I owe a lot in life to my friends, but few as much as Viktor Bunin 🛡️ who connected me with Zach last summer when Bridge was early and looking to start their “business” team. I wouldn’t be here without his vote of confidence, if you ever get the chance to work with him or

real friends use Towns

Our family is scaling via a parallelized Layer 2 strategy with the addition of our second son Augustus ❤️

Ethereum doesn't "aim" to collect fees. Fees are not a goal, they're a byproduct. We coincidentally collect fees because we make a platform that's too useful to remain uncongested, and fees are the best way we know to resolve that congestion. ETH is money, Ethereum is for users

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1/5 Veda is taking embedded yield infra to the next level with our newest integration with Lombard | LBTC! Lombard's DeFi Vault bridges the gap between bitcoin and DeFi, giving LBTC holders one-click access to DeFi yields for the first time ever. More on the partnership 👇

Deeply ironic that the SEC was regularly meeting with FTX and then turned around and sued investors for having used FTX. The SEC missed one of the biggest financial frauds in history, but dont pass up the chance to go after good actors like Coinbase, Kraken, Uniswap, and Opensea.

It gets even wilder: Regulators won't approve most tokens for QC, but investors can't not take the tokens (would harm LPs), so it's literally impossible for investors to hold them at a QC, for which regulators can then sue them! The worst kind of catch-22. Just evil.

Threads like this are literally psyops to make you question everything you know. To make your heroes into villains. To make you think there's no right or wrong. To make you think there's no truth. This is literal, actual psyops. Don't fall for it.

Reasoning by analogy underpins the entire US legal system lol

There's another dimension to this: there's no such thing as "money abstraction." You can abstract chains, but you can't abstract assets. The primary value driver of a blockchains asset is its use as money in its ecosystem.

Proof of Stake (PoS) is a crucial concept in crypto, but it can be challenging to grasp, especially for newcomers. Let's break this down the only way I know how: Picture a grocery store where everyone is stealing... 👇

From Nepal to Costa Rica, New York to Optimism—This is the story of Binji Pande Binji's doing some cool stuff at Optimism

As an independent artist who has been quietly releasing music for a decade, seeing a “This Is Lost Waves” playlist from Spotify feels like a major milestone open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9d…

Congratulations to the Polygon team and community! Migrating tokens is an insanely difficult task. Now the focus can swing back to everything else and pushing the ecosystem forward.

1 GB blocks to build whatever Introducing the community's roadmap to relentlessly scale Celestia 🫧, enabling developers to deploy high-throughput, unstoppable applications using any VM. blog.celestia.org/roadmap/

Congratulations Nicholas Chirls, jonathan(love)wu, and mackenzie regent! I've had the pleasure of working with Nick and Jon for years and know for a fact that any founder would be lucky to work with them. Make sure you talk to them if you're raising!

Go support is now available for our Staking API 🙌 We're also offering 0% commission fees through EOY on dedicated ETH staking in increments of 32 ETH, but space is limited. Check out our walkthrough below for how to get started or view our docs: docs.cdp.coinbase.com/staking/docs/n…

Today Judge Failla ruled from the bench on our motion to compel U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to provide key information for the defense of our case. In short, the Court ordered the SEC to produce important discovery. I’ll share the full transcript when we have it, so you can read it for yourself. In

Sometimes I feel like the only investor that actively discourages teams from launching tokens.