
CEO of @DataNexusOrg - Blockchain Data Provider | Council Member @graphprotocol
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Joined June 2021
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Derek | Data Nexus retweeted
This is what The Graph hoped builders would do with x402.
@vAPI_Network turned The Graph's x402 gateway into a few CLI commands. Install, fund a wallet with USDC on @base, and your agent is querying Subgraphs.
Great demo by @MarkTbuilds 🔥
From setup to your first paid API call. See vAPI Call in action.
Our protocol lead @MarkTbuilds walks through installation and demonstrates Call using @graphprotocol as a showcase provider, with USDC payments on @base powered by x402.
Derek | Data Nexus retweeted
Was legitimately excited to try @metricxyz -- still not sure I totally understand how it works but I'm learning something here, the LP yields have been so rich on @RobinhoodCrypto RHC.
This LP on RHC been printing 117% APR last 24hr.
🔗 WETH/USDG LP: app.metric.xyz/pool/4663/0x1…
More details on @metricxyz from docs:
What is it: A DEX for active pools, with custom pricing and liquidity that proactively change with new information. Imagine Uniswap LPs, with some curation, priced according to a ref price outside the AMM pool.
How it works and differs from passive AMM LPs: Active pools split pricing and liquidity into two parts. The Price Provider sets prices: a bid, an ask and a reference price, from oracles, onchain data or custom rules. The pool holds the liquidity in percentage ranges around the provider's quote and executes trades. Unlike most AMMs, the pool isn't its own price oracle: trades move price only relative to the reference. When the reference moves, the ranges move with it.
Role of curators: Curators choose the Price Provider and the pool's settings. LPs choose which ranges to fund.
How to provide/manage liquidity: Your liquidity sits in bins: price ranges relative to the pool's reference price. When the reference moves, your ranges move with it, so there is no range to manage and no rebalancing script.
LPs earn a share of the spread traders pay when trades use bins' liquidity, after the curator's and Metric's fees. Earnings compound into the LP position, with nothing to claim. Unused liquidity earns nothing, even if other bins in the same pool are active. (see example below)
Borrowers pay interest in the stock theyre borrowing. Longs compound their holdings. This aspect is underrated.
This is where decentralizing the validators comes in handy. Exit queue is about to sky rocket.
Security Update: We are responding to a security incident affecting part of our infrastructure.
At this time, we have identified no immediate threat to MetaMask wallets.
As a precaution, we are proactively exiting affected validators within our non-custodial staking operations, in coordination with clients, partners and security advisors.
We’ll share further updates as appropriate. metamask.io/news/user-update…
Derek | Data Nexus retweeted
ethereum:0xc944e90c64b2c07662a292be6244bdf05cda44a7 - Diagonals breaking up as more volume coming in. OBV breaking up with price is bullish.
Derek | Data Nexus retweeted
ethereum:0xc944e90c64b2c07662a292be6244bdf05cda44a7 - And looks like more volume is starting to show up on the chart. Pretty clean R:R with both price and OBV diagonals breaking.
More query volume is coming to The Graph Network.
Here is what is happening, starting with @BNBCHAIN and @0xPolygon. 🧵
Derek | Data Nexus retweeted
Hester Peirce: mass KYC collection builds honeypots that get crypto holders phished, hacked, and physically attacked. Her answer: zero-knowledge proofs - verify without exposing anyone.
Meanwhile, SDNY is retrying Roman Storm in April 2027 - on the theory that he committed a crime by NOT building one of those honeypots.
The government's own expert, AnChain.AI's Philip Werlau, told the jury Tornado Cash needed a "user registry": a list of authorized users, with logins "like Gmail, Spotify." On cross he admitted it "could have collected personal identifying information."
When the defense asked whether hackers target exactly such databases, prosecutors objected. Sustained. The jury never heard the answer.
Surveillance is privacy.
Free Roman Storm.
Study the case. Read the docket. See for yourself how bad this precedent is.
Make some noise. This case is a threat to every developer and every user who values privacy. The more people know, the harder it is to get away with.
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce calls to end mass KYC data collection, warning it puts crypto holders at risk of phishing and physical attacks.
Pierce says the current KYC/AML system creates massive databases of sensitive information that can be hacked, leaked, or exploited.
She's pushing for zero-knowledge proofs (ZK proofs) that could verify users meet regulatory requirements without exposing their personal information.
Derek | Data Nexus retweeted
Happy Fall.
1-Thank you @graphprotocol , @EYnews, @Kaleido_io , @eth_systems , @ECHInstitute for renewing / joining this summer !
2-We have a brand new website.
entethalliance.org
3-We also have a brand new program, and a lot more going on.
See you in @Sibos and NYC.
What’s the over/under that this was ripped off someone else using Claude?
You can’t use Claude to develop IP.
Claude has discovered a previously unknown enzyme system hidden in the DNA of bacteriophages. Beside the enzyme’s gene sits a long array of repeating DNA—a structure that looks somewhat similar to CRISPR.
We don’t yet understand what this system does, but only a handful of known systems share its features, and all of them are able to cut, copy, and paste DNA. Historically, the discovery of such programmable systems has helped revolutionize medicine. CRISPR, for instance, is now the foundation of genetic medicines. But it will take much more work to learn what this system does, and whether it can be put to similar use.
Read more: anthropic.com/news/claude-di…
.@CFTC Staff Issues No-Action Position to Providers of Passive Software: cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressRele…
Derek | Data Nexus retweeted
The innovation exemption is an actual thing: sec.gov/newsroom/press-relea…
































