Bankless interviewed former crypto policy advisor Corey Frayer. I found it as infuriating as Uniswap's Hayden Adams did.
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Fascinating if a bit infurating to watch. Some takeaways:

1) Just like Amanda Fischer tweets, an increasingly clear picture is coming forward - they didn't make a real attempt to understand the technology, mostly operated off vibes and things seemingly looking similar to other things on first glance - no consideration at all about self-custody, immutable code, the difference between something running on a server vs a blockchain

2) Zero willingness to disambiguate between the software developers, frontend, protocols, DAOs, etc

3) His definition of what "real" DeFi would be is so narrow he had to use the phrase "immaculate conception" to describe it. Basically dismisses everything other than bitcoin as centralized

4) He doesn't not understand how Uniswap upgrades work and seems to assume we make changes to the protocol codebase after deployment. This is not true. Each deployment is an entirely new codebase, old one continues to exist forever, and users have to choose to migrate funds to it. This is maximum decentralization, probably beyond hardforks.

5) When asked why they don't just hire some smart contract devs to understand how Uniswap works and if we have control he basically just acknowledged they dont understand how it works or make any attempt to. Says it would require trippling their budget. They employ literally thousands of lawyers to sue people, and only needed one dev lol

6) He says "come in and register" was in good faith and not a trap. So point to one crypto project that did this, was successful at it, and built a real business that is currently operational (you can't)

7) Glad he acknowledged it LOOKS really bad that all of Genslers texts magically disappeared even if he tried to play it off as an accident. If 2 years of my texts disappeared when they had a preservation notice against me they probably would have recommended criminal charges

Imagine still thinking ai psychosis is real.

I had hoped to have gotten further in this tech demo this week, but I had a bit of client work and a lot of biz dev pop up. Hopefully I'll bull thru it this weekend.

I'm super excited about it, though.

Не вірю, що це кажу, але Джиммі Карр украв у мене мою ідею дисера

Ну і ладно, я іншу придумаю

Але буває і так

Just finished my initial release version of the WalletConnect Python SDK (fork of the Node version of the Reown Walletkit).

This is an essential building block that will allow you to interact with any cryptocurrency application that relies on WalletConnect programatically or via an MCP server in an agentic context

https://github.com/actuallyrizzn/walletkit-python

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Prompt: Santa Claus driving a speeder on Hoth, escaping storm troopers.

Retail selling their crypto and moving their entire net worth into gold and silver at the top

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