1/ Yesterday, the #Avalanche Foundation announced the biggest #DeFi incentive program to date. This will catalyze the next phase of hyper-growth that I’ve been personally looking forward to since launching Avalanche mainnet last year.
2/ All facets of the DeFi ecosystem need to co-exist and collaborate to create a functioning and widely adopted digital financial system: automated market makers (AMMs), DEXs, borrowing and lending protocols, insurance protocols, and the list goes on.
3/ It’s crucial to have all DeFi primitives working and communicating with each other flawlessly. DeFi users also need a seamless experience to participate in the ecosystem.
4/ The Avalanche Bridge (AB) has dramatically simplified the experience for users who want to move assets from other DeFi ecosystems to Avalanche. A few weeks in and AB has transferred over $100M in crypto assets.
4/ I’m extremely confident that users are going to love the experience of using the new dapps on Avalanche (as well as the very attractive yields of course).
5/ The platform is in prime position to offer the best user experience in DeFi– allowing fast speeds and low-costs without making sacrifices in decentralization.
6/ Lastly, I want to thank the first #AvalancheRush dapps @AaveAave and @CurveFinance. Together, we will keep building new financial systems that are inclusive, innovative, and exciting.
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It seems essential that NFTs, being fashion and conspicuous consumption goods, lose, and in fact need to lose, their coolness factor over time. The same way we can't buy a wardrobe once and be cool forever, we'll need new hip avatars regularly.
Every item, from paintings to clothing to NFTs, experiences some decay in hipness over time.
Let lambda be the time it takes for some item to go from its maximum coolness to half its coolness. Think of it as the half life of cultural coolness.
So, if lambda for some thing is 1 year, that thing is half as cool in a year. In 6 years, it loses 98% of its coolness, starts looking like your grandfather's wristwatch.
Between $3m rocks and $12k for an invisible rock, everyone is saying that we've reached "peak NFT" today, and that we will only go down from here. I beg to differ.
NFTs are going to be with us for a long time to come. We have not yet seen the traditionally collectible content (e.g. Major League Baseball, soccer, etc) in digital form. We have not seen any viral NFT-based games. Nor have we seen any good NFT applications. >>
Most importantly, NFT-related tools are abysmal and the NFT ownership experience is pretty rough right now. The current NFT experience is simply a copy of the old playing card experience, with a lot of extra steps.
@gross_bit Yes, I'm happy to explain: what you're seeing is a feature, and further, the behavior you want is also supported. Chains where the addresses never change are disasters from a privacy standpoint. Avalanche is protecting your privacy here. Let's delve further >>
@gross_bit Suppose that the wallet just gave you a single, static address. Imagine now that we go to dinner, you pay, and I need to send you my half of the bill. I get to discover your address, *I get to know exactly how much you have* and *I get to watch all your future transactions*. >>
@gross_bit To avoid this, the Avalanche wallet gives you a new address as you use old addresses. That way, you can receive some money from me, and some money from someone else, without us being able to see each other's activities. >>
2/ In March we saw the first boom of $AVAX NFTs with projects like @cryptoseals, @southpolesanta1, @lamasticards, and @cubetarium launching as Avalanche-exclusive NFT projects, capturing the imagination of the community (myself included) and selling assets in excess of $500k-$1m.
3/ Right after these launches, @snowflakeavax & @unifty_io created marketplaces for these assets to be more easily discovered, listed, and traded between users.
2/ DeFi on @AvalancheAVAX is growing rapidly. New users, assets, and applications are joining the community rapidly to tap into the vibrant $AVAX DeFi ecosystem.
3/ That growth is despite a bridge that has had many issues for users. An upcoming, first-of-its-kind bridge is a lot faster and 5X cheaper, and will open the floodgates for liquidity to flow into Avalanche.