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My journey with Api3 has come to a close. I'm incredibly proud of what we accomplished together as a team, and I'm grateful to end this chapter alongside people I now call friends.
On this new journey, I'm excited to announce that I've joined @Katana network as their Developer Relations Engineer.
So why Katana in the sea of layer 2s?
As many of you know, I'm deeply involved in DeFi, both as an active user and through managing yield strategies for @developer_dao to fund community initiatives. After exploring what Katana brings to the table as a chain, I'm convinced it has the potential to become the premier destination for sustainable, long-term yield generation in the space.
To all the builders, founders, curators, and communities out there: I want to hear from you. My DMs are open.
See you on the battlefield, Samurai. ⚔️
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Come see why @katana is the place to be.
October Quests are officially complete 🎉
Join us tomorrow live at 1:00PM EST with @Billyjitsu and @camolNFT for the the reveal of all winners.
We'll be talking about all the updates since last month, the GTA VI giveaway, and the big $10,000 winner! Make sure to tune in.
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⚠️ scammers are impersonating my teammates and I on telegram
the ‘tell’ is that the duplicated username appears in the Bio, with the actual username hidden
stay safe
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I fucking love crypto.
Just got a free copy of GTA VI for trading on Katana.
As someone who regularly trades perps, I just did my normal perps volume but opted into their GTA VI reward... and unlocked it in just a couple hours.
My trading was pretty mid, ended up with no major profits, but I offset all my losses AND I got a free copy of GTA VI Ultimate Edition.
Nice.
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I refuse to believe no one has built ‘instant cash back’ with principal slashing for early redemption.
Have had several reach out but none actually solve for what I'm trying to implement
Will pay $500 if someone does have this and let's us use it and $100 for the person that refers me to said developer
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Random conference flashback.
Took public transportation to explore the city and ended up trapped with NFT rappers.
Some memories just have triggers.
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Katana and Katana ecosystem products are not affected by Binance incident and remain stable, fully functional, and secure.
We immediately went into war room following rumors:
- in close contact with all curators for Vault Bridge and Katana, we were prepared to go into defensive positioning for a potential industry liquidity crunch, which was and remains to be unlikely based on analysis
- in close contact with @chainlink who is the sole provider for price feeds on @katanaperps. Chainlink prices are aggregated across many sources, so single venue drifting doesn't move the onchain price on its own, but regardless continue to monitor abnormal DEX and CEX spreads
- in close contact with Katana Perps MMs to understand and minimize potential impacts to liquidity environment on our venue while uncertainty loomed
- in close contact with other ecosystem players to fully understand as well as taking internal steps to further assess implications to market conditions
In these situations it feels reassuring to know our team's obsession over security and that the partners we have chosen to work with carry this attitude as well.
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Check out that funding rate 👀
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3 Billion traded, and highest trading volume on @katana Perps record during the last competition.
Get a piece of the pie, don't stand on the sidelines. 👇
PERPS TRADERS 📣
The next cycle of our bi-weekly $130,000 trading competition starts NOW. Rewards can be earned based on both volume and PnL.
What are you waiting for?
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First time crossing $200m in perps volume on any platform in less than 2 weeks👀
@katanaperps the land of opportunities for new algo traders
gg
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Are you heading to @EFDevcon?
👉 Join us during Devcon 8 Mumbai for our classic Developer DAO meetup in conjunction with @joinwebzero. Hang out with your favorite community members, enjoy drinks and snacks, and learn something new from our featured technical talk!
📋 RSVP Today
luma.com/developer-7uu0
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Blast is shutting down today.
We have taken a snapshot of users and wallet activity. Additional boosts will be given to wallets that are active on Katana.
More soon.
Blast will be shutting down.
We launched Blast with the goal of building a self-sustaining chain for users and developers. Unfortunately, the economics of operating the chain no longer make sense: the ongoing costs of maintaining Blast exceed the revenue generated by the L2, and we do not see a credible path to making the chain economically sustainable.
As a result, we've made the difficult decision to wind Blast down.
We're sorry to the users and developers who believed in Blast, built on it, and supported the ecosystem. Our priority now is making the shutdown as smooth and safe as possible.
We're asking all users to withdraw their assets from Blast to Ethereum mainnet, including any balances held in the Blast PWA.
To make this easier, we will be reducing the withdrawal delay to 24 hours.
As part of the shutdown process, we'll first begin withdrawing Blast's Lido assets. This process is expected to take approximately one week. During this period, withdrawals will temporarily be unavailable, even after the withdrawal delay is reduced to 24 hours.
Once that process is complete, withdrawals will resume with the new 24-hour delay.
Users will have until October 26, 2026 to withdraw through the normal Blast interface.
After October 26, assets will remain withdrawable, but users will need to interact directly with the Blast bridge contracts on Ethereum L1. We'll publish detailed instructions before then.
We strongly encourage everyone to withdraw their assets to Ethereum mainnet before October 26.
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With all the Katana news and everything going on with the snapshots, I have an imposter messaging people on telegram.
If we do have an ongoing conversation and something looks fishy, make sure to verify with here on X and make sure the Telegram name is correct. Stay diligent out there.
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One year in at @katana . It's been a ride.
This past year has been one of the most intense and rewarding periods of growth for me, both on the business side and as a developer.
What started as a Developer Relations role evolved into so much more. I've had the opportunity to contribute across product, marketing, AI optimization, community, engineering, and feature design.
But the dev in me never stopped getting my hands dirty on the technical side.
I've built and operated liquidation bots, perps trading bots, AI-driven delta-neutral strategy bots, and arbitrage bots (still haven't figured out how to make that arbitrage profitable, lmao).
One of the biggest takeaways, though, has been the people I've worked alongside.
We're a tight team and I've learned something from every single person.
The Katana Perps team are true OGs. Watching their meticulous approach to engineering, optimization, and execution has been an education in itself. When a team has worked together for over seven years, you can see it in how they operate, solve problems, and build. That kind of chemistry is hard to replicate.
It's been intense. My socials haven't been nearly as active as they used to be, but that's because I've been heads down, building, experimenting, learning, and constantly pushing myself to improve.
One year in, and I still feel like there's so much more to learn and build.
Excited for what's ahead at Katana and to see just how far we can take this thing.
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Real talk. If the people working on the product don't have skin in the game, it's hard to trust it.
look the foundational problem with ethereum protocol design is that most of the people designing the protocol don't actually use ethereum themselves. you can't fix the right things if you don't use your own fucking product. you don't have enough skin in the game if you don't personally depend on the system you're designing & stand to lose money when it breaks. i understand, everything looks great from an ivory tower lol. things look very different when you're actually on the ground dealing with the consequences. if you don't use ethereum yourself but still think you're qualified to design its protocol, you're playing god with a system you don't have to live with and whose consequences you don't have to suffer.
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We are taking a snapshot of all $PAPER holders at 12:00PM EST on 10/23/26.
Additional boosts will be given to wallets that are active on Katana. More soon.
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Slowly but surely people are starting to realize that an chain and product doesn't always have to extract.
Come see why @katana is cooking.
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