Eddy Lazzarin 🟠🔭

The industry is mature enough that we can categorize tokens based on their legal, economic, and technical properties. Not all tokens are created equal. Some projects even describe their token as a Network Token or memecoin when it's really Company-backed. Links below ↯

How do you use @circle's CCTP to bridge directly? I've spent a few minutes and found only one somewhat sketchy app. How do people use it?

Current net capital rules weren’t built for crypto. Broker-dealers need regulatory guidance designed for the future of tokenized markets. From staking rewards to trade settlement, we @a16zcrypto lay out principles for modernization that preserve capital markets protections.…

REST IN PEACE, BROTHER!!!

With the GENIUS Act celebration done, builders already want to know what's next. The answer is CLARITY – crypto market structure legislation – which also got overwhelming bipartisan support in the House last week. Here's everything you need to get caught up on CLARITY:

The GENIUS Act is getting signed today, bringing clear rules of the road for stablecoins. Here's why stablecoins are better money, how they're better for people and businesses, and the mental models you can use to understand them. My master thread on stablecoins. 👇

What regulations need to change so we can have cars that aren’t so “fat”?

Clear rules for stablecoins and the road ahead At the White House today, the first piece of U.S. crypto legislation will be signed into law: the GENIUS Act. It provides clear rules for stablecoins. This is a historic moment — not just for crypto, but for the world at large.…

The House just made history by passing major legislation on stablecoins (GENIUS Act) and market structure (CLARITY Act) in an overwhelmingly bipartisan way. This is a huge moment for crypto and for all Americans. We’re very close to having comprehensive, proactive rules in place…

CLARITY passes the house 294-134. What an incredible moment.

1/ It's time to bring back "designed in California, made in California.” Today, at @reindsummit, @ashleevance and I introduced Solano Foundry, the largest advanced manufacturing park in America, an hour north of Silicon Valley. Built by @CAForever with @JLL. 🧵

It’s always awesome to talk with people who are more optimistic and excited in real life than online. People who are bullposting online but privately cynical and bearish are the worst. Huge red flag.

Encrypted mempools can seem like an appealing solution to fixing the market structure on blockchains. But, even a perfect cryptographic solution still leaves a lot of gaps. We’re going to need new economic mechanisms in addition to cryptography to totally address the problem.

Karma is being modest — huge update for Halmos! ∎ Stateful invariant testing (very powerful) ∎ Flamegraphs (see what Halmos is exploring) ∎ 30x faster interpreter (!!!) ∎ Easily select many solvers ∎ Coverage reports ∎ Solx support ∎ more cheatcodes ∎ ... and more

halmos v0.3.0 release highlights! (quick reminder: halmos is a symbolic testing tool for EVM bytecode which interfaces nicely with foundry projects and supports multiple SMT solvers) 1. we (finally) added support for stateful invariant testing

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Currently deep in this absolutely incredible episode of the @a16zcrypto podcast with @smc90, @eddylazzarin, @recmo, & Adrian Ludwig. In a world overrun with AI agents, bots, and deep fakes, we desperately need proof of human. Highly recommend it! 👇

I have to admit I’m no longer sure whether replies are written by people most of the time. This matters if you read replies as a signal of what people think. (Maybe in a pure entertainment context it doesn’t matter.)

YouTube has felt "solved" for a while now. Thumbnails all the same (constant abuse of shocked expressions/sanpaku eyes), pacing and narrative structure the same, etc. Overall it's very good — almost always a video for what you want — but a feeling that the medium is at its limit.