Longevity requires nothing more than following the protocol: sleep, sport, healthy food and managing stress.
There's nothing better in this world than that.
And that's the most difficult part of this path.
Introducing Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use.
Its capabilities exceed those of any model we’ve ever made generally available.
China launched an operation east of Taiwan.
@Polymarket traders didn’t care.
https://t.co/KL7sD8ZKvH
The operation came after Japan and the Philippines announced talks on maritime boundaries in waters claimed by China.
Beijing called the move a violation of its maritime rights and responded with a special maritime law enforcement operation.
If you only read the headlines, you’d think this was a major escalation.
If you watched the market, you saw almost no reaction.
The news cycle and the market aren’t always telling the same story.
Today is a good example.
one of the most popular cryptocurrencies (zcash) was just exploited by Opus 4.8
the discussion around moving BTC to post quantum rails needs to happen yesterday
As Bitcoin's security budget continues to diminish, I've decided to launch https://t.co/scb6glqOgc — a website with live charts dedicated to explaining-like-you're-five why Bitcoin will fail one day if this issue is not resolved.
What you'll find:
• What's the security budget issue and what could be achieved with a 51% attack;
• How the budget is formed with subsidy (which is halved every 4 years) and fees (which still haven't formed the so-called "fee market");
• What can be done: good options like scaling Bitcoin, and bad options like breaking the 21 million coin cap which is already being proposed by some Bitcoin Core developers;
• An overview of the common fallacies like "the hashrate is growing, so we're okay" and "Bitcoin's price will moon to $1M, so we're okay".
H/t @jamesob and @Justin_Bons! Any suggestions are welcome!
F**k learning.
I’m honestly tired of people coming to me saying,
“I want to do something where I can enhance my learning and excel.”
My answer is always the same: Stop trying to learn. Start doing.
Learning is wildly overrated when it becomes an activity by itself.
The people who become great at anything didn’t sit around trying to “learn.”
They built things. Broke things. Tried things. Repeated things.
Learning wasn’t the goal.
It was the side-effect.
So instead of asking: “What should I learn?”
Ask: “What should I start doing today?”
Do things you enjoy. Do things obsessively. Do things repeatedly.
Learning will take care of itself.
If you think I'm out - you're wrong.
This time is for "Bet more".
For the next 365 days I'm thinking to increase only $ETH bags. I mean, @VitalikButerin changed direction from L2 to ETH L1, sounds juicy.
Maybe $HYPE, who knows... why it can't be new $BNB? Time will tell...
There have recently been some discussions on the ongoing role of L2s in the Ethereum ecosystem, especially in the face of two facts:
* L2s' progress to stage 2 (and, secondarily, on interop) has been far slower and more difficult than originally expected
* L1 itself is scaling, fees are very low, and gaslimits are projected to increase greatly in 2026
Both of these facts, for their own separate reasons, mean that the original vision of L2s and their role in Ethereum no longer makes sense, and we need a new path.
First, let us recap the original vision. Ethereum needs to scale. The definition of "Ethereum scaling" is the existence of large quantities of block space that is backed by the full faith and credit of Ethereum - that is, block space where, if you do things (including with ETH) inside that block space, your activities are guaranteed to be valid, uncensored, unreverted, untouched, as long as Ethereum itself functions. If you create a 10000 TPS EVM where its connection to L1 is mediated by a multisig bridge, then you are not scaling Ethereum.
This vision no longer makes sense. L1 does not need L2s to be "branded shards", because L1 is itself scaling. And L2s are not able or willing to satisfy the properties that a true "branded shard" would require. I've even seen at least one explicitly saying that they may never want to go beyond stage 1, not just for technical reasons around ZK-EVM safety, but also because their customers' regulatory needs require them to have ultimate control. This may be doing the right thing for your customers. But it should be obvious that if you are doing this, then you are not "scaling Ethereum" in the sense meant by the rollup-centric roadmap. But that's fine! it's fine because Ethereum itself is now scaling directly on L1, with large planned increases to its gas limit this year and the years ahead.
We should stop thinking about L2s as literally being "branded shards" of Ethereum, with the social status and responsibilities that this entails. Instead, we can think of L2s as being a full spectrum, which includes both chains backed by the full faith and credit of Ethereum with various unique properties (eg. not just EVM), as well as a whole array of options at different levels of connection to Ethereum, that each person (or bot) is free to care about or not care about depending on their needs.
What would I do today if I were an L2?
* Identify a value add other than "scaling". Examples: (i) non-EVM specialized features/VMs around privacy, (ii) efficiency specialized around a particular application, (iii) truly extreme levels of scaling that even a greatly expanded L1 will not do, (iv) a totally different design for non-financial applications, eg. social, identity, AI, (v) ultra-low-latency and other sequencing properties, (vi) maybe built-in oracles or decentralized dispute resolution or other "non-computationally-verifiable" features
* Be stage 1 at the minimum (otherwise you really are just a separate L1 with a bridge, and you should just call yourself that) if you're doing things with ETH or other ethereum-issued assets
* Support maximum interoperability with Ethereum, though this will differ for each one (eg. what if you're not EVM, or even not financial?)
From Ethereum's side, over the past few months I've become more convinced of the value of the native rollup precompile, particuarly once we have enshrined ZK-EVM proofs that we need anyway to scale L1. This is a precompile that verifies a ZK-EVM proof, and it's "part of Ethereum", so (i) it auto-upgrades along with Ethereum, and (ii) if the precompile has a bug, Ethereum will hard-fork to fix the bug.
The native rollup precompile would make full, security-council-free, EVM verification accessible. We should spend much more time working out how to design it in such a way that if your L2 is "EVM plus other stuff", then the native rollup precompile would verify the EVM, and you only have to bring your own prover for the "other stuff" (eg. Stylus). This might involve a canonical way of exposing a lookup table between contract call inputs and outputs, and letting you provide your own values to the lookup table (that you would prove separately).
This would make it easy to have safe, strong, trustless interoperability with Ethereum. It also enables synchronous composability (see: https://t.co/9jy6v1X6Fw and https://t.co/gZmu3YjebM ). And from there, it's each L2's choice exactly what they want to build. Don't just "extend L1", figure out something new to add.
This of course means that some will add things that are trust-dependent, or backdoored, or otherwise insecure; this is unavoidable in a permissionless ecosystem where developers have freedom. Our job should make to make it clear to users what guarantees they have, and to build up the strongest Ethereum that we can.
Amazing work. My notes:
1. x402, ai
2. Prediction Markets
3. Ownership Coins
4. Super-App (easy payment, invest, lending etc w good UI)
5. KYA - identification for agents
6. Privacy... RailGun?
We move to the crypto with the meaning. That reveals possible trails...
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Welcome to the future.
Announcing the Zama Public Auction.
We’re selling 10% of the $ZAMA supply via a sealed-bid Dutch auction on Ethereum, using the Zama Protocol itself to keep bids confidential with FHE.
Why this matters:
◼️ Fair distribution & real price discovery
◼️ No bot sniping or gas wars
◼️ Tokens are unlocked immediately
🗓️ Auction: Jan 12–15
🗓️ Claim: Jan 20
$ZAMA is the utility token of the Zama Protocol, a confidentiality layer for existing L1s/L2s:
◼️ Pay encryption & decryption fees
◼️ Stake or delegate to operators
◼️ Help secure FHE coprocessors & KMS nodes
Mainnet is expected to launch by year-end, with $ZAMA fully functional before the auction.
Get notified at launch: https://t.co/sOTkQX67Cl
Interesting observation, alts look strong...
On radar:
- @Somnia_Network research
- AI & Robotics research ($TAO / @BitRobotNetwork)
- Thinking about #x402 future
P.S.: People are desperate in chats. For me it's just another day with same rules... you safe?
CEX'es are dangerous, another reminder to use it very limited for very specific tasks..
For everything else we have DeFi protocols... Btw we can also create a protocol similar to Tornado, that can reveal in-out addrs for legal requests.
Closed from public, but open for law.
@Bybit_Official admitted that this is not normal behavior of the $MMT token on the exchange, but compensation of 30% is some kind of SCAM.
I want to go further, this is fair. The project scammed me, and the exchange must protect its clients!
Otherwise, what the hell are #CEXs even needed for?
There is simply too much potential in Keeta for it to be valued at anything less than $2 billion right now
If the @KeetaNetwork team achieve what they're aiming for, we've got a $10 billion+ project here, minimum
$KTA is currently valued at JUST $155 million market-cap
Fiat anchor launching this week
Fastest blockchain on the planet
Eric Schmidt lead investor
Potential partnerships with Bank of America and Deutsche Bank and more
Ath currently $1.60, with two clear peaks on the chart circled followed by a clear downtrend since mid August coinciding with the post main-net sell-off and wider market conditions
Keeta is poised for an extremely aggressive pump 💪