Even when the strategy is hodl, maybe especially when the strategy is hodl, treasury management is hard.

I've been getting some much needed help here and there, but I have so much I want to express and basically no way to do it. I tried to explain nitro bridging to Gemini and it kept getting confused because it was like, "it's state channels", "no wait it's a roll-up". My friend, it's both.

Startups often think a partnership with a big company will be a shortcut to growth. It pretty much never works. Nor does any other apparent shortcut. There are no shortcuts. The way to get growth is to engage closely with your users.

Can’t stop thinking about this graphic from The Business of Fashion

I know of a very fast one but I think it's still in stealth...

I see ppl tweeting about the fertility crisis then I meet them irl and they’re 40, single and “not looking for a relationship right now” ???

Today, our community celebrated Ethereum's 10th anniversary by ringing the closing bell at NASDAQ. The symbolism of this is profound: the closing of Ethereum's first chapter, and the opening of the next. After ten years, the inflection point has arrived, and mass adoption is upon us. Wall Street was just a river away from the industrial Brooklyn loft where Consensys was founded over 10 years ago, but at the time it felt like an ocean. But I can't say I didn't see this moment coming: the technology, and its promise, is irresistible. We worked to seed a new ecosystem and onboard TradFi to DeFi, with a mission to rebuild the global financial system. And together, we're doing it.

The defense rests in the Tornado Cash trial, and the Samourai devs change their plea from “not guilty” to “guilty.” My thoughts on both:

I have a lot of thoughts about the Storm trial. I'm still very much in favor of building compliant software, I see no alternative, but writing software that complies with the law is not enough to protect us from prosecution. I'm still processing.