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Farewell Medium
I will no longer be posting new posts on medium, and instead will be posting to my own self-hosted personal website. Data sovereignty and…
Sunny Aggarwal
Jun 29, 2020
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Venturing Deeper into the Crypto (DeFi) Idea Maze
Venturing Deeper into the Crypto (DeFi) Idea Maze
A couple years ago, my friend Jon Choi wrote this amazing blog post called “Enter the Crypto Maze” based on the Navigating the Idea Maze…
Sunny Aggarwal
Jul 22, 2020
Hamilton 2.0
Hamilton 2.0
A few weeks ago, my roommate and I were having a discussing the hit musical Hamilton (which as I’ve mentioned before on this blog, has…
Sunny Aggarwal
Jul 22, 2020
Quote of the Month — April 2020-
Quote of the Month — April 2020-
“You can’t overtake 15 cars in sunny weather… but you can when it’s raining.”
Sunny Aggarwal
Apr 29, 2020
Monetizing Smart Contracts with GasToken
Monetizing Smart Contracts with GasToken
I just thought of a pretty funny and somewhat devious method for Ethereum smart contract developers to monetize their smart contracts!
Sunny Aggarwal
Apr 6, 2020
War on Different Scales Addendum — The ETC Midgame
War on Different Scales Addendum — The ETC Midgame
A few months ago, at the Ethereum Classic Summit, I gave a talk on a potential roadmap towards Proof of Stake. To be quite honest, I…
Sunny Aggarwal
Apr 5, 2020
War on Different Scales
War on Different Scales
A 2-year war is decided by economics. A 20-year war is decided by technology. A 200-year war is decided by ideology.
Sunny Aggarwal
Apr 3, 2020
Esmeralda of the Wolves
Esmeralda of the Wolves
While surfing YouTube a few days ago, I somehow found myself watching deleted scenes from the Tarantino movie Pulp Fiction. I came across…
Sunny Aggarwal
Mar 19, 2020
Generalized Slashing — Slash People, Not Coins
Generalized Slashing — Slash People, Not Coins
Turn any social behavior into a PoS slashing mechanism!
Sunny Aggarwal
Mar 18, 2020
The 17th Amendment killed Federalism
The 17th Amendment killed Federalism
Well, not really. The expansion of Federal power at the expense of State’s rights, is a story that dates back nearly as far as the…
Sunny Aggarwal
Mar 12, 2020
Quote of the Month — March 2020
Quote of the Month — March 2020
“The smartest people are also the laziest ones. I’m glad that I’m not smart.”
Sunny Aggarwal
Mar 11, 2020
Quote of the Month — February 2020
Quote of the Month — February 2020
“You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It’s easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally.”
Sunny Aggarwal
Feb 27, 2020
DAOifying Uniswap Automated Market Maker Pools
DAOifying Uniswap Automated Market Maker Pools
Reimagining Uniswap as a network of DAOs controlling AMM parameters and competing in a free market to provide the best value to users.
Sunny Aggarwal
Feb 13, 2020
Quote of the Month — January 2020
Quote of the Month — January 2020
“It never gets easier, you just go faster.”
Sunny Aggarwal
Jan 31, 2020
Quote of the Month — December 2019
Quote of the Month — December 2019
“Do not resent growing old, many are denied the privilege.”
Sunny Aggarwal
Dec 30, 2019
Back to Android
Back to Android
This past December, my Pixel 2 was glitching out and I needed to get it sent in for repairs. However, in the meantime, I needed a temp…
Sunny Aggarwal
Dec 4, 2019
The Memecoin Thesis
The Memecoin Thesis
Recently I’ve been telling people that I’ve non-ironically become a Litecoin shill. It all has to do with the Memecoin Thesis, which I…
Sunny Aggarwal
Dec 4, 2019
Switzerland Decal Lectures
Switzerland Decal Lectures
At UC Berkeley, there’s this super awesome program called Decals, in which students can teach for-credit courses (with the backing of a…
Sunny Aggarwal
Nov 21, 2019
Gasdrop
Gasdrop
A novel token distribution mechanism to reward Ethereum contract developers.
Sunny Aggarwal
Nov 19, 2019
Fixing the Lockdrop
Fixing the Lockdrop
Earlier this year, Commonwealth Labs built a project called Edgeware. In it, they used a pretty novel distribution mechanism called a…
Sunny Aggarwal
Nov 7, 2019
Quote of the Month — November 2019
Quote of the Month — November 2019
“You fight the battle you’re in, not the one you planned to be in.”
Sunny Aggarwal
Nov 2, 2019
Quote of the Month — October 2019
Quote of the Month — October 2019
“We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.”
Sunny Aggarwal
Oct 15, 2019
Quote of the Month — September 2019
Quote of the Month — September 2019
Let me write the songs of a nation, and I care not who writes its laws.
Sunny Aggarwal
Sep 29, 2019
Cosmos ❤ Interledger
Cosmos ❤ Interledger
Here’s a recording of a talk I gave at the inaugural Interledger Summit in April 2019, talking about some the synergies between Cosmos’s…
Sunny Aggarwal
Sep 22, 2019
Quote of the Month — August 2019
Quote of the Month — August 2019
“I have conquered the need to conquer the world.”
Sunny Aggarwal
Aug 26, 2019
Quote of the Month — July 2019
Quote of the Month — July 2019
“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.”
Sunny Aggarwal
Jul 21, 2019
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