Brian Armstrong: Coinbase Wallet

Our self custodial wallet, @CoinbaseWallet has come a long way.

It’s now the most downloaded mobile self-custody wallet in the US. And you don't have to migrate anything over to use it - the same seed phrase can be used across multiple wallets. Here’s some highlights 🧵

— Brian Armstrong - barmstrong.eth (@brian_armstrong) May 16, 2022

1/ Let’s start with trading. Live price charts, combined with seamless DEX trading powered by the @0xproject API make it easy to access thousands of tokens.

The DEX feature supports trading on Ethereum, Polygon, BNB Chain, and Avalanche. pic.twitter.com/hlR95oLMw6

— Brian Armstrong - barmstrong.eth (@brian_armstrong) May 16, 2022

2/ Speaking of networks, Wallet has best-in-class multi-chain support. Wallet “just works” on the top EVM chains like Arbitrum, Optimism, Avalanche, Polygon etc. No need to manually enter token addresses, RPC codes, block explorers.

— Brian Armstrong - barmstrong.eth (@brian_armstrong) May 16, 2022

3/ Our unified asset view makes it easy to manage your crypto and NFTs across all supported networks.

In addition to Ethereum and EVM-compatible networks, Wallet also supports Solana & SPL tokens. Support for Solana dapps and NFTs coming soon. pic.twitter.com/oK8inyG7ik

— Brian Armstrong - barmstrong.eth (@brian_armstrong) May 16, 2022

4/ We now have one of the best NFT experiences on both mobile and extension - we built a dedicated NFT Indexer so your NFTs on Ethereum appear in your wallet in seconds, not hours or days. More networks coming soon. pic.twitter.com/AUA2gKys5j

— Brian Armstrong - barmstrong.eth (@brian_armstrong) May 16, 2022

5/ The new DeFi tab makes it easy for you to keep an eye on all of your assets that are in DeFi protocols. pic.twitter.com/pvlSOSCe2C

— Brian Armstrong - barmstrong.eth (@brian_armstrong) May 16, 2022

6/ It’s critical that we make Coinbase Wallet secure and easy to use.

We added support for @Ledger hardware wallets to make it easy to connect to dapps with the trust and security of a hardware wallet. pic.twitter.com/vYr2OWMt9y

— Brian Armstrong - barmstrong.eth (@brian_armstrong) May 16, 2022

7/ It’s also easy to fund Coinbase Wallet with a debit card or bank account.

We recently launched Coinbase Pay and built it right into Wallet extension, meaning 98M Coinbase customers are just a few clicks away from funding their wallet and exploring web3. pic.twitter.com/qy57bcBsqN

— Brian Armstrong - barmstrong.eth (@brian_armstrong) May 16, 2022

8/ Try out Coinbase Wallet for yourself - it’s easy to import your existing self-custody wallet with a seed phrase, or create a new one.https://t.co/ppIvaIcWWh

— Brian Armstrong - barmstrong.eth (@brian_armstrong) May 16, 2022

9/ And check out our recent interview on @BanklessHQ https://t.co/ozk9NPImCG

— Brian Armstrong - barmstrong.eth (@brian_armstrong) May 16, 2022

Vitalik Butarin: Contradictions In Thoughts And Values

Thread: some still open contradictions in my thoughts and my values, that I have been thinking about but still don't feel like I've fully resolved.

— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) May 17, 2022

Contradiction between my desire to see Ethereum become a more Bitcoin-like system emphasizing long-term stability and stability, including culturally, and my realization that getting there requires quite a lot of active coordinated short-term change.

— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) May 17, 2022

Contradiction between my preference for reducing reliance on individuals and trying to build fixed systems that can stand the test of time and my appreciation of "live players" and their role in helping the world move forward.

— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) May 17, 2022

Contradiction between my desire to see Ethereum become an L1 that can survive truly extreme circumstances and my realization that many key apps on Ethereum already rely on far more fragile security assumptions than anything we consider acceptable in Ethereum protocol design.

— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) May 17, 2022

Contradiction between my love for things like decentralization and democracy, and my realization that in practice I agree with intellectual elites more than "the people" on many (though definitely far from all) specific policy issues.

— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) May 17, 2022

Contradiction between my desire to see more countries adopting radical policy experiments (eg. crypto countries!) and my realization that the governments most likely to go all the way on such things are more likely to be centralized and not friendly to diversity internally.

— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) May 17, 2022

Contradiction between my desire to see more diversity in interesting *cultures* and my realization that maintaining a culture that's distinct from the mainstream seems to often require *some* kind of insanity or artificial barrier or similar thing that I ideologically dislike.

— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) May 17, 2022

Contradiction between my dislike of many modern financial blockchain "applications" ($3M monkeys etc), and my grudging appreciation for the fact that that stuff is a big part of what keeps the crypto economy running and pays for all my favorite cool DAO/governance experiments.

— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) May 17, 2022

Contradiction between my desire for crypto to grow beyond finance and my realization that finance (incl payments+SoV) is still by far the most successful category of crypto apps, *especially* among third-world residents, human rights activists and vulnerable people generally.

— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) May 17, 2022

Contradiction between my desire to maximally simplify the L1 and my desire to maximally simplify the whole ecosystem (as a simple L1 often "exports" its complexity to higher layers of the stack that users have to adopt anyway)

— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) May 17, 2022

Contradiction between my desire to be a positive-sum mediator figure that can be everyone's friend and my desire to stand strongly with good against evil those times when true evil is what we face.

— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) May 17, 2022

Questions that can be easily resolved in the spiritual domain can feel impossible to resolve when technology is your only tool. Hire me to work on corporate culture. https://t.co/pc27jtNc1m

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 17, 2022