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Will Papper

@willpapper
7 posts
2025-07-06
Lots of discussion around appchains vs general purpose chains. My EthCC talk on this topic is now on YouTube and dives into quite a bit of data. It goes into the “whys” behind groups like @RobinhoodApp, @world_chain_, and @unichain launching their own chain. Link below 👇
2025-07-06 View on X
CNBC

A look at the annual Ethereum Community Conference, or EthCC, Ethereum's flagship European event, held in Cannes this year to showcase the network's growth

MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC :

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2022-05-03
Gas optimization 1: Remove the ERC721Enumerable extension. The ERC721Enumerable extension is used to track the owners of an NFT on-chain. Mints that remove the ERC721Enumerable extension save around 70% in gas costs. This tiny change would have saved around $70M this hour. https://twitter.com/...
2022-05-03 View on X
CoinDesk

Solana's network was down again on Saturday, for seven hours, when bots hit NFT minting tool Candy Machine, leading to ~4M transaction requests per second

Somehow, on the day I started writing a crypto newsletter, I got hacked. Jay Zhuang / CryptoPotato : Millions of NFT Transactions Clogged Solana, Causing Another Network Outage Mac...

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2022-05-02
Nearly $100M has been spent on gas for the BAYC land sale in one hour. This is money that could have gone to Yuga or stayed in user's pockets. The contract had nearly zero gas optimizations. I'll explain a few gas optimization tricks that could have saved many millions below 👇 https://twitter.com/...
2022-05-02 View on X
Bloomberg

Yuga Labs raises ~$320M by selling 55K virtual land plots in its Otherside metaverse, causing Ethereum blockchain ripple effects and skyrocketing gas fees

Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business … Ivan Mehta / TNW : How the BAYC metaverse mint raised Ethereum gas fees to thousands of dollars Emma Roth / The Ver...

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Gas optimization 1: Remove the ERC721Enumerable extension. The ERC721Enumerable extension is used to track the owners of an NFT on-chain. Mints that remove the ERC721Enumerable extension save around 70% in gas costs. This tiny change would have saved around $70M this hour. https://twitter.com/...
2022-05-02 View on X
Bloomberg

Yuga Labs raises ~$320M by selling 55K virtual land plots in its Otherside metaverse, causing Ethereum blockchain ripple effects and skyrocketing gas fees

Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business … Ivan Mehta / TNW : How the BAYC metaverse mint raised Ethereum gas fees to thousands of dollars Emma Roth / The Ver...

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2022-05-01
Nearly $100M has been spent on gas for the BAYC land sale in one hour. This is money that could have gone to Yuga or stayed in user's pockets. The contract had nearly zero gas optimizations. I'll explain a few gas optimization tricks that could have saved many millions below 👇 https://twitter.com/...
2022-05-01 View on X
Bloomberg

Yuga Labs raises ~$320M by selling virtual land in its Otherside metaverse, causing ripple effects across the Ethereum blockchain; gas fees have skyrocketed

Yuga Labs, the creator of the popular Bored Apes Yacht Club collection of NFTs, launched a sale Saturday of virtual land related …

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Gas optimization 1: Remove the ERC721Enumerable extension. The ERC721Enumerable extension is used to track the owners of an NFT on-chain. Mints that remove the ERC721Enumerable extension save around 70% in gas costs. This tiny change would have saved around $70M this hour. https://twitter.com/...
2022-05-01 View on X
Bloomberg

Yuga Labs raises ~$320M by selling virtual land in its Otherside metaverse, causing ripple effects across the Ethereum blockchain; gas fees have skyrocketed

Yuga Labs, the creator of the popular Bored Apes Yacht Club collection of NFTs, launched a sale Saturday of virtual land related …

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2022-04-18
This proposed vampire attack on Twitter by @realGeorgeHotz is very clever: https://geohot.github.io/... It reminds me of a different attempted 2015 vampire attack via third-party clients. That one was prevented by Twitter capping users, but a browser extension is even harder to stop. https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-18 View on X
Techdirt

Musk's free speech definition is utter nonsense and his suggestions for Twitter completely ignore decades of content moderation iteration on social platforms

from the not-how-any-of-this-works dept  —  Lots of talk yesterday as Elon Musk made a hostile takeover bid for all of Twitter.

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