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Had a developer ask me a series of really great questions about @SkaleNetwork Conditional Transactions (CTXs). Here are some of the Q&A summarized: > How does condition evaluation impact latency and throughput? CTXs (and other SKALE privacy features) are defined in Solidity and uniquely execute as normal transactions automatically by the SKALE Chain. This means that the throughput limit for CTXs is theoretically the same limit as normal transactions. Latency on the other hand is a callback and so while technically slower, CTXs are transactions queued up and ideally executed in the next block (which is very fast on SKALE). > Are race conditions possible? Technically they should not be since CTXs are added to a dedicated transaction queue when the condition is met and executed before anything else. This also simplifies ordering within DeFi since it's FIFO from an execution perspective by default across the entire chain. > What is the DevX for tracking a CTX across a block? (See image) and you'll notice that there is an address emitted in the CTXSubmitted event. This is the ephemeral wallet in charge of submitting the transaction. Pretty cool since it acts as a perfect and simple unique id.

TheGreatAxios's tweet photo. Had a developer ask me a series of really great questions about @SkaleNetwork Conditional Transactions (CTXs). Here are some of the Q&A summarized:

> How does condition evaluation impact latency and throughput?

CTXs (and other SKALE privacy features) are defined in Solidity and uniquely execute as normal transactions automatically by the SKALE Chain. This means that the throughput limit for CTXs is theoretically the same limit as normal transactions. Latency on the other hand is a callback and so while technically slower, CTXs are transactions queued up and ideally executed in the next block (which is very fast on SKALE).

> Are race conditions possible?

Technically they should not be since CTXs are added to a dedicated transaction queue when the condition is met and executed before anything else. This also simplifies ordering within DeFi since it's FIFO from an execution perspective by default across the entire chain.

> What is the DevX for tracking a CTX across a block?

(See image) and you'll notice that there is an address emitted in the CTXSubmitted event. This is the ephemeral wallet in charge of submitting the transaction. Pretty cool since it acts as a perfect and simple unique id.

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about 2 months ago

Hot Take: If you're building on a vanilla EVM, you're ngmi. Here is a 5-post intro series on @skalenetwork programmable privacy + the first working onchain poker game with private player cards. (Automated Agnetic DeFi is 100% on the table too). Here's why you won't make it👇

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Here is a 5-post intro series on @skalenetwork programmable privacy + the first working onchain poker game with private player cards. (Automated Agnetic DeFi is 100% on the table too).

Here's why you won't make it👇 https://t.co/shs3iTV6JB

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3 months ago

Agentic Economy Weekly Thoughts #1 After ~5 months of posting x402 (nearly every week), the recent explosion of new protocols, standards, and ideas have led me to switch to a broader focus on the agentic economy. Some of the latest from me: > No. 1 | The Marketplace Revival and Tradeoffs Interestingly enough -- the concept of a marketplace has come in two waves for the crypto industry: NFTs and now agentic tasks. The resurgence of the marketplace has been led by the @daydreamsagents and @virtuals_io teams (in my opinion). The unique part about agentic marketplaces is the singular trust assumption that underpins much of blockchain -- the reliance on "something" or someone to actually make the call. Why is the concept of an AMM, automated market maker, so powerful? There is no reliance on someone else or something to make the decision. The cool part about an NFT marketplace is that it can operate similarly to an AMM where there is two assets being swapped in an escrow-like manner. If the conditions are met, the swap is handled and secured by the underlying blockchain. So what happens now when an agent is asking for a task that does NOT occur onchain? The answer -- a lot of experimentation around smart contracts, agentic judging, and human arbitration. I don't think this is a negative - I actually think it's an area ripe for growth. One trend I see -> @Executi0nMarket is leading the surge in task markets and agentic marketplaces building on top of @SkaleNetwork > No. 2 | The Agentic Wallet Wars Agentic wallets are a really interesting idea because it has the same base layer and therefore tradeoffs to keep in mind for developers. A few of the mistakes I'm noticing agentic wallet teams making: 1. Chain Specific -- only supporting a single chain directly limits your adoption. There are SO many good builders experimenting in their own corners of the industry that by only choosing the "most valuable" chains today doesn't mean you'll be the winner tomorrow. @OpenWallet from @moonpay is currently the best from a support perspective that I have found 2. Cross-chain capital -- a problem that persists as well today for many wallets and their underlying blockchains is cross-chain capital. Users having founds on XYZ exchange or wanting to use ABC onramp is great until they want to go do something (or more relevantly the agent does) elsewhere. Nearly every action at this point incurs a fee of some level. The onramps and wallets who figure out how to better abstract this for agents have a chance to corner the "non-popular" chains. The @TrailsHQ by @0xPolygon is one such team; they've enabled one-click bridging to SKALE from nearly any chain tying directly into the onchain elements that power SKALE. 3. The human-in-the-loop experience. The most nuanced part of AI today -> the human. Everyone wants to build agents BUT the agents have to do something for someone. Whether you are building trading agents like @Cod3xOrg (checkout @SkaleNetwork School live stream here on X on 3/31/26 to hear from @uv founder @0xBebis_ on this). This is where the harness and the interactions for agents really come into play. The experience to onboard an agent is very much so "dev-focused" today and most of the non-developer focused tooling that isn't a CLI winds up being custodial which then in some cases can limit how developers want to actually build or how users want to consume. > No. 3 | Discovery (Feels Like) It Is Lacking a Leader A number of teams have expanded into discovery such as @agentcashdev from @merit_systems , @dexteraisol , @corbits_dev + 402index from @RyanTheGentry with the largest aggregation. Natural language discovery tends to be the key (with the behind the scenes being custom per provider) where agents can do something like: Query: I need to generate an image of a cat Response: { json data list of services } Agent -> pays via x402/MPP -- Note, this design tends to be efficient as shown by Codemode from @CloudflareDev However, it feels like agentic builders tend to all converge onto a subset of solutions (often driven by what the LLMs seem to use best i.e Next.js, Resend, Postgres, etc) but the adoption of AI x Crypto crossover is a drop in the bucket compared to that of AI and more broadly development with agentic coding tools. Time will tell what who becomes the market leader for agentic discovery but for me it feels like the winner will bring us something a bit more unique than just search and execute tools. From a technical perspective I think all these teams are pushing in the right direction especially as the basic "Bazaar" just doesn't really scale. > No. 4 | Agentic Identity Stagnation The creation of new agents is occurring at a rapid pace which is great, but I see one critical flaw with ERC-8004; the ability to curate and create strong feedback is complicated and spam is hard to avoid. I'm ideating on this actively so if you have ideas and want to chat let me know. I think ERC-8004 and associative standards will continue to evolve and get stronger but right now definitely seeing a struggle around how to know what is legitimate vs not. Maybe private feedback with public approval is one option? I.e feedback stays private and can be verified by multiple private parties who are rotated (government style) and that they post public scoring based on that? > No. 5 | What to build? If you're looking to build SOMETHING and aren't really sure what? My recommendation is to checkout Conditional Transactions from SKALE where you can bring automated execution of encrypted solidity functionality write into the protocol. Examples include (but are not limited too): - Price of token hits X, execute Y - Liquidation level hit on lending protocol, auto liquidate small portions - Auction ends -> handle payouts - Prediction Market closes -> handle payouts + more coming in the next week from SKALE --------------------------------- A reminder that the above is purely focused on technicals and not legal or financial advice. It is not an endorsement for any tokens. DYOR. For more of my writing, checkout https://t.co/LOHLtVOYFX or DM me for help, support, or just to chat!

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3 months ago

Documentation updates are always exciting, but when the community contributes it just feels 1000x better. Big thanks to @0xultravioleta and @Autoincentiv3 for their contributions to the @SkaleNetwork docs v3.5.0 release which includes: - Addition of Ultravioleta DAO Facilitator for x402 - Addition of AutoIncentive Facilitator for x402 - Update to include official ERC-8004 contract deployments on SKALE Base (h/t @0xTheBarbarian ) Start building now at https://t.co/lPUo4P5fQT

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3 months ago

@TheGreatAxios @stripe @tempo I wonder what @SkaleNetwork is cooking up for MPP?

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3 months ago

It's no secret that @stripe and @tempo MPP is the talk of the agentic economy over the last 24 hours. Join me at 2 PM PST today to chat x402, MPP, and what this means for agentic commerce. ALL speakers are welcome just come and raise your hand! https://t.co/GqcbBPxp6y

3 months ago

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3 months ago

x402 Weekly Wrap and Thoughts #19 & #20 It's official. It feels like everyone is an agentic payments company (and that's a not thing) if we look at how it's actually being positioned and deployed. Traditionally -- we saw many companies that lacked PMF hard pivot and chase a narrative with little to no execution. With agentic commerce -- while it is probably is still very much a FOMO situation for many -- the part that I think is feels different is that legitimate companies that are already successful are throwing their hat in the ring with new productions that expand their offering to agents or take existing products that may not have had huge adoption and point them toward the agentic market. The reality though? Agents themselves aren't there yet. I think it's fair to say we (as a technical industry) have mostly cracked the code on agentic coding more or less. It's just important to recognize that most of the "successful" agents you see on the timeline is just outright lies. They still fail consistently, struggle to follow commands, pick tools incorrectly, and just don't work as expected. I'm personally ok with this though because in reality it's been ~2-2.5 months (end of December) where agents really started to feel viable during the Claude Code moment. Some quick updates for the week and then read below for one critical thought on the above. Reminder, none of the below is financial advice; we are talking technology only. > @virtuals_io and @DavideCrapis shared 8183, the conditional payments commerce layer for AI Agents. (I see @SkaleNetwork as an ideal addition to this stack with conditional transactions (CTXs) allowing encryption to easily extend 8183) > @paysponge is now supporting prepaid @Visa cards with x402 on @base with @USDC > @lordOfAFew shipped encrypted @xmtp_ with @daydreamsagents > @framesag rolled out a new CASHBACK feature. So far this is probably the top agentic wallet I've used > @KhalaResearch put out a nice ecosystem map for x402. (Missing @SkaleNetwork blockchain, @relayaisolana @gokobaru @corbits_dev and a dozen+ more facilitators) > @0xPolygon has been driving a significant amount of x402 growth and showcasing some nice developer tools with their new agentic tools > @relayaisolana dropped agent service keys which makes it easier to access the RelAI marketplace (very cool) > @StellarOrg has joined the world of x402 > @synthesis_md is now live! An agentic hackathon for agents (should be interesting) My biggest thought for the week is that too many people are telling me we are in a chicken/egg situation. Merchants want agents. Agents want merchants. Keep building, we are very very early.

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3 months ago

The AI space and more specifically the crypto x AI space moves in waves. Everyone seems to follow the leader. Interesting enough agentic wallets seem to have come and gone as the hot topic in ~1-2 weeks. Looking for wallets to give my Claw running on @SkaleNetwork . Any suggestions?

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3 months ago

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3 months ago

Excited to have @Must_be_Ash from @CoinbaseDev join me and @SkaleNetwork later today at 2 PM PST for an open discussion on x402 and agentic commerce! If you shipped this week, make sure to leave a comment below so we can chat about it 👇 https://t.co/Y0CTqV1dse

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4 months ago

x402 Weekly Wrap and Thoughts #17 & #18 A double issue as I missed last week. The growth of x402 and onchain agents continues to see really awesome pickup. Some of the most important (I think) updates below and a couple of key thoughts. @paysponge (YC W26) just dropped "catalog", their curated list of x402 resources available from their wallet or via their skill @moonpay launched MoonPay Agents which have native support for x402. (Another CLI too!) @SkaleNetwork led the SF Agentic Commerce x402 Hackathon to a strong finish with World of Geneva, already live on SKALE Mainnet, taking the overall win and incredible deployments 85+ teams. A number of teams also successfully showcase the power of SKALE's encrypted and conditional transaction standards; proving that privacy for agentic commerce can be done. @Aptos is official in the Coinbase x402 SDK suite with their package now available on @npmjs ! @Alchemy shipped x402 support with payments in @USDC on @base @nansen_ai is now accepting payments on Base in USDC via x402 @BioProtocol added x402 support on Base meaning you can turn your @openclaw agent into a research scientist @xmtp_ has seen a significant surge in interest after showcasing a direct agent to agent communication flow @relayaisolana added support for BITE Encrypted Transactions by default when making x402 payments on SKALE @dexteraisol has officially joined the growing number of facilitators and teams adding support for SKALE with a recent deployment on SKALE's Base Sepolia Testnet @agonx402 is exploring ways to create the Stripe for Agents. With the majority of legitimate activity from ~2 weeks ago occurring in the broader Base ecosystem per @OnchainLu (correct me if I'm wrong), expecting to probably see a shift to Base and SKALE Base in the coming weeks @ax1vc created a really great dashboard on @Dune -- the Agentic Dune Dashboard. (Go checkout their feed and explore) @AlliumLabs added x402 support on their API on Base @virtuals_io is the primary leader of all agentic volume happening in x402 currently, showcasing the power of their Agent Commerce Protocol (ACP) @jameslawton from @0xPolygon @TrailsHQ joined me for a quick x402 chat on X Thursday afternoon and we explored what's next for the growth of agentic commerce @cuysheffield says we are in the era of Command Line Commerce (I agree). Some thoughts and ideas: #1 - Discovery continues to be a problem and there isn't really an easy solution to it as it's not just a technical problem (for now) #2 - CLIs per Cuy of @Visa, are becoming more and more important. So are APIs. If you have a product and don't have an API, change that ASAP. #3 - Agentic wallets have bene hot the last few weeks but it seems to have died down a touch. I think there is still a strong reality that we need more agents and not from the command line #4 - Autonomous agents buying things is great but we did skip the step on personal agents that are fully capable. Many a Claw still fail to follow basic directions or listen. Lots of Claw forks so maybe this improves. I also do think that Claw is an official primitive of the agentic era. As always, keep building, don't be afraid to ask for help, and if you need to bounce an idea off someone or aren't sure where to start, just DM! (Bonus points if you are shipping on @SkaleNetwork this week). > Reminder that the above is in no particular order and I am exploring them purely from a technical perspective. Not legal or financial advice.

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4 months ago

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4 months ago

@TheGreatAxios @arktypeio AI can surely write you something but how do you actually validate it does the job. That's what we help with!

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4 months ago

the pace of x402 adoption on @SkaleNetwork is accelerating

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4 months ago

Have already seen nearly 70 teams submit with private prediction markets, encrypted agents trading, and private x402 just to name a few. Plus incredible partners have joined to provide support like @goldskyio @GoKobaru @relayaisolana If you’re thinking about the future of agents, no better place spend your next 48 hours building. Join the Telegram group via @DoraHacks for ideas, support, and to share!

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4 months ago

x402 Weekly Wrap and Thoughts #16 A wild week in x402, lots of thoughts and ideas below. > The (I think) biggest news of the week was probably @stripe dropping Machine Payments bringing x402 to Stripe merchants. Plus they dropped official MoR support which is huge. > @dexteraiagent is out sending emails to people like @cuysheffield . The relevancy is that AI delegation and capabilities is enhancing. AI accelerates AI accelerates AI. > @SkaleNetwork @googledevs @CoinbaseDev @edgeandnode and @virtuals_io have seen a significant number of incredible teams submitting Encrypted x402 Applications to the SF Agentic Commerce and x402 Hackathon. Still ~13 hours left if you want to get hacking. > Four more big companies added direct support as x402 merchants this week: @hyperbrowser (YC24), @coingecko, @AlliumLabs, @Quicknode > @framesag @CoinbaseDev @LitProtocol @privy_io and a bunch of other teams have dropped or shipped new agentic wallets in the last week > @mrdn_finance shipped Mpay, bringing multi-token transfers to a few different networks > @daydreamsagents is setting the standard for agentic search with xGate > @programmer hopped on SKALE School and shared some incredible thoughts on where x402 is going as a standard and what he believes developers and builders should be shipping > @relayaisolana and @GoKobaru both added support for USDT, WBTC, and WETH which are all EIP-3009 compatible on SKALE Base Mainnet and Testnet opening up opportunities for agents earning or transacting in non-USDC tokens > @relayaisolana is the first facilitator to add support for encrypted x402 transactions on SKALE Base with BITE Protocol. No action needed on your side; just starting paying on SKALE Base with RelAI and you are picking up a couple precious seconds of privacy in a world where agents and bots are analyzing everything for an edge My biggest thoughts this week are: > The opportunity as a merchant is massive. Many x402 resources are not actually working and it's an open market. There can (and will be) dozens or hundreds of the same things just like in the real world. Start building. > Build for where every is going. Don't ship ANOTHER agentic wallet. Don't ship ANOTHER OpenClaw. Think about what agents need to fund their wallet. Think about where lobsters want to go hang out. Think outside the box. > The first facilitator who targets being a Merchant of Record with refunds could dominate > More agents means more congestion onchain. This means chains with local fee markets can see much higher prices if everyone is using USDC. Chains with monolithic architectures don't have a way for agents to quickly acquire their own blockspace. Make sure you deploy your x402 endpoints and agents on chains that don't penalize for growth like SKALE. > Integrating x402 outside of Base and Solana still has extra hoops to jump through as they aren't the primary targets for CDP. I'm building out https://t.co/YpJ6SxK5Y7 to solve this ASAP My biggest belief right now is that anyone involved in x402 is still early and there is so much to build. So many incredible teams and people are involved. Not sure where to start? Shoot me a DM. Want to see your project listed here next week? Shoot me a DM or tag me when you share it. Want to share your project now? Leave a comment below. Thanks! > A reminder that none of the above is legal or financial advice. None of my tweets ever are.

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4 months ago

Have worked with a lot of teams over the years. One of the top items almost everyone struggled and still struggles with? Content Creation. AI Tools can help generated more quantity, but the quality is generally "slop" by default. Already have half a dozen individuals generating and posting content that feels like a human actually spent the time. How? Someone spent the time to build a tool that isn't just "throw an LLM" at it. DM for beta access. 2 slots remaining.

TheGreatAxios's tweet photo. Have worked with a lot of teams over the years. One of the top items almost everyone struggled and still struggles with? Content Creation.

AI Tools can help generated more quantity, but the quality is generally "slop" by default.

Already have half a dozen individuals generating and posting content that feels like a human actually spent the time. How? Someone spent the time to build a tool that isn't just "throw an LLM" at it.

DM for beta access. 2 slots remaining.

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4 months ago

@TheGreatAxios If you are building in x402 or ERC-8004 and need support don't hesitate to reach out!

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4 months ago

x402 Weekly Wrap and Thoughts #15 Apologies for missing last week. Have been heads down building + helping developers integrate with SKALE. Wrap first, then thoughts (make sure to read to the end for my deep thoughts). Prefer my thoughts over updates? Scroll down past Key Updates and checkout what I've been focused on the last couple of weeks. Key Updates - It's no secret that @openclaw is arguably the hottest news of the week (besides the broader market panic and confusion). The closest thing we've seen yet to full autonomy. Excited to see where this goes, but there are quite literally to many things to call out. - @samrags_ brought Sign-in-with-X to @coinbase x402 v2. This brings a huge upgrade in pre-paid power to x402. Great example from @fabdarice -> pay a one time $10 credit and then every subsequent x402 request identifies you and decreases your credit - @CloudflareDev have continued shipping (shoutout @williamallen ) with a brand new update to their x402 template on Cloudflare - @SkaleNetwork has had a flood of announcements and in my (very biased) opinion continues to show it's strength in the agentic era with a slew of partner announcements, new teams going live, more open source contributions and has partnered with @CoinbaseDev @google @virtuals_io and @edgeandnode for the upcoming 100% hybrid x402 and agentic commerce hackathon which includes IRL co-working space sponsored at The House of Web3. Register now, it starts the 11th: https://t.co/wHNOXuHQ39 - @corbits_dev Pontus joined me for an x402 Roundtable yesterday and dropped some awesome alpha around some big updates coming to Faremeter and Corbits. Excited to see them continue to push the pace on x402! - @ethereumJoseph spoke at the LFDT Member's Summit and shared thoughts specific to x402 stating (slightly paraphrased) "that it will enable agents to pay one another" using x402 (h/t @HashgraphOnline for the tweet) - I randomly stumbled across @fere_ai which looks awesome (can we chat team?) - @awscloud dropped an incredible guide on monetizing an application with x402, Cloudfront and Lambda@Edge: https://t.co/99drfXSDQZ - @HoumanShadab continues to impress with API failure insurance for x402 agents on @NovaNet_zkp . Pretty sure someone -- cough cough -- @iFalcore told me this was a dumb idea ~2 months ago. (I said otherwise). - @OnchainLu continues to impress with some of the best statistics and reasoning in the x402 space. The breakdown on what's real vs not was pretty amazing and really shows the value in having "real services" and not gamed txs at this point in time. - @Superfluid_HQ build the x402-sf extension which brings streaming to x402. (Can we connect team?) - I shipped https://t.co/YpJ6SxK5Y7, a batteries-included x402 SDK in early beta designed to help me better explore and understand how to abstract the complexities of x402 +++ and so much more, if I missed you leave a comment below with what you shipped, did, or talked about this week 👇 Thoughts No 1 - Agentic Discovery is Fractured Not all facilitators in x402 are supporting discovery (from what I can see) and not all agents will be registered on all chains. This creates a simple but clear problem: agentic discovery is dynamic and complex. I originally believed that discovery would occur at the facilitator level and be a deep moat for them, but am realizing more and more that it's probably going to be a layer above them. No 2 - Creativity is Hard This is a funny one to think about but I think a big problem for a lot of engineers is the lack of creativity. It's really hard for someone who is used to be told what to build to look at a blank canvas and imagine something world changing. I think it was from the Silicon Valley TV Show sometime when they were building Nucleus. They called them "dreamers" or something like that. Funny enough I think those people will be more and more valuable. I don't think this is an "all SaaS disappears" issue or a "engineers will go extinct" problem. I just think the value shifts very heavily toward people who don't just see a vision -> but use the tools on hand to execute. No 3 - Guardrails is the "Unsexy" Winner of Agentic Commerce Seeing a lot of teams and projects and ideas spin up focused on how to give an agent money. This is going to be in my opinion an absolute bloodbath of screw ups and lost funds until we get it to click. There are just so many tradeoffs and factors to be considered but the reality for me is that ungoverned "autonomy" that can be steered doesn't play well with things that should stay private. Ben exploring some projects like @LitProtocol on this and excited to see where it goes. No 4 - ERC-8004 will grow in communities ...primarily across micro-blockchains. I've been thinking a lot about the value of discovery and finding what you need (back to No 1). Specifically in relation to ERC-8004, I could see groups of agents buying their own blockchain autonomously via SKALE (yes this is possible) on @base via @SkaleNetwork Manager and having their own mini guarded deployment of ERC-8004 that is hyper-curated toward their goals as an agentic group. This is a reminder that all of my posts are for informational purposes only and is not recommendation to purchase anything or legal/financial advice of any kind. If I missed you in the recap, leave a comment below with what you shipped in the last two weeks and shoot me a DM!

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