What if you could ask YC anything?

Now you can, on AskYC.com

We've embedded every post from @ycombinator’s content library using LLMs, so you can ask YC-GPT all your burning startup questions. As 1st time founders, we use YC's startup library all the time.

Whether for fundraising or ops, the blog is a treasure trove of advice.

With AskYC, you can ask questions like "how to pitch a startup" and instantly get actionable advice with links to relevant resources.

Excited to share that we're launching dune.ora.so today!

A new search experience for @DuneAnalytics powered by LLMs.

Now you can find dashboards by describing what you're looking for - like "how's dex activity on eth?" - rather than relying on keyword matches. Dune wizards 🧙 have created many amazing dashboards but they're not always easy to find today.

Queries like "magiceden opensea" don't return any results on Dune because the search requires 1:1 keyword matching and "magiceden" is interpreted differently from "magic eden".

What does ChatGPT mean for the future of web3?

Large Language Models could drastically change how users interact with crypto applications.

From conversational protocols to smart social search, the whitespace for exploration is infinite. A few thoughts on ideas and risks 👇 1️⃣ Using AI to analyze blockchains

In the future, everyone will be able to ask any on-chain related data questions and get an answer.

Just ask in plain text and the AI model converts the question into SQL, runs that code on indexed data and surfaces the result back to you.

Hello World!

We’re excited to announce Ora: the search engine for blockchain data ▩ ▩ ▩

Our vision is to make querying blockchains as easy as a Google search 🔍

Traversing crypto transactions should feel like surfing the web(3) 🏄 What’s the problem we’re solving ❓

Right now, it's impossible for most users to understand what's happening on-chain

Simple questions like "how much did I pay @MagicEden in fees last week?" require complex solutions (e.g. indexing an archive node or running SQL queries) 😰

Amidst the drama around Celsius, 3AC, Solend and a massive market drawdown, one of the strangest Solana MEV instances went fairly unnoticed

One token swap led to a cascade of arbs & liquidations that netted MEV bots more than $2 Million...

All within a span of 40 seconds 🧵 There are 4 protagonists in this story:
1️⃣ 7p..UU: the scnSOL whale (lost $700k)
2️⃣ G6..AV: the SOL-scnSOL arb bot (profited $25k, but lost out on $530k)
3️⃣ 44..Qu: the USDC-scnSOL arb bot (profited $400k, but lost out on $100k)
4️⃣ Fx..mY: the scnSOL liquidator (profited $2M)

Let’s talk about NFTs on Solana

What are SPL tokens? What is the metadata program? What is the big picture?

Here’s a little history, some speculation on a future standard, and a Solana NFT cheat-sheet by @sooshisan 👇🏼

Strap in PFP lovers, we’re going threadiiiing 🧵 The NFTs we know and love are really made up of accounts owned by

1. the SPL token program
2. the SPL associted token account program
3. the @metaplex token metadata program

Each account contributes data about the NFT.

MEV, QUIC, QoS, Fee Markets...

What is going on with Solana, why is congestion an issue and how are the current TPS problems being addressed?

Strap in and get ready for a looong thread 🧵 As a quick recap, Solana has been fighting congestion issues for the past few months, experiencing two network halts (one in September 2021 and one in May 2022) as well as undergoing numerous periods, in which transactions regularly fail.