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Liam McDonald

@maccanomics

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Writing about the intersection of blockchain scaling, cryptography, and DeFi. Growth @0xfairblock Trying to keep it real.

Denver, CO
Joined June 2019
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@maccanomics
Liam McDonald
1 year
Woke up this morning to my first 1K followers🫡 gm to everyone new here👋 Excited to connect and jam on ideas together. Would love to hear your thoughts on anything I write about - we only learn if we're doing it alongside others. A brief intro & what to expect from me🧵
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Study sloths cooking I love you @sadsadstory1984 @PacoLeGordo @0xfairblock @CelestineSloths A lazy and private morning to all🍄🦥💤
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2 years
What's up with @OlympusDAO recently? If you haven't kept up to date - the bear market has been PRODUCTIVE for their community. Here's what's happening in Olympus today🧵 1/16
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Threading the needle on privacy means making it compliant AND useful. 1. Make encrypted data composable so it can actually be used 2. Ensure data can be decrypted, not just proven 3. Deliver encryption where users already are, don’t require them to bridge to another chain
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Arjun 🏴
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I think none of us are scared enough yet of an outcome where *all* financial history is completely public on blockchains. We need to figure out how to thread the needle on privacy ASAP.
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The most overlooked element of the modular ecosystem is that it's generally expensive to launch a rollup. RPCs, oracle providers, the whole infra stack. Monthly overhead without guaranteed revenues makes app-specific blockspace unreasonable for most.
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1 year
Every time I open my X feed, @RiscZero has partnered with another leader in the modular ecosystem. To understand why, I've put my researchooor cap back on🧢 🥁🥁🥁 Here's where ZK fits into blockchain scaling, featuring Risc Zero. TLDR👇 1/14
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Liam McDonald
2 years
1/ @OlympusDAO is one of the most successful #DeFi projects of all time. From design to community growth, there is so much that protocols can learn from Olympus' success. Here’s what we at Ekonomia have elected as the most important takeaways from OlympusDAO🧵👇
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Liam McDonald
1 year
🛠️ The DeFi Review: Week 43🛠️ Gonna try out this long-form tweet this week for the algos. ICYMI: 1. SOLar Eclipse🌑 2. EigenSettle🧘‍♂️ 3. RWA Liquidity Avalanche🏂 4. 3 Ways to Decentralize a Sequencer💻🛜💻 5. Frax RWAs💱 No time to waste! Let's get into it👇 1. Eclipse, the
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Liam McDonald
1 year
Bringing Solidity compatibility to the MoveVM is pretty huge. Now any EVM app can benefit from the security and performance of Move. Transpilers are the uniting tide of blockchain & web 2 infra development.
@movementlabsxyz
Movement
1 year
It’s Fractal Week! Stay tuned to learn more about how #EVM and #Move are converging 🤝 And you might want to turn notifications on, just sayin' 🔔
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Liam McDonald
2 years
1/ #Crypto is about innovating past the status quo - building new standards for money, democracy, and even culture. $RAI by @reflexerfinance is redefining money as a non-pegged, fully decentralized stablecoin. Here's what you can learn from RAI and its unique design🧵⌚️
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2 months
wen @CelestineSloths sleep supplements and PJs
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Liam McDonald
2 years
1) Global finance is torn. The digital age has pushed financial systems up against a ledge - and #crypto is here to stay. We've reached an inflection point and there’s no turning back. Check my Medium post on why #DeFi will change the world🧵👇
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Liam McDonald
2 months
@CelestineSloths PJs would be the hardest merch possible for next @modular_summit
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Liam McDonald
1 month
Decentralized systems give people an opportunity to maximize expressivity. Chain abstraction is about making blockchains as usable as they are useful. Thanks @pedroo_nv & @0xDinoEggs for having me🥂 Run it back soon?
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Modular Media
1 month
Unpacking Chain Abstraction: Open Problems & Opportunities 📝 For the first article of our Chain Abstraction series, @maccanomics walks us through a general overview of Chain Abstraction. Specifically, this article covers: 🔷 What Chain Abstraction is 🔷 Addressing the
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2 months
@shadowmakerxyz Sloths raiding Bullish
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Liam McDonald
2 months
We're hiring for a DevRel🍄🤝 Accessible encryption within blockchains is one of the biggest roadblocks to bringing web2 applications onchain. We're looking for someone eager to meaningfully impact the future of onchain application designs and user onboarding. HMU
@0xfairblock
Fairblock Network✨
2 months
Fairblock's JobFair is open again! Is web3 too boring for you these days?🥱 Do you want to lead and unlock the next generation of DeFi and Social/Gaming applications?🪄 Do you love locks and keys? 🗝️ We've just opened a very impactful position to work closely with our
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Liam McDonald
8 months
🛠️ The DeFI Review: Week 64🛠️ 1⃣Horizontally Scaling Ethereum with zkSharding🖥️ 2⃣Thinking Critically About Shared Sequencing💱 3⃣Cross-Chain Asset Transfers with zkIBC🤝 4⃣The Next Generation of zkVMs🚀 5⃣Universal Plasma and DA Challenges🤔 Now let's get to it, hey?👇
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Liam McDonald
2 years
⚒️The DeFi Review⚒️ - Week 9 Threads I'll highlight: 1. Zero-knowledge proofs 2. Real World Assets 3. NFT-Fi 4. TradFi enters DeFi? 5. Investment Thesis for Investors + Protocols Bonus: Genesis Ch. 11 Filing details No time to waste! Let's dig in🍜
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Liam McDonald
8 months
It's silly to think that all rollups will choose the same shared sequencer for composability + interop with other rollups. The paradox of choice, politics, and bag alignments force there to be many sequencer ecosystems. Expecting us all to agree on one shared sequencer is
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Liam McDonald
1 year
My thoughts on MakerChain: Summary: @MakerDAO 's Rune announced his intentions for the next step in Maker's endgame: launching MakerChain. Rune favors the Solana ecosystem for this deployment for obvious performance benefits. How this could go: There's much less access to
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Liam McDonald
2 years
Closer & closer to fiat savings rates. Say what you want about @OlympusDAO - but they're still one of the most innovative teams in DeFi, and they actually follow thru with their roadmap. OHM as a DeFi treasury asset isn't so far-fetched - especially after USD debasement.
@OlympusDAO
OlympusDAO |Smart, Money|
2 years
We’re reducing the gOHM staking rate to 2.33%
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Liam McDonald
1 year
There was so much hype leading up to the @ChickenBonds launch, but the protocol hasn't gotten the attention it deserves since. A thread on Chicken Bonds (CBs) and why I believe they change the game for liquidity mining and incentivization. 1/22🧵
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Liam McDonald
1 year
🛠️ The DeFi Review: Week 33🛠️ Major announcements this week. ICYMI: 1. Polygon 2.0 & $POL💸 2. Farms of the Month🧠 3. Should Rollups use PoS?🤔 4. Let's Get $HAI⛅ 5. The Restaking Primitive🤝 Bonus: The ZK Download🕵️ News: Did XRP Beat the Case? No time to waste⌚🧵
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Liam McDonald
1 year
🛠️ The DeFi Review: Week 45🛠️ All in on infra this week. ICYMI: 1. The Future of Blockchain Interoperability🫂 2. ZK Meets Blockchain Scaling🚀 3. Bringing EVM to Move🫵 4. @vistaralabs : Web3's Hardware Availability Layer💻 5. Stateless Clients🕵️ Welcoming some new friends to
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Liam McDonald
11 months
🛠️The DeFi Review: Week 51🛠️ Devconnect. High Signal. Will be sharing some projects that have caught my eye this week. 1⃣ @0xstackr : Meeting Devs Where They Are🧑‍💻 2⃣General Purpose Proving with @MarlinProtocol 🧑‍⚖️ 3⃣Uniting AI and Execution in On-chain Apps🤝 4⃣Taiko: The Modular
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Liam McDonald
2 years
Hey @marenaltman - thanks for my new PFP. Bottom left.
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Liam McDonald
6 months
Is anyone exploring AVSs on @avax / is this possible with Avalanche’s validator AVAX staking requirements? Maybe subnet validators could accept liquid restaked tokens or something. Spitballing
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Liam McDonald
7 months
Privacy has maximal product-market fit IRL. But why hasn’t it found PMF on-chain yet? The demand is there, so why isn't it accessible? Traditional approaches to on-chain privacy are mainly one-size-fits-all (fully private ZK-based solutions) and require users to bridge assets to
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Liam McDonald
3 months
The three teams I left ETHcc most impressed by after speaking with their founders: @taikoxyz - @conduitxyz - @aori_io Speak with them personally about why and how they chose to build their products. Then you will see.
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Liam McDonald
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fAIrblock 🧱
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Liam McDonald
1 year
🛠️The DeFi Review: Week 47🛠️ Onward from the EVM. ICYMI: 1⃣Digital Identity & ZKPs🕵️ 2⃣Away from the EVM📈 3⃣The Evolution of Execution Environments🚀 4⃣32 DeFi Protocols to Watch🧐 5⃣The Deepest Dive into the OP Stack🔴 No time to waste! Let's get to it⌛️ ⏬⏬⏬ 1⃣ Digital
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Liam McDonald
1 year
🛠️ The DeFi Review: Week 37🛠️ It's on-chain summer🌅 ICYMI: 1. Will Rollups-as-a-Service go to Zero?🤔 2. @RiscZero ZKPs on Testnet⏰ 3. Osmosis 🤝 Celestia💰 4. Introducing @fluentxyz ⌨️ 5. Will Cosmos Make a Comeback?⚛️ Bonus: On-Chain Summer is Here😎 No time to waste👇⌚
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Liam McDonald
3 years
@SarsonFunds @Popcorn_DAO @OlympusDAO @banklessDAO Really excited to see @Popcorn_DAO partnering with @OlympusDAO and @banklessDAO . Raising awareness of how we can build a better world with crypto will be huge for onboarding institutions and users alike into the space. Well done @amart_tech and @SerKisselgof
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Liam McDonald
1 year
Rollups-as-a-Service is how we make blockchains available at scale to enterprises, startups, and apps alike. Drawing the SaaS parallel makes RaaS offerings digestible to institutions, laying the foundation for app & enterprise-specific rollup future. Glad we're grasping this.
@0xDinoEggs
Dino
1 year
It’s very exciting to see RaaS unite the crypto <> cloud worlds. Companies already know how to assess and purchase SaaS. It’ll make consumption of blockchain products much easier for them.
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Liam McDonald
7 months
. @Fair_Block is live on our first public testnet! Privacy must be delivered to users' and developers' favorite apps and environments. Doing so will give us the rails to onboard the next substantial wave of users and capital. Not stopping til privacy is a standard. Priv/acc🫡
@0xfairblock
Fairblock Network✨
7 months
🧚The Fairblock Public Testnet is Now Live!🧚 The FairyRing chain enables developers in Cosmos to harness programmable privacy🔐 Coming to the Arbitrum, Optimism, and Celestia ecosystems next🫡
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Liam McDonald
7 months
PMF for on-chain privacy is so clear. We've just been delivering it wrong. Privacy-specific L1s have made privacy a luxury when it should be a standard. The endgame for on-chain privacy is delivering it to users' favorite apps, wallets, & protocols. This is a necessary step to
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Liam McDonald
7 months
Excited to be giving a talk about encryption tools that can be used for bad-MEV prevention in DeFi tomorrow at the @EthereumDenver Submarine Stage at 12:30pm. Pumped to share some of what we've been cooking up @Fair_Block 🧑‍🍳
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Liam McDonald
1 year
🛠️ The DeFi Review: Week 40🛠️ 1. The @eigenlayer Ecosystem 2. @MakerDAO MakerChain 3. Understanding @monad_xyz 4. Deep Dive into @RainmakerWallet 5. LST Social Consensus News: SEC Delays Bitcoin Spot ETF Rulings No time to waste! Let's get to it👇 ⌚
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Liam McDonald
2 months
Distributed Encryption vs Isolated Encryption Chains: Advancements in onchain encryption mainly exist as isolated encryption-specific L1/2s. This forces users to leave their favorite apps to benefit from encrypted experiences. In most cases, advanced encryption is not enough to
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Liam McDonald
1 year
Shouts to @banklessDAO & @BanklessWriters for giving me the platform to share my writing! Check out my article "Into the Cosmos: The App-Chain Thesis Enters Ethereum," which highlights how the @cosmos app-chain thesis is converging with @ethereum through App-Specific Rollups🗣️🔊
@banklessDAO
BanklessDAO 🏴
1 year
BanklessDAO Writer's Cohort churns out a piece on "rollups as a service" (RaaS) by @0xmacca via @BanklessPub
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Liam McDonald
1 year
Some reflections after 6 months of The DeFi Review: When I began The DeFi Review, I wanted to commit myself to contribute value to this space in one way each week that was non-negotiable. It's easy to make excuses to not learn out loud
@maccanomics
Liam McDonald
1 year
🛠️ The DeFi Review: Week 26🛠️ Celebrating 6 months of The DeFi Review🥂 This is how I stay on the pulse - and I hope it helps you too. ICYMI: 1. Risks of @eigenlayer 2. IBC Rollups with @EclipseFND 3. Macro Updates 4. Shorting Impermanent Loss 5. Tracking a16z LFG🧵👇
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Liam McDonald
10 months
🛠️The DeFi Review: Week 52🛠️ Celebrating 1 year of DeFi Reviews. In my privacy arc. ICYMI: 1⃣Devconnect Reflections🧠 2⃣Solving On-chain Privacy🧑‍💻 3⃣Privacy-Enabling Technologies🕵️ 4⃣Compliant Programmable Privacy🧑‍⚖️ 5⃣Takeaways from Blast L2🫰 Bonus: Introducing M2🧱 Let's get
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Liam McDonald
11 months
Just booked my flight for Istanbul. Who’s gonna be in town?
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Liam McDonald
1 year
🛠️ The DeFi Review: Week 30🛠️ A big up week for prices and products. ICYMI: 1. @blackrock files for a Spot Bitcoin ETF💰 2. @fraxfinance announces Fraxchain👀 3. Oracle-less DeFi🧠 4. FiatFi: Bridging TradFi and DeFi🌉 5. The Rise of Rocketpool🚀 Let's get to it⌚
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Liam McDonald
6 months
After a 3 day fast I've realized that I don't need food as much as I thought I do. I felt mentally clear, energized, and focused. Didn't need as much sleep. 3 meals a day is a meme pushed by big food. I'm not educated at all about fasting but these are my reflections.
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Liam McDonald
9 months
🛠️The DeFi Review: Week 60🛠️ 1���Restaking in Shared Sequencers💰🔒 2⃣Exploring Liquid Restaking Tokens (LRTs)🪙 3⃣Electric Capital’s 2023 Developer Report👨‍💻 4⃣L2 Semantics📔 5⃣Bro, Wat is Hyperlane?🫠 Bonus: Rise of Renzo☝️ What a week, hey? Let's get to it⌛️👇 1⃣Restaking in
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Liam McDonald
2 years
I’ve spent the last few months thinking a lot about governance🤔 If you’ve participated in crypto governance, you know more than anyone - it's a mess. But WHY has governance failed? And is there any hope for its revival? Some reflections and questions🪞 Let's dig in👇 1/17
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Liam McDonald
8 months
Just wanna give a shout to my boy @livingwithwill from @movementlabsxyz He really be killing branding, marketing & community/culture development - everyone taking📝 & shouts to the whole Movement team - this wouldn't be effective without the collective. Excited for Modular day
@movementlabsxyz
Movement
8 months
Presenting: 🏔️MODULAR DAY ETHDenver 2024🏔️ Bringing Modular Expansion to the forefront of Web3 ✅ @AptosLabs @berachain @CelestiaOrg @Hyperlane_xyz @initiaFDN ✅? 🗓️ Wednesday, February 28th ⏰ 11AM - 7PM MT 🌄 RSVP: Stay tuned for more info 👀
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🛠️The DeFi Review: Week 67🛠️ 1⃣On-chain Confidential Computing with Zama🥷 2⃣Rollchains: Modularizing Cosmos⚛️ 3⃣Programmable Privacy Delivered Everywhere🛜 4⃣Thoughts on the State of Cryptographic Privacy🔏 5⃣Takeaways from ETH Denver🫂 No time to waste! Let's get to it👇
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Liam McDonald
2 years
Rollups-as-a-Service: The next major crypto narrative. All eyes are on a new era of rollups - more specialized & app-specific - dubbed Rollups-as-a-Service (RaaS). RaaS is how the @cosmos app-chain thesis converges with Ethereum. Hear me out. 🧵 (1/14)
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Liam McDonald
1 year
🛠️The DeFi Review: Week 43🛠️ Mobbin. ICYMI: 1. Parallel Processing 🤝 EVM 2. Solana the Sequencer?⛓️ 3. Rollup Centralization🤔 4. Fully Homomorphic Encryption🔒 5. Deep Dive into Eclipse🌔 Trying out this long-form again for the algos. Let's get to it⏬ __________________ 1.
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Liam McDonald
7 months
Great chatting with @GuyZys from @FhenixIO , @ravitals from @SunscreenTech , and @0xbyyou from @Fair_Block today about the State of Privacy in the Transaction Supply Chain. Guy and Ravital both betting on 1-2 years for FHE to be reliably available on-chain. Ambitious - I love it.
@FhenixIO
Fhenix
7 months
Panel discussion at MEV Research Day, "State of Privacy in the Transaction Supply Chain" featured our Co-Founder @GuyZys of @FhenixIO , @ravitals of @SunscreenTech , and @0xbyyou of @Fair_Block , moderated by @maccanomics .
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9 months
🛠️The DeFi Review: Week 57🛠️ A time to reflect and think critically about how to craft a better future. Here are the top 5 threads/articles I found this week that provoked important thoughts around my perspective of the crypto industry. 1⃣ Conflicting Feelings as a Participant
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Liam McDonald
1 year
🛠️The DeFi Review: Week 31🛠️ Up, down, left and right -- builders keep building. ICYMI: 1. Adoption & the Infra Layer🏗️ 2. A Panel on Restaking👥 3. DVT & LSDs🔥 4. Interoperability with @axelarcore ⛓️ 5. Tracking @coinbase Ventures🔍 Bonus: Some Hopium🌅 LFG🧵⌚
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Liam McDonald
2 months
People are pessimistic about onchain app design because the sandbox we grew up playing in -Ethereum and the EVM- lacked the necessary tools to make the sand castles we always dreamed of. We used basic sandcastle molds, got bored, and stopped playing in sandboxes altogether.
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Liam McDonald
1 year
🛠️The DeFi Review: Week 32🛠️ Man, the DeFi Review is kinda becoming a Rollup Review👀 ICYMI: 1. On @eigenlayer 🤝 2. The Business Model behind LSDFi💰 3. Two bangers from @modularmedia_ 🔥 4. Ethereum's Activation Queue⌛ 5. pxETH Alfa from @redactedcartel ⬨ LFG🧵👇
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Liam McDonald
9 months
Privacy plug-ins are a critical component of the modular stack... and they're largely missing from protocol and app design. Enter @Fair_Block . Thrilled to share that I've joined @Pememoni & team to make programmable privacy a standard in on-chain UX.
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Liam McDonald
1 year
🛠️ The DeFi Review: Week 25🛠️ Some weeks you just gotta spend some time learning. ICYMI: 1. Cosmos Catalysts⚛️ 2. Dune Queries with ChatGPT👾 3. ERC-6551: The New NFT Standard🖼️ 4. Navigating @pendle_fi 🗺️ 5. Setting up your multi-sig with @safe 🔒 Excited to share⌛ 🧵
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Liam McDonald
27 days
Expect multi-VM and blended VM chains to become a standard in protocol design. Inclusive execution is about unifying developers and expanding expressivity for apps and users. Been a pleasure working with Arbitrum to enable encrypted logic for Arb apps. Congrats to the team!
@arbitrum
Arbitrum (💙,🧡)
27 days
It’s been three years of building together on Arbitrum. Today, we bring you Stylus! Designed to drive innovation and foster collaboration across blockchains. Stylus is now on mainnet. Open new doors. Shape what's ahead. Do More. With Stylus.
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Liam McDonald
1 year
I've spent the last 6 months digging into the interoperability narrative. The answer is more apparent than ever. @Hyperlane_xyz
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Liam McDonald
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An interesting battle exists between principled builders and users who prioritize best-UX over everything. As a builder, do you compromise on principles to please end users? The rational answer is a middleground, but we have a lot of middleground products and few repeat users.
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Liam McDonald
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🛠️The DeFi Review: Week 50🛠️ Markets pumping, threadooors are so back. The builders keep buidling. ICYMI: 1⃣Bonsai Pay by @RiscZero 💱 2⃣zkSharding for Ethereum by @nil_foundation 🧩 3⃣Value accrual in the Modular World🧱 4⃣Near DA: ETH-Killers to ETH-Alignment🏃‍♂️ 5⃣Witness Chain:
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Liam McDonald
6 months
Composable privacy. The missing piece of the modular stack.
@therollupco
The Rollup
6 months
The Modular Ecosystem Map: A market map of the 100+ projects leading the Modular Expansion.
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Liam McDonald
2 years
It's hard to see my bets go south and money evaporate. The same is happening with your dollars - but it's a glorified, slow burn. Crypto was created to innovate our way out of the 'justified' robbery that is fiat money. The drawing board never ends. We're learning - are you?
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Liam McDonald
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🛠️ The DeFi Review: Week 38🛠️ Keeping up with all things infra & DeFi. ICYMI: 1. Modularism or Maximalism?⛓️ 2. Bonsai by @RiscZero 🚀 3. zkInteroperability🌉 4. The State of Base🔵 5. Disintermediating Financial Supply Chains🪓 No time to waste! Let's go⌚👇
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Liam McDonald
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🛠️The DeFi Review: Week 69🛠️ It all comes back to modularity, shared security, and cryptographic acceleration. ICYMI: 1⃣FHE for ML and AI🕵️ 2⃣On-chain Obligation Clearing and Mutual Credit🫰 3⃣Let’s Phase out Token-go-up-enomics🙅 4⃣Sei Bends the Knee🧱🧎 5⃣Securing Parallel ZK
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Liam McDonald
2 months
Composability through shared builders > one sequencer rules them all. Excited to see ambitious teams like @nodekitorg differentiating themselves and pushing the needle forward on cross-chain composability.
@nodekitorg
NodeKit
2 months
Today we unveil a brand new look for NodeKit and announce an important milestone. Javelin, the first Superbuilder, is now agnostic and compatible with any protocol. This paves the way for global composability and a wide variety of Javelin-powered products.
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Liam McDonald
4 months
Just got off an extremely bullish call discussing the design space for onchain casino games equipped with encryption. More soon. Can’t even drop a culture hint
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Liam McDonald
8 months
🛠️The DeFi Review: Week 63🛠️ Action-packed week for the modular community. ICYMI: 1⃣Polygon’s Endgame🧠 2⃣Encrypted Mempools Coming to Starknet🥷 3⃣Fixing fragmentation🌉 4⃣Decentralizing Programmable Truth⚖️ 5⃣Fraxchain is here💰 This one's educational. Let's break these down
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Liam McDonald
1 year
🛠️ The DeFi Review: Week 39🛠️ An assortment of rollups & DeFi. ICYMI: 1. Zeth: The First Type 0 zkEVM⛓️ 2. Solving the Stablecoin Trilemma💰 3. Do Rollups Need to be Decentralized?🤔 4. Pendle's RWA Arc🌈 5. Rollups for Dummies🤖 TGIF!👇 ⌚
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Liam McDonald
4 months
🛠️The DeFi Review: Week 77🛠️ Here are the top threads and announcements I found on CT this week: 1⃣ How do L2s differ from execution sharding? 2⃣Sequencing Rules for Ethereum 3⃣A guide to chain abstraction
@0xNairolf
nairolf
4 months
The Ultimate Chain Abstraction List 🫶 @ParticleNtwrk Universal Accounts, Gas & Liquidity @SocketProtocol Modular Order Flow Auction @burnt_xion Generalized Abstraction @zetablockchain Universal EVM for Chain Abstraction @Connext Chain Abstraction Directly in dApps @LightDotSo
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Liam McDonald
1 year
🛠️The DeFi Review: Week 46🛠️ Mindshare is shifting on the infra front. ICYMI: 1⃣ Horizontal Scaling via Hidden Rollups 2⃣Primer on Parallelized Execution 3⃣2024: The Year of the Execution Layer 4⃣SBF Trial Recap 5⃣Frax 2023 Review Bonus: Improving DYDX Tokenomics No time to
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Liam McDonald
2 months
Started training for my first marathon this week Tons of reasons in my head why I shouldn't do it. Too much going on, mainnet soon, conferences, weddings, etc There will always be *too many things* happening and more 'reasons' why I shouldn't Sometimes u just gotta send gm
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Liam McDonald
1 year
🛠️ The DeFi Review: Week 34🛠️ ETHcc week -and what a difference CT was. ICYMI: 1. The Evolution of Interoperability🔀 2. Waymont Hack Detection🕵️ 3. Espresso 🤝 EigenLayer🔥 4. DYDX & The L2 Adoption Wars🤔 5. CCIP by ChainlinkL🔙 🔛 🔝 Bonus: Hello UniswapX👋 Strap in... ⌚👇
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Liam McDonald
8 months
🛠️The DeFi Review: Week 61🛠️ We're buzzing. ICYMI: 1⃣The Aggregated Blockchain Thesis🧱 2⃣Fairblock in Simple Terms📝 3⃣Parallelization FTW🙌 4⃣Let’s Be Real About the App-Chain Thesis⚖️ 5⃣Building on Bitcoin🔨 Bonus: Entering my Shitposting Era💩 Longform today. Why don't
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Liam McDonald
7 months
🛠️The DeFi Review: Week 68🛠️ 1⃣Naysayer Proofs 2⃣Preconfirmations: The Fulfillment-Delivery Paradigm 3⃣The Various Layers of Decentralizing AI 4⃣The Truths about Rollup Security with DAS 5⃣What is Shared Sequencing? Hit the books hard this week. Excited to share what I've
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@maccanomics
Liam McDonald
6 months
Financial advisoors make me laugh
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Liam McDonald
9 months
🛠️The DeFi Review: Week 58🛠️ The modular eco is bringing major energy into 2024. ICYMI: 1⃣ Various Approaches to On-chain Privacy🕵️ 2⃣Eclipse's Bridge and Proving Architecture🌉⚖️ 3⃣ZK-IBC with Union💱 4⃣Lyra Chain: Modular Options Liquidity🧱 5⃣Inscriptions Everywhere📝 No
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@maccanomics
Liam McDonald
1 year
🛠️ The DeFi Review: Week 42🛠️ Reviving bullishness. ICYMI: 1. Welcome to the MovementⓂ️ 2. Sun's Up on Solana Beach🌞 3. The Rise of ZK Coprocessors🖥️ 4. Deep Dive on Rollup Design🧩 5. LSD Summer🏖️ No time to waste⌛ Let's get to it👇
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Liam McDonald
5 months
Encryption will be coming to @CelestiaOrg at the baselayer of rollups soon too👀 ZK accounts and programmable encryption are converging at an important time🫡
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Liam McDonald
2 months
FHE needs MPC + ZK needs MPC + TEEs can be used to prevent collusion in MPC networks = MPC fills the gaps in cutting-edge cryptography schemes, while its own vulnerabilities can be protected by cryptography too. Confidential compute is a puzzle of solutions, not a single one.
@buchmanster
Ethan Buchman (🐝,🦇)
2 months
What about Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) then? FHE is actually not an independent solution - you still need MPC to manage decryption. Otherwise a single agent can decrypt everything. So FHE on its own is basically useless for blockchains.
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Liam McDonald
2 months
Fairblock's community characters are about to infiltrate CT pm
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Liam McDonald
2 years
3/ Olympus recently launched its v3, which introduces more novel tech to DeFi. This new tech stack includes Range-Bound Stability (RBS) and Flex Loans. OHM's APY was also lowered to ~7%, so say goodbye to that 10K% yield😅 On-chain governance is on its way too🤫
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Liam McDonald
2 years
This bear market is when crypto graduates from speculation to global utility and seamless UX. Top 3 developments to watch for this crypto winter: 1. #DigitalIdentity and on-chain #reputation 2. Decentralized #stablecoins 3. #Regulation I've never been more optimistic.
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Liam McDonald
1 month
Multi-Party Chain Abstraction MPCA Who's building this
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Liam McDonald
7 months
Thrilled to be moderating the 'State of Privacy in the Txn Supply Chain' panel next Friday with @GuyZys from @FhenixIO , @0xbyyou from @Fair_Block , & Ravital from @SunscreenTech . Excited to talk with some of the most forward-thinking minds in applied cryptography about the future
@titanbuilderxyz
Titan Builder 🌕👷‍♂️
7 months
Releasing part 2 of our ETH Denver MEV agenda in collaboration with @HashKeyCapital . More speakers and panels to be announced soon! Apply here: Limited spots available.
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Liam McDonald
2 months
Whenever a milady pulls up to a groupchat I feel like there's automatic respect. Do any other NFT collections match this level of social clout?
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Liam McDonald
10 months
***Assembling an elite squadron of modular minds to talk through design details, questions, and the gaps that need to be filled*** Will be making a private Discord for these conversations. Comment if you're interested - don't bother if you won't actively participate.
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Liam McDonald
5 months
🛠️The DeFi Review: Week 73🛠️ Halving in T-4 hours. Dubaiooors went swimming. ICYMI: 1⃣Eigen “Security”🤔 2⃣Death to the Public Mempool💀Eigen “Security”🤔 3⃣Thoughts on Redesigning Money Systems💱 4⃣Why the Winners Won💡 5⃣The State of FHE🔐 No time to waste tonight. Let’s get
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Liam McDonald
7 months
🛠️The DeFi Review: Week 66🛠️ ETH Denver week. The DeFi Review will take a bit of a different form this week as I'll briefly cover the biggest narratives and reflections I've taken from the conference. Links for the most interesting posts from the week are below. Let's get to
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Liam McDonald
2 months
Composable encryption meets users and developers in their favorite apps and environments. Who's building this?
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Liam McDonald
1 year
🛠️ The DeFi Review: Week 36🛠️ 5 threads reviewing the week on CT. ICYMI: 1. Curve Hack🕵️ 2. Account Abstraction 101✏️ 3. Data Availability vs Data Storage📦 4. Utilities of Shared Sequencers💱 5. Paths Forward for Decentralized Lending🤝 Bonus: Stablecoin Resources💵 LFG⌚👇
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Liam McDonald
2 years
Last week, the Ekonomia team took a deep dive into Frax, one of the most promising stablecoin projects in #crypto . Here are some takeaways from our chat about what differentiates @Fraxfinance from the pack and what future #stablecoin projects can learn from them 🧵⌛️
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Liam McDonald
1 year
Starting this thread to publicly brainstorm how a token could fit into @eigenlayer . Will continue adding to this as I think of more ideas @sreeramkannan
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Liam McDonald
8 months
It’s relieving and energizing to leave my phone at home and be more open to spontaneous connections in the in-between times: elevator, in line for food, etc. People - myself included - are too occupied nowadays and the downstream effects are far greater than we can see.
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Liam McDonald
2 years
#NFT culture is the truest #wagmi culture in #crypto . The community is always uplifting fellow artists to help grow their reach. The love is tangible. Most of #DeFi has lost wagmi culture. It’s become about out-trading. I’m hoping #ReFi will restore wagmi to DeFi. @BanklessHQ
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Liam McDonald
9 months
🛠️The DeFi Review: Week 59🛠️ Learning and iterating. On repeat🔁 ICYMI: 1⃣Union Connects Modular Liquidity🛜 2⃣Improving Efficiency of State Merkleization🌲 3⃣Takeaways from Two Months of Celestia Mainnet🧱 4⃣Parallel Execution and Common Dependencies 🔁 5⃣The End of Alt-L1s🤔
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Liam McDonald
3 months
The crypto power user will never bridge to another chain for encryption. I love you.
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Liam McDonald
1 year
5. Hearing lots of CT talk about the Rocketpool flippening - when rETH surpasses stETH in TVL. Rocketpool has been shipping recently, and these five upgrades could lead us to that future🧐 Thanks @Jasper_ETH for the review💪
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Liam McDonald
2 years
The next two decades will see the ‘Great Wealth Transfer’ of ~$68 trillion from boomers to their descendants converge with the onboarding of roughly 2 billion people unbanked into a new global economy powered by #blockchain . The result will be #crypto ’s Cambrian Explosion.
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