Felt like going deep on Solana and DEX mechanics, so I built one from scratch. Used Claude for polishing, documentation, and version control, but there's something extremely refreshing about writing account structs and AMM math yourself. Super fun to manual write protections against LP dusting and donation attacks as well. dApp: solana-dex-m223.vercel.app/ GitHub: github.com/ericcui-defi/sola…

Wishlisting even just a little bit of error logging in the in-browser Phantom transaction confirmation flow

Seem to be having issues with MetaMask and Phantom on Arc. The extensions just don't seem to be displaying the overlay. Wondering if anyone else is having the same issue.

Had an absolute blast at Berlin Solana Summit today. Incredible talent, immaculate vibes in the main stage room (shout out Eno and Jessica), and an infectious desire to build.

The only person who should be able to offend you, is you. Because you’re the only one who really knows you. Everyone else is shouting at a character they made up in their head with 99% filled in with projections from their own life.

Hyped for Berlin Blockchain Week

I agree that testing a major coding model release by one-shotting a complex application (my personal favorite is a browser-based Minecraft clone) can be useful in subjective benchmarking, but what I don't agree with is using this as a metric by which we evaluate how useful said model will be in general coding tasks, especially if it is not deployed rigorously. Giving a monkey a better keyboard isn't going to do anything if it doesn't know how to type.

Feel like I'm getting flash-banged every time I navigate to a new page on the Solana docs.

Circle Reserves Visualizer: circle-reserves-visualizer.v… Was at the F1 Monaco GP this weekend and met a dude who was convinced the value of Circle's liquid assets is less than issued USDC, so I built a visualizer for Circle's reserves that pulls historical data from third-party audits by Deloitte. Idk man seems pretty backed to me lol.

guilty 😳

I find it hard to believe anybody worth their salt making this assertion

npm just added helper text in the case port 3000 is already in use by another process when running `npm run dev` giving you the exact PIN to kill to reclaim the port. This is absolutely phenomenal and saves me an additional "Kill the process running on port 3000" AI prompt lol.

Excited for the Arc mainnet launch, but would like to see more substantive activity in the Circle dev Discord channels. Currently it just seems like a bunch of people pubbing (albeit interesting) weekend projects.

Something I don't think is thought about enough in the world of stablecoin-based cross-border payments are shifts in trust assumptions. For example, a cross-border payment provider operating on stablecoin rails who seeks to abstract away the user experience to "it is significantly faster and cheaper to transfer value across borders with different currencies" still has to deal with the fiat on/off-ramp problem. While a pure P2P-matching system (the platform matches counterparties in the receiving jurisdiction) keeps the trust assumption with the platform, it is often the case that the platform assumes a quasi market-making role, resulting in them holding local fiat funds in local banks. The more they seek to round off jagged P2P match-making, the more reliant they become on local banking infrastructure. This is mechanically quite interesting...

Just finished up a mini study looking at how MiCA affected user trading behavior in the EU. The USDT delisting cascade across a bunch of major venues (Coinbase, Crypto[dot]com, Binance, Kraken) seems to have markedly increased USDC trade volumes and reserves (queried for data on Bitvavo). Interesting to see that supranational crypto regulatory frameworks actually have some teeth.

Really love how each U-Bahn station in Berlin has its own character. Museumsinsel is quite a pretty one 😊

We have to make sure those allocating resources are competent. We don't want a repeat of the hype-and-bust crypto cycle of the mid-to-late 2010s.