scichael_mott

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[DefiLlama.com @DefiLlama]

When you deposit into a vault, you're exposed to more than the vault itself: oracles, bridges, collateral, the sequencer, holders of vault roles.

Introducing risk scenario planning on DefiLlama.

* Maps every dependency that touches your deposit
* Models your max loss from each failure point
* Live now across 20 Morpho vaults

[scichael_mott @scichael_mott]

🤔

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

This is very interesting. Coinbase seems to have lowered their token spend ($$) to about half, by

1) routing to cheap inference like GLM 5.2 and Kimi 2.7 that are still pretty performant

2) Smart routing + caching

They still use the same tokens as before. Start of a trend?

[Ken Wattana @KenWattana]

Guy who has 5 vibe coded apps on Railway with no revenue would like to speak to the CEO

[scichael_mott @scichael_mott]

garbage in, garbage out

[Railway @Railway]

Google Cloud has blocked our account, making some Railway services unavailable. We have escalated this directly with Google. The Railway Platform team has since confirmed access to Google Cloud and is working on restoring access to all workloads.

We have access to some of our Google Cloud–hosted infrastructure and are working to restore the rest of the service. We apologize for the disruption.

[bubble boi @bubbleboi]

I couldn’t make it NYC.
Didn’t quite cut in SF.

Now?

I’m building something special in Islamabad, Pakistan. We’re a team of ex-Stripe, ex-McKinsey, ex-Wharton business analysts looking to revolutionize the payments ecosystem.

Reach out if interested. We’re quickly getting oversubscribed.

[scichael_mott @scichael_mott]

@CantelopePeel @HypoNyms 💦

[CANTELOPEPEEL @CantelopePeel]

@HypoNyms Thru

[CANTELOPEPEEL @CantelopePeel]

Me after the claude code agent teams hit.

[scichael_mott @scichael_mott]

some people need to stop vibecoding

[scichael_mott @scichael_mott]

we're all just admins now

[scichael_mott @scichael_mott]

> spin up multiple parallel worktree agents with the same task
> in new chat, spin up more agents to compare and contrast previous agents work without telling them which agents generated what code
> GPT 5.1 Codex High implementations win the AI review 100% of the time

[scichael_mott @scichael_mott]

@Starlite0x @thru_xyz

[scichael_mott @scichael_mott]

i will kiss you 👉👈

[CANTELOPEPEEL @CantelopePeel]

what if we kissed under the @thru_xyz explorer?

[scichael_mott @scichael_mott]

@xcessweb3 AI is the chef I just buy groceries

[scichael_mott @scichael_mott]

@bigray0x @thru_xyz low latency

[Chang @chang_defi]

anyone wanna move to san francisco we can cover ur rent and more...

[Cheng Lou @_chenglou]

Midjourney runs fully on Bun
Server side routing: Bun
Runtime: Bun
Client side bundling: Bun
Scripts: Bun
Real-time generation previews: Bun

No framework beside vanilla React and no data management library. This enabled us to scale the site to millions with only ~5 full-timers. Plus some other semi-public tricks I usually only divulge at random parties

Maybe I should re-un-retire from conference talks and explain the stack one day...

[scichael_mott @scichael_mott]

wthru

[mert @mert]

it's clear at this point that there are 3 classes of crypto

i) commercial crypto

ii) casino crypto

iii) cypherpunk crypto

commercial crypto is RWAs, stablecoins, institutions

things that use crypto for its function in increasing the efficiency of finance

faster payments, faster settlement, better composability, and a universal API for money

this is mostly a positive development, but it does necessarily ignore most of the core ideals of why crypto was started

there are a lot of relatively invisible chokepoints of control here that most people have not woken up to

i.e., that 95% of stablecoins can be frozen or single sequencer censorship

casino crypto is mostly things that are borderline regulatory arbitrage and are heavily premised on speculation

too wild for institutions, but still not necessarily native to crypto ideals

most of the aim here seems to be making money

I don't have anything against this as I believe people should do whatever they do without harming others, but it's not something I'm personally interested in

the final, least prevalent and almost extinct class of crypto is the cypherpunk class

this is ironic as the cypherpunk class is responsible for starting the entire industry as well as underlying its most important set of functionality

satoshi was a cypherpunk

cypherpunks use cryptography and code to build systems of freedom

freedom from state overreach, freedom of speech, and the right to transact

this group gets confused for what is actually criminal behaviour like breaking the law or buying janky ass drugs on the darknet which does nothing but cheapen the ideals of liberty for some false virtual mental dopamine hit of being an edgelord

cypherpunks are libertarians and believe in free markets and understand that autonomous systems that can't be messed with are the only way to achieve this

the commercial and casino classes of crypto have had all the recent spotlight

but crypto without the cypherpunks is not crypto

I believe most of this has been a messaging, education, and storytelling problem

we are going to fix this and we are going to make crypto cypherpunk again

you are already seeing the ideals live within systems like zcash, but soon it will enflame everywhere

cypher/acc

[scichael_mott @scichael_mott]

🫢🤭

[Chang @chang_defi]

devs that don't talk back