(5/20) The biggest FRAXBP news from yesterday is an update/clarification on the timeline.
Tl;dr theres technical stuff happening in the background that needs to happen before anything can be voted on. After its done, there will be two separate votes: FRAXBP and whitelisting $CRV
AMOs - automated investment managers that deploy Frax's capital to harvest yield (responsibly)
CR - measure of the market's faith in "algorithmic backing"
DR - measure of how "crypto-native" Frax's collateral backing is
(7/20) One of the (many) special things about @fraxfinance is that it is entirely on-chain. You can understand everything about $FRAX by analyzing the chain.
Based on deterministic models, you can show that if every person sold their $FRAX into POL, $FRAX would not depeg.
(11/20)
- Long term Fraxswap has a switch that can distribute fees to $FXS holders.
- Fraxswap is not zero-sum competitive with @CurveFinance. Fraxswap solves a different need, primarily with DAOs with a regular need to rebalance their token.
(12/20)
- Using Fraxswap to protect liquid backing (@OlympusDAO 👀)
I'll leave you with (in my opinion) the most important goal of Fraxlend: create use cases for $FRAX.
(14/20) Ecosystem
And again, @samkazemian hammers this home: $FXS is more than just something to burn to create $FRAX, it is a ve-token with control over an incredibly large and profitable treasury.
(15/20) ve-tokens are an economic primitive that allows the market to express the value of a token's governance power.
ve-tokens / $veFXS give the market the ability to discover and express even more value.
(16/20) Well @samkazemian wasn't saying exactly that, those are my words.
What he is saying is "build on our programmable money!!! Build on $FXS (and $FRAX)"
(17/20) FPI Yield Sustainability
$FPI is a "stablecoin" that matches inflation.
@fraxfinance only wants to provide/use yields that derive revenue from real sources (as opposed to ephemeral sources like marketing spend @anchor_protocol 👀)
Thank you @bigboyboccaccio!!! Once again, you're the true hero. I see he has a substack; if all his work is half as thorough as this I highly recommend subscribing!
(1/28) zkVMs, Verifiable Compute and the Next Chapter of Blockchain
Everything from cloud computing to the internet itself relies on explicit and implicit trust. But it's 2024, trust is breaking down, and the world is hungry for a trustless solution
A beginners guide to zkVMs
(2/28) Imagine we have a very computationally intense program - one so resource intensive that we wouldn't be able to run it on any personal devices or consumer hardware that we could realistically get our hands on.
Fortunately, we live in 2024; the cloud has us covered!
(3/28) Now let's say this program is responsible for some very high stakes, irreversible decisions. Whatever this program says will have massive consequences on your life.
Are you comfortable executing on someone else's hardware? Do you trust the result?
Ethereum is made up of two layers: execution and consensus. Today, communication from the execution to consensus layer is indirect, limiting functionality and making updates inefficient.
EIP-7685 fixes this, and paves the way for quick and easy upgrades.
(2/23) @ethereum is the World Computer, a single, globally shared computing platform that exists in the space between a network of 1,000s of computers (nodes).
These nodes are real computers in the real world, communicating directly from peer to peer.
(3/23) At genesis, Ethereum was secured by Proof of Work (PoW)... but even before mainnet launched, @VitalikButerin (and early core devs) planned for a transition to Proof of Stake (PoS).
Eventually, in Sept 2022, this transition was achieved in an event called The Merge.
(1/20) Zero Knowledge Cryptography is one of the most important technologies for blockchain. But why is ZK such a big deal? How will it impact what blockchains are capable of or used for? How will ZK achieve the promise of the World Computer?
A guide to the future of blockchain.
(2/20) When starting with ZK, you get a definition like:
"Zero-knowledge cryptography is a system that allows one party to prove to another party that a statement is true, without revealing any information about the statement itself, other than its validity."
(3/20) The internet credits the birth of ZK cryptography with an academic paper in 1985. In the beginning, ZK was understood as a technology mostly useful for things for privacy, security, authentication, etc.
And then, in 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto started a revolution.
(1/21) In 2022, @ethereum completed The Merge, fusing the Execution Chain and the Beacon Chain. But what are these two chains and how did they transition Ethereum from Proof of Work to Proof of Stake?
A deep dive on how The Merge defined the modern structure of Ethereum.
(2/21) @ethereum is the World Computer, a single, globally shared computing platform that exists in the space between a network of 1,000s of computers (nodes).
These nodes are real computers in the real world, communicating directly from peer to peer.
(3/21) This globally shared platform is manifested with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). Each node is running a copy of the EVM, held in perfect sync with all other nodes via Proof of Stake (PoS).
The blockchain is an immutable record of the history of the EVM/Ethereum.
What does it mean? Why is it important for the World Computer? Why does every project claim to be decentralized? What does decentralization mean for the @ethereum endgame?
If you've ever wondered "is decentralization real," this thread is for you!
(2/31) More of a long-form reader? No problem!
Check out this same article at its permanent home on my website, Inevitable Ethereum!