Use and love both @DeFiCarrot and @uselulo. Carrot is harder for me to track precisely. Seems to be the better performer, but there’s chart reading/bookkeeping I’m mid at. Lulo is easier for me to reason about. Clean and clear “Deposit X” and “Withdraw X+N” semantics.

I helped a few people mint some NFTs

Persist. Determination wins.

Solana's slow validator meta is a pretty interesting yarn. Here's what's happening, with exclusive details on how core Solana folks are attempting to fix things:

Institutions now hold 4% of all mined bitcoin. But holding bitcoin at scale isn't about storage – it's about key management and the infra needed to do it securely, without giving up control. 🧵

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I've built teams at Crypto​.com, Magic Eden, and Animoca. Here's what I learned about scaling from 1 to 300+ people: • Hire people who solve problems without being told what to do • Skills compound across industries, the best talents have a broad experience • Junior-heavy teams can't make decisions without you. Aim for 70/30 senior/junior ratio • Vision clarity trumps perfect credentials every time • Fire bad culture fits fast. 1 toxic person ruins everyone else's mood • Give people goals, not step-by-step tasks. "Fix user onboarding" not "Update page 3 of the docs" • Attitude beats aptitude when markets move fast • Lead from the sidelines during execution • Take time off to see what breaks. If everything falls apart, your team isn't ready • Collective intelligence > individual genius • Promote people who stay calm when things go wrong

$MET? more like MEH after M3M3

man it's crazy we have to say things like "teams generating revenue on top of solana is not bad actually" you will not shame a team into making different financial decisions with *revenue they earned on their own* — they will always do what's best for their business and this is what you should want — you should want businesses to optimize for their own needs, this is literally how capitalism works if you can provide a platform where businesses can optimize for their own needs and succeed, then in return you get a platform with non-fungible state/liquidity/network effects and you make it more valuable long-term as a blockchain, really all you can do is make it as easy as possible for teams to succeed on your platform help them scale, help them build, and help them win if you do this, you maximize free market competition which means users have more options to express their preferences if users want to support different types of launchpads with different tokenomics etc, then they can do that and then the collective set of users aka the market decides it is entirely a voting machine for user preferences if you think there's a much better way of doing something, that's a great starting point for building a new startup

Bitcoin HTTP is the missing link in cryptocurrency infrastructure. TCP/IP proved we can transfer messages securely; BTC proved we can transfer money securely. But the true unlock of the internet was applications. So how can we get the same unlock on BTC? The solution is simple, and has been hiding in plane sight. The programmable Layer 1's of today were built under the stress of making new economies, new ecosystems, and competing with Bitcoin's dominance. However, this consideration was short-sighted as these chains lost access to a now $2.3 trillion asset and instead compete for fiat marketshare. The purchasing power of $1 in 1950 is equivalent to that of $0.07 in 2025. Chains are now eating the United States debt while China and other foreign powers are backing out. This is not sustainable and there is only one solution: Bitcoin. That's why @archntwrk decided to build a Layer 1 that: • Maintains state with Bitcoin • Constructs Bitcoin transactions • Offers seamless, instant finality for applications This may seem counterintuitive to investors and developers following the infrastructure battle for past decade. ~How it Works~ Arch validators run both a Bitcoin and Arch client. Through Distributed Key Generation, validators hold a share of a Bitcoin secret key proportional to their network stake-weight. And thanks to advancements in threshold cryptography, keys can be split among 100+ validators. Following so far? The Arch client is composed of a fork of the extended Berkeley Packet Filter virtual machine, the same virtual machine that Solana uses. In fact, from a developer's perspective, Arch feels just like Solana, using the same Instruction Set Architecture and Compiler. And the core team is in the final stages of developing their own version of Anchor, so smart contracts can be written in Typescript or Rust. Nodes reach consensus via Proof of Stake using the distributed Bitcoin keys mentioned above. Blocks are finalized when 51% of the validators send their signature, creating instant finality for Arch transactions. This combination of keys also enables validators to construct Bitcoin transactions submitted on Arch and roll them out directly on the Bitcoin base layer, secured by Arch's economic security. Accounts leverage the existing Taproot address space on Bitcoin, meaning there's no switching between wallets to access applications on Bitcoin<>Arch. Simply hop onto your existing Bitcoin wallet and instantly stake, borrow, or trade Bitcoin and UTXO assets such as Runes and Ordinals. All transactions are rolled up on Arch and settled directly on the Bitcoin base layer. ~This is the Future~ Arch is Bitcoin HTTP, acting as the only Layer 1 that takes Bitcoin settlement into account and extends BTC to the application layer. With increased adoption of Bitcoin, Taproot address space will grow exponentially as an access point to crypto. Arch provides the only way for these users to seamlessly benefit from permissionless finance. The solution is simple. Only on Arch, always on Bitcoin.