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Bundles and opt-in revert protection are live on @unichain which means more tools for searchers to run efficient arb strats I'm live coding an arb bot on the pink chain this Wednesday at 11am ET Come hang
Michael Saylor on Apple in 2012 THIS IS A MUST WATCH!!!
few know this, but Uniswap's AMM model was really just forked from Runescape's general store AMM
nothing is original every idea is a fork of a fork, and at best a fork of something original we now live in an era where originality is less important than execution embrace post authorship
Cannes celebrates as crypto nerds finally leave the city
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You asked for it, we built it. Perpetual-style crypto futures are coming to the US on July 21. Starting with $BTC and $ETH. No quarterly expiration, available 24/7, with spot price tracking. Fully CFTC compliant. Only available on Coinbase 🫡
The deeper you get into DEX design, the sillier it feels to be dogmatic about any of it Everything depends on fiddly microstructure details
A new era of wallet UX is here 🦄 Uniswap Wallet users can now enable smart wallet, unlocking one-click swaps with bundled transactions Smarter swaps. Lower costs.
The American values of economic liberty, private property rights, and innovation are in the DNA of the DeFi, or Decentralized Finance, movement.
If you want to understand the dangers of Ripple acquiring Circle, look no further than this article
Respect for @0xfluid posting this post-mortem But their proposed solution—to make liquidity more concentrated—seems like the wrong choice The pool is not just losing money during rebalances. It is losing money constantly—AFAICT, fees do not make up for arb losses So…
This impressive paper is the biggest contribution to modeling LVR since 2023 It’s the first paper to model LVR for uniform block times (like almost all chains now have) This means that switching from PoW to PoS may have reduced LVR by ~17%, just due to deterministic block time!
Turns out that the constant we were looking for includes the Riemann zeta function evaluated at 1/2. I feel like we are getting close to connecting AMM research to the Riemann hypothesis, which is pretty impressive given that it all started with xy=k! arxiv.org/pdf/2505.05113
Many friends are working on protocols that prioritize cancels over takes. Plato is a friend, but truth is a better friend. Let me give you three reasons why prioritizing cancels is a bad idea. 1/n
Making a pre-seed bet is like a 10 leg parlay. You’re betting the company: 1) makes a product people want 2) captures a meaningful part of a big market 3) attracts great talent 4) doesn’t run out of money 5) maintains an insane growth rate 6) founders don’t break up 7)…
Recently I was targeted by an extremely sophisticated phishing attack, and I want to highlight it here. It exploits a vulnerability in Google's infrastructure, and given their refusal to fix it, we're likely to see it a lot more. Here's the email I got: