Layer Labs

🚨 Exciting news! 🚨 @LayerLabs is teaming up with @ClearpoolFin to launch Ozean, the Blockchain for Real-World Asset (RWA) Yield on @Optimism. 🌐

Our mission is to build a million inter-connected rollups on Ethereum, making it reach web-scale. To bring us one step closer to this vision and accelerate the development of the Metalayer, we are excited to onboard the team from @HookProtocol. Link: theblock.co/post/326544/ca…

We are thrilled to announce our support for ERC-7683, the cross-chain intent messaging standard set to unify liquidity across Ethereum L2s. ⛺️✨

@LefterisJP Intent-based systems for bridges, aggregators, etc will solve the L2 liquidity fragmentation. Intent layers solve the UX with seamless and fast swaps/actions. Cross-chain intents will unify liquidity across chains and allow users to easily tap into solver aggregate liquidity

What's the long-term solution/vision to ethereum L2 liquidity fragmentation?

@therollupco @rollupventures Congrats on the Venture Arm 🥳

The next evolution💫 After thousands of conversations with founders, and learning from the best and brightest minds in crypto, we have garnered a unique perspective on the future of our industry. Today, we unveil @rollupventures, our fully bootstrapped venture arm to invest in and support the next generation of visionary founders with development, funding, and distribution. Together, we are unstoppable. therollup.co/ventures

As a founder it can be really frustrating to hear “you aren’t posting enough on twitter” You’re building a company, obviously you’re not spending all day on twitter. As an engineer this is the approach I've taken -- the first and most important step is basically making it look like you’re terminally online when you’re not. The S tier twitter founders (Sreeram, Rushi, Anatoly, etc.) all are posting multiple times a day, consistently throughout the day. Does this mean that you also need to be on twitter all day? No — and TBH they probably aren’t either. My brain works way better when I give it 2 hours to do 1 specific thing, instead of checking in on something for 10 minutes 10 times a day. So what I do is schedule deep work time to actually write content. Once I have written things out I use the schedule feature to roll them out incrementally throughout the day. This makes it look like I’m constantly on twitter trying to acquire mindshare but in reality I write 90% of my tweets between 10 pm - midnight so that during the day I can actually run my company. The next most important thing is a little counterintuitive — but you can’t shill your own project. You can write about things related to your project, but nobody wants to engage with a tweet where you’re clearly pumping your own bags. The goal really is to develop respect as somebody who thinks deeply about a domain and scale that into influence over the direction that the industry builds towards. One semi-sneaky thing you can do is actually talk in an unbiased way about cool things that other projects in the same domain are doing so that they are incentivized to amplify your post — this helps position you as a thought leader to the audience that they have put a ton of work into building. This is a long term strat and may seem counterintuitive in the short term, but honestly it can work extremely well. But if there’s one thing you take away from this post: Write things of value. The algo is just too good at this point and if your posts aren’t (a) informative or (b) funny then it is not going to get juiced by the algo. There are tiny tricks you can do to marginally optimize posts but by a mile the most important thing is write things of value. Ok, well obviously, right? But what does that actually mean? Educate people. Explain to people why the industry is going to evolve in a certain direction and back it with evidence. One style that I weirdly don’t see many other founders following but has worked extremely well for me is taking frontier crypto research ideas and explaining them to people without using unnecessarily formal / complex terminology. This is deeply related to my final point though — iterate. Constantly be A/B testing posts. Literally make it a goal to collect 7 data points a day for 1 week so at the end of the day on Friday you can do an analysis to see what got the most engagement and lean further into that the following week. Its all about collecting data on what resonates with people and what does not. If you zoom out you’ll even realize that this entire post is a psyop and is actually me A/B testing “founder story” style posts to experiment past my normal engineering research oriented ones. Final thought — don’t be afraid to be cringe. It is your job to yap. Every yapper has cringe moments. I regularly delete tweets that flop lol. Get over it, rapidly A/B test, and start building your audience.

@0xASK Always founder this to be the hardest part of being a founder while building a business and product. Great points to think about and execute.🤝

@LayerZero_Core @ClearpoolFin

.@ClearpoolFin has chosen LayerZero as its official interoperability solution to unlock liquidity for RWAs (Real World Assets) in DeFi. With LayerZero, Ozean (Clearpool's L2 for RWA-backed yield) introduces cross-chain liquidity for RWAs, enabling seamless access to Ozean's stablecoin ecosystem ($USDX and $ozUSD) across all EVM Layer 2s and Solana via the OFT standard.

⛓ #Ozean🌊 has integrated with @LayerZero_Core to unlock liquidity for #RWAs across #DeFi! Powered by LayerZero’s cutting-edge messaging layer, Ozean will introduce a cross-chain liquidity layer for RWAs. The integration will enable Ozean’s native stablecoin ($USDX) and yield-bearing stablecoins ($ozUSD) to be accessed across all EVM Layer 2 chains and @Solana via LayerZero’s Omnichain Fungible Token (OFT) Standard. ✅ Enhancing liquidity and flexibility for RWAs on Ozean across multiple blockchain networks. ✅ Unlocking cross-chain capabilities that drive RWA growth on Ozean. The lack of cross-chain capabilities has long been a barrier to the growth of RWAs. This collaboration sets a new standard, unlocking the liquidity needed for the sector’s continued expansion on Ozean. Learn more 👇 clearpool.medium.com/ozean-integrat…

@binji_x Think Optimism's grant program is stifling innovation by offering limited marketing, technical, grant, and other support for even moving slightly away from the "standard Superchain configuration" with for example custom gas tokens, etc.

what’s your biggest piece of feedback for optimism’s grants or rpgf/retrofunding?

From a user perspective, transactions on Rollups are extremely cheap allowing for cheaper transactions and a smoother user experience. This allows for much more scalability of different apps, use cases, and transactions to occur. 🥳

The introduction of EIP-4844 and blob data greatly improved the economics of operating and using Ethereum rollups. This development, however, has shifted some revenue capture from Ethereum L1 and the ETH burn rate to Rollup operators.

Goal of Dencun was to reduce the operating costs of Rollups to make them more affordable to operate and use. 150 Days after Dencun, @galaxyhq wrote an article diving into the economic impact of blobs/EIP-4844 on Ethereum and Rollups. galaxy.com/insights/resea…