Super excited to launch our first mainnet product! DA Builder is a core piece of our vision for a based Ethereum with pragmatic and feature complete developer infra. There is no Spire token. The ticker is ETH.

If operating some chain is an expense and not profitable business, the chain is ngmi

If TC is an unlicensed money transmitting business, does it mean that ETH is money?

I'm actually surprised nobody has done it already. It should be possible with the RFQ model and it's kinda easy to implement for solver-based bridges imo. Uniswap also has an edge here but for some reason this is not an option in their UI even though they use RFQ most of the time already.

As Ethereum is turning 10 years old, I can't stop thinking about how precisely its release was timed to be able to take advantage of a narrow opportunity window - late enough to be understood, early enough to survive hardening regulations and increasing institutional pressure.

POV: Your transaction has been picked up in the public mempool.

>apps and infrastructure that empower people instead of MEV bots I wrote a thread on it a long time ago, but still don't understand how this problem is being effectively addressed. For the overwhelming majority of the population, identity (especially some obscure blockchain ID) means nothing and they'll happily sell it for a very cheap price. If the incentive is big enough, this system will be easily gamed as World's previous token airdrop has shown. The only response to this problem I saw was limiting the list of countries where it's possible to onboard. But it effectively dehumanizes most people and limits the potential for the project's adoption, making onboarding possible for the wealthiest 1% while discriminating against everyone else. Are there any new solutions since then?

It's easy to understand why maximalism is stupid if you're at least a little bit technical. "I want all the planes to be Boeing 747 bc it's big and cool, Cessnas don't have a chance." "I want everyone to drive Toyotas bc they're reliable and affordable" "e=mc2 is the only winning equation out there, bc it's made by the last real scientist Albert Einstein" That's why you'll almost never see a software engineer with such a mindset, unless they have additional incentives (related to employment etc.).

This is an interesting topic to think about. Imo, L2s are definitely taking advantage over L1 and I wrote a lot about it previously. But at the same time, it's what makes Ethereum so attractive to large fintech players. In my book, being taken advantage of is not something to brag about, but at the same time the ecosystem is objectively growing. I think that now, Ethereum is in a great position because it can start implementing proposals that help with L1 value accrual and tighter L2s' integration, after all the institutions and large players have opted in. This is how most startups capture their market share. It's great that it happened with Ethereum, it's bad it happened unconsciously, leaving a huge amount of uncertainty going forward as the community hasn't reached a consensus.

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