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Up up up

I just barely remembered to do today’s update, it’s 10PM and I’ve had a busy day.

Work continues on the Star Atlas DEX. I’ve made progress, but we’re still having problems with trades and settlement, and I’ve gone down a rabbit hole of trying to deploy the site to Github pages using actions, trying to abstract out development and production environment variables. It’s a mess.

I’m still really optimistic though, I’m really close to having a feature complete Star Atlas marketplace. Michael Wagner, the CEO of Star Atlas even reiterated the idea of having independent DEXs at yesterday’s townhall. He said something to the effect that “since we’re using Serum’s decentralized orderbook, anyone will be able to stand up their own front end and allow people access to Star Atlas’s assets.”

We hear you Mike, we hear you.

Personally, I was also busy around the house. My never-ending deck project is closer to completion, I cleared the main deck and washed it down from top to bottom in preparation for staining tomorrow. I even cut a few balusters that needed replacing. I took Younger out with me to the store, and took her and her bestie to the beach for an hour today while Elder was out with her bestie for a birthday dinner. Tomorrow I need to stain the main deck boards.

I’ve got a lot of work to do to get this DEX stood up, but I’ve got investors interested now, and the dao is growing. With any luck we’ll be the Yield Guild of Star Atlas soon. The upside here is so huge.

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Guardian

Well today was a good day, I actually managed to sleep more than six hours today. I think the insomnia and mood swings I’ve been having the last few days might be due to alcohol withdrawals. I have been drinking a lot lately, starting with our week at the beach and culminating with the Labor Day weekend. I’ve been drinking this evening, so we’ll see if I sleep tonight and wake up with a headache.

We managed to snag a Calico Guardian last night. I found out what the MSRP was on it and placed a lowball bid and managed to score one in the first minute, practically at list. It was pretty sweet.

I did more work on our dex, orders started working, so now I just need to figure out why settlement doesn’t work then we can publish and hopefully start raking in the fees. The dao raised over twelve grand today, including one contribution for ten grand. It’s amazing how much money is in crypto. Speaking of which, I estimated that Atlas Co. raised over nine million selling those two hundred Guardians. It’s amazing how much they’re minting.

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Good work

Yes, I am still completely exhausted, and going at one hundred percent. I didn’t have too much trouble sleeping last night, but Younger woke me up at three in the morning and it was game over. I laid around until six and went for a three mile jog in a light drizzle just before dawn. It was rough, but I pushed hard at the end and didn’t stop the entire run. What more can I ask for.

I got access to the Trading View library and was off to the races. I managed to get serum-dex-ui working locally with chart, and just finished getting it running on an AWS instance an hour or two ago. There are issues with orders and settlement that need to be resolved, but I’m really pleased with myself.

The dao got more members today as well, and I just placed a very low bid for a capital ship for over $31,000. It’s just at the low end of the leaked price, so I’m just going to let the order come to me. If it sells out, eh, no big deal, there will be more in the coming weeks. So I’ll go upstairs and watch the charts for a few more minutes, see if it sells out and hopefully, get the first good night’s sleep in days.

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Humming along

Well at the risk of sounding repetitive: what a crazy day.

Still had trouble sleeping last night and slept on the couch, just enough time to get Elder to the bus stop, then it was Star Atlas Star Atlas Star Atlas. Missus went to work and I had six glorious hours to do work uninterrupted. I was busy.

I managed to work out, I figured I needed to do it to burn off some of this energy that’s had me manic and insomniatic these last few days. I was at my desk by nine, roaring to get busy.

We were able to do a successful test and sent an NFT to and from the multisig. We are ready to start transferring assets out of the hot wallet. I think I’ll sleep easier once the posters and rewards badges are out of there. I had a voice call with the hegemon of IA, Kristian, and got up to speed on what he’s been gathering from the Star Atlas team, that definitely helped, and then I had another call from a guy that’s helping me with the technical side of things.

Then it was a lot of time on Discord, answering questions about dao membership and so forth. We had several new members, so I was busy. We also got access to a new dao system built on Solana — it’s devnet, so nothing to talk about yet.

I got a lot done before two when I had to pick up Elder from the bus stop. Got there early and wound up giving a long monologue about what I do for a living.

Tomorrow will be busy, the GAO resumes with four drops (Guardian!) and there’s supposed to be this drop for something called Fewmans tomorrow. We’ll see if I can manage to snag them or if they don’t sell out in one block. They’re free, but there will be a gas fight, and I haven’t figured out how much trouble I’m going to go through to get it.

Overall, things are really going good right now on the business end, I’m making lots of contacts and getting lots of stuff built out. Family wise, the adjustment to school and a new schedule has been really difficult. The kids really don’t like the half hour of screen time, but we’ll adjust if they can maintain things like we did during the summer. God help me.

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Back to school

What a absolutely crazy day.

First off I couldn’t sleep last night, I was thinking about SAIADao and couldn’t turn my brain off. I don’t think it was anxiety, might have been one of my pills that I took before bed. Maybe niacin. Anyways I was up until almost two AM, going back and forth between bed and the couch. I tried meditating. Finally passed out and woke up just in time to throw on some clothes and walk Younger to the bus stop for her first day of Kindergarten.

I went right into checking the serum-history infrastructure. The AWS instance was down again, so I rebooted it and had to get that back up. (If it does it tomorrow I’m going to have to get serious about it). My brain was a mess. Missus wanted to talk to me about going out to breakfast — she took the day off — but all I could think about was the Star Atlas sales.

And oh boy, was that something. Instead of just opening their marketplace like I thought they were going to do, they instead did one ship at a time over the course of the day. I figured out pretty early that prices were going to tank on the first item, so I dumped mine and bought ten more for the same price. It was a small win, and I only did it to give myself some practice before the big ones came up.

It did not go as smoothly.

Raydium seemed to be having problems, and it seemed to be affecting Solana as a whole and I had a lot of problems placing and cancelling orders. I lost out on a big sale trying to sell a ship for four grand before the market opened at thirteen hundred. I missed it by a few seconds. The last drop of the day was a large ship that was supposed to sell for nine K, but there were a ton of twenty grand buy orders up on the market before the sale was supposed to start. Then someone, probably a pre-sale participant since they were the only ones with one of the four ships in existence, started doing some spoofing before the market, and it looked like a sale went through for a quarter mil.

So most of my day was going over the dao details with new members, we actually got ten grand from one individual early this morning, so I had a lot of cash on hand to play with. We bought quite a few ships, and tomorrow it happens again with another group of ships. I don’t know how much we’re going to go for since we want to maintain cash for our token purchases, but there’s some money to be made flipping these ships. The art is figuring out what the price is and whether it’ll sell out. I think I have a strategy for tomorrow.

I talked to a lot of people today and got a lot done. I’ve managed to pull the serum-history OHLC data into a Python notebook and do some charts. No one has these but me right now, as far as I know. I might be naive.

Hopefully not.

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Drained

Stayed up a bit too late last night — again — and have been a bit short on temper today, but boy did I get a lot done. I smoked ten pounds of chicken quarters and cooked a really big dinner, and I’m pretty much wore out right now. I spent the entire rest of my day working on Star Atlas stuff.

Most of it was spent working on the multisig wallet issue. I think we’ve got everything worked out. Our primary mistake was using the wrong number of decimals in the token mint for USDC, but we made a whole bunch more of them during testing. Screwing up multisig and people’s addresses. It was a mess. The important thing is that by the end of the day I was able to transfer 1 USDC out of the multisig back to my wallet. It took forever.

Then I had to write a dao update, which is here, detailing what we’ve been up to. The main takeaway: the dao wallet stands at $304,100, which includes $52,500 in cash and $251,600 in NFTs. That’s a 4x, and we only bought one poster set. God, if only we’d gone further. I’ve got a scheme about membership liquidity there as well, but the details still have to be fleshed out.

Talked to my contact Tobi from YGG. Told him what I was up to with the Solana infrastructure and SAIA stuff. He said he’d talk to the team about making me the SA ambassador. I just want to get in on the call he’s got with the Atlas Co. dev team. We’ll see.

I was completely manic today. I almost forgot to eat lunch and totally forgot about the chicken brining in the fridge until Missus said something to me. I was completely absorbed, and pretty much ignored the kids today. Missus took them out for “something fun”. I drank too much coffee and was a whirlwind all morning. Right now I’m drained and am going to lay down. Tomorrow is the first day of school and I have to get Younger to the bus stop by 6:58. Good lord.

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The Days Go On

Well today has been an interesting day.

I woke up really early — 5AM — and finally got up around six and went for a run. I went for my personal best, 3.1 miles, and it took a lot to follow through with the run, but I did it. I spent the next two hours loading up yesterday’s experiment with serum-history in AWS and loading the API data in the Google sheet that I had set up. The girls went to church; I did some touch up painting. The rest of the day I spent on Twitter, watching Netflix and Disney+. I was productive overall.

I’ll have to save discussion of fewmans till later, assuming it goes anywhere beyond the cool million that it raised today. Another time. BTC pumped today, so yay, but funding for my BTC/ETH markets was at an all time low of three hundred dollars.

I finished watching season three of Money Heist, or La Casa de Papier en espanol tonight. I’ve been joking that I was going to learn Spanish by watching it, but I think I’ll try to end it here. It’s much to melodramatic for me, although I have enjoyed it. I used to be skeptical about old jokes like I learned English by watching Police Academy movies, but I feel like I have picked some up. It’s like a plot point in REAMDE where the heroine starts to pick up Arabic from her captors.

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Serum History

Well I have been another level of busy today. I went shopping at the hardware store — time to finish the deck! — balanced the house accounts, and did a bunch of stuff around the house. I spent a majority of my day working on Star Atlas marketplace stuff.

This was the main result, a one-line command that can be run in a web browser to inject Serum custom market IDs into a browser’s local storage. There’s about forty five items in there, and doing it manually across web browsers is a PITA. I started working off a master list in Google Sheets to start collecting price information on the assets there, and I had to do multiple transformations to get the data compiled, sorted by category and rarity, names the way I wanted them. Then I had to convert CSV to JSON using an online tool, then join the lines in Notepad++. It works, but based on the number of ships that are dropping in the GAO sale on the 7th I’m going to be really busy if I’m going to maintain this list.

I want to take this a step further and create a custom Serum frontend of my own, and pre-populate these markets instead of the usual SOL markets that you find on Serum or Raydium. I’ve been messing around with it today, even tried to deploy it to AWS, but I need a TradingView library license. I looked at a couple other options and someone pointed me to a serum-history repo from the Mango DEX team. After a bit of messing around I got it working, and had to do some regex substitution to load the SA markets there. I have it running right now in a VM, chugging along.

Tomorrow I hope I can get this up and running in AWS, then I can populate prices in my Google Sheet. I may even be able to throw it in a React app, a market overview dashboard. There’s a lot to do, but right now I’m exhausted and going to bed.

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Atlassian

I am writing this now because I am drunk and it is Friday.

I am super manic right now. Bitcoin closed over fifty thou today, Eth toyed with four grand, and Star Atlas dropped loot today.

I had a call with a recruiter about a blockchain version of Spotify — it’s about the most perfect job I could think of, besides Atlassian. I spent an hour this afternoon trying to figure out price action.

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Watching corn grow

So out of the twenty tickets we entered for the Raydium Star Atlas IEO, not a one of them won. Part of me is wondering whether I might have gotten some if I hadn’t messed up my bids or had enough cash to redeem the last one I missed out on. Que sera. One of the members of our SAIA Dao Vault Control Team won some and instantly made fifty grand. He dumped all his tokens today. I managed to avoid the fomo today, putting in a lowball bid. I managed to move funds from the xDAI Daohaus to my FTX account, and bridged ten thou of USDC over to the dao wallet. Because 2FA on my personal FTX account is broken, I had to use my IRA/LLC account, which is limited. So we’ll see how price action goes over the next day or so, and try buying in some sort of DCA strategy.

It was a bit of a mad house today. It looks like the Star Atlas launch caused some sort of Solana issue, they had a technical issue and Raydium was all screwed up in the hour after the launch. Fun times.

PA was mostly flat today. BTC was back over fifty thou this morning and has been down and back up today, the usual. Perp funding is flat still, I’m only up two hundred for the week. I can’t complain, considering my current PnL. I also got confirmation that I can partially close a position, which is good, since it gives me options in addition to removing margin from the position.

Vesper’s VSP token has been mooning, most likely due to inclusion in the DPI fund. I had to close out my CREAM loan since I was a bit too close to my liquidation price. I still have some open with my IRA funds, but I was a bit more conservative with the ratio on that. Overall I think I have netted a couple hundred dollars. Not bad, but not that great considering the gas costs. I still need to sell the VSP tokens, or restake the ones I netted. Hopefully I can sleep on it another day, I honestly wasn’t expecting VSP to pump since it’s inflationary. I guess we’re getting to that point in the cycle where everything is about to moon. Just waiting on the corn, I suppose.

I didn’t have to scream at the kids today, which is always a win. I took Younger to open house at her Kindergarten. There are only a dozen kids in her class, with a teacher and an assistant, which is a really good ratio. Elder was mostly compliant, did her chores without too much fuss, including piano and Spanish work. She also completed a special project that I had asked her to do, a rendition of Rosie the Riveter that I had asked her to do as a Labor Day present for Missus. I was going to mint it as an NFT, but Mintable.app wouldn’t let me connect her wallet and I gave up. She wants to print a couple copies but I’d have to send it to the printers since it’s color. We’ll see what we can do tomorrow.