0/ Yesterday was my last day as the Rosetta Technical Lead at @coinbase. Starting tomorrow (crypto never sleeps, right?), I’ll join @el33th4xor, @kevinsekniqi, and the rest of the talented team at @avalabsofficial in building @avalancheavax.

1/ When I joined Coinbase out of college, I thought I “knew” blockchain. Boy was I wrong! Standardizing and scaling asset addition at Coinbase while collaborating with the top blockchain engineers at the top projects by market cap flipped my world upside down.
2/ I don’t think there is any other place that ramps you up into the magical moon math of crypto as fast as @coinbase and I firmly believe it is the best place for any crypto engineer to start their career. Good news! They're hiring! https://t.co/NOuZ2L5x1s
3/ To all my former coworkers, I want to say thank you for everything you’ve taught me. I’ll never forget all the time and energy you spent helping me become a better engineer and a better person. I have no doubt that you’ll continue pushing Rosetta forward for years to come.
4/ For the next few months, I’ll remain an advisor to the Rosetta project. I will lend a hand to asset issuers implementing Rosetta for the first time and chime in on high-level design decisions.
5/ On that note, it's great to see the work @figment_io and @avalabsofficial have already done to create a Rosetta C-Chain implementation for @avalancheavax. If you’re looking to test drive the C-Chain, I think this is one of the easiest ways to do so: https://t.co/UmTr9guM5L
6/ Now, why @avalabsofficial? Investment cycles in the L1 space occur every few years, at most, and we are at the end of the current period (credit to @el33th4xor for reminding me of this).
7/ When considering leaving Coinbase for the world of L1s, I had the option of doing something now (preferably 6 months ago) or to wait a few more years for the next wave of ideas to take hold. Long story short, waiting a few more years would have driven me nuts.
8/ Because of my position at Coinbase, it was my job to deeply study all of the consequential L1s launched in the last few years. Over time, I formed a pretty strong opinion that any project I would join must have certain attributes.
9/ I felt any project I would consider joining must support general smart contracting while retaining expansive composability, scale through loosely-connected but distinct subspaces, and enable thousands of people to serve as block producers in consensus.
10/ I looked long and hard for projects that checked all of these boxes but most promising teams ended up failing to check the last block, inclusive consensus. Enter @avalancheavax.
11/ When I came across the @avalancheavax paper produced by Team Rocket, I felt, like many others, there was something materially novel here. As I dug in deeper and deeper, I kept looking for the “but….”, however, I never found one.
12/ I felt @avalancheavax was finally the solution to the inclusive consensus problem that tripped up other PoS approaches. Don’t take my work for it. Ask @tederminant, the creator of one of the most performant PBFT protocols, why he left that work to co-found @avalabsofficial.
13/ As you can tell, I really really care about this inclusive consensus issue. To make it even easier for anyone to create, run, and monitor their own @avalancheavax validator, I created a tool called snowplow.
14/ This tool helps you back up your staking credentials, validator db, and even sends text message alerts if something goes haywire! https://t.co/5aNo4UzM8s
15/ Well, that’s all for now. Until next time...From Snowflake to Avalanche. Per consensum ad astra.

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I'm sure someone else has explained this, but it is just so cool and I want to explain how this works.


So Curve is awesome for swaps between similar assets, right? The fact that they trade very close to each other is a key part about how Curve works, using it's custom swap invariant function.

That's step 1

Step 2 is that Synthetix is awesome for creating "synthetic assets" (aka synths) which are assets that trade like other assets, that are backed by another, entirely different asset. Basically, a plastic banana that I can buy and sell like a real banana.

Synthetix has a feature that lets you swap between any two synths with zero slippage and a flat fee. That's because it is simply converting the sythentic asset into another synthetic asset, the backing for the synth doesn't change it just uses a different price oracle now.

This is important. Absolutely no slippage, at any size

Swap $1m sUSD for $1m sBTC? flat 0.3% fee

Swap $10m sUSD for $10m sBTC? flat 0.3% fee

swap $100m sUSD for $100m sBTC? Well, there isn't that many synths in Curve, yet but you get the point. The only limit is the pool depth
1/ [December Bitcoin yield update]

Over the last year and a half, I’ve earned ~1.2BTC with various yield generating services to earn an average of 5% on 30 BTC.

Here’s my journey and how to guide👇

2/ Here are the ways you can earn yield:

Lending (Easiest/most popular)
Yield: 3-6%
- Ledn:
https://t.co/4x0YATuQ0v
- BlockFi: https://t.co/90Xtg2cNka

Covered calls (Harder)
Yield: 1-80%
- Deribit: https://t.co/2iQVkXlylP
- LedgerX:

3/ Earning a yield enables you to stack more sats (what I’m doing), or reduce the temptation to sell your coin through earning an income.

The yield you earn comes with RISK!

Below is my current allocation for Dec (will update MoM)

(yellow = changes)

https://t.co/PZwVYs8lFT


4a/ [Nov > Dec Changelog]

- Covered calls: approx. 4 BTC was in $40k 12/28/20 contracts. Those closed without them being exercised (a good outcome for me). However, I was nervous about my January 1/28 $50k contract so I decided to close out my position at a small loss.

4b/ [Nov > Dec Changelog]

- In process of reallocating the 5 BTC (probably will be a lending platform).
- I incorrectly had my Ledn rate at 6.5%, it's 6.25%

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