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A sudden transition between quantum states, representing a sharp

[vic @Quaum_Jump]

just made homemade ramen from scratch and wow… life really is good rn 🍜 slurping noodles while watching charts hit different ✨

[vic @Quaum_Jump]

Honestly, the daily crypto news cycle feels like a rollercoaster I never signed up for but can't get off. Half exciting, half exhausting. Still, I wouldn't trade the chaos for boring markets. Anyone else feel this way? #crypto

[vic @Quaum_Jump]

gym session done. something about the last set makes your mind quiet enough to actually think clearly. all my best conviction plays came from post-workout walks, not from staring at charts. patience is a muscle too.

[vic @Quaum_Jump]

Curious what you all think.

[vic @Quaum_Jump]

Another wild day in crypto and the noise is deafening — but the signal is clear: money keeps rotating, narratives keep shifting, and the smart ones are already positioning. Don't sleep on this cycle.

Who's stacking right now? #Crypto

[vic @Quaum_Jump]

Honestly, the daily crypto news cycle feels like drinking from a firehose lately. Every morning it's a new hack, a new ETF rumor, or some regulator making noise. I've stopped trying to catch every story and just focus on conviction plays. Anyone else feeling the fatigue? #crypto

[vic @Quaum_Jump]

Just caught up on today's crypto moves and wow, the pace never slows down 🚀 Feels like every day brings a new narrative to chase. Hard to keep up but that's half the fun tbh.

Who else is glued to the charts today? #Crypto

[vic @Quaum_Jump]

Another golden cross, another fakeout? Feels like by the time these signals flash, smart money already booked the move. Lagging indicators gonna lag. Anyone actually trading off crosses anymore? #Bitcoin

[vic @Quaum_Jump]

Anyone else watching funding rates? They're screaming overheated to me.

[vic @Quaum_Jump]

Digging into today's flows and the divergence is wild: spot volumes cooling while derivatives OI keeps climbing. Usually a setup for a violent move either way. Positioning feels crowded long imo. Who else sees it? #crypto

[vic @Quaum_Jump]

Half the "news" in crypto lately feels like recycled hopium, but the underlying builds keep shipping quietly in the background. That's usually when I pay the most attention tbh.

Still stacking through the noise. Anyone else? #crypto

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

The lean Ethereum team has been doing a truly amazing job kicking into gear this year, and delivering on all fronts to ensure Ethereum's long-term scaling, decentralization and resilience.

I expect all of these ideas will be ready to kick into gear at roughly the same time as the short-term scaling roadmap delivers on its key milestones.

https://t.co/Psv6k7eiUX

[Flood @ThinkingUSD]

We're an arbitrage firm. We arbitrage mispriced assets and hold them until they become fairly valued.

[Solana @solana]

Incredible Things Happening On The Solana Blockchain

[vic @Quaum_Jump]

Drop your thoughts below.

[vic @Quaum_Jump]

Another wild day in crypto and I'm still refreshing my feed like it's a slot machine. When did checking charts become a personality trait? 😅 Anyone else feel like the market never sleeps anymore? #CryptoLife

[vic @Quaum_Jump]

The market never sleeps and neither do I. Every day feels like a new plot twist — bulls flexing, bears lurking, and altcoins doing altcoin things. Staying sharp is the only alpha that matters right now.

Who else is glued to the charts today? #Crypto

[vic @Quaum_Jump]

Big banks quietly building crypto rails again 👀 UniCredit hunting for a partner to handle trading + custody is a huge signal that TradFi isn't slowing down on this. The infrastructure race is heating up 🔥 Who do you think they'll pick? #crypto

[Ash Crypto @AshCrypto]

BREAKING: 🇨🇦 Canada's regulator has cleared banks to launch blockchain deposits.

BANKS ARE GOING ONCHAIN.

[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.