Middleware is MEV for Devs

Our mission is to support the long-term success of both our portfolio companies and the broader crypto ecosystem. One major gap we’ve consistently seen? Reliable, transparent compensation data for crypto teams. That’s why we created our annual Crypto Compensation Survey – a resource designed to help founders, hiring managers, and candidates alike benchmark equity, cash, and token comp across the space. Below are key takeaways from our 2024 edition 👇 —Last year we saw 3% of people paid in crypto. This year we've seen a 3x jump to 9.6%. Stablecoins USDC & USDT are leading the charge with the majority of folks who take their salary in crypto receiving USDC —Is crypto going back to the office? Probably not, but in office work is up 4x (to 6%). —Looking at the median numbers, having an MBA does not equate to higher salaries in Web3. In fact, there's a slight decline in compensation. —By looking at median salaries, women make more in Marketing, Operations, BD, but not in Engineering and Executive positions. —Engineering Salaries across the board in seniority are on the rise! Most notably Jr & Mid-level roles have seen a large increase: 25.6% increase for Jr Engineers, 14.49% for Mid, 4.9% for Sr.

1/ A new blockchain network in 2025 needs to either optimize for a particular application or expand the adjacent possible. Most new blockchains have focused on optimizing for speed; faster block times, higher TPS. That is no longer the bottleneck. @RialoHQ is focused on a complete suite of infra for building apps that speak to the outside world.

Rialo → "Rialo" ("is" | "isn't") "a Layer One" | Rialo

After 9 months building heads-down with an incredible team, we’re proud to come out of stealth and introduce Rialo, the first full-stack programmable network built for the real world. Web3 must come to Web2. Rialo meets you where you are.

Say hello to Rialo. It's the first full stack network for real world apps, bringing real users to real builders. Why does it matter to you? Because today’s Web3 isn’t the future we were promised.

Expect you’ll be seeing a lot more about this in the coming days Ranging from tweets, to dev docs, to even my Twitter bio 👀

I built an AI-powered prediction resolver last year for situations like this. It let you pick news sources and crowdsource AI models to analyze the data and reach some confidence score. Fully automated and took less than 10s to resolve. Worked pretty well. Might resurrect the project. DM if interested in working on it.

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