DeFi 3.0? An Optimistic Outlook
IntroductionPessimism on the timeline is at all time highs. What liquidity remains in the market is continuously being spread thinner and thinner; in the first half of 2024 already more tokens have launched than the entire history of crypto COMBINED. Frameworks have gotten better, technologies easier to use, and networks cheaper, all of which fueled this Cambrian explosion.We've never seen a cycle like thisFrom 2020 onward, DeFi was touted as the “future of finance”. However, if you held...
DeFi 3.0? An Optimistic Outlook
IntroductionPessimism on the timeline is at all time highs. What liquidity remains in the market is continuously being spread thinner and thinner; in the first half of 2024 already more tokens have launched than the entire history of crypto COMBINED. Frameworks have gotten better, technologies easier to use, and networks cheaper, all of which fueled this Cambrian explosion.We've never seen a cycle like thisFrom 2020 onward, DeFi was touted as the “future of finance”. However, if you held...
MAGA (Make Airdrops Great Again)
IntroductionAirdrops are a beautifully unique part of crypto. Teams are eager to pay YOU just for interacting with their products. Often this payout can be in the range of 5+ figures. Free money falling from the sky is fun for those who receive it, but often stirs rage in those who are excluded. Furthermore, many complain that current airdrop strategies are ineffective at retaining “real” users and cater mostly to bot farms and sybil attackers. As a result in many cases token price and daily ...
MAGA (Make Airdrops Great Again)
IntroductionAirdrops are a beautifully unique part of crypto. Teams are eager to pay YOU just for interacting with their products. Often this payout can be in the range of 5+ figures. Free money falling from the sky is fun for those who receive it, but often stirs rage in those who are excluded. Furthermore, many complain that current airdrop strategies are ineffective at retaining “real” users and cater mostly to bot farms and sybil attackers. As a result in many cases token price and daily ...
Wallet Recovery With No Seed Phrase (but with a wallet password)
Note: this is heavily based off of Ruben from Coinmonk’s 2021 article here. I do not mean to steal credit from a very obviously smart person. However, I am still doing this for 3 reasons. 1, my goal here is for this to be as simple as possible, leave out the complicated disk recovery stuff, and make it more non-tech friendly, 2, the more this info is out there online, the more likely someone is to find it and get use out of it, and 3, there were some details not in that article I found elsewh...
Wallet Recovery With No Seed Phrase (but with a wallet password)
Note: this is heavily based off of Ruben from Coinmonk’s 2021 article here. I do not mean to steal credit from a very obviously smart person. However, I am still doing this for 3 reasons. 1, my goal here is for this to be as simple as possible, leave out the complicated disk recovery stuff, and make it more non-tech friendly, 2, the more this info is out there online, the more likely someone is to find it and get use out of it, and 3, there were some details not in that article I found elsewh...
Provenance: The real BTC usecase
Recently Bitcoin has caught a second wind of activity after the viral success of Ordinals NFTs that make use of bitcoin block space to store their metadata. After a few weeks ordinals have appreciated massively in value and also now consume about 50% of all bitcoin blockspace. One would think that bitcoiners worldwide would rejoice at this news; finally, a potential long-term usecase for their dearly beloved blockchain that could actually drive meaningful fee revenue to miners as the block su...
Provenance: The real BTC usecase
Recently Bitcoin has caught a second wind of activity after the viral success of Ordinals NFTs that make use of bitcoin block space to store their metadata. After a few weeks ordinals have appreciated massively in value and also now consume about 50% of all bitcoin blockspace. One would think that bitcoiners worldwide would rejoice at this news; finally, a potential long-term usecase for their dearly beloved blockchain that could actually drive meaningful fee revenue to miners as the block su...
Selling your soul(bound token)
Today in crypto there are a number of novel technologies quickly advancing and gaining public interest. ZK technology and its applications, decentralized networks offering services such as compute, data storage and indexing, modular blockchains and many more. These technologies are exciting and often monopolize the attention of the crypto-aware public. One among these trends to briefly take hold of the prevailing narrative were soulbound tokens; developers, twitter threadoors and crypto exper...
Selling your soul(bound token)
Today in crypto there are a number of novel technologies quickly advancing and gaining public interest. ZK technology and its applications, decentralized networks offering services such as compute, data storage and indexing, modular blockchains and many more. These technologies are exciting and often monopolize the attention of the crypto-aware public. One among these trends to briefly take hold of the prevailing narrative were soulbound tokens; developers, twitter threadoors and crypto exper...
