New Episode 🎙️
1. Better L2 composability
2. More power
3. Lower costs
That's what the The Ethereum Economic Zone (EEZ) aims to bring to the rollup ecosystem.
Check out this exclusive fireside with @VitalikButerin and a follow up conversation with Gnosis Co-Founder @tw_tter.
Topics:
- What is @etheconomiczone
- Synchronous rollup composability
- Real-time proving & interop
- Apps => App Chains
- Shared liquidity across L2s
- Cross-chain MEV
- Privacy networks & oracle chains
- Enterprise & state use cases
- Eth as the internet operating system
LPs, your pool token just got a new use case.
The first Balancer LP (BPT) as collateral integration is live for the $AUSD/ $USDC/ $USDT pool on @monad.
Powered by @eulerfinance as the lending layer, curated by @alphagrowth1.
Here's how it works 🧵
Riveting, extraordinary and brutally honest speech by Mark Carney, Canada's prime minister. God, I wish we would have European leaders like this.
Here's an excerpt:
In 1978, the Czech dissident Václav Havel, later president, wrote an essay called “The Power of the Powerless,” and in it he asked a simple question: how did the communist system sustain itself?
And his answer began with a greengrocer.
Every morning, the shopkeeper places a sign in his window: “Workers of the world unite.” He doesn’t believe in it. No one does. But he places the sign anyway to avoid trouble, to signal compliance, to get along. And because every shopkeeper on every street does the same, the system persists — not through violence alone, but through the participation of ordinary people in rituals they privately know to be false.
Havel called this living within a lie. The system’s power comes not from its truth, but from everyone’s willingness to perform as if it were true. And its fragility comes from the same source. When even one person stops performing, when the greengrocer removes his sign, the illusion begins to crack.
Friends, it is time for companies and countries to take their signs down.
For decades, countries like Canada prospered under what we called the rules-based international order. We join its institutions, we praised its principles, we benefited from its predictability. And because of that, we could pursue values-based foreign policies under its protection.
We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false, that the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient, that trade rules were enforced asymmetrically, and we knew that international law applied with varied rigor, depending on the identity of the accused or the victim.
This fiction was useful, and American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security, and support for frameworks for resolving disputes.
So we placed the sign in the window. We participated in the rituals, and we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality.
This bargain no longer works.
Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.
Read/listen in full: https://t.co/1Cxm0Kxz7a
New Episode: What will Quantum Computing Change for Crypto?
John Lilic (Investor and early advisor @0xPolygon & @Consensys and physicist Stefano Gogioso warn that quantum computing could shatter Bitcoin and Ethereum by 2030, with "harvest now, decrypt later" attacks already compromising privacy coins.
They introduced @StefanoGogioso's startup @nvrlcl's "Quantum Money" a revolutionary digital cash that relies on physics, not blockchain consensus, to prevent double-spending.
Topics
00:00 Intro
03:00 @johnlilic's Quantum Awakening
08:00 Defining Quantum Computing
13:30 Logical Qubits Explained
18:15 Crypto’s "Woeful" Readiness
23:30 "Harvest Now" Threat
28:45 Monero's Privacy Risk
33:15 What is Quantum Money?
40:00 Investment & Hedging
Episode Links🔗👇
dear old friend,
if you are going to devconnect tomorrow, please know this:
there are no audiences here, only authors.
ethereum is not the work of a few names, it never has been.
it is the accumulation of thousands of choices made by people who cared enough to build something better than what they were handed.
so: when you walk into these rooms, talk to everyone.
greet the newcomer the same way you greet the legend.
do not build pedestals in your mind.
the people you admire started exactly where you are.
the next breakthrough might come from the person sitting alone on the edge of a hallway conversation.
devconnect is a place where hierarchies should fall away.
a place where the future is not handed down from a stage but shaped in circles, in questions, in unexpected collisions between strangers.
no one here is above you.
no one here is below you.
you are all ethereum.
every single one of you.
the protocol is shaped as much by your curiosity, your conversations, your courage to share an idea, as it is by any upgrade or proposal.
ethereum becomes what its people dare to make it.
this week, remember that your presence is not passive.
you carry the same power as anyone else in this city.
the power to start something.
the power to change something.
the power to make this ecosystem stand tall.
talk openly.
share freely.
listen patiently.
build with people who think differently than you.
treat every encounter like it might become the doorway to a new chapter, because it often is.
you are not here to observe the story of ethereum.
you are here to write it.
good luck and much love.
your number one fan,
binji
@ad_git@smykjain@0xfluid Thank you but...
Also this link doesn't work... (unable to accept invite - tried with a fresh Discord account)
Spark Ignition was just first (minor) phase of Airdrop.
The chunck of the airdrop is claimable till December.
(already discussed in dms with @smykjain)
@smykjain@0xfluid@ad_git Is there another way to access support than Discord?
Error messages (here on newly implemented Spark claiming) still refer to a non-active Discord link...
@sparkfinance@pendle_fi Unfortunately you forgot some of your most faithful users, those that used Spark via a smart contract wallet.
It is only possible to claim SPK from an EOA, it should have been possible to claim SPK into a smart contract wallet from any EOA.
https://t.co/9ZgT84GaLY
@sparkfinance This is disappointing.
Smart contract wallets should be the new standard, and you're forgoing users that accessed Spark via a smart contract wallet...
/cc @Hexonaut@MonetSupply@SparkIntern
https://t.co/5WWneX9Aci
@fabdarice How much of it is investors investing in kind, i.e. big ETH holders converting into shares.
(So they are already in the fiat world with one foot and can sell at a premium?)
@smykjain@0xfluid
Please make sure your users can find support. Discord invite link on fluid dot io has not been working for weeks now.
Also legitimate long time users are thrown off the server without recourse because of (as far as we can tell) too strong anti-flooding rules.
It was this day 10 years ago, 30th of July 2015, that we changed the world forever.
We were a small team of hackers in an office in Kreuzberg in Berlin and we had just launched the @ethereum network.
The rest is history.
Looking back at the last 10 years, I am excited about the next 10 years, the next 25, the next 100.
What will the next generation do with our creation? What will you build on Ethereum?