Back to collectionA Market Jump, an Unfinished Technical Agenda
Background: The new year had begun under bear market pressure, while the office prepared for a technical discussion with Offchain Labs. Today: BTC crossed USD 17,000, triggering short liquidations, yet no one in the office looked up at the chart. Impact and next steps: The market's brief relief made the day feel lighter, but unresolved architecture questions still set the team's priorities.
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Background: The new year had begun under bear market pressure, while the office prepared for a technical discussion with Offchain Labs. The chain team needed to turn its idea for a game chain into questions it could ask and test.
Today: BTC crossed USD 17,000, triggering short liquidations, yet no one in the office looked up at the chart. A-Zhen kept checking the meeting agenda, leaving questions about the Orbit technology stack, the chain's layer, and its settlement path for the other side to answer. The sudden price move could not settle a technical choice.
Impact and next steps: The market's brief relief made the day feel lighter, but unresolved architecture questions still set the team's priorities. They would enter the next day's meeting with a sharper agenda. Only the discussion itself could show which assumptions held up.