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Bitcoin is bigger than ever but harder to change than ever. How Bitcoin changes matters, this paper presents novel analysis of consensus changes with alternative clients risking chain splits and loss of user funds. Ball up top, protect the rock.

Crypto can enable capital formation for credible enterprises while minimizing friction, but today's mechanisms are extractive and broken. Enter @gavelxyz : - Sniper-resistant auctions for sourcing capital - Day 1 price discovery without frontrunning Internet Capital Markets

Fun to do some light mechanism work, all inspired by the question: how do we build an on-chain token distribution product that is verifiable and competitive with centralized exchanges? @gavelxyz is our answer.

On-chain token distribution is broken. Many teams want to raise capital efficiently and distribute tokens to real users, not to snipers and sandwichers. Gavel is a platform for equitable on-chain token distribution and liquidity bootstrapping. It is live today on Solana!

Introducing BAM: The Block Assembly Marketplace that revolutionizes how Solana processes transactions. Private. Transparent. Verifiable. This is how Solana wins ⬇️

We have a Break Thru. Break Thru is a chaotic community canvas. It is an experiment to see how much load a single program running on Thru can handle. Our canvas is an ode to our early chaotic community, a fun game we want you to break! We’ll continue expanding the canvas til…

Stablecoins are spreading the dollar faster than any financial tech in history. And Ethereum is becoming the financial backbone. For Ethereum’s 10th birthday, we’re publishing our updated @ElectricCapital ETH thesis: Remaking the Case for ETH 🧵 1/

Kuru is excited to announce our $11.6m Series A round led by @paradigm This funding will help us scale our team and bring our vision of a fully on-chain orderbook to life on Monad.

25,000 devs are building in open source crypto right now. The Electric Capital Developer Report site now updates weekly, not yearly. You can now track live dev stats for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and more. (1/6) ⬇️

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Monad Founder Residency at Network School! If you're a founder who: - Has a live product but no growth - Wants to present to 100+ VCs on Demo Day Then this residency is for you. Details and applications below 👇

can't wait to see JPMD/BALD JPMD/SKITTEN JPMD/TIBBIR

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farming airdrops is even more cooked with browsermcp it creates a mcpserver that hooks into existing user browser session through a chrome extension making it almost impossible to detect that the actions were taken by an agent and not a human

Unpacking the Stablecoin Sandwich This piece from @jesmros discusses the benefits of stablecoins and breaks down how they are used to improve global payments

In a world without a verifiable shared ledger, every financial institution needed to hold cash to guarantee that it got paid. This meant effective settlement happened at the speed of transfer of cash. Today, the "stablecoin sandwich" is used to speed up global transfers for…

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the shift on ct to revenue and fee tracking is really healthy for crypto markets revenue is not evil revenue is usage driven market feedback revenue gives teams freedom from the endless cycle of fundraising and the opportunity to control their own destiny

Application revenue funds open source projects sustainably Last cycle most app revenue was on Ethereum which helped fund open source work My guess is the next developer report update will show a large increase in open source development in Solana as app revenues shift