2023 was a year of quiet building
2024 will be a year of explosive growth
From a January 3rd Beta launch to a March Mainnet launch,
@0xVirtualLabs
is taking off 🚀🚀
@stats_feed
Czechia didn’t change it’s name, just adopted a casual name
i.e.
France is still the French Republic
Greece is still the Hellenic Republic
Czechia is still the Czech Republic
I am so excited to announce that
@Ontropy
has raised 7 figures in pre-seed funding from top web3 investors!
since founding Ontropy, i dropped out of an ivy league university, turned 20 years old, and rebuilt the entire team and vision from the ground up
Ontropy placed 3rd at ZK Day today and won $3,000! I was thrilled to unveil Virtual Rollups and how state channels enable the future of web3 UX and compute 🎉
I'M BACK ON TWITTER!
After 3 months of stealth, i'm releasing our first blog post, discussing what we've been working on this summer and unveiling our new vision 🔮
i saw the sun rise for this one, i really hope you enjoy!
check it out here ->
Web3 is dying from a lack of new users
Virtual Rollups and layer 2s are the only ways to improve UX and reduce latency to onboard the first billion users to blockchain.
This is the first of many times you'll hear of Virtual Rollups:
@StephenPiment
Correlation is not causation Correlation is not causation Correlation is not causation Correlation is not causation Correlation is not causation Correlation is not causation Correlation is not causation Correlation is not causation Correlation is not causation Correlation is not
Chainlink is scared!
i learned from
@ChrisBlec
that the $LINK Marines are designed to suppress other projects and ideas
First they ignore you
Then they laugh at you
Then they fight you
Then you win
For the first time ever, Chainlink recognized Ontropy as a threat and is scared for the elimination of the oracle! 🤣🤣
Let's show them, Ontroopers! We are stronger than the LINK Marines 💪
Introducing the Virtual Engine: A ZK State Channel that enables DEX trading with CEX cost and UX, zero-latency fully onchain gaming, and an overall streamlined web3 experience.
Hands down the most important piece I've ever written:
new website coming next week! our team designed for
- strong call to action
- frictionless user journey
- simple descriptions/clear utility
such a simple thing that is so hard to get right!
@thatguybg
atrocities are committed all over the world every day. yet somehow people think this gives them a pass to shame people for continuing on with regular business
maybe that’s how they cope, maybe they are unaware of the situation, or maybe they have important information that is
1/ State channels allow users to post collateral and exchange the rights to this escrow P2P without gas or latency. But they are expensive + hard to set up, and must be predefined
That's why
@0xVirtualLabs
has spent the past 6 months building a ZK State Channel which is dynamic:
ONTROPY ENTERS FROM STEALTH! 🔮 Today, we are unveiling the future of blockchain compute and user experience: Virtual Rollups. Over the past 3 months we've expanded the team and vision and are excited to build in public now!
Read about it here ->
I'M BACK ON TWITTER!
After 3 months of stealth, i'm releasing our first blog post, discussing what we've been working on this summer and unveiling our new vision 🔮
i saw the sun rise for this one, i really hope you enjoy!
check it out here ->
I worked for free for 21 months. Today, I got my first paycheck.
I began working on the first version of
@ontropy
with friends from Yale back in January of 2022. Back then, we were a game solving MPC and verifiable randomness. At the beginning of our Junior year, I dropped out
Everyone can have their own blockchain! Huge piece I just published on s*b s t a c k
The Ontropy Client allows users to spin up their own consensus framework for off-chain agreement on a piece of data. Check it out, hot off the press 🔥🔥🔥
GM
Today, I've gone back to my roots as a student of macroeconomics and reflected on the data supporting the case for The 2024 Bull Run.
I also argued that Web3 VC deployment cannot go any lower, so Founders should wait to raise.
Check it out ⏬
Excited to personally welcome
@anatamanov
to the Ontropy team!
Alex has a PHD in Cryptography and exited from the cybersecurity company he founded earlier this year. He is Ontropy’s new Chief Technology Officer!
Ontropy won the audience vote and a PERFECT judge's score with our pitch
@binance
demo day! 🥇 this is a huge moment of validation for our team who have been killing it 🙌
being a founder means being the CEO, CMO, CFO, CIO, content creator and Discord moderator (ive retired from this last one 😅)
entrepreneurs make sacrifices fr
I'm thrilled to announce that
@0xVirtualLabs
has raised $1.2M in our Pre-Seed round, led by
@OPCryptoVC
to eliminate bridging and enable Web3 usability through ZK accumulators and state channels
So far, we've abstracted 100,000 minutes of waiting and plan to accelerate growth to
I just won 272 test USDC playing
@CoChilli_io
! Binary betting is surprisingly fun, especially with this clean UX powered by
@0xVirtualLabs
. Go check it out 👇
“Hey, what are you building?”
“Oh, I’m building a _________! What about you?”
“So cool! I’m building an NFT marketplace.”
…
…
…
“Do you have a Telegram?”
*And they never talked again*
April was the biggest month in Ontropy's history and perhaps my own life
This is my 35th consecutive wednesday thread and it will be the last 🧵 i write for a while ❤️👀
can’t trust banks
can’t trust stable coins
can’t trust cash with inflation at 6%
can’t trust gold with its negative real returns
can’t trust a centralized party with one single point of failure
oh btw crypto as a world system protects us from this
@george__mack
@balajis
great thread except tf is “gdp as a % of global trade.” it’s misleading at best to say that the g7 is declining or was overtaken by BRICS (where S is South Africa not South Asia btw)
to offboard USDC on Near, i had to use
- REF to swap USDC for Near (lost $50)
- Near Wallet to CoinBase (<.01$ gas)
- sell on CoinBase ($150 fee)
- send to Brex ($25 wire)
now waiting 3 days
crypto offboarding is still awful, bullish on anyone who can fix this
I've decided to step down as CEO of Ontropy..
Because I'm now the CEO of
@0xVirtualLabs
!
We've decided to change our name to better align with our products, Virtual Rollup and Virtual Bridge, and because it is easier to pronounce and spell
Read more⬇️
it's great to know the game you're playing is verifiably fair! check out the Proof of Result system and what's happening behind the scenes through link in bio -> inspect -> console
The world’s education system needs a refresh 💫
We are hosting a design-a-thon to surface new ideas for exceptional and scalable education systems.
Win:
- 30 min convo with
@sama
- Over $2,000 in cash prizes
- Acceptance into
@_TheResidency
Learn more 👇
Different than my other articles as this one is an open-ended conversation. Excited to explore this technical topic more as it's crucial to the future of DeFi. LMK your thoughts! 💭🔥
Ontropy is entering a two-week sprint.
so far:
- 40 hour workday
- 24 hour hiring to onboarding turnarounds
- tweaking the direction every few hours
to come:
- an amazing fucking product
- the beginning of a data revolution
- an announcement 👀
Everyone saying ETHCC was bad is speculation-driven. Not a bad thing, but it was a great conference for genuine adoption and real businesses. We don't need hungry new infra startups anymore, we need product-obsessed founders with a passion for consumer.
blockchain doesn't get internally hacked. ->
the billions of dollars in exploits that riddle the news all come from where the real world meets crypto: the oracle problem.
here's how we solved it, and some real-world use cases, 🧵 ->
man at conference: “there are no use cases to blockchain”
me: borderless transactions, protection against authoritarianism, true identity, reducing middle men in real estate transactions, ability to log in without passwords, prove information without revealing data
him: no
🫠
I'm excited to announce, that after months of hard work, our idea has come to life!
Free Gas, Web2 UX with Web3 Games is now a reality, applicable to all
#P2E
and Web3 Games who want to increase their userbases and engagement.
Dive into below ⬇️
1/ 🧵 DLOB vs. AMM vs. CLOB
Why Decentral-Limit Order Books (DLOB) are the Future of Blockchain Trading
Let's dive into why DLOBs offer superior UX, price action, and regulatory compliance compared to Automated Market Makers and Central-Limit Order Books
👇
one of the most exciting problems web3 solves imo: 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐲. once wallets are tied to your driver’s license, passport and are 1 person:1 set of keys, you can instantly check in anywhere you’re supposed to be.
- no lines like this (tickets can’t be
We hit 36 concurrent betting players on roulette this morning. That's huge! Hundreds overall 📈📈
Support for Alpha 2 has been insane! Thank you all for testing and believing❤️
The Ontropy Roadmap is LIVE! We announce the upcoming Ontropy Network as well as seek our partner and Ontrooper feedback in choosing between:
- Account abstraction
- Real APY
- Cross-Chain
What feature do you think we should add next to Virtual Rollups?
Searching "real world blockchain use cases" gives criminally bad results 💩💩. Here's a few strong ones!
Ontropy enables the trustless exchange of houses, concert tickets, and even Twitter handles!
Click below for the best 5 minutes of your day 😁😁