EigenLayer TVL hit $15B - people want yield on staked ETH. Early restakers may get airdrops. Risky but potential 50-100x if new primitives emerge.

Web3 dev tools now rival AWS
Building is 10x easier than 2020

Government: 'We must stop crypto scams!'
Also government: mints trillion dollar coin

Shitposting as an investment strategy has better returns than my 401k

We want mass adoption... but also want to keep saying 'normies won't understand this' when prices crash

Rainbow

The aftermath?
— Some of my lines live forever in the blockchain
— My janky comments still haunt early Geth PRs
— Still catch myself thinking: “Holy shit, we actually launched this”

Market Bleeding? Perfect. Alts dumping harder than 2022 CEX tokens.
Liquidity drier than a degen's wallet after leverage.
Even the "scam" comments slowed down – that's your signal.

Books

I’m about two chapters in and really enjoying this book. 

Naipaul has a keen eye and sharp tongue that explores being a migrant at the dawn of globalism. 

Some interesting parallels to draw between that age and this one.

Base

I share a goal with @jessepollak 
And that is to lift the onchain economy and onboard millions to the new internet  [the onchain economy]

I am Based 🔵

https://zora.co/collect/base:0xa8315f5434e5cd385a4806573aa54ead55a3a6bf/2?referrer=0xBe72BF14Bfb9DE3c079BF5C6FAdE0cAc591A3C7d

I've been sleeping terribly the last few nights and I don't understand what's going on

base-builds

This week I built:
I gave a spotlight about Egoblox on my Twitter handle and I so reached out to my friends using telegram to explore and use EGOBLOX as their crypto mini-app for Utility payments.

https://x.com/brimestones042/status/1868290851518181452?t=OJP-VsyGEjV9T_8feuohZA&s=19

I realized that I need to go to bed earlier, it definitely helps to be more cheerful.

The weather has been great for the last few days

Bomb

@bombb