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    samlaf
    @samlafer
    Apr 29
    Sheel: So if I send $1,000 from the US to my cousin in India via stablecoins, what would she get in INR? Brian: She'd get ₹83,000 worth. And the best part — it's basically free. Sheel: Basically free, or free? Brian: Free. Stablecoins make remittance fees go to zero. Sheel:
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    Sheel Mohnot
    @pitdesi
    Apr 28
    How can stablecoins reduce remittance fees to zero? makes no sense to me whatsoever. The bulk of remittances $ is migrant workers sending money to family, from US->Mexico, US->India, Gulf->India Stablecoins can make the money-movement leg much cheaper/near-zero but that isn't
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    samlaf
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    Nov 16, 2022
    Just joined @eigencloud! Super stoked and looking forward to learning from, contributing to, and pushing forward with one of the top teams in the space. Let's BUIDL!
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    samlaf
    @samlafer
    Jan 14, 2024
    Ethereum started with a mempool and flashbots removed it. Solana started with no mempool and jito added one.
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    @samlafer
    Sep 14, 2022
    This past month I got the chance to participate in @wintermute_t x @encodeclub's MEV hackathon. @0xK1000 and I just submitted our project "MEV mitigation using modular DAG-based consensus protocols" (docs.google.com/presentation/d…). Would love some criticism/feedback!
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    MEV mitigation using modular DAG-based consensus protocols
    MEV mitigation using modular DAG-based mempools Kamil Begny Samuel Laferriere
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    samlaf
    @samlafer
    May 5, 2022
    We wrote the first (?) btc lightclient on starknet at the starknet hackathon in Amsterdam. Check it out: github.com/samlaf/starkne… Thanks to @GuthL for the constant moral and technical support, and my awesome teammates @maxgillett github.com/tekkac and BrDu#1111
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    samlaf
    @samlafer
    Jan 21, 2024
    Did I just read that Sui has a way to enforce NFT royalties onchain?
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    Sam Blackshear
    MystenLabs.sui
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    Jan 17, 2024
    IMO this is one of the best security features of Sui's native object ownership--classic wallet drainer attacks (e.g., giving a token/NFT approval to a smart contract that later gets hacked) are impossible by construction. If coins or NFT's are owned by address A, it is only
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    @samlafer
    Nov 5, 2019
    For those having trouble understanding the connections between the different parts in @svlevine's (awesome) control as inference tutorial, I made this diagram synthesizing the major relationships.
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    Sergey Levine
    @svlevine
    May 3, 2018
    If you want to know how probabilistic inference can be tied to optimal control, I just put up a new tutorial on control as inference: arxiv.org/abs/1805.00909 This expands on the control as inference lecture in my class: rll.berkeley.edu/deeprlcourse/
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    samlaf
    @samlafer
    Jan 30, 2024
    Really enjoying the Aptos guys coming out on twitter and sharing their views more. This guy is insta follow for me.
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    Zekun Li
    Aptos Labs
    @zekun000
    Jan 30, 2024
    Here's some of my takes, got to the party a bit late, opinions are my own.
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    samlaf
    @samlafer
    Feb 12, 2024
    Check out our new work. Been thinking about "illuminating the dark forest" of Narwhal based chains for a while, and @0xtrojan_ the powerhouse was just the perfect fit for this task. Was a blast to work with him.
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    Rohan | Kuru
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    Feb 12, 2024
    1/ MEV 🤝 DAG: As a part of the @eigencloud research fellowship, I worked with @samlafer on analyzing the landscape of MEV on chains that use Narwhal DAG-based consensus mechanism ♾️🧵 Here is what we found 👇
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    samlaf
    @samlafer
    Dec 11, 2022
    Themis (@_mahimna et al's) protocol achieves a precise notion of decentralized-FIFO ordering called batch-order-fairness (BOF) without sacrificing liveness, but requires n>4f. @0xK1000 and I tried to distill the paper, and stumbled upon interesting things!
    samlaf.notion.site
    Themis For The Rest Of Us | Notion
    Authors: Kamil Begny & Samuel Laferriere
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    samlaf
    @samlafer
    Sep 18, 2022
    Replying to @0xmisaka
    It certainly has blocks. It's a DAG-based mempool, not unlike that of Avalanche, where every validator can "propose" blocks every round of the DAG, all of which get totally ordered by a consensus running on top of the DAG. See my recent thread:
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    samlaf
    @samlafer
    Sep 14, 2022
    This past month I got the chance to participate in @wintermute_t x @encodeclub's MEV hackathon. @0xK1000 and I just submitted our project "MEV mitigation using modular DAG-based consensus protocols" (docs.google.com/presentation/d…). Would love some criticism/feedback!
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    samlaf
    @samlafer
    Jun 17, 2023
    Saturday morning brain dump of web2 auth, smart contract wallets EIP-4337, zk auth, and eigenlayer AVS/operator registration. What we want is **fine-grained**, **programmable** authorization and authentication.
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    samlaf
    @samlafer
    Apr 12, 2024
    Tell me you're a blockchain dev without telling me you're a blockchain dev @kachapah
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    samlaf
    @samlafer
    Oct 2, 2022
    Do you view PoW and PoS as sybil resistance mechanisms, or as economic incentive-alignment schemes? Or are those two sides of the same coin?