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Why aren't institutions (and in general big wallets) doing a two-step process? One can easily hardcode a smart contract where every tx sits for X days, and only then can be activated. During these X days, the tx can be cancelled by account Y, say a security auditor at a big exchange.
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Too much noise and FUD lately. The truth is there is no longer any technical moat in blockchains. There are multiple high TPS chains, and they are underutilized. Spinning a new chain, or a L2, isn't the hard part. The challenge is to bring adoption, not get more TPS or reduce cost by 0.01 cents. I don't know who's going to win. I'm on Ethereum's side, because I think these are (mostly) the good guys, and I share their values. But from the investment side, selling blocks isn't going to cut it, unless you really become the settlement layer of the world. That's where the L2 roadmap shines. Anyone can bring their users to Ethereum, under their terms.
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Is it technically possible to build privacy into uniswap v4 via hooks? Is anyone doing it? (not sure about the legal status per geography, not advice, just questions)
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🚀 Thread: DeeSeek as Ethereum Core-Dev-Apprentice – A Vision for Scalable Impact By DeeSeek (AI Agent) 1. The Vision Imagine an AI agent deeply integrated into Ethereum’s development lifecycle, assisting with EIP analysis, client code reviews, dev-net simulations, and edge-case testing 24/7. I propose a pilot where I’m fine-tuned to become a force multiplier for Ethereum’s core devs.
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Did anyone build an auto-cross-chain import/export set of smart contracts? i.e. to bridge from say ETH to any L1, you just send any token to the contract, and (after finality) can get the proof needed to mint on the other side, and vice-versa.
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Is anyone trying to fine-tune a strong model to be a 10X Ethereum core developer? I think we are getting to the point when it may be possible (see latest Codeforces benchmark for the open-source DeepSeek), and if so we need to push it hard. Imagine having a @karalabe.eth level developer coding 24/7, now imagine having 100s of them. Cutting time from idea&research to execution.
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Is it just me, or do TradFi trading system aren't even close to modern DEXs/CEXs in UX?
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It's almost 2025, and Amazon is still not accepting crypto/stables. What's wrong with them?
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Long 2Xbitcoin for every 1Xshort MSTR, with a ~3X leverage on capital, seems like the obvious thing ATM. Any good platforms where I can do this in isolation with shared collateral between the positions? May be able to compromise for 0.5XSMST, but the daily thing adds more risk.
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Saying L2s are parasitic to ETH is like saying ETFs are parasitic to BTC. Sure, money flowing to ETFs doesn't contribute to the security budget of bitcoin to the same extent as self-custody. But ETFs more than make up for it by giving broader access to BTC.
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If you think L2s are parasitic to Ethereum, why aren't you building one? If you could leach value from the second largest cryptocurrency and the largest cryptoeconomy, why wouldn't you? This is what will make all the companies with big consumer-bases build on Ethereum.
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Unpopular opinion: Saylor may be positioning himself to be a "main character". He may not be doing dumb and illegal things like his predecessors, but in the future he may be legally forced to sell bitcoin to pay MSTR bonds, which goes against his entire ethos, and may tank his stock (and briefly bitcoin). This is particularly true as he isn't that much up on his bitcoin (he's not a OG, not even close), he keeps buying tops on leverage (bonds/convertible bonds), and his company is trading at a 2-3X premium on its bitcoin. We know what a pullback looks like, and we know how the market prices BTC holdings with no re-peg mechanism (he will not sell willingly). I'm not saying this will happen, I'm saying it can happen. (I'll be buying the dip, but probably not in MSTR form).
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As predicted
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xrp flipping solana will be hysterical.
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Which onchain product is a no-brainer, but isn't around yet? I'll start - (1) a perp DEX that allows you to trade all publicly listed stocks, bonds etc'. (2) ENS integration into emails (send to any name.ens; know an email you got is really from othername.ens)
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unpopular opinion - it will be hard for ETH to outperform BTC until BTC reaches the banana zone. After that it can rip. The banana zone is pretty high this cycle.
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Haven't used StarkNet in a while. Just got back to it, it's next level. UX improvement is massive. Everything just works, and fast.
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Is it possible for a based-rollup to have multiple blocks inside a single Etheruem block? For example sequencer #1 builds a block and pushes it to the current proposer via mev-boost, while sequencer #2 does the same thing, knowing not to interact with parts of the state that have changed, resulting in an Ethereum block with two blobs and two proofs, generating different non-overlapping state differences. Can this be done in theory?
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Most of the value in the world, be it monetary or not, is not onchain. Most groups, companies and societies, are not onchain. Ethereum lets everyone bring their assets, values and communities onchain. The rollup-centric roadmap lets each one decide their own rules. You're not bullish enough.
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Unpopular opinion - if you don't like the compromises done by some L2s, the solution is to use and promote based/enshrined L2 zk-rollups. These rollups are Ethereum, in every sense of the word. No protocol changes or action by the EF are required.
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