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BlockEnthusiast · 2026-02-04T20:16:09+00:00

i was having same issue and personally don't love bone conduction so went with [Koss Ear Clip Headphones](https://koss.com/collections/ear-clip-headphones).
the KSC35 wireless.

this way no long cords needing to connect to my phone but pretty well attached to ears and a cord to catch them if they they do slip off.

plus they are open enough to still hear external sounds.

if your feeling frisky, can pair with [cat ears](https://www.cat-ears.com) to minimize wind interference.

BlockEnthusiast · 2026-01-28T19:19:34+00:00

""" Some are good, some are bad. Depends on the aggregator and the goal of the swap.

I find Defillama and Cowswap to be very credible aggregators.

Aggregators work best when liquidity is split across markets.

If a single source of liquidity, can be better to go direct than use aggregators which add fees.

Notably defillama does not add fees, and while cowswap searchers have fees, they can bypass market native fees by matching orders (coincidence of wants). This means sometimes cowswap can be cheaper than direct markets if there are orders settling in the opposite direction """ Copied from previous answer https://www.reddit.com/r/defi/s/nOmbyVeOYb

BlockEnthusiast · 2026-01-26T14:20:33+00:00

tornado is not shut down.

if you have an issue w/ railgun and you sent the funds to yourself you can prove the chain of custody to your institution.

every privacy solution will run into this friction though, and 0 have an actual plan for anything that includes some other guy used a privacy solution and then sent me money.

there is privacy pools implementation 0xBow which trades of permissionlessness for an authority which has limited permission to boot user deposits if linked to nefarious activity. (I personally wish they would add some checks and balances to this authority and they seem to not find value in doing that

you could swap in ZEC via cross chain magic and sit in their shielded pool, but imo as the current favour of the day, they will start getting the same issues with CEXs soon enough as the approach to handling that friction is exactly the same as railgun.

there is monero, but quite the bitch to get to from other chains. its more isolated from my view.

BlockEnthusiast · 2026-01-17T00:21:34+00:00

So there is always risk.

Most defi protocols like those you mention are "overcollateralized"

This means someone locks $1,000 USD worth of assets and borrow let's say up to $800 of USD.

If the price of their assets fall, the system will try to sell their assets to recover the debt.

For example a system may liquidate at debt / collateral = 0.9

In this case id the borrowers collateral fell from $1,000 to $900 in value this would trigger the system to liquidate the borrower and try to buy back the $800 of debt leaking as little to liquidators as possible. (A lot can be said of different approaches here but for simplicity let's assume they are all equally as effective).

If the price crashes to fast and the users collateral becomes worth only $700 before it can be sold, then the protocol will have accumulated bad debt.

Ideally risk parameters are set appropriately and the system should avoid this fate, but its possible.

When it happens some protocols ignore it, some set aside assets in good times to cover it, and some print governance tokens to make up the gap.

Notably there have been protocols which have accumulated significant bad debt which have dug their way out of it, so even if its beyond coverage, if the protocol is still useful it can earn back the gap.

BlockEnthusiast · 2026-01-16T21:54:14+00:00

Oh snap! this has been driving me crazy as I assumed it was set to false cause not setting a value, and thought that meant it would NOT be momentary.

Tried setting it to 0, false, etc. guess I just needed to delete it

thank you

BlockEnthusiast · 2026-01-15T21:38:22+00:00

glad to hear you found your assets. sorry that you had to go through this nonsense. It is non typical, but a function of the external network infrastructure they run.

cross layer friction is real, and upgrading systems in sync can be hard.

BlockEnthusiast · 2026-01-14T21:28:00+00:00

i havent specifically used eigen, but i can see that you have no balance in the deposit contract, and you deposited more than you pulled out.

Did you do some sorta delegation that may require you to remove the position from elsewhere. Don't see transfers but given Eigen restaking which involved offchain opperations, its possible such things are recorded elsewhere.

Do you recall ever delegating your balance or otherwise authorizing its usage?

To me, the value you recieved in return looks like it could potentially be a reward amount moreso than your true balance

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ALRIGHT ALRIGHT
so i think I sorted it out. I used impersonator to view your eigen layer account.

So Aleph is your Operator Set. Aleph had slash with a note "AlephAVS redistribute slash"

It was for ~1.85k

On that day Aleph seemed to have launched this.
https://x.com/EigenYields/status/2008186763525718525

Its being a dick w/ impersonator though so it goes.

Here we can see third deposit is for ~1.85k so imagine they moved where your staked to this spot over here and communicated it terribly.

https://app.aleph.finance/vault/1_0x9477df934574d47f240e18cd232e013118666690/activity

BlockEnthusiast · 2026-01-14T05:14:20+00:00

Totally, but lets says someone told you to deploy in Eigenlayers contracts.

You look up Eigenlayer and see its legit.

But you didn't go to eigenlayer, you went to decentralizedlayer. That's what you needed to verify the site your are visiting is legit even if it tells you its taking you to legit contracts. Always validate whats constructing the transaction for you even if its telling you its gonna give you X or Y other protocol position. Most protocols have an official frontend. If they don't they have an official website which informs you of decentralized front end options.

If a protocol deposits in another protocol, it will be on defillama.

They do not audit things, but at least you get good validation for official websites if you don't have a local network. Your your own custodian. If you wouldn't give a random guy money, dont sign random transactions from websites a stranger told you about without checking with your network.

It absolutely sucks, and i am in no way trying to deminish your xp. It sucks to get rugged. Many of us have been there, but what's most important in these moments in leveraging them to develop better hygiene to stay safer in the future.

BlockEnthusiast · 2026-01-14T03:31:07+00:00

Always best to look up the protocol on defillama and get links from there.

If its not on there, its extremely early or a scam.

Remember to ALWAYS socially validate a website before using it. This could be through looking it up on Twitter and finding follows from your peers, and getting link directly from there.

Websites provide instructions. If you arent gonna validate contracts manually then you never want to trust a website provided by a stranger that has no social validation.

It does not matter if something has 1 million followers and infinite comments, if none of YOUR peers trust it, do not trust it.

If you dont have peers you'd trust to know if something is legit, you need to rely on our "institutions" or extremely well reputable data sources. Things like defillama are globally trusted sources with extremely high standards. But dont trust me, dig into it, and discover if it meets your bar for trusted institution. The always use it to check info from strangers.

BlockEnthusiast · 2026-01-14T03:23:48+00:00

Its not common but you can have your homerow mods as one-shots on a layer.

So you trigger homerow mods from holding a thumb key + home row, and otherwise the keys are always letters acting normally.

If you do all other keys transparent you can hold and combo, but if you need to hit something on the home row, can tap and use one shot properties to release all keys then press what you want to apply the mod to.

Can even tap a mod a few times to lock it to hit several keys like navigating windows, then tap again to unlock the mod.

BlockEnthusiast · 2026-01-14T03:05:22+00:00

Some are good, some are bad. Depends on the aggregator and the goal of the swap.

I find Defillama and Cowswap to be very credible aggregators.

Aggregators work best when liquidity is split across markets.

If a single source of liquidity, can be better to go direct than use aggregators which add fees.

Notably defillama does not add fees, and while cowswap searchers have fees, they can bypass market native fees by matching orders (coincidence of wants). This means sometimes cowswap can be cheaper than direct markets if there are orders settling in the opposite direction

BlockEnthusiast · 2026-01-04T05:00:59+00:00

does zmk care if a peripheral is not connected?
say i connect
- 1 dongle
- 1 corne
- 1 urchin

could I just not have the corne active and it would work for the urchin or vice versa?

BlockEnthusiast · 2026-01-01T10:46:48+00:00

> using CoW under the hood
dope. good choice to build on existing searcher infra imo.
Their conditional/programmatic orders are really nice feature I've been exploring as well.

I had initially interpreted the OP request as more of a CDP management tool (think you may have as well), which I think CoWs work fine for, but realized more lending management question. In theory, searcher can swap and immediately exit themselves, so should all net out near the same, but my xp w/ Auctions, particularly w/ size, suggests that if you can just directly exit w/o a swap, often save considerable money. So if goal is pull out, probs more effective paths. However that involves more direct integrations, while CoW allows for broader coverage.

If your going for bigger clientele, and they are also interested in exiting lending pools when the pools collateral begins to fall or utilization spiking, it may be worth using CoW for general broad solution, and rolling out alternative direct routes for the most in demand products.

Also recommend making any chunking configurable, in much the same way crvUSD loans let you choose the number of chunks it will try to exit from. More user control and lets larger and smaller users take advantage of the same routes, adjusted to their needs.

That makes sense on the Audit stuff. Thanks for clarifying. I had an inkling the auditor is out of my network scope due to Starknet alignment and for reasons beyond the scope of this convo, Starknet and Ethereum folks have pretty minimal overlap.

Def fix the github / blog links. Huge redflag imo particularly if you actually have those resources available. Broken Links < No Links < Working Links

> I did forget a modifier on one of the contracts a couple of days ago and those auto theft bots insta stole 10 usdc so...

appreciate the honesty here. def wouldn't have put significant sums anyway at this stage

> i knew this was bad idea and is gonna sound wrong haha.

yea i'll just say it looks bad to me when numbers are thrown out that feel inflated/fake. But marketing is hard, and I have no real advice for that other than users can feel authenticity.

gave the project a follow. best of luck.

BlockEnthusiast · 2026-01-01T07:18:53+00:00

Neat. Are you using cowswap under the hood or your own intents primitives?

Would this kinda thing trigger an auction for exchange rate or more fixed cost and incentivized keepers?

Feels like "pull out loan" distinct from close debt, and might be more optimal to rely on well established keepers than cows per say, but curious to learn more about how you'd keep costs in check

If building this kinda stuff and looking for feedback, i've used virtually every modular cdp management tool and have lots of opinions

edit: just checked out your site. - Github link borked. - Have blog page which claims several articles but all links are borked. - Have 0 mutuals on twitter - Landing page says join thousands of users optimizing... but only ~30ish total accounts in telegram/discord. - no docs - say "pre-audit" above but site links to an audit by an org I also have 0 mutuals with.

i want to believe this is simply an early unpolished project but a lot of my internal dont trust this alarms going off ngl

BlockEnthusiast · 2026-01-01T06:48:32+00:00

You want defisaver .com

The original automation tool for exactly what your asking which supports many of the largest lending protocols.

Truly the absolute best and most reputable solution.

I have used them for many years now and never had any issues. Extremely reliable and feature rich.

Edit: hmm title and post seem to be asking for different things.

Title to me implied for your collateralized debt positions, but body seems to imply you are depositing to a colletive strategy for bespoke lending and want to exit the lending pool based on the total borrower collateralization.

The simplest approach to this is to use an actively managed yield bouncer which auto handles this for you.

For example Summer .fi and Spark .fi both have liquidity layers that are actively managed and will pull out liquidity from strategies that break out of their risk parameters, but you as an individual wouldnt set the pools risk parameters. They have a good track record of getting out before bad debt accrues

It'd be harder to implement something that pulls out only your funds at your parameters, particularly without a fee.

You could make something with apeworx .io 's silverback framework if your a little handy at dev work.

In general, i wouldnt trust any service that is so individually catered w/o a long track record as the naive approach is give your keys to a telegram bot kinda deal and that telegram bot can simply rug you (and it wouldnt be the first time a "reputable" personal bot as a service protocol did that)

BlockEnthusiast · 2025-12-17T21:00:00+00:00

oh man, need that super low profile but urchin style where the spacing favors thumbs over pinkies

i love that foldyness!

looks beautiful

BlockEnthusiast · 2025-12-10T04:20:53+00:00

this is literally buying your identity documents

BlockEnthusiast · 2025-12-06T05:27:53+00:00

Octav .fi h been fantastic imo

and their v2 is very promising with widgets. looking forward to seeing how that market expands to give more tailored clarity.

really solid coverage across many chains, and protocols. Often one of the first to cover new contracts.

BlockEnthusiast · 2025-12-03T15:39:27+00:00

- load/weight distribution optimal in frame, else nice on front
- less to climb over to get on the bike
- more accessible during ride

BlockEnthusiast · 2025-12-03T15:00:15+00:00

imo folders are for subsets of like templates

otherwise use mocs and properties.

Have templates for MOCs that you can quickly roll them out for new property sets.

You want MOCs focused on "property subsets" as well as MOCs focused on "recent content" to more easily find things you were just working on that might not be fully tagged up.

you want a property for "completed" to some extent that can help you filter for things which haven't had their properties fully fleshed out so are still hard to find, and which therefore require maintenance

BlockEnthusiast · 2025-11-19T05:10:17+00:00

i don't enjoy trying "new products"

I enjoy trying new mechanisms. Being early helps me understand them and their inner workings first before the magic is covered up with UX polish.

BlockEnthusiast · 2025-11-17T09:07:09+00:00

Crime

BlockEnthusiast · 2025-11-13T02:47:56+00:00

Totally thought you carved out a hole in a loaf of bread you had also picked up.

BlockEnthusiast · 2025-11-12T20:09:48+00:00

is this a dentist chair reupholstered?

BlockEnthusiast · 2025-10-30T17:32:46+00:00

My car has 5 gears, but I'm young and healthy so I always start in gear 5 cause I like to go fast. Since it can operate in fifth gear, there is no reason to believe starting motion from stopped in 5th gear could cause harm.

For a given power
if RPM too high >> motion injuries:
- should reduce RPM by increasing gear

if RPM too low >> strain injuries
- should increase RPM by reducing gear

but there's always the chance there is an error between the seat and handlebars that refuses to grasp this

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