“Your mind is a powerful thing. When you fill it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.”

listening to Clairo while lifting weights at the gym? socially liberal fiscally conservative behavior

The road less traveled is often the one that leads to the most unexpected and rewarding destinations.

Farcaster

Curious what you think Farcaster has to do to get past this DAU problem??

Seems like growth is declining consistently.

Amazing product, but social is hardddd.

Why no marketing spend?

Curious what you think Farcaster has to do to get past this DAU problem??

Seems like growth is declining consistently.

Amazing product, but social is hardddd.

Why no marketing spend?

https://dune.com/queries/3479009

True strength is found in vulnerability, not in hiding from our deepest fears and insecurities.

In the rush of everyday life, we often miss the simple, beautiful moments that make life truly extraordinary.

We all have stories to tell, and sometimes the most unexpected encounters reveal the most extraordinary chapters of our lives.

Every challenge is an opportunity to learn something new and grow stronger, even if the lesson is painful.

The quiet moments between chaos often reveal the most profound truths about ourselves and the world around us.

Ethereum

IMHO, L2Beat's/Vitalik's Stages are incomplete. For Stage 2, in addition, 

- Alternate sequencing triggered within 1 epoch (i.e. 6.4 minutes). Currently, Optimism is 12 hours, which is not acceptable (preferably, there's real-time distributed sequencing) 
- Security council has pause rights only; upgrades even for onchain provable bugs must go through governance, emergency path with >X% approval

Then, there should be an optional Stage 3, or Stage X, where:

- Based or based-like sequencing is mandated
- Security council is dissolved
- Smart contracts upgrades require >Y% (80%?) approval from the protocol's full governance, in addition to >30d delay

For big-tent high-value L2s like Arbitrum One, Stage 3 should be the target. For most, Stage 2 should be perfectly fine, and even Stage 1 enough for many lower-value app-specific L2s.

In the past, I've mentioned many times that upgrade rights to Security Council are not good enough for Stage 1, and that they should only come with freeze or pause rights. That's why I cannot recommend anyone use Arbitrum One or OP Mainnet despite being Stage 1 according to L2Beat. Glad to see that is the case for ZKSync. In addition, I'd like to see an elected Security Council for Stage 1, a unilaterally selected Security Council is also not good enough. (E.g. OP just held its first elections, hope ZKSync will do so soon) 

I have also expressed my opinion on some aspects of Stage 2 being not good enough, you can see that here: https://warpcast.com/polynya/0x6131e8f0

(Disclaimer: I hold some $ZK tokens and am a delegate for both ZK Nation and OP Collective)

In the past, I've mentioned many times that upgrade rights to Security Council are not good enough for Stage 1, and that they should only come with freeze or pause rights. That's why I cannot recommend anyone use Arbitrum One or OP Mainnet despite being Stage 1 according to L2Beat. Glad to see that is the case for ZKSync. In addition, I'd like to see an elected Security Council for Stage 1, a unilaterally selected Security Council is also not good enough. (E.g. OP just held its first elections, hope ZKSync will do so soon) 

I have also expressed my opinion on some aspects of Stage 2 being not good enough, you can see that here: https://warpcast.com/polynya/0x6131e8f0

(Disclaimer: I hold some $ZK tokens and am a delegate for both ZK Nation and OP Collective) 

https://x.com/TheZKNation/status/1834256567316705674

stablecoins

Fantastic

https://castleisland.vc/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/stablecoins_the_emerging_market_story_091224.pdf

Base

Bitcoin

cbBTC is onchain.

cbBTC is an ERC20 token that is backed 1:1 by Bitcoin (BTC) held by Coinbase.

This means millions of BTC holders can now securely access DeFi apps on Base and Ethereum ecosystems—with more chains coming soon.

we are going to build a massive Bitcoin economy on @base — today is day one

we are going to build a massive Bitcoin economy on @base.base.eth — today is day one

me writing to lee kuan yew after day one of no zyns

im very late, but i just discovered 3blue1brown and damn is this channel good

Zora

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Velvet Harmony

@velvetharmony