Optimism and the Honeypot

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There are certain bridges that when you use them, you create a representation of the asset on the chain that is beholden to the bridge that put it there. And so like, say we have bridge just to make up a bridge name bridge, like bridge one, two, three,. Do bridge, I just invented bridge one, 2, 3. And then you have ether on main chain Ethereum and you use bridge one,2,3 to get your ether onto optimism. It's not optimism ether. It's bridge one,TwoThreeEther - Ether deposited into canonical optimism bridge. That is the honeypot because it's this bridge that is now this persistent custodian of this ether that

Dan Robinson is GP and Head of Research at Paradigm. He, over the years, has done a lot of deep thinking about markets, auctions, and liquidity in DeFi, with a particular focus on Uniswap and Uniswap V3. Recently, Uniswap Labs released UniswapX, a new dutch auction mechanism, that Dan thinks changes the meta for swapping assets in DeFi, MEV, chain interoperability, and much more.

The last time Dan was on Bankless was September 2020…almost 3 years ago! If you have ever heard Ryan or I say the phrase “Ethereum is a dark forest”...it came from that episode.

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0:00 Intro 6:00 Why UniswapX is Needed 11:09 What’s New About UniswapX? 14:00 Intents 16:25 The Magic Behind MEV Reduction 20:00 Order Flow Auctions 26:25 It’s Still Early 33:05 Who Are the Nanobots? 37:42 How Rollups Will Change 42:22 How Bridges Will Change 49:55 UniswapX Complements Uniswap v4 53:30 What Uniswap v4 Do for LPs? 59:15 LPing with Uniswap v4 vs. v3 1:04:11 Uniswap’s App Layer & Yields 1:06:05 Why Be Excited About Suave 1:09:55 Closing & Disclaimers

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Dan Robinson https://twitter.com/danrobinson https://twitter.com/danrobinson/status/1681061703818305536

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