Everyone screaming “privacy coin” and buying Zcash… meanwhile Aster literally has dark pools where you can trade invisible, swap wallets before withdrawal, and leave zero on-chain trail.
Aster will be the best privacy chain when the layer-one goes live
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For those who missed the $ZEC trade, I just realized $ASTER L1 is actually going to be a privacy focused chain coming later this year.
We’re talking 50ms block time, 10ms execution, 150k+ TPS, full decentralization and trader privacy. Basically what Zcash tried to do, but scaled to another level.
Personally, I think this could be one of the biggest unlocks for $ASTER this cycle.
Dear @chainlink Holders, Former Holders, and Professional Armchair Economists,
I would like to begin this letter with a sincere apology. Truly, I am sorry.
I am sorry that in 2017, when I first set out to solve the oracle problem, I did not instead launch a token of a cartoon frog holding a beer. I clearly misunderstood what this industry valued most.
I am sorry that instead of promising quick riches, I promised real infrastructure. My mistake.
I am sorry that while many projects focused on hype and vaporware, I foolishly spent years actually building. I realize now that secure, audited, battle-tested code is not nearly as exciting as a new meme or a rebrand every three months.
I apologize for launching Chainlink Price Feeds, which now secure hundreds of billions of dollars across DeFi. I should have known that making every major lending, trading, and stablecoin protocol depend on Chainlink was far less impressive than another celebrity endorsement or a flashy whitepaper with no code behind it.
I apologize for introducing CCIP, a universal messaging layer that connects banks, institutions, and blockchains around the world. Apparently, nobody wanted global interoperability. They just wanted another token that would double overnight and disappear next quarter.
I am sorry that we formed partnerships with Google, SWIFT, DTCC, the ANZ Bank, and dozens of major financial institutions. How reckless of us to integrate with the global financial system instead of chasing the next trend on social media.
I am sorry for the years of quiet work on our reputation systems, decentralized oracle networks, staking upgrades, and verifiable computation. I now see that the market would rather have a dog mascot than a secure data layer for the global economy.
And yes, I am deeply sorry that the $LINK token has refused to obey your price charts and “breakout soon” predictions. While the network grew stronger, more secure, and more essential to Web3 every single year, the token did something truly unacceptable. It stayed undervalued.
So yes, I confess. We built too much. We partnered too widely. We solved too many problems. We did it all without making enough noise about it. And for that, for putting actual progress before speculation, I offer my sincerest apology.
If you can forgive me, perhaps one day, when the noise fades and the short-term thinkers move on, you will see what we were building all along. You will see that the most boring token in the room became the foundation everyone else depends on.
Please feel free to share with anyone needing these words.
Yours regretfully,
Sergey Nazarov
Chief Offender of Building Real Things