Felt really bullish about crypto about ZKSummit.

Big theme of the talks was 

App builders are not coming to save the infra builders.

Infra builders have to dogfood their infra to build apps.

And there were actual apps to demo

protocol eng @ recallnet.twitter, interested in verifiable computing, mod /zk; avichalp.me

CoFounder of Sommelier, Cosmonaut, Builder

we have a new writeup for the MEV/auction peeps!

since launch, @clanker has seen sustained sniper activity. we’d like to start to iterate on chain-specific sniper auctions for the benefit of all our users

linked below is our initial design for priority ordered L2s

create autonomous memecoins for free, get rewarded for posting bangers

teddit

helping build farcaster | surfing @ venice, ca | eating @ gjusta / gjelina | “lucky me, lucky mud”

Another component here is that crypto is completing against the incredible virality of consumer AI.

It not hot new tech.

It’s tech from 2020 that finally “works” but doesn’t have the virality of consumer AI

interspace.fi via sequence. pimlico. poap. polygon. metamask. paxful. flipside crypto. dash. bridgewater. darpa. secdef. navy. dia. linktr.ee/alexanderchopan

Wow, thanks for the resounding welcome back!

As promised, I have a little to tell you about something that had me sort of offline-ish for the last couple months: I had my first bout of AI Doomer-itis

Luckily it was cured by trying to write this paper with AI as my assistant and understanding the promises and flaws

Part II: AI Doom 🐰 🕳️ 
~~~
You may need to see a clinician for AI Doomer-itis if you have any of the following symptoms:
- Hate querying (opposite of vibe coding): Finding queries where the LLM is wrong to make yourself feel better
- Thoughts of future generations unable to do an integral without internet

https://x.com/zmanian/status/1911853440957120984?s=46&t=rH04DW1N9MhuQseKnGuTQg

The world series player on every table is a good point. 

Casinos work because they are *slightly* not in your favor and most people are willing to overlook that for entertainment

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

Casino’s are carefully tuned so that win rate is high enough to retain players.

Memecoins and perps are orders of magnitude below those win rates

The problem with @pumpdotfun is that it’s too PvP to ever retain a significant number of users. 

It’s  a casino that is designed to have retention problems. 

It’s a casino where the World Series level player can be on every table via bots.

zmanian.eth

Ethereum

are you keeping up with the latest IBC development?
I think right now is the most exciting it's ever been

Skip team took over IBC,
IBC Eureka upgrade passed,
cosmos to eth mainnet channel established:

Hello Ethereum! Meet @IBCProtocol and @cosmoshub:
https://t.co/ZouZs2LHax

The first ever mainnet IBC v2 transaction was 1 ATOM from @cosmoshub to @ethereum.

Shout out to the amazing engineers from the IBC Team who made this possible: @srdtrk @turingtestrun

EUREKA!

Cosmos Hub MAINNET has now sent its first live IBC transaction to Ethereum… and back!

The content:  1 $ATOM
The message: https://t.co/5dsPr1YZWX

magmar 🇺🇸⚛️

are you keeping up with the latest IBC development?
I think right now is the most exciting it's ever been

Skip team took over IBC,
IBC Eureka upgrade passed,
cosmos to eth mainnet channel established:
https://x.com/0xmagmar/status/1905628177986142576

Working on Farcaster and Warpcast. Longer thoughts at https://dwr.email

So one thought is we seem to having a small defi renaissance right now.

With Hyperliquid, Berachain, gas prices being super cheap on Eth L1.

Growing defi apps has been super hard and I wonder if Farcaster can ride the wave to grow along a bunch of axis

Zaki Manian

@zmanian