• Tuesday

    • Unit. Banking as a service.
      • https://www.unit.co/
      • For developers to integrate financial services into their apps. Cards, payments, banking info, etc.
      • They own compliance/regulation.
    • DFNS. Custody as a service.
      • https://www.dfns.co/
      • APIs to generate wallets, sign transactions, key management, etc.
      • They own compliance.
      • Can specify policies as well.
    • Set up macbook keyboard shortcuts for ctrl-option-<arrow> to tile windows left and right.
      • On mac, fn-del is for forward delete, since there’s no separate key.
      • Option-arrow is for jumping words. Command-arrow is for home/end (although fn-arrow works as well).
    • UST/LUNA.
      • When a user wants to swap LUNA for UST, guaranteed 1:1 in quantity (not value), a portion of LUNA is burned and a portion goes into the treasury.
        • The burning of LUNA reduces LUNA’s supply, increasing its price.
        • The minting of UST increases its supply, decreasing its price.
      • This is how UST goes back down to $1 if it’s over $1. Users are incentivized to.
      • The exact opposite is also true. If UST is below $1, users will trade 1 USDC for 1 LUNA, make a profit, and the value of USDC will increase by burning USDC and the value of LUNA will decrease by mingting LUNA.
      • Arbitrage in both directions – this is what stabilizes UST.
      • The treasury then buys bitcoin (or other non-terra-ecosystem value-holders) to further diversity and increase confidence.
      • Matt Levine with a great quote: “(1) Ponzi, (2) acceptance, (3) diversification, (4) permanence.” Fake it till you make it, baby.
      • LFG = Luna Foundation Guard.
    • Connecting vscode to EC2 instance.
      • Just use the “remote – ssh” extension.
      • Get the pem of the keypair that launched the instance in a local file (chmod 400), the username, and the amazon-provided hostname, then add all that to a Host entry in ~/.ssh/config.
      • Then simply add the host in vscode (it knows to check that file) then connect to that host.
      • Easy. All through ssh conf.
    • StakeDAO: https://stakedao.org/
    • Full eth network, private, aws. Click PoA, bootnode, puppeth for genesis, clef for key management. Done.