A Danish scientist counted bugs on the same windshield, same road, same conditions, every year for 20 years. By year 20, 80% of the insects were gone.
In Germany, a group of volunteer bug scientists did something even bigger. They set traps in 63 nature reserves, not farms, protected land, and weighed everything they caught. Same traps, same method, 27 years straight. The total weight of flying bugs dropped 76%. In midsummer, when insects should be peaking, it was 82% gone. A follow-up in 2020 and 2021 checked again. No recovery.
In the UK, they literally ask drivers to count splats on their license plates after a trip. The 2024 count came back 63% lower than just 2021. Three years.
A 2020 study pulled together 166 surveys from 1,676 locations around the world. Land insects are disappearing at roughly 9% every ten years.
Here’s where it hits your plate. About 75% of the food crops we grow depend on insects to pollinate them, everything from apples to almonds to coffee. One 2025 study modeled what a full pollinator collapse would look like: food prices jump 30%, the global economy takes a $729 billion hit, and the world loses 8% of its Vitamin A supply.
Birds are already feeling it. North America has lost 2.9 billion birds since 1970. A study from just weeks ago found half of 261 bird species on the continent are now in serious decline, and the losses are speeding up in farming regions. The birds that eat insects lost 2.9 billion. The birds that don’t eat insects? They gained 26 million. That ratio tells the whole story.
One of the German researchers behind the 27-year study drives a Land Rover. He says it has the aerodynamics of a refrigerator. It stays clean now.
It is with sorrow and concern that I learned of the recent attacks against various communities in Nigeria leading to a heavy loss of life. I express my prayerful closeness to all the victims of violence and terrorism. I likewise hope that the competent Authorities will continue to work with determination to ensure the safety and protection of the life of every citizen. #PrayTogether
Over the years, President Xi has zero personal scandals, not even the anti-China media have produced anything.
The biggest scandal involving past and present US presidents?
Rape, dismembering infants and ritual killings, as alleged in the Epstein files.
So China is the bad guy according to Western propaganda, right?
Task 1 @octra's Public Testnet: Send Transactions
Follow "Task 1" section on my github to complete the "Send Transactions" task on Octra testnet:
🔗https://t.co/Bm1CGz6UcB
Added an alternative custom UI script for better testnet experience
ZK is the endgame.
Hyli: 🍊
At their core, L2s are basically L1s that happen to have a (zk) bridge connecting them to another chain. Functionally, there’s not much of a difference.
That’s where @hyli_org comes in:
They're making things simpler and more efficient by rethinking the whole setup from the ground up.
Hyli is a new proof-powered L1 built to support the next generation of decentralized apps not by adding more complexity, but by reducing it to the core idea: proofs are everything.
Normally, chains rebuild entire proof systems, runtimes, and execution layers, which is very complicated
In the case of HYLI proofs are the proofs of everything we do
Intro to Hyli
Hyli (formerly Hylé, from the Greek word for matter) got a fresh rebrand, simpler, sharper, and less ambiguous.
It blends native proof verification directly in the protocol with a superfast data availability layer, all powered by the Autobahn consensus algorithm.
Born in 2023, right after Devcon Istanbul, Hyli was founded by:
Sylve Chevet (CEO)
Lancelot de Ferrière (CTO)
— both previously worked on the NFT protocol @briqNFT .
(Sylve is rocking the briq pfp, btw )
Oh yeah, the orange theme? Totally intentional. You’ll see oranges, tangerines, and citrusy vibes all over their posts. It’s the aesthetic now.
And behind all this? A deep love for ZK proofs.
The Hyli Team
A fairly small team with less than 10 people and 5 engineers because the scope being built here is actually very limited and defined.
USE CASE OF HYLI
Blazing-fast data availability & sequencing
Native proof verification baked into consensus
That's it. With those two pillars solid, you can start building real applications, test them in the wild, and improve as you go.
Why Hyli’s Different
Most blockchains are either too slow or fast but not interoperable. And if you want to build on them, good luck, it’s a mess.
But with ZKVMs, things change.
Now, you don’t need to build an entire blockchain anymore. Just write your app in Rust, run it on a server, generate a proof, and send that to the chain that is all.
It's a whole new approach that opens up a wider design space for applications, no longer confined to smart contracts.
No more smart contract constraints. Just apps that prove what they’ve done.
HOW APPLICATIONS WORK ON HYLI
On Ethereum, when you interact with a smart contract, you're essentially sending a transaction that tells Ethereum, "Hey, run this computation for me." Ethereum executes it, updates the application state, and returns the result.
Hyli flips that model.
On Hyli, transactions are proofs.
You don’t ask the chain to compute, you compute off-chain, generate a proof of the new state, and submit both the proof and the state to Hyli.
If the proof checks out, Hyli verifies it and updates the state. Simple as that.
Users generate their proofs, submit them, and Hyli does one thing: verify.
Proofs handle execution. The blockchain simply verifies. That’s the magic of ZK.
I’m super hyped to try out the testnets and get a feel for building and testing verifiable apps myself. There’s so much to learn, and honestly, Hyli makes it feel accessible.
It’s clean. It’s simple. It’s efficient. The team clearly gets it, and the way they’re building feels genuinely refreshing.
Hyli = highly simple, highly usable, highly efficient.
They’re building the trust and privacy infra of the future through provable applications.
Follow team here and also don't forget to stay active on all socials to get a code to try out what the team built or are building themselves.
@sylvechv@wraitii@Cetrbt@AlexAsteure@agathetaboo@mtteom_@maxgtph
Also, their Pinterest is cool. I already adopted one of their pictures as my header, and I’ll definitely be grabbing more whenever I post about Hyli.
So yeah... proofs, proofs, proofs.
Get familiar.
Get verifiable.
Get Oranjed by Hyli
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