π οΈ @0xdeportal PFP @RemilioBaby One of the #1559 π«‘ Student of: @AlchemyLearn | @LearnWeb3DAO
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Privacy Protocols - Good or Bad idea?
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0xsmolrun.eth π¦ππ―οΈ retweeted
BREAKING: Paraguay's president has resigned after bank collapse left millions of people without access to their accounts
0xsmolrun.eth π¦ππ―οΈ retweeted
The SNX stolen from Binance has been recovered by the Synthetix protocolDAO.
The tokens are secured in the protocolDAO Safe and will be sent back to Binance on request. We have notified Binance.
Fuck Kim Jong Un.
etherscan.io/tx/0x0d4a20dd52β¦
0xsmolrun.eth π¦ππ―οΈ retweeted
π Yesterday I shared a DeFi Lego idea: vote for a tokenized Tesla pool, collect fees in Tesla shares, deposit them on Aave, borrow USDC and put that capital to work again.
Today I'm showing the actual transactions. Four screenshots, step by step.
1οΈβ£ Voting rewards β Tesla + USDC
From one veAERO lock voting on @aeroxyz USDC/TSLAc pool, I claimed 6.46666 USDC + 0.01752 TSLAc in trading-fee rewards.
About $13.40 earned on $4,238 in locked AERO. That's 0.316% for the week, or ~16.44% annualized APR at that weekly pace. Variable, of course β not a guaranteed yearly rate.
And this is just ONE lock. I collected rewards across several positions, converted the USDC portion into TSLAc, and consolidated the proceeds into tokenized Tesla shares.
2οΈβ£ Tesla shares β Aave V4
As promised, I deposited those tokens into @aave Pro's Coinbase Stocks market.
The screenshot shows ~$27.90 in TSLAc, now displaying 3.04% APY in USDC incentives. A temporary promotional rate, not a Tesla dividend.
Trading fees became tokenized equity. Tokenized equity became another potential cash-flow stream.
3οΈβ£ Tesla collateral β USDC loan
Next, I borrowed 10 USDC, using my Tesla tokens as collateral. The displayed borrowing rate? 1.90% variable APR.
That's the cost of borrowing β and the price of unlocking liquidity without selling the shares.
4οΈβ£ The full position in Rabby
The final screenshot shows it all together: Tesla supplied, USDC borrowed, and the loan's health factor.
So what happens to those 10 USDC now?
They can power another strategy: stablecoin pools, BTC/stable pairs, ETH/stable pairs, concentrated BTC/ETH liquidity, or another productive asset.
Some setups display 10β20%+ APR from trading fees and temporary boosts, depending on volume and range selection.
Those are opportunities to research, not guaranteed returns.
Look at the architecture:
veAERO voting revenue β TSLAc β USDC incentives β collateral β borrowed USDC β another income engine.
π Yield on yield on yield. Capital building on capital.
I've been building DeFi strategies for years. This isn't about impressing anyone with a $10 loan. It's about showing the mechanics openly, in simple terms, with real transactions.
π Even a few dollars can open the door to an entire onchain financial universe β 24/7, from anywhere with internet access.
And after the original veAERO position, I haven't needed to add fresh cash to build these layers. The loan is still debt, and collateral, interest and strategy risks still need managing. That's part of the game.
Next stop: upgrading my veAERO and veVELO β sAERO positions and exploring the new Aero protocol in real time.
More practice. More experiments. Real receipts.
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π I just voted on @aeroxyz for the USDC/TSLAc liquidity pool, where traders and investors swap USDC and tokenized Tesla stock.
Before upgrading my veAERO lock to sAERO, I allocated 100% of its voting power to this market. The vote is already onchain β 5,153.58 veAERO working for me.
Tomorrow I'll collect voting rewards in tokenized Tesla shares (TSLAc) and USDC.
Not from providing liquidity. Not from buying Tesla stock. From directing my voting power toward the pool.
Here's the beautiful part:
Aerodrome distributes 100% of its eligible exchange revenue to voters.
Each voter receives a proportional share of the fees and incentives associated with the pools they support.
I've been doing this for years on Aerodrome and Velodrome, collecting tokens, stablecoins and trading-fee revenue. That was already fascinating.
But now tokenized equities are part of the equation. A completely new dimension opens up. π₯
And this is where my next DeFi Lego experiment begins.
Step 1: Collect TSLAc and USDC as voting rewards.
Step 2: Take those Tesla tokens to @aave Pro V4 and deposit them. Its Coinbase Stocks market currently advertises roughly 3% annualized in USDC rewards through Merkl.
That's a temporary incentive, not a Tesla dividend β but it's another income stream built on top of the first one.
Step 3: Borrow USDC against the tokenized Tesla shares. I'll do this as a small public experiment and share the actual borrowing cost.
Step 4: Deploy that borrowed liquidity into another productive strategy. A DeFi pool? A cash-flow token? Something else? Plenty of possibilities.
Just look at this sequence:
veAERO voting power β trading fees β tokenized Tesla shares β USDC rewards β collateral β borrowed capital β another cash-flow engine.
Yield on yield on yield. Capital building more capital.
βπ» And the most exciting part? After the original veAERO position, I don't need to inject fresh cash from my pocket to create these additional layers.
I'm putting the value generated by one productive position back to work β with the loan, of course, remaining a liability to manage.
It almost feels like printing new layers of capital. This is what I love about DeFi Lego. π€―
I've been fascinated by stocks, exchanges and investing for almost 20 years.
And seeing @coinbase bring equities onchain, Aerodrome turn their liquidity into a market for voting power, and Aave make those assets usable as collateral is simply incredible.
We're still so early.
I'll keep sharing the actual rewards, transactions and results as I build this in public.
You think that you can do a lot in @ether_fi now, what if I tell you there are more features to come in the next few months?
0xsmolrun.eth π¦ππ―οΈ retweeted
Wrapped zkAPI + Tor + extra cover traffic + local LLM prompt rewriting in an open-AI compatible daemon, and made a "paranoid mode" wrapper for my agent harness (pi):
Each conversation gets assigned a separate Tor circuit, your requests are masked with random cover traffic, zkAPI ensures you don't leak your identity through payments, and all prompts are locally rewritten (bring-your-own-local-model; I'm using qwen3.8-flash-next)
github.com/vbuterin/zkapi/trβ¦
My agent harness is wrapped with a bwrap sandbox (also experimenting with MicroVM) and wrapped again with torsocks, so everything it does goes through Tor.
Here's what me asking it to do a simple research task looks like.
It's getting quite usable! Though you definitely still pay quite a bit in increased latency, especially when starting a new conversation.
Also, Tor is far from optimal here for privacy; the cover traffic mechanism is okay against passive adversaries but much weaker if the LLM provider is colluding with the guard and actively manipulating timing. This kind of task really requires a more specialized mixnet, probably take the tradeoff of a higher bandwidth multiplier and built-in constant cover traffic.
Also also, much cheaper zkAPI deposit and withdraw gas costs are coming to mainnet soon.
0xsmolrun.eth π¦ππ―οΈ retweeted
Infinex wallet is, by far, the best wallet on the market
not even close
Self-custody/onchain has felt risky for years, which is when I started using Infinex. I don't feel any of that now.
Among many reasons, not being tied to any one device is a huge upgrade
0xsmolrun.eth π¦ππ―οΈ retweeted
220K views and still climbing π₯
lots of people calling bs, here's a screen recording
real-time try ons has been live in drape for a while now. it's the first step toward changing how people decide what to wear and what to buy.
we've got so much more planned
drape will be the new default for personal style
stay tuned!
jev is insane π«£
it makes realtime virtual try-on hauls possible.
built this experiment for Drape with @typesafeai
> i talk
> jev reads transcript + what i'm wearing
> picks from my closet
> changes my outfit in realtime
cost: $0.0011 per decision
time: ~620ms per decision
imagine getting ready like this:
So this is what setPreCrime means?
subscribers of @HunterBiden substack are claiming 4,276 tokens each
currently, 4276 tokens are worth $427,600
so far, $1,800,000 has been claimed and instantly sold
0xsmolrun.eth π¦ππ―οΈ retweeted
Ethena Pay offers up to 6% rewards on dollar balances, so money starts earning the moment it lands.
Nothing to stake, nothing to lock and nothing to opt into.
People are shilling microduck.
I can't wait to shill my @BuilderBotsAI
Yoooooooo what a way to start the weekend!
Builder's season soonπ€
@BuilderBotsAI
congratulations @0xSmolRun of the the 4 you minted one is a physical @BuilderBotsAI !!!
Cassette Lens Runner
will be contacting you soon after mint out with details on the build
New user, 3 deposits, 2 RFI hits.
Should I close my account?
@hata_david
Actually insane tech @rbrc20 but you gotta do better in marketing π€
just minted one @BuilderBotsAI
Can't wait to see what I can do with the bot offline π