Day 173 of not posting my selfie untill my wallet balance hit $1m

When I enter social networks and observe bearish users, I remember other cycles and how they always act

New day, new hjack Again Lazarus? All withdrawals is frozen for the safety and auditing reason, just keep calm guys, your funds in safe, Bitget has 450m$ protection fund for exact situation

What is the one non-technical skill you think every Web3 project desperately needs right now? We always talk about smart contracts, tokenomics, and tech stack scalability in crypto startups. But looking at how many projects struggle with long-term retention and clear messaging, it feels like non-tech roles are heavily overlooked Curious to hear from founders and builders here: When you're hiring or looking for team members, what is the biggest gap you see outside of core development? Is it community management, content/ghostwriting, or operations?

Researchers just released the first protocol for fully private bitcoin transfers on the base layer Developers just figured out a way to hide who sent bitcoin, who received it, and how much moved, without changing Bitcoin itself This new proposed idea is not a fork around the protocol or new cryptocurrency. This is how Bitcoin was designed, a base layer people can innovate on without asking permission On Thursday, researcher Misha Komarov and colleagues published Shielded Bitcoin, a Zcash-style shielded pool for Bitcoin’s base layer Encrypted notes and zero-knowledge proofs ride along in ordinary Bitcoin transactions. Separate software checks that no coins are created from nothing and none are spent twice There is no company running the pool, no sidechain, and no soft fork. Funds go in and out through cryptographic vaults Komarov has been building, called PIPEs, so no federation has to hold the bitcoin Miners do not enforce the privacy rules. Invalid shielded data can still land in a block, indexers simply ignore it The trade is: Bitcoin stays conservative, and the experiment lives on top of it. If it works, private transfers arrive the way most of Bitcoin’s best ideas have, not by rewriting the constitution, but by building on the settlement layer everyone already trusts

Something I like about how minting works in Picule Protocol that I haven't talked about yet Minting runs in three closed windows, GTD, then FCFS, then public. They're not stacked on top of each other, they're sealed off from one another. Miss your window and you don't fall back into the next one, you drop straight to public pricing like everyone else The project runner can hand out GTD and FCFS access however they want, one address at a time or as a whole merkle tree in one shot. But there's also a path that doesn't go through the runner at all. If you were one of the contributors who helped close a project's ICO, and your contribution crossed roughly 1% of the raise target, you're automatically marked as a project believer and GTD gets handed to you on its own. Nobody has to remember to add you, the contract already watched you fund the thing into existence Now the part people usually don't think through. You can pay for your mint in ETH, in the project's own tokens, or in an LP position, whichever you already hold. But if you're paying in tokens, you still need the matching half in ETH sitting next to them. Why, because whatever you choose, the mint is never actually spending your money directly, it's zapping it into liquidity first. Your ETH and your tokens go in as an LP position, get minted, get locked, and only after that does your NFT actually come out. Every single path funnels through the same LP step underneath And this is where I think the protocol earns its keep. You never touch a router, never approve three different contracts, never manually add liquidity and lock it yourself. It's one transaction, one button, fully native inside the UX. Yes it costs a bit more gas, the trace inside that transaction is doing a lot of work. But you're trading a few extra cents of gas for skipping the exact headache that gets people rekt, wrong slippage, forgetting to lock, approving the wrong spender. That headache costs a lot more than gas ever will

Good morning web3 Thanks God Its Friday FInally end of the trading and working week Did you close your position before the weekend?

While I was learning Solidity for my first NFT, something I originally planned to build just for fun, I ended up going deep into DeFi primitives too. UniswapV2/V3, this was before V4 existed. I even audited contracts for friends sometimes, the kind they'd find on YouTube, everyone's seen those videos pitching an "on-chain automatic arbitrage bot" (complete nonsense by the way, never fall for that, it's simply not possible) Around that time I kept running into honeypot tokens constantly, and it clicked for me. Uniswap is an incredible protocol, they're literal unicorns, but they have zero control over what gets deployed on top of them. Anyone can spin up a pool with a scam token and pump the price without ever putting in real liquidity (UX has gotten better since, a lot of it gets filtered now, but back then people were just firing events to inflate the price shown in the UI and that was it) So I asked myself, what if I added a little bit of control into that equation. You can't police every token that gets issued out there, that's impossible. But you can build a standardized ERC20 that only the launchpad itself accepts, and if the creator ever wants to change the logic down the line, they can only do it with their community's approval. A kind of half-control But I didn't want the whole protocol locked to just one ERC20 and nothing else either. That's why I added a global protocol DAO on top of it, separate from the local project DAOs. Only liquidity holders get to vote in the global one, and a proposal there can only be raised by someone holding any NFT minted through the protocol Now, closer to token standards. Watching how fast this industry moves and how many new token types and improved versions keep showing up, I decided to let developers holding an NFT propose their own standards, backward compatible with the core protocol contracts, to extend and improve the whole ecosystem. It's also a way to pull in more developers What's in it for them? I'll keep that one a secret for now, same as the testnet activity rewards and the airdrop that's coming

Day 172 of not posting my selfie untill my wallet balance hit $1m

What do you call this setup?

Bear guys takin out their profits after losing almost 80% of their whole portfolio

We are so back!

Good morning web3 Happy Thirsty Thursday Have a great day and dont forget to drink enough water

Day 171 of not posting my selfie untill my wallet balance hit $1m

Trump bought some more $MSTR in July, as per. recently disclosed stock trades

Can the BTC rainbow chart be trusted anymore?

It's almost Pumptober! ... It's almost Pumptober

Yesterday was a good day, will Bitcoin make a move today?

Every launchpad in the .fun mold runs the same bonding curve. Doesn't matter if you're launching something you actually want people to hold for years or a coin that's going to trade for six hours and die, the math treats them identically. One curve, one shape, no other option. I never understood why the entire industry just accepted that When I sat down to build the ICO side of Picule Protocol I kept hitting the same wall. A sharp declining curve is great if you want to reward whoever's fastest on the draw. It's a bad fit for a creator who wants a fair, stable entry price so their earliest holders stick around instead of flipping in the first ten minutes So instead of picking one curve and defending it, I built six different sale models and let the creator pick whichever one actually fits what they're launching Flat sale, one price for everyone until the target's hit. No edge for being early, nothing to snipe, just contribute and get your proportional share. Good for a project that wants its first holders to be actual community, not bots Fixed curve, the classic declining rate, first buyer gets twice the tokens per ETH the last buyer gets. Steepness is locked in, nothing to configure, works straight out of the box Configurable curve, same declining shape, except the creator sets the steepness themselves, anywhere from a flat line up to a 10x spread between the first buyer's rate and the last one's Curve then flat, declining rate up to a set point, flat price for everyone after that. Early supporters get rewarded, then it opens up into a fair round for whoever's left. Both legs share the same slope at the seam, so there's no gap to arbitrage Flat then curve, the mirror image, a fair opening round at one price, then a declining curve kicks in once demand shows up, rewarding conviction instead of speed Pro-rata, no curve at all, a fixed supply and a fixed window, everyone who contributes during that window gets the exact same rate per wei no matter when they showed up. Whatever comes in gets split proportionally once the window closes. This is the batch auction model Gnosis and CoinList made popular, now sitting on-chain inside Picule Six different incentive structures, same anti-rug guarantees underneath every one of them, same burned liquidity, same governance. The creator picks the model that matches what they're actually trying to build instead of being handed the one curve every other platform ships with

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