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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."

The path to success isn’t clear. It’s full of uncertainty, but that’s where growth happens.

Life is unpredictable, and that’s what makes it beautiful.

True freedom comes from within. Once you free your mind, everything else falls into place.

Don’t be afraid to evolve. The person you are today is just a stepping stone to tomorrow’s version.

Greatness isn’t born, it’s forged in moments of persistence, hard work, and the courage to push through.

Sometimes the hardest thing is trusting yourself. But once you do, the world opens up in unexpected ways.

My ETH portfolio feels boring.

Anyone else?

Love it! @justindrake is on a mission to unify Ethereum 💪

https://x.com/drakefjustin/status/1882861787491778998

epic sequencing call #17!

Many founders, including 10 rollup founders, shared their support for based and/or native rollups. Below are some their quotes. 1h45min YouTube recording coming ASAP :)

Part 1—based and native rollups

Ben Jones from @Optimism: "Let's get this right.…

Justin.eth Drake 🦇🔊

Sablier | Token Distribution

~14.7k website visitors on http://app.sablier.com yesterday

Rainbow

Ephemeral casts about the attention economy.

hey we just rolled back a deployment of our pricing service. it should have fixed the issue

rainbow had some wack pricing data for the last day or so, we just pushed a fix. pls ping if still seeing bad prices

Scaling Ethereum L1 and L2s in 2025 and beyond

Scaling Ethereum L1 and L2s in 2025 and beyond

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/01/23/l1l2future.html

This BTC loan product looks like the first integration of a passkey-based smart wallet in a major CEX.

Next, CEXs will suddenly "list" every DEX-based token using a similar integration.

In the same UI where you buy CEX tokens, you’ll be able to buy any DEX-based token. Exchanges will use DEX liquidity instead of spinning up their own. 

Users will spend from their CEX balance via a “magic spend” feature (no need to transfer balances to an onchain address first), and the purchased token will land in their onchain smart wallet address.
https://x.com/sidrmsh/status/1879905729143873870

“That and we'll continue integrating native DEX support more deeply. Customers shouldn't need to know or care whether the trade is happening on a DEX or CEX.”

We need to rethink our listing process at @coinbase given there are ~1m tokens a week being created now, and growing. High quality problem to have, but evaluating each one by one is no longer feasible. And regulators need to understand that applying for approval for each one is…

Brian Armstrong

“That and we'll continue integrating native DEX support more deeply. Customers shouldn't need to know or care whether the trade is happening on a DEX or CEX.”
https://x.com/brian_armstrong/status/1883329603239899346

Ethereum

The geth team is hiring 👀 AFAIK, this is the first time they’ve had a public job posting..! 

If you’ve ever wanted to contribute to core Ethereum development in a context where your only concern is what is best for the long term health of the network, this is for you 🫡

The geth team is hiring 👀 AFAIK, this is the first time they’ve had a public job posting..! 

If you’ve ever wanted to contribute to core Ethereum development in a context where your only concern is what is best for the long term health of the network, this is for you 🫡

https://jobs.lever.co/ethereumfoundation/8d9b1823-ba67-4195-a673-e11a85a48d62

silentknightz

@silentknightz