Let me tell you a story: I was sitting there right? Just furiously beating off....
Nahhhh, I'm just messing with ya, but I was furiously walking around my neighborhood to calm my angry child and as Dads do, I was listening to a podcast about @SeiNetwork
For one, the @Blockworks_ network of podcasts are phenomenal! They always seem to ask great questions.
So I've done bits and pieces on Sei before but since mainnet is approaching fast, its time to really dive in heavy.
I had a few takeaways from the interview above.
So the person being interviewed was @jayendra_jog and he is way too intelligent for me but there were some things he said that really stuck out to me.
He had worked at Robinhood and after the Gamestop debacle, became a decentralized Maxi and started to build a DEX w/@jeffdfeng
This led to them looking into the infra needed to build a DEX.
Jay said (verbatim) that current infra is lacking and chose instead to build out the best infra possible for DEXes.
But why choose Cosmos instead of an ETH L2 or an AVAX subnet / Polkadot?
This is where it gets fairly interesting in my eyes.
Jay points out that ETH L2s (even now) just cannot scale to do what Sei is doing and says the same thing for proto danksharding. Said as a whole L2s just cannot scale.
In terms of AVAX/DOT, they don't have a necessary time to finality which makes their shared security approach too slow.
And why not a sovereign chain like SUI/APTOS? Jay says that they didn't want to build everything from scratch. Too many things can wrong w/bugs
Now why Cosmos? Because the Cosmos SDK was battle tested, and came pre-equipped with everything they needed to create their chain.
This allowed them to create the fastest L1 blockchain out there, in order to better service their goal of being a chain built for trading.
Sei's primary value prop is to be the place to go for any type of trading - Defi Dex, NFT marketplace, Gaming Dex, etc.
Sei's Order Matching primitive that is built into the chain, is key infrastructure to keep away congestion that still plagues other L1s.
They guarantee that Sei will perform better for trading applications than all other L1s.
And if you know how many transactions/trades, different market makers, funds, oracles, etc make, then you would know how beneficial Sei can become to these entities.
Also worth mentioning that Sei had a 30M raise including Jump. Which if you know anything about Jump, you would know why this makes a perfect fit for them and why they would put money towards it.
Here's a little wisdom or self reflection or whatever the fuck you wanna call it, from Papa Schizo.
I've decided I have the curse of always wanting to do something. Its not ADHD but maybe its a cause of the new digital age.
Either way its not great and here's why:
I do too much.
Plain and simple. And if I'm not doing and working, then I feel this itch in my body. Like an allergen creeping through my synapses to wreak havoc on my Central Nervous system.
In crypto/trading, it is to my complete and utter detriment.
It takes a lot of mental fortitude for me to combat this but here's what it looks like in my crypto career.
I have a hard time letting positions sit. Its a reason why I like veTokens because it forces me to hold for better or for worse.
Hell you might even say that I'm aghast at your behavior.
Because I'm not seeing near enough posts on @GhastProtocol and it is ghastly decisions on all your behalf.
So I'm gonna do it for you, you lazy fucks
What is Ghast? Besides a few letters away from being arguably one of the best pokemon lines ever? Gengar part GOAT.
Ghast is an enhanced yield and lending protocol built on top of GMX's GLP, GMD protocol, and potentially other large cap projects in Arbitrum.
Now while I'm not normally a fan of all these different pop up projects utilizing GLP cause there are sooooo many, I do think its cool that they are building on top of GMD as well.
By using GMD's DN vault strat, Ghast has created a liq-less money market for yield bearing tokens
This piece is going to focus on another real yield project, called @steadefi.
If you know anything about me, I've been a big advocate of anything real yield. The way of inflated emissions has passed, and it's time to get paid in hard money.
Get stuck in!
Before we begin, this is in cooperation with @steadefi.
Do note that I am not a financial advisor and my IQ is roughly 76. I cannot be responsible for your decisions as I'm barely responsible for mine.
Gucci? Ok now that that's out of the way...
So what is @steadefi you ask? God you guys are needy huh, just have to come to me for information on your next favorite dapps.
Well they are designed to bring the best real yields your way without the stress of micromanaging your positions.
Today we're navigating the veToken wars in search of safe passage across the battlefield!
Col. Schizo along with his partner @Spiral_DAO, are here to tell you of a new entrant to this war, $COIL and $SPR!
Dive into the trenches with me soldier!
Small disclaimer before we throw on our helmets and dive into this war: I am not an intelligent person. Do not trust these schizophrenic ramblings as financial advice and certainly do some form of DD before investing.
Ok, shall we go to war?
So what is @Spiral_DAO? And how do they nestle themselves into this veToken landscape?
Well their sole purpose is to acquire the most relevant/important governance tokens in the Defi landscape and bring them under one community controlled umbrella (read: DAO treasury).
If there's anything my 6 years in Crypto has taught me, it is that I am an idiot.
But also that the future is multichain! And @ArkenFinance understands that perfectly well.
However, they got that new new on the way and I've been enlisted to bring it your attention!
Small disclaimer: These nice ladies and gents have allowed me to write this on their behalf. Their contributions go towards diapers and formula so it's much appreciated!
Be aware my IQ is less than that of an earthworm and nothing I say constitutes as financial advice, k? K.
If the future is multichain, how does @ArkenFinance find themselves a home? Well dear reader, it is through the Abstraction layer. These chads and chaddelles are here to bring everyone together under one, easy to understand, umbrella.