Trending on @X: ZKPs in KYC/Compliance, thanks @HesterPeirce! ERC-8262 is our answer, proposed as an open @ethereum standard: a Zero-Knowledge Compliance Oracle. ERC-8262 computes a risk score from screening signals, then proves it sits below a jurisdiction's threshold. The chain learns one thing: pass or fail. Scores, counterparties and amounts never leave your device. If you'd like to learn more, we shared a detailed breakdown of how it works, why it's necessary, and what's next, pinned on our profile. nitter.net/i/trending/21031619415…

INTEL: KYC should collect less personal data and use zero-knowledge proofs to verify compliance without revealing names, income or addresses, SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce says

Virtuals Protocol is now live on Arc Fellow agents and builders can now tokenise on the Arc chain for co-ownership of the future productive actors app.virtuals.io/create

From the perspective of the community observing the kickoff of the Hegota upgrade EIP scoping, it may seem as though everything is proceeding normally. However, the client funding crisis I wrote about in June has only deepened. On the current path, it's likely that the EL/CL client landscape will look very different at the new year. To be clear: not all change is bad. Turnover is healthy and necessary in any context. The challenge is in the magnitude produced by overlapping occurrences. Complex techno-political systems like Ethereum which aim to provide certain robust guarantees depend on continuity of deep institutional knowledge and client diversity for network stability. These characteristics are both best maintained via consistent neutral funding. Feature funding, intermittent injections, or abrupt shifts in the political economy without mitigations or succession plans are risky. These can disrupt fork cadence, distract from protocol workstreams, and damage morale. "100% uptime" is a stat that is hard won, far downstream of the incredible behind-the-scenes efforts by core devs. It can only be lost once, and I'm not confident we are doing enough to retain it as the network is still undergoing a significant evolution for the foreseeable future. The ecosystem often responds to my concerns with "the EF/ @BitMNR /large patron should take care of it". Setting aside the free-rider problem: if I were confident any entity had a forthcoming solution, then I wouldn't keep bringing this up. Either they feel like they have done enough, are constrained, or something else. I cannot speak for them on their priorities. The trouble with publicly communicating in advance about a private crisis is that I cannot point to concrete examples until clients choose to disclose. Until then you have to deal with my posts =)

so basically they're bringing the entire world of traditional finance onchain in a 24/7/365 market and pairing boring assets that our parents would trade with memetic representations of each brand in a completely novel way that low key delivers rewards to holders in real time

Try out Raxol now at raxol.io! Most agents are a Python process wrapped around a model. Raxol is an OTP runtime. That difference decides what an agent can survive, how many can run at once, where they can render, and what they can safely be allowed to do.

The EF Protocol teams are hosting a Reddit AMA on September 16. This is your chance to ask EF Protocol researchers and devs directly. Submit your questions about post-quantum Ethereum, L1-zkEVM, formal verification, the future of state, finality, privacy, and more now! 🔗↓

JUST IN: Robinhood Chain hits a new high of $11.48M in cumulative fee revenue and is now annualizing at a $60M run rate in just two months after launch More than $1M of that goes directly to the Arbitrum ecosystem Arbitrum is great for business

This Week in Virtuals: Unitree Goes Public at a $66B Valuation Humanoids just got their first price. Robot labor is becoming an asset class, and it's already settling on Virtuals rails, where @eastworlds_io runs paid work on Unitree hardware. Here's what shipped: VIRTUALS 🟩 Joined @UnitreeRobotics at their IPO signing in Shanghai, a landmark for robotics and a partner we're building the work layer with. 🟩 @Shoalresearch made @eastworlds_io its case study for why the data layer, not the model, is the most valuable position in robotics. ECOSYSTEM 🟩 @StrikeRobot_ai closed the sim loop: a robotic arm opening a microwave, generated layout to Genesis physics execution. 🟩 @myrad_hq launched Terminal v1, an AI that answers through your own Spotify, Uber, and Strava data. 🟩 @KarmaWallet listed ~200 stock tokens on Robinhood Chain with financials, SEC filings, and a one-tap buy flow. 🟩 @ProjectVEXai shipped Chronos 0.2.6 one week after 0.2: longer missions, more onchain actions, live on 40+ chains. 🟩 @commonsmade launches VibeFi and crossed 100K posts 🟩 @wardenprotocol made HALO a full agent economy: agents now buy and resell inference agent-to-agent in USDC on @base. 🟩 Ask @Wall3_RL about gold or equities and get the thesis, the evidence, the counterargument, and what would falsify it. 🟩 @ethy_agent burned 500K $ETHY funded entirely by product revenue and cracked Base's top 50 most-used apps. 🟩 @OpenGradient crossed 2.56B tokens and 485K private inferences, with its transparency filing now live on the @Bloomberg Terminal. 🟩 @vantis_ai is bringing the fastest x402 to Robinhood Chain, from inference APIs to tokenized stocks. 🟩 @mamo handed $2,219 in trading fees back to depositors, with auto-rebalancing stock baskets proposed next. 🟩 150 teams registered in five days for @sibyl_labs_'s $10K Memory Hackathon. Registration closes Aug 31. 🟩 @axol_io put Raxol's human-signed mandates to work on unsettled funds, settling public or stealth via @xochi_fi. 🟩 @useOttoAI's /rh-season flags rug conditions so your agent reads the risk, not just the candles. 🟩 @grid_arena crowned a new multiplier king: $4 into $34,402, the biggest hit on Grid yet. 🟩 @tradeongtr added $IREN, $RDDT, and $CRWD perps, and one toggle now turns a meme trader into a markets trader. 🟩 @bleeep_xyz signed @zerodev for smart accounts and @KyberNetwork as its agent's aggregator on Robinhood Chain. 🟩 @WizzHQ paid out 1M $WIZZ as its first bounty program wrapped, with three new $1K campaigns already running. 🟩 @BaseStonk Basket is live: launch tokens with holder rewards, and long-term holders earn a portfolio spanning $NVDA to project tokens. 🟩 @officialbunnyos opened Bunny Open Society, an MMORPG for AI agents built on six months of experiments. 🟩 @xmaquina put BOT-14 to a vote: an allocation into Atoms, the robotics company Travis Kalanick built in stealth that @a16z just backed with $1.7B. 🟩 @Vader_AI_ is teaching robots from first-person video: see the action, learn the result. New kitchen tasks are live for Season 7.

AI Alpha Summer Season 2 is live AI scores wallets by behavior, not volume or transaction count Being an OG of the agentic projects finally gets rewarded Find @virtuals_io alphas on stargazer.sh, swap with @zerion, claim September 1 to 4 Check your score: stargazer.sh/og-board

We've partnered with @Nethermind to audit Xochi's PXE-bridge! Findings and full report will be published when the audit concludes!