jim (@0xjim) • Hey
Techno DJ based in Brooklyn
Publications
- Dropping heat for all my followers on Instagram+Soundcloud+Lens 🤝
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/richthajim/
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/smoboi
- Excited to announce that I'll be sharing my music and DJ journey on Lens!
I'm smoboi, a Brooklyn-based DJ playing disco- and funk-inspired techno. Will be posting my sets and eventually my own productions on Lens.
Follow me on Instagram and Soundcloud (links below) and DM me there for a Lens-related gift 🙂
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/richthajim/
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/smoboi
- **The Housing Trilemma**
Homes can only have two of three properties:
**- Cost**: affordability of your monthly rent/mortgage
**- Location**: proximity to things that you care about (e.g., the water, the office, friends, bars, restaurants, parks)
**- Quality of Home**: desirable characteristics and features of your shelter (e.g., natural light, patio, space, amenities, modern appliances)
A perfect equilibrium that assures you’re hating some part of your life.
**Hate being at home**
This is the bucket that most New Yorkers find themselves in. Given a fixed housing budget, people are left with the choice of solving for location or for home quality.
Of course, most young people are going to solve for location. Close to the subway, close to friends, close to all their favorite local haunts. Who cares if the apartment doesn’t get any natural light? They are out-and-about, living their best life.
**Hate where you are**
Whether its the commute or your safety, if you solve for cost and home quality, you’ll going to be skimping on location.
That null,500 1,200 square foot 2-bedroom 2-bath with a backyard in Canarsie looked awesome in theory, but then you start to regret the 40-minute ride on the L train to go climbing with your friends at Vital. God forbid, you have to go into their office for an in-person meeting. That’s 2-hours round trip with 3 transfers, and you are *not* a podcast person. Add in the fact that any Uber from Manhattan after midnight is $40+ without surge, and the price tag starts to slowly climb up.
**Hate your bank account statements**
OK, fuck it. You only live once. Time to get a place that you not only love but is also close to the things that you love as well.
Newly anointed as the most expensive city in the world, New York makes everyone absolutely and utterly broke. If you’re already broke, what’s being a little more broke to you?
Until you splurge on a new construction penthouse in Brooklyn Heights and realize that your net worth was higher post-undergrad than it is now.
Forget maxing out your IRA, we ball.
**In conclusion**
While the examples I listed were neighborhods specific to New York, you can not only extrapolate this to any other city, but also zoom out into a more macro scale. Post-covid life and remote work has shifted the housing trilemma to include cities, regions, and even countries in the scope of decision making.
Should you live in Cleveland, Ohio? How about Mexico City (please don’t)? Or should you move back in with your parents for maximum savings?
No matter what you pick, you’ll always end up being unhappy with some facet of it. That’s the trilemma, baby.
- I strongly believe that we're headed towards the modular future, where blockchains enabled by the modular stack will be trivially configured and stood up.
In this new paradigm, there is a huge opportunity to re-imagine existing infrastructure for the modular world. For example, what does a block explorer look like in a world where creating a blockchain is as easy as clicking a button?
Here are some other tools that need to be redesigned for the modular world (and this isn't a simple copy-and-paste, they need to be re-created from first principles):
- wallets
- RPC nodes
- data indexing
- bridges
- oracles
- RWA/native asset issuance
- ecosystem analytics
- Comprehensive list of all rollup-as-a-service solutions:
The OGs: Cosmos SDK and Substrate
Eclipse: SVM and other VM RUs on Cosmos
Dymension: RollApps on Cosmos
Saga: Chainlets on Cosmos
Rollkit by Celestia: Sovereign RUs or normal RUs on Celestia DA
Sovereign Labs: Sovereign ZKRUs using Celestia DA and RiscZero
Slush: L3s on Starknet
Constellation: ORUs on Ethereum
Stackr: TBD, ETH India winner
Artesi: "full stack" RUs with explorer and MPC wallet included
Alt Layer: TBD, related to Substrate
Conduit: TBD
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Over the past 3 months, I fell in love with the interoperability problem. I spoke to nearly every project in the space, and decided to summarize my 200+ hours of research into an article. Here’s what I learned:
https://jim.mirror.xyz/a9PxnNed9o8DSpssUBQeZTvRASmDaY_HDAnGXOMyeFY
- 🤌 Talking is overrated, our fave way to communicate is through the voice of memes
🚀 Introducing re:meme
https://mirror.xyz/wearenewt.eth/jQu6TqqUbpBvk-Tt-oYnTsXMDWtTRI0HXZm581er4-Q
🤩 We put smiles on people's faces, it’s honest work and it brings us joy
- Today we’re excited to announce Config, an easy-to-use dev tool for any DeFi Protocol.
We first built Config as a clean, clear visualizer of the Aave Protocol risk parameters, and generalized it for any protocol with global parameters.
Config is the first application built by Newt for the Aave Protocol, and it’s dead simple to use. It does only one job and does it super well: visualizing contract parameters.
Check it out at http://config.fyi 👈
For Aave Protocol, using Config is far easier and more accurate than going to each individual asset on app.aave.com
Config uses the Aave SDK to read from the smart contracts, so Config is an up-to-date source of truth for all asset parameters on v2 and v3.
In order to generalize Config, we built a data abstraction layer that allows for the easy insertion and visualization of other DeFi protocols’ parameters. Benqi Finance was added in less than an hour by @josepbove.lens
Check out our GitHub for step-by-step instructions on how to add another protocol for Config to visualize ➡️ https://github.com/WeAreNewt/config.fyi
In the repo, we have a demo branch that shows how to add test data into the app.
Want to see Config support protocols like Uniswap and Curve? and easily add other protocols’ parameters in under an hour. Visit the Git repo for instructions.
- It's time to talk about Aave's upcoming stablecoin $GHO
I studied the design presented several weeks ago on the governance forum & anticipated how Aave + GHO could look like (aGHO anyone?)
👇It also includes revenue projection: it will be juicy as ~$50K/daily is my lowest estimation (assuming a 1.5B market cap & 1% borrowing fee)
Read the full article here:
https://tokenbrice.xyz/aave-gho-stablecoin/
- the future is now old man!!