Will Papper ✺
@WillPapper
Co-founder of @Syndicateio. Prev Philosophy @Stanford. ETH since the 2014 presale. Tweets about appchains + rollups. Creator of $AGLD, Core @ConstitutionDAO
“Community” means more than saying gm in a group chat. Community means forging genuine relationships that impact the real world. It’s an infinite game where the goal is to cooperate, flourish, and keep playing. Communities need infrastructure they control to survive long-term.…
I was going to write an EthCC recap but @jennapilgrim wrote a better one (and hosted my favorite event with @jbrukh/@coinfund_io) Robinhood's announcement singlehandedly brought the space from "Why an appchain?" to "How to appchain?" @syndicateio mainnet soon to answer "how"🌐
@RobinhoodApp's announcement with @arbitrum brought new fervor to the usefulness of L2s, and reignited an impt discussion on the value add of L2s beyond new money. The arms race continues. Revenue and fee-generating protocols were top of mind, who'd have thought? 🤯
Spinning up your own appchain is 10x easier than a year ago. All of the tooling has gotten simpler to deploy. Account abstraction went from 8 weeks + upfront payments to nearly instant deployment.
Fun fact: Ethereum Classic is still a top 50 token (worth $3.7B)
Very interesting vulnerability writeup. This is why you should always, always set any owner in smart contracts in the constructor! Don't leave an owner uninitialized at deployment It protects against mistakes and you get front-running protection that is essential here too
We @VennBuild just discovered a critical backdoor on thousands of smart contracts leaving over $10,000,000 at risk for months Along with the help of security researchers @dedaub @pcaversaccio, the seals team @seal_911 and others, we managed to rescue the majority of funds…
Live with Seed Club to talk about appchains, Adrift, and where consumer crypto appchains are going!
11AM • July 9, 2025 x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Over 9000 sailors for Adrift! Under 10 hours left to join us and set sail: adrift.syndicate.io
Over 3,000 sailors. Under 24 hours left before we set sail. Join now! adrift.syndicate.io
If you are working on this for Arbitrum Orbit chains, please reach out! @syndicateio will give you money
is anybody working on arbitrum reth by the way?
Started using Claude Code for 6-8 hours every day during EthCC late night hack sessions. Upgraded to Max 20x. Was even planning on having Claude Code agents talk to other agents and coordinate on testing, auditing, and documentation And then it gets nerfed. It was a good run 🫡
Appchains and pizza is happening at 8 PM today for EthCC, walking distance from the venue. Reply for invite! Will be a very small and curated event
Thinking of hosting a small appchain get together at EthCC. Reply here if you want to come Will provide drinks and food, walking distance from the venue I will keep it very curated so make sure that I can DM you here or on TG
Announced at @EthCC, you can register today! Try out the Adrift game + appchain Fully onchain. 100% gas subsidized. Sequencer-enforced randomness. Log in without needing your own wallet Register now. We will set sail soon!
Adrift is here—the first game and gaming appchain from Syndicate. Check in daily to keep your ship afloat. 🌊 Miss a check-in, you’re out. 🏴☠️ Last sailor at sea gets a prize. ✨ Registration opens today. Game starts July 9th. No late entrants.
This is today at 3:25 PM! Come join in person if you are at @EthCC and learn more about how appchains like @world_chain_, @unichain, @HyperliquidX, and @RobinhoodApp are already radically changing revenue and value accrual for apps Livestream link + recording will be available
In Cannes for @EthCC? Don’t miss @WillPapper's talk on how appchains with onchain sequencing give devs full control over the sequencer, fees, and value flow—and reshape the UX. Gas subsidies. Fair tx ordering. Custom economic models. 15:25 –– Grant Stage (3rd Floor)
The factory used to create Robinhood's onchain OpenAI stock has also deployed 212 other tokens 👀
if you are looking for the @RobinhoodApp transaction for OpenAI token here it is arbiscan.io/tx/0xcc3d03185…
Thinking of hosting a small appchain get together at EthCC. Reply here if you want to come Will provide drinks and food, walking distance from the venue I will keep it very curated so make sure that I can DM you here or on TG
The new zkVM announced by @zksync is big news, for a subtle reason. One savvy move they're making will skyrocket their odds of success With two dozen zkVMs in development, gaining enough assets to be seen as secure will be the hardest challenge for any zkVM. ZKsync has a key…
ZKsync Chains like Era, @AbstractChain, @sophon, @Memento_Bc, @LC, & @grvt_io will use Airbender as a proof system moving forward, reducing proving costs to just $0.0001 per transfer, bringing meaningful savings & performance gains to apps across the Elastic Network.
I'm betting on a multi-chain world with specialized use cases rather than multiple general-purpose chains competing for the same developers and users. Chains will be differentiated by more than vibes.
Ethereum mainnet had a massive advantage in 2021: everything was in one place. But because everything was in one place, it wasn’t able to scale. It was presented with a choice: Scale horizontally (many chains) or scale vertically (one big chain). It chose the former with a…
Wallets that are multi-chain by default are essential to the future of crypto. Most wallets were created in a one-chain or few-chain world. Even Coinbase Wallet, which is more natively multi-chain than most, has you worry about various ETH and USDC versions on different chains…