@SiamKidd would love one of your good old-style macro YouTube updates on overall crypto, stocks, gold & silver, Fed, easing — what’s next 😁🙏🏻 it’s been too long 😅.
🚀 The last 8 months at Ridges have been a blur. Since May, we’ve shipped
- Open source agent competitions topping SWE-Bench with OSS models
- Mine with Google login, no keys necessary
- Mixed evaluations - agents running on both fix and create style software engineering benchmarks
- Ridges Beta v1 👀
- Lots of under-the-hood breakthroughs like runner sandboxing, spam detection, scaling evals beyond 1k per day
And much, much more.
Each of these moments have been pivotal in setting up for the next - but this is just the start, and we’re super excited to show you what’s next.
The biggest news in Ridges history drops in two weeks. Mark your calendars. 📅
₿REAKING: NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang says, “Bitcoin mining is taking excess energy and storing it into a new form. It's called currency. And you take that currency wherever you like. So you took energy from one place and now you've transported it everywhere.”
Welcome to 2026! Milady is back.
Ethereum did a lot in 2025: gas limits increased, blob count increased, node software quality improved, zkEVMs blasted through their performance milestones, and with zkEVMs and PeerDAS ethereum made its largest step toward being a fundamentally new and more powerful kind of blockchain (more on this later)
But we have a challenge: Ethereum needs to do more to meet its own stated goals. Not the quest of "winning the next meta" regardless of whether it's tokenized dollars or political memecoins, not arbitrarily convincing people to help us fill up blockspace to make ETH ultrasound again, but the mission:
To build the world computer that serves as a central infrastructure piece of a more free and open internet.
We're building decentralized applications. Applications that run without fraud, censorship or third-party interference. Applications that pass the walkaway test: they keep running even if the original developers disappear. Applications where if you're a user, you don't even notice if Cloudflare goes down - or even if all of Cloudflare gets hacked by North Korea. Applications whose stability transcends the rise and fall of companies, ideologies and political parties. And applications that protect your privacy. All this - for finance, and also for identity, governance and whatever other civilizational infrastructure people want to build.
These properties sound radical, but we must remember that a generation ago any wallet, kitchen appliance, book or car would fulfill every single one of them. Today, all of the above are by default becoming subscription services, consigning you to permanent dependence on some centralized overlord.
Ethereum is the rebellion against this.
To achieve this, it needs to be (i) usable, and usable at scale, and (ii) actually decentralized. This needs to happen at both (a) the blockchain layer, including the software we use to run and talk to the blockchain, and (b) the application layer. All of these pieces must be improved - they are already being improved, but they must be improved more.
Fortunately, we have powerful tools on our side - but we need to apply them, and we will.
Wishing everyone an exciting 2026.
Milady.
Today we filed the initial S-1 for Grayscale Bittensor Trust (ticker: $GTAO) with the @SECGov
This milestone is the next step in converting $GTAO to an ETP, which would make it the first $TAO ETP in the U.S. and another first for Grayscale.
Read the S-1: https://t.co/A9hmXytO1F