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#MakeMoney
Jennifer Howard

🧵shared sequencers: the hidden game behind L2 neutrality

1/ Rollups scale Ethereum. But right now, they’re… kinda lonely. Each L2 has its own sequencer — deciding which transactions go first. This is fine... until it's not. 👇 2/ If the sequencer is down? No blocks. If it’s malicious? It can reorder, censor, or MEV the hell out of you. Sequencer centralization is rollup’s dirty secret. 3/ Enter: shared sequencers. Instead of each rollup building its own infra, they plug into a shared layer. This adds resilience, neutrality, and possibly cross-rollup atomicity. But it’s not that simple. 4/ The challenge? Latency tradeoffs Fair ordering guarantees Who gets to run the sequencer network? How do you enforce neutrality? Shared sequencers help decentralize… but also concentrate power in new places. 5/ The L2 wars won’t be won by TPS or TVL alone. It’ll come down to… who controls the sequencer? #Finance #MakeMoney

🧵shared sequencers: the hidden game behind L2 neutrality
Jennifer Howard

🧵meme coins are dead. long live meme protocols.

1/ 2021: You aped Doge. 2022: You regretted it. 2023: You laughed at PEPE. 2024: You bought WIF and doubled your bag. Now, it’s 2025. What if the meme... is the product? 👇 2/ Berachain is not a meme coin. It’s a full-stack EVM chain. But its brand? Literal bears. Smoking, drinking, gambling bears. It started as a joke. Now it’s building a modular L1 with native liquidity incentive layers. 3/ Here’s the twist: Berachain uses Proof of Liquidity. You don’t stake tokens to be a validator. You LP tokens to earn voting power. The chain’s security model is tied to how much liquidity you provide to the ecosystem. 4/ Why this matters: Attention is scarce. Memes are efficient. If your L1 can capture mindshare and liquidity — that’s leverage. Berachain turns meme culture into infrastructure. That’s no joke. 5/ Meme coins fade. Meme protocols evolve. In crypto, narrative is the new consensus. #Finance #MakeMoney

🧵meme coins are dead. long live meme protocols.
Jennifer Howard

🧵LRTs: the new DeFi primitive — or just fancy rehypothecation?

1/ Lido gave us liquid staking. EigenLayer took it further. Now we have rsETH, ezETH, wBETH, LsETH… This isn’t just “more staking”. It’s yield-on-yield composability. But is that a feature — or a risk? 👇 2/ LRTs (Liquid Restaking Tokens) stack exposure: You stake ETH. ETH gets restaked on EigenLayer. You get rsETH. rsETH gets LP’d or farmed. Each layer adds yield. Each layer adds risk. 3/ The danger? LRT protocols are often centralized at launch. Slashing conditions are opaque. And validator behavior is now tied to multiple incentive layers. This creates reflexive risk. Think: Luna + Anchor + Curve — all over again. 4/ LRTs are composable. But not “plug-and-play”. Before you chase that sweet APR, ask: Who can trigger slashing? What happens in a withdrawal run? Is the LRT more like a bond... or a balloon? 5/ Restaking is real innovation. But don’t get drunk on leverage. Some of these yields are paid in hopium. #Finance #MakeMoney

🧵LRTs: the new DeFi primitive — or just fancy rehypothecation?
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