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Aaron Wise

Journalist at Protos

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  • Arbitrum, Optimism, and Base are fighting over $52 billion DeFi pie

    2 weeks ago | protos.com | Aaron Wise

    Three protocols are vying for dominance of the Ethereum Layer 2 market and its $52 billion worth of so-called decentralized finance (DeFi): Arbitrum (ARB), Optimism (OP), and Base. Bullish investors even see an opportunity for layer 2s to displace some of Ethereum’s $220 billion market cap or even the values of alternate blockchains like Solana or Avalanche.

  • Moderators censor Bitcoin devs as OP_RETURN war rages on

    2 weeks ago | protos.com | Aaron Wise

    Bitcoin Core maintainers who control a central GitHub repository are flexing a rarely-exercised power to censor speech between developers. This week, dozens of developers voted in split disagreement over a proposal to relax the data storage ability in transactions using a Bitcoin operation code, OP_RETURN. The dispute led a number of prominent developers to decry what they saw as banishment after mods muted senior members with passionate viewpoints.

  • MicroStrategy wannabes and the return of mNAV mania

    2 weeks ago | protos.com | Aaron Wise

    mNAV speculation in public markets is back. Coined as a colloquial oversimplification in crypto lingo, mNAV means multiple-to-net asset value or the ratio of market capitalization to the crypto assets held by a public company. However, as with most parlance from the nascent crypto sector, the acronym is a misnomer. Unlike trusts, public companies do not have “net assets,” a controlled term, nor is there any right of common shareholders to redeem shares for any assets.

  • FixTheFilters: Bitcoin arguments go viral over relaxing Core data storage

    2 weeks ago | protos.com | Aaron Wise

    Developers are at war over a controversial change to Bitcoin Core, the dominant software for full nodes. Since Peter Todd formalized a proposal to remove data limits via OP_Return’s datacarrier outputs, the temperature of discussions rose to incendiary levels on X, GitHub, and the Google Group mailing list. Since Protos wrote about this topic less than 48 hours ago, disagreement among developers has skyrocketed.

  • The Ethereum Foundation won’t disclose Vitalik Buterin’s voting power

    2 weeks ago | protos.com | Aaron Wise

    A prominent historian who wrote the book about Ethereum’s creation cannot find an answer to a simple question. No matter how many times she’s asked — as recently as yesterday — no one will tell her how many votes Vitalik Buterin controls over the Ethereum Foundation and its $400 million treasury. It’s a question that impacts millions of ETH tokenholders around the world, including hundreds of thousands of wallets that transact on any given day.

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Aaron Wise
Aaron Wise @AaronWise5147
22 Apr 25

GREAT NEWS: There were 239,000 tokens launched on the Base blockchain just last week! Because we need trillions of tokens. Great progress toward the goal! THANK YOU

Aaron Wise
Aaron Wise @AaronWise5147
22 Apr 25

“Stake, operated by Curaçao-incorporated Medium Rare, claims its 25 million users account for up to 4% of total transactions on the global bitcoin network.” https://t.co/VM2rtYuhSO

Aaron Wise
Aaron Wise @AaronWise5147
21 Apr 25

5 million borrowers in default https://t.co/3j9L4ncRUm