I’ve recently shifted my NEAR strategy from looping stNEAR (see my previous blog post about that) to staking with two of the infrastructure projects I believe are the leaders on the NEAR protocol at present: Burrow and Meta Poolhttps://twitter.com/NEAR_daily/status/1664595334662881281?s=20https://twitter.com/NEAR_daily/status/1656984946425339904?s=20Meta Pool: $META stakingI’d had some interaction with Meta Pool via their staking token, $stNEAR, and was aware they had a protocol token, $META,...

I’ve recently shifted my NEAR strategy from looping stNEAR (see my previous blog post about that) to staking with two of the infrastructure projects I believe are the leaders on the NEAR protocol at present: Burrow and Meta Poolhttps://twitter.com/NEAR_daily/status/1664595334662881281?s=20https://twitter.com/NEAR_daily/status/1656984946425339904?s=20Meta Pool: $META stakingI’d had some interaction with Meta Pool via their staking token, $stNEAR, and was aware they had a protocol token, $META,...

Prominent tech YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips was hacked recently, having many videos deleted and a scam video streamed on their (renamed) channels for over an hour before YouTube intervened and shut the channels down. Unfortunately this type of attack on YouTube channels has not been uncommon in recent times. Yet they, and plenty of other channels who've been affected like this, had the full security measures that Google affords and none of their passwords, nor 2FA, were compromised. I...

Prominent tech YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips was hacked recently, having many videos deleted and a scam video streamed on their (renamed) channels for over an hour before YouTube intervened and shut the channels down. Unfortunately this type of attack on YouTube channels has not been uncommon in recent times. Yet they, and plenty of other channels who've been affected like this, had the full security measures that Google affords and none of their passwords, nor 2FA, were compromised. I...

I think any good crypto portfolio should have a small amount of wild bets in it. It is still such wild west times in crypto that there is a higher than usual chance of strange little projects taking off. These periods only happen once in any industry’s history and plenty are left regretful they never were a part, and that’s usually not a regret for any missed monetary gain but for the missed experience. Remember: Most internet technology investments went to zero despite the industry becoming ...

I think any good crypto portfolio should have a small amount of wild bets in it. It is still such wild west times in crypto that there is a higher than usual chance of strange little projects taking off. These periods only happen once in any industry’s history and plenty are left regretful they never were a part, and that’s usually not a regret for any missed monetary gain but for the missed experience. Remember: Most internet technology investments went to zero despite the industry becoming ...

I'm really interested in web3 content. Might even be more bullish on it than defi, and I'm super bullish on defi. This interview with the Director of Dev Relations at Aave/Lens, Nader Dabit, was excellent as he dig into the technical and design challenges of web3 content platforms. https://open.spotify.com/episode/2OtvxXmZIijW9UOnLsFU6f?si=BvNQASg4Sl6IAijH58tWxAIt also led me to writing down a bunch of thoughts on web3 content economy and scaling design.Lens dAppsI love what Lens is...

I'm really interested in web3 content. Might even be more bullish on it than defi, and I'm super bullish on defi. This interview with the Director of Dev Relations at Aave/Lens, Nader Dabit, was excellent as he dig into the technical and design challenges of web3 content platforms. https://open.spotify.com/episode/2OtvxXmZIijW9UOnLsFU6f?si=BvNQASg4Sl6IAijH58tWxAIt also led me to writing down a bunch of thoughts on web3 content economy and scaling design.Lens dAppsI love what Lens is...

As crypto adoption as continues to grow the diversity of users has grown along with it. Once purely the domain of Layer 1 blockchain token trading the crypto ecosystem has expanded into many different use cases. So much so a new term emerged to better describe this broader church it had become: web3. With this expansion has come significantly increased demands on the blockchain technologies that underpin the decentralisation and permission-less features web3 embodies. For Ethereum and Bitcoin...

As crypto adoption as continues to grow the diversity of users has grown along with it. Once purely the domain of Layer 1 blockchain token trading the crypto ecosystem has expanded into many different use cases. So much so a new term emerged to better describe this broader church it had become: web3. With this expansion has come significantly increased demands on the blockchain technologies that underpin the decentralisation and permission-less features web3 embodies. For Ethereum and Bitcoin...

The Helium Network is trying to renew it’s mission with a move to Solana, and more traditional staking economics, and a shift to 5G services. They cut over the network to Solana on April 18th 2023.Helium’s bumpy road to scaleHelium provides decentralised internet access. That is clearly valuable to people in a non monetary way. That they will pay for it is beside the point. People aren’t hooking up to a Helium internet access point to make money: they’re doing it to access a valuable service....

The Helium Network is trying to renew it’s mission with a move to Solana, and more traditional staking economics, and a shift to 5G services. They cut over the network to Solana on April 18th 2023.Helium’s bumpy road to scaleHelium provides decentralised internet access. That is clearly valuable to people in a non monetary way. That they will pay for it is beside the point. People aren’t hooking up to a Helium internet access point to make money: they’re doing it to access a valuable service....

Only Possible on Solana Solana has the lowest cost of transactions out of all the major blockchains. And the lowest cost of transactions out of any blockchain if you calculate by cost per MB. This is the major driving factor for certain types of projects to launched on the Layer 1 blockchain. See Dynamo DeFi's article on the technological upgrades Solana has rolled out over the past year (including those announced recently at Breakpoint) and what they mean for applications building on th...

Only Possible on Solana Solana has the lowest cost of transactions out of all the major blockchains. And the lowest cost of transactions out of any blockchain if you calculate by cost per MB. This is the major driving factor for certain types of projects to launched on the Layer 1 blockchain. See Dynamo DeFi's article on the technological upgrades Solana has rolled out over the past year (including those announced recently at Breakpoint) and what they mean for applications building on th...

https://www.eigenlayer.com/EigenLayer ** **Restake it to Make itEigenLayer is a fascinating play. It's not another layer 2 for Ethereum, it's a blockchain, based on Ethereum that looks to productionise the Ethereum validator network. That means it will allow Ethereum validators to use their staking contracts to also provide security to other dapps, which will live on the EigenLayer. Practically speaking this means someone participating in staking on Ethereum will be able to restake ...

https://www.eigenlayer.com/EigenLayer ** **Restake it to Make itEigenLayer is a fascinating play. It's not another layer 2 for Ethereum, it's a blockchain, based on Ethereum that looks to productionise the Ethereum validator network. That means it will allow Ethereum validators to use their staking contracts to also provide security to other dapps, which will live on the EigenLayer. Practically speaking this means someone participating in staking on Ethereum will be able to restake ...

Appearances can often be deceiving. Take $BONK for example https://www.bonkcoin.com/about $BONK started life as a meme token. And it sort of still is. Big price spike and then a fall. So far so meme-coin https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bonk1/Looking more closelyYou want to be very careful judging books by their covers. Curve Finance is one of the ugliest sites I've ever seen. It had, for the longest time, a website that looked like the websites I saw when I first started using the i...

Appearances can often be deceiving. Take $BONK for example https://www.bonkcoin.com/about $BONK started life as a meme token. And it sort of still is. Big price spike and then a fall. So far so meme-coin https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bonk1/Looking more closelyYou want to be very careful judging books by their covers. Curve Finance is one of the ugliest sites I've ever seen. It had, for the longest time, a website that looked like the websites I saw when I first started using the i...

This was orginally produced as an X thread for a Superteam bounty https://x.com/defi1crypto2/status/1761910349396389977?s=20https://drip.haus/daa/collectible/daa-drip-season-1-bonk-91b67fe1My Bonk JourneyI love Bonk. In many ways it was my journey into crypto proper. I first got into crypto on-chain in Dec/Jan 2023. I, like many people, had been dabbling in crypto via CEXs (centralised exchanges) during the boom and had taken a large hit to my portfolio due to the crash in 2022. I’d been luck...

This was orginally produced as an X thread for a Superteam bounty https://x.com/defi1crypto2/status/1761910349396389977?s=20https://drip.haus/daa/collectible/daa-drip-season-1-bonk-91b67fe1My Bonk JourneyI love Bonk. In many ways it was my journey into crypto proper. I first got into crypto on-chain in Dec/Jan 2023. I, like many people, had been dabbling in crypto via CEXs (centralised exchanges) during the boom and had taken a large hit to my portfolio due to the crash in 2022. I’d been luck...