New products @vaultsfyi | Non-bs perspective on building in crypto @ kanfa.macbudkowski.com

Joined April 2015
1,741 Photos and videos
Pinned Tweet
For the last month I worked on a non-bs guide to crypto GTM. To anchor it in real-world examples, I spoke with founders & early team members of Aave, ZORA, POAP, Snapshot, L2Beat, Zerion, SushiSwap & others to find how they unlocked their growth. Now the guide is finally out👇
34
59
161
13,828
designer's end-goals be like
52
Just had to use TicketMaster & StubHub and it was the shittiest online experience I had in at least a decade. Anyone disrupting these incompetent legacy parasites?
53
EF has already made $2.4M on DeFi... not bad :)
All DeFi users want to know "How much money did I make?". But P&L is complex. You need every deposit, withdrawal, reward claim, the share price at each event, and the asset's USD price at each timestamp. With vaults fyi you can build a P&L like this with just 4 API calls 👇
98
Never thought I'd see Paul Graham being more optimistic about crypto than CT
Replying to @romlib_
Crypto is a legit and indeed inevitable technology. Usually such things are net positive.
1
136
OGs leaving the EF, Sassal saying goodbye, Hoffman selling his ETH. I'm calling the bottom.
Has there been a huge vibe shift in CT over the last 2 weeks, or was that just me selling the last of my ETH
1
1
134
"Now everyone is a developer" is the new "Now everyone is a blogger". In the early 2000s we had 1000s of low-quality blogs, now we have 1000s of low-quality apps. Blogs that stood out had a fresh POV, polished content and good distribution. With apps it's going to be the same.
1
63
Happy to share that I recently joined @vaultsfyi team. I'm here to work on new products for DeFi builders. Portal is the first product that I designed and there are many more cool things to come. If you are building in DeFi and need some extra API credits, my DMs are open 🫡
In 2025 we built vaults fyi app to showcase our API. In less than 2 years the app processed hundreds of millions of dollars and our API got integrated into Kraken, Jumper & Gauntlet products. We now open our API to a no commitment, pay-as-you-go model. blog.vaults.fyi/developer-po…
2
2
15
565
Crazy how @ARIatTWIT for years has been the hottest thing that happened to the music industry and he still hasn't become a mainstream artist. The stuff he cooks regularly is insane.
57
AI lets everyone be a creative director. And we see so much slop because most people either don't have a clear creative vision or have really bad taste.
48
Is there any wallet that uses 2FA for moving around bigger amounts? I'd happily connect an authenticator app to a wallet, so I have a backstop if someone drains my wallet.
2
1
46
And yes, I know you can set up multi-sig but it's imo way worse UX than Authenticator App.
31
Posting AI-generated tweets is like wearing fake Louis Vuitton bag. You might think no one notices, but we do. We just don't want to embarrass you by calling it out.
1
1
47
If you're going to Dappcon, hit me up :)
── Dappcon 2026 Speaker ── Great products don't spread automatically. They never did. 🎙 @MacBudkowski ↳ "Distribution Advantage: How to Set Up GTM for Your Crypto Product without BS" He will give a talk about the real growth dynamics behind Aave, ZORA, Uniswap, Tether, and others — and what founders actually did to get attention from the right users, in a world where building is cheap and attention is the real bottleneck.
3
87
Americans: EU sucks Also Americans:
43
We don't appreciate enough the impact that YC, 'Social Network' and the SV in general had on young people. If it wasn't for them, the smartest kids would optimize trading strategies on Wall Street instead of building products that change people's lives.
Apr 25
Jane Street made ~$40B in 2025 with 3,500 employees, a ~2x from the year before. At ~65-70% profit margin, that's $8M profit / employee, the highest for a 1000 ppl company. High-frequency trading continues to be the most efficient money making engine. I want to share an old story about my Jane Street interview in 2014. Jane Street was known for hiring a lot of math, physics and CS olympiad winners from top universities and putting them through many rounds - including, for trading roles, a gauntlet of mental math. It was my 6th interview and my final round and I recall being asked "What is the next day after today in DD/MM/YYYY where all the digits are unique?" They'd toy with you and say "You can use a pencil and paper, if you want" but you knew that was an instant no. Painstakingly and as quickly as I could, I came to an answer. "How confident are you that this is correct on a 0-1 probability scale?" the interviewer said. "0.95", I blurted out, not fully knowing how to answer that. "Are you sure?" After thinking harder for a few more seconds, I realized I could've flipped the digits around to get a closer date. I gave the interviewer my answer. It was correct. "0.95 huh?" he chuckled. That's when I knew I failed. Note: fwiw, other companies that come close in efficiency are - Tether ($90M profit/emp) - Hyperliquid ($80M profit/emp) and on revenue: - Valve ($50M/emp) - OnlyFans ($37M/emp) - Craigslist ($14M/emp) - Anthropic ($12M/emp, run rate) - OpenAI ($8M/emp, run rate) For comparison, Nvidia is very efficient at scale and is $4.4M/emp.
176
I have a 2-2 multisig for my e-mail where I track $20 Amazon orders and some people have a 1-1 node multisig for admin accounts where they manage $200M
Apr 20
Following the KelpDAO hack, we built an open analysis of DVN security configurations across every active OApp on LayerZero over the last 90 days. Of ~2,665 unique OApp contracts: 47% run a 1-of-1 DVN security floor, 45% run 2-of-2, and ~5% run 3-of-3 or higher. As we know, KelpDAO's rsETH sat in the first bucket. Open query, public methodology, feedback welcome: dune.com/dune/layerzero-dvn-…
2
8
445
why Ethereum community uses so much visual AI slop? i see slop even in big players' posts and they def can afford a designer who knows their way around Figma (or at least Canva)
2
104
Figma is my biggest AI disappointment so far. Make is a mid product - buggy, misses obvious use cases and chatting with AI is terrible. I'd love to keep using Figma, but it's just easier to chat with Claude Code. Strange, given how great product leader @zoink has been.
1
3
7
591
US not being prepared for the Iran conflict reminds me of the opening of the classic 1944 essay called "Fighting the Last War"
1
2
103
can't understand why for so many years designers followed this horrible trend of drawing long-legged and small-headed figures. thankfully it's over.
1
71