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Finally decomposed OP Chains' onchain costs by the source of fees. Previously this was bundled in 'L1 Data Fees,' but now: - L1 Calldata: Used to be 99% of costs, now 0% - L1 Overhead: 21k Gas per L1 Tx (EVM), 1% to 70% - Blobgas: ~0% for now - State Proposals: Counting for now
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Michael Silberling
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Your favorite dashboard is back & ready to observe the gas target increase coming to @base later today. ⚡️ Median gas fee paid by transacting users 🔵 L2 Base Fee Gas Prices across the available Superchain chains 🔴 Top L2 Gas Consuming `to` Contracts
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Since we rolled out 4844, we’ve seen a 5x increase in demand on @base , driving fees back up To reduce fees and scale, we’re increasing the gas target 50% (to 3.75 mgas/s) tomorrow and then to 5 mgas/s following an observation period, targeting early next week
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Michael Silberling
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Your weekend project should be to apply for Optimism RetroPGF (Retroactive Public Goods Funding)
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Michael Silberling
2 years
@0xngmi 2020: How will your SaaS startup compete with Microsoft Excel? 2022: How will our crypto data startup compete with DefiLlama?
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Michael Silberling
2 years
Sharing a lil early WIP dashboard with how we can think about address retention and new address flows (somewhat technical): The usuals: I work at OP Labs, actively use these apps, etc 🌞
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Michael Silberling
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Our Superchain Dashboard just delivered its first day of Blob data: - 1.9M Transactions per day, 6.9M Gas per second across 4 OP Chains (Base, OP Mainnet, Mode, Zora) - As data costs (and user fees) went towards 0, chain revenue sources flipped from L1 Data to L2 Priority Fees.
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Michael Silberling
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Not that the rest of us aren’t strategic, but if you know onchain data and know strats and like sunny, then boy do I have a surprise for you: (Note: Role is at @Optimism Unlimited Ltd)
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Michael Silberling
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L2 Base Fees are rising before Blobgas Base Fee has even budged. Scaling L2 execution has now become more impactful. Superchain. Scaling L2s. Collision Course. (See next tweet)
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Michael Silberling
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@Fwiz Just started watching… I’m concerned for him
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Michael Silberling
2 years
Re-Sharing - Net Flows In/Out of DeFi Apps on Optimism since OP rewards announcements ( @DefiLlama API): v interesting now that programs are maturing and/or ending: - @AaveAave +$255M - @VelodromeFi +$52M - @StargateFinance +$42M - @PoolTogether_ +$34M
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Michael Silberling
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6.9M gas / second used across the Superchain yesterday
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Michael Silberling
2 years
Yearn was the first project that invited me in when I was just getting started in crypto + I still have the YFI I earned for contributing. A+ experience, A+ group. ❤️ @iearnfinance
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Michael Silberling
2 years
Yesterday in @quixotic_io (NFTs on @optimismPBC ) - All-Time High in # of NFT Exchanges (302) - All-Time High in # of Unique Addresses (279) - All-Time Largest Exchange (3.95 ETH - 2 days ago) - Avg Gas Fees: $1.14
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Michael Silberling
2 years
The team, the team, the team
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Michael Silberling
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Yesterday @opensea deployed on @optimismFND , expanding it's footprint on Ethereum Layer 2s! ⛵️🔴✨ So naturally, we have a dashboard to start tracking it: Join OP Radio space with OpenSea and Optimism at 11AM EST (3PM UTC)! (Link at the end) 1/3
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Michael Silberling
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@LeBatard_Reddit Cuban coffee
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Michael Silberling
2 years
I think a better measure than “transactions” for chain usage is ~“app actions.” Take transactions, then remove token approvals, transfers, failed txs, “self” txs, prob more things. If apps are the value prop, then we should focus on that vs other things that stuff tx counts.
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Michael Silberling
1 year
Sneak peek at a dashboard to check optimism economic activity & network usage in one spot. It has pretty colors.
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Michael Silberling
3 years
Ever wanted to see how a Uniswap v3 Liquidity Pool composes of each concentrated position / LP? (very very very very extremely WIP)
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Michael Silberling
2 years
Web2 me vs Web3 me
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Michael Silberling
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~New metric - open for feedback~ Revenue-Generating Deployers ( #RevDevs ): A proxy for "how many developers are responsible for onchain activity" 🔴✨
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