Chiefess at
@DefiantNews
. Author of The Infinite Machine, exec. producer of
@ETHmovie
. Previously at Bloomberg
@business
in NYC, Madrid & Buenos Aires. Chilena.
when you're in crypto long enough, it's easy to become jaded and cynical (vert guilty of this too)
but let's not minimize the fact that blockchain-based finance actually.... works?!
there is permissionless, open, global:
trading
payments
lending/borrowing (secured for now)
"Billionaires meet with industry groups to decide on policy in private. Then tell the rest of the world on twitter"
True for big oil, big pharma, big tech -- now also true for big coin.
Had an amazing time chatting with
@VitalikButerin
about:
Ethereum as the base layer for the global economy
Upcoming merge
A multi-chain future
ETH vs BTC vs AVAX
Why Layer 2s are the way fwd
Anarcho-tyranny
Cancel culture
& more :)
Interview just out 👇
📈📈 Last time ETH crossed $1k
There was no
Compound
Aave
Uniswap
Synthetix
Curve
Yearn
Balancer
...
There was no DeFi.
It's amazing how far this army of hackers has come.
news is out!!
🎬🎬 The GOAT Ridley Scott and his production company Scott Free, the makers of
🔥 Gladiator
🔥 Alien
🔥 Blade Runner
🔥 House of Gucci
🏆 Nominated for 80 Academy Awards
🚀🚀 Will produce
@ETHMovie
The Infinite Machine movie!!!
WAGMAM ETHEREANS!!!
This crash is unmasking what should have been clear
Web3 apps succeed only if they provide value after stripping out speculation w/ their native token
web3 games should be fun to play
defi protocols should provide a financial service
nft creators should produce good content
etc
so excited... ready??
🌈 The Infinite Machine is becoming a movie!!
The Ethereum movie will ofc be produced together with the Ethereum community.
NFTs will fund production and enable its audience to become participants.
More 👇
1/1
Imagine if you could have owned Facebook stock when Mark Z was building it in his Harvard dorm
Or bought Apple shares when Steve Jobs and Steve W were tinkering in their garage
Imagine having been able to ** own the internet itself **
That's web3 and ETH
Users are also owners
The SEC cracking down on the biggest US crypto companies is a calculated move designed to chill the entire industry.
It worked with ICOs.
It won't work this time.
"DeFi" becomes a lot less interesting if it's replacing a centralized, opaque system with another centralized, opaque system.
There's potential here to build an actually better financial system.
Not a cheaper way to yield farm and trade shitcoins.
Ahhh!! My book is available for pre-order!!😱🤩
The Infinite Machine –The untold true story of Ethereum and how it wants to revolutionize the internet and money.
Launch date is July 14
#vivelarevolution
🌈
Be the first to get it!
This is huge.
Right now more than a third of all global payments are done via Stripe. Google, Amazon, Lyft, Apple, Walmart, Target, all use Stripe.
And now crypto (specifically USDC on Ethereum, Solana and Polygoin) will be a native payment option in the flows of all those
Crypto is back.
@Stripe
will start supporting global stablecoin payments this summer. Transactions instantly settle on-chain and automatically convert to fiat. Join the waitlist and watch the demo (h/t
@Solana
) from Sessions.
I know everyone is losing their minds about the spot bitcoin etf but...
ultimately we're packaging bitcoin in a fund, so that a bunch of the same wall st intermediaries can sell them to investors, layering fees on top.
feels like crypto should be about pushing in the opposite
This bull run crypto grew to almost $3T market cap.
It's promise? Building an open, global & transparent financial system, that for the first time allows everyone to have control over their funds, verify how money is deployed, instead of trusting third parties.
Instead:
1/6
2017: Will Ethereum ever be able to compete with Visa on throughput?
2021: Visa is settling transactions on Ethereum.
This is one of the clearest signs the new financial rails are replacing the old ones.
Internet of money is here ✨
not that controversial
#1
Founders build
VCs enable them
#2
- Ethereum is the most decentralized & used smart contracts chain
- Other blockchains offer cheaper / faster txs making tradeoffs in security and decentralization
- There are users and therefore investors for both
end
🔥 quotes from
@gavofyork
on
@DefiantNews
pod:
“We’re aiming to have TpS in the 100s of millions over the next 3-5 years while retaining decentralization."
“
#Polkadot
is the only chain that really provides the ability to secure any other chain — that is very valuable”
More👇
I'm a simple woman
I just want to know who the 21 BSC validators are and what is Binance's connection to them, if any.
Please respond if you have receipts (not rumors)
Thanks :)
cc
@cz_binance
HOW is tradfi media still calling Celsius DeFi 😂
@WSJ
@jonsindreu
Celsius is the opposite of DeFi.
It is
Custodial
Off-Chain
Opaque
DeFi is
Non-custodial
On-chain
Transparent
If you want to report on DeFi lenders check out
@AaveAave
@MakerDAO
@compoundfinance
Trust in blockchain bridges is crumbling.
By extension, that should mean the multi-chain thesis is also crumbling.
So, will consensus start to form around a single-chain view for the future?
If yes, crypto is about to get even more competitive / maxi.
US lawmakers: Want to finance stuff with crypto?
Idea: Support the crypto industry.
I started The Defiant in NYC bc I have big ambitions for it. Defiant Media has paid a TON of taxes & created American jobs. If crypto is not welcome, we'll go elsewhere, as will 1000s of others.
I'm sick to my stomach at having to wonder whether I'm safe in NYC today "day of rage."
Israeli leadership warns Palestine civilians to evacuate before they attack military targets in a narrow strip of land, responding to barbaric bloodshed.
Palestine leadership calls for
How is this guy's account still live
He's going after
@laurashin
in the most deranged, hateful way bc she cancelled an interview with him.
Help report this bully
@Pauly0x
Also, funny that he cannot fathom Laura doesn't have a boss telling her what to do. I guess it felt
1: Vitalik jokes there should be a token called $THE
2: $THE tokens get listed before you could hit RT
3: Degens shake bear off and ape in
4. Uniswap users climb to highest since March and trade activity to highest since June 2021
✊ In web3, users are also owners.
The way we interact with internet apps and finance (now the same thing) has changed forever.
Latest example:
@gitcoin
airdropped 15M of GTC (now worth ~ $117M) to its users, who can now govern the project.
The shift is happening right now.
Conclusion: U.S. Congress hates Facebook more than Bitcoin.
From comments about lack of decentralization, sounds like they wish Libra was more* like an actual crypto ⛓️
⛓ Days like today are good reminders to not take Ethereum's stability for granted.
Eth has been under extreme pressure with ICOs, NFTs, DeFi; clients have been under attack; it has forked.. yet it has never had an outage since its 2015 launch.
hey
@jack
for when you're ready to look into Ethereum, I spent two years researching it to write this book:
From the arguments I've seen you make about ETH, I think you might learn something new :)
As a resident of your state, I'm asking you
@SenSchumer
to vote YES on the Wyden amendment and NO on the Portman amendment in the interest of financial freedom and free speech.
#DontKillCrypto
via
@fightfortheftr
Personal news📣 I've recently left Bloomberg after eight amazing years to focus on my book on Ethereum with
@HarperCollins
and to become an independent writer. I'm closing this chapter with huge gratitude and am super excited for this project and for what's next! :)
DeFi and web3 advocates shout from rooftops that this blockchain-based financial system is better because it's accessible to everyone, anywhere.
and then metamask blocks venezuela, while opensea blocks iran -- those who need crypto the most?
This brick of papers here was meant to show the U.S. I am worthy of an EB1 visa, which has a path to get a green card.
And guess what?
It was approved!! 🇺🇸
This means I won’t have to worry about visas ever again.
Eth2 is live with 80%+ participation, signaling the chain is healthy
#serenitynow
(And over 3k+ people watching the livestream)
Historic day for Ethereum
ETH down +50% from it's ATH has not sparked cascading liquidations in DeFi (yet)
Selloff has prob been slow enough to allow for borrowers to top off their collateral.
In any case, DeFi has simply worked amid one of its biggest stress tests.
Chart from Defiant Terminal
Ethereum has 100M addresses 5 yrs after its launch.
That's ~10x more than internet users in 1995, 6 yrs after the World Wide Web was founded.
Taking the more conservative 40M addresses holding ETH, Ethereum is still beating early internet adoption.
🚀
My country, Chile, is engulfed in massive and violent protests.
It's not alone. People are taking to the streets across the globe.
There's a seismic shift underway, and open finance is one tool people can use to regain power✊
DeFi was primarily about creating a better financial system, not cycling the same capital into different flavored pump and dumps, and I think the sell off is thankfully shaking that sense back into the ecosystem.
Had a fun chat with
@el33th4xor
!
We broke down how
@avalancheavax
works, milestones so far and what's coming up.
Plus his spicy take on Layer 2s, saying blockchains relying on them have "given up" on trying to build better systems.
Podcast here 👇
LUNA in July started peeling away from the rest of the smart contracts platforms and it has just kept going 😮
Really a beast on its own now -- what's driving it?
🧐 where are the non speculative crypto use cases??
🤩 stablecoins-based savings, streamed payments, instant global value transfers, digital immutable property contracts, decentralized fundraising, open governance systems...
🧐 If only I could find one non trading use case!!!
ETH ETF APPROVAL SUMMARY
- Form 19B-4 approved for 8 issuers, including BlackRock and Fidelity. S-1 missing. Could take weeks to months before ETH ETFs actually trade.
- Huge win for ETH as it means SEC deems it a commodity, which means less regulatory uncertainty for the
Once upon a time I posted something about Bitcoin/Ethereum friendship and the tweet got overrun by Bitcoin maximalists trashing Ethereum. The end. 🤷♀️
Short story:
🌈🦄:
*Building new financial system*
🧐:
"But you don't know what ETH supply is"
🌈🦄:
"Etherscan?"
🧐:
"Needs to be independently calculated from an ETH node"
🌈🦄:
*Builds script*
🧐:
"How will ETH ever recover"
🌈🦄:
*Carry on building parallel finance*
ETH CME futures would supposedly stop the music today..
and here's Elon Musk barging in with a marching band, DJ and orchestra :)
soon we'll all be dancing on Mars 🧑🚀
"Web3 is a set of technologies that allows us to build internet applications that are not susceptible to attack. (...) It’s crucial if the free world is going to survive."
"To architect an ecosystem [based on] bridges would be asking for trouble."
👇
Bitcoin is surging in Argentina, trading at ~$12,300 on
@buenbit
, a premium versus ~$11,400 on Coinbase, where it's having a relatively quiet day. There's a bloodbath in argie markets today after Macri lost in a primary vote and people fear the return of populism. (1/2)
Once again Argentina shows exactly why crypto.
The government is imposing a 1-3% tax on people with more than $2.4M in assets. A "solidarity contribution" amid the pandemic (aka they're seizing people's money).
Be your own bank.
@SanaSaeed
@dabit3
Nope. That is a division of the entire Gaza strip, not the area that will be targeted.
The pamphlet includes a separate map of the areas that are targeted so that civilians can evacuate.
Israel is providing numbered maps for civilians to protect themselves ahead of military
💌 Two years ago the first-ever
@DefiantNews
newsletter was sent! 6/11
✊ Thanks to a star-studded team and a community of defying individuals, The Defiant is quickly becoming the definitive information platform for the open economy
Happy bday you badass toddler!!!! 🎉🎉
1/x
DeFi produced dollar-pegged, interest-generating savings accounts for everyone, anywhere.
The next step is for these interest-generating stablecoins to become insured* dollar-based savings accounts for everyone, anywhere.
This is how DeFi can truly start to replace finance.
So.. at Devcon there's a shrine to pray to the crypto Gods, including Vitalik, lambos and whales. There's a place to kneel and type your sins into a computer. Big one is avarice. It says "I have 5 Coinmarketcap tabs open at all times." 😂
Amigos! Se viene The Infinite Machine en español!!!
@esferalibros
está haciendo la traducción💜
Al fin mi libro en mi idioma! 🙏😂
🇨🇱🇪🇸🇦🇷🇲🇽🇵🇪🇨🇴🇻🇪🇨🇺🇧🇴🇪🇨🇩🇴🇵🇷
Just tried it and🤯
Sends money to any Twitter handle in the world. Cost me $0.03 and took 3 min. Neither of us even had a Dharma account.
Plus, money in the account starts earning interest instantly.
Another reason why I'm convinced DeFi is the future of money.
1/ Introducing Social Payments 💸🐦📲 – a Twitter-native financial ecosystem.
Today, you can send USD to any Twitter handle, regardless of where that person lives — even if they don’t have a Dharma account.
Now *every* Twitter handle accepts (and earns interest on!) payments.
2018-2019 people thought ETH was dead and asked wtf was I doing writing The Infinite Machine.
But I was seeing the ecosystem grow firsthand in hackathons.
Today, there are more hackers than ever lining up to build DeFi.
One thing I've learned in crypto: watch the builders.
A little late but, happy new year to all the builders :)
Putting your souls into it, not taking short cuts, lifting others up along the way, pushing through every single day. You’ll make 2022 a great one.
The real reason that
#Ethereum
is mooning and back above $300 is due to
@CamiRusso
new book.
I am about 75% of the way through—up to the
#DAO
hack—and it’s an incredible read so far. I have a feeling many others in
#crypto
are also reading it now too.
About last night — Talking about what it’s like to sell a $70m NFT w/
@beeple
!
Little known fact, he bought back a sizable amount of ETH after cashing out 😎
My interview with
@SergeyNazarov
of
@chainlink
is 🔥
- Next big crypto hack will happen because of a bad oracle
- Smart contract privacy to take down enterprise chains
- Staking with Link tokens getting finalized
and more :)
People in DeFi are taking out leveraged loans
to deposit assets in borrowing pools
to get the most yield out of their $
They're doing this in minutes, for a couple of bucks, from their laptops, without giving away a single piece of info other than their Eth wallets.
#10xfintech
🤯 There's now +$400M in , a DeFi protocol that didn't exist before yesterday.
That's more than assets in Balancer, Curve, and Yearn - TVL in these platforms is sliding as farmers are apparently cycling their crypto into the highest-yielding crops.
🧪Thinking of an experiment:
1) Putting a small and equal amount of $$ in different DeFi projects enabling passive income
2) Record the process
3) Track and publish returns on a periodic (ej weekly) basis
4) Higher returns by yearend wins :)
Which 5-10 projects would you do?
Hard truths
1. Points don't solve any of the main problems airdrop mining produce / they're a crappy version of actual tokens
2. Inscriptions make absolutely no sense on smart contracts chains
3. Hype beats facts until the air blows out so 1 & 2 don't matter
I'm a mom of a 19 month old and CEO of a media company
here's what I learned about whether women "can have it all" (as in, kids and fulfilling work)
it takes
1. partner (or family / community) who will happily* (as in, they won't be resentful) and meaningfully* (as in close
👹DeFi exploits:
June 2019: Synthetix 37m sETH
Feb. 2020: bZx $900k
Mar 2020: iEarn ~$280k
April 2020: LendfMe $25m
It's not just one project's problem. DeFi needs better security standards or we'll continue seeing the downside of that composability double-edged sword.
etherscan messages are magic.
1. connect your wallet
2. add someone's wallet
3. send a message
they'll get it once they connect (even if they haven't yet)!
try it 👉
Venezuela & Cuba: Crumbling apart and starving
Rest of LatAm: Yup... That looks like something we should try!
* end of rant; back to crypto programming *