me looking at any crypto infra in the last month

what are some candidates for the bitcoin block with the most MEV ever? thinking we'll blow past those numbers pretty soon anyways.

current mood

wrote my first bitcoin script, feels like I'm rediscovering the wisdom of the ancients.

Reth's NodeBuilder API totally opens the aperture on what EVM L2s will look like (alphanet is <1500 LOC!!!). Only a handful of people understand this today. Study the codebase, there's deep alpha here anon.

Honored to share that Monad Labs has raised $225M in funding from Paradigm and other leading investors. Thank you for this incredible vote of confidence. 💜

The funding provides our team with ample resources to bring Monad, the Parallel EVM L1 blockchain, to life.

gmonad. thrilled that Paradigm is supporting Keone Hon ⨀ James Eunice | Monad and the rest of the incredible Monad ⨀ team as they push the limits of EVM scaling.

the era of 10,000 tps is upon us.

that’s a nice transport layer protocol you’ve got there, sure would be a shame if someone threw some highly motivated adversaries at it

imagine fading this guy

Excited for Paradigm to support defi guy 🔥🦅 and Jarry Xiao 🔥🦅 as they build towards their vision for better DeFi.

After getting to know Eugene and Jarry over the past few years, I can't imagine a better pair to take on the challenge of bringing finance onchain.

who would win, a $400B network or a few bloby boys

you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone (proof of work)

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness (trading misspelled celebrity coins)

we're about to see one of the most interesting natural experiments in crypto play out

Thrilled to have ciamac moallemi join Paradigm as a Research Advisor!

ciamac moallemi is a Columbia finance professor and quant who is one of the sharpest and most practical researchers I've met

He coauthored the LVR papers, which set the gold standard for influential academic DeFi research

a quantitative case for scaling ethereum, limitcels in shambles

it's always 'how will 4844 affect rollup economics' and never 'how will 4844 affect inscription economics' 😢

there's a set of bad ideas in crypto that keep being tried over and over again. being able to pattern match them quickly is a good skill to have because it saves you huge amounts of time.

study the wisdom of the ancients (2017-2020 ethresearch posts)

if you were told 4844 isolates rollups from L1 MEV, you were lied to