CORRECTION: Manta, Orderly, Lyra, Hypr and Aevo post their batches on Celestia instead of using EIP-4844 blobs. Credit to @emilianobonassi for the callout!
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I often get asked the question, "What's happening onchain?"
The answer usually lies in incentives. Every new wave of onchain activity is driven by a new incentives playbook. For example 👇
[2020] Liquidity mining
- Compound, a lending protocol, kicked off the liquidity mining trend in June 2020 with a wildly successful token incentive program. Compound's TVL spikes from $100M to $600M in one week
- Every DeFi protocol under the sun copied this playbook and DeFi summer entered full swing.
[2021] Joint Liquidity Mining
In early 2021, the Polygon Foundation launched joint liquidity mining programs with popular DeFi protocols.
First was Aave. Polygon gave $40M worth of MATIC to lenders and borrowers on Polygon Aave. Users bridged to use Polygon Aave to earn these incentives -> Polygon Aave's TVL grew rapidly.
Polygon repeated this playbook with other protocols like Curve and Sushiswap. Polygon’s TVL jumped from ~$100M to high billions within two months.
The playbook was replicated by a host of other chains like Avalanche (see Avalanche rush) and this drove the alt-L1 rotation in 2021.
Learning crypto data science changed my life and was 100% free.
If you're looking for a change (I was a transport planner), start coding 1 hour a night. More on weekends.
Pick a simple @DuneAnalytics project. Learn just enough to build it. Pick a bigger project. Repeat.
It took me 3 years to get to my current level of crypto data proficiency (preceded by 3 years of writing coding in other fields). Here are some free resources you can use to get there 10X faster 👇
1. SQL and Blockchain data
Go to Headmaster Andrew's twitter account (@andrewhong5297) 🧙♂️✨
Click the link in his bio.
You'll find intro guides for Ethereum, Solana, and Bitcoin Dune data analysis.
How to become a DeFi frontend engineer (starting from scratch):
Step 0: Learn basic JavaScript and HTML from a free resource of your choice (CodeAcademy, w3schools, freecodecamp .etc)
For JavaScript, if you understand variables, functions, if statements, and while loops then you're fine.
Step 1: Work through the reading and exercises in the 'Get Started' section of the React documentation (Quick start, Tic-tac-toe, Thinking in React .etc)
React is the most popular library for frontend engineering