The Daily Index — Thursday, July 11, 2024 · TLDR Index

MARKETS & BUSINESS

TLDR Crypto

TLDR Crypto

ELECTRIC CAPITAL MARKET MAP

Electric Capital's Crypto Market Map tracks over 1,500 significant crypto projects organized into six tech layers and 137 categories. The map, which shows the rapid growth and specialization of the industry since 2019, highlights core infrastructure, scaling, interoperability, developer tools, protocols, and applications. Despite its comprehensive scope, the map remains in beta. Electric Capital is inviting community contributions for further improvement.

threadreaderapp.com · 5 min

TLDR Crypto

MEV-RESISTANT DYNAMIC PRICING AUCTION OF EXECUTION PROPOSAL RIGHTS

This mechanism of selling block building and execution rights in advance is the latest development in enshrined proposer builder separation for Ethereum. In this model, builders purchase a proposal slot, with the final price dynamically determined by the amount of outstanding purchases. The payment is burned, similar to EIP-1559.

threadreaderapp.com · 2 min

TLDR Crypto

TRACK NARRATIVES ON DEFI LLAMA

Defi Llama has added support for narrative tracking, giving analysts the average performance per category weighted by market capitalization.

threadreaderapp.com · 1 min

TLDR Crypto

CRYPTO INDUSTRY TRENDS H1 2024

Ethereum maintained its dominance among Layer 1 blockchains in the first half of 2024, while Solana saw a resurgence. Bitcoin enjoyed renewed interest due to Ordinals and Layer 2 solutions. Startups are increasingly focused on infrastructure, DeFi, payment, and AI x crypto products. There has been a noticeable geographic shift toward Asia and Africa due to regulatory challenges in the US.

x.com · 3 min

TLDR Crypto

PERMIT2 IN SIMPLE TERMS

Uniswap's Permit2 is a novel way to improve UX for ERC-20 token transfers. Instead of approving a transfer to an individual smart contract, users grant a central Permit2 contract transfer authority and then perform a signature-based approval to transfer to specific contracts.

threadreaderapp.com · 1 min

TLDR Crypto

SLOT-TO-PING AND ANOTHER DESCRIPTIVE MEASURE FOR BLOCKCHAINS

The slot-to-ping (s2p) ratio is the ratio of the block production time to the time it takes for the block to reach other validators. A smaller s2p promotes centralization, as delays in block production times lead to higher returns by allowing producers to include more blocks. block-bits-per-slot-time against propagation/execution bandwidth must also be considered as it considers block data transfers instead of assuming it is always a tiny fraction of the slot time.

0x0000.app · 4 min

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VITALIK BUTERIN PUSHES FOR ETHEREUM TO RESPOND TO 51% ATTACKS IN A MORE AUTOMATED WAY

Vitalik Buterin is urging the Ethereum network to implement automated responses to potential 51% attacks to reduce the reliance on social consensus and improve the network's resilience. He also highlighted the importance of adopting light clients, ensuring quantum resistance, and simplifying protocols for enhanced security and usability.

theblock.co · 2 min

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IMPROVING PREDICTABILITY IN ARBITRUM DAO'S OPERATIONS

A new proposal for the Arbitrum DAO that aims to enhance the predictability of its voting processes by establishing a regular schedule for posting proposals and incorporating a holiday break.

forum.arbitrum.foundation · 7 min

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FOUNDER OF MAGICEDEN ON WHAT'S NEEDED FOR NFTS

The biggest issue facing NFTs today is not a lack of use cases but the need for better infrastructure, or "rails," to support them.

threadreaderapp.com · 2 min

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BITCOIN'S DETERMINISTIC SECURITY MODEL - OR HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE HALVING

Bitcoin's security model is broken due to the diminishing effects of the halving on mining rewards and the network's present overpayment for security.

x.com · 2 min

TLDR Crypto

AGI WILL OBSOLETE BLOCKCHAINS

Blockchains provide objective, strict consensus, whereas AGI has more complex, subjective consensus and is therefore better than blockchain.

threadreaderapp.com · 1 min