Jesse
775 posts
- On Script Upgrades & OP_CAT You may have seen recent momentum for a Bitcoin improvement proposal to add OP_CAT (the opcode for concatenation). When I first started writing this, I wanted to simply answer: What is the big deal with adding concatenation to Bitcoin? As it turnsOn Script Upgrades & OP_CAT This piece from @jesmros discusses improvements to Bitcoin’s language, Script, with a focus on the OP_CAT proposal
- 1/ Analyzing Bitcoin onchain activity Looking at basic metrics on the network and comparing to previous bull markets, there's a shift in Bitcoin network activity (or rather inactivity):
- "Drop the 'OP'. Just Clave, it's cleaner." Congrats to the Clave team @DoganEth @rafierszl @defilibrary + many more. Very lucky and excited to work with you all
00:06After months of research, we're thrilled to unveil Clave: a smart wallet platform powered by Account Abstraction. We offer seamless Web 3.0 UX and hardware-level security via our key management system utilizing Trusted Execution Environments. Let’s explore Clave's offerings 🧵👇🏻 - I was sent a “market report” the other day. 40 pages long. Just ~2 pages for lending. The page was basically a graph of Aave TVL w/ a few quotes basically saying “CeFi lending market is a similar magnitude” In this post we unpack this CeFi market, or as we call it “offchain”
- highly recommend keeping up with products @zkp2p are working on, rlly practical & competent guys pushing boundaries for crypto they started focusing on p2p on ramping, unveiled this domain marketplace and have a p2p e-ticket transfer app otw. (also just honorable to take on
- With the $CRCL IPO it feels like we are making new all time highs in stablecoin content, but my feed only focuses on adoption metrics. I have yet to find a solid article breaking everything down. If you want to understand exactly how stables work in practice, this is for you:Unpacking the Stablecoin Sandwich This piece from @jesmros discusses the benefits of stablecoins and breaks down how they are used to improve global payments
- Based publishing the white paper *after* PMF Seriously think the industry has taken a step forward thanks to these guys. Study Turnkey.We’re proud to release the Turnkey whitepaper at whitepaper.turnkey.com TL;DR: We’ve built and deployed the first verifiable key management system of its kind, battle-tested by securing millions of wallets in production.
- you met me at a very low sat/vB time in my lifenine hundred thousand blocks. the chain grows up so fast 🥲
00:00 - Spurred by @ErikVoorhees recent tweet, we took a break from watching Microstrategy send Bitcoin to $100k to write about bitcoin lending We walk through three distinct designs:
- Following Justin Drake's Devcon talk (and dramatic responses on X), the timing of this post could not be better. Contextualizing rollup designs against consensus research (e.g. from @SuiNetwork, @Aptos, @deltadotnetwork, @commonwarexyz etc) proves very valuable to discuss how
- I'd argue Babylon has done more for Taproot's growth than any other bitcoin team, and yet I have not seen a peep about it from most of the more vocal bitcoiners🚀 With help from @babylonlabs_io, Anchorage Digital is proud to launch support for BTC staking on Babylon in time for its Cap-3 staking period. Institutions can now securely stake BTC through Anchorage Digital to unlock new opportunities in the growing Bitcoin ecosystem.
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