La Casa Voltaire 🇦🇷

The origin story for @OpenZeppelin, @decentraland, @MuunWallet, @NomicFoundation, and more.

lanacion.com.ar/la-nacion-revi… This is a good chance to share some thoughts on why Argentina is such a fertile ground for crypto.

The common narrative goes about inflation and lack of trust in banks and institutions, but to me it goes deeper.

We are launching a new fully on-chain NFT project together with @deadpine_xyz: Intergalactic Neon Tokens 🚀

They are SVGs animations representing popular tokens that respond to real-time price fluctuations based on on-chain oracles 📈

Read on to see how they work! 🧵

https://twitter.com/intrgalacticNFT/status/1469847953930174467

We picked 12 popular tokens to illustrate, and @deadpine_xyz got to work! 👩‍🎨

She came up with beautiful 8-bit representations for Ether, Bitcoin, @dogecoin, @1inch, @Uniswap, @CurveFinance, @chainlink, @AaveAave, @MakerDAO DAI, @compoundfinance COMP, @SushiSwap, & @binance BNB.

Two years ago I published my book "Ethereum for Web Developers", a book on building apps on Ethereum targeted at web2 developers.

Yet a lot has changed in these past two years, so let's see how the book would look like if written today 🧵

https://twitter.com/smpalladino/status/1164896456521723904

1⃣ Chapter 1 is an introduction to crypto, blockchains, and Ethereum.

All fundamental concepts still apply, though back then there was a lot of attention around private blockchains which has subsided a lot.

And I missed to mention collectibles among the main use cases! 🎨

Yesterday I managed to rescue +$14K worth of tokens from a friend's compromised account using Flashbots 🤖⚡️

github.com/flashbots/pm

Read on for a long story full of adrenaline, black & white hats, bots, txs, and code snippets! ⤵️ Everything started with an email from the brother of a friend asking for help.

Amidst the excitement of an alpha leak, he had entered his seed phrase where he shouldn't had. He got almost all of his savings siphoned out of his account.

To everyone not following the crypto scene, a new use case that is an actual game changer has come up recently.

I'm talking about flash loans (thread) 🧵 Decentralized Finance (DeFi, for short) has become one of the most popular use cases.

Financial instruments from the traditional world, such as loans and derivatives, have been encoded as smart contracts and run on the Ethereum decentralized network.