FlorianBlum.eth

Blockchain and Software Engineering Researcher @unidue ⛓, Fallout nerd🤓 & passionate gardener🌱😊 (previously Florian Weßling) / banner: #MidnightBreeze #3920

[Dutchtide.eth @dutchtide]

Marfa reflections (1/2)

Man there is much to say. Before I visited, I had my apprehensions. A town in the middle of the desert? The flight time. The cost.

It was a lot. And the current image of the States isn't exactly.. welcoming. Let's put it like that.

Yet. Once @GTSewell invited me I pulled the trigger. Hearing what he had put on the line inspired me.

We had never met. And honestly, the only reason we did is because he put out a call for fellow artists to join him on his journey.

And man am I glad I did.

Once I arrived in this small oasis I was stunned by its beauty. The drive there a landscape of windswept plains and distant hills. They say everything is bigger in Texas. And let me tell you. It's true.

The sky was breathtaking. As I wandered the town, I felt somewhat lonely.

I have to be honest with you guys. Most events for me have been lonely. As much as I love connecting. Even though I'd meet people, it always felt like I was fighting to be included. A strange thing to say, as many people seem to know me. It made me doubt myself at times.

I half expected Marfa to be the same. Then the Aussies showed up. And from that moment onward, the weekend began.

Not just the most fun fucking people. But genuinely a good group. It's not about transactions. It's not "I try to climb a status ladder" or "I will talk to them to pitch or sell". It's "Where are you coming from? Tell me more about you, your practice, what's your story?"

The gallery was set up with a different vision. Possibly in the most indie cryptoart style, aka the best vision. Maximalism in art. No white wall. Art. Art. Art. From all over.

I opted for showing my most recent piece, where @Abelwares and @JLArtsphere made a massive difference in my presentation. They helped me build the frame for the piece on the spot. A massive thanks to these legends.

@A_Giant_Swan, an absolutely amazing artist, was my neighbor on the wall and we quickly hit it off. Good laughs throughout the weekend. (Many more amazing neighbours, but too many to name)

Marfa is different from every event I've been to in this space. Not only because of its people. But because of its layout. An event like this could never happen in NYC or Singapore. Not because the cities are not dope. But because they are too large to be intimate.

The journey here acts as a filter, as @seanbonner said to me. Genuine people make their way here. @LeValleyKelly @deltasauce @natealex (and again, so many more, efteling people, skater man pls comment) To finally see each other after many years of hiding behind the screen.

Conversations hit an emotional snare for me, as with @MattKaneArtist and @MathieuFrance, who both gave me insightful advice and thoughts to ponder.

The art was the conversation. But the connection felt here was genuine. Real. Something I have found hard to come by.

I realised that this online world we live in is hardly a representation of us. I think this algorithm divides us.

But this event has shown me what actually matters in this space.

And let me tell you, it's not the floor price. It's not the number go up. It's not the supply. The demand. It's not the rarity. It's not even the art.

Part 2 below.

[sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root / @pcaversaccio]

look the foundational problem with ethereum protocol design is that most of the people designing the protocol don't actually use ethereum themselves. you can't fix the right things if you don't use your own fucking product. you don't have enough skin in the game if you don't personally depend on the system you're designing & stand to lose money when it breaks. i understand, everything looks great from an ivory tower lol. things look very different when you're actually on the ground dealing with the consequences. if you don't use ethereum yourself but still think you're qualified to design its protocol, you're playing god with a system you don't have to live with and whose consequences you don't have to suffer.

[SNSnote @snsnotecom]

1984년 매킨토시로 변한 아이폰 듀오

애플의 첫 폴더블폰 〈iPhone Duo〉를
반쯤 접으면 1984년 매킨토시를
재현한 작은 노트북으로 변신합니다.

새롭게 공개된 〈Tiny Computers〉는
매킨토시부터 윈도우 95·XP까지
고전 컴퓨터 10종을 체험할 수 있는 앱입니다.

키보드 입력은 물론 그림 그리기와
간단한 게임도 즐길 수 있으며,
일반 아이폰과 아이패드에서도 이용할 수 있습니다.

🎥 idanbo

[Dutchtide.eth @dutchtide]

Its going live in 4hours for those who reserved.

Months of planning and hard work finally coming out.

I could not be more grateful. And thank you to all who were part of this journey.

As artist all I need to do. Is art.
This is the definition of that experience.

Please consider getting one! It allows me to keep going. And keep making the stuff you resonate with.

Reserve now to get your spot.
Link in comments.

[0xMarioNawfal @RoundtableSpace]

1,829 classic games have been rebuilt by fans to run natively on modern PCs.

Awesome Decomp Games tracks 2,118 projects that took old games apart and rebuilt them, rated and refreshed daily:

→ Zelda: Ocarina of Time on PC at 60 fps in widescreen, with a randomizer and mods
→ Majora's Mask recompiled with ultrawide and high frame rates
→ Super Mario 64 with online co-op for up to 16 players
→ Sonic Unleashed from Xbox 360, Star Fox 64 and hundreds more
→ 42 games you can play right in your browser

Most projects need files from a copy of the game you own. The list only links to source code, never game files.

https://t.co/H77vUufYlr

[FlorianBlum.eth @ColdDevil]

That's a truly modern artist: The artwork itself is a connection between digital art and physical prints, authenticated with an NFC Hanko leading to a decentralized marketplace for sales and provenance🤯

[Dutchtide.eth @dutchtide]

Late night stop at GoodMorning Market

It is my most ambitious artwork to date. A 1 of 1 made to live both physically and on-chain.

This year has been about exploring this bridge: finding the connection between two worlds.

My biggest issue to this day with physical art and NFTs has been the disconnect. These works are not actually connected. Visually, sure. But not actually connected. I first experienced this in early 2021, when I bought my Beeple and it came with a physical. I later sold the NFT for 89 ETH. And the physical? It is still in my basement.

Hanko certified means one thing: the physical verification of trust.

In Japan, a hanko is a personal seal. It stands in for your signature on contracts, at the bank and on official papers. Pressing it says: this is me, and I stand behind this.

In the Netherlands, we sealed with wax. In the Golden Age, letters, contracts and trade documents were closed with a seal pressed into warm wax: a mark of who sent it, and of care.

The two countries share an old bridge. For more than two hundred years, the Dutch were the only Europeans allowed to trade with Japan, through the small island of Dejima in Nagasaki. Goods, books and ideas crossed between the two through that one door.

My Hanko brings these traditions together. A Japanese seal, pressed into Dutch wax, by hand. No two are exactly alike. Shoutout to @baiweiart for making mine.

In a Hanko certified artwork, the wax seal holds a cryptographic chip. Once the contract is live, it connects the artwork to the chain: scan it, and it shows its on-chain proof of provenance.

See the preview: tapping the Hanko on Lawson Shimoda, an ink study from the Konbini series.

Inspired by the CryptoPunks contract, I went to work on an entire marketplace inside the contract. It will let the holder of the artwork tap directly into the Dutchtide market, and find and engage with fellow collectors.

The contract holds a fully trustless art market inside of it, built so the NFT can only be sold if the physical comes with it. Over the past six months I have refined and tested this system, so that two people can buy and sell through the chain without ever touching crypto. While still being fully on-chain.

Euros, dollars, ETH: they will be interchangeable. Holders will be able to buy more Dutchtide art pieces through their own market, or sell through it.

The artwork's animated counterpart will be inscribed on-chain. For me, NFTs have always been about doing things physical art cannot, and animation with sound is that exact idea. Linking and inscribing its digital counterpart using @lphaCentauriKid's inscription standard is something I am incredibly excited about.

The contract goes live before the 1/1 changes hands, and the inscription follows with it.

I am proud to say collectors can already find their entire Dutchtide collection on their collector profile on my website.

The 1/1 is available on enquiry. It will set a precedent for me as an artist, with my most ambitious work to date.

Stay breezy. Stay bullish🍃

[FlorianBlum.eth @ColdDevil]

@ValidatorEth 🤓

[Le Random @lerandomart]

Introducing Subjects, a map of generative art

3,200 people, works, ideas + places in one place

https://t.co/bl9GtF2vif

Learn more ↓

[koeppelmann @koeppelmann]

We got an important step closer towards unified liquidity between L2s and Ethereum via @etheconomiczone.
Here is a @CoWSwap trade settled on L2 while using liquidity from L1. Bridging tokens out and receiving other tokens back all happens atomically!
Public testnet soon!

[FlorianBlum.eth @ColdDevil]

No need to read a crime novel.. Just look what happens in the real world🤯

[ZachXBT @zachxbt]

1/ How I infiltrated a Chinese organized crime syndicate that has laundered $1B+ across multiple exploits for Lazarus Group.

Posing as a client, I gathered intel that helped action freezes for the Feb 2025 Bybit exploit and attribute illicit activity onchain.

[ens.eth @ensdomains]

ENS has formally applied for the .ens top-level domain with ICANN to strengthen our role and innovate with the community that coordinates global naming systems. The application is uncontested.

Details on our approach: https://t.co/wAxSsVVjdx

[FlorianBlum.eth @ColdDevil]

@ValidatorEth @ensdomains @intocryptoast Oh, great, thank you!

[sundyme @sundyme]

这次真被 Opus 5.5 震到了，瘫坐在椅子上那种 🤯

最近在 vibe coding 一个 proxy 管理面板，做了几套主题，缺个点阵字体，就顺手让 Opus 5.5 设计一个。

结果它很快交出来一款可变点阵字体，还给自己起了名字叫 PUNCTUM。字重 100–900，圆度 0–100，一共 108 个字形，把圆度从 100 拉到 0，圆点会一点点变成方像素。

它还顺带做了一个很专业的字体样例页，把这个字体放进各种老设备的场景里：电梯的 LED 楼层灯、卡座的 VFD 屏、热敏小票、掌机 LCD、火车站发车牌。

我又跟它来回调了几轮，现在的效果放以前，我觉得得是很厉害的字体工作室才做得出来。视频是它做的字体发布样片。

字体还在继续完善，之后会连同整个制作过程一起开源到 GitHub，有兴趣的可以先关注一下。

[binji @binji_x]

While people are debating about vanity metrics, we are shipping a quantum proof world computer where your money cannot get hacked or rugged by any human, corporation, government, or AI.

There are games you play for tweet views, then there are games you play for a real war.

[Kahris @chrissotraidis]

Finally, Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, with ranked multiplayer support, totally maxed out on iPad, native.

Look at this ridiculous map. Units everywhere. Absolute chaos. The iPad handles it fine.

This is what I wanted when the Mac version came out. Open my iPad, launch AoE and play on the go.

Keyboard and mouse at a desk. Touch controls or Apple Pencil when I pick it up. Switch between them whenever you want. Pairs great with the iPad keyboard case.

It uses your own Steam copy. Scan a QR code with the Steam app to sign in, then play directly on the iPad.

I wanted this badly enough that I made it. Source and setup below.

[ens.eth @ensdomains]

ENS Labs and @GLEIF are exploring how organizations can link their ENS name to a verifiable Legal Entity Identifier (vLEI), creating one persistent, verifiable identity onchain.

Learn more ⤵

https://t.co/bS9LtnLWm1

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

The cryptographic world computer:

https://t.co/LF2JGU38Rx

My attempt to express in somewhat concise terms the true meaning of basically everything planned to happen to Ethereum starting from the fork after Hegota. It's really not just a blockchain anymore. It's a hybrid architecture that combines together blockchains and modern cryptography, to enable much more powerful properties.

FOCIL, EIP-8288, Lean consensus, state management, formal verification, advanced mempool improvements (including privacy), and the longer-term specter of obfuscation all mentioned.

[marilyn100x.eth @marilyn100x]

List of services worldwide that had 0 downtime since inception

1. Ethereum

End of list.

[Ryan Sael @RyanSael]

I'm completely floored

this is another one-shot

will need some refinement before sharing a link