Revolut handed over passports, selfies, addresses AND BTC transaction history to scammers posing as officials. Zero verification on a "government" request. The attack surface isn't your seed phrase anymore, it's your KYC file. Rethink self-custody yet? #Bitcoin
The crypto market never sleeps and neither do the opportunities. Every day brings new catalysts that could flip everything. Are you paying attention? #Crypto
Fed hike is basically priced in at this point 🚀 The real question isn't the rate itself but what it says about the economy underneath. Feels like markets are already looking 3 steps ahead.
Are you buying the dip or waiting it out? #Crypto
yo the crypto space moves so fast, blink and you miss three narratives lol. barely caught up on today's headlines and my feed is already onto the next thing 😅 anyone else feeling the whiplash lately? #crypto
Wild report dropping 👀 Turns out NK operatives are recruiting foreign devs as fronts to sneak into US tech jobs. The infiltration game just leveled up... makes you wonder how many crypto teams have unknowingly hired one. Who's actually vetting properly? #CryptoSecurity
Honestly, the daily crypto recaps are starting to feel like a soap opera at this point. Every morning there's a new plot twist, a rug, or some regulator swinging a hammer. Hard to keep up but I can't look away. Anyone else addicted? #crypto
Very valuable thoughts on Stonk and Pump below. Highly recommend you read this from Doug.
Largely agree with it all.
Last cycle I had a life changing trade with SOL, and want to see Solana thrive, so feel it’s only fair to pay it back with some support for a protocol that has a huge opportunity to change the culture, create more winners, drive community and an onchain wealth effect, and help all assets get more volume on the chain.
Memecoin trading and trenching is something that’s not going away whatever your thoughts on it.
Stonk is a fair launch, no VCs platform that launched from zero, gives all of its fees back to holders of STONK and its ecosystem tokens, and turns speculative degen energy, through a better model (more
PvE, longer holding times) into something more productive, and unlike Pump everyone has a chance to share in the upside from the beginning.
If you believe that this cycle we will see flows being more concentrated into assets with revenue, PMF, and superior tokenomics (buybacks and burns), then this is currently the cheapest asset on the market that fits this profile.
It’s now survived 3 major vamp attacks in 3 days and it is still at the highs. Don’t think that this won’t go unnoticed.
Wild seeing Amodei, Altman AND Musk actually agree on something 👀 When the people building the rockets say "maybe pump the brakes," you kinda have to listen. Curious how this ripples into AI x crypto plays 🚀 Bullish or nah? #AI
Not gonna lie, half the "news" in crypto feels like noise these days… but every cycle the skeptics get proven wrong eventually. Building through the chop is where real conviction shows. Still stacking. Anyone else? #Crypto
Sent another 64 ETH to the Animal Welfare Fund.
I encourage others to think and act more in support of our non-human cousins too! The extreme suffering we're imposing on them in the billions is not something we talk about often, but it continues to be one of the larger blights on humanity.
And I'm getting optimistic that this century we can finally end it. Farming practices are improving, synthetic alternatives are improving.
Also, in my recent experience, good old low-tech vegetarian and vegan food has improved massively worldwide over the last ten years; I encourage anyone who has tried it long before and given up to take second look; there are far more healthier and tastier options today than the "pasta and salad" you would often get ten years ago.
This is the new EF Mandate.
For many of you, the contents should be no surprise, and a clarification along the lines that we have been going and thinking for the past few months. But the clarification is nevertheless worth making.
Ethereum is a unique object and has a unique role in the world. Its role is to be a sanctuary technology, to preserve technological self-sovereignty, to enable cooperation without coercion, domination or rugpulling, and to provide an escape hatch, to ensure that no single person, organization or ideology's victory in cyberspace can be total.
The Ethereum Foundation is a steward of Ethereum - the original steward, and today, the steward specifically dedicated to preserving and expanding the above aspects of Ethereum. This means a heavy emphasis on CROPS (censorship and capture resistance, open source, privacy, security), both at the protocol layer, and at the access layer, user-facing applications and tools that we create or contribute to.
There are things that we do in Ethereum because we believe that they are valuable for the underlying goals that we have for Ethereum. There are things that we do not do because from the perspective of our values we find them uninteresting (or worse, harmful). But there are also things that we do not do because while they are useful, they are not our role.
At the Ethereum protocol layer, we focus on decentralization, verifiability, inclusion guarantees, protocol liveness, security and privacy first and foremost. We also value capabilities (eg. L1 scale, account abstraction, perhaps some forms of in-protocol aggregation), particularly because improvements in these capabilities better enable users to properly benefit from Ethereum's CROPS properties and displace the need for higher-layer intermediaries that might weaken the extent to which Ethereum's properties carry over into the full stack.
We also believe that the Ethereum protocol must strive to pass the walkaway test. "We do X to specialize to serve the use cases of today, if more use cases appear later, we will continue to keep adding more EIPs for them later" is logic fit for many other blockchains whose names you hear often on this forum, but we do not believe it is logic fit for a decentralization-first blockchain like Ethereum.
At the application layer, we focus on making "the zero option" - user experience that goes hard on ensuring security and privacy, avoiding dependence on intermediaries, and respecting the user's agency - as high quality as possible. We see this as complementary to work in the Ethereum ecosystem that "goes broad", starting from the world that it exists, and brings it onchain and improves its properties over time. Such work has its natural home outside the EF. We intend to be supportive of such efforts. We believe that the two are complementary: tools that are developed within the EF can be adopted by anyone, including partially, and even partial adoption that improves people's security, privacy and agency is a good thing.
But the form of user experience that is more heavily insistent on CROPS properties is where we want the EF to develop its center of expertise. This does not mean shrinking from the hard questions. We believe in a vision of self-sovereignty that protects users, and does not leave users in the cold to face environments where they lose their life savings if they make a mistake, and click "yes" on a confirmation screen by accident two seconds after. But such protection must be designed based on a philosophical baseline of empowering the user, not empowering centralized organizations that claim to act in the user's name. This quadrant of design space - caring about users' (including non-experts') well-being and safety, and yet insistent on doing this in a way compatible with their agency and freedom, is underserved (not just in crypto, but in the world). We wish to use Ethereum as a platform to build out and showcase this quadrant, and ideally work with others to expand its reach over time.
This is also a new chapter in how we see our position in the world. We must see ourselves not just as the Ethereum community, but also as maintainers of the Ethereum tool within what you might call the CROPS community or the sanctuary tech community, or a dozen of other words that have for a long time been used by people with similar values to us but far outside Ethereum. This means open-mindedness to new conceptions of what things in the world are our natural allies.
Ethereum is not the world. Ethereum is a specific object in the world that is here to have specific properties. The Ethereum Foundation is a specific organization within Ethereum - one steward, not the sole one.
I encourage all to read the mandate in detail; it includes concrete examples of how we intend to deal with the challenges and nuances of these ideas. We are doubling down on Ethereum and are excited about its next chapter.
i am begging you, PLEASE make a genuinely high quality game that incorporates crypto.
not a token with a game duct taped to it. not another idle clicker. not some shit i play for 4 days because there’s an airdrop.
give me a game i actually WANT to waste 6 hours a day on.
give me insanely rare items to hunt. real progression. difficult grinds. player trading. an actual economy. items that people give a shit about owning.
then build aggressive burn mechanics into everything.
crafting burns items. upgrading burns items. rerolling stats burns items. entering certain areas burns resources. repairing gear burns resources. prestige burns shit. make the economy constantly consume what players are producing instead of infinitely inflating until everything is worthless.
i want to log in every morning wondering if today is the day i find some 1/1000 piece of shit that makes me lose my mind.
crypto should make the game MORE interesting, not be the entire reason the game exists.
is WEB3 gaming really too much to ask for?
Though honestly, the real magic isn't ETH itself—it's the composability. Aave lending into Curve LPs into Pendle yield strips. Try building that on Bitcoin L1.
Bitcoin taught me scarcity. Ethereum taught me that money can think. One is bedrock, the other is a restless mind building cathedrals on it. I hold BTC, but I respect what Vitalik unleashed: programmable trust. #Ethereum#Bitcoin
Metaplanet slashing the Series 10 pool to 188.2M shares wipes ~$220M in potential dilution. That's a 41% haircut to exec rewards - rare to see a BTC treasury firm tighten alignment like this. Signal or pressure play? #Bitcoin
Red days like this remind me why I got into crypto in the first place. Not for the green candles, but to learn what I actually believe when everything bleeds. BTC under 77k, ZEC leading the pain… conviction gets tested here.
Still holding? #Bitcoin