Kenneth Smith

Fullstack Blockchain Dev

[nader dabit @dabit3]

https://t.co/PqGEcSahx8

[Georgios Konstantopoulos @gakonst]

Porto is now production-ready & fully open source!

Porto’s north star is to enable secure and programmable web-native crypto payments & finance without passwords, or browser extensions.

Integrate now in 2 lines of code and in less than 1 minute: `pnpm i porto`.

[Kenneth Smith @MrPresident323]

@PatrickAlphaC The question i have is what if you run an autonomous bot that needs access to the PK to execute tx's. Then at the very least, you likely have to store a password in the .env file and couldn't a hacker just take that password and decrypt the PK?

[Coinbase 🛡️ @coinbase]

Aug 15, 1971: Gold standard is "paused."
Aug 15, 2025: My iced coffee is $7.

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

Asset gains over the last 10 years:

Gold: 201%
S&P 500: 207%
BTC: 49,000%
ETH: 350,000%

Happy financial awareness day.

[Georgios Konstantopoulos @gakonst]

I'm still baffled that the Ethereum Core Dev community does not prioritize fixing the 2 most cited problem of EVM developers per the Solidity Lang survey despite our repeated efforts:

1. Stack too Deep: yes this is a Solidity skill issue a little bit but just add a SWAP/DUP17-32 opcode range and call it a day. You will burn some opcodes. It's fine, they are meant to be used. You're gonna have another PUSH0-style mismatch, this is also fine, it's not perfect but it's fine.

2. Lift the 24KB limit. I don't really care what you do, make it 32KB, 48KB, 128KB, 256KB, 512KB, do it all at once, incrementally, price it or not but do something! Now, not next year!

If you are scaling the L1, ensuring people can write contracts without stupid errors is P0.

If the system cannot handle an extra 8KB per bytecode which is a param that was set 10yrs ago literally then there's no chance you will be able to actually scale the L1.

Fix stack too deep and bytecode size limit! For the devs!

[David K 🎹 @DavidKPiano]

I wonder how much code out there is unnecessarily slow because it looks like this:

const a = await taskA()
const b = await taskB()

instead of:

const [a, b] = await Promise.all([taskA, taskB])

Async/await is a really convenient footgun

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

I think about this type of thing _all_ the time, how did we do all this with our hunter gatherer brains...

[Georgios Konstantopoulos @gakonst]

Porto is gonna 100x app UX.

Bring your own auth like Privy, or use Passkey-based authentication, we provide best in class support for both.

Gas optimal, 1-click, nextgen onboarding, cross chain, apps pay onchain "server" fees, users pay apps fixed fees, and so much more.

[rawn @reallyrawn]

The rust compiler is insane. Like wdym you recognize the ternary operator just to say you can’t use it

[Kenneth Smith @MrPresident323]

@gakonst It's what was most widely taught when getting into this space two years ago. Tools like Foundry are hard to give up. But above all else, it's what clients want. At the end of the day, Solidity is a terrible language and it's unlikely Vyper is worse so I'd love to work in it.

[Zed @zeddotdev]

We somehow totally missed this lovely blog post from @stevedylandev from last August. ❤️

We ended our company-wide weekly meeting by going over what you wrote, and it left everyone feeling inspired and energized for our upcoming launch of the agent panel.

https://t.co/QswEUV2Bg8

[Kenneth Smith @MrPresident323]

@Madisonkanna Zed. Best of both worlds: AI and Vim

[Kenneth Smith @MrPresident323]

@gakonst For the love of god, drop Solidity. Vyper in the meantime until another language with some actual forethought comes along.

[Kenneth Smith @MrPresident323]

@FJaskovic @ThePrimeagen Zed

[Kenneth Smith @MrPresident323]

@knownashyj Hey turn down your goddamn music in the parking lot

[Kenneth Smith @MrPresident323]

@priceinaction No shit. How would it ever make sense to work the other way around?

[Kenneth Smith @MrPresident323]

@priceinaction It's better to be interested than interesting.

[Kenneth Smith @MrPresident323]

@lexfridman @elonmusk Shorting has been in practice as long as buying has been. It doesn't just work in theory, it works in practice. You do not understand what you are saying.