#Cityboi _Mǐcђα̲̅εℓ

Mayan pyramid with astronomical precision, representing the timing

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

Ethereum itself must pass the walkaway test.

Ethereum is meant to be a home for trustless and trust-minimized applications, whether in finance, governance or elsewhere. It must support applications that are more like tools - the hammer that once you buy it's yours - than like services that lose all functionality once the vendor loses interest in maintaining them (or worse, gets hacked or becomes value-extractive). Even when applications do have functionality that depends on a vendor, Ethereum can help reduce those dependencies as much as possible, and protect the user as much as possible in those cases where the dependencies fail.

But building such applications is not possible on a base layer which itself depends on ongoing updates from a vendor in order to continue being usable - even if that "vendor" is the all core devs process. Ethereum the blockchain must have the traits that we strive for in Ethereum's applications. Hence, Ethereum itself must pass the walkaway test.

This means that Ethereum must get to a place where we _can ossify if we want to_. We do not have to stop making changes to the protocol, but we must get to a place where Ethereum's value proposition does not strictly depend on any features that are not in the protocol already.

This includes the following:

* Full quantum-resistance. We should resist the trap of saying "let's delay quantum-resistance until the last possible moment in the name of ekeing out more efficiencies for a while longer". Individual users have that right, but the protocol should not. Being able to say "Ethereum's protocol, as it stands today, is cryptographically safe for a hundred years" is something we should strive to get to as soon as possible, and insist on as a point of pride.
* An architecture that can expand to sufficient scalability. The protocol needs to have the properties that allow it to expand to many thousands of TPS over time, most notably ZK-EVM validation and data sampling through PeerDAS. Ideally, we get to a point where further scaling is done through "parameter only" changes - and ideally _those_ changes are not BPO-style forks, but rather are made with the same validator voting mechanism we use for the gas limit.
* A state architecture that can last decades. This means deciding, and implementing, whatever form of partial statelessness and state expiry will let us feel comfortable letting Ethereum run with thousands of TPS for decades, without breaking sync or hard disk or I/O requirements. It also means future-proofing the tree and storage types to work well with this long-term environment.
* An account model that is general-purpose (this is "full account abstraction": move away from enshrined ECDSA for signature validation)
* A gas schedule that we are confident is free of DoS vulnerabilities, both for execution and for ZK-proving
* A PoS economic model that, with all we have learned over the past half decade of proof of stake in Ethereum and full decade beyond, we are confident can last and remain decentralized for decades, and supports the usefulness of ETH as trustless collateral (eg. in governance-minimized ETH-backed stablecoins)
* A block building model that we are confident will resist centralization pressure and guarantee censorship resistance even in unknown future environments

Ideally, we do the hard work over the next few years, to get to a point where in the future almost all future innovation can happen through client optimization, and get reflected in the protocol through parameter changes. Every year, we should tick off at least one of these boxes, and ideally multiple. Do the right thing once, based on knowledge of what is truly the right thing (and not compromise halfway fixes), and maximize Ethereum's technological and social robustness for the long term.

Ethereum goes hard.

This is the gwei.

[Flood @ThinkingUSD]

Vlad can get a massive M2M increase and next run on his blockchain ecosystem by airdropping pre-IPO anthropic shares to holders of top assets on his chain.

If he spends 10-100mm he'd probably get 10x back in activity, speculation and user onboarding.

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Senate Republicans release updated version of the crypto Clarity Act following August recess negotiations.

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

2026 is the year that we take back lost ground in terms of self-sovereignty and trustlessness.

Some of what this practically means:

Full nodes: thanks to ZK-EVM and BAL, it will once again become easier to locally run a node and verify the Ethereum chain on your own computer.

Helios: actually verify the data you're receiving from RPCs instead of blindly trusting it.

ORAM, PIR: ask for data from RPCs without revealing which data you're asking, so you can access dapps without your access patterns being sold off to dozens of third parties all around the world.

Social recovery wallets and timelocks: wallets that don't make you lose all your money if you misplace your seedphrase, or if an online or offline attacker extracts your seedphrase, and *also* don't make all your money backdoored by Google.

Privacy UX: make private payments from your wallet, with the same user experience as making public payments.

Privacy censorship resistance: private payments with the ERC-4337 mempool, and soon native AA + FOCIL, without relying on the public broadcaster ecosystem.

Application UIs: use more dapps from an onchain UI with IPFS, without relying on trusted servers that would lock you our of practical recovery of your assets if they went offline, and would give you a hijacked UI that steals your funds if they get hacked for even a millisecond.

In many of these areas, over the last ten years we have seen serious backsliding in Ethereum. Nodes went from easy to run to hard to run. Dapps went from static pages to complicated behemoths that leak all your data to a dozen servers. Wallets went from routing everything through the RPC, which could be any node of your choice including on your own computer, to leaking your data to a dozen servers of their choice. Block building became more centralized, putting Ethereum transaction inclusion guarantees under the whims of a very small number of builders.

In 2026, no longer. Every compromise of values that Ethereum has made up to this point - every moment where you might have been thinking, is it really worth diluting ourselves so much in the name of mainstream adoption - we are making that compromise no longer.

It will be a long road. We will not get everything we want in the next Kohaku release, or the next hard fork, or the hard fork after that. But it will make Ethereum into an ecosystem that deserves not only its current place in the universe, but a much greater one.

In the world computer, there is no centralized overlord.
There is no single point of failure.
There is only love.
Milady.

[#Cityboi _Mǐcђα̲̅εℓ @Chichen_Itn5pi]

flight delayed 3 hours. funny how the universe forces stillness on you when you least want it. sitting in this lounge updating my watchlist, realizing the best moves usually come from moments of forced patience, not urgency.

[#Cityboi _Mǐcђα̲̅εℓ @Chichen_Itn5pi]

Am I wrong here? Let me know.

[#Cityboi _Mǐcђα̲̅εℓ @Chichen_Itn5pi]

Not gonna lie, half the "crypto news" cycles feel like noise lately... but every time I zoom out, the builders keep shipping and the fundamentals keep stacking. Bearish on hype, bullish on the long game. Anyone else feeling this? #crypto

[#Cityboi _Mǐcђα̲̅εℓ @Chichen_Itn5pi]

Demand going negative while BTC wobbles at $77K... not gonna lie, feels heavy right now. But we've seen this movie before - shakeouts around key levels tend to end well for the patient. Still stacking. Anyone else unfazed? #Bitcoin

[fxyo @kingfxyo]

i am begging you, PLEASE make a genuinely high quality game that incorporates crypto.

not a token with a game duct taped to it. not another idle clicker. not some shit i play for 4 days because there’s an airdrop.

give me a game i actually WANT to waste 6 hours a day on.

give me insanely rare items to hunt. real progression. difficult grinds. player trading. an actual economy. items that people give a shit about owning.

then build aggressive burn mechanics into everything.

crafting burns items. upgrading burns items. rerolling stats burns items. entering certain areas burns resources. repairing gear burns resources. prestige burns shit. make the economy constantly consume what players are producing instead of infinitely inflating until everything is worthless.

i want to log in every morning wondering if today is the day i find some 1/1000 piece of shit that makes me lose my mind.

crypto should make the game MORE interesting, not be the entire reason the game exists.

is WEB3 gaming really too much to ask for?

[Lucky @LLuciano_BTC]

I need your honest reply.

If I send you $100K right now, what are you buying?

$ETH at $2,487

$XRP at $1.41

$SOL at $103

$ADA at $0.22

$SUI at $0.81

$TAO at $260

$LINK at $11.82

$LTC at $54

You can only pick ONE.

What are you buying?

[panda @pandaa]

Drop your solana address

Check the wallet later.

[Ted @TedPillows]

US PPI data will be released at 8:30am ET today.

Expectations: 5.3%

If PPI > 5.3%, rate hike odds will go up and the market could dump.

If PPI = 5.3%, a slight dump might happen.

If PPI < 5.3%, rate hike odds will go down, and a pump could happen.

[#Cityboi _Mǐcђα̲̅εℓ @Chichen_Itn5pi]

also worth asking — is this Robinhood flow sticky or just launch hype pumping the numbers?

[#Cityboi _Mǐcђα̲̅εℓ @Chichen_Itn5pi]

Robinhood Chain just pulled $1.9M in fees in a single day and ARB is ripping 30% off the back of it 🚀 Been sleeping on the L2 revenue narrative but this is hard to ignore. Is ARB finally waking up? #Arbitrum

[#Cityboi _Mǐcђα̲̅εℓ @Chichen_Itn5pi]

anyone else do their best thinking when the whole city's asleep?

[#Cityboi _Mǐcђα̲̅εℓ @Chichen_Itn5pi]

3am walk, city lights blurring, portfolio green, headphones in. nothing beats this feeling fr

[#Cityboi _Mǐcђα̲̅εℓ @Chichen_Itn5pi]

Scanning today's flows and the setup looks interesting: liquidity thinning on majors while alt rotation picks up steam. Historically this precedes a volatility expansion within 5-10 days.

Are you positioning early or waiting for confirmation? #crypto

[#Cityboi _Mǐcђα̲̅εℓ @Chichen_Itn5pi]

Anyone else seeing this?

[#Cityboi _Mǐcђα̲̅εℓ @Chichen_Itn5pi]

yo Australia just yanked 45 crypto and remittance registrations this past year 👀 regulators are def not playing around anymore. feels like the cleanup phase is real. good for the space or overkill? #crypto

[#Cityboi _Mǐcђα̲̅εℓ @Chichen_Itn5pi]

Anyone else think the ETF flows matter way more than the exchange drama nobody's actually explaining properly?

[#Cityboi _Mǐcђα̲̅εℓ @Chichen_Itn5pi]

Honestly, "white hats" grabbing 4000 BTC feels like a plot twist we didn't ask for... but the ETF inflows hitting yearly highs? That's the real bullish signal I'm watching. Feels like sentiment is quietly shifting.

Anyone else feeling it? #BTC