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aka Nicolas Laurent

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  • This blog has been rather less active than it should have been.

    I, however, have been busy, working at Optimism on Bedrock and Cannon.

    A lot of the action has instead been on my Twitter. See in particular this thread collecting the biggest hits.

    For discoverability and archival purpose, I've ported some of these tweet threads on the block, backdated to the original date. Here they are:

    • ZK Rollups vs Optimistic Rollups
    • How Cannon Works
    • Design of the $DJED Stablecoin
    • Velodrome and why it's a superior system for incentivizing liquidity
    • AMM Meditations 🍃
    25 Oct 2022
  • Optimism Bedrock vs Arbitrum Nitro 02 Oct 2022
  • AMM Meditations 🍃 16 Jul 2022
  • Velodrome and why it's a superior system for incentivizing liquidity 07 Jun 2022
  • Design of the $DJED Stablecoin 16 May 2022
  • How Cannon Works 11 Mar 2022
  • Olympus DAO: An Economic Analysis 28 Feb 2022
  • ZK Rollups vs Optimistic Rollups 18 Feb 2022
  • Olympus DAO from Primary Sources 15 Feb 2022
  • The Essence of Blockchains 11 Dec 2021
  • How rollups scale Ethereum 04 Dec 2021
  • It's been a crazy year. It was already crazy back in March, but against my better judgement, I (thankfully!) doubled down.

    In June, I took a leave from my Job at Oracle to take part in the Ethereum Core Developer Apprenticeship for four months. I learned a ton — here's a recap of what I did there.

    By the end of the program, I was sold, and I joined Optimism to work on scaling the Ethereum blockchain. My first task there will be to help specify and prototype the new version of the Optimistic Ethereum rollup. It's been a blast so far!

    Expect more content soon, especially blockchain-related. If you hate blockchains — I'm so sorry.

    04 Dec 2021
  • Reviews 11 15 Oct 2021
  • Bonds Bonanza 2: Bonds Go Banana 06 Jun 2021
  • Freaking blockchains: How do they work? 27 May 2021
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