🎵 Introducing Stori — The Infinite Music Machine
We're releasing Stori as open source (MIT) because a creative renaissance is coming.
Why build a new DAW?
We see a future where AI amplifies human creativity. Where artists own their IP, store it censorship-free, and sell directly in decentralized marketplaces. Where music production has CI/CD pipelines — intention expressed in natural language, parsed by orchestrator agents, executed by specialists spinning up headless DAW instances, then delivered back for human approval.
Stori is the first DAW designed for this future:
- 🤖 Agent-ready — Built for MCP. AI orchestrators will spin up headless instances, generate MIDI, mutate projects, export stems
- 🔗 Web3 native — STEM tokenization on Avalanche L1 (coming soon)
- 🍎 Pure Swift — Built specifically for macOS, leveraging every Apple API
Shipping today (v0.1.4 Beta):
•128 instruments via Apple's Sound Library
•Piano roll + score view with real notation
•Step sequencer with 300+ patterns
•Full mixer with sends, buses & AU plugins
•Recording, automation, and export
For the vibe-coders:
You don't need to be an engineer. Clone the repo. Open it in Cursor. Ask: "How does the audio engine work?" or "Make this button purple." Tinker. Create.
Send us your experiments.
We're building the infinite music machine. Come build with us.
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Ok listen up, there's something cool and novel and interesting happening in crypto that you should know about. Namely:
1. There's a new vertical developing, called SocialFi,
2. The best examples of this vertical are on Avalanche
3. There is a new application that you just have to see that I will link below.
A quick reminder that, as of today, the APY for ETH staking is 3.26%.
Below is the vAPY of the Bean:ETH Well (liquidity pool) at https://t.co/zcS6NnXJ5l
Might be worth a closer look 👀
BIP-37 has passed with about 52% of Stalk voting For! Farmers can now add liquidity and deposit BEANETH LP tokens in the Silo in a single transaction using the Beanstalk UI.
The Mayflower has docked. ⛵
1/ Introducing Basin
Basin is the next step in the evolution of EVM-native DEXs, allowing for arbitrary composability amongst DEX components (pricing functions, oracles, etc.) into a single liquidity pool known as a Well.
Midnight thoughts on stablecoins:
I’m obsessed with (debt-backed) stablecoin design because I believe they have the potential to be a non-custodial, globally accessible replacement for commercial banks around the world.
I’m one of at least hundreds of millions of people in many developing countries who cannot trust their local banks or authorities to simply custody their savings safely. Politicians let the government take massive public debt then when inflation gets out of control, they impose withdrawal and international transfer restrictions on us in order to prevent us from dumping their hyper-inflated fiat coin. We’re forced bagholders basically.
USD inflation hedges are not even relevant here. A large % of the world would pay a large premium to simply hold the inflating US dollar right now but are literally forbidden from it. I think this is something that a lot of people here don’t realize.
We’re already seeing amazing adoption of USDT around African countries thanks to Binance P2P expansion in jurisdictions that do not have access to on/off ramps through banking. USDT is already being used in international commerce, imports/exports, remittances, personal savings, etc.
Unfortunately, Tether is not a decentralized stablecoin and includes lots of counterparty risk (so does Circle). It is backed by and dependent on trad banking and therefore is not resilient against regulatory risk.
If the world is already shifting towards a stablecoin economy, we need to provide it with better stablecoins that can last for hundreds of years and withstand the worst attempts of manipulation or capture. Imo decentralized autonomous debt-backed stablecoins are our best shot at this.
But our decentralized stables suck. They can’t scale because they’re limited by demand for leverage. They can’t manage risk effectively because our risk tools are primitive and our risk models are arbitrary. They can’t prevent bank runs because they’re unable to socialize losses. Many such problems.
I do think we’re eventually going to get there though. None of these problems seem impossible to overcome. Some will require finding the optimal tradeoff tho. We just need more attention and minds to be thrown at these problems.
Unfortunately, stablecoin design is a very under-researched or documented field. There’s very little accurate, high-depth learning material around. Nowhere to start as a beginner. Most users of Dai (including integrators) have no idea how Dai works and how it keeps its peg. Lots of false info and misconceptions (e.g. misunderstanding of relationship between stablecoin health and its collateralization ratio). This is something I’ve been thinking about a lot and would appreciate some ideas on. How do we make stablecoin design clearer and more accessible?
Stephen Wolfram of Wolfram Alpha wrote the absolute best post on ChatGPT and Large Language Models.
It took me about two hours to read, but significantly increased my understanding of what's going on under the hood of ChatGPT.
A few of my favorite takeaways (helps my process)
The launch of AvaCloud addresses many challenges businesses face with blockchain technology. AvaCloud is a Web3 Launchpad and a landmark step for massive blockchain adoption.
Beanstalk's Future in DeFi: A Dev Update
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When the Beanstalk DAO suffered a gov hack last year, I thought the project was dead in the water. But after reading the latest updates and joining the last community call, I'm excited to see the progress they're making. 🧵👇