First time writing in four years, triggered by the recent debates about DeFi's value from vitalik.eth and Dankrad Feist Imo they under-recognize the progress and benefits of DeFi so far but they're directionally right long term about DeFi. medium.com/@safetythird/d…

if you strip the radical component out of crypto and try to market it as something that can serve the status quo, you are left with literally zero value been saying this for years, feeling quite vindicated these days

If you are gonna ask folks to lock tokens for several years, better have your shit figured out first. Can't just slap on vestuff w/o care

End-to-end encryption is a psyop. Announcing Prism, a verifiable authentication standard for private messaging and beyond. With Celestia underneath, Prism enables users to directly verify their encrypted chats, replacing trusted intermediaries with embedded light nodes

gigabrained US gov literally turning down free money / tax revenue and donating US ownership share of decentralized protocols to other countries by persecuting devs for giving US persons airdrops

Revert Lend is available exclusively on Arbitrum

Andy made a contest to create a leaderboard of all the top apps in crypto right now app builders have one week to enter; anyone can upvote favorites for two days after 50% of fees from entering/voting go to the top 3 winners jokerace.io/contest/base/0…

Introducing Enclave ઇઉ An FHE-based protocol for Encrypted Execution Environments (E3) Enclave ઇઉ offers a new class of secure, privacy-preserving computation, enabling novel use cases like: 🌕 secret ballots 🌕 collective climate modeling 🌕 medical research on private data

Youtube is testing Token Curated Registries, with regular continuous epoch Will this simply devolve into a web2 sybil attack where bots ruin everything by hyping their favorite stuff, or will we see social graphs play a role in what hypes matter? Curious to see it play out

Big DeFi projects using points over tokens is as positive a signal for DeFi as the EF using CEXs over DEXs for trading.

A completely self-sovereign payments raill, by the way. Anyone can run it to accept their own SaaS product payments and do everything that Stripe does for you. Isn't that the point of Crypto?