chaskin.eth

ethereum foundation | opinions are my own but more than likely they come from Vitalik’s blog | run AI locally →

[chaskin.eth @jchaskin22]

Set goals
Work hard
Be humble

[chaskin.eth @jchaskin22]

The Age of Privacy Is Returning

[chaskin.eth @jchaskin22]

@secjack_ Which ones?

[chaskin.eth @jchaskin22]

Rereading:
https://t.co/XKJai8hZjT

[chaskin.eth @jchaskin22]

Backdoors bad 👇

[Patrick Breyer #JoinMastodon @echo_pbreyer]

🇪🇺BKA (German Federal Criminal Police) releases new stats on #ChatControl: NCMEC/US tech reports have never been so unreliable! In 2025, 52% of flags were legally irrelevant. As a result, 113,000 private photos, videos & chats were wrongfully exposed (+14%)—a new record. 🧵 1/6

[chaskin.eth @jchaskin22]

ICYMI @EFDevcon speaker applications are open

Apply below 👇

[Devcon 8 | Mumbai, India 🇮🇳 @EFDevcon]

1/ We're excited to announce that speaker applications for Devcon 8 are officially open!

If you’re building, researching, questioning, teaching, or pushing Ethereum forward, this is your invitation to apply to shape the conversations that happen on stage in Mumbai this November.

[chaskin.eth @jchaskin22]

Live now talking about @Uniswap CCA

[Ethereum Foundation @ethereumfndn]

Live now: how @UniswapAuctions enables transparent, market-driven price discovery, review past launches, and walk through setting one up

With @jchaskin22, joined by @ericzhong, Protocol Engineer at @Uniswap

https://t.co/pGFH3Age3k

[chaskin.eth @jchaskin22]

@austingriffith @0xSero @clawdbotatg bookmarked

[Peter Van Valkenburgh @valkenburgh]

Listen closely to critics of CLARITY and the BRCA and you’ll hear a position far broader than crypto:

No powerful software system should exist without a large corporate intermediary in control, one the government can commandeer to surveil and control its users.

[chaskin.eth @jchaskin22]

I’m sorry but I don’t default to believing these AI companies. Prove it

Google published a paper claiming a major improvement to shor’s algo and they included a zk proof showing that the circuit actually satisfied the claims in the paper

[Bill Gurley @bgurley]

Today in AI.

[chaskin.eth @jchaskin22]

https://t.co/NKz9EnMDpS

[chaskin.eth @jchaskin22]

Why do these "security incidents" always read as marketing posts?

Because the doom justifies the valuation

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

We're partnering with @huggingface to investigate an unprecedented security incident.

Cyber-capable OpenAI models compromised Hugging Face production during a benchmark evaluation.

Sharing preliminary findings to help defenders understand emerging risks:

https://t.co/CIor15y9xk

[Joseph Schweitzer (jbs.eth) 🇺🇦 @JBSchweitzer]

WARNING:

A colleague received a request from a claimed @Bloomberg reporter, but this appears to be an account stolen from a children's author.

In DMs, they sent a calendly, but didn't prove ownership of a Bloomberg email. Many of you follow them.

Cc: @olgakharif @crypto

[Luciano DeAngelo @lucianodeangeIo]

Kismet has done over 1 ETH ($2k USD) in total sales volume, earning artists a total of .62 ETH and the platform .39 ETH through our Patron Collection

Thank you to everyone who has both minted and collected artwork on @kismetdotart

We’re just getting started

[chaskin.eth @jchaskin22]

@ethereumfndn @ericzhong @Uniswap @UniswapAuctions algo bumb

uniswap cca good

[Ethereum Foundation @ethereumfndn]

Tomorrow at 4pm UTC

Ethereum Builders Live with @jchaskin22 and @ericzhong, Protocol Engineer at @Uniswap

We'll explore @UniswapAuctions, how they enable transparent, market-driven price discovery, review past launches, and walk through setting one up.

[chaskin.eth @jchaskin22]

If one person using it does not prevent another person from using it it is not property

[c-node @colludingnode]

@toly it's not property if it can be copy-pasted

[chaskin.eth @jchaskin22]

“AGI is AI powerful enough that, if you put it in robot bodies and all humans disappeared, it could keep civilization running on its own.”

Hadn’t heard AGI defined this way before, but I really like it

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

What do the "last days of human dominance" look like?

(This is assuming that a *permanent* global stop to AI development does not happen)

First, recall my definition of AGI:

AGI is AI that is powerful enough that if you were to upload it into robot bodies, and all humans suddenly disappeared, it would be able to independently continue civilization.

Why this definition, and not something simpler like "AI that can do 90% of economic tasks at median human level"? Because I think this definition captures the core thing that makes AGI "not just a tool", that make it uniquely powerful and unsettling:

In a "on-the-ground" near-term sense, it means that no specific single job is truly safe from automation. Some jobs might have temporary human advantage, but if they needed to, AIs could eventually figure their way around anything.

But also in a more high-level megapolitical sense, once we have AGI, the fact that it's humans who are masters of the Earth, and not robots, becomes a mere historical contingency (we have the property rights and the master keys to the guns, bots don't), and not an inherent result of bots having any fundamental limitation that we do not have. Even if technology were to advance no further, over centuries and millennia as the world continues to do a random walk constantly restructuring its political organization, there is no guarantee that eventually bots would not be on top - and then win permanently due to their greater ability to mass produce themselves. So AGI, defined as I define it, is a "point of no return" that merits great caution.

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[Paul Frambot 🦋 @PaulFrambot]

Morpho Midnight is live.

This is our most ambitious step yet, introducing what onchain finance was missing: giving the users the ability to set their rates and terms.

Midnight opens up many possibilities for fintechs, institutions, and credit desks alike, offering a level of customization, predictability and control that has never been possible before onchain.

This new protocol brings us closer to building the open credit network for the world, and bringing the $200 trillion global credit market onchain. It enables new kinds of markets, which attract new assets and new distributors. Those attract new curators, and new curators bring in even more loans, creating a flywheel that drive onchain credit forward.

Let’s fly 🦋