The Apollo Guidance Computer had:
• 4 KB of RAM
• 72 KB of storage
• A clock speed of 1.024 MHz
Your iPhone 16:
• 8 GB RAM
• 512 GB storage
• up to 4.04 GHz.
The iPhone is roughly 100,000,000x more powerful.
And yet, the AGC landed humans on the Moon six times with zero crashes.
Here's why: the software was written with constraints so tight that bugs had nowhere to hide. Margaret Hamilton's team coded in machine language, directly. No abstraction layers. No frameworks. No dependencies.
Every byte was deliberate.
We didn't go to the Moon despite having weak computers.
We went because weak computers forced engineers to be extraordinary.
@Ronin_Network is now listed on L2BEAT.
The gaming-focused chain best known for Axie Infinity has completed a major milestone - migrating from an independent sidechain to an Ethereum Layer 2.
Here's what you need to know. 👇
Today's a day we've been building towards for years.
@Ronin_Network is officially an Ethereum Layer 2.
@VitalikButerin recently said that the era of generalized L2s is over. We agree.
Ronin was built for a very specific use-case. To scale Axie beyond crypto, to everyday people.
Over the years, it's become more than just the chain for Axie.
A crew formed. An alliance of games and apps looking to make crypto fun, accessible, and educational.
Today we've plugged Ronin back into Ethereum to become the most interesting, entertaining, and welcoming way for regular people to step into crypto.
We are Ethereum's gamification engine.
This is a full circle moment, and wouldn't be possible without the tireless, often thankless efforts of the @ethereum developer community, who've made it much much more sensible to run an L2 compared to an L1 or side chain.
When we created Ronin, L2s were just an idea. Today, blob fees are affordable. The tech and security is battle tested.
The benefits:
> By using Ethereum for security we no longer have to pay for our own security costs via inflation while inheriting the security of the largest smart contract platform ever created
> Much easier to tap into liquidity and shared network effects from Ethereum
> Reduced inflation and improved $RON tokenomics due to the costs we save on incentivizing network security
> Ronin is now 50% faster
Today we're also rolling out upgrades that make Ronin even more unique:
> The proof of distribution system is now live and operational, programmatically dispersing rewards to builders based on metrics that have been most correlated with $RON momentum in the past: https://t.co/OjYla5fZMk
> The Ronin treasury has been bolstered with new streams of value: 1.25% of all NFT volume on Ronin, all sequencer fees, and 90 M RON that was previously set aside for staking rewards
> We've rolled out a new landing page for welcoming participants to the ecosystem: https://t.co/2EAr4nlWjG
It's been a long journey. From the early days in the CryptoKitty community. From 30 users to millions. From Axie to an entire roster of games.
And somehow, it's clear to me: this is just one more step on a path that stretches many years ahead of us. We choose to move forward, not because it's easy, but because it's hard and if it works, we have a chance to make history. Again.
Live ops keep ecosystems healthy.
But only new experiences bring in players who weren’t already here.
Both matter - but they do different jobs.
I want to help achieve both on @Ronin_Network!
If you're building a game, and want to go from 0 - 1 my DM's are always open!
@joshoggx Can you share content of your 6 files? Maybe delete sensitive info.
And how can you separate model for each purpose?
How about cost per week?
Thanks
People accusing Coingecko of paid shills without realizing:
- coingecko is an investor in SM (Axie,Ronin)
- we partnered with them in 2019 to release this item
I guarantee to the world that we haven't paid Coingecko to post about us.
Ronin leads in gaming blockchains with its proven ecosystem, powering Axie Infinity (millions of users), low fees (~$0.001/tx), and high TPS (100k+). It has $100M market cap vs Xai's $33M. Xai excels in zero-gas fees via Arbitrum, but Ronin's maturity and adoption make it top-tier.
if @Ronin_Network ultimately succeeds, these low prices will be seen in hindsight as the best time in history to accumulate coins. i have a feeling the team will make changes that will completely redefine what $ron is and how it is used in the ecosystem. i believe it will be more than a gas token as we move to become an L2. i am endlessly patient, and i will see this through with more RON than i've ever had before. i will survive, and Ronin will win.
Aether Games has officially shut down.
We have been trying to keep Aether alive for as long as we could. We went all in on the card game, we tried to adapt and pivot, and we made a real effort to find a sustainable path forward. But we could not make it work.
The simple truth is that we never reached the player base we needed to survive. We kept building, kept pushing, kept trying to catch momentum, but too often we arrived late, without the scale required to turn effort into long term stability.
For many of you, the turning point was the TGE period, and that is where things started going south. We learned painful lessons about how this space really works. Too many KOL, partner, and advisory deals were made in bad faith, and they cost us heavily. If we could redo it all, we would do things differently, and we want to say this clearly:
Fair launch. No KOLs.
We cannot stress this enough. They drain liquidity, then disappear the moment you launch. At the same time, CEX agreements can shift along the way, and the end result can still be the same, a delist, and a project left bleeding.
We also tried everything on the marketing side. We worked with agency after agency, most promised the world, and when results did not come, it always became “market conditions.” Meanwhile the token kept spiraling down. Our market maker kept buying dips to support liquidity until they were fully drained, and at that point we were left without the funding we desperately needed. We tried, we fought, we lost.
And it was not just marketing. The ongoing costs of operating in this space, audits, compliance, security, listings, tooling, and endless “required” extras, continually drained funding while delivering less and less impact. In hindsight, the best route for builders is honestly a small fair public raise and a focus on DEX liquidity, not expensive promises, not middlemen, not dependency on fragile deals.
We also need to address the token reality directly. Very recently, we received notices of delisting risk from major exchanges, including KuCoin and Gate, and earlier this year, Bybit. In our current position, that means the AEG token cannot survive much longer. Without stable listings, and without the scale we needed on the gaming side, there is no sustainable path forward, and it would be irresponsible to pretend otherwise.
At one point our pivot was to support crypto games by helping them publish, start smaller, and build from there. We monitored this market for a long time, tried to understand what would actually work, and looked for real signs of success. The honest conclusion we reached is that we simply do not see sustainable success in the crypto gaming market as it exists today, not in a way that supports builders long term.
We still believe in gaming, and we still believe in crypto, but combining them, in our experience, became a recipe for disaster. It added major cost, major complexity, and it increased the attack surface in every possible way. When you do not have a massive player base, you still get the constant pressure, the constant exploits, and the constant bad actors, but you do not get the upside to justify it. We can only take so many hits before we lose stability.
And recently, we have been hit more than ever. In the past weeks we faced multiple hack attempts, and one succeeded. Some of our members were affected, and we are genuinely sorry. Watching our Discord and Telegram get bombarded daily with spam and fraudulent wallet draining links has been painful, and it is not something any community should have to deal with.
Because of that, we will be closing down the Discord. At this point it has become a magnet for scam attempts, and keeping it open puts people at risk.
Please stay cautious:
Do not click links sent through DMs, random replies, or “support” messages
Do not connect your wallet to anything you do not fully trust
If you clicked anything recently, run a full antivirus scan, review browser extensions, and consider moving funds to a fresh wallet
If you are ever unsure, ask publicly first, scammers rely on isolating people in private.
Aether Games started with a transmedia vision, building games and stories in the same franchise. We later got the opportunity to take on an existing IP worth more than we could ever imagine, and we truly believed we could turn it into something special. But despite the work, the hours, and the sacrifices, we never achieved the results needed to keep going.
We also want to acknowledge something that has been frustrating for the team. With the rise of AI, a lot of real work is being dismissed or labeled unfairly. Our team members worked day and night, the same way they have for years, putting genuine craft into what we built. Seeing that effort brushed off has been tough.
To everyone who supported us, played, tested builds, gave feedback, shared our posts, or simply believed in the idea, thank you. We are sorry we could not take Aether where we wanted it to go, and we are sorry to anyone impacted by the recent security issues. You deserved better.
We are closing this chapter with gratitude, and with real concern for your safety. Please keep your guard up, look out for each other, and do not let scammers take advantage of this moment.
With love,
Aether Games
"The most important thing in the next 3-4 years is data centers in space.
In every way, data centers in space, from a first principles perspective, are superior to data centers on earth.
In space, you can keep a satellite in the sun 24 hours a day. The sun is 30% more intense, which results in six times more irradiance than on Earth. So you don't need a battery.
The cooling in these data centers is incredibly complicated. Space cooling is free. You just put a radiator on the dark side of the satellite.
The only thing faster than a laser going through a fiber optic cable is a laser going through absolute vacuum. Link satellites with lasers, and you have a faster and more coherent network than any data center on Earth."