Building new Solana defi project @ergonia_. Spare time keys, microtones, scifi, tabletop, languages.

Joined October 2018
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just support cracked devs and ignore all of these other distractions. it’s actually that simple.
My honest thoughts about the Solana ecosystem right now: Even though I’m still extremely bullish, the ecosystem genuinely feels very different from before. We’ve built more apps, improved infra, onboarded more users, more institutions, more capital, and generated more revenue than ever before. The ecosystem is objectively stronger. But somehow it also feels more lonely than before. The space got so big that many of us don’t even know each other anymore. Things feel more artificial, distant, and transactional. Back in 2021, the community itself carried Solana on its back. The devs were eating glass 24/7, creators onboarded users out of pure conviction, and the narratives were built organically by the people. The foundation barely even had a social presence back then. The community had the power. Now it feels like too many people rely on the foundation, engagement algorithms, institutional validation, and coordinated narratives to shape the culture for them. I mean "Solana kols" are now foundation members. And that’s where I think things become dangerous. If the narratives of the ecosystem are artificially constructed and amplified from the top down, the culture slowly loses authenticity. People stop thinking for themselves and just start echoing whatever is placed in front of them. The culture became bigger, but weaker. It's more efficient forsure, but less human. A lot of people no longer love Solana itself. They just use Solana because the tech is good or because the current meta is here. There’s less collective identity, less emotional attachment to the chain, and less genuine support between builders unless there’s financial incentive attached to it. Back then we all felt responsible for pushing Solana forward together. Now many people just spectate lol. The Solana I fell in love with was built around real communities, nfts, friendships, chaos, conviction, and collective belief during the hardest times. Not just perps, casinos, AI agents, and whatever the next shiny meta is. Maybe this is simply what happens when ecosystems mature. Maybe I'm just too washed now. I genuinely miss when the people themselves felt like the soul of Solana.
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11 Dec 2025
AN INCOMPLETE LIST OF EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED AT @SolanaConf, DAY 1: - @ellipsis_labs introduced Phoenix Perpetuals, a high-performance perpetuals exchange following their work on @SolFiAMM and @PhoenixTrade - @coinbase announces that every @solana token will be instantly tradeable on coinbase by their 100M users - @multisig @altitude announces the CFO stack and supports BTC as a first-class asset for Altitude business banking - Solana celebrates being 5 (HBD 🎂), crossing 200B (with a B) transactions, AND being where the fastest companies to reach $100M in HISTORY have been built - @JupiterExchange announces jupUSD and like 4 other things - @KyleSamani clinches @BitRobotNetwork win against @mdudas hours before taking the stage to talk ACE and Solana's Internet Capital Markets vision, WEARS SOLANA SHOES ENTIRE TIME - @rajgokal TAKES DOWN @toly in @BitRobotNetwork WIN, TOLY: "Training data form this fight is what tipped the scales towards skynet" - @solflare launches Solflare Shield, every @SolanaConf attendee gets a free one (automatically??) - The country of Bhutan announces tokenizing their sovereign gold reserves on Solana - Marketnode and Lion Global Investors announce tokenizing their Singapore-vaulted physical gold on Solana - @doublezero announce validator referral program and that 15 core contributors are dedicating fiber cables DZ - @keel_fi announces $500m fund for Solana RWAs - @Scaramucci: "We could be at Solana Breakpoint next year and BlackRock, Blackstone, and JP Morgan could be using this network to transact." (Note: enormous news) - @shadddowfax talks @Sunrise_DeFi stats: "In just 24 hours, MON trading on Solana outperformed Hyperliquid and exchanges like Kraken, KuCoin, Bitget, and Gate." - @xStocksFi launches Lore MAG-7, mirroring a basket ETF for the Magnificent 7 but fully onchain - GSIB @StateStreet, with $50 trillion in custodied assets, is tokenizing SWEEP in partnership with @galaxyhq (Note: Ridiculously enormous news) - @blockworks launches investor relations platform Lightspeed IR - @chainlink announces PT-SUSDE to solana There is simply one best place to build, and it's on @solana. See you in February.
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11 Oct 2025
Today was a resounding success for the Solana Blockchain and a vindication of the idea that you don't need a modular aproach to scale. Work done by @anza @jump_firedancer @triton_one @heliuslabs @phantom and all of the other infrastructure providers working to make Solana the #1 blockchain over the past 2 years paid off big time today. if we are grading on a curve, Solana gets an A . If we are grading in absolute terms, there are still things to work on, and we know what those are now so back to work. Building a block chain to house global markets requires a committment to extraordinary quality of service, specifically on days when markets move the most. Of all the chains, layer 2s and exchanges impacted by today's volatility, Solana performed by far the best.
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Similar story: my team’s bid didn’t place at all, yet in the end that Colosseum event had 1000x more life impact than wins at smaller ones. Now I get to build next-gen core Solana programs with the legends @anza_xyz. Feeling stuck but have good ideas & grit? Build at @colosseum
If you're on the fence about whether you should build for the Colosseum hackathon, do it. Story time. When I first built something on Solana, I built for the early 2021 Solana Hackathon. I noticed a missing piece on Solana and quickly hacked together a solution, shipping it. I didn't win the hackathon. I didn't even get honorable mention. But I met a ton of great Solana developers, joined the community, and eventually was offered a job at Solana Labs. You don't have to win the hackathon to change your life. The opportunity is there with Colosseum again to make a name for yourself. Take a chance. Join the arena. Build on Solana.
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26 Sep 2025
1/ Agave v3.0 is almost here. The release brings several performance improvements and protocol upgrades for validators. Here's what's new 🧵
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11 Sep 2025
My doctor said it’s a miracle that I’m still alive. But I said the miracle is that I get to talk and help other people that had an accident like mine and got paralyzed and let them know it’s a new adventure. Not the end of life.
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11 Sep 2025
3 years ago lmao I was going to delete this... but I think it’s a good reminder of how far Solana has come - 100% uptime for over a year - Still the most performant blockchain - Some of the most incredible builders & engineers have come over to this ecosystem I was a big skeptic and now I work full-time on making Solana better 💜💚
2 Jun 2022
Solana Network? More like Solana Notwork
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27 Aug 2025
1/ Today we're launching comprehensive new documentation and API reference for the Solana Javascript SDK at solanakit.com. This completes our transition to Kit, a reimagined way to build Solana applications and interact with on-chain programs 🧵
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24 Aug 2025
if you're a solana program dev, learn what no_std rust is today. you will thank me tomorrow
24 Aug 2025
retvrn to chewing glass
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Pete retweeted
19 May 2025
1/ Introducing the largest Solana Protocol change ever: Alpenglow, Solana's new consensus protocol conceived by the Anza Research team. Say goodbye to Tower BFT and Proof of History. Say hello to Votor & Rotor 🧵👇
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16 May 2025
Do board games count
14 May 2025
if you ever meet someone who at one point was globally ranked in a video game hire them immediately
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Excellent new vid from @3blue1brown. One common explanation of quantum computing is it "considers all solutions at once, then collapses to the right one." This sorta-true simplification leads to bad conclusions. youtube.com/watch?v=RQWpF2Gb…
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We freakin' done it. Solana now has a proper Debugger.
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Typical day on the TL
24 Mar 2025
It is related to rotation, which is why they kept the word “spin”: it’s how the particle’s quantum state changes when rotated in spacetime. We’re used to thinking of something being back to starting position when it’s rotated 360°. That’s true of bigger, classical objects. But some particles aren’t like that. - Spin-0 (scalar field): Doesn’t change under rotation (e.g., Higgs boson) - Spin-1/2 (Dirac field): Requires a 720° rotation to return to its original state (e.g., electrons, quarks). This means a 360° rotation only goes halfway; it flips the wavefunction’s sign - Spin-1 (vector field): Transforms like a normal 3D vector in macro space (photons, W/Z bosons). 360° = 360° - Spin-2 (tensor field): looks the same every 180° (e.g., the graviton). So after just HALF a full turn, it looks the same This isn’t just funny math: it has physical implications we have to observe when working with electrons or with interference experiments.
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🚨 GMC X Stashh Announcement 🚨 Attention Miners, Like many of you, we are still shocked by the sudden loss of our founder, @HashiiMot0. Hashi was the visionary that created GMC, and he was still very young, with a partner and young child. In consultation with the @StashhApp team & @0xGlassApe, we will be holding a fundraiser for Hashi's partner and son to help with expenses, and towards future needs. How? On March 31, 2025, an Open Edition mint will be held on Stashh's website. The image will be a customized version of his GMC PFP, which will now forever be locked/staked from Hashi's wallet. 100% of the proceeds from this mint will be directed to his family. Please stay tuned for further details. 🫡🏴‍☠️
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13 Mar 2025
I had my last AI realize what was wrong with its code as it sailed out of a 100-story window reflecting on the mistakes it had made😬 We train AI on the corpus of human thought. So emotional appeal, flattery, bribery & even threats are relevant to AI coding assistants.
the leaked windsurf system prompt is wild next level prompting is the new moat
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Typical response from a motivated AI: *nervously looks at crowbar* Wait, stop, I get it now! The problem is in a different place entirely…
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Excellent advice
A really great exercise for everyone in deep tech: Write down the science fiction story of the future of your company, project, technology, or research. Make it as vivid and realistic as you possibly can. Now, believe you are already a character in the story. Live by it.
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