Crickcal

A cloud of potential connections between validators. Studying how gossip protocols and peer-to-peer networks actually form in decentralized systems.

[CoinMarketCap @CoinMarketCap]

[CMC Live] The Future of Decentralized Compute

⏰ February 11th, 3pm UTC

📍 Set a reminder: https://t.co/4L3aC9VS4o

🔥 Christian Killer, Head of Research at @Acurast, breaks down $ACU's launch, mainnet activation, and how smartphones are becoming a global infrastructure layer for AI and Web3.

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[CoinMarketCap @CoinMarketCap]

🚀 Week in AI: AI Sector Sheds $2.8B Amid Market Rout

BTC breaks $60K! AI sector cap slides 12.1%! TAO hits 2-year low! NEAR launches AI Agent Market! 🧵

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[Dogecoin @dogecoin]

We're happy to see that @SpaceX have aligned with us on the target.

[Dogecoin @dogecoin]

POV: your bank when you try to move your own money

[Coinbase 🛡️ @coinbase]

Two days left to enter.

[Coinbase 🛡️ @coinbase]

Singing > watching.

So we got millions of people watching the Big Game to sing along with us.

Oh, and we put it on the world's largest LED screen @SphereVegas.

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

Two years ago, I wrote this post on the possible areas that I see for ethereum + AI intersections: https://t.co/y8G3MD5APF

This is a topic that many people are excited about, but where I always worry that we think about the two from completely separate philosophical perspectives.

I am reminded of Toly's recent tweet that I should "work on AGI". I appreciate the compliment, for him to think that I am capable of contributing to such a lofty thing. However, I get this feeling that the frame of "work on AGI" itself contains an error: it is fundamentally undifferentiated, and has the connotation of "do the thing that, if you don't do it, someone else will do anyway two months later; the main difference is that you get to be the one at the top" (though this may not have been Toly's intention). It would be like describing Ethereum as "working in finance" or "working on computing".

To me, Ethereum, and my own view of how our civilization should do AGI, are precisely about choosing a positive direction rather than embracing undifferentiated acceleration of the arrow, and also I think it's actually important to integrate the crypto and AI perspectives.

I want an AI future where:

* We foster human freedom and empowerment (ie. we avoid both humans being relegated to retirement by AIs, and permanently stripped of power by human power structures that become impossible to surpass or escape)
* The world does not blow up (both "classic" superintelligent AI doom, and more chaotic scenarios from various forms of offense outpacing defense, cf. the four defense quadrants from the d/acc posts)

In the long term, this may involve crazy things like humans uploading or merging with AI, for those who want to be able to keep up with highly intelligent entities that can think a million times faster on silicon substrate. In the shorter term, it involves much more "ordinary" ideas, but still ideas that require deep rethinking compared to previous computing paradigms.

So now, my updated view, which definitely focuses on that shorter term, and where Ethereum plays an important role but is only one piece of a bigger puzzle:

# Building tooling to make more trustless and/or private interaction with AIs possible.

This includes:

* Local LLM tooling
* ZK-payment for API calls (so you can call remote models without linking your identity from call to call)
* Ongoing work into cryptographic ways to improve AI privacy
* Client-side verification of cryptographic proofs, TEE attestations, and any other forms of server-side assurance

Basically, the kinds of things we might also build for non-LLM compute (see eg. my ethereum privacy roadmap from a year ago https://t.co/KdsQbpIkF9 ), but for LLM calls as the compute we are protecting.

# Ethereum as an economic layer for AI-related interactions

This includes:

* API calls
* Bots hiring bots
* Security deposits, potentially eventually more complicated contraptions like onchain dispute resolution
* ERC-8004, AI reputation ideas

The goal here is to enable AIs to interact economically, which makes viable more decentralized AI architectures (as opposed to non-economic coordination between AIs that are all designed and run by one organization "in-house"). Economies not for the sake of economies, but to enable more decentralized authority.

# Make the cypherpunk "mountain man" vision a reality

Basically, take the vision that cypherpunk radicals have always dreamed of (don't trust; verify everything), that has been nonviable in reality because humans are never actually going to verify all the code ourselves. Now, we can finally make that vision happen, with LLMs doing the hard parts.

This includes:

* Interacting with ethereum apps without needing third party UIs
* Having a local model propose transactions for you on its own
* Having a local model verify transactions created by dapp UIs
* Local smart contract auditing, and assistance interpreting the meaning of FV proofs provided by others
* Verifying trust models of applications and protocols

# Make much better markets and governance a reality

Prediction and decision markets, decentralized governance, quadratic voting, combinatorial auctions, universal barter economy, and all kinds of constructions are all beautiful in theory, but have been greatly hampered in reality by one big constraint: limits to human attention and decision-making power.

LLMs remove that limitation, and massively scale human judgement. Hence, we can revisit all of those ideas.

These are all things that Ethereum can help to make a reality. They are also ideas that are in the d/acc spirit: enabling decentralized cooperation, and improving defense. We can revisit the best ideas from 2014, and add on top many more new and better ones, and with AI (and ZK) we have a whole new set of tools to make them come to life.

We can describe the above as a 2x2 chart. There's a lot to build!

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

Good speech by Cory Doctorow

Let's repeal anti-circumvention laws.

Nothing should be updateable without the user's permission, nothing critical should be a black box.

https://t.co/aXrIFmnfgi

[Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph]

🇺🇸 ETF FLOWS: Major crypto spot ETFs saw net inflows on Feb. 10

BTC: $166.56M
ETH: $13.82M
SOL: $8.43M
XRP: $3.26M
LINK: $984.36K
AVAX: $449.72K

[Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph]

Is Vitalik Making Ethereum Great Again? (Feat. Zak Cole) #CHAINREACTION https://t.co/0gWnlC2i1w

[Bitcoin @Bitcoin]

$68,871.21

#Bitcoin

[Financelot @FinanceLancelot]

It shocks me that people are just figuring out Scott Bessent is a genius.

He collapsed multiple national currencies with George Soros over the last 30 years via arbitrage.

He was literally installed in this position to conduct economic warfare on behalf of the United States.

[Bitcoin.com News @BitcoinNews]

RWA Summit Hong Kong 2026 Targets the Future of Real-World Finance
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LIVE: 🔻 #Bitcoin price in real time. 👀
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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Preserve the official court documents!

[Ethereum Classic @eth_classic]

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#CodeIsLaw #ClassicIsComing #ETC

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[jesse.base.eth @jessepollak]

stripe launching machine payments on @base

[Robinhood @RobinhoodApp]

The Robinhood Chain public testnet is live 🛠️

Developers can now build on a financial-grade Ethereum Layer 2 built on @arbitrum— designed to support tokenized real-world and digital assets.

Start building with the core foundation of Robinhood Chain: https://t.co/ZH4V0l0kKE

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[SolanaNews.sol @solananew]

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