Aizyclone

[Aizyclone @aizyclone]

@shelbyserves ⚡️

[MetaMask 🦊 @MetaMask]

What countries should we launch MetaMask Card in this year?

Post your flag. 👇

[Lens @LC]

Today, we’re proud to share that @masknetwork will steward the next chapter for Lens, bringing the strongest onchain SocialFi foundation to life through intuitive, consumer-ready applications.

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

In 2026, I plan to be fully back to decentralized social.

If we want a better society, we need better mass communication tools. We need mass communication tools that surface the best information and arguments and help people find points of agreement. We need mass communication tools that serve the user's long-term interest, not maximize short-term engagement. There is no simple trick that solves these problems. But there is one important place to start: more competition. Decentralization is the way to enable that: a shared data layer, with anyone being able to build their own client on top.

In fact, since the start of the year I've been back to decentralized social already. Every post I've made this year, or read this year, I made or read with https://t.co/BJ3J4TvNNu, a multi-client that covers reading and posting to X, Lens, Farcaster and Bluesky (though bluesky has a 300 char limit, so they don't get to see my beautiful long rants).

But crypto social projects has often gone the wrong way. Too often, we in crypto think that if you insert a speculative coin into something, that counts as "innovating", and moves the world forward. Mixing money and social is not inherently wrong: Substack shows that it's possible to create an economy that supports very high-quality content. But Substack is about _subscribing to creators_, not _creating price bubbles around them_. Over the past decade, we have seen many many attempts at incentivizing creators by creating price bubbles around them, and all fail by (i) rewarding not content quality, but pre-existing social capital, and (ii) the tokens all going to zero after one or two years anyway.

Too many people make galaxy-brained arguments that creating new markets and new assets is automatically good because it "elicits information", when the rest of their product development actions clearly betray that they're not actually interested in maximizing people's ability to benefit from that information. That is not Hayekian info-utopia, that is corposlop.

Hence, decentralized social should be run by people who deeply believe in the "social" part, and are motivated first and foremost by solving the problems of social.

The Aave team has done a great job stewarding Lens up to this point. I'm excited about what will happen to Lens over the next year, because I think the new team coming in are people who actually are interested in the "social": even back when the decentralized social space barely existed, they were trying to figure out how to do encrypted tweets.

I plan to post more there this year.

I encourage everyone to spend more time in Lens, Farcaster and the broader decentralized social world this year. We need to move beyond everyone constantly tweeting inside a single global info warzone, and into a reopened frontier, where new and better forms of interaction become possible.

[MetaMask 🦊 @MetaMask]

12 hours left until MetaMask Rewards Season 1 comes to an end!

[Chainlink @chainlink]

ECOSYSTEM MILESTONE:

Powered by Chainlink Data Streams, @HastraFi’s PRIME market—including @Phantom's CASH—has surpassed $350M in TVL, making it the leading lending market on @kamino and one of the largest across @solana.

[Seeker | Solana Mobile @solanamobile]

SKR is live.

The native asset of the Solana Mobile ecosystem has arrived.

Claim. Stake. Build.

The next era of open mobile starts now. 📱🧵

[Aizyclone @aizyclone]

Leveled up in the Great Gas Reckoning with ETHGas! 💪

Kiddo Jack status: 0.1361 ETH gas spent, 25 Beans earned—supporting the Gasless Future!

Claim your Gas ID at https://t.co/mtzFqVLGrw

[Aizyclone @aizyclone]

Summoning my favourite protocols @Uniswap, @aave, @opensea to join the movement!

ETHGas is introducing the Open Gas Initiative, eliminating gas fees from the end-user experience

Learn more: https://t.co/tYu5LJYjXK
https://t.co/qwCeFVoVhG

[ETHGAS @ETHGasOfficial]

Introducing the Open Gas Initiative - a way for protocols to subsidize gas for users, zero-code, for a seamless, frictionless onchain experience.

With OG cohort: @eigencloud, @ether_fi, @pendle_fi, @Velvet_Capital.

👇

[ETHGas Foundation @ETHGasFNDN]

Introducing $GWEI: the governance token for ETHGas.

Built to govern Realtime Ethereum.

[Aizyclone @aizyclone]

The beanstalk is sprouting stronger! ✨

Teaming up with Gassy Jack to climb the beanstalk. Collect beans through quests and unlock epic rewards in our gas-free world. Who's in? 👀

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https://t.co/zqadhWlS5O

[Abstract @AbstractChain]

150M transactions on Abstract and counting.

To date, 61% of these transactions have come directly from AGW users, highlighting a cultural shift towards smart contract accounts.

[Seeker | Solana Mobile @solanamobile]

BREAKING: Solana Mobile is developing a hardware integration kit in partnership with Mediatek, FxTec, and Trustonic to expand to new mobile devices globally 🔥

[Base @base]

This week on Base:

NEWS
■ The Base Ecosystem Job Network is now live, powered by @hirechain_io, with open roles from teams across the Base ecosystem.
■ Base released a new BaseLayer episode featuring @js_horne, co-founder of @zora.
■ @sportfun received an investment from @cbventures' Base Ecosystem Fund, supporting its expansion as a global sports entertainment platform.
■ THE MUSICAL by @sequelmovies was selected for Sundance U.S. Dramatic Competition, becoming the first Base-backed film to premiere at Sundance.
■ Base introduced a new standard for one-step onchain payments, now live on @Shopify using Base Pay and open standards anyone can adopt.
■ Ethereum shipped an upgrade highlighting PeerDAS (EIP-7594), giving rollups cheaper blob fees and more room to scale.
■ @WilsonCusack shared the Associated Account spec (ERC-8092), proposing new primitives for multi-address onchain accounts.

LAUNCHES
■ @virtuals_io launched the Base–Solana Bridge inside Virtuals, allowing Solana assets to directly enter the agent economy for trading, ownership, and launches.
■ @flaunchgg introduced WARP, allowing users to bridge Solana tokens to Base while keeping 100% of fee earnings.
■ @RelayProtocol added the ability to send SOL between Solana and Base.
■ @grizzle_art brought Trencher to Base.
■ @withportrait made Portrait free for everyone, removing the registration fee and opening access to its onchain identity platform.
■ @districtxyz announced a $1M Builder Fund, the core engine behind its Flywheel to put builders in control.
■ @AtownBrown rolled out creator selfies with @jessepollak, unlocking new AI-powered content features and the ability to coin outputs against any creator token on @zora via @tryEmerge.
■ @movingcastles_ launched RAT . FUN
■ @gauntlet_xyz integrated Gauntlet USDC Prime into @wirexapp business accounts on @Morpho's Base deployment, bringing DeFi yield to business treasuries.
■ @JIMMYEDGAR released Shards, a generative onchain collection exploring blockchain memory through browser-native, permanently encoded works.
■ @relaybyjenzy announced cross-border money movement infrastructure, focused on faster and cheaper payments across Africa.
■ @Shatterpointgg kicked off Season 2, featuring competitive gameplay, leaderboard progression via @KaitoAI, and onchain item trading through @OpenSea.
■ @horizenglobal launched its mainnet as a high-performance appchain on Base, enabling more privacy for builders.
■ @rifthq enabled native BTC / ERC20 trading, bringing Bitcoin liquidity onchain with low gas costs.
■ @anoma went live, bringing native intents and programmable privacy to improve UX for decentralized applications.
■ @Veildotcash opened deposits to all Base addresses, expanding access to compliant privacy using deposit screening from @0xbowio.
■ @MFTMKKUS opened the physical claim for Lucky Cat Zombie NFTs, with physical card packs available for all minters and a signed Murakami collectible for full set holders.
■ @Persona_Journey shared a creator-focused update, highlighting Imagine, its gen-AI tool for creating assets with native Base branding.
■ @ashnichrist shared early creator monetization results from @baseapp, highlighting new opportunities for creators posting onchain.

MINI APPS
■ @joinbond was featured as the Base mini app spotlight, letting fans lock refundable stakes to support creators while creators earn onchain yield.
■ @Wishwish_art launched in beta on @baseapp, building an onchain popmart for artist-led IP with AR, VR, and widget-based utility.
■ @MetaLend_DeFi launched its mini app inside @baseapp, allowing users to access multiple lending pools with a single deposit and automated allocation.
■ @WowmaxExchange launched its mini app inside @baseapp, offering best-price swaps, cross-chain swaps across 20+ networks, and copy trading.

[Abstract @AbstractChain]

Two questions:

1. Do you like Abstract?

2. What's your AGW address?

[Chainlink @chainlink]

JUST ANNOUNCED: @BackedFi, the tokenization platform behind @xStocksFi, has partnered with Chainlink to power the newly launched xBridge.

https://t.co/dS58UoX2NU

Via CCIP, xBridge now enables transfers of xStocks' 50+ tokenized stocks across Ethereum & Solana.

[Chainlink @chainlink]

⬡ Chainlink Adoption Update ⬡

This week, there were 18 integrations of the Chainlink standard across 6 services and 15 different chains: AB Blockchain, Aptos, Arbitrum, Base, Bittensor, BNB Chain, Dusk, Ethereum, Etherlink, Hedera, Injective EVM, Mantle, Memento, Optimism, and XDC.

New integrations include @ABDAO_Global, @OfficialApeXdex, @Aptos, @Bedrock_DeFi, @bittensor, @Brickken, @DuskFoundation, @etherlink, Global Layer One, @hedera, @injective, @Memento_Bc, @opinionlabsxyz, @Overtime_io, and @XDCNetwork.

Explore the complete Chainlink ecosystem: https://t.co/LDZpTVgZbK

[Aizyclone @aizyclone]

I just purchased an asset on the https://t.co/g5DZqoh3PW marketplace!

[Aizyclone @aizyclone]

I just purchased an asset on the https://t.co/g5DZqoh3PW marketplace!

[Ethereum @ethereum]

December’s Fusaka upgrade is a major step in Ethereum's roadmap.

It's proof that Ethereum can evolve responsibly, scaling to meet global demand without compromising decentralization.

Learn how Fusaka will unlock the next wave of growth: https://t.co/3TOda5KjY2