Marissa

@devjoshstevens @Polymarket Solana coded

This is my 3rd week as VP of Engineering DeFi at @Polymarket , and I'm going to be straight: the traction @Polymarket has seen has massively outpaced our infrastructure, and we haven't done nearly enough to scale to keep up. I hear you, and fixing this is our entire focus. We're a major company now, and we need to engineer like one. Here's exactly what we're doing: - Onchain data latency. We're working on making this near-instant so the experience is incredible. - Chain migration. We need more block space, cheaper gas and much smaller block times so settlement is instant. - Transactions are getting cancelled. We understand this is one of the most frustrating issues right now, and we have a complete fix coming very soon. - Massive focus on the website to make it faster, more responsive, and with better UX. - We added observability everywhere. Proper alerting so we catch issues ourselves, market makers should not be the ones telling us something is down. That's been unacceptable, and we know it. - E2e tests throughout, starting with the CLOB, so issues get caught in CI before anything ships. - CLOBv2 is not a rewrite. It won't improve performance or stability on its own; it's an upgrade that unlocks us to move fast right after. We'll do better with communication next time. - We are rebuilding the CLOB from the ground up. Most important thing we're doing. Without it, we can't be the best DeFi exchange in the world. We know it, we're on it, it's mission critical. - Unified TypeScript SDK for all APIs, which is shipping soon. - Unified API. One WS connection for everything, with a schema that's actually readable. - New Polymarket contract in the works that unlocks things that are simply impossible on the current protocol. - New hires: Head of QA Automation, Head of Dev Tooling, Head of Internal Tooling, Head of Data Engineering. - Smaller, dedicated teams. Fewer focus points per person, clearer ownership. People do what they're good at and are accountable for it. - Working closely with customer support to give them real debugging tools so any user issue gets properly diagnosed, not lost. - Proper communication with marketing and market makers so everyone knows what's coming and when, and MM can submit feature requests with a clear path to get them into engineering and shipped. - Working with 4 security teams daily to ensure we're super secure and that funds are always safe. - Perps incoming. Brand new contracts and a backend built from scratch in Rust. We're proud of this one. - A lot of other fixes are running in parallel right now. Starting next Friday, I will be posting weekly engineering updates. I joined because I genuinely believe in what @Polymarket is trying to do. @shayne_coplan built this so the world has somewhere to go to find out what's actually going to happen, not what the media thinks, not what a pundit says, but what thousands of people are willing to put money on. But right now, our engineering isn't living up to that. We've let people down, and I'm not going to dress that up. I came here to fix it, and that's exactly what we're going to do. The next few months are going to speak for themselves. Stay with us.

@negligible_cap @BillAckman FAFO

Ken Griffin is “appalled” that Zohran used his $238m Manhattan penthouse in his tax the rich promotional video Citadel is now apparently considering bailing on their construction plans to build a new office in Midtown. The project would involve $6 billion in spending and would create 15k permanent jobs in NYC according to Citadel’s COO "It is shameful that he used Ken's name as the example of those who supposedly aren't carrying their fair share of the burdens associated with New York City's often costly and wasteful spending," the email said. "In doing so, the mayor has once again manifested the ignorance and disdain of the elite political class towards those who have been consistently committed to building one of the greatest cities in the world." Would be both incredibly petty but also hilarious if Citadel backed out of their plans over this

Inventing wives from first principles …

@Geiger_Capital The new Digital Asset Treasury Co just dropped

Absolutely incredible… Allbirds, the shoe brand, is selling all footwear assets, renaming itself "NewBird AI", and using $50M to buy high-performance GPUs. $BIRD is up +170% this morning. 🚀

@jefielding Russian hill maybe ?

A founder is moving west and asked me to recommend the West Village of SF. Doesn’t really exist really. Maybe Dolores Park is the best comp?

@zooko 😊

hey errybody please reply to this so i can see who u r kthxbye

@collision They invented business class from first principles

United built the product that everyone who has every been on an airplane has wanted!

@united Assume this would be the same price as for business class so I don’t really get it.

The entire row is alllllll yours. Welcome to United Relax Row, three adjacent United Economy seats with adjustable leg rests that can each be raised or lowered to create a cozy lie-flat space for stretching out... You'll also get a mattress pad, blanket and two pillows. If you’re traveling with kids, a plushie too! United Relax Row will be available starting next year on more than 200 of our 787s and 777s, each with up to 12 of these brand-new rows. united.com/Elevated

@michael_silver Agreed!

My favorite type of person in SF is a NYC transplant who has taste for life outside of work and can see right thru the nonsense that is the norm in the SF social sphere Where are my New Yorkers at?

BREAKING: Iran officially confirms Supreme Leader Khamenei is dead.

@Jason We have finally bottomed 😂

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Excited to be here in Vegas as a partner of @Strategy and to support corporate treasuries with BTC yield and lending.

AI is many decades old crypto is 2 decades old, and scalable chains aren't even 5 years old cynicism towards crypto is a lack of imagination exacerbated by price-driven emotion we will separate money from the state, encrypt it, and make it programmable at planetary scale

Please reply with pictures of your dog (no awful cats please) — dogs are the greatest 🐶

@WhiteHouse Narrator: BTC is still at $89,000 for the second month in a row

The S&P 500 just hit 7000 for the FIRST TIME EVER. AMERICA IS BACK!!! 🇺🇸

@Conor_XRD @WalletConnect @Parcl @radixdlt Send me a DM

Yesterday was my last day at @WalletConnect. I'm grateful for the team and what we built together. Now I'm looking for what's next. 9 years in crypto, grew socials for @Parcl @radixdlt @WalletConnect. If you're hiring or know someone who is, I'd love to chat. RTs mean the world 🙏

Big 🐈 energy in Pac Heights…. There were 4 news vans parked outside my place this am …

@signulll A jury “if your peers…”

i would be HORRIFIED to have my fate decided by 12 randomly selected americans whose strongest shared skill is unsuccessfully ignoring jury summons lmao. good luck to openai.

Software has never been the most. It’s taste, distribution and execution and that is still true …

Coming soon: health retreat center to come for 1 month at a time, no technology, live by the beach, surf, eat steak daily, sauna, play ping pong, sleep on linen sheets, never wear shoes or a shirt, meet cool like minded people and disappear from society. You down?