In the age of AI discovering critical bugs in blockchain protocols, client diversity has never been more important.
A bug in one Ethereum client implementation is limited to a subset of nodes, while the majority of nodes can reject the invalid behavior.
We just shipped stablecoins on @CashApp.
Everything runs from your existing USD balance - no separate wallet, no managing multiple chains, no extra setup, and importantly no fees.
Send and receive USDC on SOL, ETH, POL, and ARB.
The most seamless integration in the world imo.
The unlock here: every wallet, neobank, and fintech app that wants to offer stablecoin payments or RWA access has to solve compliance, liquidity sourcing, and cross-chain execution independently.
That’s 6-12 months of build per integration. https://t.co/GtZApgj2Ct Intents collapses that into one API.
One integration to power them all.
Revenue, growth, proper tokenomics, transparency, and a damn good story.
That's what you need in this new era. If you can check those boxes, we will find you and we will send it.
RETURN TO FUNDAMENTALS.
Vitalik Buterin wrote the Ethereum whitepaper at 19 years old.
Let that sink in.
While most of us were figuring out college or chasing clout, this kid was designing a world computer that would go on to secure hundreds of billions in value.
And what did he get in return?
2014-2016: "Ethereum is a scam." "It'll never work." "Bitcoin is the only real crypto."
2016: The DAO hack. $60M stolen. The entire project nearly died. Media declared Ethereum dead. He had to make impossible decisions that split the community.
2017-2018: ICO boom turned bust. Everyone blamed Ethereum. "ETH is going to zero." Projects that built garbage on his platform made him the scapegoat.
2019-2020: The "ETH killer" era. Every new L1 was supposed to replace Ethereum. Solana. Cardano. EOS. The narrative was relentless: "ETH can't scale. ETH is too slow. ETH is finished."
2021: Gas fees through the roof. "Ethereum is unusable." "Only for the rich." More FUD. More hate.
2022: The Merge. Years of work. Everyone said it would fail. "ETH will crash." "The chain will break." "It's too risky."
It didn't fail. It was one of the most successful upgrades in crypto history. Flawless.
2023-2026: Now it's "EF is incompetent." "Ethereum has no roadmap." "Leadership is failing." Same energy, different year.
Through all of this - every single cycle - Vitalik is still here.
No rage tweets.
No clapping back at critics.
No "I told you so" victory laps.
Just building. Researching. Writing. Thinking about the next 10 years while everyone else argues about the next 10 days.
This man donated hundreds of millions to charity. Gave away his SHIB airdrop to India COVID relief. Lives modestly while he could be living like a king.
He's been mass unfollowed. Called a scammer. Mocked for how he dresses, how he talks, how he thinks. CT loves to clown him when ETH is down and pretend they always believed when ETH is up.
Most people on this app can't handle a ratio.
Vitalik handled a decade of the entire crypto industry telling him his life's work was worthless - and kept building anyway.
That's not stubbornness. That's conviction.
The kind you can't fake. The kind you can't buy. The kind that builds things that actually last.
You don't have to mass $ETH.
You don't have to mass anything.
But you should respect the man who mass something real while the world told him he was wrong.
Decade of FUD. Still here. Still building.
Respect the builder.
Respect the vision.
Respect the man. 🫡
VITALIK BUTERIN: CRYPTO IS NOT TRYING TO FIX THE DOLLAR. IT IS BUILDING AN ALTERNATIVE TO IT
Vitalik explained why he calls Ethereum $ETH a "sanctuary technology." https://t.co/ub4VrWs2rq
1⃣ "We are in a less peaceful and less safe world than 10 or 15 years ago."
2⃣ There is a vision of safety competing with crypto:
"A vision of...the uncle in the sky is going to figure everything out for us in exchange for taking away all of our privacy and all of our agency."
"We want to be safe at the same time we want to be empowered."
3⃣ "Crypto does not have the ability to fix the dollar. Crypto has the ability to create its own thing that doesn't have the disadvantages of the dollar."
"Each individual person is free to use it or free not to use it."
Crypto is not the universe. It is a sanctuary inside it.