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[cryptobabble.eth | .lens ᵐᶠᵉʳ🦇🔊 (🌸, 🌿) @BabbleCrypto]

@blennon_ Yes pls

[Matthias Schmidt @eurofounder]

If the EU built Claude

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

My net worth peaked at $1.2 million.

None of it was real.

I don't mean that philosophically. I mean it was located on servers that have since been turned off.

I own eleven properties in the metaverse. Three in Decentraland. Four in The Sandbox. Two in Voxels. One in Otherside. And a beachfront villa in Horizon Worlds that I bought for $214,000 because Mark Zuckerberg called it "the next frontier."

The frontier closed last week.

It's a mobile app now.

Last year I mass DM'd 340 people the phrase "you don't understand how early we are." I have since stopped doing that. Not because I was wrong. Because most of them blocked me.

I got into metaverse real estate in November 2021. Everyone was buying. Someone paid $450,000 to be Snoop Dogg's neighbor. In a video game. With no legs.

The avatars didn't have legs.

I thought that was bullish. "The legs are coming," I told my Discord. "Legs are a roadmap item." Three hundred people reacted with rocket emojis.

I called myself a "digital land baron."

I put it in my Twitter bio.

I put it in my LinkedIn headline.

I said it on a podcast that had eleven listeners. Three of them were bots. The rest were my alts.

My virtual property has more square footage than my actual apartment.

My actual apartment has furniture.

Location, location, location.

My most valuable asset was a plot next to a virtual Gucci store. Gucci left in 2023. The store is still there. Nobody's in it. It's like a mall in Ohio but with worse graphics and no food court.

I held.

Diamond hands.

That's what we said. "Diamond hands." It means refusing to sell while your investment loses 94% of its value. We turned financial paralysis into a personality trait.

A guy in my Discord paid $2.4 million for a 618-parcel estate in Decentraland. Prime district. High foot traffic. I asked him what "foot traffic" meant when the platform had 38 daily active users.

He said I didn't understand the technology.

I didn't.

I still bought more.

We had a DAO. A decentralized autonomous organization. That means we voted on decisions. There were nine of us. Three never showed up. Two voted on everything without reading it. The other four were me and my alts.

We voted to "acquire strategic parcels."

The vote passed unanimously.

I voted four times.

My portfolio peaked at $1.2 million. I told everyone. I made a spreadsheet. I projected 40x returns by 2025. I made a pitch deck. The pitch deck had a slide that said "WE ARE BUILDING THE DIGITAL ECONOMY."

The slide had a rocket emoji.

That was my entire financial model.

In 2023 I bought a Bored Ape for $189,000.

It's worth $14,000 now.

I don't talk about the Ape.

I still use it as my profile picture. People ask me about it. I say "I'm long-term bullish." Long-term bullish means I can't sell it without crying in a Panera.

My mom asked me what a Bored Ape was.

I said "digital art on the blockchain."

She asked why it cost more than her car.

I said "you don't understand Web3."

She said "I understand you live in a studio apartment."

She's not in my Discord.

Justin Bieber bought one for $1.3 million.

It's worth about $90,000 now.

I felt better about mine after I heard that.

That's community.

WAGMI. We're All Gonna Make It. We said that every day. In the group chat. While the floor dropped. While the volume dried up. While 95% of all NFT collections went to zero.

We're all gonna make it.

None of us made it.

But we said it with conviction and a laser-eye profile picture. That counts for something.

It doesn't.

But we said it did. That's decentralized consensus.

Meta spent $84 billion on the metaverse.

I need to say that again.

$84 billion.

More than the GDP of Luxembourg. More than the GDP of Iceland, Luxembourg, and Malta combined. They spent it on a platform where the avatars had no legs, the graphics looked like a 2006 Wii game, and the peak user count was lower than the lunch rush at a Chipotle in Des Moines.

They just pulled Horizon Worlds from VR headsets.

It lives on as a mobile app.

My beachfront villa is now a mobile app.

Location, location, location.

Zuckerberg renamed the entire company for this. Facebook became Meta. A $900 billion company changed its legal name because the CEO watched Ready Player One and said "I want that."

Reality Labs lost $10 billion in 2021. $14 billion in 2022. $16 billion in 2023. $18 billion in 2024. $19 billion in 2025.

That's not a strategy. That's a speedrun.

They laid off 1,500 Reality Labs employees this year. Shut down three VR studios. Killed Supernatural. Put the entire VR social vision in a casket and said "we're pivoting to AI and wearables."

The pivot took four years and $84 billion.

I pivoted too.

I'm an AI real estate investor now.

I bought a virtual plot in an AI-generated world that doesn't exist yet. The founder said it was "the intersection of spatial computing and large language models."

I don't know what that means.

I gave him $40,000.

He has a whitepaper. It's 47 pages. I read the title and the tokenomics section. The tokenomics section is a pie chart. I love pie charts. They make everything look like a plan.

The project has a roadmap. Q1: "Build community." Q2: "Launch beta." Q3: "Scale ecosystem." Q4 is blank.

Q4 is always blank.

That's where the exit scam goes.

My accountant asked me to value my metaverse portfolio for tax purposes.

I said $1.2 million.

He said "current market value."

I said $6,400.

He stared at me for eleven seconds.

I know because I counted.

He asked if I had any other investments.

I showed him my NFTs.

He stared for longer.

I told him they were "cultural artifacts with long-term provenance."

He asked if I'd considered a 401k.

I told him a 401k was "legacy finance."

He told me to leave his office.

The metaverse is dead.

I don't accept that.

I am a digital land baron. I own eleven properties across four platforms. I have a beachfront villa in a mobile app, a plot next to an empty Gucci store, and a cartoon monkey that cost me more than my actual car.

Location, location, location.

The location is nowhere.

But I'm early.

I'm always early.

That's the same as being wrong except you get to say it with confidence.

[George Sivulka @gsivulka]

https://t.co/fdKmCTuaUk

[cryptobabble.eth | .lens ᵐᶠᵉʳ🦇🔊 (🌸, 🌿) @BabbleCrypto]

This looks fun

[Perplexity @perplexity_ai]

Announcing Personal Computer.

Personal Computer is an always on, local merge with Perplexity Computer that works for you 24/7.

It's personal, secure, and works across your files, apps, and sessions through a continuously running Mac mini.

[Perplexity @perplexity_ai]

Announcing Personal Computer.

Personal Computer is an always on, local merge with Perplexity Computer that works for you 24/7.

It's personal, secure, and works across your files, apps, and sessions through a continuously running Mac mini.

[cryptobabble.eth | .lens ᵐᶠᵉʳ🦇🔊 (🌸, 🌿) @BabbleCrypto]

I wont tell anyone when I’ve made it, but there will be signs

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

My birthday is coming up.

New monitor setup coming ...

[cryptobabble.eth | .lens ᵐᶠᵉʳ🦇🔊 (🌸, 🌿) @BabbleCrypto]

Monitoring the situation…after the weekend

[Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen]

Following the ongoing situation in Iran, I am convening a special Security College on Monday.

For regional security and stability, it is of the utmost importance that there is no further escalation through Iran’s unjustified attacks on partners in the region.

[Ashpreet Bedi @ashpreetbedi]

https://t.co/AqCRd8x55A

[Alex Cohen @anothercohen]

Just in case Gen Z is trying to understand what happened today:

Claude was mogging OpenAI for weeks. Then this gymcel dev ships Clawdbot which was the fastest growing OSS thing ever, absolute looksmax for the whole ecosystem.

Anthropic tries to dairygoon him with legal. Dev renames to OpenClaw. OpenAI slides in like a foid-pulling Chad with acquisition interest. OpenClaw gets acquired by OpenAI.

Now Anthropic is getting jestergooned by the entire timeline and OpenAI is gigamaxing off their fumble.

Anthropic could've just let him cook. Instead they went full moid and got outframed by the jestermaxxers at OpenAI.

[Nikunj Kothari @nikunj]

https://t.co/3mnuYn7jfP

[Matt Shumer @mattshumer_]

https://t.co/ivXRKXJvQg

[Kai Lentit (e/xcel) @KaiLentit]

'Just use a VPS' bro.

It's just a 1-click, 2222-step install.

[Kylan O'Connor @kylancodes]

Vibe coders be like 👨‍💻

[cryptobabble.eth | .lens ᵐᶠᵉʳ🦇🔊 (🌸, 🌿) @BabbleCrypto]

Nailed this one

[cryptobabble.eth | .lens ᵐᶠᵉʳ🦇🔊 (🌸, 🌿) @BabbleCrypto]

Cooked

[James Camp 🛠,🛠 @JamesonCamp]

Imagine watching Anthropic just launch banger after banger

And then deciding this was the right next product to launch

[cryptobabble.eth | .lens ᵐᶠᵉʳ🦇🔊 (🌸, 🌿) @BabbleCrypto]

The ticker is ETH

[Justin Drake @drakefjustin]

Today marks an inflection in the Ethereum Foundation's long-term quantum strategy.

We've formed a new Post Quantum (PQ) team, led by the brilliant Thomas Coratger (@tcoratger). Joining him is Emile, one of the world-class talents behind leanVM. leanVM is the cryptographic cornerstone of our entire post-quantum strategy.

After years of quiet R&D, EF management has officially declared PQ security a top strategic priority. Our journey began in 2019, with the "Eth3.0 Quantum Security" presentation at StarkWare Sessions. Since 2024, PQ has been central to the @leanEthereum vision. The pace of PQ engineering breakthroughs since then has been nothing short of phenomenal.

It's now 2026, timelines are accelerating. Time to go full PQ:

→ PQ ACD: Antonio Sanso (@asanso) kicks off a bi-weekly All Core Devs PQ transactions breakout call next month. These sessions focus on user-facing security, covering dedicated precompiles, account abstraction, and longer-term transaction signature aggregation with leanVM.
→ PQ foundations: Today we are announcing a $1M Poseidon Prize to harden the Poseidon hash function. We are betting big on hash-based cryptography to enjoy the strongest and leanest cryptographic foundations. Check out our other $1M PQ initiative, the Proximity Prize.
→ PQ devnets: Multi-client PQ consensus devnets are live! Shoutout to pioneers @zeamETH, @ReamLabs, @PierTwo_com, @geanclient, @ethlambda_lean, as well as established consensus teams Lighthouse, Grandine, and soon Prysm. This incredible teamwork is coordinated by @corcoranwill via weekly PQ interop calls.
→ PQ workshops: Building on last year's PQ workshop in Cambridge (see photo), the EF is hosting another 3-day PQ event in October. Top experts from around the world will convene. In addition, a PQ day is set for March 29 in Cannes just ahead of EthCC.
→ PQ FV and AI: Last week Alex Hicks (@alexanderlhicks) ran a specialised maths AI for 8 hours, at a $200 cost. It one-shotted a formal proof one of the hardest lemmas in the foundations of hash-based snarks. Mind-blowing. Applied cryptography will never be the same.
→ PQ roadmap: A comprehensive breakdown of the EF's proposed PQ strategy will be shared soon™ on pq[.]ethereum[.]org. The roadmap targets a full transition in coming years with zero loss of funds and zero downtime. Stay tuned :)
→ PQ education: The ZKPodcast (@zeroknowledgefm) is producing a 6-part video series on Ethereum's PQ strategy. EF Enterprise Acceleration is also preparing material for enterprises and nation-states. Finally, Ethereum is now represented on the PQ advisory board that Coinbase announced yesterday.

Believe in something. Believe in PQ security.

[cryptobabble.eth | .lens ᵐᶠᵉʳ🦇🔊 (🌸, 🌿) @BabbleCrypto]

This is the way

[John Palmer @johnpalmer]

“bro I spent all weekend in Claude Code it’s incredible”

“oh nice, what did you build?”

“dude my setup is crazy. i’ve got all the vercel skills, plus custom hooks for every project”

“sick, what are you building?”

“my setup is so optimized, i’m using like 5 instances at once”

[John Palmer @johnpalmer]

“bro I spent all weekend in Claude Code it’s incredible”

“oh nice, what did you build?”

“dude my setup is crazy. i’ve got all the vercel skills, plus custom hooks for every project”

“sick, what are you building?”

“my setup is so optimized, i’m using like 5 instances at once”

[cryptobabble.eth | .lens ᵐᶠᵉʳ🦇🔊 (🌸, 🌿) @BabbleCrypto]

DAT makes sense

[Jeff Dorman @jdorman81]

https://t.co/RNeRry2dvg