Frames: The Latest Crypto Darling?

Let's dive into Farcaster's new web3 primitive - on how it works, its technicalities, and use cases: Some key terms:

- Farcaster: Decentralized social protocol
- Warpcast: Main reference client
- Frames: New Feature on Faracaster, built as an extension of Facebook's OpenGraph Protocol

Mega-thread on projects in the Solana ecosystem 🚀

Solana is gaining momentum with developments like the Firedancer upgrade, growing institutional adoption, state compression tech, isolated fee markets, protocols launching tokens, and many more.

Let's dive in, manlets. // - Liquid Staking -

@MarinadeFinance (MNDE)

• Marinade Native allows users to seamlessly delegate stake authority while maintaining withdrawal rights.
• MNDE = gov token; fair launch

A 🧵 on Mantle Network, an emerging modular L2 ecosystem. (@0xMantle)

Mantle Network is still in its Testnet phase, however, Mainnet is expected to be in Q3.

Let's take a look at its updates, governance proposals, infrastructure, etc. 1/ Infrastructure:

Mantle Network distinguishes itself with a unique three-layer modular blockchain structure.

Ethereum handles the settlement and consensus layer in this structure, EigenDA ensures data availability, and Mantle Network serves as the execution layer.

There's an ongoing proposal to turn on fee switch for Uniswap.

This proposal highlights a few key pointers for how the fee switch could be carried out:

- Gradual Rollout
- Revenue Accumulation in Stables/ and or ETH
- Voluntary Staking Modules
- Risks Involved

A summary: 1/ What does the proposal entail?

The proposal suggests implementing a protocol fee equal to 1/5 of the pool fee across all Uniswap v3 pools and enabling the fee switch for Uniswap v2.

OpenAI just dropped ChatGPT4. 🤯

And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

In the past few hours my feed exploded with insane AI use cases / integrations 🧵: 1/ AI x foreign languages with your own voice + accent + emotion

https://twitter.com/AlphaSignalAI/status/1633551252188438544

🧵 An overview of @tapioca_dao + findings:

Tapioca is building an omnichain money market utilizing LayerZero message passing.

Tapioca is introducing usd0, an omnichain stablecoin using LayerZero’s OFT standard.

research.nansen.ai/article/679/ta… 1/ Short Recap of Layer Zero:

LayerZero is a modular and highly customizable cross-chain messaging protocol that works via a Relayer and an Oracle, rather than a blockchain with an intermediate consensus layer like Polkadot’s Relay Chain.

BLUR Token Distribution:

3B total supply
360m for airdrop
15m for market making (wintermute)
The rest is locked up / safe multisig > 10.7k addys claimed so far
> Top Recipient is "Legendary NFT Collector" who claimed 3.2m BLUR

ZK-EVMs could be the endgame for blockchain infrastructure.

Although none of the ZK-EVMs is live on mainnet, we are already starting to see interesting applications and infrastructure in the ZK-space.

Spent the holidays reading up on ZK-EVMs, here's a 🧵 on some findings: 1/ Back to basics..

What are ZK-Rollups?

ZK-Rollups is a L2 Ethereum scaling solution, using validity proofs to identify whether or not transactions are valid.

It works by performing computation and storage off-chain, which is later batched and posted into the main chain.

MEGA thread-on-threads of potential airdrop opportunities: 1/ Blur NFT Marketplace:

- Check if you received any (if you made any NFT trades in the last 6 months you would've qualified): blur.io/airdrop

https://twitter.com/OlimpioCrypto/status/1582794068517851136

A Brief Dive into the Cosmos Ecosystem — "The Internet of Blockchains" 🧵

1/x Overview of notable terms:

-Tendermint BFT Consensus-

Building a blockchain from scratch requires 3 layers: Networking, Consensus, and Application Layer.

Tendermint BFT packages the networking and consensus layers, reducing time taken to deploy sovereign blockchains.

2/x

Spent some time reading up on @CelestiaOrg as a pluggable consensus and data availability layer.

🧵 Here are some of my findings and breakdowns on the Celestia design:

1/x Current L1 scalability designs (e.g: sharding) focuses on scaling block production > block verification.

Former is useless without the latter.

2/x