Never think of yourself as the first guy

Bankless has done so much for ethereum

I think about this clip of Brian Armstrong in 2013 a lot.

Timeframe: he had just raised his Series A with USV, and was speaking Boost VC to a bunch of #Bitcoin startups.

'Do something that's really hard that no one else wants to do. That's a defensible business'

The latest chapter in web3 brings the early internet's decentralized ethos to physical infrastructure – DePIN.

A de-facto choice for DePIN infra, Polygon protocols offer devs modular and robust options to deploy solutions across usecases, within an aggregated network.

part 1 🧵

>be jim simons

>math phd at 21

>become chairman of a university math department

>get bored and leave to start a hedge fund

>consistently beat the market for decades (just as EMH is becoming the consensus view among economists)

>become a multibillionaire

>get bored again and

RIP Jim Simons
'I did a lot of math. I made a lot of money, and I gave almost all of it away. That's the story of my life.'

Celestia killed crypto VC

Launched at 2 went to 20 so other founders and investors got greedy

$250m val became greater fool musical chairs floor, launch val floor $1B with very little to show for it

Launch at megacorn, then decay to popcorn is causing funeral vibes on CT

We just had top ETF launch ever, BTC emissions halved, Trump's gone full degen, and you're bearish??

Investors are projecting their own misery, not doing objective analysis

1/ Let's crack a cold beer on this sunny Friday, relish how far we've come, and how far we have to go

Everyone talks about L3 and scale via app chains while the L1 tx fees is at 3 gwei.

The main issue w eth bull cases is that all those bull cases cases refer to tokens and chains other than eth itself

this exactly is cosmosification

bullish on cosmos! the token? no, the tech. oke bro

The main bull case for ethereum is that no one in the loudfluencer layer has said dum things like 'ethereum alignment' in a month

Espresso 🤝 AggLayer

Polygon | Aggregated Labs and Espresso Systems are working to solve the biggest challenge facing Ethereum rollups and L2s:

Interoperability.

Steve Jobs talks about his strategy for saving Apple from bankruptcy

This might prevent any eclipse incidents

Met a friend in SF who was hired solely as a token white person by an Asia based project for their slide deck and american sounding email for VCs

This Deva the Devcon Unicorn in Thailand, we should do a panel or smth explaining that white people of America are also real people with skills

The intelligence was artificial all along

Are we really going to pretend that 99% of crypto investors do any sort of due diligence in a bullmarket?

Checking if it a hot deal, if there's some AI in it and who else is investing is bula DD

Polygon Miden is a ZK rollup which utilizes STARK-based client side proving to enhance both scalability and privacy!

This thread provides a technical overview on few things:

- UTXO like structure with notes
- Client side proving
- Transaction execution
- Context and more

When I was 30, eclipse used to be a token free IDE for Java development. What have you guys done!