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A few of our favorite reads that people might have missed this past week.
“The Real Ethereum Hasn’t Been Tried Yet”
What Is It?
3yakov, the founder of 3Jane, outlines a novel new primitive to unlock undercollateralized credit in DeFi.
Why We Liked It?
Undercollateralized borrowing has proven to be elusive in DeFi. The article below articulates one of the best attempts at solving this problem I’ve seen.
To truly become the internet-native financial system — free from bank liquidity — a cryptonative credit primitive must emerge to enable economic expansion backed by future growth.
Click on the tweet below to read the full article:
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— 3yakov (@_yakovsky)
6:19 PM • Feb 18, 2025
“Dynamic TAO: Your No-Nonsense Guide”
What Is It?
Teng Yan runs the Chain of Thought Newsletter and outlines plainly why Dynamic TAO is a major upgrade for the Bittensor ecosystem.
Why We Liked It?
I haven’t been in the weeds on TAO and I’d seen a lot of hype around this upgrade, but I really hadn’t done the work to fully understand it. This article was just what I needed to get up to speed.
That’s why I wrote this: to break things down in plain English and save you the frustration I felt. And to summarize my biggest takeaways.
Click on the tweet below to read the full article:
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— Teng Yan - Championing Crypto AI (@0xPrismatic)
2:30 AM • Feb 22, 2025
“Execution”
What Is It?
Jeff, the founder of Hyperliquid, wrote a reflection on launching the HyperEVM and gave us a small glimpse as to what went into it behind the scenes.
Why We Liked It?
Jeff is such an exemplary founder who is constantly under promising and over delivering. Few times in my nearly 8 years in crypto do I recall a team executing as well as the Hyperliquid team has. Unsurprisingly, the HyperEVM has been launched without any hiccups.
A jet's engine was flawlessly changed mid-flight.
Click on the tweet below to read the full article:
Execution
Extremely proud of the community and team for the smooth launch of the HyperEVM. The upgrade happened amidst billions of dollars of daily volume, where the majority of defi derivatives trade. There was no downtime, and no performance degradation after the launch.
The… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— jeff.hl (@chameleon_jeff)
5:24 PM • Feb 19, 2025
That’s all for now, thanks for checking it out!
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