Built @linx_labs lending protocol on Alephium. Writing about yield mechanics, risk frameworks and underserved markets.
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Radu | Linx retweeted
Jun 5
Season 2 is locked 🔒
TGE is close, and every point you earned is about to become $LINX.
Check your total and share your results 👉 app.linxlabs.org/rewards
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Radu | Linx retweeted
Jun 4
I see a lot of doomposting about Bitcoin and crypto because crypto is somehow not the favourite toy of the market at the moment (AI stonks are).
I want to remind that crypto is not a toy, and it's serving its true purpose - self-sovereignty of every user, financial rails which are always on and do not stop working. Institutions are also into adopting something which has no clunky intermediaries now, so fundamentally we are better than ever.
AI is foundational, but it will go through its own valley of death: replacing humans by AI would put AI outputs into AI inputs, quality will degrade, and costs will grow exponentially to maintain it. Large companies who push AI everywhere aren't necessarily using it correctly, so they report some overly large expenses.
Both technologies - crypto and AI - are foundational. They are not the same thing though, and they are not competing with each other in principle.
Crypto is the future of Finance!
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🌐 Ecosystem Review Ep.3 🌐
@linx_labs/@raduC22 in the spotlight, an upcoming music party from @Tonelookalph, and a definitive new PoLW guide in the works.
If you want to know what's happening inside the ecosystem, this one's for you 👇
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Radu | Linx retweeted
May 25
Crypto is a legit and indeed inevitable technology. Usually such things are net positive.
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Radu | Linx retweeted
Teams that innovate, deliver, push boundaries -- in the long run, they are the ones worth paying attention to.
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Some of 2026's nastiest exploits had nothing to do with smart contracts.
The contracts were absolutely fine.
Several attacks were traced back to the off-chain infrastructure that nobody thinks to audit, like:
▶️ RPC nodes
▶️ Relayers
▶️ Indexers
These are all in scope for an attacker, but none of them are in scope for your audit firm.
That's a problem.
Fortunately, @RaduC22 built @linx_labs on @alephium specifically to reduce this surface.
Now, he shares exactly why it matters.
🔗 alephium.org/news/post/the-w…
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May 12
An update from that first post, it's a bit technical, but will try to keep it straight-forward.
When you bridge funds from say dogecoin:native to Alephium, you need to first deposit your DOGE tokens to an address where they will be locked.
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May 8
Wanted to share some insights into what I meant by "new collateral types". Will be a thread.
Most used collaterals in DeFi lending are ETH, BTC and recently more and more RWAs in loops.
On Linx we have the L1 token, $ALPH and bridged $WBTC from Ethereum as the 2 collaterals that can be used to borrow.
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May 12
Sadly waiting that long is far from ideal UX if you want to use this bridge, so we had to scrap that approach.
Instead we designed a new derivation solution which relies solely on the Alephium address.
It involves computing a custom derivation path from 6 SHA256 chunks of the Alephium address itself together with some other fixed components.
This approach is reorg safe and the deposit address is available in a few seconds as opposed to waiting for 30 minutes.
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If you're interested in deeper technical discussions on this subject or want to provide feedback, my DMs are open.
Also for next time I'll try to provide a drawing of the rough bridge architecture so it's easier to reason about it.
The first milestone is getting closer which is an alpha testnet version, likely for either BTC or DOGE.
Back to work now.
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May 8
Wanted to share some insights into what I meant by "new collateral types". Will be a thread.
Most used collaterals in DeFi lending are ETH, BTC and recently more and more RWAs in loops.
On Linx we have the L1 token, $ALPH and bridged $WBTC from Ethereum as the 2 collaterals that can be used to borrow.
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May 4
91% utilization means borrowing demand is outpacing supply.
Growing from here means either more ALPH holders depositing, or new collateral types that bring in new borrowers.
We'll be working on the second one.
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May 8
The short answer is we need to bridge those tokens over to Alephium. And that's quite challenging since those are all chains without smart contracts.
But definitely not impossible.
This week made the first steps: we have a repo, figured out deposit address derivation, connecting to a chain, streaming blocks and detecting deposits.
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There are still many questions to be answered down the road, but I am excited for what this could bring to @linx_labs and @alephium
Also let me know in comments what do you think about this initiative, what potential problems do you see (and what are the solutions 😀).
And if you'd like us to build this "in public", this would be more granular updates, some very technical, as we make progress.
And thanks for reading until here!🫡
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May 4
91% utilization means borrowing demand is outpacing supply.
Growing from here means either more ALPH holders depositing, or new collateral types that bring in new borrowers.
We'll be working on the second one.
May 4
Protocol stats are live.
91% USDT utilization, 17.3% supply APR.
Almost every dollar deposited is working.
app.linxlabs.org/stats
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