Growth happens when you least expect it, often during the moments you feel the most uncertain.

A moment of doubt can be a turning point. Trust the process and keep moving forward.

Sometimes the best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in something you love doing.

The world doesn’t wait, so why should you? Start now, before fear makes you hesitate.

In every challenge, there’s an opportunity to grow. Embrace discomfort; it’s where the magic happens.

weird nerds are getting weirder at an accelerating rate

w/acc

Our friends at @dappnode are giving out hardware priced at ~$2k via 
@paddlebattle!

All proceeds from the auction will go to @rotki!

The rules are fun but also interesting from a game theory PoV

Bid costs $1
A bid bumps price by 1cent
Bid resets timer to 8 hrs
Min price $5

The easiest way to RUN WEB3. It just works.

rotki is the portfolio management tool that protects your privacy

The first crypto impactful auction platform | Featuring exclusive prizes that can't be bought - only won | All auction proceeds go to charities & public goods | paddlebattle.auction  

Our friends at @dappnode are giving out hardware priced at ~$2k via 
@paddlebattle!

All proceeds from the auction will go to @rotki!

The rules are fun but also interesting from a game theory PoV

Bid costs $1
A bid bumps price by 1cent
Bid resets timer to 8 hrs
Min price $5
https://www.paddlebattle.auction/dappnode

I MADE A FRAME 
https://apod-frame.replit.app/

Warpcast

super brand should replace the warpcast brand

walletconnect

Governance. Fees. Staking. Rewards.

WCT is at the core of it all.

In WalletConnect Quest #3 , dive into the role of WCT and earn your share of the 250,000 token prize pool on @layer3xyz.

Start now ⤵️

https://app.layer3.xyz/quests/learn-about-wct

Guest #3 on @layer3xyz is all about Governance!

Tokenized attention for the omnichain future. 🟨 https://layer3.xyz/

Coinbase Developer Platform metrics up and to the right

Ignore price. Keep building.

Ethereum

2025 mission: make SF the global center of crypto development. 

SF is packed with crypto talent, but we're fragmented. I'm changing that. 

My Founder lab at Fort Mason will be ground zero: weekly workshops, hackathons, dinners. 

Goal is to build the strongest crypto dev community anywhere. 

If you're interested in helping, DM me to get involved!

Podcasts

Dialectic with Jackson Dahl

Chris Paik is an investor and co-founder of Pace Capital.

Chris is all about intentionality and discovery.

He combines rigorous frameworks about incentives, people, and markets with an insatiable appetite for the new. He is a true original thinker.

We discuss his intentionality, approach to explanations, how culture follows a pendulum, the efficient market hypothesis and other frameworks for evaluating businesses and markets—including his newest on top-down vs. bottom-up companies, how he finds new stuff, the pros and cons of the internet and capitalism, Pace Capital’s values, and the inner-workings of Chris’s unusual mind.

Episode 6 is out now on all platforms, more links below: 

https://pods.media/dialectic/6-chris-paik-intentionally-in-search-of-the-new?referrer=0x9b902482E62Db8FC486C3f1acAA568006021DbEC

Chris Paik on incentives, capital, systems, and power:

"The world has two sides: a for-profit world and a non-profit world. There are entities that are trying to drive profits, and there are entities that are not trying to drive profits (governments, religions).

For-profit companies are really good at pushing the world to the way that it will be. They are very bad at being paternalistic. They’ll give people exactly what they want.

The non-profit side is really good at pushing the world into how it should be. It’s really good at being paternalistic. We as individual actors depend on the systems to imbue society with paternalism."

Posted an overview about all of the recent account restrictions for Coinbase users and how it relates to $300M+ stolen via social engineering scams.

1/ Over the past few months I imagine you have seen many Coinbase users complain on X about their accounts suddenly being restricted. 

This is the result of aggressive risk models and Coinbase’s failure to stop its users losing $300M+ per year to social engineering scams. https://t.co/PjtX7vmjqc

ZachXBT

Posted an overview about all of the recent account restrictions for Coinbase users and how it relates to $300M+ stolen via social engineering scams. 

https://x.com/zachxbt/status/1886411879939031530

wild that 86% of all real world assets onchain are on Ethereum + Ethereum L2s

from RWA.xyz

deepwaterlounge

@deepwaterlounge