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happy new year~

*** indicates must-read

defi:

• https://twitter.com/yugacohler/status/1478074400238931977 : *** explainer on CRV wars, and how CVX won
• https://twitter.com/zcpeng/status/1478377284151255052 : *** cosmos vs polkadot
• https://twitter.com/zhaojun_sh/status/1478359512855707649 : SUSHI getting meaningfully supported on multiple chains, eventually becoming a multichain dex
  • h/t frog nation (daniele sesta); follow the bridges
• https://twitter.com/PhilJBonello/status/1478377848033447936 : CRV wars (bribes) parallel to 0x governance token valuation
• https://twitter.com/fozzydiablo/status/1478138915961901057 : hsaka == god trader?
• https://twitter.com/HsakaTrades/status/1478127611649744898 : solunavax –> foan rotation?
  • https://twitter.com/zhusu/status/1478383879572578310 : su zhu
• https://twitter.com/0xSami_/status/1478170421262524419 : breakdown of CVX holdings
• https://twitter.com/AustinBarack/status/1478206147756711938 : thread on FTM and why it’s poised to grow in 2022
• https://twitter.com/delitzer/status/1478229299383570432 : fei <> rari (bringing rari into the tribe) is $$$

web3:

• https://twitter.com/JackNiewold/status/1478154221857828864 : avax dapp ux »»>
  • fantom ux improvements coming soon??
• https://twitter.com/shaig/status/1478176335298277379 : straight legendary savagery, jack clapbacked at cdixon on web2 and web3 ownership
• https://twitter.com/valkenburgh/status/1478378327022964736 : NFTs == largely veblen goods
• https://twitter.com/Flynnjamm/status/1478385066451652618 : on on-chain resumes (see replies to get deeper down the rabbithole)
• https://twitter.com/seldo/status/1478153360402305028 : 🔥 a take on why web3 should not aim to compensate contributors (rough paraphrase, read thread for more context)
• https://twitter.com/jackbutcher/status/1478343531022499840 : jack butcher creates value.app, an app to monitor NFT portfolio value in real time
• https://twitter.com/saturnial/status/1478197143739371522 : web2 folks hesi’ing on web3 – part of the psyops to retain talent?
• https://twitter.com/andy8052/status/1478384553433645062 : play2earn… compete2earn!!
• https://twitter.com/jai_prasad17/status/1478534614930976770 : lmao — what is a “web3 company”?
• https://twitter.com/brockpierce/status/1478391011080642568 : claim: web3 will reduce piracy by having blockchains take care of content licensing. personally, i don’t think it’s that simple (piracy easily exists today). there will have to be a concerted effort on media encodings + viewers (e.g. browsers, media players) to enforce the licensing checks
• https://twitter.com/Darrenlautf/status/1478391359782502412 : defikingdoms ($JEWEL) has performed nicely over the past month. it would be interesting to see the correlation between activity on this gamefi experience and overall tx congestion rates
• https://twitter.com/QwQiao/status/1478199853356400642 : might be easiest to just copy the text in this case

  • The best bets in life are on technologies on which the smartest people on the planet passionately disagree with each other. The naysayers may be right. But the believers’ payoff is massively if they are. This was the case with BTC/ETH years ago. It’s the case now with “Web3”.
    

• https://twitter.com/avichal/status/1478238025180086272 : not everyone gets web3 just yet, and that’s okay. when they do, they’ll bring dope innovation
• https://twitter.com/brianrumao/status/1478117158945116161 : lots of web3 hate recently
• https://twitter.com/levie/status/1477800595947884546 : pretty spicy dialogue between CEOs of box and airbnb

random + memes:

• carte blanche: literal translation being “blank paper”, this essentially signifies having full discretionary power over something (blank check)
• marie antoinette:
• https://twitter.com/i/events/1478036809821032448 : people have been trying to use water with at-home COVID rapid tests, and have been freaking out after seeing (false) positives
• zerohedge on a controversial topic of “mass formation psychosis,” covered in a recent joe rogan podcast
• https://twitter.com/i/events/1478046533614379017 : milennials finally buying homes, with further financial implications (e.g. effects on inflation)
• https://thebrowser.company/ : a better browser
• https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1478327883726823427 : wordle is a cute game where 2 people can guess words with the same set of letters
• https://twitter.com/_krutches/status/1478228905299529732 : lmao anzem is the goat
• https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1478115454422065153 : sriram + aarthi got signed to WME (talent mgmt)
• https://twitter.com/kevinakwok/status/1478066686381199361 : where do we go for discussions on blog posts now?
  • https://twitter.com/darrenzhu/status/1478084702842277889 : we need a better browser!
• https://twitter.com/saintmarcio/status/1478192149376245760 : “motherfuckers worrying abt being delta neutral w a 4 figure portfolio like dawg what the fuck are u doing”
• https://twitter.com/gabagooldoteth/status/1478381226637631495 : just gabagool being based. take care of ya fam
• https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1477491151091372032 : *** on the clutch development of vaccines
• https://twitter.com/iamnotnicola/status/1478378375458828292 : liechtenstein - the future for crypto natives?
• https://twitter.com/TheHustle/status/1478396125736493069 : nefarious uses of apple’s airtags
• https://twitter.com/mattysino/status/1478390514391171072 : nasa chief scientist boutta terraform mars by using magnets to heat + pressurize the atmosphere