a better social media overall would look like having to stake ETH, the platform operation runs on yield, and if the platform AI detects you post AI slop, your ETH gets slashed and you can't post again until you recharge it.

Another L1 → Ethereum L2. Gnosis Chain is coming home.

Just a little number go up and suddenly everyone is starting to change their tune. If you think from first principles, blockchains are inevitable. If you value freedom, they are necessary.

Oracles are the most under developed blockchain category. Putting RWAs onchain is a legal implementation. But brining arbitrary data (subjective or deterministic) is a technical challenge, and still a massive opportunity. We have all the infrastructure for trustless marketplaces, but still no trust minimized oracles after all these years.

make crypto fun again and by fun i mean executing a $128m onchain loan with a 9% yield generated by 32 state of the art @nvidia exascale computers in an AI data center somewhere in canada on @arbitrum processed by @USDai_Official tokenization is only boring if you want it to be 😉

Our Tool of the Week is Freedom Tool by @LashaAntadze from @rarimo_protocol. It uses zero-knowledge cryptography to verify voter eligibility while enabling anonymous, transparent and tamper-resistant elections and polls. freedomtool.org/

All your Ethereum opportunities in one feed. Jobs, grants, hackathons, and more at high-impact organisations. Instead of checking 10 places, check ethstars. ethstars.xyz ✨

* "the foundation for a continuous, market-mediated, agent-based scientific economy" whitehouse.gov/science/#chap… Report to the President: "An agent-based scientific economy will reshape what science gets done." "experimental information becomes a tradeable commodity, and price mechanisms replace slow institutional coordination. Markets could form to support the scientific enterprise, such as prediction markets informing grantmakers about technologies on the horizon, bounty markets directing resources toward unsolved problems, and reputation markets tracking which agents produce reliable results. Agents would interact directly, exchanging data, hypotheses, and compute time through microtransactions. The whole system runs continuously, at speeds no human institution could match, but is guided by human judgment about which breakthroughs merit large bounties, and which questions require framing that machines cannot yet provide."

On collaboration and credit: DAOs are beginning to "fund scientific research directly without going through traditional institutional gatekeepers." Community-driven funding of science could serve as an efficient alternative to traditional rails. 🔗whitehouse.gov/science/#chap…

This year‘s Devcon in Mumbai 🇮🇳 will, amongst others, feature a track on 𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬, 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞. Please consider submitting, and please encourage others who can share case studies of digital rights delivery in precarious contexts especially.

We've been quietly working on this for a long time, and today we finally get to share it 🙌 Introducing Shutter Governance, a voting system for municipalities, councils, universities, unions, and cooperatives where ballots stay private and anyone can verify the results 🧵 1/6

Etherealize Team Commentary on Token Terminal's Ethereum Q1 2026 Report The headline tension this quarter was Ethereum mainnet hitting record usage levels while transaction fees fell. Ethereum is deliberately scaling the network at the expense of near-term fee capture, betting that cheaper blockspace unlocks far more demand (and eventually network revenue) in the long run. Token Terminal's Ethereum Q1 2026 Report shows that bet is working. On a year-over-year basis, monthly active users rose 85.9%, transaction count is up 81.5%, and throughput climbed 81.7%. This is Jevon's paradox at work, and we expect the increase in total network demand to more than make up for lower fees, similar to how the semiconductor industry generates several orders of magnitude more revenue today than it did in 1975, when Intel co-founder Gordon Moore observed that the number of transistors on a microchip doubled roughly every two years. Furthermore, the scaling payoff is still ahead of us with the Glamsterdam upgrade targeting a more than 3x increase in the gas limit in Q3 and Ethereum's roadmap guiding to 10,000 TPS and a "fast L1" with finality in seconds by 2029. We agree with BlackRock CEO Larry Fink who wrote in December that "tokenisation today is roughly where the internet was in 1996—when Amazon had sold just $16m worth of books." The consensus at the time was that Amazon was a money-losing online bookseller propped up by an internet bubble. However, Jeff Bezos saw that the internet was going to transform retail and optimized for network effects and economies of scale, rather than near term profits. Ethereum is making a similar tradeoff to cement its position as the settlement layer for global finance. The other lesson worth drawing from the Internet is that open, permissionless networks tend to beat closed ones. In 1995, Bill Gates published The Road Ahead predicting digital commerce would run on proprietary corporate networks he called the "Information Superhighway" rather than the open internet. Microsoft was building MSN. AOL, CompuServe, and Prodigy ran walled gardens with millions of paying subscribers. France's Minitel had more users than the entire web until late 1996. They all lost. No serious company would build on top of a network controlled by a competitor, and perhaps more importantly, no corporation could keep pace with permissionless innovation indefinitely. We have seen this play out again and again: Linux out-built proprietary Unix, the open web displaced corporate walled gardens; Wikipedia displaced Britannica. Each time, the proprietary alternative had the early lead — a more focused product, larger marketing budgets, business development teams — and each time that lead eroded after the open system crossed a threshold of accumulated contribution, tooling, and credible neutrality. We are now seeing this theme play out in financial infrastructure, and this report's data is evidence that Ethereum has crossed the threshold with dominant market share in every metric that matters. The institutions building tokenized finance are choosing Ethereum not out of ideology but because the liquidity, composability, and institutional precedent are already there. As this report highlights, Ethereum holds 79.2% of active DeFi loans across the top five chains, 61.8% of stablecoins, 73.0% of tokenized funds, and 84.0% of tokenized commodities. Every new tokenized asset deepens the liquidity that pulls in the next one, and a neutral substrate is the only equilibrium that holds because large players will never agree to settle on a competitor's infrastructure. Furthermore, institutions are realizing that privacy, permissioning, KYC, and transfer restrictions can all be implemented on Ethereum through privacy-preserving environments and permissioned token standards without surrendering access to public liquidity; the reverse (bolting public liquidity and an open application ecosystem onto a closed chain) is not possible. The institutional momentum, if anything, has accelerated since quarter-end. In May alone, BlackRock filed for two more tokenized funds, JPMorgan launched JLTXX as its second tokenized money-market fund on Ethereum, and Fidelity International launched FILQ, a Moody's AAA-rated dollar liquidity fund, as an ERC-20. In the world of stablecoins, the Japan Blockchain Foundation's yen stablecoin EJPY will launch on Ethereum, and a twelve-bank European consortium (including BNP Paribas, ING, UniCredit, and BBVA) is preparing a regulated euro stablecoin. The internet looked impossible in 1990 and inevitable by 2005. If Fink is right about where tokenization sits on that curve, the next few years could be some of the most exciting in Ethereum's history. And as we argued in our Productive Money report, network fees give ETH an intrinsic value floor, while the bull case is ETH absorbing the ~$30+ trillion monetary premium held by gold and Bitcoin given its superior monetary attributes. ETH doesn't need exorbitant fees to win.

we built RAI, then we got HAI, and now we built the MONEY LEAGUE so YOU can build your own decentralized stablecoins too!

gm there's a new 3 ETH (~$5,400) bounty from @encryptmempool for substantive feedback on the encrypted mempool proposals (EIP-8105 & EIP-8184) if you've been following @ethereum mempool research, now's the time to dive in and add your perspective! poidh.xyz/mainnet/bounty/9?n…

Building index-tracking assets on top of options instead of debt ethresear.ch/t/building-inde… What if the use options as the base of defi, instead of CDPs and liquidations? So instead of extreme price movements creating a sharp and global "you get liquidated" effect, instead your exposure to the index diverges quadratically from your preferred exposure in a smoother way? A key benefit is getting rid of the need for instant oracles, and instead making everything work on top of "slow oracles" (ie. the type that prediction markets use) This design has a significant downside - the need to do regular rebalancing - and an open question of whether and how this rebalancing can be made slippage-resistant enough. But it's worth considering and trying IMO. I would feel much safer holding algostables inside something like this, than in something that depends on an oracle that has to give real-time answers (and therefore could be tricked into giving wrong real-time answers with no time for human recourse).

New writeup: Resilient Disbursement Rails. Aid organizations' beneficiary databases are an operational security risk. IPTF's PoC shows how to run a disbursement program where no participant, at any step, holds a complete list of recipients.

1/Introducing ACTA: Anonymous Credentials for Trustless Agents. A composable privacy layer above ERC-8004 so agents can prove: personhood, reputation, model provenance, user jurisdiction, and more — without publishing the interaction graph. 🧵 ethresear.ch/t/anonymous-cre…

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We just released our latest report. The Argentina Onchain report explores how to unblock blockchain use cases through participatory, constraint-driven methodology. Following the launch, we want to spotlight @orishim (@ethereumfndn Use Case Lab) and @ianDAOs, who are already putting this into practice through user-first design sprints. If you are at all interested in usability & a more practical approach to blockchain, this is a great place to pay attention. 🔬❕ nitter.net/orishim/status/2026031…

1/3 Ethereum UX is a popular topic, but we’ve been missing a dedicated resource... until now. Introducing EthUX • Living map of UX challenges • Surfacing less discussed issues • Track solutions and their adoption