founder, engineer. cofounded @sovereignxyz (acq. by @Celestia). prev ethereum core dev @Teku_ConsenSys. nyc / istanbul
Joined May 2017
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Cem Özer retweeted
Amplifi is the leverage for everything app. If it trades onchain, you should be able to trade it with leverage. Today, Juiced becomes Amplifi Trade and offers leverage on @RobinhoodCrypto Chain tokens.
Predict: up to 10x on @Polymarket event contracts
Trade: up to 5x on launchpad tokens and long tail assets
Most of what trades onchain has no leverage today:
- 72% of the most traded DEX assets have no perp on Hyperliquid or Lighter. These assets account for ~45% of DEX volume.
- Polymarket will do around $80B volume this year with no margin at all.
So far: $5M traded, 425 traders, 1,317 markets live.
Predict. Trade. Amplified.
Cem Özer retweeted
When you rely on LLMS: braindead slop-cannon
When I rely on LLMs: on the bleeding edge of cognitive offloading
I just reserved my Cloudflare Wallet tag: cemozer.cloudflare.pay.
Reserve yours now at cloudflare.pay
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When we started Sovereign, the idea that major applications would run their own chains was contrarian. Today it is consensus, and the biggest apps in the industry are proving it.
Sovereign is now part of Celestia Labs.
Together we will work with customers end to end, from first design through engineering to fully customized, high-performance chains in production.
I am proud of what @prestonevans__ and I built with our team, and grateful to everyone who backed and supported us.
Cem Özer retweeted
We started Sovereign with a simple belief: the most serious applications will eventually run on their own chains. The market is now proving that thesis in real time.
Today Sovereign becomes part of Celestia Labs.
Together we cover the entire stack for teams building custom chains, from data availability to execution to hands-on engineering.
The framework and the mission continue, with far more behind them. The full story is in the thread below.
Cem Özer retweeted
Often when I say “demand for intelligence is unlimited” people assume I mean low-level human intelligence which is just a substitute good for existing employees.
The bar is higher. Most employees are effectively mid IQ agents with contextual awareness priced at the marginal utility curve with hiring managers often incapable of discerning what the marginal return is on each incremental hire.
The intelligence i am referring to is when models have higher IQs than humans and are capable of creativity that surpasses humans.
The demand for that is unlimited because the entirety of our economy is based on the 0.001% of humans that ever had the rare combination of intellect, agency and creativity to discover, invent and commercialize the things that we get up every day to earn to spend on.
No because the marginal employee for a non intellectual task is not contributing marginal intelligence. For open ended fields where the marginal employee hire is adding intelligence that the employer didn’t previously have the demand is fairly unlimited. For example how many drucks would citadel hire? How many ilyas would DeepMind hire? How many carmaks would Microsoft hire?
The reality is unique marginal intelligence is incredibly scarce. Most humans are stupid and don’t contribute intelligence they contribute mobility.
the biggest (and likely the only) value prop of crypto is global access to financial products
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Cem Özer retweeted
ive spent the last year building the best architecture for trading
we chose solana because we’re aligned with the same end state: internet capital markets with global access, high-performance execution, and on-chain settlement. we just have different opinions on how to get there
blink is built to provide the same execution guarantees as traditional exchanges without making compromises on transparency, verifiability or fair-access
colocated users get deterministic, ultra-low latency order entry and market data: users win because they are better traders not because they have an unfair edge
blink is fully verifiable, auditable and transparent: users can audit every property of blink in real-time
to make this all possible we're evolving sequencer design. orders are sequenced at line-rate, in real-time and distributed over @doublezero multicast
blink is built for price discovery: real-time sequencing and market data, fair-access, no speed-bumps
until now traders have been forced to choose between best-execution on black-box models or lower-quality transparent open-models
if you are a trader, market maker, or liquidity provider who wants to compete on an equal playing field where the best traders win, reach out, id love to talk
Cem Özer retweeted
Very exciting to see @SynchronicityHQ finally come out of stealth.
This team has been quietly building for a long time, and this first look already hints at something much bigger: institutional grade trading tools made dramatically more accessible to everyone.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. Wait until they bring AI into the builder.
Reply for early access.
Modern markets are fundamentally extractive
We've spent three years rewiring them from scratch
One core feature is everyone deploying their own bots without code or infra
Here's a first look @SynchronicityHQ We're looking for strategists to test drive. Reply for early access
because buy and burn is growth spend.
and the best way to grow a network is to create a hardcore base of believers who are economically aligned with its success.
is the ethereum foundation in touch with anthropic? asking for a friend.
Introducing Project Glasswing: an urgent initiative to help secure the world’s most critical software.
It’s powered by our newest frontier model, Claude Mythos Preview, which can find software vulnerabilities better than all but the most skilled humans.
anthropic.com/glasswing
Cem Özer retweeted
Ok I just want to add one thing.
Folks, for state actors, the value of having a quantum computer is massively higher if you DON’T tell people you have a quantum computer.
Exploiting Bitcoin is a parlor trick. Exploiting the world’s communications is where the value is at.
the speed with which we worked through ZK proof optimizations makes it clear how quickly we can now move through quantum optimizations.
and there is much, much more money at stake.
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Cem Özer retweeted
Three years ago I suddenly developed blurry vision in one of my eyes.
Went to the GP.
Eye drops. No effect.
Went to a specialized eye hospital.
No solution there either.
A few weeks ago I tried something new: I asked an LLM.
It analyzed my diet and suggested I might be omega-3 deficient. It also pointed me to studies showing that this can impair the meibomian glands (which produce the oily layer that smooths the surface of the cornea.)
I started taking algae oil supplements.
Two weeks later… my vision is perfectly restored!
Honestly, I got a bit emotional.
Banning AI from being used for medical questions is a terrible idea.
