Thread by @el33th4xor

Hey cryptotwitter,

Hope you have a fantastic mid-August day, with a genuine emoji that was carved out 5000+ years ago.

There's a certain little person I know who goes to bed every night, and right before he goes to sleep, he goes through everything that he's grateful for. So, in that spirit, here's everything I'm grateful for.

First of all, I'm grateful that #Avalanche keeps on ticking. It kept working flawlessly through countless market ups and downs.

Second, I'm thrilled that the platform is topping all time highs in terms of organic transactions at 1.5m tx/day. And the architecture scales. There is no inherent ceiling to this number, more subnets will lead to more transactions.

I'm glad we didn't listen to public opinion on CT in designing #Avalanche. It would have been a mediocre system, marked by frequent failures, if we had. We literally said "you have it wrong," got roasted by mindless maxis of all kinds, and have been proven right.

I was providing input to a report by the GAO on how the government can take advantage of blockchains, and I realized that all of their concerns, established by first generation systems, have been addressed. It's time to deploy.

Scalability, compliance, user experience and others have come a long way. Now, by no means are we done. There's much more work to be done. But blockchains are no longer slow cumbersome databases, unsuitable for production.

I'm grateful for the Core Wallet, which lets me finally manage my coins and NFTs across chains. It's groundbreaking, and you should try it in the Chrome Store. It's designed to make sure that newbies don't get lost.

I'm grateful for the merge. I want Ethereum to remain competitive and not destroy the planet. I don't believe the L2 vision will yield an elegant overall system, but we support L2s should they ever become trustless, feasible and decentralized.

I'm grateful to Bitcoin and Ethereum in general for paving the way. And I love their maxis for driving bright people to seek out new, science-based platforms.

I'm grateful for institutional adoption. It is happening behind the scenes. And yes, macro fears will sideline a lot of capital, but the bottom line is that every financial firm now treats crypto with respect. The bull market will be exciting.

I'm glad that Ava Labs made the right call to move our HQ to NYC. #Avalanche was designed to digitize all of the world's assets. Tech plays hq in the bay area and don't go far. Short lived chains hq in a tax haven. You can tell a lot about a project by its home base.

I'm super glad that we brought a ton of new tech into the blockchain space. We introduced a new consensus protocol and broke the monotony of projects based on simple signature accrual. We built the world's fastest, cheapest, most secure bridge. And there's so much more to come.

But most of all, I'm grateful for the community we have built. Not to sound too sappy, but there's a reason why we're high in tps and low in dramas per second. Let's keep it going that way.

I'll be less active for a few days as I take a few days off and try to organize my life and maybe respond to my DMs that have piled up. Wishing everyone a fantastic summer.