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If you ever make swaps via any DEX, this is for you. Some tips to maximize return in DEX swaps: 1️⃣ Use a DEX Aggregator. 1inch is very good, but using swap.defillama (aggregator of aggregators) is better 2️⃣ After identifying the best one via DefiLlama, compare directly with their front ends. Sometimes final values differ. 3️⃣ MEV: protect against it. There are different alternatives to do this: • Using Cowswap. • Using 1inch Fusion instead of a regular trade. • Using Flashbots Protect RPC (docs.flashbots.net/flashbots-prot…) They all work in a similar way: your transaction is not broadcasted to the mempool directly, and thus it's protected against front-runs. Sometimes you find the best rate in a DEX that does not offer MEV protection (for example Paraswap or Odos) and Flashbots RPC protects you in those cases. It also allows you to save gas fees on failed transactions: if you set slippage too low (which you should in most cases) then if the transaction fails it does NOT get broadcasted if using Flashbots. Win-win-win. 4️⃣ Find where the best pools are, with the most liquidity. Get the token smart contract from CoinGecko and then paste it on @GeckoTerminal or @Dexscreener to see where the token is being LPed and trading in all of DeFi. There are some rare cases where this might help discover a pool in a protocol that's not yet integrated with the aggregators. Also, pay attention if the token was deployed in different chains - sometimes the token contracts are different, and they have fragmented liquidity amongst different chains. 5️⃣ Same DEX, different fees: a trade in Curve is usually expensive compared to a similar one in Uniswap. This is because of how Curve's smart contracts work. > If you trade on Curve via 1inch, it's cheaper (gas-wise). 6️⃣ Try Gashawk (gashawk.io) to save fees on Ethereum transactions that are not time-sensitive. Like Flashbots, it's basically another RPC you add to your wallet. After you confirm the transaction in your browser, it is not directly broadcasted to the chain, but placed on hold. They have a dashboard where you can monitor all pending transactions (and cancel/speed them up). The idea of having this setup is that GH automatically broadcasts the transaction on their own once gwei is cheaper, allowing you to save money on fees. How does it work? After you sign the transaction locally, the signed hash (valid and ready to be broadcasted) is stored on their servers. They only delay sending it to the chain until gwei is lower. Same as Flashbots, they don't access any keys or can tamper with the transaction. 7️⃣ Limit orders: modern DEX aggregators like Matcha, 1inch, and Cowswap let you place "limit orders" in DeFi. How do they work? Similar to GasHawk - you sign the transaction on their front end, and they only broadcast it when/if the price you set is met. If not, they expire. You can also cancel them manually. 8️⃣ Which of these doesn't have a token? 🪂 DEX Aggregator airdrops are the easiest to qualify. Remember 1inch and Cowswap? More trades+More volume=Bigger airdrop. There are a few ones that do not have a token yet: • Matcha (though they are affiliated to 0x Protocol which already has a token, and they explicitly said "no token") • Odos (supports multiple chains, like Polygon) • Bebop (backed by Wintermute) • DeFillama (although it's important to mention that there is no DefiLlama smart contract interaction here. If they wanted to take a snapshot, they couldn't do it since you interact directly with the other protocols. Something could change in the future) ⚡️

In case you missed it… Last week, I joined @thinkingcrypto to discuss how Congress can provide clear rules of the road to bring the industry back onshore and hold unelected bureaucrats like @GaryGensler accountable for abusing SEC enforcement powers.

@JamesPelton18 It’s like Google 20 years ago. If you aren’t using ChatGPT now you are at a disadvantage.

Do you consider ChatGPT cheating in programming?

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The West has forked into DC and the Internet. DC is now against free speech and free markets, and advocates centralization and ultra-nationalism. The Internet is for free speech and free markets, and values decentralization and internationalism.

Trying out trading on @GMX_IO, up to 50x leverage on $BTC, $ETH 📈 For fee discounts use: app.gmx.io/#/trade/?ref=g…

What are the implications? 1️⃣ Ethereum’s getting a new product to sell - Blobspace 2️⃣ The cost of transacting on L2s is about to drop toward zero 3️⃣ The economics of ETH gas and the burn are about to change forever… Jump into the full episode below: 🔗 bankless.cc/Blobspace

PREMIERE: The Blobspace Upgrade will change Ethereum forever It's only months away, it's the biggest Ethereum release since the Merge, and no one's fully mapped out its HUGE implications until now... DON'T MISS THIS ONE 👇

Poetic and inspiring talk from @ErikVoorhees Freedom is on the frontier, and it’s messy, but it creates the best outcomes for society. Those claiming to protect us from it are after power for themselves and end up harming society. We’ve seen how that experiment plays out many times in history. youtu.be/2XlYSmIlpfs?si…

Another late night working on my business 🤙

If you only listen to one talk from @Permissionless... Make it this one

The United States' entire approach to crypto regulation is throwing the baby out with the bathwater

@BillHughesDC How are NFTs any different than baseball cards? I used to collect them back in the 80s and definitely speculated on them, opened up price guides, traded with friends, bought and sold individual cards in shops, and more.

This is a shockingly anti-innovation position for Treasury and the IRS to take. Paraphrasing - "We know that tokenized rights and assets is what this space is working towards, and we recognize that having tax reporting rules for disposition of tokenized things would be different than dispositions of those things in other ways, but some of these NFT things are currently treated as speculative investments, so every single NFT sale needs to be reported to us regardless of whether it is a jpeg or a tokenized real world thing, or even something new." And if it grossly disincentivizes experimenting with tokenization of real world things in the US, whatever man. Not our problemo

Erik, always impressive. Permissionless.

Why are we here? Permissionless II opener from @ErikVoorhees that got an entire crypto conference on their feet

The SEC and CFTC appear to have forgotten that they are supposed to be *financial markets* regulators and now operate on the mistaken belief that they have Congressional authority to be *everything* regulators. The courts will remind them of their proper role in due course.

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@YaBonksOfficial Still need a goose named Maverick

Meet our newest rescue, Martin, a special needs goose with a cross-beak

@KingOfFling Probably anything not 3D, but she’s 8. Has only played a switch and the emulators on it.

@missinglinketh What would your kid consider retro?

Which of the following targets should be considered the cutoff criteria for "classic" or "retro" video games? Also, comment if you have opinions about more granular categorization of vintage for video games.