Me explaining to my girlfriend how today is important because of the Bitcoin Halving

My girlfriend explaining to me how today is important because of the new Taylor Swift album

Excited to see the emergence of dataDAOs like r/datadao which has already had over 137k addresses claim the $rDAT

DataDAOs represent a win-win for data collection:

-Businesses can collect hard-to-come-by / niche datasets

-Users are compensated & incentivized for their data

This new dune feature for tabs makes my life 10x better when I have 20 dune tabs and 3 different queries ongoing

It’s a great day to check the chain

>3m transactions (34 TPS) on Base 🛡️ for the first time yesterday

$DEGEN is one of the best airdrops in crypto because 

1)  community decides distribution by expressing their own subjective measure of value (tokens are allocated by tipping an allowance) 

2) sybil resistance (FIDs are paid for, making them a good proxy for unique humans)

h/t…

Zora Network seeing a huge spike in transactions today 👀

I’ve had multiple friends call me up in the past few weeks for me to teach them how to buy memecoins. Some lessons learned:

-For the majority of them, it’s their first time using a wallet and first time they have heard of Solana

-Crypto UX is still way too confusing. While UX…

Is Axie Back? Ronin Chain has seen explosive growth making it one of the top chains by active addresses with over 1.1M active addresses.

Curious to hear if there is a game driving this activity or if it is inorganic

The number of new tokens appearing on DEXs hit an all-time high the week of 3/11.

What is even more interesting is the shift in new tokens launching on Ethereum & BNB to Solana & Base indicating a shift in where attention is happening for this current cycle

.Variant is co-hosting Proof Day with NEBRA this Friday in NY:

✅ Great crowd
✅ Talks on cutting edge topics
✅ Free food

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💻 Product update: Source Availability

We're thrilled to announce that Artemis's queries are now source available.

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tons of onchain data, too few analysts

My mom called me to ask if I heard about “Dog sniffs Hat” that she read about in the news and why I didn’t tell her about it earlier 🙃

Sorry airdrop hunters, but today we are releasing our sybil detection tool. We score the probability of a user being a sybil across seven chains.

An overview of our methodology, motivation for building and some insights in a detailed 🧵