Founding Engineer at @AptosLabs. Former @Meta, @Google & @IBM. Ex-Founder of Teechain. PhD in Distributed Systems. Tweets are my own.
Joined June 2022
- Chat, @AveryChing just ended an @AptosLabs All-hands meeting by saying "Happy Friday Everyone". ๐ The man is literally 3 days ahead of everyone else. Bullish. ๐ฆ Hyper @Aptos.
- Stealth mode building on @Aptos. Something massive is coming. New infra. Next-gen engineering. The Global Trading Engine is coming. We're about to unlock the new world. ๐ฆ
- Impressive to see the growth of stable coins on @Aptos over the past year. Expecting bigger things in the next few months. Aptos is for stables. ๐ช HyperAptos. ๐ฆ
- After 15+ years in the blockchain & crypto industry, here's every tip I could come up with (bookmark this): 1. HODL.
- Want high performance data structures in @Aptos Move? Take a look at what Igorโs been cooking. ๐ฅ Iโm pretty sure heโs some crazy type of AI robot hybrid. Heโs always online and just keeps pushing code. ๐ฆ1/ Real-time DeFi needs performant data structures โก๏ธ A quick introduction to the 2 latest additions to Aptos Move: โ Ordered Maps for high-speed lookups & updates โ Big Ordered Maps for scale and parallelism ๐งต
- Excited to see Avery (the @Aptos boss) testify at the committee hearing on "American Innovation and the Future of Digital Assets". ๐บ๐ธ๐ฆ Real world Aptos: by the people, for the people. ๐ฆHonored to be asked to testify in front of @HouseAgGOP for their committee hearing on American Innovation and the Future of Digital Assets: From Blueprint to a Functional Framework on 6/4 (Wednesday). Market structure legislation is an important step forward and Iโm looking
- Heads up! There's a very high probability that the "inflation" rate of @Aptos (i.e. the staking rewards rate) will be reduced from ~7% to 3.97% APY in the next few months. AIP-119 (link below) proposes the change, and the reasons for it. If you have concerns, thoughts, orShould the "inflation" rate of @Aptos be reduced (i.e., the staking rewards rate, currently ~7% APY)? Also, if you want it to change, what value (%) should be used? ๐ฆ
- Should the "inflation" rate of @Aptos be reduced (i.e., the staking rewards rate, currently ~7% APY)? Also, if you want it to change, what value (%) should be used? ๐ฆ
- Looks like GCP (@googlecloud) is having a major outage. Time to see which blockchains are truly decentralized ๐๐ Hyper @Aptos. ๐ฆ
- Best blockchain health protocol kit for time spent = 1st 90 min of day: check markets, see bleeding, stare directly at the sun to sanitize your portfolio, 1-3 mins ice cold (visualize market pain), caffeine, code. Last 90min: dim/darken lights, breathe through airdropBest health protocol kit for time spent = 1st 90 min of day: hydrate, sunlight (or other bright light if no sun), 1-3min cold*, caffeine, exercise. Last 90min: dim/darken lights, 1-5min physiological sighs (deep nasal inhale, 1 quick addl. inhale, then to-lungs-empty exhale).










