Top 4 at the moment , send book recs

Getting back into long-form writing: excerpt from @LayerZero_Core's Q2 2025 Protocol Update Letter to Investors What started as solving fragmented assets became infrastructure for largest wealth transfer in history. $ZRO

2024 was in many ways the centralization cycle. Decentralized primitives lost out to centralized apps across the board. Ethereum decentralization -> L2 multisigs Uniswap immutability -> Jupiter frontends Seaport programmability -> Ordinals offchain orders Metam*sk selfcustody -> Privy app wallets dYdX cosmos chain -> Hyperliquid validator The one beautiful exception to this? LayerZero - immutable protocol with flexible DVNs - clear tokenholder governance and rights - dominating marketshare across bridges - sovereign universal token standard for OFTs - opensourcing better L1 tech than any 11-figure chain In the past few months alone, they've shipped: - QMDB, a better blockchain database which gives you 2.3 million state updates per second - FAFO, a transaction parallelization approach handling storage read/write conflicts that can process 1.1 million transactions per second - vApps, an architecture to fit any Rust application into a universal onchain proof framework Back in 2021 I would joke that the corollary to the blockchain trilemma was the bridge trilemma: if we have at least 3 live crosschain bridges, one of them is about to get hacked. Ronin (625m), Poly (610m), Binance (570m), Wormhole (325m), Nomad (190m), Harmony (100m), Multichain (125m) - all eviscerated user capital. We don't worry about that any more. It's so rare to see the team with the best cryptonative ethos also dominate on both tech and distribution. Kudos to @LayerZero_Core for all the quality opensource shipping.

Really love to see @LayerZero_Core being included in almost any new solution to many outstanding multichain problems. LayerZero is now a critical part of every stack. Build things people will use, build for maximum utility. That is how you win

The future will be defined by applications which think bigger than our industry. Global Token Exchange is accelerating beyond app wars to represent a new paradigm of financial products which leverage blockchains to just be better. Congrats @GTE_XYZ.

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MAINNET IS LIVE with @initia (and @celestia underneath) Memes don’t just launch anymore - they enter the Chains of Chaos, a strategy game where tokens battle for liquidity. Welcome to Embr ⚔️🔥

tldr on vapps

An application's final destination. Initia Mainnet is live.

a16z were some of our earliest believers and are doubling down on the core LayerZero mission -- to build a better internet Today LayerZero has 75%+ marketshare, $100B+ in assets and rapidly growing transfer volumes now at ~$6B/month. @LayerZero_Core is going to continue to accelerate and bring a better form of money to the world