Built @linx_labs lending protocol on Alephium. Writing about yield mechanics, risk frameworks and underserved markets.
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Radu | Linx retweeted
Alephium Staking is officially LIVE on Goldshell 🟢
Goldshell × Alephium — stake ALPH with ease, starting today.
🔗stake.goldshell.com/alephium
We’re building on what might look like the losing side of this split, but I’m here for the comeback Marc is talking about.
Linx serves the most pristine assets left: PoW coins. No issuer, no TradFi wrapper, nothing a bank can plug into.
The most cypherpunk asset class left.
That was the whole point.
Now that you can read this, here's what changed over the past few months:
@ambire is the best wallet, Rabby still great.
@ether_fi has the best crypto card, no competition, even if @MikeSilagadze refuses to giv me VIP status.
Sadly, Zeal is slowly winding down,
@getrebind is an awesome alternative if you have a Gnosis Pay card.
ENS got taken over, .gwei domains are the new cool ones.
Many projects that raised in 2021 cycle and previous ones that failed to find PMF are winding down; it's not sad, it's a healthy consolidation, a new generation will come.
As an investor, be aware that no bull market will resurrect a token of a dead project; inspect your bags and accept parting ways, many zombies out there slowly eating their treasury before eventually winding down.
DeFI is now entirely split into two paths,
The dominant one is OpFi (Open Finance): bend the knee to TradFi and become part of the current system. "Become a tool for the banks." It's the Morpho vision.
The other is DeFi in the original sense, an actual paradigm shift toward decentralized finance.
"Beat the banks at their own game."
It's losing momentum right now, but it's why I've spent over a decade in this madhouse.
The comeback story will be legendary.
It's still early.
Radu | Linx retweeted
Now that you can read this, here's what changed over the past few months:
@ambire is the best wallet, Rabby still great.
@ether_fi has the best crypto card, no competition, even if @MikeSilagadze refuses to giv me VIP status.
Sadly, Zeal is slowly winding down,
@getrebind is an awesome alternative if you have a Gnosis Pay card.
ENS got taken over, .gwei domains are the new cool ones.
Many projects that raised in 2021 cycle and previous ones that failed to find PMF are winding down; it's not sad, it's a healthy consolidation, a new generation will come.
As an investor, be aware that no bull market will resurrect a token of a dead project; inspect your bags and accept parting ways, many zombies out there slowly eating their treasury before eventually winding down.
DeFI is now entirely split into two paths,
The dominant one is OpFi (Open Finance): bend the knee to TradFi and become part of the current system. "Become a tool for the banks." It's the Morpho vision.
The other is DeFi in the original sense, an actual paradigm shift toward decentralized finance.
"Beat the banks at their own game."
It's losing momentum right now, but it's why I've spent over a decade in this madhouse.
The comeback story will be legendary.
It's still early.
What's the #1 thing holding back PoW tokens from having a serious DeFi ecosystem? 🤔
Genuinely curious what you guys think.
10%Bridges are too risky
54%Not enough liquidity
26%PoW community just hodl
10%Others (which one?)
39 votes • Final resultsLiquidity won, and I think it’s a fair answer. but here’s the thing, the money’s already there.
DOGE + LTC + ZEC + KAS is a top-10 asset if you stack them. it’s not that liquidity doesn’t exist, it’s that it has nothing to do.
Once we’ve fixed that, liquidity should flow through. On it!
Thanks everyone for your votes!
Couple more builds like this then the fun part comes.
🚀 Linx Wallet v1.4.0 is out!
Mostly bug fixes around the onboarding flow, refactoring, better error messages and some perf work.
Boring on the surface but it’s the cleanup before we start adding new networks.
Update from your app store 👇
iOS: apps.apple.com/us/app/linx-w…
Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d…
Say he’s right (I believe he is) and ZEC runs. You end up with billions in fresh gains that can’t do anything on-chain, can’t borrow, can’t LP.
Same story across basically every PoW asset…
Radu | Linx retweeted
Season 2 is locked 🔒
TGE is close, and every point you earned is about to become $LINX.
Check your total and share your results 👉 app.linxlabs.org/rewards
Radu | Linx retweeted
I see a lot of doomposting about Bitcoin and crypto because crypto is somehow not the favourite toy of the market at the moment (AI stonks are).
I want to remind that crypto is not a toy, and it's serving its true purpose - self-sovereignty of every user, financial rails which are always on and do not stop working. Institutions are also into adopting something which has no clunky intermediaries now, so fundamentally we are better than ever.
AI is foundational, but it will go through its own valley of death: replacing humans by AI would put AI outputs into AI inputs, quality will degrade, and costs will grow exponentially to maintain it. Large companies who push AI everywhere aren't necessarily using it correctly, so they report some overly large expenses.
Both technologies - crypto and AI - are foundational. They are not the same thing though, and they are not competing with each other in principle.
Crypto is the future of Finance!
Radu | Linx retweeted
🌐 Ecosystem Review Ep.3 🌐
@linx_labs/@raduC22 in the spotlight, an upcoming music party from @Tonelookalph, and a definitive new PoLW guide in the works.
If you want to know what's happening inside the ecosystem, this one's for you 👇
Radu | Linx retweeted
Crypto is a legit and indeed inevitable technology. Usually such things are net positive.
Radu | Linx retweeted
Teams that innovate, deliver, push boundaries -- in the long run, they are the ones worth paying attention to.
Radu | Linx retweeted
Some of 2026's nastiest exploits had nothing to do with smart contracts.
The contracts were absolutely fine.
Several attacks were traced back to the off-chain infrastructure that nobody thinks to audit, like:
▶️ RPC nodes
▶️ Relayers
▶️ Indexers
These are all in scope for an attacker, but none of them are in scope for your audit firm.
That's a problem.
Fortunately, @RaduC22 built @linx_labs on @alephium specifically to reduce this surface.
Now, he shares exactly why it matters.
🔗 alephium.org/news/post/the-w…
An update from that first post, it's a bit technical, but will try to keep it straight-forward.
When you bridge funds from say dogecoin:native to Alephium, you need to first deposit your DOGE tokens to an address where they will be locked.
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Wanted to share some insights into what I meant by "new collateral types". Will be a thread.
Most used collaterals in DeFi lending are ETH, BTC and recently more and more RWAs in loops.
On Linx we have the L1 token, $ALPH and bridged $WBTC from Ethereum as the 2 collaterals that can be used to borrow.
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Sadly waiting that long is far from ideal UX if you want to use this bridge, so we had to scrap that approach.
Instead we designed a new derivation solution which relies solely on the Alephium address.
It involves computing a custom derivation path from 6 SHA256 chunks of the Alephium address itself together with some other fixed components.
This approach is reorg safe and the deposit address is available in a few seconds as opposed to waiting for 30 minutes.
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If you're interested in deeper technical discussions on this subject or want to provide feedback, my DMs are open.
Also for next time I'll try to provide a drawing of the rough bridge architecture so it's easier to reason about it.
The first milestone is getting closer which is an alpha testnet version, likely for either BTC or DOGE.
Back to work now.