Ori | cofounder of @orca_so

Formerly design / software @Stanford @IDEO @Coursera 🖌️📚🌴

[Orca 🌊 @orca_so]

Bots ruin launches. Wavebreak ruins bots.

Introducing the first fair-launch architecture built for humans.

Creators, traders, believers: here’s the new launch standard for Solana 🧵

[Ori | cofounder of @orca_so @oritheorca]

@KayZizzle @rawfalafel ship itttt

[Ori | cofounder of @orca_so @oritheorca]

@KayZizzle @orca_so 🥲🥲♥️

Will have more to say when I see you in person, but after what we've been through, you're closer to a sister than a friend to me.

Thank you for everything. I'm so excited for your next adventure!

[Ori | cofounder of @orca_so @oritheorca]

@aarongillett @arcinternet Yes! And they're very naturally integrated into the experience :)

[Ori | cofounder of @orca_so @oritheorca]

Switching from Chrome to Arc (@arcinternet) has been the biggest incremental improvement to my Internetting experience in awhile.

Things I like:
- videos/video calls automatically switch to mini-players when you switch tabs
- side nav = more vertical real estate + organization, so you can have endless tabs without feeling like you have endless tabs
- ChatGPT built into the URL bar
- single swipe between work and personal (and other) profiles
- it’s cute

...plus lots of other small UX niceties!

Switching to a side nav was definitely an adjustment, but now that I’ve gone to the dark side, I don't think I can go back.

Sometimes it's the little things...

https://t.co/QxUuZhHVPB

[Ori | cofounder of @orca_so @oritheorca]

@jnwng @arcinternet when I originally shared this with Orca folks, it may have included the line "long live side navs"

[Ori | cofounder of @orca_so @oritheorca]

Recently, I've been spending more of my time mentoring other designers to help them learn the unique nuances of designing for DeFi.

I never thought of myself as a natural mentor, but it's been a much easier and more rewarding shift than I imagined.

Having a single clear vision for the design of the product is still important, but shaping that vision into a real, usable, and beloved product is a team effort—and way more fun that way, too.

Orca is hiring 👀👇
https://t.co/Tv8vfcuAS0

[Ori | cofounder of @orca_so @oritheorca]

wanna be a killer (🐳) design00r?

let's do it together ☺️

https://t.co/4q9Qj0ETWo

[Yutaro Mori @rawfalafel]

Arguments floating around Twitter surrounding markouts mischaracterize how CLAMM's actually work

CLOB maxis misunderstand who the actual users of CLAMM's are. Arguments using markout implicitly assume that liquidity providers are essentially passive and are blindly hoping to make money by throwing it into the pool. We've seen from the data that this assumption was never true. Liquidity providers can be profitable, even on competitive pools like SOL/USDC, and even accounting for divergence loss

CLOB maxis have also accused Orca of hiding divergence loss. We've always made the risks of divergence loss clear in our UI. Furthermore, in the Liquidity Terminal, Orca makes the relationship between yield and divergence loss explicit. From both our own calculations, and speaking directly with liquidity providers, we've found that active liquidity providers who understand the markets are making profits on Orca, often consistently

The twitter algo rewards shit-stirrers. You can listen to them, and miss out on the fun. Or you can try the Liquidity Terminal, and compete to earn some of Orca's fees. Which, btw, is the majority of fees generated across Solana DEX's

[Ori | cofounder of @orca_so @oritheorca]

@kelxyz_ @SolanaConf @Tristan0x @tomjohn1028 @Cyrus_Fazel @keyrock One of the most engaging panels I've been on yet! Thank you :)

[Ori | cofounder of @orca_so @oritheorca]

@GreekTragedyETH It's still accessible at https://t.co/iRAIpGtPtJ!
It was a hard lesson learned, but I agree that v2 is for a different audience, and many existing DeFi users prefer the existing familiar interface.
But I'd love to ask: In what case would you use the v1 UI vs. an aggregator?

[Ori | cofounder of @orca_so @oritheorca]

After 8+ months of design & dev, the Liquidity Terminal is here!

Candles for TA.
Robust backtesting.
"Time to profit" estimation.

...All in one tab.

Apply for exclusive access: https://t.co/Qqbl8KzILp

[Ori | cofounder of @orca_so @oritheorca]

@nicolejialiu Not small! The punchy names (Liquidity Terminal, Yieldfinder) wouldn't have happened without you. Grateful for your contributions :)

[Ori | cofounder of @orca_so @oritheorca]

@andtwocrows @orca_so @solana @SolanaConf @rawfalafel Thanks for the hard work 👊

[Mike MacCana @mikemaccana]

Will from @orca_so dropping knowledge about on chain program security on the Developer Stage at #Breakpoint2023

[Ori | cofounder of @orca_so @oritheorca]

Building is about more than product—just as important is building trust among the many diverse contributors to a protocol.

Proud of Orca's growth/ops/marketing champ @KayZizzle for sharing her POV on the @SolanaConf dev stage.

Thank you for bringing empathy to this space!

[Ori | cofounder of @orca_so @oritheorca]

See you today—
5:10pm
main stage
@SolanaConf 👀 🐳

[Ori | cofounder of @orca_so @oritheorca]

I've been largely off Twitter lately. Put simply, I've been building.

Building what, exactly?

[Ori | cofounder of @orca_so @oritheorca]

It's not perfect—in fact, it's a raw, hot-off-the-press MVP—but it's the result of months of research, design, and code, and I'm excited to finally share it with you.