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This is the @ObolNetwork core team ❤️
19 countries and counting 🦾
We are one big distributed validator 😂
We also clean up nicely 😎
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Collin Myers retweeted
I first heard Oscar Murillo's name 14 years ago.
I was visiting Mark Jenkins - a printmaker for a handful of London’s top galleries & dealers, and one of the behind-the-scenes legends of the London art world.
Mark was working on some prints by a recent Royal College graduate. He told me to keep an eye on the artist - one of two times I remember him doing so.
The first time, it was Helen Marten. This time, Oscar Murillo.
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I didn't hear Oscar's name again for a year or so, when a wave of attention found its way to a handful of emerging 'process painters', sending certain artists’ markets soaring.
For most, it didn’t last. But from the ashes a small group of artists emerged who would go on to become some of the leading figures of their generation.
Oscar was one of them.
He signed with David Zwirner in 2013, and would go on to jointly win the Turner Prize (3 years after Helen Marten), take over Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, and exhibit at Gagosian London, Rome & Athens...all before turning 40.
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Oscar is primarily a painter, though has spent much of the past 13 years working on a fully self-funded project, Frequencies - an archive of canvases drawn and painted by schoolchildren around the world.
@leyla_solos was familiar with Frequencies before we started Verse, and in 2022 became aware Oscar was considering giving the project a home on Ethereum.
4 years on, we will be partnering with Oscar to bring Frequencies to the world - debuting it this month at Oscar’s solo exhibition at David Zwirner, Paris.
We’ll be sharing more soon.
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Video courtesy of David Zwirner.
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Collin Myers retweeted
Coming up for air now after a very dense excellent week in Seoul at KBW, while staying on top of our response to a security event affecting part of our infrastructure.
I can now respond to queries and speculation regarding what is impacted and what is not affected.
Based on our investigation to date, there is no indication that MetaMask wallets or customer funds in wallets have been affected. Your Secret Recovery Phrase, your keys, and the assets in your wallet were not part of this incident because they CANNOT be. You custody and control your own keys. That is how self custody works. You are fully in control of your own money in MetaMask.
Like many providers in our industry, we constantly face attempted attacks from a range of threat actors and periodically encounter security issues. Our approach follows established best practice: we do not publicly discuss the details of an open incident, but we disclose promptly to partners and relevant stakeholders once an issue is sufficiently understood. In this case, we shared the relevant details with partners, agreed and implemented a response strategy together, and then disclosed publicly.
As a precaution, we and our partners rotated validator keys. That step is operationally inconvenient which is regrettable as validators must exit the staking queue and then re-enter the queue to restake, which takes time.
The validator staking architecture of Ethereum separates the key that proposes and attests from the key that can withdraw the stake. In accordance with the Ethereum principle of self-custody, we do not hold withdrawal keys for our clients. Because of that separation, an issue in the validator infrastructure CANNOT result in the improper movement of the underlying ETH. Rotating those keys was how we reduced residual operational risk.
Self-custody and user control are a central design principle guiding how we build -- in MetaMask, in staking and validation, and across Ethereum more broadly. Self custody plus rigorous decentralization represents a paradigm shift in security. Increasingly, the world is waking up to the benefits of this sounder architecture.
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Each @SpaceX Star Mind super intelligence spacecraft will have over 250kW of solar power, which is about 20% more than the International Space Station
The scale of SpaceX satellites is getting absolutely insane
Each generation roughly doubles or more in deployed size
Starlink V1.5: ~11 m
V2 Mini: ~30 m
V3: ~60 m
AI1: ~75 m wingspan - first-generation orbital AI compute satellite
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Collin Myers retweeted
Yesterday I gave the keynote at ETH Connect 2026 in Seoul, hosted by @0xundefined_.
Here's what I shared in my remarks.
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Life at #ArtBaselParis is worth living 🤩
Join us at the Grand Palais, for our Paris fair, opening October 23–25.
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Collin Myers retweeted
Ethereum has had 100% uptime since its inception, so it’s worth asking why @ethlabs_org and EF are redesigning its consensus protocol. I want to provide some context.
Ethereum today runs what researchers call an "ebb-and-flow" consensus protocol. "Ebb-and-flow" refers to the fact that the protocol is actually two protocols in one:
- There's an "availability protocol," also called a "fork-choice rule," which can produce blocks even when a majority of Ethereum's stake are offline. This is what would keep Ethereum producing blocks even if a nuclear war took out most of the internet.
- There's a "finality gadget," which makes a block irreversible after some time. This is why we can all go to sleep at night knowing that our transactions won't be reverted when we wake up.
However, for historical reasons, these two protocols are tightly coupled on Ethereum. Every block, a subset ("committee") of Ethereum validators send votes ("attestations") to produce blocks, and the very same votes are used to finalize blocks over a long range ("epochs"). The fact that the same votes are used for both protocols means that, if you were to reduce the votes used for the availability protocol, which would speed up block production, you would need more blocks to achieve finality, which would delay finalization. On the other hand, if you were to use more votes for the availability protocol, it would speed up finalization but slow down block production. You cannot speed up both at the same time.
On the other hand, Ethereum's fork-choice rule (formally named "LMD-GHOST") has been discovered to have multiple vulnerabilities over the years. For example, it was discovered (by researchers including @casparschwa and @barnabemonnot) that you could secretly accumulate votes for a fork, then reveal it later to reorg out a new block. There have been consistent efforts to patch these vulnerabilities, but they are generally seen as bandaid fixes that introduce further complexity and bug surface into the protocol.
So Ethereum's new consensus design, called "decoupled consensus", is an ambitious attempt at tackling both problems at once:
- Decouple the availability protocol from the finality protocol, so both can be optimized independently.
- Fix vulnerabilities with the availability protocol.
The way this is done, in broad strokes, is this:
- We replace LMD-GHOST with a new algorithm called Goldfish, alongside a "stabilization gadget" which is another sub-protocol that prevents Goldfish from re-orging over an arbitrarily long range.
- We run the availability protocol (Goldfish+stabilization gadget) and the finality protocol in parallel, with separate votes.
The result? Ethereum will provide both fast finality and fast block times, AND it will keep producing blocks during World War III. Of all blockchains, Ethereum will be the only blockchain with these properties, and that's why it will be the settlement layer of the global economy.
One step closer to 4-8x faster Ethereum finality!
It took some time and lots of tokens, but we now have a formally verified proposal for a decoupled consensus protocol in I* (a future Ethereum upgrade)! Not yet a full spec (up next), but it includes all the key consensus-relevant details to become one.
Since Ethereum aspires to be live without most of the stake online, the protocol involves many more components than a normal BFT protocol, and its correctness involves much more than standard safety and liveness. Those nuanced properties are now verified!
What's more, I came away convinced that all protocol design will involve AI-assisted Formal Verification in the future, both for correctness and iteration speed.
The work wasn't limited to just:
Design the protocol -> Formally verify it
Instead, the loop became more like:
Design -> Formal Model -> Find exactly what breaks and why -> Redesign it.
For a fairly complicated protocol like this one, I think having the Lean model be part of the design loop played a big role in accelerating the process.
A future with agents paired with formal models is a superpower for Ethereum development, because they can then use those models to find exactly where an argument breaks down, formalize counterexamples, test proposed fixes, iterate on the protocol.
Many details that would slip under the radar when asking agents (and indeed, humans) can now be specified exactly and checked by the Lean kernel. This then forces agents to be more precise and lets them make verifiable progress on their own. It's been incredible to see this play out, seeing agents find gaps and propose protocol changes to fix them.
In other words, autoresearch can speed up protocol design, formal verification is here to stay, and Ethereum Finality will get faster.
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Collin Myers retweeted
📋Withdrawing EIP-8363 from consideration for Hegotá.
EIP-8363 rapidly became one of the most commented-on EIPs in the history of the Ethereum-Magicians forum, with 200+ comments in a few weeks. As we progressed through the Hegotà CFI (Consideration For Inclusion) process, several parties in the industry as well as core protocol and client contributors voiced that a fork scoping exercise was not the right venue to settle an issuance policy change.
We agree and we'd rather acknowledge this now than carry on towards Hegotà in this context. The topic is too important and raised too many concerns that it deserves its own process. We commit to giving issuance its own process and we thank the entities such as @LidoFinance who offered to help steer such an initiative.
We stand by the motivation of this EIP, in particular: “a very high staking ratio is undesirable for two distinct reasons (...), preserving Ethereum’s security, neutrality and resistance to capture, and protecting ETH’s role as money.” Not everybody immediately relates to both reasons and for others recognizing just one of these reasons is enough to justify a change. Nevertheless, we will all benefit from improving our understanding of the issue and what is at stake. The questions we have faced since we published EIP-8363 can be boiled down to 5 categories:
➡️Security: What does a lower ratio actually secure versus a higher ratio?
➡️Industry impact: What else is built on the yield and what will be the impact ?
➡️Curve specs and alternate tools: Is this curve even the right instrument?
➡️Composition: Who is left staking (the effect on the composition of the validator set) ?
➡️Decentralization: How will solo stakers be impacted by the reduction?
We already argued a lot, conceded some and adjusted a few points in the very long Ethereum-Magicians thread mentioned supra. For a broader consensus to emerge and a better issuance policy for Ethereum to be designed and adopted, we need a dedicated process. We call for all willing hands to help and contribute to this, please do reach out. Here’s our start at what a multi-node process would look like (table attached).
Onward and forward, let’s improve Ethereum.
🚨 New EIP: Tapered Issuance Burn
We just submitted an EIP to ethereum/EIPs: a minimal, market-driven fix to Ethereum's issuance policy removing the incentive for stake growth beyond 50% of ETH supply.
EIP-8361 by @pintail_xyz, @jdetychey, @dapplion, @pa7x1, @ladislaus0x & @drakefjustin 🧵
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Collin Myers retweeted
No aim too high. No journey too far. No terrain too challenging.
We’re going back to the Moon. This time, to stay.
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Collin Myers retweeted
JUST IN: Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich will co-lead PROJECT MERIDIAN, a new Pentagon effort studying the future of warfare, including how America maintains its advantage in space, the “final frontier.”
Announced by Pete Hegseth, the initiative will examine technologies and capabilities needed for future conflicts, from underground and the seabed to space-based warfare across the cislunar region between Earth and the Moon.
The effort will operate under Pentagon Chief Technology Officer Emil Michael, with findings due in 120 days and a public report to follow. 🇺🇸
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Collin Myers retweeted
I made a tribute to the history of SAR with my new best friend, Sol 6.1. If you're curious about the history of SAR, this is a fun way to get a primer, and there's an out-of-this-world Easter egg hidden in there, too. sarsarsar.com/
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Collin Myers retweeted
Today we're announcing ABX, a free and open-source protocol for documenting anything digital on the blockchain, powered by Art Blocks.
Bring your own wallet, or sign up with an email. We'll even cover your gas.
We're starting with @Base, other chains coming soon™.
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bro never skipped leg day
Interview Summary: 24/7 Trading on Hyperliquid (@Joonylive × Jeff Yan)
Joony Koo: Two years ago, the prevailing view was that markets should close because of risk, rest, and off-hours liquidity. Was there a moment when that view broke for you?
Jeff Yan: Crypto is an inherently international asset, so the idea of market hours never really fit, and 24/7 has always been the default. It started to matter for traditional assets when the incumbent exchanges began extending their hours. They didn't go straight to 24/7, they went to 24/5, but it became clear they had recognized customer demand and were responding to it.
Joony Koo: Incumbents are now matching the hours. What is left that an on-chain venue can offer?
Jeff Yan: Trading hours are independent of being on-chain. The core of on-chain finance is two things. First, users keep control and custody of their funds. That doesn't matter day to day, but it matters in critical moments, when counterparties, intermediaries, or custodians run into trouble. Reducing trust assumptions and moving power to individuals rather than a single point of failure makes the system more robust. Second, transparency. It has limited mass appeal, but being able to know, in theory, everything happening in the system brings a trust and neutrality you don't get from a system controlled by one private organization. You can have 24/7 trading without these properties, but these are what on-chain markets can offer the world.
Joony Koo: This year commodities, equities, and pre-IPO names traded at scale, and price discovery sometimes happened while the reference markets were closed. What did the team learn from watching the two run side by side?
Jeff Yan: The clearest lesson is that demand for 24/7 trading exists. You wouldn't know without these markets, but the world doesn't sleep as a whole. Global 24/7 markets concentrate liquidity across more buyers and sellers, making markets more efficient and liquid for everyone. There will always be someone, somewhere, who wants to express a view, so once the option exists, those markets become the Schelling point where people go to do that.
Joony Koo: HIP-3 lets independent teams create markets, and institutions are building on top too. If anyone can build, what is Labs focusing on?
Jeff Yan: Labs specializes in the technology and infrastructure that supports deployers. What a deployer needs varies widely depending on who they are, where they're based, who their users are, and what they want to list, and the list is long. The vision is for Hyperliquid to be a neutral infrastructure layer, like AWS, which spared startups and large firms from reinventing the wheel. Financial primitives like order books should become pervasive and battle-tested infrastructure, and making that work for everyone is the primary mandate.
Joony Koo: The "AWS for finance" analogy reminds me of working at a game company when people debated whether the cloud could be trusted. What open problems would Labs most like to see others solve?
Jeff Yan: First, builders should find something they're uniquely positioned to do, given their interests and competitive advantages, and we'll support whatever they build. One specific hard problem is tokenizing the underlying assets themselves. Custody, liquidity, and the mechanics are all harder, so it hasn't taken off yet. I hope to see strong projects and builders next year, because having the assets represented on-chain synergizes with price discovery and liquidity.
Joony Koo: Tokenization is speeding up as more institutions get involved. Any advice for smaller teams?
Jeff Yan: Many teams, big and small, are working on tokenization, but it hasn't hit escape velocity and it's unclear who will succeed. That's the beauty of neutral infrastructure: you don't win just because you're big, though big teams may have legitimate advantages like institutional connectivity. Viral products often come from small teams that see the world differently and think less rigidly. Perps are intuitive and fair instruments that concentrate liquidity across the globe and across all time horizons into one asset, so they're easy to present to users. Some small team may even reinvent how the interfaces look.
Joony Koo: You spent three days with the Korean community this week. What stood out?
Jeff Yan: Like last year, I felt the hospitality, and I'm grateful to everyone who organized events. The community here is strong, and trading is a core part of many Koreans' lives, so it was great to discuss how on-chain markets and HIP-3 would change their approach to markets. Talking to users and the community inspires us to keep building.
Joony Koo: And your meetings with institutions?
Jeff Yan: It's cool to see institutions interested in the platform and building on top of it. They're understandably slower to adopt new technology because they have a lot to protect, but as this year has shown, the appetite is significant.
Joony Koo: Last question: what is next to be priced 24/7 that has no continuous price today?
Jeff Yan: Nothing specific, but private markets are a big opportunity, and you already see some of it through HIP-3 deployers. Much wealth creation happens privately, because companies have incentives to stay private as long as possible. It isn't intended to exclude most of the world's population, but that's what happens in practice. Allowing global price discovery on these assets as early as possible, in a global system not confined to one jurisdiction, could break that trend. There are many complexities to work through, but markets exist so everyone can benefit from them, and trading anything, anytime, anywhere has the most potential here.
Joony Koo: Any final remarks?
Jeff Yan: Hyperliquid's core strength is its community and people. It's not one company doing what's best for itself, but a decentralized network of contributors and users building a financial system owned by the people rather than by private interests. There's a long way to go and many challenges, but seeing everyone in Seoul, I feel we're in good hands, and we'll build something the financial system can ultimately adopt.
@kbwofficial @HyperliquidX
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Collin Myers retweeted
Mike Tyson: "If you want to be the best in the world, there’s going to be disappointments. And so it’s about what you do when you get disappointed."
Everyone loves winning. Being the best. But very few people are actually prepared for all the sacrifices and setbacks that comes with trying to get there.x.com/MAHA_Action/status/210…
You can do everything right, put in the work, the hours, and still get your ass handed to you. That's just how it goes sometimes.
It's what you do after that counts.
MAHA Action
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