Hello! I'm Mason. I like like simplicity, honesty happiness and other good stuff like that. This is my blog about technical stuff and other stuff too.
In 2017 I quit my job to pursue a career in cryptocurrency. I had high hopes. Nearly a decade later, crypto is still barely functional. Last summer a friend helped me rebuild my dock. It took an entire afternoon just to get him set up with a Bitcoin wallet so I could send him some Bitcoin for his trouble. This summer, he has half as much “money” in that wallet as when I sent it. In order for…
Moonshine exchange is live! Right now you can farm MSX tokens on Polygon and trade 5 ERC20 tokens on Moonshine Chain. Our first round of experimentation pulled in $110K in liquidity without any outbound press or marketing. As we launch this next prototype I think it’s important to think about how we got here, what Moonshine Exchange is and where it’s going. How We Got Here Building the initial…
Moonshine Liquidity Rewards are moving to the Polygon Network at block #6359375 which will be mined around August 28th 2021. This will allow for 10% of total issuance to be distributed in the remainder of the first era. How To Migrate The migration process should take about 15-20 minutes depending on congestion on Ethereum. To migrate you’ll have to do the following: Click remove liquidity, select…
Moonshine has always been about building delightful working software over making promises about the future. With that in mind we've spent the last few weeks focused on building and simple automated market maker that runs on the Ethereum layer 2 network Arbitrum (more on what that means later). While it may seem like this is a major change in direction the overall focus has not changed: to be the…
It’s been a while since our last update and as always there is a lot to report! We’ve been heads down for the past couple months working toward the launch of our next prototype. The prototype is up as a testnet now and all we need to do is flip the switch to turn it on! In this prototype we’ve added a fixed function automated market maker into the base layer protocol. What this means not only will…
Ellipticoin launched! The network ran for a total 4 hours 48 minutes and 55 seconds at which point a hacker managed to stall the network. I wrote a post-mortem below but first a bit more about the launch! We had 22 trades and $4,142 in trade volume go through the community bridge and more and more people are hearing about Ellipticoin organically. Our goal was to make it to $10k in volume this…
It’s actually happening! Ellipticoin is going live Wednesday June 17th at 11am. We’ve had a trail run running on Mainnet for the past week without any issues so we’re ready to flip the switch! First off this can’t be repeated enough: This is an early prototype. Do not purchase more Ellipticoin than you’d be happy to loose. Normally teams pay for tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to have…
Tom and I have been heads down for the past couple weeks putting the finishing touches on what we’re calling Ellipticoin Prototype Phase I. In this phase we’ll be launching with the minimal set of functionality so we can get working software into the hands of users as quickly as possible. Users will be able to trade Ellipticoin with Ether via Uniswap and a community-run token bridge. Ethereum…
Ellipticoin is back! Four months ago I stopped working on Ellipticoin to join the Optimism team full time. Last Friday was my last day at Optimism and I’m now working on Ellipticoin full time time again! I loved working at Optimism and what they are building is going to be at the center of our new decentralized world but I realized that going back to Ellipticoin was too good of an opportunity to…
As always there’s a lot to report since the last post! Most importantly you can now deploy smart contracts to the Ellipticoin testnet! I wrote a tutorial about how to do that here . My plan in the near future is to incentivize people to build on the platform by either offering a cash bounty for completing the tutorial or to hold an global Ellipitcoin Hackathon with cash (DAI) prizes! Beyond that…