Five former Ethereum Foundation researchers just launched @ethlabs_org, an independent non-profit R&D lab for Ethereum.
Behind the new org: Ansgar Dietrichs, Barnabé Monnot, Caspar Schwarz-Schilling, Josh Rudolf, and Julian Ma
Backers: @BitMNR, @Sharplink, and Consensys founder
@ethereumJoseph
The thesis: ETH as the world's universal onchain settlement layer.
Read more here:
https://t.co/R3Xwv914UX
Most people in crypto can't explain what Sky Ecosystem actually does.
$14.5B+ in Protocol Collateral. A NASDAQ-listed company deploying capital through it. The first structured finance credit rating assigned to an onchain protocol.
This article explains all of it ↓
David Sacks was one of the first people to get a full readout from the White House after the Fable ban. He went on the All-In podcast this week and told the story from the inside. It is not the story anyone is telling.
Here is what actually happened.
Dario went to Washington in April and told national security officials he had built a cyber weapon. He spiked cortisol levels across the entire administration. Got everyone focused.
Then Anthropic quietly expanded the Mythos preview to over 50 companies without telling the White House. According to the Washington Post, at least one of those companies was flagged as a national security concern.
That was the predicate.
Then Fable launched. Mythos with guardrails. Anthropic's own largest partner started testing those guardrails and found a jailbreak. They escalated to the White House. The administration called Dario directly. A cabinet secretary picked up the phone personally.
It should have been a five minute call.
Instead, Dario argued. He said the jailbreak was not serious. Then he published a blog post trying to distinguish minor jailbreaks from major ones. This is the man who had just told Washington he built a cyber weapon.
Sacks said it plainly. The trust is gone. And once you are in one of these situations it is always harder to get out than it was to avoid getting in.
Anthropic spent years building credibility as the AI safety company.
They burned it in a single week by refusing a phone call.
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zkSync founder: “Ethereum is the only option” for institutions
“Tempo is a venture by Stripe. Obviously Stripe, as a large payments processor, wants to have their own network . . . And of course, all of [these organizations] will try to get everyone else on their network. But guess what? That’s precisely the reason why it’s never going to happen.”
Alex Gluchowski explains:
“Yes, Stripe wants everything to happen on Tempo, but JP Morgan wants everything to happen on JP Morgan Chain. And Circle wants everything to happen on Arc. And so on and so forth. They will never agree. The large players will never agree to build on the infrastructure of another large player. This is why Ethereum is the only option — it’s the only way forward as the neutral infrastructure that everyone can agree on.”
Source: @therollupco@zksync@gluk64
Read our report "Why Permissionless Infrastructure Wins" below 👇
WATCH NOW: "I'm Buying Bitcoin Like Crazy" - @GrantCardone
0:00 Coming Up
01:28 Big Bank: "You'll Disrupt The Industry"
03:29 Why The REIT Model Is Broken In 2026
05:13 Starwood + Bitcoin Could've Avoided Gating
06:48 Three Bitcoin Per Apartment: The Hybrid Deal
08:25 Bitcoin Crashed, Competitors Fled. Good.
09:00 Bitcoin's Biggest Challenge: Explaining It
12:29 The $115 Speaking Gig That Got Me Into Bitcoin
14:40 Bitcoin Should Be $150K to $180K Today
15:53 Rising Costs, Frozen Rents: Real Estate Squeeze
19:39 Institutions Will Adopt BTC Real Estate Hybrids
20:50 "Saylor Called My First Deal A P*ssy"
🎙️ New @Edge_Pod
🔐 Ethereum Is A Vault, ETH Is The Lock: A Framework for ETH's Fair Value, Today and By 2030
0:00 - Intro
2:51 - Tom’s role investing at Varys
3:32 - DCF is the wrong way to value ETH
6:16 - Is Ethereum winning?
11:40 - Fees are friction, not how we value ETH
16:12 - Can Ethereum have its cake and eat it too?
19:45 - If Ethereum is the vault, ETH is the lock
23:58 - Why stablecoin numbers look bullish
27:04 - Ethereum must succeed, or crypto fails
28:59 - Comparison to Linux + DTCC is wrong
32:55 - Importance as trustware producing blocks
35:40 - Underestimating the L1 scaling
39:41 - Stablecoin issuers still rely on Ethereum
42:11 - The framework is for ETH, not DeFi tokens
45:15 - $20k - $50k price once liq hits $750B
47:33 - How Tom gets to a FMV today of $6.9k
52:59 - 2030 base case ($55k) vs bull case ($138K)
53:57 - Closing
🙏 Thanks to @VarysCapital Head of Venture, @dunleavy89, for joining us!
October 2021
🚨Elon offered to sell Tesla stock and donate $6 BILLION to the UN World Food Programme to “Eliminate World Hunger”.
BUT! … Only if they provided full public/open source accounting so everyone could see exactly where the money went.
They did not accept.👀
Anyone shocked?!?
🧵Juneteenth: No, America Wasn’t Built by Slaves—Slavery Held Us Back
Let’s talk about what really made America rich, and why the Left keeps lying about it.
Hint: it wasn’t forced labor. It was freedom.