Hey friends I was around 12 years old when I logged on to the internet for the first time. We had bought a used PC running Windows 98 from a friend of the family and purchased a dial-up modem from the local internet service provider. My mom wasn't really tech-savvy and she had no real interest in what she called “going into cyberspace,” so I basica

tl; dr Flashbots is a research organization working on mitigating the negative externalities of MEV (Maximal Extractable Value) extraction techniques. They focus on enabling a permissionless and transparent ecosystem for MEV extraction, with the three verticals described below. In this post, I show you the minimum code you need to understand what t

tl; dr A few days ago, I was looking at a report claiming a possible vulnerability on Compound’s smart contract cTokens. However, the report was not on Ethereum, but on Aurora. “Huh, this is an interesting turn”, I thought to myself. https://open.spotify.com/track/4NlgvYgF7rny6rt17WCmGf?si=ac3dc59ff3ab4473 The Compound Protocol is an Ethereum smar

tl; dr happy sun crossing the deneb algedi constellation, anon. in this post, i go over a CLI tool and a set of trading bots that i’ve written to detect profitable cryptocurrency pairs to be shorted or longed on trading exchanges. these statistical algorithmic strategies are named cointegration, which has been around for a long time, for either tra

tl; dr the strategy in this post, i go over a hypothetically profitable strategy that runs an oracle manipulation attack on gmx. for my previous two bots, cointbot and cowsol, i provided a complete and original production-level strategy and source-code (i.e., i designed AND implemented the bots). for this one, i will only supply the idea. the statu

Due to different starting points, I do not agree with the three core arguments in this article. I want to honestly share my thoughts, keeping real as emphasized in rapper culture. Valuing theory & philosophy Valuing theory and philosophy is the first step in building a rigorous decentralized application, especially in the emerging field of full

Making sense of the fuss about DAOs. Communities are inherently valuable. They bring together members’ resources, skills, knowledge, and experiences to create value for members and other people who engage with them. From crowd-sourcing advice to supporting non-profit causes and even reality show favourites, communities have historically been used

Below are step-by-step instructions detailing how to bake $BREAD- the digital local currency and core funding mechanism of Breadchain- and use it to begin crowdstaking on behalf of the network. You can learn more about how the application works under the hood here. Additionally, if you prefer, you can watch this video to see a demonstration of the

This essay came out of a memo I originally wrote for Boost VC’s investment into Punks, and outlines why we believe punks are a generational blue-chip asset. To begin lets state the obvious: NFTs are dead. Well… sort of. Organic liquidity entering the NFT market remains quite low relative to what we saw last cycle. At the same time, NFT natives are

I’ve been thinking about the future of online identity for a little while now. ~1.5 years ago, I co-founded Personae Inc. to investigate what felt like a looming sea change. This is how we phrased it back then. Today, I’d say that all of those predictions have only become more obvious: as lower-cost gas regimes (L2s, L3s) are becoming the norm, m