Going back to native assets and why I think they’re such a breakthrough. Since you now know about my trader arc (tweet attached), here’s the story of the very first time I went on-chain. A few years ago, going on-chain felt completely different than today. Not because the UX has gotten better today, but because back then there was zero awareness of what you were actually doing. It was 2021, peak dog-coin meta. If you wanted to be early, you had to buy them on-chain before they hit exchanges. So there I was, trying to grab this Akita Inu coin on Uniswap. I was a total noob with self-custody, gas fees, all of it. It felt like jumping out of a plane with no parachute. I set up a Binance wallet, sent some funds over, found the coin, and went for a $50 swap. I hit “swap” and my wallet popped up with some cryptic hex message. Of course, I didn’t read it, I just clicked approve. Next thing I know, I’d spent ~$40 in fees. And not even to buy the coin, but just to “approve the pair.”...
I never expected my crypto journey to happen. I had a career plan, and it didn’t involve crypto, and certainly not scaling Ethereum… until it did. Let’s roll back to where it all started for me. Mid-2020, during Covid. I had just graduated from Engineering School where I specialized in Machine Learning and Mathematics. In my intern experiences, I worked in VR, Oil & Gas, CyberSecurity, and AI. My biggest achievement was building the prototype of what later became the main plant equipment failure predictor of a publicly traded oil and gas company. I also contributed to building an algorithm that adapts traffic light behaviors based on behavioral anticipation of road actors (pedestrians, cars, motorcycles, etc.), and identified several key DDoS attackers of banks and big tech companies based on behavioral patterns. As you probably understood, I was always fascinated about finding patterns that would shape behaviors, no matter the topic. When I finished my studies, I had many...
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