SmokeyTheB

got to meet a bunch of the new leadership from Robinhood Canada (post WonderFi acquisition) yday - excited to see what they'll do for the crypto (and broader equities) space within the Canadian ecosystem
feels like an injection of some much needed urgency and ambition

Are you an active LP in DeFi protocols (primarily DEXes and/or money markets)?
If so, ping me or @0xcarnation or @berluscoin_ to hear about some of the stuff we're working on + potentially get early access. We'd love your feedback and recs!
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Eid Mubarak to all of the homies celebrating!
naturally, I'm spending it in the most fitting manner possible (editing LP docs for @sukukfi's shariah compliant telecom financing bonds)
slowly but surely, better yields and more robust assets are heading over to Berachain

hmu if you're in toronto for tech week and want to catch up!

The first of many new yield bearing assets/stables coming to Bera in the next few weeks 👀

off to miami for a few days next week - catch me at the Bera event ( or hit my DMs and we'll catch up

honestly PoL vNext pipeline feeling pretty gud rn
i think this might be so fried that it could work

How much glue do you have to sniff in order to fud Arbitrum for freezing North Korean hacker funds?
They reduced knock on effects at the heart of some of the most critical DeFi infra in existence
User funds are more important than your performative decentralization platitudes

A couple things stand out about the recent hack in contrast to many others
1) it got so much worse
“Random LST got popped” to “1/1 DVN is the problem” to “North Koreans corrupted LZ RPCs” to “omg r all ofts cooked” (idts)
2) general lack of comms and clarity on what was happening across most parties - for decent reasons I’m sure but lots of crashing out in the dark
3) insane amount of gravedancing but it was musical chairs - pretty fkin problematic given how key Aave has been for the industry (or has been perceived as) esp re: trad adoption
4) finally, the current approach towards resolut

I'd bet that someone is spending 200-300k to move up the Anthropic market on Hyperliquid to finesse a 2-3m additional placement fee on some secondaries right now

i dont have a calendly but when someone sends me one and there's weekend slots available, i immediately have more respect for that person
weekends are a myth work harder

The most fun part of my job is getting to dive into very random industries, spanning delta-1 strategies on BTC, Chinese e-commerce sales, telecom financing, hardware sales, trade financing, ticketing and more
Now we get to structure the deals to help them grow on Bera 🫡

jeff article was a great read
my main takeaway was that the team eats Chipotle at least once a week, very auspicious (and generally v cool coverage on the story and success to date)