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6) I tweet a lot, too, and usually it's semi-random, prompted by whatever was on my mind. Collecting, processing, and sharing information, bit by bit.
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7) But, sometimes, there's a larger arc. Sometimes we telegraph it; even when we do, it often falls on deaf ears.
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8) FTX has grown a ton over the past year: it's now trading $5b/day, and it's been weeks since a day where BitMEX had higher volume. It's ready, as a product, to be more widely exposed. But that's a story for another day.
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10) So what _does_ Serum have? Well, it's on Solana. Solana can currently take about 50k tps, and can stake to 1m+ over the next year or two. And that's important! Because the next thing Serum has is a DEX.
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12) In fact the Serum DEX alone, in the last 6 months, has processed more transactions than Ethereum has in its entire history. (Which is also why ETH2.0, rollups, and other scaling solutions are potentially huge!)
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14) There's an NFT exchange (solible.com). There are wallets (serum-academy.com/en/wallet-supp), AMMs (swap.bonfida.com), and a tool to mint your own tokens (spl-token-ui.com/#/). And USDC is live on SOL!
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Jeremy Allaire
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1/13 Today, Circle rolled out full production support for USDC on the Solana blockchain for all of our customers. Things brings USDC to a fast moving ecosystem attracting innovations in DeFi and consumer apps. I explain more below in tweet thread. circle.com/blog/circle-ac
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15) In other words: There are all of the primitives. An exchange, and a stablecoin, and staking, and lockups, and wallets, and AMMs, and tools, and borrow/lending. And more coming, because finance isn't the only thing that can be decentralized: mediaserver.express
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16) And, crucially, the primitives scale. The Serum ecosystem already scales more than any other DeFi ecosystem ever has, and in fact more than many are ever even trying to.
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18) So you start by building a foundation that millions, and eventually billions, of people *could* use. That's what Serum has done so far.
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17) So anyway: I don't want to overgeneralize too much here, but roughly speaking: If you build a product used by 1B people, that's worth a fortune. And how do you do that? I don't know, I've never done it before! But you have to identify something 1B people *could* use.
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20) And this is sometimes the hardest part. The world is filled with products that die a slow death because no one ever really uses them. Huge userbases don't grow on trees. They are, often, the key.
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21) So is Serum going to get 100m users? I can't tell you for sure. But it's sure as hell going to try.
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22) 100m is a *lot* of users. It's more than Robinhood, and eTrade, and Coinbase, and Binance, and Slack, and Nissan, and DeFi. It's less than Facebook, and Google; there's always room to grow. It's also a bit less than the number of users of Maps.me.
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