Brandon J. Isaacson (🐧,🐝)

Say you were launching a defi project today, who would be your dream advisor to have in your corner? Curious to hear who comes to mind!

I can't stand it anymore to watch one of the most capable stacks in this industry sit underused because its advantages are abstract and hard to feel until someone builds the thing that makes them obvious. I can't stand to watch the opportunity to build killer user-focused products that break the idea decentralized apps must be weird, hard to use, and worse (at least UX-wise and feature-wise) than their centralized versions. I kept waiting for that builder to show up. I've decided to stop waiting. Throughout these years, I hoped we'd see many builders and adventurers come try out what we've built, be impressed, and build great things. Being honest, that hasn't happened yet. The problem was never the technology, but nobody's going to grasp what Cartesi unlocks from a diagram. They'll grasp it from a product that's actually great. Maybe it's just the natural time it takes for an infra tech to get adopted and for people to understand what should be built on it. After all, it took a long time for us to understand what use cases were a good fit for Ethereum (remember the "decentralize everything" era?). And Cartesi hasn't been live for that long. So maybe I'm just getting a tad impatient. The fact is, with Cartesi one can bring great, impressive, and useful decentralized apps to reality. That is the reason I joined this industry: the belief that universal rails would benefit from less centralization, fewer points of failure, and less friction. I'm leaving the Cartesi Foundation, but of course I'm not leaving Cartesi. How could I? This community has more brainpower per capita than anywhere I've been, and you don't walk away from people like that. But I'm leaving the Cartesi Foundation nonetheless. And I'm doing it because I want to build an application that is a great success despite being onchain, not because it is onchain. I'm planning on posting parts and pieces of the journey here, so give me a follow if you'd like to keep up. Let's build a useful decentralized application. And as a bonus, let's show the world why you too should be building with Cartesi.

Cartesi will be fine. Out of @VitalikButerin ‘s list of what L2s should be we hit (i), (ii), (iii -for computation) and (iv). It’s the payoff from taking the hard route and differentiating early. Harder to build, but bigger probability of adding real value . @cartesiproject is built to be future proof. Its important enough to add value to wherever ethereum’s roadmap goes!

Gabriel's (@GCdePaula_ ) and Augusto’s research on non-interactive fraud proofs is a crucial contribution to the conversation: careful, public, and constructive. Works like this benefits everyone building in the space. If we want to onboard the world's finance (and much more), we have to surface tradeoffs and open questions early and in the open. That’s how we build shared understanding and stronger systems. The piece isn’t a dig at projects pursuing this approach. In fact, I’m a genuine fan of RiscZero/Boundless. The aim here is a good-faith contribution to the shared body of knowledge we all rely on.

I’m 100% on the same page. The Infinite Garden is only infinite if we allow the entire design space to be explored. Not everything will be EVM, not everything will be ZK, and not every app will favor the same properties. But they’ll all share one thing: they’ll all settle on Ethereum. We have the people and the resources to research multiple branches in parallel. Doing that reduces risk and increases the odds that we cover more of the design space well, so builders can create what they want!