You were right @zooko ... when optimized/better integrated, blake3 is much faster than sha256 on AVX 👀

Take a look at one of our workflows for building in Delta. @nathansobo demos getting up to speed on a Delta feature @as__cii and Cole have been building, by using a subthread to understand the intent behind a multi-thousand-line diff.

While just a staff statement/not binding, the SEC's FAQ released today is one of the most significant they have done to-date related to application of securities law (or lack thereof) to most digital assets. Two things in particular: 1. Promote your network’s utility? Not an IC promise! Promote potential utility? Not an IC promise, so long as you aren’t promoting profit. Keep building and improving a functional network? Not “essential managerial efforts.” Under this statement, the SEC is all but admitting that the LBRY case and many others should have never been brought and were wrongly decided by the lower courts who heard them. 2. The SEC now says announcing a buyback for a functional network does NOT constitute essential managerial efforts. Compare that to the prior SEC, where statements about token value, supply, and issuer incentives were central to enforcement theories. LOVE TO SEE IT! Will be working to turn these statements into binding rulemaking, but this is insanely bullish for the digital asset community and cause for celebration. FAQs here: sec.gov/about/divisions-offi…

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LinkedIn by a16z sounds better than LinkedIn. Also new a dating site just launched 🫠

Asked Opus 5.5 to make a video about how ZODA's cryptography works, not bad

The safest place on Earth is called IRONWOOD

1GG9pvrCLcTNBqwoLTKih3d9eSuNPX4aAd porting big slugs of a 55 Bitcoin balance held since 2014 to Zcash. Nice.

During the Bronze Age Collapse, within roughly a century, several powerful kingdoms fell, cities were abandoned, and long-distance trade shrank dramatically. The transformation in social order was driven by technology: the rise of iron, which democratized access to violence. This is an absolutely fascinating article that I think has much to teach us today, when we have just entered another technological revolution: the AI revolution. The main reason that iron caused widespread collapse of social and political order was that the technology that preceded it, bronze, was concentrated in the hands of an elite, naturally favouring powerful states. Producing bronze required copper and scarce tin, which often traveled thousands of miles through trade networks. Large states could secure supplies and stockpile weapons more reliably than smaller communities. This gave their rulers a lasting military advantage. Iron production made weapons accessible to more communities. Bloomery furnaces allowed smiths to extract usable iron from ores without fully melting the metal. And even though early iron was not necessarily better than bronze, its widespread availability allowed much smaller communities to produce weapons, destabilizing more established states and encouraging political fragmentation. I am fascinated about the ways in which technological changes drive shifts in the distribution of power between groups. Imo, this is a relatively neglected topic, including when we think of AI risks. The first order question is how will the institutional order change? We are already seeing how AI is challenging the status of old institutions including universities. What will come instead? The second order question for me is whether decentralization is always good. It has a positive valence, at least to me, but the decentralization that was driven by iron during the Bronze Age Collapse led to widespread violence and the collapse of social order. Much to think about!

Cash to ZEC is now live on Peer iOS and Android. Buy USDC from a peer with Venmo, PayPal or Revolut, send it out as @Zcash through @near_intents, then shield it in your wallet. No CEX. Done in minutes.

Welcome Colby

1/ A prompt can tell an agent what to research. What sets its budget? Para Transaction Permissions, now generally available ✴️ Define where an agent's wallet can send funds and how much it can spend. Para checks each transaction against those rules before signing, regardless of how the agent reasons

Made me giggle

Big day for $LLY holders: In about an hour Eli Lilly's appeal in the Chichago Seventh Circuit will be held about Retatrutide. TLDR: Eli Lilly wants to classify reta as a biological product rather than a peptide (longer patent, more pricing power, etc...) but they don't fit the exact definition. So they're arguing the FDA definition of a protein/biologic is arbitrary, which it kinda is [anything longer than 40 amino acids (which is definitionally just a random line in the sand)]. After the arguments are made we'll get an initial impression from the judges before a final decision to be delivered some months from now. If it goes their way this will be very very bullish for Lilly and another win in their aggressive legal campaign to corner as much of the weight loss market as possibl

I don’t know where to start. The death of @hsinju is beyond tragic. I met her for the first time @Meta_Cartel event hosted by her and some other DAO OGs, the moment I met her, I felt in the presence of an unshakable characterz, that she was a kind hearted soul and her positivity was nothing short of stunning. Over the years we fell out of touch, but more recently, when I was working with a project looking to raise, I thought I’d reach out to her, given her extensive experience and her inside knowledge on the fundraising process. On June 11th, she took a call with me and we both reminisced on the aforementioned event she hosted during @EthereumDenver 2021. While, on the call, she only briefly touched on her medical issues, including hyperthyroidism as well as her decision to leave VC. Whatever struggles she was facing at the time she kept it down, and it even less apparent to me at the surface. She was incredibly salient, bright, and unwaveringly optimistic on the call, which struck me as strange at a time when I myself have been battling with my own issues trying to staying afloat during these difficult market conditions and in an industry that felt very cut throat. She shared with me some of her dreams about the future of the industry, crypto + ai, we talked at length about how these tools can be used for both good and bad. Even before her passing and me knowing what she was going through, I was amazed and awe struck at her unrelenting passion, as she expressed her excitement to embark into the next phase of her career. She even shared she was looking to start her own fund, and still playing around with the idea. After our call, I followed up asking if she wouldn’t mind making some connections with her previous partners HackVC, when I asked, I had no idea about their working relationship, only that she’d left (you can see our correspondence in the screenshots below). It was clear that whatever happened with hack caused her extreme hurt. After we buried the hatchet, she still was willing to provide me with clear insights/actions, completely unclouded by emotion, sharing the strategies I could undertake so as to the bolster and strengthen my outreach efforts. Her insights were invaluable. I’m sharing all this context, because the truth of what occurred can only come to light if we dare to have the courage to share our individual perspectives surrounding her character, engaging in shared rememberance of who she was as a person. @hsinju thank you for your honesty, integrity, and willingness to fight the good fight. Your courage and strength will inspire hundreds if not thousands to come forward and to tell their own stories. A part of me changed the day I found out about your loss, I was in tears praying it wasn’t true. But I know now you are in a better place. Thank you for your fearlessness, your friendship, and lastly, thank you for being a steward of consciousness for all to learn from. With love, may god rest your soul ❤️

Incredibly proud of the Cycles Pay team for this, was a huge lift. We're the first & only privacy app on Arc right now, until they launch their privacy sectors. Try it out pay.cycles.money/ Send invoices, pay bills, and put your money to work, all privately onchain

🐐The first money in to ECC to build Zcash

What people do to clean up a mess that you had no role in creating is definitely a key value I look for.