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sand

@sandmanarc

building something new | tried building @SmokeDotMoney | read my cross-chain thoughts on Substack

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Joined August 2022

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@sandmanarc
Jul 19, 2025
Smoke is Shutting Down Yep. It’s been several months since I stopped working on Smoke. I thought I’d get back into it naturally if it pulled me back, but I don’t think I want to anymore. A few weeks ago the domain quietly expired, and that was proof enough. Time to take it
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@sandmanarc
Aug 15, 2024
Why is Everyone Quiet about the Cross-Chain Honey Pots? $10B+ at risk? This post will cover: 1. DVNs on @LayerZero_Fndn 2. ISMs on @hyperlane 3. OFTs & Warp Assets 4. Non-dormant addresses on @ether_fi and @renzoai multisigs "Decentralised Verifier Network" aka DVNs
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@sandmanarc
Feb 19, 2025
Article
Broad Daylight Robberies on Berachain, Abstract, and more ft. Stargate Hydra
Stargate Hydra is facilitating one of DeFi’s riskiest and least transparent forms of collateral reuse. Users are unknowingly locking up liquidity without compensation, while Stargate and Hydra chains...
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@sandmanarc
Sep 3, 2024
Today I Present to You @SmokeOnChain, cuz ------------------------------------- All We Needed Was A Cross-Chain Credit Card What if, all we needed to solve the cross-chain UX, was a system that lent you funds on whatever chain you are on without any delay and you could pay back
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@sandmanarc
Dec 29, 2024
Replying to @cobie @KyleSamani and @based16z
If you're here a bit late, I gotchu covered.
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@sandmanarc
Oct 31, 2024
Being a founder is a lonely road - we were all told so, but the reality is harsher than I expected. This is the reason why there's so little experimentation in the space. It's truly a ghost town out here. Especially in the bootstrapping phase. How do I get more people rooting
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@sandmanarc
Jul 19, 2023
Replying to @BitcoinMagazine and @RobertKennedyJr
And that statement single-handedly killed his campaign.
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@sandmanarc
Sep 24, 2024
LayerZero is more than just a contract interface. LZ has: 1. messaging standards, 2. relayer infra, 3. LayerZeroScan, 4. super extensibility by offering basic DVNs for new chains (before such routes become popular),
Matt Rice ⛺️
@mrice32
Sep 24, 2024
There’s a lot of doublespeak on OFTs, LZ, and hydra. When people worry about security, LZ says it’s just a contract interface. But when people actually set these up, they use LZ’s DVN. There is obviously no billion dollar business in building basic contract interfaces.
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@sandmanarc
Jun 24, 2024
Battle of Bridges: Across vs Stargate It is easier to start wars, but harder to end them. I'd like to be known as the peacemaker who ended this battle early, the sandbag that prevented the flood. Building Dune dashboards isn't my main thing, but I'd happily build a 1000
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@sandmanarc
Jun 1, 2024
Replying to @hal2001 and @PrimordialAA
Perfect. A Dune dashboard that compares Across vs Stargate on these routes: 1. Base -> Arbitrum 2. Arbitrum -> Ethereum Any more routes? Sizes: $50 (Median) $100 (Mean) $1000 $10000+ We will have two things: 1. Comparing costs using BPS 2. 31st will be used as the
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@sandmanarc
Dec 23, 2023
Replying to @duonine
Did you know that ETH had 5 million ETH issued every year for the past 8 years? In the last 2 years it was almost $1B worth of ETH issued EVERY MONTH and dumped on the market by the miners.
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@sandmanarc
Sep 13, 2024
Replying to @MINHxDYNASTY and @CL207
Nothing. Ig cat thinks they’re trying to gain credibility by association rather than credibility by production.
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@sandmanarc
Jan 27, 2025
Solver Competition: Present and Future Right now, solvers (or bridges) compete on bridge aggregators like @lifiprotocol and @SOCKETProtocol to provide the best price. This is great for users, but integrating with LIFI or Socket isn’t always straightforward. For example,
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@sandmanarc
Jun 24, 2024
Replying to @crypto_noodles @LayerZero_Labs and 2 others
Across is not comparable to LayerZero. One is a token bridge another is a modular messaging protocol. LayerZero is like an aggregator of messaging bridges. They do run their own messaging bridge which is a trusted system. But LayerZero's architecture enables you to be
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@sandmanarc
May 17, 2024
Superchain can offer the Solana Experience For that we need: 1. Native message transfers between rollups 2. Secure atomic inclusion 3. Synchronous atomic composability Each of these solutions make @Optimism and Superchain better for users, devs and chain builders. #3 being the
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