Val

@dounbug The domain goes crazy

locked in and vibecoded geoguessr for all the terminally online internet kids internetexplorer.gg ball knowers will enjoy this one, GLHF

@DanJablonski @ellipsis_labs It’ll be a good one

@visual0x @ellipsis_labs excited for your next venture

Some news, I’ve officially wrapped up my time as growth lead at @ellipsis_labs after nearly 3 years. Joining the early team of 5 gave me the opportunity to wear many hats, touching different areas of the business. From recruiting & ops, to leading BD, growth, and marketing through multiple successful product launches on Solana. A special thank you to @0xShitTrader for the mentorship across these different areas, and @jarxiao for seeding my technical knowledge.🤍 It’s been incredible to build, grow, and learn alongside top talent as we scaled from a team of 5 to company of 28. The best is still ahead for Ellipsis Labs and @PhoenixTrade. Excited for what’s next.

@0xkristen @ellipsis_labs Thank you Kristen!!

@visual0x @ellipsis_labs you're amazing, excited to see what u do next!! ❤️

@jodytu @ellipsis_labs Same here!! 🤍

@visual0x @ellipsis_labs excited for your next chapter, Val!

@boomheadvt @ellipsis_labs Thanks manu!!

@visual0x @ellipsis_labs wish you the best for your next chapter val!

@SEJeff @ellipsis_labs In a world of Vitalik’s we need more Vals… Jeff that’s iconic Great meeting you too—I’ll be around!

@visual0x @ellipsis_labs It was great to meet you at the last breakpoint. Hopefully you’re staying in or around the space. Experience is hard to come by and in a world of Vitalik’s we need more Vals!

@lagunacarta @ellipsis_labs Thanks Laguna!😇🌸

@visual0x @ellipsis_labs excited to see what you do next!

@jarxiao @ellipsis_labs Thank you Jarry! 🤟🤍

@visual0x @ellipsis_labs Thanks for everything Val! Excited to see what you do next

@eden_ @Web3Maxx Are you accepting applications

@Web3Maxx things are looking good for my future husband

Really wifemaxxing today

@SolanaFloor @solana so what i'm hearing is @MacroMate8 left and everyone followed?

🚨BREAKING: @Solana overtook Ethereum in all-time unique developers, now leading all chains. Source: chainspect

@luminaries Perps on Solana.

Memes on Solana.

how to ragebait people 101:

@mert @vesper792 Perplana 🙏

big the most important solana project of the year is finally slowly opening to the public phoenix perps, the last infinity stone still invite only, but I'm leaving a code below pls give feedback on their discord so they can keep iterating and get SOL to trillions perplana

@raunit @PhoenixTrade 🫶

Nothing, just an appreciation post - the dev experience from the @PhoenixTrade team is unmatched. Perps × agents are going to be the next big thing.

@grahamfergs @MacroMate8 oh we're so ready

time to cook with @MacroMate8

@MacroMate8 @aliquotchris @SolanaFndn Ethereum is dead, welcome to Solana.

big personal news: first off, Ethereum is dead second, i am now Special Situations at @SolanaFndn. my mandate is mega deals that will drive max value why solana? > the most engaged userbase in crypto with the highest take rate per volume (more than hype coinbase binance) > foundation is very lean and full of killers > other chains dont need me. ethereum is fucked (stuck in communism) and hype’s perp game is mature. solana is perfect for me to have fun and get shit done what will i do at solana: > bring 10B TVL to solana i’ve brokered 1-2B before and wanna up my game. if you are a large TVL provider, we have super scalable fixed yield products at 7-8% in a tradfi setup dm me > help grow RWA perps on solana hype done a great job with oil, gold, nasdaq perps and we will take it further if you are a serious crypto/tradfi market maker in rwa, we have the distribution and open to deals dm me what motivates me personally: first off, I am doing this for glory. I want to come in and be instrumental in growing trading activity and onchain tvl. second, I want to be relevant again. I miss pissing people off while being unavoidable. its fun thirdly, learn how to acquire trading distribution. almost no one in crypto knows how to do but thats where billion usd opportunities lie and they belong on solana.

Designing markets requires adversarial thinking, economic intuition, systems knowledge, and taste. The first three are table stakes. As an engineer, taste is the visceral discomfort you feel when a system has hidden fragility, even if it "works”. You sense something is broken before you can articulate why, and then you spiral until you can. This is the only way I know how to build things, and it's shaped by experience. Serum's matching engine had an event queue that split matching and settlement into two separate transactions. The first time I read the code, I knew something was off: the design introduced an asynchronous bottleneck in the hot path. Every maker fill had to wait for a third-party transaction before funds became available. Phoenix V1 eliminated this by settling both sides of all trades atomically. In 2022, every indexer on Solana relied on program logs for state reconstruction. The problem was that program logs could get truncated, and any system built on them could never have full data integrity. That felt unacceptable to me, so I pioneered using no-op CPIs to circumvent this entirely by emitting the event in the call data. The mechanism is now widely adopted across Solana and natively supported in Anchor. Brittle systems fail when the pressure is high, and markets are adversarial environments where high pressure is the default state. Building a perps exchange on Solana is one of the toughest problems in DeFi. Margin systems, funding rate mechanisms, liquidation engines, and oracle integration are all areas where one wrong decision can lead to catastrophe. Our team has traded real markets and built real trading systems in TradFi. We know what markets do under stress because we've been on the other side. That experience gives us the intuition to know which tradeoffs matter and which don't. And we're too stubborn to accept the important ones that feel wrong, even when they're easier. We've made plenty of mistakes along the way, but we have always kept them out of the critical path. Good design and a strong foundation give you room to absorb surprises and adapt without large breaking changes. For Solana to win in on-chain perps, you need a foundation built by people who are pathologically uncomfortable with fragility. That's us. The rest is execution.

Big week

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