Alex Cutler and Ace are Core Contributors at Aerodrome and Velodrome.
In this episode, we discuss whether Aerodrome and Velodrome can dethrone Uniswap. Alex and Ace share why these popular ve(3,3) AMMs continue to capture a significant portion of Uniswap’s dominance on Base and Optimism, and how they’ve set the bar for teams championing the anti-VC sentiment with zero fees, no VC backing, and no major team unlocks.
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Timestamps
0:00 - Intro 5:43 - Start of ve(3,3) AMMs 9:46 - The flywheel nature of ve(3,3) 15:04 - Aligning core contributors as veToken lockers 20:32 - The magic of a bear market start 26:16 - Why build on Base? 30:42 - Why build Slipstream? 35:30 - Blueberry mid-roll 35:59 - Importance of the OP Superchain 41:24 - Closing
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Super late gm Fam 🍟🫶 i’ve been feeling a bit down today 🥺💔🍟
Take care Love u all 🍟🥺
(More than fries today btw) 💋
hm, my English is bad. did you actually drop the NFT to me? I haven't seen it yet. no pressure, just a question. 😀
Bitcoin falling back to $25,000 would mark its "last big dip" before the next BTC price bull run, says Cane Island's Timothy Peterson.
cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-price-prediction-october-100k-2026-analysis
Gm and a great week friends🤗 My typical Monday morning is like this only👇 🤣 Can someone hold me from falling down 😴😴
I’ve been playing with my collected art all morning. It’s been -the- missing experience here on Lens, and within the span of a few days we’ve been given not one but two fantastic gallery options: @collectz.lens and Gallery.so
Music has done well over the past few months specifically because there are apps to use that music. You can play with your collection, brag about it, share it, etc. Meanwhile, our visual art collections have largely disappeared from memory once they leave the feed. Out of sight, out of mind— dormant data.
This is yet another example of what I mean by “Collects as App Data.” Data is only valuable if it’s used. Collectz and Gallery are apps which let me use my Collects. 🙏
So what’s next? How can we let Galleries use and create more data? Well here’s one possibility:
Attached are two images of a Gallery I just made with my H=N/Tezos collection (be very jealous if you missed out on hic et nunc, it was a special place and time). Link: gallery.so/ryanfox/galleries/2TZBUGWfQ7jpZD5F7cbFwZyA9bK
In the second screenshot, see that gap? Imagine I could signal I need help filling that in. Imagine you could recommend the perfect piece to complete my collection. You could send/sell/suggest a piece and get credit (maybe even a reward like a Finder’s Fee).
Now imagine AI reads the visual input of all of this, and reads the blockchain to understand the art, artist, and social data surrounding this art and is able to connect me with the perfect piece. Or it lets me generate a new piece based on the surrounding pieces, and gives proper accreditation and payment.
That would be an app which uses my Collects to help me find or create new Collects. That would be an app running on a Social Operating System.