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Building things at ScopeLift

Joined June 2017
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Alexander Keating retweeted
Onchain perpetual options without price oracles? At #Devcon8, our Lead Engineer @keatingDev presented AmPO (Amortizing Perpetual Options), exploring how academic research can inform DeFi protocol design. “Amortizing” means the claimable amount decreases over time, covering the holding cost without recurring funding payments. Full backing removes the need for margin-driven liquidations. And physical settlement and utilization-based premiums remove the need for an external price feed. The potential extends beyond trading: protective puts could help lending protocols settle liquidations without selling collateral on the open market, while stablecoin and LST holders could buy protection against depegs. A fungible, composable building block for better managing risk across DeFi. Watch the talk below 👇
ScopeLift’s @keatingDev and @huvoliveira have arrived in Mumbai for Devcon 8. Check out their talks and workshop below and hit us up if you want to set up some time to meet IRL.
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Replying to @S_Kadakia
Congratulations on the raise!
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Alexander Keating retweeted
We just raised $25M from Insight Partners to replace Gartner, McKinsey, and GLG. RIP the Quadrant, the 80-page consulting deck, and the $2000 expert network call. Our revenue run-rate is up 10x+ this year. 100+ investment firms and enterprises use Qualitate to inform decisions with firsthand evidence. Here's how: qualitate.io/book-a-demo
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Alexander Keating retweeted
For the first time in years, I'm a free agent Now I'm looking for what's next. These are the problems I'm most drawn to: → Enabling both humans and AIs to coordinate across trust boundaries → Ensuring humans can trust the AI agents they rely on (alignment) → Getting DAOs to actually work (yes really!) → Creating the new societal institutions our era needs → Making Ethereum the credibly neutral foundation the world actually runs on What I bring: ⋅Protocol & systems engineering ⋅Mechanism design ⋅Agentic engineering ⋅First-principles thinking ⋅Product sense & tech/business strategy ⋅Forward-deployed engineering I'm open to the right role — full-time, advisory, or fractional, at a funded startup or a larger org. If you're working on any of this, or something else you think I'd be into, I'd love to talk. My DMs are open. (Referrals and signal-boosts welcome 🙏)
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Congratulations to Sagar and the rest of the Qualitate team. It is great seeing former chubby brainers launch a new product.
Introducing Qualitate. AI built for primary intelligence.  Qualitate conducts thousands of expert discussions each month, delivering structured intelligence for the world’s leading investment firms and enterprises. Here's how:
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It was fun diving deep into Uniswap v4 and building something new
🪚 Fixed Fee Swap: How Splitting Yield From Principal can Reduce Risk for Uniswap v4 LPs Thanks to grant funding from @UniswapFND, we built & open sourced proof-of-concept LP yield tokenization on Uniswap v4, based on academic work by Zachary Feinstein & Fayçal Drissi 👇
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Alexander Keating retweeted
A long overdue update on @ScopeLift's work on Umbra and stealth addresses more broadly.
*Dusts off the mic* 🎤 Can anyone hear us out there? It's been a while since we last gave an update on the state of Umbra. Let's rectify that 👇
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Alexander Keating retweeted
We are excited to welcome @huvoliveira to the crew as Partnerships Lead. ScopeLift has long been lucky to work with incredible teams. Hugo's job will be to make sure that continues and expands, even while the rest of us have our heads in our code editors 😉 Welcome @huvoliveira!
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Alexander Keating retweeted
Taking a break from my self imposed social media fast to share this: @ScopeLift has no association with the "Umbra Privacy" Solana airdrop, & no knowledge of its legitimacy (or lack their of). The naming collision is at best very unfortunate, & at worst intentionally misleading.
This project has no association with @UmbraCash, and we were unaware of it until seeing it on X. We cannot speak regarding its legitimacy. It is unknown to us if the naming collision was intentional and meant to mislead. We advise EXTREME CAUTION and skepticism as a result.
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This looks really interesting. I am working on a similar idea. Is the platform live or the code open source?
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Replying to @krishnanrohit
Yes that is definitely a direction to explore. I would be keen to see if there are other coordination failures. Imagine if one agent is exploring a dead end in foo dot py then the other agent will be working around unnecessary code and could potentially be lead astray
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Also, since worktrees allow for each branch to be checked out within a shared directory. I can imagine an autonomous flow where the agent handles the merging since it has the context of the changes.
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Replying to @krishnanrohit
Ultimately, the changes still need to be merged together. I haven't tried a full autonomous flow, but it does lower the headache of merging together multiple agent changes to the same file.
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Replying to @krishnanrohit
Haven't given codex a try, but I have had some success using git worktrees with Claude
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Alexander Keating retweeted
.@ScopeLift is looking for someone to help with our efforts in biz dev, sales and marketing. We're a team of top tier engineers. We've built contracts that custody or control billions of dollars. We've got engineering down to a science, and we write code for some of the biggest projects in the industry. But we want to do more. We don't exactly know what we need, which is exactly why we need the help. So I'm open to hearing all kinds of proposals. From seasoned sales professionals, to someone young in their career who wants to scrap and hustle, anyone is invited to reach out. I want to hear from you. I can tell you what we're *not* looking for: the used care salesman vibe. We're really good at what we do. We don't need high pressure tactics and deceptive sales tricks. Our customers love our work. We just need help finding more customers. We're a technical team, so we'd prefer to work with someone who can speak competently on the technical side. You don't have to be an engineer yourself, but some measure of savviness is strongly preferred. I can't promise a big base salary and cushy benefits. I can promise that if you help ScopeLift succeed, you'll succeed too. If you create value, you'll capture a big share of that value. We're looking for a win-win. You'll have wide latitude to work as you please and have ownership over our BD efforts. We're flexible and open to all kinds of approaches. We're a small, fast, execution oriented team. You'll work directly with me. If this sounds remotely appealing to you, hit me up.
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Alexander Keating retweeted
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Alexander Keating retweeted
MultiGov®, the first-of-its-kind multichain governance system, is now live on @solana, @ethereum, @base, @arbitrum, @Optimism, and any Wormhole-supported EVM L2.
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Alexander Keating retweeted
When you've lost @GeorgeSelgin, whose work helped inspire Satoshi's paper, and @nic_carter on strategic crypto reserve (SCR), you probably lost the script on this idea. Here George explains that like the Ft Knox gold, the SCR will serve no use and be costly. (1/5) @elonmusk
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