A thread compiling some of the most cost-inefficient Ethereum transactions seen on chain.

Aside from these transactions being a silly way to spend precious $ETH, high gas fees + continual usage may be a sign of strong PMF, as @santiagoroel said in his recent @UpOnlyTV show.

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0x74e spent $42.05 worth of gas to deposit approximately $160 into Uniswap.

The pool is currently yielding 26% in fees per Uniswap. It will take one year, assuming no IL and consistent fees, for this user to recuperate his transaction fee. Image
0x55c spent $19.42 worth of gas to deposit $18 worth of ETH into Polygon.

It'll be around $40-50 on the way out if this user decides to withdraw from Polygon at a later date. Image
0x30a spent $6 on a failed swap of $18 worth of ETH into another token.

The gas limit was set at 174,204, so assuming it was a normal Uniswap swap, it would have cost more than the swap amount. Image
The point on how cost-inefficiency in smaller txes may show PMF aside, there's a lot to get excited about when it comes to layer-two solutions.

Existing sidechains have seen a parabolic explosion in liquidity and usage while there are a number of rollup solutions inbound.

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24 Mar
Spent some time this evening thinking through Uniswap v3 a bit more.

Wanted to break down the basics of this upgrade and some effects it may have on the rest of the Ethereum DeFi ecosystem space.

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Fees (1/4):

v2 popularized the model whereby 0.3% of each transaction accrues to liquidity providers.

v2 also has a fee switch where UNI holders are entitled to 0.05% of each transaction—or 16.6% of transaction fees.
Fees (2/4):

v3 introduces three "fee tiers" of 0.05%, 0.3%, and 1%. 1:1 assets may trade in the lowest category while high vol assets may sit in the highest category.

v3 also makes it so governance can set the % (10-25) of LP fees that accrue to protocol on a per-pool basis. Image
Read 16 tweets
17 Mar
So @santiagoroel and I have been scrapping for followers over the past few weeks. I'm still 3k ahead.

To keep it that way, I'm hijacking his @UpOnlyTV fame by sharing 9 key points about DeFi and crypto he made during his interview with @CryptoCobain & @ledgerstatus.

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1. Ethereum struggled for a while with product-market fit until Maker, then the other money legos that we now call "DeFi" today.

I did a thread in the past on this subject about how much has changed since crypto was last in this range.

2. "In this industry, if you're not humble, it will teach you humility really quickly."

Generally, this may be why "OGs" naturally have an edge in this market.

They've been here, been taught humility a few too many times, and know how to avoid humbling mistakes.
Read 12 tweets
28 Feb
Vitalik recently proposed the removal of the gas refund tied to 'SELFDESTRUCT' on Ethereum in the London upgrade.

This has seemingly lowered demand for gas, driving down prices to double-digit Gwei.

Let's explain what's going on and why this matters for gas tokens ($CHI, GST)👇
Each Ethereum transaction requires gas.

Generally, the more complex a transaction, the more gas the transaction consumes.

The gas is paired with your specified gas price to determine your transaction fee.

(Old MetaMask interface gang.)
The variable transaction fee model exists to ensure that miners are paid equally for any increases to Ethereum's state size.

The Ethereum state is the collection of information about contracts and addresses stored on nodes.
Read 15 tweets
26 Jan
When people ask me how they should learn about DeFi, I tell them to load up an account with some money and starting playing.

The reasons:

1. IMO, there is no better teacher than getting ur hands dirty
2. It pays to be a tester

A thread about the top airdrops of the past yr 👇
@UniswapProtocol (UNI):

- 252,803 addresses entitled to a claim
- Average airdrop amount is 593.3 UNI ($~6,800)
- Median is 400 UNI (~$4,600)
- Biggest claimer got 2,103,516 UNI (Over $20m)
@1inchExchange (1INCH):

- 55,224 addresses entitled to a claim
- Average airdrop amount is 1,629.76 1INCH (~$4,000)
- Median is 627.35 1INCH (~$1,570)
- Biggest claimer got 9,749,686 1INCH (~$25m)
Read 11 tweets
16 Jan
"But have we *earned* it?"

Vitalik famously posed this question in late 2017, when the crypto market cap first reached $500 billion.

We're past $1 trillion now. Let's see what has changed in crypto, especially in Ethereum and DeFi, since then.

A thread. 👇
2017 and 2018 were marked by vaporware.

Projects like Dentacoin, which promised, uhhh, great things but had little to show for it, garnered hundreds of millions in value.

Look where they are now.

Literal billions in market cap reduced to ashes. And that's good.
We've seen the capital allocated to these ghost projects seemingly flood toward quality.

Bitcoin dominance currently sits at 67% after bottoming at 33% in January 2018.

Ethereum dominance is also up from its lows.

Projects with big promises and no execution were flushed out.
Read 10 tweets
14 Jan
This is pretty fascinating. @0x_b1 is attempting to purchase votes on a controversial Compound proposal.

DeFi is totally permissionless, so this is totally within what is "allowed."

For those that want more context on what exactly is going on here, here's a quick thread.

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In November, the price of DAI on Coinbase spiked to around $1.30.

As Compound uses Coinbase as a pair for its oracle, users borrowing DAI and with low health ratios (often leveraged COMP farmers) saw their positions go underwater.

In total, 85,220,000 DAI was repaid.
0xb1, in particular, was repaid 17,520,100 DAI.

The 8% liquidation penalty meant that 0xb1 "lost" around $1.4 million from their original deposit.

Prop 32 suggested that those affected by this liquidation event (some argue it was erroneous) should be compensated with COMP. Image
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