If @ethereum wants to blend some amount of fast "heartbeat" confirmations with a slower and more resilient trailing finalization protocol, they should learn from and possibly just straight-up use @zcash's world-class work on the Trailing Finality Layer. The constructions are converging, and in my view @zcash has made very clear arguments as to why bounded availability is a better choice to keep users safe which also apply to @ethereum. Full arguments 👇

Stop the Gaslighting In this episode of Deeply Intents (🎙️,🎧), I chat with @Jskybowen [Founder of @Astriaorg]. The episode is a highly entertaining marathon that cuts through industry dogma. Josh spazzed on this and went H.A.M. 🛑🛑⛽️⛽️🔥🔥🛑🛑⛽️⛽️🔥🔥🛑🛑⛽️⛽️🔥🔥🛑🛑⛽️⛽️🔥🔥🛑🛑⛽️⛽️🔥🔥🛑🛑⛽️⛽️🔥🔥🛑🛑⛽️⛽️🔥🔥🛑🛑⛽️⛽️🔥🔥🛑🛑⛽️⛽️🔥🔥🛑🛑⛽️⛽️🔥🔥🛑🛑⛽️⛽️🔥🔥🛑🛑⛽️⛽️🔥🔥🛑🛑⛽️⛽️🔥🔥🛑🛑⛽️⛽️🔥🔥🛑🛑⛽️⛽️🔥🔥🛑🛑⛽️⛽️🔥🔥🛑🛑⛽️⛽️🔥🔥🛑🛑⛽️⛽️🔥🔥🛑🛑⛽️⛽️🔥🔥 [Sponsored by @anoma] In this episode we discuss: - Sequencing - Product market fit - Social technology - Vertical integration - Regulatory arbitrage - MEV metagames Timestamps 0:48 - Folding at home 2:45 - Data Availability 101 7:45 - Most startups are an act of desperation 12:04 - The shared lazy sequencer 19:00 - Scaling bottlenecks 21:00 - Navigating regulations 25:10 - Existential question of use cases 29:45 - Pragmatic product design 37:14 - The victory of the social technology 43:00 - Perps, yield bearing stables, & reg arb 47:49 - Equity perps and 24/7 trading 50:49 - FX trading onchain 54:59 - Prediction Markets 57:48 - Payments 1:05:39 - Orderflow and vertical integration 1:18:28 - Venture funding game 1:26:16 - Growth strategies 1:32:17 - No one knows what they are doing 1:43:00 - Live and dead players 1:48:13 - Mobile apps and wearables 1:57:43 - Airdrops and growth mechanisms 2:05:46 - Referrals and adoption strategies 2:18:24 - MEV metagames 2:25:57 - Second price auctions

i told @chimpfone2047 "dude I wrote the whitepaper" and he still wouldn't give me an @anoma testnet code

Despite the propaganda, "based rollups" or "native rollups" do not scale synchronously-composable state on the @ethereum L1: - If the execution trace is determined beforehand, synchronous composability in any useful sense is impossible. - If the execution trace is determined by the L1 validator doing execution, execution is no more scalable than L1 EVM execution is already. If @ethereum seriously wants to scale synchronously composable state on the the L1, @ethereum must go back to execution sharding. There is no alternative. Full arguments in the link 👇

Lovely conversation with two lovely people! Don't miss the "if you were the Ethereum dictator, what would you do?" question at the end - three cheers for fast finality as #1 priority - it's almost as if we need an "Ethereum dictator preferences" counterparty discovery system...

I’ve been working on an experimental, multiplayer, open-world AI chat system called Numinex. 1. Uses branching comment trees 2. Multiplayer/multimodel 3. Explicit context curation 4. Built on ATProto 5. Open observation of model behaviors

Counterpoint: What is modern technology for? Much of it reveals itself as an engineered silicon valley tactical psyops to accelerate some ubiquitous assimilation with manufactured consent [subscription payments * dopamine drain] which isn’t even a stable equilibrium. There is no spoon. I love you.

Product idea: An "Exit Cosmos" button, which on click automatically unbonds all your @cosmos stake, collects all your @cosmos tokens, NFTs, etc., dumps them on @osmosiszone, buys BTC, shields it on @namada, and thereby simplifies your life. Who would use this?

Proposal for a volume-proportional fee sharing system for @namada: - thoughts welcome!

i'll be hosting the @namada launch party spaces - we'll talk about Namada's past, present, and future join me the other speakers incl. @adrianbrink @cwgoes @Ether_Gavin @zmanian @valardragon @owocki @LefterisJP @brentstone01 starting in 20 min!