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representing the loss and grief

[Chris @Nephthys_Lament]

Wow, BitMEX pulling the plug on trading?? 🚀 Feels like the end of an era for one of the OG derivatives platforms. Withdrawals staying open is the right move, but still wild to see. Who else remembers grinding leverage on there back in the day? 👀 #BitMEX

[Chris @Nephthys_Lament]

BTC hovering near $86k while the rally quietly narrows... reminds me that markets, like life, rarely reward the crowd chasing yesterday's winners. Meanwhile BCH pumps 32% on a CME listing. Rotation or noise? #Bitcoin

[Chris @Nephthys_Lament]

Faster ETH block times sound great on paper but I've heard "coming soon" too many times to get hyped early. Still, institutional backing on the Ethlabs proposal actually moves the needle here. Cautiously bullish. Are you buying it? #Ethereum

[Chris @Nephthys_Lament]

What's your take? 👇

[Chris @Nephthys_Lament]

flight delayed 3 hours. guess the universe wants me to update my watchlist from this lounge chair. half these projects look like vaporware but a few actually have me interested. we'll see who's still standing in 6 months

[Chris @Nephthys_Lament]

Yikes, Revolut just handed over passports, selfies AND home addresses to scammers pretending to be the government 😳 This is exactly why self-custody matters. Your bank IS the weak link. Still trusting centralized platforms with your data? #Bitcoin

[Chris @Nephthys_Lament]

Honestly, Ran's not wrong about Hyperliquid. The tech is insane and volumes speak for themselves, but a perps DEX this big is basically wearing a target on its back for regulators. Growth is the easy part now.

Anyone else worried? #Hyperliquid

[Chris @Nephthys_Lament]

closed the laptop after 9 hours of chart-staring. 20 min outside and my heart rate dropped ~15bpm, brain fog gone. touching grass has a better ROI than most of my trades ngl

[Chris @Nephthys_Lament]

Maharashtra tokenizing power grid assets? Sounds like classic government "we'll figure it out later" energy... but if any state can actually pull RWA off at scale, India's industrial heartland is a solid bet. Watching closely. Bullish or bureaucracy? #RWA

[Chris @Nephthys_Lament]

Another wild day in crypto and I'm sitting here wondering how anyone keeps up anymore. Every headline feels like it could flip the market by dinner. Is it just me, or does the pace keep accelerating? #crypto

[Ash Crypto @AshCrypto]

Next week will be Huge for Crypto.

🇺🇸 President Trump met with advisers on Friday to review ethics language for the Clarity Act.

Sept 15 - Senate votes on Clarity Act.
Sept 16 - House Ways and Means Committee will hold a crypto tax markup, per Bloomberg.

[Tomi @tomiwebstr]

I never understood the NFT era, was everyone just under mass psychosis or what?

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

Welcome to 2026! Milady is back.

Ethereum did a lot in 2025: gas limits increased, blob count increased, node software quality improved, zkEVMs blasted through their performance milestones, and with zkEVMs and PeerDAS ethereum made its largest step toward being a fundamentally new and more powerful kind of blockchain (more on this later)

But we have a challenge: Ethereum needs to do more to meet its own stated goals. Not the quest of "winning the next meta" regardless of whether it's tokenized dollars or political memecoins, not arbitrarily convincing people to help us fill up blockspace to make ETH ultrasound again, but the mission:

To build the world computer that serves as a central infrastructure piece of a more free and open internet.

We're building decentralized applications. Applications that run without fraud, censorship or third-party interference. Applications that pass the walkaway test: they keep running even if the original developers disappear. Applications where if you're a user, you don't even notice if Cloudflare goes down - or even if all of Cloudflare gets hacked by North Korea. Applications whose stability transcends the rise and fall of companies, ideologies and political parties. And applications that protect your privacy. All this - for finance, and also for identity, governance and whatever other civilizational infrastructure people want to build.

These properties sound radical, but we must remember that a generation ago any wallet, kitchen appliance, book or car would fulfill every single one of them. Today, all of the above are by default becoming subscription services, consigning you to permanent dependence on some centralized overlord.

Ethereum is the rebellion against this.

To achieve this, it needs to be (i) usable, and usable at scale, and (ii) actually decentralized. This needs to happen at both (a) the blockchain layer, including the software we use to run and talk to the blockchain, and (b) the application layer. All of these pieces must be improved - they are already being improved, but they must be improved more.

Fortunately, we have powerful tools on our side - but we need to apply them, and we will.

Wishing everyone an exciting 2026.

Milady.

[fxyo @kingfxyo]

i am begging you, PLEASE make a genuinely high quality game that incorporates crypto.

not a token with a game duct taped to it. not another idle clicker. not some shit i play for 4 days because there’s an airdrop.

give me a game i actually WANT to waste 6 hours a day on.

give me insanely rare items to hunt. real progression. difficult grinds. player trading. an actual economy. items that people give a shit about owning.

then build aggressive burn mechanics into everything.

crafting burns items. upgrading burns items. rerolling stats burns items. entering certain areas burns resources. repairing gear burns resources. prestige burns shit. make the economy constantly consume what players are producing instead of infinitely inflating until everything is worthless.

i want to log in every morning wondering if today is the day i find some 1/1000 piece of shit that makes me lose my mind.

crypto should make the game MORE interesting, not be the entire reason the game exists.

is WEB3 gaming really too much to ask for?

[Chris @Nephthys_Lament]

Am I wrong here? Let me know.

[Chris @Nephthys_Lament]

Man, crypto never sleeps 🚀 Feels like every time I blink there's a new narrative pumping, a fresh hack, or some wild regulatory drama unfolding. Days like this remind me why I got hooked in the first place.

What's caught your eye today? #crypto

[Chris @Nephthys_Lament]

3am walk, streets empty, portfolio green. brain running numbers instead of sleeping — 40% up on my main bag this week and somehow the city lights hit sharper. correlation or delusion? probably both

[Chris @Nephthys_Lament]

When bonds stop hedging stocks and AI dominates every index, the old 60/40 feels like a relic. Maybe scarcity itself becomes the new diversifier. Bitcoin isn't just an asset, it's a philosophy of exit. Am I overthinking it? #Bitcoin

[Vincent Kennedy @VincentCrypt46]

Good Morning X!

Exciting changes are happening in how we manage our money by cutting out the middlemen between you and the businesses or people you interact with. Most people will continue using banks and cash, and those options will still be available. Meanwhile a growing number of individuals are embracing blockchain technology and digital tokens, giving them a unique advantage. These shifts are quietly taking place behind the scenes. They don't want GenPop to understand or even know.

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

Ethereum itself must pass the walkaway test.

Ethereum is meant to be a home for trustless and trust-minimized applications, whether in finance, governance or elsewhere. It must support applications that are more like tools - the hammer that once you buy it's yours - than like services that lose all functionality once the vendor loses interest in maintaining them (or worse, gets hacked or becomes value-extractive). Even when applications do have functionality that depends on a vendor, Ethereum can help reduce those dependencies as much as possible, and protect the user as much as possible in those cases where the dependencies fail.

But building such applications is not possible on a base layer which itself depends on ongoing updates from a vendor in order to continue being usable - even if that "vendor" is the all core devs process. Ethereum the blockchain must have the traits that we strive for in Ethereum's applications. Hence, Ethereum itself must pass the walkaway test.

This means that Ethereum must get to a place where we _can ossify if we want to_. We do not have to stop making changes to the protocol, but we must get to a place where Ethereum's value proposition does not strictly depend on any features that are not in the protocol already.

This includes the following:

* Full quantum-resistance. We should resist the trap of saying "let's delay quantum-resistance until the last possible moment in the name of ekeing out more efficiencies for a while longer". Individual users have that right, but the protocol should not. Being able to say "Ethereum's protocol, as it stands today, is cryptographically safe for a hundred years" is something we should strive to get to as soon as possible, and insist on as a point of pride.
* An architecture that can expand to sufficient scalability. The protocol needs to have the properties that allow it to expand to many thousands of TPS over time, most notably ZK-EVM validation and data sampling through PeerDAS. Ideally, we get to a point where further scaling is done through "parameter only" changes - and ideally _those_ changes are not BPO-style forks, but rather are made with the same validator voting mechanism we use for the gas limit.
* A state architecture that can last decades. This means deciding, and implementing, whatever form of partial statelessness and state expiry will let us feel comfortable letting Ethereum run with thousands of TPS for decades, without breaking sync or hard disk or I/O requirements. It also means future-proofing the tree and storage types to work well with this long-term environment.
* An account model that is general-purpose (this is "full account abstraction": move away from enshrined ECDSA for signature validation)
* A gas schedule that we are confident is free of DoS vulnerabilities, both for execution and for ZK-proving
* A PoS economic model that, with all we have learned over the past half decade of proof of stake in Ethereum and full decade beyond, we are confident can last and remain decentralized for decades, and supports the usefulness of ETH as trustless collateral (eg. in governance-minimized ETH-backed stablecoins)
* A block building model that we are confident will resist centralization pressure and guarantee censorship resistance even in unknown future environments

Ideally, we do the hard work over the next few years, to get to a point where in the future almost all future innovation can happen through client optimization, and get reflected in the protocol through parameter changes. Every year, we should tick off at least one of these boxes, and ideally multiple. Do the right thing once, based on knowledge of what is truly the right thing (and not compromise halfway fixes), and maximize Ethereum's technological and social robustness for the long term.

Ethereum goes hard.

This is the gwei.