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With the rise of multichain users on
@base
,
@solana
, and
@degentokenbase
's L3, one of the biggest UX issues a multichain user faces is the friction you face to group together fragmented funds.
If you have $5 on chain A, and $5 on chain B, you can't treat it as a $10 balance to
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you raise $215M from Arbitrum DAO to build your onchain game
i sit on a cardboard box at home to build my onchain game
we are not the same
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Coinbase just gave all of its interns a pair of custom AirPods for National Intern Day! 🤯
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seeing COINBASE in the Ethereum Yellow Paper led me to learn that
@coinbase
is named after coinbase transactions, which is the first transaction in a PoW block that is used to reward miners.
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A sneak peek inside the day of an swe intern at
@base
. 🔵👇
With the goal of building in public, I’m planning on posting frequent updates of what I do each day.
Over the past two days I’ve been meeting the amazing engineers working on Base, meeting the other interns, and have
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you can literally buy a
@badkidsart
on another chain in *1 click* WITHOUT having to touch that chain, using
@squidrouter
's NFT checkout.
and yet you're not bullish on the convenience of interoperability, anon?
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i booked an Uber with
@wlaw_
in a different country.
when trying to split the ride, we had different banking systems from different countries that couldn’t send money to each other. Canada has e-transfer. America has apps like venmo and cashapp. But neither of us could sign up
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The life of a SWE intern at
@base
, part 4. 🔵
I’ve finally experienced the “programmers high”. 🔥
There is no better feeling than this. Everything I was coding finally made sense, and over the past two weeks I was locked in implementing my research project. 🧑💻
In fact, just
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Building in public at
@base
, part 2. 🔵
Over the past few days of my internship, I have:
- learned about OP Stack's chain derivation and the constraints it places between L2 blocks and L1 blocks ⛓️
- dug my hands into Geth’s codebase to better understand how it works after
A sneak peek inside the day of an swe intern at
@base
. 🔵👇
With the goal of building in public, I’m planning on posting frequent updates of what I do each day.
Over the past two days I’ve been meeting the amazing engineers working on Base, meeting the other interns, and have
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Are you building on
@base
and looking to get the spotlight? 🔆
The best 15 projects who reply to this tweet will get a chance to demo their project in-person to over 500 people and meet
@jessepollak
at
@onchainsf
in SF. 🤝
Now’s your chance to grow your user base, get
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@RyanSAdams
crazy at how low the fees on Base are! even more so considering coinbase covers gas for free USDC transfers on the coinbase wallet app
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ALL 5 projects from
@wlooblockchain
's hacker house won at ETHDenver, including first place at the conference.
Are you collaborating with the university Vitalik went to, anon?
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@apoorvlathey
shadowxyz in shambles after hearing about a log being added instead of removed 🤩
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From Jesse himself: “I’ve said this like 5 times in the past week, but the quality and consistency of Waterloo talent is honestly insane. Blows my mind every single time.”
Plugging
@wlooblockchain
, our university’s blockchain hub filled with degens 🙌
we hired 2
@UWaterloo
interns on the
@base
team
if you've never hired a waterloo intern before, that's equivalent to adding two 10x engineers, with the energy and ambition of early career superstars
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Building in public at
@base
, part 3. 🔵
This week of my internship was an incredibly fun and insightful week working on the team. Here's what I did since my last update👇
- I had an incredibly insightful discussion with my manager,
@roberto_bayardo
where we were whiteboarding
Building in public at
@base
, part 2. 🔵
Over the past few days of my internship, I have:
- learned about OP Stack's chain derivation and the constraints it places between L2 blocks and L1 blocks ⛓️
- dug my hands into Geth’s codebase to better understand how it works after
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Are YOU curious about using or building on
@base
and in California? 🌉🔵
Come join California's base community to meet other degens and builders in the area! link below 👇
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building at
@base
in California.
If you know of any web3 / tech meetups or communities, send them below! Would love to meet more people in the area 🙌
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1/ Excited to announce
@DuneAnalytics
has recognized me as a Wizard after just 4 months of making my first dashboard!
If you’re wanting to become a Wizard, here are 5 tips I learned throughout my journey.
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Toronto’s degen scene is back.
@berachain
@ambergroup_io
shoutout to
@robcrt
and
@pool_two
for hosting!
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Are you looking for a dance party in Waterloo? 💃🕺
Join us for free pizza, beer, and live DJ at our pizza party this May 22!
Hosted by
@wlooblockchain
,
@Pizza_DAO
, and
@venusventuresio
on-campus at
@UWaterloo
Special thanks to our sponsors:
@axelarnetwork
&
@ZircuitL2
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1) $ENS domains are booming. A summary of the trends I learned with ENS domains.
I chatted with
@awarebeareth
, and learned that ENS domains were trending. The recent growth in domain registrations in the graph caught my attention. Momentum looks early. 🚨
#ensdomains
#onchain
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On my shuttle home from Basecamp, I whipped up a Dune dashboard analyzing
@base
names (early access!).
Over half of all Basecamp attendees have already registered their Basename the day they were announced!
Public access coming soon. Are you ready for the future of onchain
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@QwQiao
@CL207
@lmrankhan
@alliancedao
this is actually the exact reason we have our university's blockchain club degening on-chain and building instead of other clubs that just larp on-chain and write as if they're trying to get into goldman sachs
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your intern modifies 1 file over 94 commits
the based intern modifies 94 files over 1 commit
i am going to be fired by whoever ends up reviewing my PR 💙
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@jessepollak
@UWaterloo
@base
We’re just super based. Tagging
@wlaw_
, who’s also interning with me on the base team 😎
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lmao no way, am I the only intern account in ct who is actually a real intern? 🤣
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Merge a PR that improves
@axelarnetwork
's docs page, and get 20 USDC. Powered by
@bountycaster
.
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A summary on-chain activity on
@axelarcore
. Did you know their GMP volume increased by 2000% after the launch of
@squidrouter
?
More details on the
@DuneAnalytics
dashboard below!
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Two accounts caught wash trading an NFT collection on
@StargazeZone
, falsely increasing the volume traded by 394,200 $STARS with 48 trades across 2 days.
At 2% royalties, they paid 7,884 $STARS in fees, which is roughly $212 using an exchange price of $0.027. Surprisingly not
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In less than 24 hours,
@infinex_app
has amassed over $33.7M in TVL by farmers. But what actually is Infinex? (1/x)🧵
@kaiynne
@princebilby
@kmao37
@rayzhueth
@stableshaman
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First in-person event with
@sonr_io
and
@uw_blockchain
. 🎉
Phonomenal presentations by
@web3withashley
and
@thisisprad
, with amazing venue, food, and networking!
Our members loved this event more than anything, and we can't wait to see the great things your company plans.
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Happy to share that my Dune dashboard analyzing
@ZircuitL2
has reached 150+ stars!
If you have a metric you'd like me to add to this dashboard, reply below and I'll build it! 🛠️
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@ZircuitL2
, a zkEVM with security at the sequencer level has reached $100M in TVL in its first day of its staking program.
In this thread, I analyze the most popular tokens being deposited, the whales who are depositing the most, and deposits overtime.
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@brian_armstrong
holy shit did I (an intern) just get quote tweeted by Brian himself?!! 🤯
I’d love to plug this tweet mentioning more cool things I’ve learned over the past few days working here!!
Building in public at
@base
, part 2. 🔵
Over the past few days of my internship, I have:
- learned about OP Stack's chain derivation and the constraints it places between L2 blocks and L1 blocks ⛓️
- dug my hands into Geth’s codebase to better understand how it works after
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@0xngmi
defillama being open source allowing anyone to build and contribute metrics, is what I absolutely love about it! 🙌
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they put Minecraft on the blockchain
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@SuiDeveloper
this is false information, Sui is inflationary through its large token unlocks.
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@0xCygaar
@DefiLlama
defillama had single-handedly increased the number of crypto degens at our university.
Super easy to learn about new protocols, chains, and yield through it.
@0xngmi
you’re incredible 🙌
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An underrated part of Cosmos chains is the fact that they have on-chain governance, subsequently making them more decentralized and community led.
You can’t use your ETH or SOL to directly vote on if an EIP passes or not after participating in their discussion forms, but in
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205 hackers, 38 projects, 7 companies, and 1 goal to onboard more students into blockchain.
Excited to share
@wlooblockchain
's first hackathon was a success!
Made possible by:
@SolanaFndn
,
@axelarcore
,
@Jackal_Labs
,
@NEARFoundation
,
@Quantstamp
,
@StarkWareLtd
,
@zellic_io
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@base
@jessepollak
@onchainsf
Tagging some of my personal favorite projects on Base!
@timedotfun
- monetize your time & meetings
@based_minecraft
- minecraft onchain
@moshicamera
- creative way of putting your memories onchain
@MoonwellDeFi
- goated lending protocol
@unlonely_app
- livestream onchain!
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hosting a small crypto meetup for builders & degens in Waterloo. we have cofounders already signed up, reach out if interested!
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I’m using a cardboard box as my chair and my bed as my table while I code up a small minigame in Solidity 📦
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Wormhole trading at a $5.4B FDV prelaunch is making me realize how much the market is undervaluing Axelar.
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aped into a pair programming call with
@Sabnock66
, an amazing pal. here's some neat things I learned!
- Solady's ERC20 does not have a constructor.
- Solady is super optimized, Solmate is minimalistic.
- You can run Solidity code in a terminal by using Chisel
- Main idea of
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Sui wanted to fly me out to Paris for basecamp but I couldn't go because of exams. 📚
Happy to see the conference going well on twitter!
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@haydenzadams
dune analyzers about to be on their knees trying to analyze a protocol with no events 😭
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more readings on those interested in learning more about this type transactions:
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@marie_bbb
MIT students about to call themselves the Waterloo of the south so they can apply 😭😭😭
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Got to see the original Macintosh, Commodore 64, Xbox 360 developer kit on a PowerMac G5 and more at our university’s retro hardware day!
One of the hosts was talking about the history on why Microsoft chose the PowerMac G5 for developing on the Xbox 360, and how challenging it
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@PrimordialAA
let’s grow the interoperability space together instead of throwing misinformation 🤝
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I’ve come to appreciate Canadian healthcare more after dealing with the insurance system in the US.
You mean to say that I can’t just go to a nearby doctor, and I need to spend the entire day researching and calling the listed “in-network” doctors ahead of time or else my
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The UX for Wormhole's Portal Bridge had numerous issues for members in our university's blockchain club with bridge tokens being illiquid on the destination end requiring you to check ahead of time, and no documentation on needing to spam claim transactions on the destination end
2/ in all things cross-chain, UX is paramount, and IMO Wormhole delivers the best UX. it has taken years of investment to build out not only Wormhole Connect, but also support for all 3 configurations of moving value across chains: asset-pegging, native-token-transfers, and
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@0xSolanaGirl
neel has:
- ignored how consent works
- thinks of women as objects rather than actual people
- dumped his tokens making his investors the exit liquidity, and tried to cover it up
is this who we want in our industry?
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There's a blobs bidding war now, seemingly due to increased usage from the L0 airdrop claims.
Impacts:
- Optimism has temporarily switched to calldata
- Arbitrum is producing blocks with only 2 - 3 transactions in each of them due to high gas fees causing decreased usage
- Gas
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@nickwh8te
@solana
@farcaster_xyz
Why wouldn't Twitter support it? It's not like they have to do anything to support it.
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@0xSolanaGirl
Highly recommend Amy (VP of
@wlooblockchain
) to anyone looking to hire.
She single-handedly made a digital ownership protocol on Solana, and was the driving force behind our chain-agnostic hackathon of 205 builders.
@Pememoni
@0xMert_
@0xgodking
@mbaril010
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@annngelkek
it identifies malicious txs and quarantines them.
for example, if a smart contract has a withdraw function, but the balance of the smart contract is being emptied through a completely unrelated function, then that tx gets quarantined.
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Is it worth removing events and moving to calltraces for Uniswap v4 for 1% gas savings on all swaps?
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@EvanWeb3
* DeFi liquidity - clearly desirable, gud protocol
* Dubai liquidity - worst infrastructure ever
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Staking on Zircuit has reached an ATH of $800M of deposits. My
@ZircuitL2
staking dashboard has now been updated to include
@ethena_labs
USDe stablecoin deposits! Here's some key insights: (1/4)
Currently, there is almost $49M of USDe deposited.
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@AzFlin
Local fee markets means that you won’t have to pay 100x the normal gas fee when you’re using your usual protocols or transferring tokens, when a certain smart contract you’re not touching has unusually high activity (ex. Eigenlayer deposits on its first day causing high fees
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@faisal_sayed05
- get your hands dirty by actually building things. Courses are theoretical.
- make friends and socialize. university is how you become well rounded.
- if you’re into blockchain, join
@wlooblockchain
’s. blockchain jobs pay way above the market.
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this is something that isn't prioritized enough in this space (for regulatory reasons presumably).
we need onchain privacy, and we need it now.
Q: "If I have nothing to hide, why should I care about privacy? Why is Tornado Cash important?"
A: "Democracy cannot exist in an ecosystem without privacy"
Yes. It is that drastic.
Scenario: Imagine you go to vote, and everyone can see who you vote for. If a wealthy, malicious
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ceiling is being raised. cursor's copilot helped us write "superhuman code" for a critical feature. We can read this code, but VERY few engineers out there could write it from scratch.
ceiling is being raised. cursor's copilot helped us write "superhuman code" for a critical feature. We can read this code, but VERY few engineers out there could write it from scratch.
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Happy to have learned a lot leading such a vibrant community throughout the year.
Excited for what’s next with the club! 🙌
Waterloo Blockchain's 2023 REWIND! 🎉
⭐Highlights of the Year:
Organized OlympiHacks with 205 attendees and 38 projects built at
@UWaterloo
.
Hosted 35 + meetups & workshops in 2023.
Hosted our first hacker house at
@EthereumDenver
.
Community Partner for
@ETHGlobal
Waterloo
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Imagine how big Facebook Libra could have been had they not split off from regulatory pressure.
First, the bull case - Telegram has global reach and significant MAUs to funnel to TON. Telegram is one of the most used apps globally by this measure.
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Last weekend I created a
@DuneAnalytics
dashboard analyzing
@fluiditymoney
for insights on protcol interactions, users with the most rewards claimed, and circulating token supply.
Check it out with the link below!
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@0xMert_
this tweet is engagement farming misinformation 💀
For the amount above $250k, it’s half of 66.7%, then multiplied by your federal & provincial tax rates.
I’m not for or against it, but at least get your info right.
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@priyeshugarg
@sergey_nog
not just front-end, onboarding as a whole is garbage in web3.
download metamask > create account > write passphrase securely > create account on a CEX > KYC > wait for approval > deposit fiat > learn how to buy crypto > figure out how txs work to withdraw
roadblocks for users
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I can make minute noodles in 1.1 minutes using my unreal (artificial) intelligence and because I have zero knowledge (zk) on how to microwave noodles.
is it time for me to start a seed raise?
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