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🌾 DeFi Mechanics and Tokenomics
⚙️ Solidity
👁 Anonymity and Digital Identity
🧩 Memetics, Psyops, Autism

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You can contact me @KeyedDepartment also

custom RPC to save money on txns by waiting for low gas

https://gashawk.io/

big list of resources for Lens Protocol

https://github.com/0xJuancito/awesome-lens-protocol

Framework for Airdrops — a number of questions teams should ask themselves before airdropping tokens

https://twitter.com/deusexdao/status/1575074308212170752

defi options may NOT be the next big thing

https://twitter.com/VirtualKenji/status/1607433062773850115

sqlite3 proof-of-concept implementation in Solidity

https://github.com/hananbeer/sqlidity

why: https://twitter.com/high_byte/status/1607853723883114496

AMMs vs Orderbooks, pros and cons, hybrid models

https://mirror.xyz/0x0C23E0dE114d28112f52203cb9583B9826b05dDe/TLXq6hCSsgVmxIWxPRihWEQBoPr9Pf2-MYKATDctNp4

breakdown of Dopex's options products

https://medium.com/@tztokchad/options-options-options-8adfe1eecb8c

defi 2022 end-of-year report by DefiLlama

https://twitter.com/0xngmi/status/1608497285763313669

speedrun review of report:
https://twitter.com/0xngmi/status/1608584378141282304

big list of web3 startup ideas (2023 edition)

https://alliancedao.notion.site/Crypto-Web3-Startup-Ideas-2023-Edition-48d40ccadeeb42a48056659fcce109b1

key insights

Monopolies in DeFi. Some categories are dominated by a single protocol.
Instead of fighting market leaders, choose an emergent category and all in on it to secure leadership.
https://twitter.com/0xKofi/status/1608510681397039108

Lessons from the alt-L1 rotation. Joint liquidity incentives are powerful.
https://twitter.com/0xKofi/status/1608526123637383181

How US interest rates, inflation, CPI impacted crypto.
https://twitter.com/0xKofi/status/1608508723919462404

FRAX stablecoin ecosystem end-of-year 2022 review

https://flywheeloutput.com/p/frax-year-in-review-2022-the-defi

Loss-versus-Rebalancing is a better metric for LP, rather than Impermanent Loss.
It tells you how much money you lose from providing LP.
So you can compare it with potential earnings and decide whether it's profitable.

explaining threads:
https://twitter.com/jason_of_cs/status/1558510325770633216
https://twitter.com/DeFi_Cheetah/status/1608677561919508480

some solutions to LP losses are:
- dynamic fees (adjusting with volume, volatility, etc.)
- better price quoting (e.g. from an oracle)

⭐️ video lecture:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5vyJJb-Uyw

full research paper:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.06046.pdf

collection of free AI tools for content-making

- Stable Diffusion models
- Text-to-Speech models
- ChatGPT tools
- Video editing software
- much more

https://based.builders/ai-tools/

WETH implementation with unlimited free flashloans

https://github.com/WETH10/WETH10

collection of links dedicated to web3 privacy

https://github.com/Msiusko/web3privacy

open-source web3 vector icons

https://fusion.li/app

Nouns-like collection creator (one NFT per day auction)

https://nouns.build/