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Crypto Research Engineer | Data Scientist | ML for Blockchain & DeFi | B.S. in Electrical & Telecom Engineering | Driving innovation in crypto

[AFP+BTC @afpbtc]

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What did I learn from Polkadot and Cardano?
Don't marry a founder

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

I updated my 2023 roadmap diagram to overlay where the items that were there sit in the current Strawmap ( https://t.co/I35mrXutP2 ).

In general, a lot of overlap, but:

* Some things got reshuffled in order (eg. quantum safety up-prioritized)
* Some things deprioritized (eg. VDFs; many EVM improvements)
* Some things replaced with superior constructions (eg. Verkle -> unified BT -> PBT; state expiry -> new state types)

What's most striking, however, is that some completely new things are in the strawmap that are NOT in this diagram, because they were not in the 2023 roadmap at all. These reflect changing priorities.

Notably:

* First-class attention to strong privacy. This covers: keyed nonces and recent roots, aspects of FOCIL, lean privacy pool & wormholes
* Aggressive scaling in the context of post-quantum. This covers: leanSPHINCS signatures and aggregation, zkzk frames (see https://t.co/ibrOpMxMfO )
* Lean-ification of the spec, to assist in formal verification (full FV of everything is only possible because of modern AI)
* Blob and gas futures (this idea just didn't exist back in 2023)
* Native rollups (SNARKs were nowhere near mature enough to even consider this back in 2023)
* A more open design space for the "future of the EVM". zkzk frames already implies that the protocol will expose to users some ISA that's not the EVM - current leading candidates are leanISA and RISC-V. These ISAs are more simple, modern and efficient than the EVM. Once they're there, why not expose them to developers everywhere? (And then, why not turn the EVM into being an IR on top of that ISA, instead of an enshrined feature massively complicating the base protocol?) Though much of the deeper exploration here is too early even for the strawmap.
* New state types are not just a replacement for expiry, they're a fundamentally different paradigm to how Ethereum does scaling

A common theme in scaling, found in both state types and zkzk frames (both new ideas), is that instead of trying to maximally scale ALL ethereum activity, we try to create specialized mechanisms that have more restrictive properties that make them more scaling-friendly, while supporting the heaviest loads incurred by users and applications today (eg. token transfers, swaps) and tomorrow (eg. privacy protocols).

The other common theme is treating STARKs and AI-accelerated FV as first-class objects, that we are okay betting the technical future of Ethereum on. There are recursive STARKs in many layers of the protocol, one particular primitive (the "aggregate to union verified dependencies" primitive) is expected to be used in *three* places in the protocol: EL, CL and DL. This can only be safe with formal verification, which is itself only feasible with modern AI tools.

In general, many steps forward in maturity. And a huge amount of hard work by many dozens of Ethereum researchers and developers on all of these features.

Ethereum will be quantum-safe. Ethereum will put users' privacy first. Ethereum will be secure. Ethereum will be censorship-resistant. Ethereum will be highly performant and scalable while satisfying the above. And Ethereum will be Lean.

[Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph]

⚡️ JUST IN: Vitalik Buterin unveils Ethereum’s updated roadmap, prioritizing quantum safety, privacy, native rollups, scalability and a leaner protocol.

[The Bitcoin Historian @pete_rizzo_]

JUST IN: $1 TRILLION STANDARD CHARTERED BANK EXPLAINS WHY #BITCOIN IS GOING TO $500,000 N 2 MINUTES

"WHEN BTC HITS $500k, YOU’LL HAVE THINGS IN YOUR PHONE THAT JUST LOOK LIKE A NORMAL APP THAT WILL BE BUILT ON BLOCKCHAIN"

"EVERY ASSET – CRYPTO, STABLECOINS, STOCKS, BONDS, MONEY MARKET FUNDS – WILL BE ON CHAIN"

"IT WILL BE FASTER, 24/7, INSTANTANEOUS"

THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM OF TODAY WILL LOOK SLOW, EXPENSIVE, AND "OLD FASHIONED"

MASSIVE SHIFT IS COMING. HERE WE GO 🚀

[The Bitcoin Historian @pete_rizzo_]

$1 TRILLION ANTHROPIC CEO WAS JUST PUBLICLY CHALLENGED TO HACK A WALLET HOLDING OVER $6,000,000 WORTH OF #BITCOIN

BITGO CEO PUT 100 BTC IN A WALLET AND SAID:

“ENOUGH WITH THE ‘WE CREATED A HACKING MONSTER’ GAMES”

“DO IT FOR REAL. GO GET IT.”

DAYS LATER, THE BTC IS STILL UNTOUCHED

AI CANNOT HACK THE STRONGEST MONETARY NETWORK IN THE WORLD 🔥

[AFP+BTC @afpbtc]

@FareaNFts @Moshaikh gyp

[AFP+BTC @afpbtc]

Calling a scheduled debt rollover a “black swan” is wild. That’s not a surprise event — it’s literally on the calendar and has been for years. Yes, refinancing at higher rates matters, but markets price known risks long before viral threads discover them.

Macro isn’t a thriller movie script. It’s messy, probabilistic, and driven by dozens of variables — not one scary number and a countdown clock.

And anyone promising they’ll call “the exact bottom”? That’s not analysis. That’s marketing.

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@CryptoNobler Why are you lying?

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@NoLimitGains fake

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When Governance Fails: Decision Boundaries in Hybrid DAO–Company Systems https://t.co/g4hweShOcv

[AFP+BTC @afpbtc]

The situation around Aave illustrates a fundamental point about decentralized systems:

Blockchain does not eliminate politics.
It externalizes them.
Governance is not moral consensus.
It is the allocation and exercise of power through timing, delegation, and control of narrative.

The assumption that code could replace political structures
was the original design illusion.

[Coinbase 🛡️ @coinbase]

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Together we’ll expand to new ecosystems using battle-hardened infrastructure.

[AFP+BTC @afpbtc]

@Plasma Hi. What function does the Plasma token serve in the system?

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@BitPopulous Hi Steve

Did Populous die?
Are they working on any new projects?

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@ReggieMiddleton Hi Reggie

Did Veritaseum die?
Are they working on any new projects?

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@bitfinex @mehler @stable Yesterday I checked my Bitfinex account; I hadn't visited it since 2017. I found four years' worth of salary and recovered it without any problems. Excellent Bitfinex!

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@arnau4bet me encanta tu trabajo

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@billyjhaay Seriously, where?