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7-9 Abril 2026 #CDMX #TalentLand

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[Blockchain Land @blockchain_land]

#TalentLand hará de Nuevo León la capital #blockchain #LATAM con 10,000 asistentes 🇲🇽 #NuevoLeon Blockchain Land 5-7 octubre #Monterrey @nuevoleon 🦁 Crear talento del siglo XXI, un récord Guinness de la clase #bitcoin con más asistentes @talentrepublic_ https://t.co/E8KlcjRxFG

[Mastercard @Mastercard]

As AI agents begin to act, payments move into the background — at machine speed and massive scale.

Today we’re introducing Mastercard Agent Pay for Machines — bringing structure, governance, and trust to this new class of payments.

Launching with 30+ partners to bring this to life from day one.

This isn’t just more payments. It’s a new operating model for commerce.

👉 Learn more: https://t.co/TeS6Lj8jLO

[Stellar @StellarOrg]

The Stellar network is designed to plug into traditional financial systems, extending their capabilities and enabling new efficiencies.

@The_DTCC is the backbone of the global capital markets. Our role in this partnership is to make that backbone stronger than ever.

[Token Terminal 📊 @tokenterminal]

Total RWA market cap reaches $42 billion.

Leading sectors: Funds, Commodities, Stocks
Leading assets: sUSDS, USYC, XAUT
Leading issuers: @SkyMoney, @Securitize, @OndoFinance
Leading chains: @ethereum, @BNBCHAIN, @XRPLF

[JOSE RODRIGUEZ @josepimpo]

BREAKING THE BLOCKCHAIN: SINALOA CARTEL-LINKED CRYPTO LAUNDERING NETWORK
🏴‍☠️Ojeda Aviles facilitates conversion of cash into #cryptocurrency for transfer to Sinaloa Cartel #Mexico ❌️brokering transfers of drug proceeds through digital currency addresses
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[Pepis Sanz @pepissanz95]

-Health Land: charla heridas de infancia,sus máscaras y cómo sanar,impartida por @BlancaIreriES
-Main Stage panel IA sin Filtro: Burbuja, dilemas éticos y el futuro del talento humano’ impartido por @pablolascurain @BlancaIreriES y @eddierobson en @TalentLand_MX @ExpoSantaFeMx

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

Some of my perspective on where the @ethereumfndn is going.

First of all, this is only my own view. The board is not just me, and I have no extra special powers on the board that the other board members do not. @aerugoettinea is the one executing much of this transition. My input has been largely on technical questions. The board is in the process of expanding, and my own power within the org will continue to decrease, which is honestly what I want.

The 2025 era brought many important improvements to EF and its ability to execute. Many issues were resolved, and EF continues to benefit from its improved efficiency and greater focus on concrete goals to this day. And so with those problems resolved, early this year, the largest remaining hole that I perceived was something different nagging at me: I would regularly spot people saying things like "vitalik says these beautiful things about ethereum needing to be decentralized, and have privacy, and be a sanctuary technology, but why do the EF's actions not reflect that?"

Now, you may have been hearing something different. You may not have been sensing a feeling of crisis at all, and maybe were hearing people saying that finally we were taking execution and BD seriously and the main task for us is to keep going that way and be even better and faster. Then probably there is genuine difference between you and me, in what kinds of criticism I take most seriously, and what kinds of critics through their criticism are most able to make me feel pain.

As an analogy, let's briefly switch over to a different domain.

One belief you can have about Google is that it is a success story, and has brought a lot of good to humanity in organizing the world's information. Another belief you can have about Google is that they had a beautiful idealistic beginning, but at some point the corruption of mainstream corporate attitudes seeped in, and they slowly bit by bit completely abandoned the "don't be evil" slogan.

My belief on Google specifically is probably somewhere between the two. BUT, if you had taken me back in time to ~2008, and offered me a button to press to make Google one or two standard deviations more "dogmatic", eg. give Richard Stallman permanent veto power over some key policies, I would immediately press it.

Why? Because a choice for one company is not a choice for the world, or even one country. Google existed and exists in the context of a technology industry generally drifting away from early idealistic don't-be-evil roots and toward greed for financial gain, totalizing visions of accelerated superintelligence, infiltration by sociopaths, and craven capitulation to (or worse, active participation in) government pressure for ideological control, surveillance and war. And so *one company* doing something different, positioning itself to be what George Bernard Shaw calls the Unreasonable Man, resisting the trend of the times, would have been better for freedom, balance of power and stability of society as a whole, than *all* large companies bending to dominant trends. This is a part of my version of pluralism.

This line of thinking is not just mine, but I also is not too far off from what Aya and others had in mind with the Mandate.

Now how does this all get to the role of the EF?

EF is not a "center of Ethereum", rather EF is "one node, with a defined purpose, alongside other nodes". We've always said that the EF should be the latter, but many in the Ethereum ecosystem (and even within the EF) wanted us to be the former. Now, we are taking action to ensure that we will be the latter.

This is particularly important because EF is a limited organization, with limited resources and limited organizational capacity. The EF has only ~0.16% of all ETH (less than many other individual ETH holders), whereas among other blockchains it's common for "the central foundation" to have 10-50%. Fiscally, the EF was originally designed to fulfill a limited work scope defined in the token sale docs and other pre-launch materials (building the chain software; getting through Frontier, Homestead, Metropolis, Serenity), which was fully completed in 2022; it was not designed to be an eternal steward.

And so today, the EF is choosing to use its remaining resources to pursue longevity over breadth (yes, this means we sell less ETH). The EF focuses *specifically* on those activities critical to the success of ethereum as a censorship/capture-resistant, open, private and secure system, that would not happen otherwise. This means making hard choices, and in some cases even activities that we highly approve of and people that we highly respect becoming outside of the EF. People of great technical talent, public respect and even alignment with the mission and CROPS being outside of the EF is in fact necessary if we want important tasks to be able to attract outside capital. This also means the EF taking opinionated stands culturally.

This is all intended in cooperation with all other parts of ethereum. We recognize that many other parts of the ethereum world highly respect CROPS and related values. But highly respecting is not the same as choosing to specialize and totally dedicate to a domain (Compare in a different domain: I think reducing animal cruelty is important, and I like vegan food, but am not full unconditional vegan myself)

EF is still in a transition period, and we expect its new long-term form to stabilize over the next few months. What are the guiding principles of this new form? Again, I am only one person, but I can give my answer from a technical perspective (there are also critical non-technical aspects).

At the core, *Ethereum must be impressive*. We are living in an age of highly intelligent AI and all kinds of other technological acceleration. "Status quo EVM, with a hard fork or two a year to optimize for short-term needs of users" is not interesting.

To some, "impressive" means: 250ms latency and 1M TPS. I think Ethereum trying to go that route is a mistake. Being as fast and as scalable as possible, and only a small epsilon more decentralized than the others, is a route to mediocrity, and if we try it we will lose.

I think Ethereum should scale. But I think Ethereum should strive the hardest to be deeply impressive in a different dimension: the CROPS dimension. This means things like:

* Provably bug-free Ethereum. This is a goal that all cybersecurity researchers would have thought is absurd and impossible, up until roughly 6 months ago. Now, it's on the cusp of being possible, thanks to AI-assisted formal verification. So we should be frontrunners in doing this.

* Available chain consensus. Ethereum is, and with lean consensus will cotninue to be, the ONLY chain that has both (i) traditional-BFT style properties that it's safe under asynchrony up to a high level of fault tolerance, and (ii) the bitcoin PoW-style property that under synchrony it's safe up to 49% attackers. As far as I can tell, literally no other chain has this or is planning for it; bitcoin goes for (ii) only and most other chains go for (i) only. Some will remember I fought hard for this, Unreasonably insisting that it is not OK for ethereum to rely on social consensus and hard forks to rescue ethereum from 34% of nodes going offline. It's OK for chains like hyperledger, bnb, solana, tempo, etc. It's not OK for bitcoin or ethereum or eg. zcash.

* Intermediary minimization. The fact that smart contract wallets, protocols like railgun, etc have to send transactions through intermediaries to get included onchain is honestly embarrassing, and it's a constant point of fragility. Hence the work on FOCIL and EIP-8141 (and 7701 and years of work before) to make transaction sending intermediary-minimized with public mempool and strong inclusion properties, in a truly general-purpose way, that covers not just eg. secp256r1, but also privacy protocols and much more. Kohaku is pushing intermediary minimization at the user layer, pulling Ethereum away from the dystopian status quo world where our wallets don't even verify the chain, send our private data out to a dozen third-party servers, and toward a brighter CROPS future.

Some of these goals are Unreasonable - maybe Ethereum would be "fine" getting only 50% of the way - what if we depend on intermediaries, but make it easy to switch? But going 50% of the way would not make Ethereum Deeply Impressive in the CROPS way. So we push for 100%.

Fortunately all these goals are compatible with high TPS, this is a major focus of research (esp. on scaling the state). Well-designed L2s can also help, especially L2s optimized for specific applications (eg. high-volume trading, privacy...). These goals are even compatible with significantly lower slot times, thanks to Raul's work on erasure-coded P2P, and many other optimizations.

The most high-value "product" of the ethereum blockchain, financially speaking, is ETH the asset. Ethereum secures $250 billion of ETH. The types of properties of Ethereum that I mentioned above are very good for ETH the asset. Nearly 90% of my net worth is in ETH, and most of the remainder is ~$40m of onchain fiat of which every dollar has already been allocated for some open-source biotech or software or hardware initiative. That said, there are aspects of supporting ETH the asset - *necessary* aspects even - that are outside the scope of the EF. This is where we need other heroes (some of whom hold more ETH than the EF does) to step in and help. EF has been recently thinking more about how it will relate to other such organizations, and give them needed initial support.

EF will be a smaller ship than in previous years, a more opinionated one - in some cases more opinionated in ways that might be difficult to comprehend - but a longer-lasting one, and one suited to making sure that ethereum brings something meaningful to the world. We are grateful to all those inside and outside the EF who are helping to make this happen.

[Foro Blockchain @ForoBlockchain]

¡Speaker Confirmado @josepimpo !

25 años en Sector Financiero. Emprendedor e inversionista en Bitcoin y Fintech desde 2013. Director Blockchain Land en Talent Land, mayor evento Negocio, Tecnología y Talento en LATAM. Estableció el récord mundial Guinness de la clase de bitcoin y criptomonedas más grande en Blockchain Land 2022. Autor del capítulo Blockchain en el bestseller Marketing 5.0 de Philip Kotler. Colaboró ​​en la traducción al español del bestseller de Andreas Antonopoulos Mastering Bitcoin. Reconocido por empresas, medios de comunicación y eventos como una de las figuras más influyentes en Bitcoin y blockchain. Participó en las películas Bitcoin Magic Money, Encrypted y Bitcoin Revolution. Anteriormente trabajó durante 15 años en Casas de Bolsa en México y Estados Unidos, y áreas de Inteligencia y Seguridad investigando algunos de los casos de fraude financiero más grandes de México.

¡Conócelo en el Side Event! Regístrate 👇
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#Speaker #Mainevent #LLW2026 #Cripto #web

[Chainlink @chainlink]

“The consequences of an oracle failure … is getting completely wrecked.”

From data to cross-chain, Chainlink is the only oracle platform that meets the enterprise-grade security standards required to bring the global financial system onchain.

[Delphi Digital @Delphi_Digital]

Hyperliquid is no longer a perp DEX but a superapp.

In our Year Ahead Report we highlighted Hyperliquid as the standout and argued perp DEXs would absorb brokerage, custody, lending, payments, and issuance onchain.

Read the report for free here.
https://t.co/qhEcpJRaOr

[Chainlink @chainlink]

NEW: @krakenfx’s L2 chain Ink joins Chainlink Scale & upgrades to Data Feeds as the ecosystem’s oracle infra solution.

Through the Scale program, @inkonchain is providing a substantial capital commitment to give DeFi devs cost-efficient access to enterprise-grade oracles.

[Securitize @Securitize]

Securitize is the leading platform for tokenized private equity and venture capital funds.

[mexi @meximalist]

nos vemos el 20 de mayo, estaré hosteando un conversatorio con @josepimpo

De Contratos Inteligentes a Agentes Inteligentes: ¿Qué pasa cuando la Blockchain se encuentra con la IA?

side event oficial @ForoBlockchain
miércoles 20 de mayo
Huerto Roma Verde 7pm

[Securitize @Securitize]

“We’re not spending enough time talking about how quickly we’re going to tokenize every financial asset.”

[Chainlink @chainlink]

Chainlink Adoption Update 🔗

Recently, there were 10 integrations of the Chainlink standard across 5 services and 8 different chains.

Users include @The_DTCC, @coinbase, Fidelity International, @krakenfx, @MyriadMarkets, @temple_ny, @tempo, and @tydrohq.

LINK everything.

[BitGo @BitGo]

$BTGO reported Q1 2026 results this afternoon.

Clients grew 42% year-over-year. Normalized Assets on Platform grew 29.4% year-over-year. Normalized Staked Balances grew 27.2% sequentially.

Continued momentum across the business, driven by the trust of our institutional clients and the strength of our platform.

Full results and webcast: https://t.co/AtPrLPFuDO

[JOSE RODRIGUEZ @josepimpo]

Presentación de entrevista 📽 Descodificando @Layer_TwoMx @wanzmx 🎞 Proyección especial por el final de la 1ra temporada de Descodificando @ForoBlockchain #Mexico 🇲🇽 20 mayo #CDMX Huerto Roma Verde
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[Chainlink @chainlink]

LIVE: Fidelity International, a global asset manager with $1+ trillion total client assets, launches its first tokenized fund FILQ, powered by Chainlink.

Through onchain NAV, Chainlink is enabling Fidelity International to bring regulated yield-bearing liquidity into 24/7 digital market.

[Ethereum @ethereum]

Ethereum is for shipping.

Here are 22 things the Ethereum ecosystem launched, upgraded, and announced over the past month.

0/ Ethereum hit a new all-time high of 72.8 Million monthly transactions, the highest in network history.

1/ @ethereumfndn, @chainlink, and @Nethermind launched a $1M audit subsidy program to help Ethereum builders access high-quality security reviews.

2/ South Korea’s largest crypto exchange, Upbit, announced plans for GIWA Chain, an Ethereum L2 built on @Optimism.

3/ @AragonProject introduced Permissions Audits to help protocols secure roles, multisigs, and admin systems.

4/ @fileverse shipped Comments v2, improving the collaboration experience, with privacy by default.

5/ The Ethereum Applications Guild (@EthAppsGuild) launched to support Ethereum-native apps and real-world adoption.

6/ Privacy went live on @Optimism with confidential computing support on OP Mainnet.

7/ @StarkWareLtd brought native proof verification to Starknet mainnet with Shinobi, enabling private trading flows and OTC settlement.

8/ @worldcoin launched World ID 4.0, expanding proof of human credentials across apps, enterprises, and AI agents.

9/ Applications on Ethereum hit ~$310B in user deposits.

10/ @l2beat released a new interactive interoperability map showing how value moves across Ethereum’s expanding ecosystem.

11/ @AlchemixFi launched V3, the latest version of its self-repaying, non-liquidating loan product, with higher capital efficiency and improved peg mechanics.

12/ @OfficialMoonDAO raised $172k + from 157 contributors to send the man who coined the “overview effect” to space.

13/ @ethereumfndn announced the Road to @EFDevcon 8 Academic Program, supporting regional research and academic events ahead of Devcon.

14/ Ethereum core contributors gathered in Svalbard for Soldøgn Interop, a week-long event focused on hardening Glamsterdam implementations to help scale Ethereum securely.

15/ @basepaint_xyz hit 1,000 straight days of onchain art creation, with 121M+ pixels painted and $1.5M + distributed to 4,000+ artists.

16/ New Ethereum community hubs launched in Hong Kong and Floripa, growing local coordination and ecosystem activity across Asia and Latin America.

17/ The EF’s ETH Rangers public goods security program wrapped after helping recover or freeze $5.8M, reporting 785+ vulnerabilities, and identifying ~100 North Korean IT workers targeting Web3 teams.

18/ @centrifuge launched a tokenized S&P 500 fund on @base, bringing 24/7 onchain index exposure to non-U.S. users.

19/ @0xcatalysis launched Covered Vaults on Ethereum, DeFi vaults with built-in onchain risk coverage backed by delegated capital.

20/ @Uniswap processed $3T in all-time volume on Ethereum mainnet.

21/ @RAILGUN_Project hit $5 billion of total all time private volume.

[Blockchain Land @blockchain_land]

En la mayor cumbre tecnológica de América Latina #TalentLand el empresario jalisciense presentó ante una audiencia masiva la metodología que ha desarrollado y que articula el universo de su podcast Game Changers, próximo a cumplir aniversario @FastCompany
https://t.co/5kC9kXCfzW