Proof of Reserves, as an AVS
The purpose of this post is to structure an AVS, focus on a specific use case, and discuss considerations around the architecture. Special thanks to the gigabrains that sanity-checked the idea: Vijay from Superfluid, Eskender from ENS, Katya from Wormhole, @cleandood, Austin from Arbitrum, and Tina & Nader from Eigenlayer. If you’re new to what EigenLayer and AVSes are, you can start at “What is EigenLayer?”. If you already know what AVSes do and want to get into the good stuff, skip to the “...
Proof of Reserves, as an AVS
The purpose of this post is to structure an AVS, focus on a specific use case, and discuss considerations around the architecture. Special thanks to the gigabrains that sanity-checked the idea: Vijay from Superfluid, Eskender from ENS, Katya from Wormhole, @cleandood, Austin from Arbitrum, and Tina & Nader from Eigenlayer. If you’re new to what EigenLayer and AVSes are, you can start at “What is EigenLayer?”. If you already know what AVSes do and want to get into the good stuff, skip to the “...
Navigating the Wallet-as-a-Service Landscape
There’s been a lot of discourse about wallets in the past year. A lot of attention has been put into Smart Accounts, intents, and embedded wallets, and for developers, the tradeoffs between each provider and wallet type are really confusing. For interchangeable parts of the stack like RPCs, it’s lower impact if a dev changes providers for security or developer experience improvements. But for embedded wallets and smart accounts, if there’s a security flaw that forces devs into switching WaaS ...
Navigating the Wallet-as-a-Service Landscape
There’s been a lot of discourse about wallets in the past year. A lot of attention has been put into Smart Accounts, intents, and embedded wallets, and for developers, the tradeoffs between each provider and wallet type are really confusing. For interchangeable parts of the stack like RPCs, it’s lower impact if a dev changes providers for security or developer experience improvements. But for embedded wallets and smart accounts, if there’s a security flaw that forces devs into switching WaaS ...
Thoughts on "Token Safe Harbor 2.0"
Photo by Robert Wiedemann on UnsplashA cursory reading of Commissioner Peirce's updated proposal, providing regulatory clarity for tokens.Thoughts and Big Takeaways*Read the "Disclosure" and "Exit Report" sections, very importantYou gotta start with the end in mindIf you don't know what Network Maturity is, or if you aren't sure you can achieve it in 3 years, get ready for some off-shore team to pick things up where you left off when you have to start registeringIn that sense, ...
Thoughts on "Token Safe Harbor 2.0"
Photo by Robert Wiedemann on UnsplashA cursory reading of Commissioner Peirce's updated proposal, providing regulatory clarity for tokens.Thoughts and Big Takeaways*Read the "Disclosure" and "Exit Report" sections, very importantYou gotta start with the end in mindIf you don't know what Network Maturity is, or if you aren't sure you can achieve it in 3 years, get ready for some off-shore team to pick things up where you left off when you have to start registeringIn that sense, ...
Liminality
Photo by Pablo Pacheco on UnsplashIt's been over a year of quarantine, and I feel like it's been a year wasted in a holding pattern.Tag yourself, I'm the ship at the bottom center. Credit: BBCIn response to COVID, we've all mapped out our work schedules, habits, and rituals to adjust to working, schooling, and living at home. As I thought about how we're all experiencing this collective moment, comforting friends, sharpening our Twitter fingers, and grieving lost ones...
Liminality
Photo by Pablo Pacheco on UnsplashIt's been over a year of quarantine, and I feel like it's been a year wasted in a holding pattern.Tag yourself, I'm the ship at the bottom center. Credit: BBCIn response to COVID, we've all mapped out our work schedules, habits, and rituals to adjust to working, schooling, and living at home. As I thought about how we're all experiencing this collective moment, comforting friends, sharpening our Twitter fingers, and grieving lost ones...
