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sacha st. leger

@lazyleger

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mad kids and bad lads

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sacha st. leger

@lazyleger

2 years

coinbase and kraken control almost 30% of all Ethereum validator keys. does anyone even care about fighting back anymore? or are we all too busy basking in our “credible neutrality”?

banteg

@bantg

2 years

Anchorage, Avanti, Bitgo, bitFlyer, Bittrex, BlockFi, Circle, Coinbase, Fidelity Digital AssetsSM, Gemini, Kraken, Paxos, Robinhood, Standard Custody & Trust, Symbridge, Tradestation, Zero Hash, Zodia Custody. Remember the builders of narcware 🚩

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@lazyleger

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"i really believe that if you stopped growing today as lido, at some point another staking protocol takes over... not even a protocol, i think the bigger risk is actually from something like coinbase, alluvial, something like that. especially something that targets institutional

Hasu⚡️🤖

@hasufl

8 months

I'm now live with @LidoFinance to talk about my proposed goals for the next three years

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sacha st. leger

@lazyleger

10 months

cosmos: we have too many chains ethereum: we don’t have enough chains solana: why would anyone need more than one chain?

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@lazyleger

2 months

the state of things

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sacha st. leger

@lazyleger

9 months

saying the quiet part out loud

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sacha st. leger

@lazyleger

5 years

"Cryptography rearranges power: it configures who can do what, from what. This makes cryptography an inherently political tool, and it confers on the field an intrinsically moral dimension."

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@lazyleger

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@lazyleger

3 months

if you're a lad/lassie and i'm not following you back yet, please interact with this tweet

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sacha st. leger

@lazyleger

10 months

If Visa has been invented today, it would not have been allowed to operate in the US

Paul Graham

@paulg

10 months

Visa seemed like a disaster when it was first launched. The kind of people who attack new things today would have been all over it. From the Wikipedia article:

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@lazyleger

8 months

mad lads captures the soul of solana

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@lazyleger

10 months

cosmos will make it solana will make it L2s will make it now can we stop with this stupid tribalism and get on and build

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sacha st. leger

@lazyleger

5 months

record sale $45,762 (1M stars | 16.3 eth)

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sacha st. leger

@lazyleger

7 months

Vitalik: "The Ethereum stack has lots of layer. a front door 51% attack is by far not the cheapest way to make Ethereum break or to censor Ethereum. who here seriously thinks that if the US government, or any other government, wanted to censor Ethereum, they would literally go

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@lazyleger

5 months

bad kids has achieved a remarkable builder culture fit many, if not most, of the best hackers in crypto today own a bad kid it’s time to ensure this continues for generations to come in light of this, we are launching a yearly prize for the baddest young hacker in the

sacha st. leger

@lazyleger

5 months

dreaming of a yearly @badkidsart prize, where the most impactful young hacker from across the interchain is gifted a bad kid as a symbol of appreciation

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@lazyleger

1 year

a bad kids thesis

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@lazyleger

5 months

the solana vs celestia vs ethereum debate is missing the forest for the trees the pie has so much left to grow. all three are going to prosper

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@lazyleger

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A Vision of Celestia (2030) Celestia is the global schelling point for data availability, acting as the technological and cultural mesh between competing crypto tribes. Put another way, Celestia has cemented itself as the default choice for data publishing the same way

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@lazyleger

1 year

never been more convinced that @cosmos has made the right foundational architectural decisions and that this will become apparent to the rest of crypto over the next 12-18 months

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sacha st. leger

@lazyleger

1 year

2015: Bitcoin is dead 2018: Ethereum is dead 2023: Cosmos is dead

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@lazyleger

4 months

leadership

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sacha st. leger

@lazyleger

3 months

remember when you wanted what you have now

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@lazyleger

5 months

record sale $26,346 (700k stars)

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@lazyleger

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lazy morning

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sacha st. leger

@lazyleger

5 months

bad kids may not run the world, but they are launching the protocols that will

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sacha st. leger

@lazyleger

3 years

Ethereum is green

Ethereum is green

The unit of energy we’ll use in this post is the kilowatt-hour (kWh). This quantity is called “one unit” on electricity bills, and it costs a domestic user about 12 cents in the US.

our.status.im

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@lazyleger

4 months

punks, lads, kids all nfts that became culturally significant to a community of builders during a time of extreme hardship my thesis has always been that timeless nfts are rooted in culture, not utility. in particular, they capture the zeitgeist of an incredibly talented

Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

4 months

My brain can't really comprehend this. Punks, Apes, then Lads has always been such a far off, aspirational dream, but turns out we're already living in the Punks, Apes, Pudgies, then Lads moment. 🤯

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@lazyleger

10 months

no roadmap, no corporation, no governance

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@lazyleger

5 months

atom is the most decentralized stablecoin

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sacha st. leger

@lazyleger

2 years

. @cosmos will never get anywhere close to its potential if it fails to move beyond coinholder governance this is one of my most strongly held beliefs

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@lazyleger

1 year

what @cosmos means to me

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@lazyleger

2 years

at 73%, dutch jews had the highest death rate among occupied w european countries (as comparison belgium dr was 40%, france 25%) why? a population registration system aimed at following people "from cradle to grave" but plz tell me again why you need privacy from govnt, anon?

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@dystopiabreaker

2 years

EU, leaders in privacy (now arresting everyone who makes actual material privacy for individuals possible)

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@lazyleger

1 year

how the rest of crypto sees cosmos

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sacha st. leger

@lazyleger

4 months

something the influencer mind cannot comprehend

DavidHoffman.eth/acc🦇🔊

@TrustlessState

4 months

Main takeaway from ETHDenver is that Eigenlayer is building Cosmos ontop of Ethereum

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@lazyleger

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@lazyleger

4 months

probably nothing

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sacha st. leger

@lazyleger

2 years

. @jelenaaa____ , @uditvira and I have spent the last 36 hours working on an FAQ for Proposal 72 that attempts to dispel all the FUD around it. This is my attempt to weave a 🧵through all the important questions :)

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sacha st. leger

@lazyleger

4 months

backpack, backpack, then backpack

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sacha st. leger

@lazyleger

1 year

grandmother passed away this morning. she was a manifestation of pure love

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sacha st. leger

@lazyleger

7 months

punks sept 8 2020: $387 dec 15 2020: $1405 kids sept 8 2023: $404 dec 15 2023: $1413 🤷‍♂️

sacha st. leger

@lazyleger

10 months

getting sept 2020 cryptopunk vibes from badkids rn

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sacha st. leger

@lazyleger

11 months

ethereum specializes in selling credible neutrality. this is its killer app. and it’s almost impossible to compete with

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sacha st. leger

@lazyleger

10 months

on the risks of LSD a section by section response to an essay authored by @dannyryan

On the risks of LSD - HackMD

Originally posted May 30, 2022 on notes.ethereum.org

hackmd.io

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@lazyleger

1 month

zk accounts give celestia functional escape velocity without sacrificing its core principles a fundamental design choice of celestia is to minimize on-chain state. this means foregoing an integrated smart contract system while this comes with all sorts of nice properties, until

Nick White 🤳✨

@nickwh8te

1 month

So then why ZK accounts? Because it will enable: 1. trust-minimized bridging of TIA to rollups (not bridging/settlement of rollup native assets) 2. more native/aligned LSTs and restaking 3. privacy features 4. ?? things yet to be imagined But once again, NOT settlement. Thanks

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@lazyleger

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a based rollup thesis co-written with @arixoneth . inspired by @drakefjustin

A Based Thesis - HackMD

by sacha and arixon

hackmd.io

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@lazyleger

5 months

every bad kid needs a good @backpack

Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

5 months

@xxxxpark @sachayve stay bad

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@lazyleger

7 months

wao

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@lazyleger

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Jelena

@jelena_noble

5 months

Actually, now that I think about it

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@lazyleger

8 months

celestia is good for cosmos and ethereum

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@lazyleger

8 months

perhaps the only thing more toxic than CT is the tone of polynya's post lol

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@lazyleger

2 years

thinking of starting a weekly @cosmos newsletter/podcast which breaks down the news from across the ecosystem in 2-3 minutes, along with my takes. is there any interest for this?

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@lazyleger

5 months

nothing more cringe than cheering when others are down wao

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@lazyleger

10 months

Lido's heart For a crypto nerd, there are few pieces of writing more beautiful than Satoshi’s whitepaper. Today, I want to draw your attention to three lines: "the main benefits are lost if a trusted third party is still required" "financial institutions cannot avoid

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@lazyleger

3 months

mad kids and bad lads

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@lazyleger

9 months

ethereum: the technocrats respectfully deciding what’s best for the people cosmos: the people smugly deciding what’s best for the technocrats solana: whoever can make things go faster gets to decide

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@lazyleger

5 months

every bad kid needs a good backpack

Tristan

@tristan

5 months

A good Backpack travels the world.

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@lazyleger

6 months

someone should really verify this. pretty sure cosmos tech can’t scale

dYdX

@dYdX

6 months

dYdX Chain is now the largest DEX in the world by volume 🔥🔥🔥

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@lazyleger

2 years

. @ameensol on the morality of USD

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@lazyleger

4 months

bm to all those building bridges across currencies, cultures, ecosystems we are one

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@lazyleger

4 months

we are so back(pack)

Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

4 months

We started this company about two years ago. It's been the hardest but most rewarding years of my life. We were down. We were out. Most people thought we were dead. But never did we quit. Never will we quit. And with the conclusion of this round, we are so back.

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@lazyleger

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if you're coming from ethereum: 0. get 1. use to bridge directly from ethereum to stargaze (convert to stars) 2. wait for ethereum finality (max 15min) and purchase badkid

Bad Kids | Stargaze

Bad Kids is a collection of 9,999 bad drawings of bad kids

www.stargaze.zone

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@lazyleger

10 months

Why @ryanberckmans 's concerns around Lido's growth affecting Ethereum's reputation are misplaced While Ryan admits that "the realistic worst-case scenario for Lido's uncapped dominance isn't network disruption" the crux of his argument for self-limiting revolves around the

Ryan Berckmans ryanb.eth

@ryanberckmans

10 months

imo, the realistic worst-case scenario for Lido's uncapped dominance isn't network disruption. It's that Ethereum develops a reputation among corporations and governments as having been "captured" or "not actually that decentralized relative to other chains". If this were to

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@lazyleger

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feels incredibly inappropriate given lido dao hasn't voted yet there are important concerns that need to be addressed

BNB Chain

@BNBCHAIN

8 months

BNB Chain is welcoming @LidoFinance 's wstETH to our ecosystem thanks to @LayerZero_Labs ! Celebrate by participating in our #CrossChainFuture challenge! 1️⃣ Reply with a visualization of a cross-chain future 2️⃣ Like, RT and Tag 3 friends 3️⃣ 10 winners share a $500 prize pool

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@lazyleger

1 year

bad kid vs elemental bad kid

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@lazyleger

3 years

A thread on Gardens🌿🌻: a governance framework for truly decentralised and sovereign internet communities Based on the @1hiveorg model, Gardens provides a beautiful foundation for communities to coordinate around shared resources in a bottom-up fashion

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@lazyleger

3 years

If you're an aspiring DAO creator rather than product first -> community exit consider community first -> product emergence The best example of this is probably @1HiveOrg . And I believe it has the potential to revolutionise the way we think about DAOs.

DAOs and the pitfalls of progressive decentralisation

These days I don’t seem to be able to go a day without coming across the phrase progressive decentralisation – an idea which seems to have become an axiom of sorts for aspiring community founders and...

gardens.substack.com

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@lazyleger

2 years

zcash's time has come

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@lazyleger

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By allowing for stETH holders to exit en masse before a given proposal is passed, dual governance represents an important step towards mitigating Lido protocol governance risk for Ethereum stakers. The main goal is to prevent LDO holders from changing the social contract between

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@0xwatercup

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Lido Dual Governance could define the future of DeFi protocol governance. I'd imagine LRT protocols will want to explore a similar path.

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@lazyleger

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bm. looks like w airdrop ≈ 2x current badkids floor ?

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@lazyleger

7 months

punks, lads, kids, wizards the soul of a community

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@lazyleger

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once a bad kid always a bad kid

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@lazyleger

1 year

probably nothing

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@lazyleger

10 months

Lido DAO is helping to fund a multi-collateral RAI ( @reflexerfinance ) fork on Optimism. 63k DAI has just been sent out to help cover the cost of two audits. This covers the full cost of the Alexey Pertsev audit, and half the cost of the Solidified audit

Grant Request for Let’s Get HAI Codebase Audit

TITLE: Grant for Let’s Get HAI Codebase Audit AUTHORS: Ameen Soleimani, Reza Jafery, contributors at Reflexer and Let’s Get HAI PURPOSE: We are seeking a full or partial grant to cover security...

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@lazyleger

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bm

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@lazyleger

1 year

if you’re an etherean and still ignoring the great things happening over in @cosmos and @solana lands then you just might be trapped in an echo chamber. worth reflecting on

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@lazyleger

5 months

dreaming of a yearly @badkidsart prize, where the most impactful young hacker from across the interchain is gifted a bad kid as a symbol of appreciation

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@lazyleger

4 years

Couldn't be prouder to be a part of this historic moment 🙏. Congratulations everyone. @ethereum ❤️

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@lazyleger

2 years

twitter is the chatroom of the multiplayer game that we call life

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@lazyleger

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lazy sunday

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@lazyleger

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mad kids and bad lads -- we are one

raj 🖤

@rajgokal

1 month

solana 🤝 cosmos

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@lazyleger

4 months

some say that backpack will be to sol what coinbase is to eth, but i think it's more than that apart from the advantage of being crypto native by design, armani and tristan were born and raised in the ecosystem in which they are operating. this means solana's culture permeates

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@cburniske

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If you want to pay attention to an up-and-coming CEX, as a new key liquidity venue tends to be born each cycle, it's @Backpack

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@lazyleger

2 years

stop worshipping billionaires

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@lazyleger

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@0xMert_ solana is america in the sense that it believes the most in free market solutions ethereum is europe in that successful apps that provide essential services are always at risk of being overregulated / nationalized bitcoin is china in the sense that there is only one party line

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@lazyleger

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lazy sunday

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@lazyleger

3 months

backpack's cycle = madlad's cycle

Chris Burniske

@cburniske

5 months

If you want to pay attention to an up-and-coming CEX, as a new key liquidity venue tends to be born each cycle, it's @Backpack

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@lazyleger

3 years

If we create a world in which one's wealth is correlated to how early one discovered crypto, then we've failed

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@lazyleger

1 year

Shared Security with Eigenlayer using IBC

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@lazyleger

2 years

if cash was invented today, it would not be legal

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@lazyleger

2 years

1/ I can empathise with why Dokia feels cautious vis-a-vis the monetary policy changes outlined in Atom2. Here is my attempt to explain why I believe there is enough clarity for them to have peace of mind.

Dokia Capital

@DokiaCapital

2 years

While the protocol development work proposed could be a valuable contribution to the Cosmos Hub, we don’t feel like there is enough clarity regarding the ATOM monetary policy changes, which will have drastic and immediate effects on token holders.

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@lazyleger

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this will not age well. app chains have already taken off on @cosmos . what we're very close to showing now is that it's possible to have seamless composability between them without sacrificing sovereignty or decentralization this is the hard part which ethereum is glossing over

nader dabit

@dabit3

1 year

Remember when everyone thought @cosmos would be where appchains took off? Turns out they were wrong. Almost all meaningful activity is happening within the Ethereum ecosystem. Why? The products are ready to use. Today. They are not theoretical or living in some twitter thread.

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@lazyleger

1 year

zoom out. the only thing that really matters is that @dYdX shows the world just how much you can improve app UX with your own vertically-integrated and ibc-connected sovereign chain. antonio is directionally correct, @cosmos succeeds when users don't need to know they're using it

Antonio | dYdX

@AntonioMJuliano

1 year

As it should be

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@lazyleger

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in retrospect, a lads floor of 500 sol will be seen as obvious and inevitable

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@lazyleger

2 years

If the debate around #prop69 has convinced me of one thing so far, it's that the future is bright for $atom, no matter the outcome. Passionate intensity around governance is a feature if there ever was one

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@lazyleger

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flying back from columbia cryptoeconomics feeling incredibly inspired so many great humans at the heart of this movement

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@lazyleger

1 year

LFG

Jacob BIP🐱420 Gadikian 🐳⚛️⚗️

@gadikian

1 year

so @notionaldao just added two @badkidsart to our holdings.

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@lazyleger

2 years

“You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing after they have tried everything else.” --Winston Churchill

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@punk6529

3 years

14/ What I believe is going to actually happen with crypto is that the United States will eventually do the right thing. The industry will flourish in the United States and then, in about a decade, the EC will be convening panels to understand why EU is behind in Web 3.0 economy

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@lazyleger

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thinking about ethdublin

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@lazyleger

2 years

The top 10 dapps on @cosmos are worth more than 500% of ATOM's market cap The top 10 dapps on @ethereum are worth less than 20% of ETH's market cap Think about that for a second

dennis hegstad

@dennishegstad

2 years

Shopify is Nurturing their Ecosystem Not Eating it 🧵 The top 10 apps are worth more than 50% of shopify's total market cap let's dive in 👇👇

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@lazyleger

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pnft's, in the style of @madlads , will prove to be a better gtm strategy than memecoins imo 100,000 memecoin holders who are predominantly in it for the money, can't compete with a fiercely loyal base of evangelists that think of your product as part of their identity

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@lazyleger

2 years

Governance should be minimised at the global level, and maximised at the local level. This is where @cosmos shines

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@lazyleger