Hey! I need some help...
I swapped $22k of ETH to USDC on Uniswap last week and lost $480 to slippage alone. Never had this problem with smaller amounts but anything above $10k and the price impact gets ugly fast.
Is there something better for larger swaps or am I missing a setting somewhere?
I lost money twice in the same week, it wasn't a rug or a hack. I lost to my own wallet.
First time — I was managing like six addresses across three chains, I could literally feel my adrenaline 😭. A new L1 just dropped and the chart was going crazy. So I copy an address, I send and I was waiting for conformation on the other chain but unfortunately after checking again it was the wrong one. And my funds where gone just like that. The wallet didn't flinch. No warning. Just a little confirmation tick like it was proud of itself. It was my fault, I know but sending money shouldn't require me to have a cs degree, understanding chains and stuff. Crypto wasn't correctly built for humans, I'm sure you agree with me 😭.
Second time — same week, same opportunity. My friend is newer to this. He had funds sitting across four different chains but couldn't move fast enough because half of it was stuck, wrong network, not enough gas on another, bridge taking 20 minutes. By the time we figured it out, the window was closed. He had the money, he just couldn't use it.
We both got wrecked by the tooling instead of the market 😂.
I've been quietly thinking about what a wallet looks like if it was actually built for humans. Like what if the chain was just nobody's problem but the app's. You own your keys, you move your money, and the complexity just... disappears underneath. Wild concept, I know.
Just curious, what's the most unhinged thing a wallet has made you do just to complete a basic transaction?
Ask me what I'm building if you're curious 👽
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Hi everyone, been using Uniswap for a while now but every time I try to swap anything above $10k the price impact just kills me. Did a $14k ETH to USDC swap last week and lost around $300 to slippage alone which seems way too much for such a common pair.
Is there a better option for larger amounts or is there something I should be setting differently? Any advice appreciated!
I had no idea the Lido withdrawal process was this painful. Submitted my unstake request and got some NFT back, then waited 18 days just to manually claim my ETH. Missed the whole reason I needed it in the first place.
Is there a faster way to get ETH out of a stETH position or is this just how it works? Feels like there has to be something I'm missing. Thanks
Heyy Guys, im back from learning foundry and next looking to build some projects and host them in the testnet.
I was thinking of building a standard and solid project (like DAO/DEX) instead of small projects..
So when i looked up, i came to know that uniswap is very useful in developing commercial level projects and has many built-in features ideal for production grade apps..
Now should i learn Uniswap and then build a solid project or just build a project and then learn Uniswap..
Thanks in advance...
I am trying to unstake through Lido but the withdrawal queue is showing multiple days, tried a small amount and my steth just disappeared and i received a weird NFT
Is there currently a instant way to Unstake Lido ETH / a cheap way to do that? It's so frustrating
I hold Bitcoin and Ethereum and USDC on the side that aren't moving/being used at all, I'd like to "stake" some of it in order to get extra %/free money. I've started digging how to do it safely (without involving a CEX) but every guide either points to coinbase/kraken... Is there a non-custodial way to Stake USDC?
What are you guys using for it?
There's a lot of news today about how users lost money on Polymarket
In the Russia-Ukraine ceasefire market, they suddenly counted the May 9 humanitarian pause as an official ceasefire 🤯
People around the world are already pointing out the double standards and accusing the platform of bad faith.
Polymarket clearly scammed its players.
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EVM events don't live in state; they sit in the transaction receipt logs. When you fire an ethgetLogs RPC call, you are leveraging the node's bloom filters to query these receipts without touching the state trie.
The architectural constraint here is the topic limit. An event can have up to 4 topics: topics0 is the keccak256 signature hash (e.g., keccak256("Transfer(address,address,uint256)")), leaving only 3 slots for indexed parameters. These are fixed at 32 bytes. Node providers can rapidly filter these topics because they function as native search keys.
Everything else is packed into the unindexed data blob as raw bytes. The trade-off:
keeping fields unindexed saves EVM gas by avoiding topic structuring, but pushes the computational load to your off-chain infra, which now has to pull the raw logs and ABI-decode the hex blobs manually. When you construct an RPC call searching for a specific block range and target address, minimizing the reliance on unindexed data decoding is crucial for high-throughput indexers.
Source/Full Breakdown: https://andreyobruchkov1996.substack.com/p/understanding-events-the-evms-built
For those building high-frequency indexers, at what scale of log ingestion do you abandon standard?
Guys i need you all to look at this, we need some friendly whales who believe and see,
We need Vitalik to act,
We need to wait for next weeks things by the team (fireworks, IP Rights and delistings of cabal)
We need to open eyes,
WE NEED THE COMMUNITY TO STAND UP BIG TIME
I WANT THIS TO GO VIRAL TONIGHT!
ASTEROID OG
0xAFF2565091E7207191dBe340B8528D02FA78d044
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The story of the 4% Asteroid token sell of Vitalik to USDC.
This is the contract of the token:
0xAFF2565091E7207191dBe340B8528D02FA78d044
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Vitalk Asteroid sell tx : $114,546.86 worth USDC
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x5dd5dba4813f58d2cbc66f57c09e1e677d197262971f4e56a540a5f11fbb78ce
Vitalk USDC swap vitalik 1 -> 2 of all his USDC $120,113.57 ($114,546.86 Asteroid USDC + the rest) TX
https://etherscan.io/tx/0xcdca6219c1c3f2e34b9c0a20347a6338219663aa9acd7adb1426fdabda0267d7
Vitalik USDC swap to Railgun : ($119,813.29) (it was $120,113.57, but protocolfee and gas went off) TX:
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x576d05ecc5776008389468ad8799c1cb4eabbb19123d1ea8529443752f738723
Vitalik moved 50.25 ETH (exact the amount $114,546.86 atm of the Asteroid sell) via 0xPrivacypools (deposit) to (privacy pool Simple) TX:
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x8d4f5340c43b76e78ddec2d2b1fc0bfb088b300871a7f27af895270201e65f12
Now we wait.
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STjude wallet (this will maybe get the donation):
https://etherscan.io/address/0x92ee2370b56dc32794a6cd72585dc01d4288d314
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And yes, like stated down here, it doesn't leave much to imagination now, it's 1:1 on the Asteroid OG token sell.
https://x.com/Rh0DL/status/2055635894036472318
I asked Vitalik on X if this goes off, ETH chain will have primetime again and
Asteroid OG will be the runner this bullrun.
The Cabal will fud this, i know they are pounding heavy money on their chart, if you look onchain, every pump is fake and the distribution is insane diluted (whales bundled it big time). Their pumps are insane faked by BIG whales, the market is looking at them like they are the one and they have the biggest cap.
we all know,
we all have seen this,
we are David vs Goliath,
this can be the gamestop of 2026.
We just need some friendly whales who understand and see this thesis.
The one and only Asteroid by Vitalik:
0xAFF2565091E7207191dBe340B8528D02FA78d044
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Original X post that needs to go viral too: https://x.com/Rh0DL/status/2055713201602654487?s=20
swapped $2.5k worth of ETH into a mid-cap token recently. the preview showed 3% slippage, I set my tolerance to 4% and went ahead. came out $183 below the quoted amount. the pool showed roughly $800k in 24h volume so I assumed it was fine. I
s this expected at this size or did I mess something up?
the numbers from 2026 so far are genuinely scary:
40+ protocols have shut down or entered wind-down mode this year. aave froze rsETH markets and lost $6 billion in TVL from panic withdrawals even though their contracts weren't touched.
the pattern isn't random. bridges keep producing the biggest single-day losses because they're designed as massive honeypots. $22 billion in bridge TVL as of march, each one a single point of failure for every protocol downstream.
what bugs me is the response is always the same. "we need better audits." "we need better monitoring." nobody is questioning whether the bridge model itself is fundamentally broken.
bridges work by locking assets on one chain and minting representations on another through a trusted intermediary (multisig, oracle network, validator set). every one of these is an attack surface. kelp's bridge got spoofed because layerzero's messaging layer was fooled into thinking the withdrawal was legitimate.
the alternative exists. data availability layers can handle cross-chain verification without lock-and-mint. instead of one contract holding $293M that can be drained in a single tx, you verify data availability cryptographically across chains. no honeypot, no single point of failure, no trusted intermediary to spoof.
DA layers like avail, celestia, eigenda are live and production ready. the tech isn't theoretical anymore. it's an adoption problem not a research problem.
at what point do we stop patching bridges and start replacing them?
I get the basics of how Ethereum works, but I’m trying to understand the institutional side better. What do they actually want from it?
And does their involvement change where Ethereum is headed, whether that’s decentralization, governance, or how the protocol develops?
Genuinely curious what people who follow this space think.
You can theoretically build any financial tool on these platforms, yet when everyone tries to gain an edge in a market, there's a winner and a loser.
Fuck Milton Friedman, but he's right about that one thing. There's no free lunch.
As they say, brown lie down, black fight back.
I can't believe they made a polymarket for the second coming of Jesus Christ, with an expected return resembling the expected fixed yield of USDC. Additionally, you can bet that secret aliens are gonna be revealed by the government. Like that's ever gonna happen, AND it's free real estate.
It's all bullshit. We're comparing units of nonsense in a differential accumulation fever dream. It's all extractive and thermodynamically pure, God's a lie, time went backwards from its conclusion, other existential noises.
Three months after mainnet launched, Vitalik deployed an advertising auction system to Ethereum. Eight ad slots, four auction mechanisms (one-phase winner-pays, cumulative, sealed-bid first-price, sealed-bid second-price), all managed by a factory contract called adStorer from ethereum/dapp-bin.
I matched the deployed bytecode to source through compiler archaeology. Exact match, 8,752 bytes, solc v0.1.1. Then I decoded every transaction across all 8 child auction contracts.
The only bidder was Vitalik himself. Two wallets (his old deployer and what’s now vitalik.eth), 229 transactions, 0.064 ETH in bids. The winning “advertisements” were two image URLs: me.jpg (a photo of himself) and heiko.jpg (a photo of Heiko Hees, who was building pyethereum). Both are 404 today.
Some details:
Slot 5 is a second-price sealed-bid auction. vitalik.eth bid 0.0005 ETH, his old wallet bid 0.0003 ETH. Second-price rules made vitalik.eth pay the runner-up’s price. The first Vickrey auction on Ethereum selected a photo of a pyethereum developer over its own creator.
Gas cost more than the bids. Vitalik burned ~1 ETH on gas (at 60 gwei, hard-coded in his deploy script) to move 0.064 ETH through the auction mechanics. At October 2015 prices, the whole experiment cost about $2.
Slot 1 was a stress test. 159 transactions, with Vitalik rebidding the same 0.0001 ETH increment 19 times in a row to validate cumulative bidding.
Three of the four all-pay auction variants got zero bids. He abandoned the one he tried before revealing. Even Vitalik didn’t trust his own all-pay math.
The sealed-bid auctions had a frontend bug where bid hashes were passed as ASCII hex instead of raw bytes, making commitments readable in calldata. Didn’t matter since the only participant wrote the code.
0.029 ETH (~$70 today, $0.03 in 2015) is still locked in the child contracts from unrevealed sealed bids.
This was deployed three weeks before DevCon 1, on a network with maybe a few hundred users. A mechanism design experiment that nobody participated in except its creator, preserved on-chain for ten years.
I checked the Wayback Machine for the ad images. The closest capture of vitalik.ca/files/ is from June 2016. Neither photo was archived.
Full documentation with verified source, decoded bids, and all 8 slots mapped: https://ethereumhistory.com/contract/0xaf0334bf30c401b7e3afafbac1dbcdc712be8b9e
This is part of the EthereumHistory project where we’re documenting and verifying the earliest Ethereum contracts. If you want to help, the project is open.
My bank has flagged two of my transfers to a crypto exchange in the last three months. First time they put the money on hold for 48 hours. Second time someone from their fraud team called me to ask what I was buying and why. I answered everything honestly and they released the funds but the whole interaction felt accusatory. I'm not doing anything illegal, I'm just buying some ETH. Has anyone found a way to make this less terrible
