Will Papper

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This isn’t exactly the plot of Daemon but it’s not very far off haha. Cited in the Ethereum whitepaper in their discussion of DAOs

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Agreed. Rollups in the Ethereum ecosystem are still centralized to a degree that I’m not comfortable with. But the more that moves onchain and removes centralized offchain permissions, the better off these systems will be

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My own take is that bottom-up experimentation is a huge benefit, solid interop and composability makes a massive difference, but bootstrapping consensus is really hard. We hope to make the biggest difference on the last item and improve the great work that exists for the rest

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Today we're bringing together everything: - DAOs taught us about ownership - working with consumer apps showed us scale - launching rollups revealed centralization risks They were all pieces of a bigger puzzle What we learned: - communities need real ownership - reaching scale comes from user alignment - value must flow to apps and their users - tech alone doesn't drive adoption Autonomous chains are our answer: a way for communities to truly own their platforms, control their economies & build their future. Excited to share more about what we're building. This brings together everything we've worked on since brainstorming the earliest aspects of Syndicate in 2018. The future is autonomous.

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community ownership + scalable tech + aligned incentives = Syndicate chain

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InfoSec. A curious, tinkering-oriented culture that’s mostly moved to Mastodon and is historically anti-crypto

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I really like https://www.eden.art/. The team built a lot of custom pipelines that are quite high quality (I’m also an angel in them, because I like the team and product)

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I’d differentiate between appchains and community chains here. For community chains, fees will likely be very low to encourage native token utilization, which tends to be a tipping currency/memecoin/etc. The low fees help attract apps and increase token usage For appchains that center around a single app, they have a lot more pricing power if the app is valuable. I’d expect to see higher fees here, since utility is already taken care of by the useful app

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Sustainable fees help a lot here. I like appchains that tune their own gas fees for this reason - aligns usage with fees paid, in a way that’s more sticky than e.g. NFT royalties of 2021 The actual mechanics seem straightforward once sustainable fees + the right regulatory structure is in place

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Great summary! Looks like the recording is live here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IekfClKumx8

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DM if you're curious 👀

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I’ll be there!

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I didn’t give it frontend work. I only give it things that are easy to verify via CI pipelines. It struggles with more open ended tasks That being said, if you wanted to have it write tests and then fill in working code, that might be a good approach. Likely would struggle with display logic though

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Good for simple tasks like CI pipeline tweaks and additional tests. Bad for new features. Complementary to Cursor - I can give something mundane to Devin and then do complex work myself

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In one instance, it refactored a bunch of Rust code from custom errors to thiserror usage. Cut out dozens of lines of code via a macro that is in widespread use, but not initially suggested

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One useful trick when programming in a new language: Create a new chat with Claude/ChatGPT (new chat is important!) and ask it: "Can this [Rust] code be more idiomatic?" (Replace with your language) It'll often come up with very helpful refactors in the new chat that it wouldn't get to within an existing thread

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Excited to see Safe there! It’s hard to find sign-in options that support smart contract wallets. Really great launch

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Reflections on Trusting Trust is my favorite writing on this: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf

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See you there! Come join the SF Farcaster meetup if you’re around San Francisco

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Launching on Christmas Eve is a vibe! Very excited @oconnell @kevinoconnell

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