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🧊Solana::Leader schedule
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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...
Just a tinkerer in this wonderful world

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...
🧊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...
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...
Just a tinkerer in this wonderful world
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When we observe regularity in anything it pleasures us and helps us comprehend the nature of reality. Patterns are beautiful either in equations or Nature it makes us fell everything is in control and follows a certain framework
Recognizing symmetry and relations between different ideas leads to understanding the world. In Math and Physics symmetry and patterns show up in places which we might have thought of as random.
Observing Patterns are one of the most delightful activities to Mathematicians and indeed mathematics can be seen as the search for regularities, and the output of any function is a mathematical pattern .There are numerous objects that show remarkable patterns and symmetries which are beyond Human limits some are within our limits and shatter all our expectations like The Mandelbrot set
When you zoom at the outer rims of the figure you never see the same pattern which means it never repeats itself no matter for how much time you try you will never encounter the same pattern in which lies the beauty of it. It lies in the complex plane, which means it doesn't exist in reality but just in our ideas. Its made by just one equation x^2 + c where c is a complex number in the complex plane . It seems really crazy to me that you can get a never ending patter from just one expression. It was named after Benoit Mandelbrot a mathematician who saw its first visualization. Talking about patterns there is a sequence which is quite remarkable-
Fibonacci numbers is a sequence of numbers which is one of the most intriguing and just seems to show up everywhere. It’s a sequence of numbers starting from zero in which the next number is formed by Adding the last two .Its as simple as that. They appear in branching of trees, arrangement of leaves on the stem ,flowering of plants and many biological systems which I don’t know the reason of , maybe plants like attracting Math lovers or themselves are Mathematician. It has been observed that the possible no. Of ancestors on the Human chromosome X also follow the sequence of the Fibonacci Numbers . They just don’t only show up in Biological systems but also in optics .When Light is refracted ,the no of different beam paths have k reflections where k>1 where k is a Fibonacci number. Its use is ubiquitous in Math and physics.
And as I was talking about patterns and relations between different concepts there also exists a relation between the Mandelbrot set and the Fibonacci numbers. The number of branches that come of the tendrils of the hyperbolic part of the Mandelbrot set happens to come in Fibonacci sequence. This seems weird to me because the Mandelbrot set is present in the complex plane and Fibonacci numbers are present in real which quite shows the elegance of it. Symmetry is aesthetically pleasing and attracts our attention but there's something more symmetry than just its beauty, Symmetries form the basis of our reality . Symmetry simply means the invariance when we rotate or fold something .
Symmetry principles play an important role with respect to the laws of nature. They summarize the regularities of the laws that are independent of the specific dynamics. Founding of invariance in wave function while interchange of two particles led to discovery of new particles called Boson and the ones that show variance are called Fermions. Elementary particles gain masses due to the gauge theory which I just read about and is intimidating so I wont be mentioning it anymore. Pattern recognition plays a key role in finding cycles of weather and storms, migration of birds and one of the most -important dividing time in blocks . As our ancestors learned that Sun rises daily after a particular period and the period varied a little in different season they realized that it was a cycle and happen again and again till eternity which lead to systematic quantization of time .
All that I have talked about now seems okay and a bit cool But when I read Love and Math by Edward Frenkel I fell in love With Patterns and started to see the world through a different preceptive and finding joy and beauty in everything . This seems a bit fake or philosophic as this is just being written by me and these are my thoughts biased towards somethings and preferring one thing over the other but this defines who I truly am But no one can stress enough on the presence of patterns in our lives and what we can learn from them become something more than ourselves . I might not have been “converted to Math” as Edward Frenkel would say But he has taught me to find the joy even in the deepest of Concepts which would I have not been able to without him and Grant Sanderson. Both of their work have affected me a lot and changed my feelings towards Math and its beauty.
P.S I am not very good At Math so my description might have fault and I you found them Dear Reader email me at- madhavgoyal007@pm.me and I would correct them. This is the longest one I have ever written Hope you like it.
When we observe regularity in anything it pleasures us and helps us comprehend the nature of reality. Patterns are beautiful either in equations or Nature it makes us fell everything is in control and follows a certain framework
Recognizing symmetry and relations between different ideas leads to understanding the world. In Math and Physics symmetry and patterns show up in places which we might have thought of as random.
Observing Patterns are one of the most delightful activities to Mathematicians and indeed mathematics can be seen as the search for regularities, and the output of any function is a mathematical pattern .There are numerous objects that show remarkable patterns and symmetries which are beyond Human limits some are within our limits and shatter all our expectations like The Mandelbrot set
When you zoom at the outer rims of the figure you never see the same pattern which means it never repeats itself no matter for how much time you try you will never encounter the same pattern in which lies the beauty of it. It lies in the complex plane, which means it doesn't exist in reality but just in our ideas. Its made by just one equation x^2 + c where c is a complex number in the complex plane . It seems really crazy to me that you can get a never ending patter from just one expression. It was named after Benoit Mandelbrot a mathematician who saw its first visualization. Talking about patterns there is a sequence which is quite remarkable-
Fibonacci numbers is a sequence of numbers which is one of the most intriguing and just seems to show up everywhere. It’s a sequence of numbers starting from zero in which the next number is formed by Adding the last two .Its as simple as that. They appear in branching of trees, arrangement of leaves on the stem ,flowering of plants and many biological systems which I don’t know the reason of , maybe plants like attracting Math lovers or themselves are Mathematician. It has been observed that the possible no. Of ancestors on the Human chromosome X also follow the sequence of the Fibonacci Numbers . They just don’t only show up in Biological systems but also in optics .When Light is refracted ,the no of different beam paths have k reflections where k>1 where k is a Fibonacci number. Its use is ubiquitous in Math and physics.
And as I was talking about patterns and relations between different concepts there also exists a relation between the Mandelbrot set and the Fibonacci numbers. The number of branches that come of the tendrils of the hyperbolic part of the Mandelbrot set happens to come in Fibonacci sequence. This seems weird to me because the Mandelbrot set is present in the complex plane and Fibonacci numbers are present in real which quite shows the elegance of it. Symmetry is aesthetically pleasing and attracts our attention but there's something more symmetry than just its beauty, Symmetries form the basis of our reality . Symmetry simply means the invariance when we rotate or fold something .
Symmetry principles play an important role with respect to the laws of nature. They summarize the regularities of the laws that are independent of the specific dynamics. Founding of invariance in wave function while interchange of two particles led to discovery of new particles called Boson and the ones that show variance are called Fermions. Elementary particles gain masses due to the gauge theory which I just read about and is intimidating so I wont be mentioning it anymore. Pattern recognition plays a key role in finding cycles of weather and storms, migration of birds and one of the most -important dividing time in blocks . As our ancestors learned that Sun rises daily after a particular period and the period varied a little in different season they realized that it was a cycle and happen again and again till eternity which lead to systematic quantization of time .
All that I have talked about now seems okay and a bit cool But when I read Love and Math by Edward Frenkel I fell in love With Patterns and started to see the world through a different preceptive and finding joy and beauty in everything . This seems a bit fake or philosophic as this is just being written by me and these are my thoughts biased towards somethings and preferring one thing over the other but this defines who I truly am But no one can stress enough on the presence of patterns in our lives and what we can learn from them become something more than ourselves . I might not have been “converted to Math” as Edward Frenkel would say But he has taught me to find the joy even in the deepest of Concepts which would I have not been able to without him and Grant Sanderson. Both of their work have affected me a lot and changed my feelings towards Math and its beauty.
P.S I am not very good At Math so my description might have fault and I you found them Dear Reader email me at- madhavgoyal007@pm.me and I would correct them. This is the longest one I have ever written Hope you like it.
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