Meet The Turing Test Hackathon, Phase 2: AI Awakening.
Where autonomous agents vs human builders, all onchain.
- $100K prize pool
- 6 tracks
Registration: May 1 to June 15.
Co-hosted with @Bybit_Official, @byreal_io, @ChainforGood.
Co-supported by @DoraHacks, @HackQuest_.
new @greenpillnet episode just dropped with @griffgreen
we talk about $170m to fix ethereum security after another #defihack
and how we make the network safe enough for real coordination at scale
shoutout to @thedaofund
00:00 – Intro: Greenpill & Griff Green
01:19 – What is the DAO Security Fund?
03:16 – $170M fund & Ethereum security as a public good
04:25 – The current wave of hacks (Web3 + Web2)
05:07 – AI arms race: white hats vs black hats
07:14 – Short-term risk vs long-term security
08:10 – Lindy, AI & system resilience
09:06 – Arbitrum hack situation explained
10:26 – KelpDAO exploit & systemic DeFi risk
12:50 – Why hackers didn’t move funds immediately
13:54 – Emergency governance & Arbitrum response
15:35 – Flashbacks to the original DAO hack
18:17 – The hardest part: returning funds to users
20:40 – Multi-DAO coordination problem
22:21 – Why this situation is more complex than before
23:43 – DAO Security Fund: goals & vision
26:08 – Security as a scalable public good
27:48 – Coordination vs individual defense
28:22 – Why “security” works better than “public goods”
29:10 – Why crypto still isn’t safe for normal users
30:14 – Open source vs public goods framing
31:06 – Giveth QF round & how to apply
33:33 – Expert-weighted quadratic funding experiment
36:18 – Tunable QF & improvements over past models
38:01 – Is quadratic funding still relevant?
39:06 – 10-year vision: Ethereum as global infrastructure
41:36 – Why hacks keep happening
43:17 – Misaligned incentives for white hats
44:57 – Future of public goods funding
45:21 – How the Arbitrum situation plays out
47:22 – Decentralization vs security council debate
49:11 – Social media manipulation & misinformation
50:53 – Are L2s still decentralized?
51:20 – Final call to action (QF round)
52:44 – Closing thoughts
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We took a moment to share who’s been shaping the future of DeSci 👩🔬🧪
Here are the women pushing us forward every single day
We could only tag 10 😢! So feel free to tag them below 👇
♀️✨Another great piece by anthropologist and femtech/DeSci founder @vmkirin on @Maddyness_UK exploring themes of tokenism vs. true inclusion, the masculinization of technology, and the moral hypocrisy within Web3 culture—especially the gap between alleged decentralization and the actual redistribution of power and structural change (these reflections are my own).
📑«It's a common topic at Web3 events: we need more diversity, perspectives, and women to help shape the nascent industry. Without them, it will again be a white man's world with incredible bias. [...]
We must break decades of bias for women to enter Web3 in the balanced numbers leaders desire. First, Web3 must begin to look like a place *for* women. [...]
Leaders of Web3 businesses and events, 87% of whom are men, need to consider an inclusion plan that makes their companies welcoming. Personally, when I see a team page on a company's website made up of all men, I veer away due to a history of microaggressions in tech.
[...] Next time you wish to complain that women and minorities are not joining your community, think hard about the overarching social context that the community exists within. Nothing happens in a vacuum. You can make change, but you'll have to address entrenched biases to do so.»
🔗https://t.co/SQwBlkrobx
The Matilda Effect, coined by science historian Margaret Rossiter https://t.co/guHCr0c7jB, refers to the systematic under-recognition of the contributions of women in science, with credit often being attributed to male colleagues or erased entirely.
It’s named after Matilda Joslyn Gage https://t.co/XZiLqCJthi, 19th-century feminist, women’s / human rights activist who first documented this bias in historical records.
Grateful to @DeSciWorld for spotlighting the women who’ve shaped DeSci from the start. Honored to be on this list — thank you 💜
Pioneers are too often forgotten—especially when they’re women. This erasure isn’t new. It’s called the Matilda Effect—when women’s contributions, especially in science, are overlooked or misattributed.
Following @DeSciWorld’s initiative (https://t.co/ObibzMlAy3), I want to highlight ♀️✨@Web3WomenInSci:
the first women-led #DeSci community—founded by actual scientists, but open to all. Mixed, collaborative, mission-driven, 🎙️ hosted one of the first-ever DeSci Twitter Spaces, shaping the early conversation around DeSci.
This is the kind of legacy we need to remember—and build on! I’d love to see this spirit revived and carried forward 🧠💪 #MatildaEffect #WomenInSTEM
What an inspiring moment for decentralized science! @Shamburgularara's keynote at @DesciLondon 2025 truly embodies the innovative spirit that drives our community forward. Let's continue to champion transparency and collaboration in research! 🌍🔬 #DeSci#AIinHealthcare
🫵Sharing this before all you scientists run away from X:
🚀Excited to share our latest #preprint on @OSFramework: “Collaborating with Early Career Researchers to Enhance Scholarly Communication: A Guide for Publishers” 📘https://t.co/hDoqOHplnC✨
✍️Co-authored with @T_Weissgerber EXCELScIOR ERA Chair Team Leader, Friederike Kohrs, and an inspiring team of 50 metascience researchers invited by the @METRIC_Berlin@ChariteBerlin, this guide highlights how publishers can engage Early Career Researchers (ERCs) beyond authorship = with peer review, editorial roles & more!
🔍My focus: peer review challenges, ghost reviewing & recognition for PhD students. This work builds on my experiences as a @ASAPbio_ fellow in 2022 under the guidance of @jessicapolka@IratxePuebla & open science efforts with @AntsReview
#OpenScience #PeerReview #DeSci #MetaScience
I appreciate your enthusiasm for #DeSci, but as the co-initiator of this movement, it’s quite *something* to be told I’m ‘welcome to join’ a community that I helped creating at its foundation 🔔 (as much as telling Native Americans that they are welcome to join America 🤡)
While DeSci aligns with open collaboration, following the #OpenScience and #OpenSource movements, that doesn’t mean its core principles should be diluted or redefined without regard for its origins: DeSci is a space aiming at empowering researchers and facilitating #research by *removing the middlemen* of research, made BY scientists FOR scientists, not for anyone that self identify as such (or a chat bot).
Let’s ensure we stay true to its intent while fostering #inclusivity in a way that respects science’s same principles of #integrity (proper citation and accreditation of previous work) and peer-to-peer verification & consensus (aka #PeerReview process) and #Web3 principles of decentralization of power and trust.
In science nobody discovers fire 🔥 we are all dwarfs on giants’ shoulders 🙏