it's corny to post but i just ecstatically lapped a person +400 elo higher than me i'm euphoric, lfg

The cryptographic world computer: vitalik.eth.limo/general/202… My attempt to express in somewhat concise terms the true meaning of basically everything planned to happen to Ethereum starting from the fork after Hegota. It's really not just a blockchain anymore. It's a hybrid architecture that combines together blockchains and modern cryptography, to enable much more powerful properties. FOCIL, EIP-8288, Lean consensus, state management, formal verification, advanced mempool improvements (including privacy), and the longer-term specter of obfuscation all mentioned.

messing around with midjourney + opus 5.5 the vid's nothing crazy, but also not bad for one prompt working with a bunch of still images / oneshotting the audio i imagine can get much more complex with more complex directing + other tools in the mix

recently we've seen the nft space revving up... -new apps like @nfwdotfun -new defi models like @standard_rsv charters -new ai advances like @surfcoderepeat's IMD -new bustling mints like @jackbutcher's Credits -new opps like @token_works' cheap FWA 'Punks in other words it's a target-rich environment once again. it's easy to adventure and be rewarded in various ways again (and quite often literally with tokens) ofc... new releases make for new expansions new expansions make for new ideas new ideas make for new releases 'round and 'round so as things heat up like we're seeing now, this loop starts wheeling faster, thus new possibilities arrive faster too. don't sleep on this!

Making NFTs gain again — great piece from @wmpeaster

an under-appreciated aspect of building things onchain the contracts run forever onchain projects compose and compound with each other

latest V2 stats: 25,000 purchases 2,000Ξ volume 2,800 NFTs in pool, backed by 700Ξ 18% of purchases keeping NFT 10 CryptoPunks Saving Ethereum Fake World Assets

first level 2 egg spotted in the hands of @wmpeaster 👀

The Internet Needs Crypto to Survive AI: piped.video/watch?v=TKVY4hVA… One of the most exciting, and underrated, developments in crypto atm revolves around this @Bankless conversation with @eastdakota of @Cloudflare. ~20% of all websites are routed through Cloudflare, and in this conversation Matthew tells us that the business model of the Web is under attack. To put it simply, agentic traffic is exploding, and agents don't click on ads, but ads underpin much of the "free" stuff we get online. The infrastructure is creaking under agent load. Matthew's assertion is that microtransactions, at a scale not previously seen, will be needed to pay for access to content, as the advertising model of the Web falls apart with agents. Crypto people have talked about microtransactions forever, but it was for people, which never worked, whereas we're now contemplating it for agents. He says Cloudflare handles ~500M requests per second, and that 1-10% of those requests may be suitable for this microtransaction model. A blockchain environment is the only payment network that could theoretically handle this scale, and it would need to hit 5-50M TPS. 5-50M TPS in prod dwarfs anything yet attempted in crypto, and is far beyond anything TradFi can handle. There are very few blockchain environments that could conceivably provide this throughput. Just as important as the scale, is the model and trust assumptions. While Cloudflare may roll this out as a solution for its customers first, what's implicit here is the potential for an entirely new business model for the Web. If Cloudflare walks this path, I hope that what they build has permissionless validation, allowing for anyone to audit the network. Cloudflare has been a torch bearer for the open Internet, and so it only follows that if they're to pioneer a new business model for the Web, that the architecture be an open network. Doing so will engender the most trust, goodwill, and adoption in the long run. Web 3.0 is dead, long live Web 3.0.

Custom pools are effectively a Gacha Launchpad on ethereum:0xa0df17b5ac76ababa36e1450e2cbcd18a620c845 for NFTs Creators bring their own collections and launch randomized NFT pools, with protocol fees designed to feed $FWA buybacks

three years ago I bought fren pet on base at a $300k MC adam is a way better founder than I am, because the token is now Identity.md (a distributed p2p harness) and I still own ~2% of it excited to see his vision finally release

CryptoPunk #3498 purchased with 1.00 ETH backing ($2,636 USD) by 0x904d...5153 from 0xb924...3ad1 fwa.fun/nft/4492

sleep trackers are such a good example of Baudrillardian precession of simulacra the representation (in this case the sleep score) not only precedes, but actively affects & shapes the reality it's supposed to reflect

imo probs. dems learned a painful lesson in 2024 w/ Fair Shake and seemed open to compromise, but Trump grift is, quite literally, the only thing normies know about crypto anymore. crypto industry did what it always does, which is embrace grift in the pursuit of financial profit, and (re)conflagerated its reputation. dems had little to win from voting 'yes' and would get dragged/primaried for condoning trump's $2B crypto empire.

Misinformation CLARITY was created by Democrats, like Warner. The Trump administration has spent months sandbagging it because they don't want to make any ethics compromises, and want to be free to do as many pump and dump meme coin scams as possible.

man everytime i check base or tempo's docs, there is some new precompile or tx customization/improvement cooking the growth in complexity of tokens and transactions over the next few years is underestimated by most teams

We're beginning the rollout of FWA V2 Deposits are now live in the new main pool. Purchases will go live on Tuesday.

im working with a municipality on a new anti-wildfire initiative, they want to raise $5m-$10m in bonds on blockchain for the project. id like to line them up with a partner thats built on ethereum. who should i send them to?