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one of the most interesting things about the $USDH proposals is that we get to see issuers point out eachothers respective flaws

like this one where nick from agora calls out bridge banking with a small regional bank that could quickly hit scaling issues

this is a real cocnern given banks need to maintain certain equity to liability ratio

small banks have less equity so if their deposit (aka liability) base grows fast regulators step in and put the bank under heavy scrutiny/growth freeze

happened to the bank where my brother was working - they lost all their b2b customers and never recovered from itImage

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Jun 3
it's rare that I get excited about new DeFi projects

the big 0→1 moments in DeFi happen usually happen when a new yield source is unlocked

until now we had:

- staking yield
- lending yield
- basis trade yield

@infinifilabs is producing a new type of yield:

amplified yield Image
how can yield be amplified in a way thats not a ponzu?

turns out it can be done by borrowing an old concept from tradfi called fractional reserve banking

modern banking relies heavily on fractional reserve systems, where banks hold only a portion of customer deposits as reserves and lend out the rest to generate returns
the core function of a bank is to manage risk appropriately when allocating these deposits and always hold enough liquid assets to honour withdrawals

what if you could re-build banking on-chain and make it safer + produce a new type of (higher) yield as a result?

i'll explain how but quick primer on InfiniFi first
Read 13 tweets
May 29
why we moved away from being an aggregator and turned @BungeeExchange into an open marketplace

and why this is the winning approach 👇
being an aggregator of DEX's, bridges and chains in 2025 is an impossible task

every integration takes time, costs human capital and annoyingly also increases the contract surface attack of your protocol

because you and other aggregators will fail at having *everything* aggregated you end up being wrapped by a meta-aggregator
around a year ago we shifted our thinking and thought what if we turn bungee into an open marketplace?

like amazon which started as an aggregator of book suppliers and started its astronomical rise once it opened up its marketplace to all kinds of sellers and every good on the planet
Read 11 tweets
Jan 15
Story time: How we disrupted our multi-billion dollar bridge aggregation protocol to build something much bigger and better.

The year is 2023. I had just joined Socket and believed we were sitting on a massive defensible business, ready to TGE any moment.

Bungee was the the no. 1 bridge aggregator, doing billions in volumes, integrated in virtually every major crypto wallet from @coinbase to Rainbow and Metamask.

Smooth sailing.Image
Turns out I was wrong.

While we were clearly servicing a real need, we were missing an essential piece.

The foundation we were building on wasn’t scalable, nor did it ultimately provide users the UX we were striving for.

Let me explain 👇
The most common user need in crypto is a token swap. Swaps are simple.

Swap $USDC for $ETH.

In a multichain context that’s: swap $USDC on Chain A for $ETH on Chain B.
Read 21 tweets
Nov 21, 2024
Base's growth is absolutely unparalleled.

Has a chain ever risen to dominance within a year of launching?

Base is doing >1b in swap volume daily which puts it on top 3 ahead of most L1's like Sui etc. only surpassed by Ethereum and Solana.

Full overview 👇 Image
DeFi TVL is climbing up steadily to over $3.2b with Uniswap, Aerodrome and Aave leading this ranking. Image
Stablecoin supply is higher than DeFi TVL with over $3.58b in circulating supply - 92% of which is $USDC.

Only Ethereum, Arbitrum, Solana, Tron and BSC lead on that metric. Image
Read 11 tweets
Jan 23, 2023
Most crypto assets suck. From the thousands that are listed on @coingecko there’s max 50 that I would invest in.

Close to none generate reliable cashflows & the few that do are highly correlated to the crypto market's overall success.

We need to connect crypto to the real world
What the last few years of on-chain gambling have shown is that blockchains are incredibly powerful machines to track and exchange assets at global scale.

It’s hard to quantify these things but probably an order of magnitude more efficient than the patchwork of siloed databases
.. & excel sheets that make the international financial system turn today.

You can see these massive efficiency gains at play with stablecoins, the first tokenized real world asset gaining adoption on-chain.
Read 40 tweets
Sep 21, 2022
phishing sites are a massive problem in crypto

half a dozen users affected by fake hop sites everyday

we report them to google + eth-phishing-detect + warnings on discord

i'm absolutely gutted seeing these newcomers getting scammed like this

we need to do more as a space
if it does happen to your user:

1) report to google:safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/r…

2) report to eth-phishing-detect (this will make wallets display warnings when they visit the phishing site):
github.com/MetaMask/eth-p…
that only prevents other users from getting scammed though

the affected user has almost no chance to get their funds back but a good advice is to involve law enforcement and contact the domain registrar to ask for the domain owners ID

look up registrar: who.is
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