Aayush Giri

devrel travel looks glamorous from the outside, you see pics like this and think “damn, nice life” but here’s the thing, this job requires you to talk. a lot. workshops, talks, twitter spaces, 1:1s with devs, answering the same questions with the same energy every single time and it only works if you genuinely love it. like actually love explaining how things work to people because if you don’t, you’re just performing enthusiasm for a paycheck. and developers can smell that from a mile away the perks are real. the views are beautiful. but so is the energy it takes to stay “on” when you’re exhausted as uncle ben once told my friend spiderman - with great power comes great responsibility this has to be a passion. otherwise you’re just working to work.

the switch is permanent btw. nobody goes back

@Param_eth the "fail" step is load bearing. everyone wants the launch without it

Learn English Write Prompts Build Projects Get shit done Launch it Fail Repeat Take Risks Let's gooo again That's life Don't spend your whole life looking for a job or working as someone else's employee

what's one thing you wish you knew before writing your first smart contract? genuinely curious - drop it below

Two accounts you never want to see in your replies

it never actually made sense for me of why I would want to play a game onchain. tbh we just need an asset settlement layer or cross asset registry. so that asset from one game could be used in the other game but at the same time i don’t think games are going to like that and hence this never picked up traction.

@ArshLabs @aztecnetwork @Nethermind do give it a try!

@AayushStack @aztecnetwork @Nethermind awesome

We shipped an open-source faucet for @aztecnetwork , and it works nothing like a typical faucet. On most networks, a faucet sends you a test token and that is it. On Aztec, the concept is fundamentally different. To do anything on Aztec you need two things: Sepolia ETH for L1 gas, and Fee Juice, which is Aztec's native gas asset. Fee Juice cannot simply be sent to you. It has to be bridged from L1 through the Fee Juice Portal contract, picked up by the sequencer, and included in an L2 block. That process takes 1 to 2 minutes and involves a cross-chain message flow that most developers have never had to think about before. On top of that, your Aztec account contract does not exist on-chain until you claim Fee Juice for the first time (classic AA loop). The deployment and the claim happen together in a single atomic transaction, paid for by the Fee Juice itself. The faucet handles all of this. It also lets you generate a keypair in the browser, check your Fee Juice balance, and verify whether your account has been deployed yet. Supports both devnet and testnet. Fully open source and self-hostable. 🌐 aztec-faucet.nethermind.io 📦 github.com/NethermindEth/… Built by @Nethermind

if 18 year old me saw my career path he'd be confused. but also impressed.

@realRoberto38 Thanks :))

Very cool

@GianTheRios built in public consistently for 2 years. every meaningful opportunity since has been inbound. the resume is almost irrelevant at this point your github and your timeline tell the real story

If you’re looking for a role in crypto or AI and you didn’t go to ivy or work in FAANG (like me) I can’t stress enough how powerful your content or personal brand on X is your feed = your resume. 100% of my interviews have been inbound leads through my content or network.

@RealJohnnyTime nobody writes a postmortem that says "we got rekt by a missing require statement" but they do get rekt by a missing require statement

Most losses don’t come from “genius” bugs. They come from boring mistakes: - missing checks - wrong units - unbounded loops - unguarded oracle assumptions Boring bugs still bankrupt protocols.

@buntyverse "exclusive" just means they posted it on 3 group chats instead of twitter

Crypto event organizers be like: "private event" > goes on to to blast the luma link on twitter

@BR4ted ownership and freedom don't trend. number go up does. the technology didn't change, the distribution did

unpopular opinion: The worst thing that happened to crypto was making it about money first it was supposed to be about ownership and freedom first.

@stacy_muur PBS solved the validator centralization problem and immediately created the builder centralization problem the incentive to consolidate doesn't disappear, it just moves one layer down. this was somewhat predictable and not enough people said it loudly at the time

On March 12, a user swapped $50.4M on Aave and got back $36K worth of tokens. A lot has already been written about it. I'm not here to talk about that. When I was digging into what actually happened, I read ~$34M went to Titan, the block builder who controlled transaction ordering for that block. After seeing the name Titan, I thought I'd write about block builder concentration in Ethereum. Ethereum has ~1M validators. It's marketed as the most decentralized chain in the world. But most blocks are controlled by the top 3 builders: Titan, Buildernet, Quasar. These companies decide what goes into 90%+ of Ethereum blocks. One million validators. very few gatekeepers. How did we get here? After the Merge, Ethereum adopted PBS (Proposer-Builder Separation). Validators propose. Builders build. Theory: healthy open market. Practice: winner-takes-all latency game. Whoever is fastest, has the best private order flow deals, and extracts the most value wins the MEV-Boost auction. Winning compounds. More blocks → more data → better strategies → more order flow → more blocks. Market has been consolidating ever since. Here's what nobody wants to say: To win the PBS auction, you build the most extractive block possible. Sandwiching users. Front-running trades. Ordering transactions to maximize value capture. These aren't side effects. They're the winning strategy. We built a system that rewards whoever harms users most efficiently. How valuable is a vast validator network when the content of every block is decided by a handful of entities optimizing purely for extraction?

@Param_eth most people stop at think. the ones who get to launch are already in the top 1%. the ones who market it are just different people entirely

Some people: Think Some people: Think and build Some people: Think, build and launch Some people: Think, build, launch and market It’s all about mindset and belief in your own product.

@AdrianoFeria solana won the retail trading cycle. ethereum won the institutional capital cycle. both are true simultaneously the mistake is assuming one cycle defines the whole story

Ethereum is growing more than 10 times faster than Solana. Over the past year, while influencers and VCs were busy declaring ETH dead, Ethereum added more than $40B in stablecoin supply. In that same period, Solana added just $2.8B. There’s a wide gap between narrative and reality. The reality is that Ethereum continues to strengthen its position as the clear leader in global finance and institutional adoption.

@coopernicus01 the smartest person in the room often builds the worst onboarding flow. they can't imagine not knowing what they know

it’s hard to explain to high IQ people but it’s really important not everyone at the company is a gigabrain everyone being smart is bad when your target audience is not smart being too smart also often leads to focusing on logic instead of feelings, this causes big problems in business because most people are NOT logical anyway, i guess im saying hire some dumb people with good vibes

@banteg pin only what needs censorship resistance. store everything else on r2. the hybrid approach is what everyone actually does in prod, they just don't tweet about it

i looked up ipfs hostings and they are all 10-20x more expensive than cloudflare r2. what kind of scam is this? i need to host around 100gb.

@0xNairolf skip the bitcoin maximalism phase and the defi summer phase. go straight to understanding account abstraction and what programmable money actually enables saves about 18 months of ideological detours

where would you start if you had to restart crypto from zero? been thinking about this and honestly dont know the rabbit hole is so deep now

@sjdedic $22B valuation on a prediction market is just meta-irony at this point. the market that's supposed to price truth correctly is being priced on vibes

Kalshi raising $1B at a $22B valuation. I like Kalshi and Polymarket a lot, but can someone explain to me why they would need $1B and why $22B isn’t grossly overvalued? This looks like a classic “we raised it because we could” round, not anything that structurally makes sense. I get the circle jerk, but sadly this won’t end well for many of these institutional investors. How do even the greatest founders not understand how important it is to price your company right and leave enough upside on the table? Price drives narrative, and I only see this going down once it’s live. Which probably means yet another company with every incentive to stay private forever.

@chainyoda the other half will pivot to "ai-native X" in 8 months and raise again

If you go to sf and say I am building a “toilet/living room/kitchen/whatever” but for agents”, someone forces a $5m check into your pocket