What I Talk About When I Talk About Bridges
Ah yes, my favorite book from Haruki Murakami.I’ve loved bridges ever since I was little.On a hot summer day, I would jump off the smol one in my neighborhood into the pond. On that bridge, I would re-enact my favorite scenes from Monty Python with my imaginary friends. So it’s no surprise that in my twenty-seventh year of living, I’ve become absolutely enamored with bridges. But this time, they’re cRyPtO bRiDGeS.A PrimerHave you ever been hiking and tried going across a river, instead of usi...
What I Talk About When I Talk About Bridges
Ah yes, my favorite book from Haruki Murakami.I’ve loved bridges ever since I was little.On a hot summer day, I would jump off the smol one in my neighborhood into the pond. On that bridge, I would re-enact my favorite scenes from Monty Python with my imaginary friends. So it’s no surprise that in my twenty-seventh year of living, I’ve become absolutely enamored with bridges. But this time, they’re cRyPtO bRiDGeS.A PrimerHave you ever been hiking and tried going across a river, instead of usi...
Crypto Predictions for 2022
I was going to start this post off in a generic way -- with some brief reflections and takeaways from the past year. But honestly, so much has happened that it became daunting to even attempt to accurately capture (let alone articulate) what transpired in 2021 -- both for the crypto space and for my personal life. So daunting that it prevented me from even putting proverbial pen to paper to draft this article. I’ll leave it at this: 2021 was the best year yet. For crypto. For me. Years of har...
Crypto Predictions for 2022
I was going to start this post off in a generic way -- with some brief reflections and takeaways from the past year. But honestly, so much has happened that it became daunting to even attempt to accurately capture (let alone articulate) what transpired in 2021 -- both for the crypto space and for my personal life. So daunting that it prevented me from even putting proverbial pen to paper to draft this article. I’ll leave it at this: 2021 was the best year yet. For crypto. For me. Years of har...
Top Experiments of 2021 Tournament
2021 was a monumental year for crypto. ATHs for BTC and ETH, jpeg summer, alt L1s, DeFi 2.0, dog coins, the birth of DAO gurus, the rebrand to Web3. Crypto broke into the mainstream mindshare, and the floodgates of innovation were open. We witnessed some amazing product launches: Uniswap v3, Curve v2, Arbitrum One, Optimistic Ethereum, Bored Ape Yacht Club. We shared some lows too: the Compound bug, the Pengu wars, Maxis fighting Ethereans fighting SoLunAvax-ers, and countless market crashes ...
Top Experiments of 2021 Tournament
2021 was a monumental year for crypto. ATHs for BTC and ETH, jpeg summer, alt L1s, DeFi 2.0, dog coins, the birth of DAO gurus, the rebrand to Web3. Crypto broke into the mainstream mindshare, and the floodgates of innovation were open. We witnessed some amazing product launches: Uniswap v3, Curve v2, Arbitrum One, Optimistic Ethereum, Bored Ape Yacht Club. We shared some lows too: the Compound bug, the Pengu wars, Maxis fighting Ethereans fighting SoLunAvax-ers, and countless market crashes ...
Joining Aave as Product Manager
Some personal news: I’ll be joining Aave as a Product Manager to lead Web3 experiments! I’m excited to work alongside gigabrains like Stani, Nicolo, Rebecca, and the rest of the Aave family as we pioneer the frontier of crypto 👻It’s all about experiments. Always has been.Why am I building Web3 experiments? The future to me is clear: Web3 is an inevitability. An internet built on open & permissionless primitives — built with community-first principles, and values of individual ownership and d...
Joining Aave as Product Manager
Some personal news: I’ll be joining Aave as a Product Manager to lead Web3 experiments! I’m excited to work alongside gigabrains like Stani, Nicolo, Rebecca, and the rest of the Aave family as we pioneer the frontier of crypto 👻It’s all about experiments. Always has been.Why am I building Web3 experiments? The future to me is clear: Web3 is an inevitability. An internet built on open & permissionless primitives — built with community-first principles, and values of individual ownership and d...
Layer 2 Won’t Save Ethereum
What no one’s talking about: the unanswered problems with L2 scaling solutionsThis article is imported from my 0xjim Medium blog from April 28, 2021. As always, this article is made for educational purposes. This does not constitute financial advice nor trading advice. Past performance does not indicate future results. Two days ago, I cheekily stated that “Layer 2s will save Ethereum”.Since Ethereum has been been suffering from high gas fees due to an overload of its network, many have claime...
Layer 2 Won’t Save Ethereum
What no one’s talking about: the unanswered problems with L2 scaling solutionsThis article is imported from my 0xjim Medium blog from April 28, 2021. As always, this article is made for educational purposes. This does not constitute financial advice nor trading advice. Past performance does not indicate future results. Two days ago, I cheekily stated that “Layer 2s will save Ethereum”.Since Ethereum has been been suffering from high gas fees due to an overload of its network, many have claime...
