the most important and asymmetrical subfields of crypto:- mev- market structure- privacy- perpification of new assets- scalability (especially burst)- trading modalities- market-based gov- defi composability- zk- adding basic vesting contracts to token launches ...

the last 1,000x thesisthe reason I call privacy the last 1,000x or the last PvE is not just for a soundbite (though it's also that)it is based on fairly obvious, emergent market asymmetries and gaps, along with the right timing on macrothis includes ZK, but is not limited to ZK, and also includes mixers, FHE, and MPCa brief sequence of events:- Bitcoin started as a cypherpunk movement for internet money as a response to the 2008 financial crisis- it was novel, anarchist, and unproven — no one knew if it wou ...

RT mert | helius.dev (@0xMert_)dear noobsthe point of blockchains is not transparency, and it never has beenthis is a psyop that early crypto people told the feds when they kept being accused of doing crimethe point is quite literally consensus without central truste.g., a bunch of computers agreeing with each other on balances without needing someone in the middle like a bankin other words, the point is public verifiabilityback in the day, the only way to achieve this was for everyone to see everythingsato ...