Real talk now, 1 year since staking launch.
~1B STRK staked, 1.5k BTC, 30M STRK rewarded.
Almost 2 years ago, I was tasked with building the staking protocol, who would have imagined these kinds of numbers π€―
I am truly honored to be standing behind this piece of tech and be joined by the amazing team at @StarkWareLtd
special shoutout to @NatanGranit the master PM of staking and the X-less dev team β€οΈ
Claude amazed me today!
A teammate was OOO, I wanted to continue he's work.
I asked claude what was he working on.
Not only it checked the git work, it also checked GCP logs and slack messages and gave me the exact commands he was running and the messages he wrote π€―
Why web3 UI sucks? No standardization.
wallet connect miss wallets like Rabby because they use non-standard URI schemes. We ended up building a custom registry fetcher + custom deep-link builder just so our EVM users don't get stranded trying to connect on mobile.
Privacy isn't just about hiding balances; it's what makes fair trading possible.
In a totally public orderbook, everyone sees your hand before you play it, which just invites bots to front-run you. Real privacy is how we finally build on-chain markets that protect users instead of exploiting them.
Options are maturing from basic instruments into real volatility engines.
The bottleneck was always UX and execution speed, which is exactly why we're building on Starknet. The infra is finally catching up to the math. #DeFi#Starknet
The Renaissance of Onchain Options
Mapping the expansion of options as a trading instrument and the volatility that prices them
Co-authored with @BlockScholes
Read the free report here: https://t.co/gcfrb2LF2A
Unbounded `Promise.all` is the fastest way to get your indexer rate-limited by your RPC provider.
Our options exerciser keeper was timing out in prod trying to scan 200+ contracts. Swapped it for bounded concurrency, jittered backoff, and a cheap pre-flight probe to skip expired contracts. Instant fix.
TVL gets the hype, but keeping infra alive is the actual job.
Spent the week fighting RPC limits and building custom exploit watchdogs.
Building on-chain options is hardcore mode.
Strange times to be a dev.
Been hitting claude limits hard this week all while ping ponging a PR of small logic change to smart contracts.
The gap between letting AI YOLO on most of the code and being very delicate with the risky bits blows my mind.
Privacy comparison: Zcash vs. Starknet
As you know, I've co-founded two ZK projects, @Zcash (in 2014) and @StarkWareLtd (in 2018) and I love both.
When it comes to privacy, each offers something different and interesting.
Zcash is the original privacy solution, and has privacy as its core mission. Its main advantage is that when it comes to privacy for transferring money, in the form of ZEC, you get the highest grade of shielding. Only the payer and payee know anything about that single transaction. The rest of the world learns nothing. Zero knowledge.
@Starknet's main advantage when it comes to privacy (with strkBTC and strk20) is UX and composability. You can do more actions β trading, borrowing, lending, swapping, staking β all under the same cloak, and you do it with good UX.
Zcash β Resistance Money grade Privacy.
Starknet β Usable everyday financial Privacy.