Chief Growth Officer @succinctlabs | Crypto's Forrest Gump 🧙♂️
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Your Twitter audience def does not know the lore behind "meet me outside Uniqlo" cmon, Derek."
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gmantle 👋
Honored to announce that I’ve joined Mantle Network as Chief Growth Officer @0xMantle @Mantle_Official.
Mantle Network isn’t just another L2—it’s the first modular L2 designed for liquidity and capital efficiency.
💪 Next-gen OP Stack implementation with native gas & governance token MNT
🥇 First & largest L2 leveraging @eigencloud for decentralized DA
💾 First & largest L2 integrating @SuccinctLabs' SP-1 and upcoming prover network
💰 $4B+ community-governed treasury—the largest in crypto, fueling long-term growth
🌯 Pristine native assets (mETH, Ignition FBTC) powering seamless liquidity, permissionless yield, and scalable infra for DeFi, payments, and RWAs
Excited to help drive the next phase of onchain finance. Let’s build ⚙️
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After a 6-week sprint speaking with some of the most ambitious teams in crypto, I’m pumped to announce that I've joined @SuccinctLabs as Chief Growth Officer.
Not one for theatrics, so: a (somewhat) tight and *succinct* 🧵👇
We're excited to announce that Brian Trunzo is joining Succinct as our Chief Growth Officer!
@NTBro brings a wealth of experience. With his leadership, Succinct will partner with the world's biggest enterprises and institutions.
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🚨 @SuccinctLabs is hiring a Head of Marketing (and more, Soon Come)...
Are you a visionary strategist? Passionate about the proving economy? About combating AI slop? About blockchains and beyond?
Let's chat 👇
jobs.ashbyhq.com/succinct/7e…
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If you told me a year ago that I'd mention @0xPolygon @AxieInfinity @decentraland and @SkyweaverGame on @cnbc, I'd have called your bluff.
2021, what a wild year it's been -- WAGMI :)
cnbc.com/video/2021/12/29/po…
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🚨 Some per-fessional news (all crypto professionals know that it's always personal)...
Honored to announce that I've been given the distinct pleasure of leading @0xPolygon's global BD team -- the best in crypto (pretty tepid, non-controversial and consensus view, really!).
When I started @0xPolygon, I had over 4000 transactions on the network and was already philosophically aligned with its mission. Nearly 3 years--and many more transactions--later, I am as bullish as ever!
As we embark on Ethereum's next journey, a/synchronous composability and fixing fragmentation, I'm stoked at the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. Thank you @0xMarcB and @sandeepnailwal for your faith in me.
We have mainstream adoption in our crosshairs. I hope to see you in the arena, frens 🏟️
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I just paid fiat on @Nike Web2 front end for an NFT minted on @dotSWOOSH. Never interacted with gas, never handled $MATIC.
We're standing at the precipice. A huge day for Web3.
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Alright guys, I have to ask:
Who is the agency and who hired them first?
(Or is this telepathic brainwave vibes?)
@SuccinctLabs @Uniswap
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I've been @0xPolygon Labs for ~2.5 years. Before I joined, I had > 4000 transactions on the network. I've seen some stuff.
And I have never been more excited about the future of Polygon than I am today. The amount of innovation coming down the pike is jaw dropping.
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The @0xPolygon AggLayer is basically Amazon Marketplace but for Web3.
In Web2, we have Mr. Retailer. He sells things. That's cool. But what sucks about selling things is figuring out distribution, customer experience, tech maintenance and back end logistics? Hard, right? Amazon (and other dropship platforms, like Farfetch) solved this for many brands and retailers.
In crypto, we have L2s. Those are value added resellers ("retailers") of L1 blockspace. But distribution is...tough. And the user experience is outright terrible (7-day withdrawals! 3rd party bridges! 100s of RPCs!). Tech maintenance is expensive (just looking to sell the blockspace -- ugh, who wants to actually deal with all this math?). And the logistics are near impossible (infra integrations can be a nightmare).
Enter AggLayer, the everything space. And the answer to fragmented liquidity, honeypots/attack vectors and Web3 tribalism.
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Precisely why AggLayer is designed to give devs choice: build a sovereign chain, use CDK, use a competitive L2 stack, choose your VM etc. Reasonable minds may differ w/r/t the stack.
Doesn't matter. All that matters is solving liquidity fragmentation and UX.
Do you care which microchip your television uses so that you get your weekly hit of love island in hd?
So why do you think consumers will care which blockspace is used to power their onchain interactions?
I know we keep hearing this, but I think people are STILL massively underestimating that blockspace is a commodity that we keep getting more of.
Within the next 6-12 months, I expect anyone selling blockspace to begin to compete aggressively for transactions and mind share.
Because of this, it's never been a better time to be a builder.
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In case any of y'all listening to @0xMarcB on the @0xPolygonLabs Space re: APECHAIN and want to learn more about his views on decentralization, governance etc., get ya knowledge up 👇
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Aight, the lore:
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Posting low quality selfies to Twitter is the new posting highly produced videos to Instagram. Or not.
See you soon, Austin ✌️
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At the turn of 2025, I joined one of the most promising projects in crypto, @Mantle_Official, to bring structure, momentum and clarity to Mantle Network, the L2. We set the course for a transition that is now under way. With that, my time there is at an end.
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So bullish on @AaveAave and @aavegotchi -- it's been beautiful to witness their rise!
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Another week, another huge set of analytics @0xPolygon
More NFTs sold than Ethereum -- pretty big deal considering the low cost and high velocity nature of these transactions. The importance of low gas (while maintaining a gas market) is clear as day.
polygonanalytics.substack.co…
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Polygon's innovation is unmatched -- always be shipping. Blazing the path:
Plasma > Sidechain > zk acquisitions > Supernets > zkEVM > Polygon 2.0 with $POL, staking hub, LxLy bridge
It's absurd. Can't wait to see what 2030 brings 🛸🌔
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Polygon is ____________
An L1
An L2
zk tech
Interoperability
Security
Privacy
Parallelization
No matter how you answer, I think it's clear Purple Chain will be fine this cycle.
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Double dipping on @nft_paris and @0xPolygon Aggregation Day; or, @sandeepnailwal exercising digital bilocation stigmata.
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To have been there. It was glorious.
They'll never know the glory days of #menswear on Tumblr.
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The team @niftyisland was one of the first I met when I joined @0xPolygonLabs two years ago. Massive shoutout to @charl3s for building this beautiful product and community. The future is UGC, the future is 🏝️
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I'd talk about Web3 to a 6 year old for 6 hours, so it was a pleasure chatting about it on stage with @FortuneMagazine for 30 minutes.
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Optimistic L2 with Movement VM using Litecoin for DA and settling on Ethereum Classic, connected to the AggLayer.
Whitepaper soon come.
Node sale first.
Calling it "Frankenchain."
TOKEN: Frankoin
Who's in?
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Main man @sourcex44 is in town. We're carb-o-loading in preparation for NFT NYC. Probably nothing.
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Hot take for you bird brains:
Ignoring that the future is zk, Polygon POS is a better *settlement layer* (which is all we need our L1s to be anyways) than would-be Eth-Killers.
(Pt. 2 is how CDK-chains are essentially parallel execution for EVM but y'all don't wanna hear it.)
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2025 gonna be a movie 🍿
Live from the Newton booth: @0xPolygon Global Head of BD @NTBro is bullish on payments this bull run.
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When we started talking to Fox, I had the same butterflies in my stomach as when we first started talking to Starbucks about Odyssey.
These trailblazing dapps move the needle. And in an election year...?! Feels like social media in '08: mainstream adoption, SI SE PUEDE 🌐
With the rise of AI tools and AI-generated media, distinguishing truth from lies is difficult. Proving provenance and authenticity of any given piece of content is now more important than ever.
That’s where Verify, by Fox Corporation (built on Polygon PoS), comes in.
The public beta of Verify, an open source protocol for authenticating content, was launched today. This means any media company can register content, from articles to audio to images, and grant usage rights to AI platforms. Using the Verify tool, individual pieces of content are cryptographically signed on Polygon PoS, allowing consumers to identify content from trusted sources.
Already, there are 89k+ pieces registered. As an evolution in source verification, Verify shows how the future of media can live onchain.
Read more here, and learn how to access the platform: bit.ly/3tC8wxb
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Hot take none of y'all want to admit:
@0xPolygon, as measured by daily transactions (you know, the whole reason why we're here), is the most successful and robust L1 in existence.
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As per @VitalikButerin's latest blog post, encouraging to see 3 of his main points directly relate back to @0xPolygon
🧪 Generalized Plasma (original MATIC network)
🧾Maturing L2 proof systems (Plonky all day bro)
🌉 Cross-L2 interoperability improvements (@AggLayer)
vitalik.eth.limo/general/202…
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Polygon is where onchain luxury is happening -- and it's not even close.
Major shoutout to the Arianee fam 💜
ZK-powered consumer engagement inbound.
@ArianeeProject is tapping Polygon CDK to enable brands to leverage the full potential of digital product passports (DPPs) and engagement tokens at large scale.
Through dedicated appchains, Arianee will help brands build highly customizable blockchain infrastructure in a more secure, scalable and cost-effective way, paving the way for the next generation of consumer engagement.
The big takeaway: creating engaging customer experiences for brands, while ensuring uninterrupted connectivity to dApps and services with seamless access to the entire liquidity of Ethereum.
More: go.polygon.technology/4bN5aI…
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I've been obsessed with Boson since the day I stumbled upon it about 18 months ago. Beyond stoked to help onboard them into the Polygon Family 💜
“Decentralized commerce is primed to be a strong adoption driver and powerful enabler of new applications. As one of the leaders in decentralized commerce, we're thrilled that v2 of Boson Protocol is launching on Polygon” - @NTBro, Metaverse Lead, @0xPolygon
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A big issue with Web3 products is that the technologists making them and early adopters using them oftentimes have no style or sense of consumer behavior.
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Nobody is iterating against a roadmap as ambitious as @0xPolygon. That's because nobody has the component parts quite like @0xPolygonLabs, our extended ecosystem and community.
Wait til you see the rest of the news we have for you in the coming weeks!
1/ Today a proposal was published to upgrade Polygon PoS to a zkEVM validium, a first-of-its-kind, decentralized ZK Layer 2.
As a zkEVM validium, Polygon PoS would inherit Ethereum's unmatched security, while preserving low fees & high scalability.
👉🏽 go.polygon.technology/44dysM…
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Stop looking at charts and get back to work, anon. The world is not coming onchain through inertia!
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People love the shiny new thing. And @0xPolygon has plenty of that. However, let's not forget how mindblowingly reliable, fast and innovative POS has been / continues to be:
- 2.5m - 5m txn/day in the bear
- gas regularly < $.005/txn
- regularly handles 100 TPS
Prolly nothin
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Respectfully, the biggest story in L2s for '24 is the @0xPolygon AggLayer.
Some of y'all are really not ready. Some will never be -- not sure how 7-day withdrawals can compete with near-instantaneous native bridging. Pretty sure they can't. Positive we're in for a ride 🏎️💨
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Just another casual @0xPolygon W.
Purple chain is cooking this month 🟣
It only took Polygon one week to hit $1.5B in volume on the Uniswap Protocol
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This is important. Groundbreaking. Participate!
Today @AllezLabs, @MorphoLabs & @Yearnfi posted a pre-PIP for a Polygon PoS Bridge Liquidity Program.
This community-led proposal discusses activating stablecoin reserves on the PoS Bridge & directing yield into new incentive programs.
Give feedback:
forum.polygon.technology/t/p…
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The @0xpolygon AggLayer, home to near instant crosschain transactions with security underpinned and liquidity provided by Ethereum. What's not to like?
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No fungibility here, no ser. Just two jawns enthusiasts, purple pilling the world, one degen at a time 💜
@shovelandstone
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Consensus is shaping up to be one of the strongest events this year. Delighted to attend!
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GM to those who realize Polygon 2.0 is the fourth most important breakthrough in the history of crypto behind Bitcoin, Ethereum and The Merge 💜
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Large brands: in filling "Head of Web3/Blockchain" roles, you need rockstar generalists who understand the entire Web3/blockchain ecosystem. Take your time in finding these unicorns.
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Open, permissionless and completely unopinionated.
Agg it your way 💜💛
the floodgates for altVMs have officially opened, bridging the gap between Move & EVM ecosystems.
@movementlabsxyz is joining the development of the AggLayer, unifying users & liquidity on MoveVM L2 chains (and $160M TVL 😈) across the aggregated network.
nitter.app/movementlabsxyz/status…
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of all virgil's houdini-like tricks, getting people to refer to him as "an architect" is perhaps his greatest feat. fascinating.
2013 - "holds a degree in civil engineering"
2015 - "formerly, an architecture graduate student"
2017 - "trained architect"
2019 - "an architect"
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Other EVM chains be like
Releasing the Type-1 upgrade to the zkEVM prover, the next generation of Polygon’s proving tech. It can generate proofs for any EVM chain—sidechain, optimistic rollup, even Ethereum itself.
When proving Ethereum mainnet blocks, avg per-transaction costs are $0.002 - $0.003.
Developed with @Toposware, the Type 1 is open source and available today.
Together with the AggLayer, the Type 1 prover will allow EVM chains to upgrade to ZK and access the shared state, liquidity, and user-base of the Polygon ecosystem.
What makes it a Type 1? Ethereum equivalence. The Type 1 prover preserves all of Ethereum’s execution logic. In practice, this means that any EVM chain can become a ZK Layer 2, without having to fork or make modifications.
The Type 1 zkEVM prover will be another config available to projects building with Polygon CDK, the modular toolkit for spinning up ZK L2s. All chains building with the modular toolkit can leverage the Type 1 to connect to the AggLayer, while taking advantage of lower costs, lower latency, and better UX. Projects like @Immutable zkEVM, @MantaNetwork, and @CantoPublic are planning to do exactly this.
There are more performance optimizations and a Type 2 mode coming. Right now, the Type 1 can prove existing Ethereum blocks at an average per-tx cost of $0.002 to $0.003. With Plonky3 and additional zkEVM improvements, there will be a 30 to 50X reduction in cost over the next year.
Read on for use cases and in-depth performance benchmarks: go.polygon.technology/3Ox3Ob…
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Been talking to many L1s lately -- fascinating how many of them have zk on their roadmaps and are excited about Polygon CDK even before our conversations. 2024 gonna be a very purple year.
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Lately, I've been inclined to say "blockchain" and "crypto" more than "Web3." I feel good about this.
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Back from Paris, finally got the @youngandsick framed up. Just now need to find a spot for this beauty. Goal: prominent placement 💜💫
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This is the Gwei
Announcing Passport, the first chain-abstracted smart wallet, now in private beta.
Sign up for the waitlist to be the one of the first to build with Passport: magic.link/#passport 🧵
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I'll be in Singapore for @token2049 for my 40th birthday. What should we get into? WRONG ANSWERS ONLY 👇
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If you spin up an L3 -- which is unnecessary, given the AggLayer -- @0xPolygon POS (with decentralized validators, billions of txns and 99.99+% uptime) is far superior as the settlement layer than centralized and nascent L2s.
Ironic that Polygon doesn't promote L3s, ain't it?
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This is the power of the @0xPolygon ecosystem. "ThE mArKeT" still doesn't even know. Biggest secret in plain sight: all our homies love Aggregation.
The news is finally out.
@OKX + @Immutable = unparalleled distribution for web3 games. 🎉
@immutable is partnering with @okx to launch a gamefi launchpad, to onboard the next billion users into web3.
okx.com/learn/okx-immutable-…
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Big up to the 🐐@whatslukedoing and his team @pixels_online -- doing amazing things. Great read from @thirdweb on some of their membership innovation with @UnlockProtocol. A must read!
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CT will have you believe L1s and L2s hate one another. Happy to provide contrary evidence. Shout out @awscloud for bringing this squad together -- loved the discussion! cc: @polygonlabs @offchain @Mysten_Labs @blocknative
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Y'all ain't ready
Past 18 months I have been working on a lot of strategic things, specially related to transitioning Polygon fully into a cutting edge ZK protocol. With most of those transitions complete, its time for me to refocus on what I do the best.
Hence I am taking over as CBO. One more round! Let's do this.
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There will be more fragmentation.
More VMs. More sequencers. More stacks. More wrapped assets.
This is why I am so bullish on @AggLayer and frens like @EspressoSys -- they will facilitate *less* while not increasing trust assumptions or building walls.
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Chess not checkers.
Beyond proud of @0xPolygon BD for continuously rising to the occasion: creativity ⏭️ collaboration with "competitors" ⏭️ slaying Moloch.
Shout out to @vinitopapasito for his incredible work here 👿
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The first zk-L2 that subsidizes gas and builds a network to serve ads against that model in a tasteful way will fall under the "big winners" category.
Really only possible on @0xPolygon CDK (privacy, cross-chain messaging etc.).
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The team @0xsequence were among the first I met after joining @0xPolygonLabs 2 years ago, and they remain among my favorite within the expanded ecosystem. @_michaelsanders and @peterk have built an amazing company with some of the most talented people in blockchain 🤜💜🤛
We had a chat with @VentureBeat to discuss how our web3 tools prioritize gamers while making the development process streamlined.
Let’s dive into how web3 is making a major impact on video games 👇🏾
A thread 🧵
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Ad markets look like CLOBs -- simply, they are matching engines.
With ads, suppliers would pay more for greater guarantees that (1) matching was done properly and (2) impressions are by (a) real users (b) who fit their desired matching criteria.
@SuccinctLabs solves this.
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******** is going to to absolutely change the game.
Bring your own VM, execution, consensus -- Agg it your way 💜
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If you're still confused about NFT utility, stop by @niftyisland and peep my rugstore.exchange Persian carpets.
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Last coupla weeks:
Avail
Meta
Stripe
Hermez
Nightfall
Supernet
Coinbase
PolygonID
We love bear markets 🧸
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TBH @cryptothegame_ couldn't have come at a better time. Really, really need this vibe...
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::whispers::
I think they're starting to get the whole "Aggregated" thing.
::pauses::
Wait till they truly get POL and staking hub 💜
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The true flippening is Paris Fashion Week closing out and all I can think about is @0xpolygon (Sw)AggLayer.
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The @0xPolygon gaming team just 360 windmill jammed home the greatest piece of Web3 gaming literature ever produced 💥🤾♂️🏡
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I love constructive criticism within Web3. This is an incredibly well written and honest take 👏
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