3/ At the beginning of this year, we held a private pre-seed to build @Yieldy_io , an intent-based liquidity router featuring 1-click, cross-chain execution matching stablecoins with top-tier yield.
Yieldy's MVP will feature one-click Ethereum USDC deposit into @solana DeFi vaults.
Powered by @circle 's CCTP v2 and @Sig_Network 's intents.
Stop thinking about chains as complete ecosystems and start thinking of them as layers.
Ethereum has the best capital markets so use it.
Polkadot has the best identity solutions, so use it.
Midnight has the best privacy, so use it.
Canton has the matching engine so use it.
First week back looking at @CantonNetwork and DAML with the team after a brief 8-year hiatus. A few things stick out:
Canton is super weird. It feels like a completely different evolutionary path from everything post-Bitcoin, but it's highly purpose-built. This makes some things bafflingly complex (AMMs!) but others incredibly simple (intents, RWAs).
If it's your first time, prepare for contracts that are themselves UTXOs(!), written in Haskell, and worrying a lot about who actually owns a contract.
So many successful Defi products right now are off-chain matching engines with on-chain settlement (@CoWSwap, @Polymarket, @near_intents). Canton makes this architecture native "on-chain" with exactly the right level of privacy and global atomicity. This makes sense, at its heart it’s a settlement language and that's the thing it excels at. If they can get the cross-chain story working (hint @Sig_Network), this is absolutely where I'd build that kind of infra in the future.
The divide between what's running on your local infra and what's running globally is also beautifully blurry. The contracts are the same, it's just a matter of who has the right to see what.
There is also a bit of a cult of KYC in their DeFi apps. The vibe is "licensed entities dabbling in permissionless DeFi," whereas on most other chains it's, "I might geoblock North Korea once men with guns show up at my house." I think the happy medium here is more progressive onboarding ala CEXs.
Finally, I realize I had absolutely no idea what I was working on when I was at @digitalasset. Thinking about it now is like remembering being lost in a city that’s now familiar.
Definitely the most unique chain I've dived into in a while.
Soon everybody will have access to Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Hyperliquid and Zcash just by connecting to Polkadot.
Is that clear? Can you understand the reach of this?
@Polkadot x @Sig_Network
Interoperability is becoming the base layer serious teams build on.
Sig Network choosing @Polkadot for their next chain is a clear signal of where multichain is heading. Proud to support them as they expand their work on Polkadot.
Big things ahead.
Watch the @Polkadotsub0 video from Sig Network X.
And then this one on @TheKusamarian.
The new projects joining the Polkadot eco are really sophisticated & real-problem solving. 🫡
S P A C E M O N K E Y S ˄͎ Podcast
Solving Cross-chain?
→ Sig Network on Polkadot!
feat. @DMillarDurrant
w/ @GldnCalf
Show Notes:
David Millar-Durant (@Sig_Network CEO) dropped a wild interop idea at Sub0: give every smart contract its own private key so dApps can natively touch Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Hyperliquid - whatever - without wrappers or sketchy bridges.
If you’re tired of blockchain silos, this is the interview to give you hope for that full-interop future.
Dive in ↯
0:00 What is Sig Network
2:26 Virtual Parachains
6:15 Native BTC
7:21 Trust Assumptions
9:58 Selling BTC on the Street
13:12 Deploying on Polkadot
15:59 Bringing Industry to Polkadot
19:58 Roadmap
The next chain we're launching on is... @Polkadot
Why? Because on Polkadot interoperability isn't an afterthought it's been there from the beginning.
Adding Ethereum, Solana, Bitcoin, Zcash and Hyperliquid as Parachains, so every app is multichain by default.
Full talk 👇
https://t.co/Qd8tJUoBki
@inversion_cap There's so many defi products out there eking out single digits BPs of fees in crowded markets, who'd be the only product in the category if they were operating between Bitcoin and Zcash.