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Matt Huang

@matthuang #34

cofounder paradigm.xyz
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A good day to migrate TG groups to Farcaster…
Enjoyed Dark Matter on AppleTV+

Good spiritual successor to Primer (2004) imo
Paradigm has raised our third fund: an $850M venture fund focused on crypto projects at the earliest stage.

https://www.paradigm.xyz/2024/06/paradigms-third-fund
Excited about this :)
Gathering a small dinner in SF Bay Area for people thinking of founding a crypto project (idea or pre-idea stage)

Who’s interested?

https://forms.gle/qZ3adqSzoxE48Fcu7
Beyond the Stripe payments announcement this week, it might be less known that they already support fiat on-ramp (eg buy ETH with credit card on Metamask via Stripe).

This is even more powerful with Stripe Link (https://stripe.com/payments/link )which pre-fills payment info for those already in the Link network.
1000x improvement on throughput x cost in ~2 years is pretty incredible
Q: What matters most for L2s accruing value back to ETH L1?

- Using ETH as a gas token?
- Using ETH DA rather than Alt DA?
- ETH being used as "money" on the L2 (e.g. for minting NFTs)?
- L2 calling itself ETH-aligned 😬 ?
- Something else?
sunny days are for bending wood
Is there a good fees dashboard (cross L1 / L2) with time series?

E.g., these are great but lack good time series comparisons
https://cryptofees.info/
https://www.gasfees.io/
4844/blobs are just one step in the cyclic path toward lower fees and higher throughput
for high stakes meetings, nothing beats the 1-2 punch
Anyone have the BTC wine bottle pouring into various crypto glasses meme handy?
i’ve worked with a lot of “ready aim fire” people and a lot of “ready fire aim” people but working with @gakonst is the first time i’ve worked with a “fire fire fire” person. the greek ships like none other
"the town square on mars"
it turns out that the most popular non-financial application in crypto is CT, so it makes sense that the decentralized + programmable version would be promising