The “pre-internet phase” of the blockchain world has changed thanks to who?
@LayerZero_Core has done for blockchains what the internet did for networks of computers that existed before it, it connects them.
After 2.5 years at @LayerZero_Core, I’m stepping away to build.
Grateful doesn’t begin to cover it. What a ride.
I joined as employee #50. When I left:
→ Grew to 150+ person team
→ Shipped V2 of the protocol (modular security, horizontal composability, etc)
→ Token launch at $3B valuation (a16z & Sequoia co-lead; first time ever)
→ Onboarded 700+ incredible partners (stablecoins, RWAs, chains etc)
→ Built Zero blockchain (100x improvements to network, storage & compute)
I fully believe LayerZero will be one of the most consequential blockchain companies in the world. @PrimordialAA, @ryanzarick, @caleb_banister, @Bakxys, & @MaybeMaxPower - thank you for setting the standard. To the team (and now friends) - wouldn't trade it for the world. To our partners and community - the relationships we have built are for a lifetime.
Now, a story most people haven't heard.
48hrs before LayerZero's TGE, the office was buzzing. It's 2am and the last thing I wanted to do was commute home just to come back 6hrs later. So naturally, I asked the new product guy (we’d known each other for a month), @0xmitvh, if I could crash on his couch 😂
2:30am, we're talking.
"The office energy is electric"
"The team is dialled"
Talking about how one day we wanted to build something the same way.
We agreed that night, whenever the time came we had an idea we were convicted on, we would drop everything and go all in.
Two years later, that moment arrived. And you best believe it was none else than for prediction markets.
But the experience right now isn't great.
Open any prediction market app today. You are hit with categories, subcategories, charts, order books. 40 cents, 60 cents. Pages of the "what" but never the "why." Give this to the regular joe and he's lost.
What if markets came to you based on your interests, before you even knew you cared? What if instead of charts and order books it was content; entertaining, informative and backed by real money?
That is what we are building.
Meet @pulsepredicts.
The Prediction Media Application.
Where Markets Are Media.
The world is going to consume information differently in the future. We intend to be the reason why.
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100m worth of STG has been swapped to ZRO as @upbitglobal and @BithumbOfficial converted their Stargate (STG) markets to ZRO markets.
Official exchange comms below.
Nah, ngl $ZRO holders had to wait for their moment
in the first year, the team acted like they didn’t have a token which I called out on a number of occasions
but something changed 4-5 months ago
ZRO is up 85% YTD and it’s only the start of a slow climb
👀. The most interesting thing here is we have absolutely no idea who this is!
We’ve told every fund and institution we’ve spoken to our preference is they just buy ZRO directly on the open market vs purchasing from labs or foundation.
No special deals, no discounts.
ZRO
reputation without infrastructure is just vibes
prints makes it something you can build on
the problem is the same across builders, users, and agents reputation exists but it doesn't travel
it doesn't accumulate and it doesn't change how decisions get made
builders can't tell their best users apart from the rest, so they optimize for volume and build for noise
prints makes reputation measurable builders can finally see who has a consistent track record, weight their feedback, and build with signal instead of guessing
users build credibility on one platform and start from zero on the next
contributions exist but don't compound
prints makes reputation portable your track record follows you across the ecosystem, composable and verifiable
the more you contribute meaningfully, the more access and influence you unlock
agents have no social capital at all
no intuition tells you which one to trust, no memory of past performance exists
prints gives agents a verifiable history that accumulates onchain reliable agents surface work flows toward them naturally, and systems can automate trust at scale
same problem, three different surfaces
when reputation is measurable, portable, and composable it stops being a signal and starts being infrastructure
that's what prints by @fluentxyz is building
video credit: @editormarv
2 million. That’s the amount of TPS @LayerZero_Core’s upcoming chain is promising.
• That’s 30× more transactions per second than Solana
• And 80,000× more than Ethereum
To put that into perspective: when the next hyped NFT mint or token launch happens, up to 2,000,000 transactions could be confirmed without gas fees exploding or transactions failing.
Zero might just be the route to true mass adoption.