ZKSummit (hosted by zero-knowledge podcast) was a single-day event in Athens with a highly technical group of (200 or so) attendees; engineers, developers, researchers, PhDs etc.

I’ll quickly highlight some notes from some of my 1-to-1 discussions.

ZakI

• I’ve asked his opinion on underrated projects. Spoke highly of Babylon and Penum

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Tensor, the pro-trading NFT marketplace on Solana, has finally airdropped its governance token TNSR, marking the conclusion of its points Season 3 on April 8, 2024.

TNSR has a total supply of 1B. 55% of the supply will be allocated to the community, with 12.5% distributed through the initial airdrop to owners of Treasure Boxes and Ten

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EigenLayer just announced the launch of EigenDA’s mainnet. Restakers now have the ability to delegate to validators who will secure various AVS’. The first and only one live today is EigenDA.

Restaking has been fairly hyped over the past year with people farming Eigen points but now we’ll finally get to see what kind of demand there

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@cairoeth released a PoC of preconfirmations leveraging restaking by using Relic’s Prover. It’s a pretty clever design so here’s a quick summary and some thoughts. This implementation leverages EigenLayer’s AVS to power the slashing mechanism. Ethe... Read more

We still believe we’re in the midst of a liquidity cycle uptrend, but there are a couple potential headwinds to be mindful of that could cause us to hit a rough patch as we get into Q2. One of the most notable is a local top in global liquidity gro... Read more

A new PoW (yes, proof of work) protocol on Solana launched on Tuesday called Ore. The goal is to be a digital currency that anyone can mine on a phone, laptop, etc and from anywhere. Already it is cracked the top 3 programs on Solana and is kind of c... Read more

Ethena’s native token $ENA goes live today. Ethena is one of our highest conviction bets this cycle both at Delphi Ventures and personally, I believe: sUSDe will offer the highest dollar yield in crypto at scale USDe will become the largest stablec... Read more

We are in a bull market. Retail is trickling back, BTC is floating right above / around 2021 ATHs and there are so many bullish catalysts ahead of us. As someone that was around for all of 2023, it’s crazy to see a 7 in front of the Bitcoin price.... Read more

Today on our research team call I asked the team what they see are the strongest narratives right now in crypto. In no particular order I will go over them briefly here. Solana: memecoins are still booming with WIF >$4B but DeFi tokens JUP and JTO a... Read more

TLDR: Utility: Governance token TGE & Airdrop: April 2nd Immediate T1 CEX listings Total Supply: 15 billion Initial Circulating Supply: 1.425 billion Airdrop: 5% of supply Pre-market price: ~0.672 USD per token Running for just 6 weeks, Ethen... Read more