thegreg

Blockchain builder | Promoting permissionless public goods | Problem solver, button pusher

[thegreg @_thegreg]

@MilkRoad agree biggest risk is distribution- just not the privacy bit.
need to get an autonomous agent platform going or top-of-the-funnel projects like Hermes will eat their lunch.

still big fan of @AskVenice hoping they’ve got something cooking here 🔥

[thegreg @_thegreg]

Kids with wild imaginations and long summers could produce some rad games

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

NVIDIA just unleashed SANA-WM and it’s an absolute MONSTER for the future of open source AI!

A blazing-fast 2.6B-parameter open-source world model that doesn’t just generate video… it creates controllable, physics-rich, high-fidelity worlds on demand.
Why this is insanely powerful:

• One image + text prompt + 6-DoF camera trajectory → generates 720p videos up to 60 seconds long with buttery-smooth, precisely controlled camera movement. You’re not just watching, you’re piloting the simulation.
• Runs locally on a single consumer GPU (RTX 5090 level) thanks to heavy distillation + NVFP4 quantization. Full 60-second clip denoised in ~34 seconds. No massive clusters required.
• 36× higher throughput than previous open models while rivaling (or beating) closed industrial giants in visual quality and consistency.
• Trained lightning-fast: ~213K public videos in just 15 days on 64 H100s.
• Built with next-level tech: Hybrid Linear Attention, dual-branch camera control, two-stage pipeline, and rock-solid metric-scale pose understanding.

This is a true open world model, the foundation for embodied AI, robotics, autonomous systems, and hyper-realistic simulations that can run anywhere.

Project: https://t.co/GBg4F8FWCp
GitHub: https://t.co/Q66j2UhofN
Paper: https://t.co/ktogIjtFdO

At our Zero-Human Company, we’re already running SANA-WM live in our core pipelines. It’s supercharging autonomous agent training, generating unlimited synthetic training data, and powering full end-to-end simulation loops, zero humans in the loop.

The speed and control let us test thousands of edge-case scenarios overnight, iterate at lightspeed, and push our fully autonomous operations further than ever before.

This is the kind of breakthrough that turns science fiction into daily reality. World models just leveled up — hard.

The age of personal, local, controllable universes is here.

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

Dear every website: instead of blocking bots, please just request $0.01 x402 payment

Thanks

[Mike Silagadze🛡 @MikeSilagadze]

Why did @ether_fi commit 5k ETH to the Kelp hack recovery fund?

Because we believe there was a very real risk that this could have killed DeFi.

The default path was:
Kelp bankruptcy -> $1.5B of rsETH tied up for years -> $30B Aave lending market locked up -> Cascade of DeFi and CeFi implosions. Game over for crypto.

FTX would have looked small in comparison.

In the face of these systemic risks we saw almost everyone pull back and hide behind lawyers. The worst case scenario was playing out.

The one team that stood out and stepped up was Aave. In many ways they were the least to blame (and there was plenty of blame to go around) but they took ownership and immediately began raising funds to fill the hole left by the hack.

If the @ether_fi team helped in some small way, it was mainly to open up communication help others see the gravity of the situation.

There’s a lot more to be written about what happened, and things are still playing out. But I think the worst case scenario has been averted.

Lots of soul searching to be done about systemic risks and decentralization theatre by everyone.

We’ll do a longer write up in a few weeks.

[thegreg @_thegreg]

👀

[吴鹏 Wu Peng @AmbWuPeng]

Congratulations to @StandardBankZA on the official launch of its Cross-border Interbank Payment System (#CIPS), making it the 1st African bank to join CIPS as a direct participant! This milestone will enhance China-Africa cross-border payment efficiency, reduce transaction costs, and deepen economic cooperation.

[Obol @Obol_Collective]

https://t.co/Yqg9ETYuYt

[thegreg @_thegreg]

👀

[DTCC @The_DTCC]

In an historic milestone, DTC received a No‑Action Letter from the SEC to tokenize certain DTC‑custodied assets. By leveraging blockchain, DTCC aims to bridge TradFi and DeFi, advancing a more resilient, inclusive and efficient global financial system.

https://t.co/yYNaHfvjcS

[thegreg @_thegreg]

👀

[ZKsync @zksync]

Institutions want to build on Ethereum and leverage its incorruptibility, hard finality, and global liquidity.

But many financial use-cases can’t be run on a chain where everything is public by default.

Here’s how Prividium extends Ethereum for enterprises:

[thegreg @_thegreg]

@joshdavislight Rad poster!

[Rocket Pool @Rocket_Pool]

Who really controls your DAO?

Rocket Pool has a leading governance system:
+ Permissionless decision-making
+ Robust voting mechanism
+ Decentralised onchain execution

Rocket Pool is the only staking protocol built in alignment with Ethereum's core values since day one

[binji @binji_x]

the eth core devs don’t tweet a lot about just how hard the work that they do is so let’s talk about it:

1. every line of code they merge can move more money than most banks process in a quarter. there is no staging server for that.

2. they swap consensus logic for a 400B + dollar economy without scheduling downtime. ever.

3. they coordinate hundreds of researchers, auditors, and client teams across time zones, cultures, and philosophies, yet ship like a single mind.

4. they do it all in public, with every decision dissected by the loudest peanut gallery on the internet, and still keep the vibe collaborative.

5. they design for attackers who have nine figure incentives and infinite patience. then they sleep anyway.

6. they keep six independent clients in perfect sync so the same block lives at the same height for every node in the world.

7. they turn bleeding edge research into production code while preserving backwards compatibility for machines that went online before defi even had a name.

8. they debug issues that only happen once a year on a single archive node because someone somewhere will rely on that edge case.

9. they write cryptography that must stay unbroken for decades while the math itself evolves beneath their feet.

10.when the upgrade lands smooth the outside world shrugs. inside ethereum we know it was a minor miracle. every successful fork proves that decentralized coordination can outperform the world’s best hierarchies and shows that open internet capital markets are now the default.

thank you, truly.
we owe you everything.

[Stand With Crypto🛡️ @standwithcrypto]

To the Crypto Community:

Thank you for making your voices heard. CLARITY & GENIUS moving through the House with broad support is a reflection of your impact.

Without your calls, emails, & votes, this would not have been possible.

Next: the President signs GENIUS into law.

[thegreg @_thegreg]

clean payments. pure crypto over NFC. nice.

[Tim Robinson @timjrobinson]

I was sick of seeing all these crypto debit cards for wallets, we're supposed to be replacing TradFi not joining them! How hard could it be to do it crypto native anyway?

So I created this - FreePay - the worlds first open source, fee-free payment terminal.

[thegreg @_thegreg]

feels like every month there is a new fastest. Bravo @zksync

[ZKsync @zksync]

On an H100 GPU Airbender reaches ~21.8 MHz base proving speed on a standardized benchmark, followed by 3.45 MHz for SP1 Turbo and 1.1 MHz for RiscZero.

Airbender is ~6x faster than the closest contender.

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Andrej Karpathy's (@karpathy) keynote yesterday at AI Startup School in San Francisco.

[thegreg @_thegreg]

Slowly, then all at once.

[Nate Geraci @NateGeraci]

*Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation* met w/ SEC Crypto Task Force today to discuss tokenization…

That’s right… DTCC & tokenization.

Hope you’re paying attention.

[thegreg @_thegreg]

Useful

[Venice @AskVenice]

ICYMI: You can upscale ANY image in Venice now – not only images generated by Venice

Just drag and drop your image of choice into the prompt field and follow the steps

Tutorial link below 👇

[Succinct @SuccinctLabs]

Real-Time Ethereum Proving is here.

INTRODUCING: SP1 Hypercube

[ZKsync @zksync]

EVM Equivalence on @ZKsync was just the beginning.

For years, we’ve been quietly building toward a better future for all of @Ethereum.

Introducing ⚡️ solx — a powerful new Solidity-to-EVM compiler 🧵

[Stripe @stripe]

Introducing Stablecoin Financial Accounts. Hold a stablecoin balance. Send and receive funds with fiat and crypto rails. Accessible from 101 countries: https://t.co/yXtE9cdeaz.