The big story of this year is the blurring line between the 99% of finance that is offchain and the 1% that is onchain.
Crypto founders assume this integration automatically means a bigger slice of the pie. But it's more likely that they'll be reduced to a zero margin synthetic asset, structured product, or wire format.
Traditional markets are already supremely efficient, run by neutral parties and increasingly accessible, and will find and squeeze any profit you're taking.
If you want to win, you have to ask yourself "What can my product do that a traditional financial institution is completely incapable of doing?"
Just "being decentralised" isn't the answer.
Looking at all the different approaches that people are taking, ZKs, Permissioned Networks, TEEs, Homomorphic Encryption, by 2030 there aren't going to be any public transactions left on Blockchains.
@Sig_Network will give you access to all of these techniques everywhere.
3/ At the beginning of this year, we held a private pre-seed to build @Yieldy_io , an intent-based liquidity router featuring 1-click, cross-chain execution matching stablecoins with top-tier yield.
Yieldy's MVP will feature one-click Ethereum USDC deposit into @solana DeFi
Stop thinking about chains as complete ecosystems and start thinking of them as layers.
Ethereum has the best capital markets so use it.
Polkadot has the best identity solutions, so use it.
Midnight has the best privacy, so use it.
Canton has the matching engine so use it.
First week back looking at @CantonNetwork and DAML with the team after a brief 8-year hiatus. A few things stick out:
Canton is super weird. It feels like a completely different evolutionary path from everything post-Bitcoin, but it's highly purpose-built. This makes some things bafflingly complex (AMMs!) but others incredibly simple (intents, RWAs).
If it's your first time, prepare for contracts that are themselves UTXOs(!), written in Haskell, and worrying a lot about who actually owns a contract.
So many successful Defi products right now are off-chain matching engines with on-chain settlement (@CoWSwap, @Polymarket, @near_intents). Canton makes this architecture native "on-chain" with exactly the right level of privacy and global atomicity. This makes sense, at its heart it’s a settlement language and that's the thing it excels at. If they can get the cross-chain story working (hint @Sig_Network), this is absolutely where I'd build that kind of infra in the future.
The divide between what's running on your local infra and what's running globally is also beautifully blurry. The contracts are the same, it's just a matter of who has the right to see what.
There is also a bit of a cult of KYC in their DeFi apps. The vibe is "licensed entities dabbling in permissionless DeFi," whereas on most other chains it's, "I might geoblock North Korea once men with guns show up at my house." I think the happy medium here is more progressive onboarding ala CEXs.
Finally, I realize I had absolutely no idea what I was working on when I was at @digitalasset. Thinking about it now is like remembering being lost in a city that’s now familiar.
Definitely the most unique chain I've dived into in a while.
Soon everybody will have access to Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Hyperliquid and Zcash just by connecting to Polkadot.
Is that clear? Can you understand the reach of this?
@Polkadot x @Sig_Network
Interoperability is becoming the base layer serious teams build on.
Sig Network choosing @Polkadot for their next chain is a clear signal of where multichain is heading. Proud to support them as they expand their work on Polkadot.
Big things ahead.
The next chain we're launching on is... @Polkadot
Why? Because on Polkadot interoperability isn't an afterthought it's been there from the beginning.
Adding Ethereum, Solana, Bitcoin, Zcash and Hyperliquid as Parachains, so every app is multichain by default.
Full talk 👇
Watch the @Polkadotsub0 video from Sig Network X.
And then this one on @TheKusamarian.
The new projects joining the Polkadot eco are really sophisticated & real-problem solving. 🫡
S P A C E M O N K E Y S ˄͎ Podcast
Solving Cross-chain?
→ Sig Network on Polkadot!
feat. @DMillarDurrant
w/ @GldnCalf
Show Notes:
David Millar-Durant (@Sig_Network CEO) dropped a wild interop idea at Sub0: give every smart contract its own private key so dApps can natively
S P A C E M O N K E Y S ˄͎ Podcast
Solving Cross-chain?
→ Sig Network on Polkadot!
feat. @DMillarDurrant
w/ @GldnCalf
Show Notes:
David Millar-Durant (@Sig_Network CEO) dropped a wild interop idea at Sub0: give every smart contract its own private key so dApps can natively touch Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Hyperliquid - whatever - without wrappers or sketchy bridges.
If you’re tired of blockchain silos, this is the interview to give you hope for that full-interop future.
Dive in ↯
0:00 What is Sig Network
2:26 Virtual Parachains
6:15 Native BTC
7:21 Trust Assumptions
9:58 Selling BTC on the Street
13:12 Deploying on Polkadot
15:59 Bringing Industry to Polkadot
19:58 Roadmap
The next chain we're launching on is... @Polkadot
Why? Because on Polkadot interoperability isn't an afterthought it's been there from the beginning.
Adding Ethereum, Solana, Bitcoin, Zcash and Hyperliquid as Parachains, so every app is multichain by default.
Full talk 👇
youtube.com/watch?v=R8a74u…
247 Followers 3K FollowingDevelopment studio dedicated to building Web3 infrastructure, AI systems & applications in the (solana, rust, ts, py, daml ) _ builder on @CantonNetwork @Hedera
2K Followers 7K FollowingPure Gold 🚀 Ride the Curve: No team tokens, just community power. The more we buy, the more it grows. 💹 CA:ChZxNzE66i9yPsgeUqt6KkygiTywy1HkEzcMrbb5Tray
270 Followers 1K FollowingWeb Tree Family
Forests Builder: https://t.co/nsFQbVWHuo
Sound designer at Lights One Studios.
BD for Nature, #DOT #KSM
#ProofResilience
3.9M Followers 4K FollowingThe high performance network powering internet capital markets, payments, AI agents, and crypto apps. Now dealing the @wsop.
145K Followers 36 FollowingWeb3 Foundation is building an internet where users are in control of their own data, identity and destiny. Primary projects include @Polkadot & @kusamanetwork.
675K Followers 204 FollowingGlobal since day one.
https://t.co/FqK933vi8M
Posts are not investment advice or an advertisement for investment services • https://t.co/a9q62KoVZl
127K Followers 847 FollowingFounder and CEO @HaunVentures. Alum @Coinbase Board, @a16z, @TheJusticeDept, @Stanford, @USSupremeCourt w/Justice Kennedy. Teach from time to time @StanfordGSB.
21K Followers 493 FollowingFrontier Tech Venture Fund & Accelerator (@LongHashX) | Investing at the Convergence of AI, Robotics, and Digital Assets || @emmacui + @theshikhai
26K Followers 112 FollowingResearch-driven fund backing the builders of frontier digital infrastructure. Investing since 2017. Pitch: [email protected]
767K Followers 614 FollowingWe back bold entrepreneurs building the next internet.
Posts are not investment advice or an advertisement for investment services. See https://t.co/CrY32IX80W 👇
760K Followers 367 FollowingMessari, by Blockworks. The leading provider of crypto market intelligence products that help professionals navigate crypto with confidence.
23K Followers 1K FollowingInvesting in the Machine Economy. First round. Research-led. Thesis-Driven. Community-first.
Hunting for the next-gen of founders with https://t.co/pCzbWuc1iW
651K Followers 0 FollowingThesis-driven investment firm that invests in tokens and blockchain companies.
***This account does not tweet and never has.***
66K Followers 81 FollowingWe're hiring. Electric Capital is an early stage venture firm focused on cryptocurrencies, blockchain, fintech, and marketplaces.
1K Followers 600 FollowingCofounder @Open_Box_AI & @KRNL_xyz with over 40 years in technology that started @Microsoft in 1989 as the lead for Operating Systems and Programming Languages