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TL;DR: I’ve joined @heliuslabs. We’re hiring across GTM and Engineering. If you’ve got a “let’s fucking win” attitude, hit my DMs. I’ve joined Helius as Lead Product Manager, focused on empowering developers to ship performant, capital-efficient systems for the next generation…

After 3+ years of helping build and grow the OP Stack, I’m stepping away from OP Labs. During my tenure, we scaled the OP Stack from 40K transactions / day to over 15 million transactions / day. A lot changed through that growth and as I reflect on the journey I keep coming back…

First new TVL all time high since Dec 2021 Dec 27, 2021: $258B July 22, 2025: $263B

just had a long chat with @allam_hamdi and one thing is for sure this is a man to watch many of the elite devs in crypto are not active on twitter as much but are always worth a follow for anyone actively participating in this space aka: follow the mandem.

We’re exploring a crypto-native Merchant of Record (MoR) at @couch_labs — think Polar.sh but for crypto. Decentralization is great, but it pushes operational burdens (taxes, refunds, compliance, ..) onto builders, while retail users lose protections. Surprised…

Competition is good. I’ve never seriously considered staking through a centralized exchange as yields were usually ~35% worse than native staking. But Robinhood is now offering rates that are nearly on par (~5% lower) with onchain native staking venues while also simplifying…