Austin Castellaw

Capital is flowing into crypto. Over $20B in crypto funds have been raised since the start of 2021 per Dove Metrics. Dry powder is abundant, but liquidity is asymmetrically distributed. Most capital is focused on early-stage, private projects. That’s not sustainable. While retail investors have been able to consume the float of historical crypto... See more

Since the advent of Optimistic Rollups (ORUs) and Zk-Rollups (ZRUs), the paradigm has changed.Computation is run off-chain by high-end machines (the provers) while posting a fraud proof (on ORUs) or a validity proof (on ZRUs) on a settlement chain, which can prove the computation integrity, or in other words, that the computation has been executed... See more

Thanks to these proofs, it is possible to exponentially increase the computational complexity and throughput while maintaining the verification cost linear or even less.

I get paid in a lot of different ways which is the fun part of this. So, there are a few different ways. One of them is in tokens that are effectively like governance tokens from a DAO. So, for Index for example, I’m paid in Index tokens. I personally hold those tokens. Some people who are paid in those tokens sell them right away, it depends on if... See more

Distributing tokens to users through airdrops and ongoing liquidity incentives: Airdrops distribute tokens to users based on their past actions. They may be high-value users of other protocols or have previously used the present protocol — however, this approach rewards past behavior over future commitment. There is no assurance that these people

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So let’s dig into utility. We’re going to cover:

In Coordinape's current app distributing funds is a manual process, with Gnosis Safe and Disperse App being popular ways to use our CSVs for distribution. Soon, we will integrate our first contract element with Coordinape: the ApeVaults.ApeVaults are Ethereum mainnet vault contracts that can be minted by a DAO to hold currency or native tokens in... See more

Play-To-Earn then turns into Play-To-Zero.