Devin Baker

My hope is that we use AI to automate the inhuman so we can return to the human. Leaders should stop rewarding performative busyness and start rewarding discernment, creativity, judgment, honesty, clarity, and care. Parents should reclaim attention and focus that attention on what matters most. Creators should create with the lightheartedness of... See more

Trying to entice lurkers to participate more also completely misses the point: just because anybody can publish doesn't mean they should ; and more subtly, it doesn't mean they should want to. Before social media, it was a completely natural idea that someone could spend their entire life reading books without ever once entertaining the idea that... See more

Marketing is the generous act of helping someone solve a problem

In a traditional rollup, users send their transactions to a dedicated sequencer — essentially a single machine operated by the rollup team. This sequencer is responsible for collecting user transactions, determining their sequence, and packaging them into blocks that are posted on Ethereum.

Tech Flywheel . They’ve built an open source framework for launching agents, called Eliza, that many of the top sentient coins are building on top of and contributing to. It’s becoming a no brainer tech stack for people wanting to build crypto agents which is quickly becoming everybody. They also have a “standard deal” where if you build on Eliza... See more

Back in 2013, there was a point where 48.3% of the coins hadn’t moved in over a year, even though the network was still relatively young. The resulting bull market unlocked a lot of those coins, and the ratio fell to 35.7% in 2014. This was a 12.6% reduction in the ratio.

In early 2016 after a long bitcoin bear market, 61.5% of coins had not moved... See more

But there’s a perception now that all the smartest people are over buying smart contract chains. Smart people know the jig is up. If not now, then soon. The only people buying here are suckers—Uber drivers, Tom Lee, and KOLs who say stuff like “trillions.” And maybe the US Treasury. But not the smart money.

This is bullshit.I don’t believe it, and... See more

TAO emissions flow to subnets based on the amount of staked TAO each has attracted. This stake-weighted distribution system creates a market-driven approach to resource allocation. It’s a never-ending competition among subnets to produce the most valuable work, as determined by the network.

Network TEV (Total Economic Value) is defined as follows:

TEV = Network Fees + MEV Tips + Issuance