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Halo: A privacy layer for stablecoins

🧊Solana::Leader schedule

Most popular by Madhav Goyal

Halo: A privacy layer for stablecoins

🧊Solana::Leader schedule

Musings on Price Discovery

Ape tax

LRTs beyond Airdrop Meta

A Case for App Chains

Musings on Price Discovery

Ape tax

LRTs beyond Airdrop Meta

A Case for App Chains

Halo: A privacy layer for stablecoins

AbstractHalo is a privacy layer for stablecoins unlocking the next private neobanks and applications that were blocked by the lack of anonymity and confidentiality of networks. Halo Network introduces a new extension a a privacy-preserving EVM chain purpose-built for stablecoin use cases. Halo combines the familiarity and composability of the EVM with the confidentiality of a UTXO-based privacy layer, allowing users to transact and build privately without sacrificing interoperability or liqui...

Halo: A privacy layer for stablecoins

AbstractHalo is a privacy layer for stablecoins unlocking the next private neobanks and applications that were blocked by the lack of anonymity and confidentiality of networks. Halo Network introduces a new extension a a privacy-preserving EVM chain purpose-built for stablecoin use cases. Halo combines the familiarity and composability of the EVM with the confidentiality of a UTXO-based privacy layer, allowing users to transact and build privately without sacrificing interoperability or liqui...

Madhav Goyal

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Madhav Goyal

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Musings on Price Discovery

Musings on Price discoveryWith a fading bull run comes the pressure to do a token generation event at high valuations because otherwise if you are a VC backed project with 8 figs in funding, you are cooked without a binance listing since you definitely know your tech is only valued at the number of CEX listings and shady market makers you can get for the launch. Jokes and criticism aside, I have been diving into the price discovery for a mix of work and my own interests in the past few months...

Musings on Price Discovery

Musings on Price discoveryWith a fading bull run comes the pressure to do a token generation event at high valuations because otherwise if you are a VC backed project with 8 figs in funding, you are cooked without a binance listing since you definitely know your tech is only valued at the number of CEX listings and shady market makers you can get for the launch. Jokes and criticism aside, I have been diving into the price discovery for a mix of work and my own interests in the past few months...

For the longest time, I didn’t view pump.fun in any different way than how I thought about most of the meme ecosystem. It was just a new interesting way to bootstrap liquidity for memetics, but as it went on to become the biggest onchain revenue and crime avenue, my thoughts remained mixed and convoluted. Kaito came to ct late last year, I had seen their website before but the ux was clunky and unimpressive so I never gave a second thought but kaito was bigger than a twitter engagement dashbo...

For the longest time, I didn’t view pump.fun in any different way than how I thought about most of the meme ecosystem. It was just a new interesting way to bootstrap liquidity for memetics, but as it went on to become the biggest onchain revenue and crime avenue, my thoughts remained mixed and convoluted. Kaito came to ct late last year, I had seen their website before but the ux was clunky and unimpressive so I never gave a second thought but kaito was bigger than a twitter engagement dashbo...

LRTs beyond Airdrop Meta

Tldr ->LSTs are delegation vouchers that show your participation the consensus of the network which has and these fungible assets have emerged as the biggest defi protocol to exist on any single VM with more than 35 Billion locked on eth and nearly 70% of total solana in circulation staked with liquid delegation voucher protocols. Markets price LST based on $$lst_value ∝ native_yield+ native_slashing_risk$$dune dashboard by lidoWith the emergence of restaking and economic security as a meme, ...

LRTs beyond Airdrop Meta

Tldr ->LSTs are delegation vouchers that show your participation the consensus of the network which has and these fungible assets have emerged as the biggest defi protocol to exist on any single VM with more than 35 Billion locked on eth and nearly 70% of total solana in circulation staked with liquid delegation voucher protocols. Markets price LST based on $$lst_value ∝ native_yield+ native_slashing_risk$$dune dashboard by lidoWith the emergence of restaking and economic security as a meme, ...

There has been a lot of debate about whether Layer 2 or any scaling solutions on Solana won't be of much value. Let’s dive right in.more specifically after a tweet by Mert, It was Sunday midnight, and had nothing else to do so thought why not https://twitter.com/0xMert_/status/1673014633630691331Do we need Layer 2s on Solana?The biggest question when thinking of Layer 2 is whether the base layer is congested or unable to execute all the transactions needed with thousands of transactions ...

There has been a lot of debate about whether Layer 2 or any scaling solutions on Solana won't be of much value. Let’s dive right in.more specifically after a tweet by Mert, It was Sunday midnight, and had nothing else to do so thought why not https://twitter.com/0xMert_/status/1673014633630691331Do we need Layer 2s on Solana?The biggest question when thinking of Layer 2 is whether the base layer is congested or unable to execute all the transactions needed with thousands of transactions ...

🕰️Async program execution and SIMD-0045

What is orderlfow and MEV?The simplest way to process a transaction on a blockchain for the user is to just send it to the RPC client which routes it to the next selected block builder aka Leader. This seems easy at first but has a whole lot of drawbacks as the transactions go unencrypted through an RPC and Leader, if any of the agents find an opportunity to leverage their speed or resources to front run and make a profit out of your transactions this will lead to bad incentive alignment wher...

🕰️Async program execution and SIMD-0045

What is orderlfow and MEV?The simplest way to process a transaction on a blockchain for the user is to just send it to the RPC client which routes it to the next selected block builder aka Leader. This seems easy at first but has a whole lot of drawbacks as the transactions go unencrypted through an RPC and Leader, if any of the agents find an opportunity to leverage their speed or resources to front run and make a profit out of your transactions this will lead to bad incentive alignment wher...

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🏕️State of Solana ReFi

Crypto has been mocked as a planet-killing machine that’s causing climate change with its carbon footprint, but is it even true? Could it be the opposite of this? Some of the biggest blockchains are carbon neutral and a few like Celo are even carbon negative many times over 8x to be precise! Carbon Markets and regenerative projects are the only hope to stop the looming climate disaster because we as a society can not cut our energy and material consumption at a speed that matches our carbon b...

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🏕️State of Solana ReFi

Crypto has been mocked as a planet-killing machine that’s causing climate change with its carbon footprint, but is it even true? Could it be the opposite of this? Some of the biggest blockchains are carbon neutral and a few like Celo are even carbon negative many times over 8x to be precise! Carbon Markets and regenerative projects are the only hope to stop the looming climate disaster because we as a society can not cut our energy and material consumption at a speed that matches our carbon b...

🧊Solana::Leader schedule

I have been diving into Solana and its Validator code realizing the incredible design behind the selection of Validators and block producers, so here is a small rundownWhat are Blocks?What are POW and POS?Solana Leader ScheduleSpecial Considerations to produce the Tastiest BlockOpen QuestionsSome ResourcesBlocks wat?Blocks containing transactions and state transition data lined on top of one another with cryptography securing their computational integrity is the foundation of blockchain aka c...

🧊Solana::Leader schedule

I have been diving into Solana and its Validator code realizing the incredible design behind the selection of Validators and block producers, so here is a small rundownWhat are Blocks?What are POW and POS?Solana Leader ScheduleSpecial Considerations to produce the Tastiest BlockOpen QuestionsSome ResourcesBlocks wat?Blocks containing transactions and state transition data lined on top of one another with cryptography securing their computational integrity is the foundation of blockchain aka c...

How to get tf out(crypto bridge edition)

This post is part #2 of my bridges journey where I take readers through asset security in a cross-chain world and how the tech behind these magical structures aka bridges work. Today we will go down the rabbit hole ofHow to cook your own BridgeIsn't ZK the solution to everything?How to get your moni back(incase of bridge switch off)How to cook a bridge from scratchWell if you are not a chain maximalist spending all your attention and brain power about why some chain is the best, you must...

How to get tf out(crypto bridge edition)

This post is part #2 of my bridges journey where I take readers through asset security in a cross-chain world and how the tech behind these magical structures aka bridges work. Today we will go down the rabbit hole ofHow to cook your own BridgeIsn't ZK the solution to everything?How to get your moni back(incase of bridge switch off)How to cook a bridge from scratchWell if you are not a chain maximalist spending all your attention and brain power about why some chain is the best, you must...

⚡️Towards better Sequencer Decentralisation

This post for a big part was inspired by Jon and Frontier’s work on MEV and sequencers, will be extending and diving into some of the ideas that would help with better block production and transaction flow in the future for rollup and alt L1 space.StructureWhat are Rollups?Architecture of rollupsWhat are Sequencers and MEV?Shared sequencers and different approaches.All things rollups!Rollups have been regarded as the future of Ethereum scaling because they solve the congestion issues on the m...

⚡️Towards better Sequencer Decentralisation

This post for a big part was inspired by Jon and Frontier’s work on MEV and sequencers, will be extending and diving into some of the ideas that would help with better block production and transaction flow in the future for rollup and alt L1 space.StructureWhat are Rollups?Architecture of rollupsWhat are Sequencers and MEV?Shared sequencers and different approaches.All things rollups!Rollups have been regarded as the future of Ethereum scaling because they solve the congestion issues on the m...

A Hitchhikers Guide to Bridge Security

The primary objective of this post is to illustrate that tokens held on various blockchain networks through different bridges exhibit distinct security profiles and values, despite the fact that their purpose is to represent the same underlying assets.Agenda ->God didn’t create all bridges the sameSecurity profiles of tokensTrustless or wat? (Bridges and trusted setups)Bridges are named as the Harbinger of the multi-chain world where supposedly it doesn't matter where your assets are bec...

A Hitchhikers Guide to Bridge Security

The primary objective of this post is to illustrate that tokens held on various blockchain networks through different bridges exhibit distinct security profiles and values, despite the fact that their purpose is to represent the same underlying assets.Agenda ->God didn’t create all bridges the sameSecurity profiles of tokensTrustless or wat? (Bridges and trusted setups)Bridges are named as the Harbinger of the multi-chain world where supposedly it doesn't matter where your assets are bec...

Tales of composability

You can get away through any protocol conversation in crypto by saying "But its not composable bro" like you did when you just added zk to the bio or name of your project at the start of 2023 but like everything interesting but overhyped Composability is just known and there is a chasm of difference between knowing and understanding something. The Focus of this post is to give a general sense of what We mean and don't mean by composability and the landscape of the myth of "Cross-chain co...

Tales of composability

You can get away through any protocol conversation in crypto by saying "But its not composable bro" like you did when you just added zk to the bio or name of your project at the start of 2023 but like everything interesting but overhyped Composability is just known and there is a chasm of difference between knowing and understanding something. The Focus of this post is to give a general sense of what We mean and don't mean by composability and the landscape of the myth of "Cross-chain co...

Building on Openbook

This post has nothing much concrete but works like a small raindrop from my time spent tinkering with Wormhole. Contents →Some FundamentalsAMM vs OrderbooksLiquidityBuilding on open-bookSome FundamentalsExchanges and markets work by helping two parties who want to trade assets or liabilities, whether that be a simple bazaar or Nasdaq-the basic idea is having a platform connecting two agents who want to trade. Stock exchanges and physical markets could be easily manipulated by regulation and l...

Building on Openbook

This post has nothing much concrete but works like a small raindrop from my time spent tinkering with Wormhole. Contents →Some FundamentalsAMM vs OrderbooksLiquidityBuilding on open-bookSome FundamentalsExchanges and markets work by helping two parties who want to trade assets or liabilities, whether that be a simple bazaar or Nasdaq-the basic idea is having a platform connecting two agents who want to trade. Stock exchanges and physical markets could be easily manipulated by regulation and l...

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