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andrew-saul.eth

Learner/investor in #defi & #decentralised social media/publishing. Find me on Solana (andrewsaul.sol) on Bulb (linked in profile)
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Do to Earn: A spammer's paradise... or hell

Only Possible on Solana Solana has the lowest cost of transactions out of all the major blockchains. And the lowest cost of transactions out of any blockchain if you calculate by cost per MB.  This is the major driving factor for certain types of projects to launched on the Layer 1 blockchain. 

My Bonk Story: A history of Bonk

This was orginally produced as an X thread for a Superteam bounty https://x.com/defi1crypto2/status/1761910349396389977?s=20
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School of Bonk Lessons 1 & 2: SVB and Kamino

Appearances can often be deceiving. Take $BONK for example https://www.bonkcoin.com/about
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Lens Protocol & web3 content economy & scaling design

I'm really interested in web3 content. Might even be more bullish on it than defi, and I'm super bullish on defi.
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Burrow & Meta Pool: Core NEAR defi infrastructure

I’ve recently shifted my NEAR strategy from looping stNEAR (see my previous blog post about that) to staking with two of the infrastructure projects I believe are the leaders on the NEAR protocol at present: Burrow and Meta Pool
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EigenLayer: Reselling Ethereum security

https://www.eigenlayer.com/EigenLayer
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FRONK: The frog who was lost but is on the way back

I think any good crypto portfolio should have a small amount of wild bets in it. It is still such wild west times in crypto that there is a higher than usual chance of strange little projects taking off. These periods only happen once in any industry’s history and plenty are left regretful they never were a part, and that’s usually not a regret for any missed monetary gain but for the missed experience.
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Scaling the OG blockchains Ethereum & Bitcoin

As crypto adoption as continues to grow the diversity of users has grown along with it. Once purely the domain of Layer 1 blockchain token trading the crypto ecosystem has expanded into many different use cases. So much so a new term emerged to better describe this broader church it had become: web3.
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Good UX as a cybersecurity vulnerability

Prominent tech YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips was hacked recently, having many videos deleted and a scam video streamed on their (renamed) channels for over an hour before YouTube intervened and shut the channels down. Unfortunately this type of attack on YouTube channels has not been uncommon in recent times.