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Jan 27 5 tweets 2 min read
New 🔥 Substack article just dropped!

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Apr 28, 2022 12 tweets 6 min read
Why @PrimitiveFi is the "Uniswap moment" for derivatives:

A thread 🧵👇

dune.com/rchen8/Primiti… Before Uniswap, DEXs like EtherDelta and IDEX just copied tradfi order book exchanges on-chain. Fragmented liquidity and gas costs of cancelling bids made this impractical.

When Uniswap launched with the 0 to 1 innovation AMMs in Nov 2018, they quickly dominated market share.
Oct 14, 2021 11 tweets 6 min read
With the launch of the Hop ETH bridge today, I want to share the history of the project and how @WhinfreyChris, @shanefontaine, and @miguelmotah are missionary founders who stay focused and persistent in building a great product.

A thread 👇 First and foremost, Hop was a pivot from @authereum.

I came across Authereum when doing research on the crypto wallet landscape and became bullish on smart contract wallets. @WarcMeinstein offered to intro me to the team.
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Mar 21, 2019 8 tweets 3 min read
One big lesson @AugurProject and @veil taught us is how difficult it is to write precise markets. Below is a list of all controversial, ambiguous, and misleading markets so far: 👇 1) Will the weather be good for the Bastille day military parade in Paris tomorrow.?

The market description never defined what "good weather" exactly meant and thus the market ended up resolving as invalid.