Introducing Tap In, a video series where I review onchain consumer apps
First up is
@usemoonshot
— a normie-friendly app for trading memecoins
Let me know in the replies what I should review next week!
personal update — I’ve joined the investing team at
@dragonfly_xyz
!
excited to learn from the best and work closely with the defi maven
@tomhschmidt
@offchainlabs
, it was a hell of a ride 💙
DMs open if you’re building (or pre-building) anything interesting >|<
The $ARB airdrop is cool but people are sleeping on the real innovation 😴
- Fully executable on-chain governance, not a multisig enacting off-chain Snapshot proposals
- Arbitrum Orbit, permissionlessly build L3 chains using the best rollup tech available
Check your chain
My devconnect schedule
Monday:
@Chainlink
Instanbul, giving a talk on Data Streams
Tuesday - Wednesday:
@L2beat
Days, on a panel about volitions, validiums, and optimums
Thursday: AAvolution House, on a panel about account abstraction on L2s
Friday - Sunday —
@ETHGlobal
Underappreciated: L2s suck up billions worth of ETH in DeFi
e.g.
- Every shitcoin on Base paired with ETH in Uniswap
- Restaked ETH on Arbitrum deposited into Pendle
- Majority of Aave's collateral is some ETH deriv
Paying DA fees is not the only way L2s contribute to Ethereum
@Kripto_Ozzy
@Optimism
Ethereum has gotten stronger:
* Under $0.01 txfees on L2
* Two EVM L2s (
@Optimism
@arbitrum
) now at stage 1
* Cross-L2 wallet UX has improved a lot (eg. no more manually switching networks), though still a long way to go
* Much more powerful and mature ZK tooling making life
I see many projects describe themselves as an AVS which doesn’t make sense
Your security model is not the product
and signaling alignment with a restaking platform will not make the product any more useful
How Stylus solves a key tradeoff in the VM debate:
Yesterday I spoke on a panel titled 𝑬𝑽𝑴 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒗𝒊𝒓𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒍 𝒎𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔: 𝒘𝒉𝒚 𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓?
There is generally a direct tradeoff as a developer where you must choose between
Racer single-handedly saved Ethereum
@base
was a ghost chain before
@friendtech
now base is the default for consumer apps, which will onboard the next billion users to the EVM
please pray for our Lord and Savior
The proposal for adopting
@arbitrum
Stylus is live for discussion!
Stylus brings Rust smart contracts to Arbitrum without compromising on EVM compatibility.
- Higher efficiency
- More accessibility
- Fully interoperable with the EVM
This is a first.
Social identity in crypto can be complicated. Make a few changes to your profile and risk instantly losing all recognizability. We rebrand anyway.
I'm still
@gmEthereum
building
@arbitrum
.
The only difference is I've joined the garden ⛩️
So much talk about TPS and almost all of it doesn’t make sense
@arbitrum
can do over 6000 TPS with a max throughput of 128m gas per second
These numbers can be arbitrarily raised too. But you won’t find any marketing around this since max TPS is a vanity metric
The Arbitrum ecosystem just got a whole lot easier to explore, with a huge new update to the Arbitrum Portal!
Explore the Portal, a gateway to over 600 apps on Arbitrum One & Nova. 💙🧡
Welcome to the leading
@ethereum
ecosystem:
🌐
Trying out
@escherxyz
and collected my first piece by
@PopWonderNFT
Really enjoy being able to scroll through curated artists, as someone who knows nothing about art, but likes the art 🖼️
If you're interested in hearing spicy account abstraction questions answered by industry experts, join our panel in 30 minutes!
This is going to be fun
Last week we announced Stylus, a new way to write smart contracts in Rust, C, and C++ that cuts compute costs by over 10x and memory costs by over 100x.
Here are 3 practical use cases that can be done today:
1. Turn your smartphone into a hardware wallet
Crypto UX needs a
The attention to detail
@blitmap
has put into their comics is 🤌
From the foil bag creating a memorable opening experience, to the patent pending hyperpress making every cover unique, to the material of the comic itself
The means of proliferating IP has arrived 🌞
gm, I have shipped Alpha Pills v2! 💊
The site is meant for newcomers to better understand
@pillsuniverse
, and help casual observers keep up with all of the moving parts and progress. Made with ❤️.
Please check it out and let me know your thoughts!
Finally had a chance to play
@The_Beacon_GG
powered by
@Treasure_DAO
Actually pretty fun and challenging
Characters and items are on-chain but also an option to play for free
Rooting for projects like this ✨
Stylus is the most monumental piece of blockchain innovation of 2023 — Why? 👇
𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐧, 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬
Developers are now free to use their preferred programming language, all interoperable on any Arbitrum chain with Stylus.
𝐄𝐕𝐌+
EVM equivalence is
Today is Arbitrum Day
Last year we took one giant leap with the launch of Arbitrum Nitro.
Today we’re excited to announce that we are taking another big leap with the release of the code and public testnet for Arbitrum Stylus. 🖊👇
Do you believe people are genuinely having fun on
@friendtech
?
While everyone is tripping over themselves to point out every flaw in its design, countless small-knit communities are forming each with their own unique vibe and crowd.
Wherever it goes, I’m enjoying the ride ⛵️
One thing that's been harder to come by since joining
@arbitrum
: original thoughts
Most of what passes through my mind has already been considered by coworkers with more knowledge and experience
Over time this will improve, but for now, sometimes all I can do is watch and learn
You can now run a blockchain using the most advanced rollup technology on your typical standard laptop. No solidity experience required.
It's a surreal feeling, check it out ⬇️
Today, we're releasing tooling that will make building your own Arbitrum Orbit chain easier than ever.
To start, we're providing a quickstart guide & tools to help you with building your Orbit DevNet chain!
🔗 start building via docs:
Renegade lets you trade privately without trusting a central actor, on a chain with real liquidity
This doesn't exist anywhere else
I've had the pleasure of working with the Renegade team both while working on
@arbitrum
and now at
@dragonfly_xyz
— they're as cracked as it gets
Renegade, the first on-chain dark pool, is live on Arbitrum.
Fully-private trading with zero MEV, slippage, or price impact.
Dark pools account for nearly half of the TradFi market, and Renegade unlocks dark pools for DeFi —
Here's how Renegade works 🧵
Now that the Timeboost proposal is live, which essentially gives
@arbitrum
the ability to print (or burn) millions of dollars, here is my gentle introduction to MEV and transaction ordering on L2s for those wanting to learn why Timeboost is important
Smart Wallets have been around for a while now
An update:
1. The only meaningful growth is coming from Base. Consumer apps + developer incentives are contributing to this, but most of the growth is coming from a single app —
@blocklords
2. The main source of activity comes
cryptoeconomic security is just insurance
web3 insurance = reusing capital via composability + a transparent and deterministic protocol for payouts
@eigenlayer
use case is simple
Since Arbitrum's inception, a proper website that touches upon the many surfaces of innovation the team is executing on each and every day has not existed.
That changes today.
Had a blast building this alongside some friends. Check it out!
I have been building a community homepage for
@pillsuniverse
to help people keep up with the project and as a landing spot for newcomers
Cool art, alpha leaks, and links to dive deeper
Check out today’s community call notes to catch up!
@b0bby
@optimismPBC
Donating to gitcoin through Zksync should make wallets eligible for the donation criteria, not just L1
Maybe the donation should be over a certain threshold to be eligible, but I just wanted to save gas
KEEP is my mindset for chain abstraction:
Keep
Existing
Experiences
Please
Build a future where the user does not have to change anything
Shifting consumer defaults or getting people to switch wallets is hard. Apps accepting funds from any chain, from any wallet, from any user
Every instance of "dApp" has been officially purged from the Arbitrum website and portal
The future of web3 is apps, not dApps
Apps not dApps
Apps not dApps
Apps not dApps
The OP Superchain is a walled garden.
Quoting their words, not mine:
"OP Chains must upgrade together under OP Stack releases that are approved by Optimism Governance"
If you want to join the garden, you give up customizability, flexibility, and governance.
Source –
A massive barrier to building on Ethereum is getting removed
Solidity is becoming less and less of a requirement for developers looking to take the leap into crypto
This is how adoption happens
🥳 Attn Devs:
Stylus is on its way!💙🧡
Join the brilliant
@CryptoIsCute
for the unveiling of Stylus, Arbitrum's next-gen programming environment deploying later this year—and learn why we say it’s “EVM+.”
Announcement highlights🧵👇
hey groupies, hope you're having a blast of a day!
we just released our second roadtrip update, this time is filled with a lot of news, so please grab a drink of your choice and enjoy the trip 💕
Stylus makes
@arbitrum
a strong dark-horse competitor as a zkp-verification network
Many zkp systems are not yet provable in a smart contract, but have verifiers that can compile to WASM
Arbitrum already has all the interop infra in place
Submit proof to Arbitrum -> bridge
@ratwell0x
also make sure you are getting sunlight when you first wake up (through a closed window isn't as effective), try to not consume caffeine less than 60 min from waking, and also try to not eat anything at least 2 hours from going to bed :)
Proposal to adopt RIP-7212 on Arbitrum is live
This small upgrade can drastically change how we think about wallet security and UX
Soon, everyone will have the ability to turn their smartphone into a hardware wallet
Fact-checking claims made in Arbitrum's latest announcement
> The most advanced scaling technology in the world
According to
@l2beat
's analysis, Arbitrum One is the furthest along in decentralization and security of all general-purpose rollups. However, "advanced" can be
After months of development, Arbitrum Orbit is mainnet-ready! 🪐
Permissionlessly build a customized chain using the most advanced scaling technology in the world.
Why Orbit? 🧵
Expanding the L2 market by introducing Wasm chains to Ethereum.
Polygon Labs and NEAR Foundation are teaming up to develop a zero-knowledge (ZK) prover for Wasm blockchains in order to bridge the gap between Wasm-based chains and the Ethereum ecosystem. When complete, a zkWasm
Wait until they find out subsidizing L1 validators with token emissions cost more than paying for blobs...
L2s relying on proving over consensus is so under appreciated
Human coordination is the foundation of all progress ever made
The emergence of blockchains enable grand coordination without trust in other humans
We are witnessing the inevitable
Calling all web3 pioneers, builders, researchers & innovators 🌟
The House of Web3 is officially open!
This is the biggest & best co-creation space for web3 contributors and the web3 curious, right in the heart of the Presidio of San Francisco.
@TheSmarmyBum
Need to whitelist specific nft projects or people will just right click save and mint their worthless copies to use as their “verified” pfp
This will be one of the first examples of an AI Data Sculpture that, in realtime, infinitely dreams MoMA’s art collection by using
@nvidia
’ s DGX AI Super Computer with inputs from vision, sound and climate sensors with custom software that we developed for this dynamic NFT work!
Share price on
@friendtech
can be a higher signal value of social capital than number of followers
Followers are up only, when in reality social capital is volatile
@Arthur_0x
Not only will the masks have a physical aspect with wooden cutouts, but the art itself is beautiful and brand new every time you refresh. By the incredibly talented
@takawo
Atlas
@atlasevm
is cool
(1) Generalized and programmable order flow auctions
(2) Plugs into an app's front end which provides the closest source to order flow
(3) The network of solvers bidding to fulfill user intents is permissionless
(4) Devs can inject arbitrary logic
Big thank you to
@SecondSelfNFT
on the honorary! Suits me well ⚔️
Highly suggest looking into the project if you’re interested in seeing a full-blown anime built from the ground up by a top-notch team
@TonariAnimation
You can view the trailer below 🍜
many takes on vitalik's defi riff
common thread that seems to be missing — speculation bootstraps the infrastructure which supports a more sustainable ecosystem
this isn't new, but maybe forgotten? you don't need to choose a side
Gathered some
@fractional_art
alpha from the latest Delphi podcast with
@andy8052
and sharing below ⬇️
- Wanted Fractional to be on-chain and crypto-native from the beginning
-
@prtyDAO
PartyBid for a zombie punk was the first time ppl really understood what was happening
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