Co-founder and busy bee @ Igra Labs | emdin.eth | Assorted cartoon character

Berlin, Germany
Joined April 2007
KaspaKaha is now Braid. Every route, woven into one. We’ve spent the last months building the full product for Kaspa L1: an aggregator that finds the best price across every Kaspa exchange and shares the profit your trade creates with you. It’s ready and running on TN10. But on L1 it only makes sense once KCC-20 is live on mainnet, and once the AMMs agree on a pool standard, which we’re working on with the other teams. So rather than wait, we’re showing you what’s coming to L1, live on L2 first 🙂 Braid on Igra: the best price across Igra’s exchanges, plus half the arbitrage profit your swap creates. A fee only when we beat the best single exchange. Mainnet very soon 👇
igra.braidswap.com/learn @Igra_Labs @emdin @ZealousSwap @KasWare_Wallet @KastleWallet @KaspaCom @KForge_xyz #KAS #Kaspa #KaspaDefi #Igra #Braid
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Busy 3 weeks. Super thankful to the team and everyone across the ecosystem who stepped up. Igra stays permissionless, we will not revert its state. Declared safeguards live only at the perimeter. We’re building financial infrastructure with clear rules that can't be overridden.
Hyperlane bridge is back! All 10 asset routes are open again: iKAS, USDC, USDT, WETH, cbBTC, SOL, TIBBIR, USDS, USDe and wstETH. nexus.hyperlane.xyz/ Igra’s Hyperlane routes have reopened after a pause that began on 20 September. All routes now include an Igra-side check that screens outbound transfers against an on-chain registry of incident-linked addresses. Transfers from listed addresses are blocked on these routes. This does not freeze token balances on Igra. Ordinary on-chain transfers remain unaffected. The screening check was added by the route owners. Hyperlane’s role in the routes is otherwise unchanged. Big thanks to the Hyperlane team for their responsiveness, hands-on help and support throughout. Thank you for your patience and understanding. Our priority throughout the response has been to restore access and get things moving again on Igra, with stronger safeguards. For questions about a flagged transfer or an incorrect listing, contact [email protected]. Happy bridging!
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With all my respect to Justin, I'm with prof. Lindell on this one.
Replying to @LindellYehuda
In conclusion, making such statements without any evidence is the opposite of responsible behavior. It is the very definition of FUD — it cannot be proven wrong but there’s also no evidence whatsoever of it being true. n/n
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Pavel Emdin retweeted
We open-sourced kaspa-core, a pure TypeScript library for Kaspa transactions. No WASM, no Rust. Addresses, P2SH multisig, BIP340 signing, KIP-9 mass and fees. Runs in browsers, extensions, Electron, Node and React Native, verified against rusty-kaspa. Zelcore is switching to it next: an 11.5 MB WASM binary gone, lighter and faster to load. MIT licensed. Free for anyone building on Kaspa. github.com/RunOnFlux/kaspa-c…
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"The Ethereum of today has general-purpose computation, proof of stake, onchain applications using zero-knowledge proofs and L2s that provide scaling and privacy." congrats everyone, we've made a full circle.
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גמר חתימה טובה!
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Setup isn't the hard part, it's Docker and the docs cover it. The hard part is maitenance. Node op suppose to perform software patches and upgrades, handle disk growth, key custody etc. We could build a UI wizard like tomorrow, but then people run nodes without knowing what they signed up for and find out during a kernel panic.
Replying to @Igra_Labs
And still, there's no simple node software that everyone can download and just run. Why does it have to be so complicated? 👀
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Igra makes no money on bridges or swaps. What you're seeing is slippage from shallow liquidity in the WiKAS/USDC pool on Zealous, not a fee we charge. Not ideal, agreed. It's a popular route and we're working on bringing more liquidity providers in. (Dear LPs, this pool has consistent demand and very little competition for the fees. If you've been waiting for a spot where volume per unit of liquidity is high, this is it.)
Replying to @Igra_Labs
@Igra_Labs I get that you need to make money but charging almost $100 to swap $670 Ikas for USDC isn't the future of finance , that's highway robbery, with more people than ever before being able to create tokens and defi websites, something or someone will be competing with you on this soon
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Pavel Emdin retweeted
Consistently iterating and getting very close. Please follow along here -> @enclavefi kaspa:native nacho-the-kat:native #KRC20 #KCC20 @BlockchainBants @kaspaunchained @Kaspa_Commons
Know What You Sign kaspa:native
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Today situation is ordering-free parallelism is great for payments and everything with one writer per object. However, today's DeFi is mostly one object, many writers. The only successful example of what you describe is Sui, which is cool, but not really leading.
I’d love to hear genuine thoughts about this question (the first part of the text). My working hypothesis is that global DeFi is not sequential in nature. Reality worldwide happens in parallel. Economic events happen concurrently, information spreads locally and asynchronously, and the global picture forms through aggregation and iterative convergence. There is no single sequence through which the world updates. That does not make global order in consensus systems any less important. The relative order within sub-series of related events is critical (a double spend being the most minimal/local example). But that should not lead to system designs where ~all state mutations have to go through a constant number of sequential bottlenecks
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Here we go. Super proud of the team.
Turns out the full node can travel light: same full verification and 97% less storage. We previously said substantially lower storage would require a separate light node with different security assumptions. Well, we got one thing wrong. Our upcoming upgrade delivers that reduction to the full nodes, with full transaction verification stays intact. Igra node storage: 1TB -> 30GB. Storage growth: 150GB -> 4GB per month at current activity. Running a node and verifying Igra yourself is now practical for far more people. Node operators and attesters: details and documentation coming shortly. Decentralize the world!
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Pavel Emdin retweeted
Applications for Batch II are now open. 12 weeks of single-minded focus and intensity. What would you build with $2M and zero distractions?
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This didn't age well...
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Yes, though we'd have to slow Igra down 12x to support it. :)
Replying to @ethdaily
.@Igra_Labs & @kasplex - As your EVM solutions are fast, would you be ready to handle the Fast Confirmation Rule (FCR), already?
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Please elaborate.
I touch none of those quasi-coins. The fees, are not transparent, do anything on @igra, and you’ll find the fees, are not as advertised.
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That's exactly what @AppKaskad is working on: xitter.cf/AppKaskad/status/20933…
Replying to @emdin
Hello Pavel, Users who are accustomed to Uniswap and 1inch expect a comparably simple experience. The ideal flow would allow them to select KAS in the top field and an Igra asset in the bottom field, with the transaction ready in approximately two seconds. One, two, or three token approvals are acceptable, provided the user never has to leave that single page. The current path—first going to Hyperlane or KAT Bridge and only then proceeding to ZealousSwap—requires too many clicks and interrupts the process. I strongly support Igra. I regard it as the strongest EVM available precisely because it is a based rollup. ZealousSwap could offer a Uniswap-like experience: one page, two token selections from different networks, two or three approvals, and the swap is complete.
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