Announcing Ethlabs: a non-profit R&D lab for Ethereum and ETH
Our mission is to make Ethereum the settlement layer of the global economy.
The internet became global because shared protocols created a common language between networks. Private systems remained useful, but bounded. Finance is approaching a similar moment. As value, assets, and markets become digital, the world needs shared settlement infrastructure.
Ethereum is uniquely positioned to become that shared base layer, the neutral foundation on which users, institutions, and agents can transact without intermediation.
What we believe:
• We believe credible neutrality matters. Ten years of uptime and the lowest counterparty risk. Ground that cannot be pulled away by any one country, institution, company, or person.
• We believe ETH matters. The most valuable, programmable store of value. A decade of broad distribution, deep liquidity in onchain markets, and maximally trustless asset on Ethereum.
• We believe DeFi matters. Markets, liquidity, credit, exchange, and coordination, open to anyone.
• We believe adoption matters. Principles do not change the world until people benefit from them.
We sit between two worlds: real usage from the builders at the frontier, and the protocol that has to support it. We work with users, applications, wallets, L2s, infrastructure teams, institutions, ETH holders, core devs and researchers, then turn what they actually need into protocol work, shared standards, infrastructure, and shipped products.
Ethlabs is independent but Ethereum is a shared project. We are one node in a much larger network of stewards. This is the multi-node future.
We have spent the better part of the past decade contributing to Ethereum core research and development.
We are opinionated and transparent. We move with urgency, learn in public, and course-correct when we’re wrong.
We are building a lean, talent-dense team for people who want to do the most important work of their careers: [email protected]
Offshore Protocol v2 goes live tomorrow at 5 pm UTC.
The new token powering the economy goes live on @kumbaya_xyz at the same time, and the CA will be tweeted.
The token will launch with a high, fast-degrading buy tax to combat snipers.
A 50% sell tax will be live for 24h after launch to ensure economic stability.
Old tokens will be exchangeable for the new ones in-game.
Offshore Protocol V2 goes live on Monday, kickstarted with >100k USDm.
V2 will be Moss wallet exclusive.
If you laundered in V1, make sure to migrate your existing Offshore Network corps to your new wallet here: https://t.co/fh3Zg4HOex
More details drop tomorrow.
Offshore Protocol V2 goes live this week:
- The economy will be kickstarted with >100k USDm.
- Old game loop, new valuable mechanics.
To level the playing field for new players, enterprise progress will be reset.
If you laundered in V1, you’ll be able to migrate your account to a MOSS wallet and claim an influence airdrop based on your progress.