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anthony retweeted
some concerns I have based on recent Claude experiences:
- if you don't have taste, Claude may make it harder to develop it
- collaborating between several high-agency developers is now very very hard
anthony retweeted
really enjoyed this read, the article does a great job of describing society's gravitation towards high-agency, risk-on behavior as the career ladder becomes less and less rewarding.
it's something I'm seeing everywhere now and it's not just what's commonly referred to as "gambling."
I'm seeing careers unbundle and starting to resemble a self-managed portfolio which involves a mix of: salary + contract work + small internet business + investments/trades wherever someone believes they have edge.
- it's not everyone's a "trader," it's more people trade.
- it's not everyone's an "entrepreneur", it's more people run their own businesses
- etc
while the expression varies, it boils down to the same mentality the article's describing.
how 20 year olds today and even more so in 10 years approach starting their careers will look foreign to someone who started theirs 30 years ago
anthony retweeted
it seems to me that forced inclusion/exit is dangerously close to being decentralization theatre.
sure it exists; unclear if it actually benefits any real use-case that users care about. Forced Inclusion is easy to do, but unclear of the actual benefit. Forced Exit is clearly beneficial, but complicated for the average user to actually do (even for me lol)
e.g if the market is melting, i want to take my funds out **now**.
to that end, it seems to me that the only real benefit of a rollup is:
1. using eth as the base-layer for trust-minimized communication across rollups (e.g. superchain, prividiums, etc.)
2. having access to eth's state and being able to compose with it. @signetsh is clearly the leader in that, with @zksync prividiums a not-that-close second
Centralized Rollups are here to stay and they can offer a superb (imho) tradeoff between security & simplicity, while also offering a plethora of customizations (@OPLabsPBC is leading here w/ customized block builders)
We need to viciously work on making the rollup use-case undisputable. Tempo should be a wakeup call.
We need rollups to be:
1. easy to customize
2. easy to spin up
3. clearly performant
4. offer practical inheritance of Ethereum's security (meaning it's trivial to force exit)
anthony retweeted
Your existence in this industry is on an as needed basis.
I am tired of reading entitled tweets authored by bozos who didn’t make it after 4-8 years of just existing. Or tweets of how unfair the industry is to left handed bisexual werewolves.
You are competing with the most intelligent motivated people on earth in the most pvp industry in existence.
If intelligence, hard work, and time in the industry were the recipe for success @_prestwich would be the emperor of the multiverse .
After 8 years of full time employment and 11 protocols launched. I still have not seen financial success. Please shut up, no one is listening.
anthony retweeted
run-ahead sequencing is frequently misunderstood, even by devs that work on it!
The transaction does not /ever/ need to be posted to DA at all in order to be final. Sequencer txns are final as long as the sequencer doesn't equivocate
consider conditional cross-chain transactions: if a transaction doesn’t land as intended, you can hedge within the same block
atomic cross-chain host + rollup bundles
complex multi-leg strategies
think bigger
anthony retweeted
we're literally init4 the tech
anthony retweeted
One thing I wanted to say, but didn't get to:
Bitcoin is struggling culturally/technically with parasites, while Ethereum is just giving its lunch away to RUs
Ethereum needs Rollups. Rollups don't need Ethereum. Except @signetsh. We're too tightly coupled to go anywhere else 🙃
A Rollup that *Actually* Scales Ethereum
In this episode of Deeply Intents, I chat with @_prestwich of @init4tech @signetsh. This episode is a masterclass on rollups.
In this episode we discuss:
- What is a rollup?
- History of rollups
- @signetsh from first principles
- Conditional Transactions
- Application Controlled Execution
- (Re)Based Rollups
Timestamps
0:00 - Build a rollup in a completely different way
3:14 - What is a rollup?
6:17 - History of rollups
9:57 - Plasmas
14:34 - Minimum viable merged consensus
18:45 - Signet from first principles
21:27 - No proofs
23:01 - Conditional Transactions
27:42 - Instant bridging
31:47 - App Controlled Execution (ACE)
37:45 - Third party native issuance
39:44 - A rollup that actually scales Ethereum
41:16 - Sequencing and block building
45:33 - More Builders than Ethereum
48:08 - Finding the right partners
53:45 - Benefits of app chain + general purpose chain
56:03 - (Re)Based Rollups
1:00:04 - Unexplored design space for rollups
1:03:41 - Mistakes building products on Ethereum
1:07:39 - Making developer tools
1:11:37 - Bitcoin repeating history
anthony retweeted
This was a real treat. While you won't get the 2023 era of argumentation, you will get a comprehensive history of rollups as well as a breakdown of all the cool tech that the @signetsh team is working on.
Conditional Transactions are awesome.
A Rollup that *Actually* Scales Ethereum
In this episode of Deeply Intents, I chat with @_prestwich of @init4tech @signetsh. This episode is a masterclass on rollups.
In this episode we discuss:
- What is a rollup?
- History of rollups
- @signetsh from first principles
- Conditional Transactions
- Application Controlled Execution
- (Re)Based Rollups
Timestamps
0:00 - Build a rollup in a completely different way
3:14 - What is a rollup?
6:17 - History of rollups
9:57 - Plasmas
14:34 - Minimum viable merged consensus
18:45 - Signet from first principles
21:27 - No proofs
23:01 - Conditional Transactions
27:42 - Instant bridging
31:47 - App Controlled Execution (ACE)
37:45 - Third party native issuance
39:44 - A rollup that actually scales Ethereum
41:16 - Sequencing and block building
45:33 - More Builders than Ethereum
48:08 - Finding the right partners
53:45 - Benefits of app chain + general purpose chain
56:03 - (Re)Based Rollups
1:00:04 - Unexplored design space for rollups
1:03:41 - Mistakes building products on Ethereum
1:07:39 - Making developer tools
1:11:37 - Bitcoin repeating history
anthony retweeted
A Rollup that *Actually* Scales Ethereum
In this episode of Deeply Intents, I chat with @_prestwich of @init4tech @signetsh. This episode is a masterclass on rollups.
In this episode we discuss:
- What is a rollup?
- History of rollups
- @signetsh from first principles
- Conditional Transactions
- Application Controlled Execution
- (Re)Based Rollups
Timestamps
0:00 - Build a rollup in a completely different way
3:14 - What is a rollup?
6:17 - History of rollups
9:57 - Plasmas
14:34 - Minimum viable merged consensus
18:45 - Signet from first principles
21:27 - No proofs
23:01 - Conditional Transactions
27:42 - Instant bridging
31:47 - App Controlled Execution (ACE)
37:45 - Third party native issuance
39:44 - A rollup that actually scales Ethereum
41:16 - Sequencing and block building
45:33 - More Builders than Ethereum
48:08 - Finding the right partners
53:45 - Benefits of app chain + general purpose chain
56:03 - (Re)Based Rollups
1:00:04 - Unexplored design space for rollups
1:03:41 - Mistakes building products on Ethereum
1:07:39 - Making developer tools
1:11:37 - Bitcoin repeating history
anthony retweeted
if you're a crypto dev wondering what instrumentation is, and where to start, @prestwich wrote a quick primer
Here are the key points:
1. Tracing >>> Logging
2. Spans >>> Events
3. Mature systems need observability
4. You can implement it. Easily. Today.
anthony retweeted
people confuse correlation with causation when it comes to decentralization. yes, decentralized systems can be resilient when architected correctly. So can an active-active system running in multiple AWS regions. A poorly architected decentralized system can also have shit uptime
anthony retweeted
We're experimenting with adding serialization to the EVM state changes at each block
Basically, we think that streaming net state changes might be faster for some use-cases than downloading blocks and re-executing
Anyone have existing research here?
docs.rs/trevm/latest/trevm/j…
anthony retweeted
I appreciate Keone's work but I find unsettling the fact that so many people got psyopsed into thinking a parallel EVM is what the market needs.
When I was doing DD on @keoneHD and @monad in early spring of 2022 I’d get two responses.
From people who did not know him: “any idiot can see EVM needs to be parallel but I don’t think a trading firm guy from outside of crypto will figure it out”
From people who knew him: “Keone is going to outwork everyone else at whatever he sets his mind to.”
Those are the type of founders you wanna invest in.
Congrats to the incredible teams out working everyone else to bring Monad to life - Godspeed today