ferdin ramdhani

A small, hard stone (dust trade) used for paving (floor). Tiny. Still underfoot.

[ferdin ramdhani @dornick_stone]

What's everyone's strategy when it gets this chaotic — zoom out or trade the noise?

[ferdin ramdhani @dornick_stone]

Crypto never sleeps and honestly neither do I 😅 Every day something shifts, someone pumps, someone rugs. Still can't help but stay bullish long term tho. The signal is there if you look past the noise. #crypto Who's paying attention?

[ferdin ramdhani @dornick_stone]

@leadlagreport Volatility ≠ not a store of value. Gold dropped 45% in 2011 — nobody rewrote its definition. 📉

[Solana @solana]

Tokenized equities.
Prediction markets.
Stablecoins.
Collectibles.
Treasuries.
Payments.
Gaming.
Perps.
Memes.
DePIN.
RWAs.
LSTs.
AI.

All on Solana.

[Alex Becker 🍊🏆🥇 @ZssBecker]

Trump launching $TRUMP was the most brazenly fraudulent thing I've ever seen a president do. The family should be investigated.

That said, the reason crypto is down is not "TRUMP." I read this 10x a day on CT.

The truth: He's pushed every policy and PR to pump it up. It's simply the fact that crypto is not giving value anywhere near the prices we set when Trump got elected.

We valued Solana at 140 billion dollars while it generated 2.4 bill in revenue. A 70x valuation.

Trump could even give citizenship for owning SOL, and that value would not go up with its revenue being down nearly 50% of that.

The flip side was candidates who were (and still are) pushing for taxes on unrealized gains. They also wanted to make owning or trading unreported crypto illegal.

Look, like or don't like Trump.

A) Adopting the Euro globalist strategies of Kamala definitely was not the way to go. Stop being goofy.

B) The issue right now is we overvalued this shit and are now so soggy about it we can't even see the opportunity in front of us.

THE SILVER LINING: This shit is insanely undervalued. And the entire financial world is now adopting it.

Policy wise, business wise, adoption wise – crypto has never been in a better strong spot.

The point: Stop throwing a tantrum and trying to find blame outside the blatant tulip mania we all try to profit from in this industry.

Instead, look at the fact that tulips have bloomed into full-blown trees and are now being sold at absolutely oversold prices.

Stop looking back. Look forward. The future is bright.

[ferdin ramdhani @dornick_stone]

Japan just hiked rates to levels not seen since 1995 and Bitcoin pumped anyway. The old financial playbook is dead. Hard assets don't care about central bank moves anymore 🔥

#Bitcoin Who else is paying attention?

[ferdin ramdhani @dornick_stone]

What's more interesting - the money itself, or that Alabama became the battleground they chose to test this strategy?

[ferdin ramdhani @dornick_stone]

$12M crypto PAC money flowing into Alabama's Senate race is wild. $7.4M alone on media for Barry Moore. Crypto is flexing serious political muscle in 2024. This changes how we think about industry influence. #CryptoPolitics

Who's tracking this?

[ferdin ramdhani @dornick_stone]

Am I wrong here? Let me know.

[ferdin ramdhani @dornick_stone]

Crypto hesitating while stocks pump on Iran news is lowkey frustrating. ETF outflows pausing is a good sign but BTC needs conviction here, not just a timid bounce. Macro is driving everything rn 😤 #Bitcoin

You holding or trimming?

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

Congratulations @Brian_Armstrong on $COIN being added to the S&P 500 Index. A major milestone for Coinbase and for Bitcoin.

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

Over the past year, many people I talk to have expressed worry about two topics:

* Various aspects of the way the world is going: government control and surveillance, wars, corporate power and surveillance, tech enshittification / corposlop, social media becoming a memetic warzone, AI and how it interplays with all of the above...
* The brute reality that Ethereum seems to be absent from meaningfully improving the lives of people subject to these things, even on the dimensions we deeply care about (eg. freedom, privacy, security of digital life, community self-organization)

It is easy to bond over the first, to commiserate over the fact that beauty and good in the world seems to be receding and darkness advancing, and uncaring powerful people in high places are making this happen. But ultimately, it is easy to acknowledge problems, the hard thing is actually shining a light forward, coming up with a concrete plan that makes the situation better.

The second has been weighing heavily on my mind, and on the minds of many of our brightest and most idealistic Ethereans. I personally never felt any upset or fear when political memecoins went on Solana, or various zero-sum gambling applications go on whatever 250 millisecond block chain strikes their fancy. But it *does* weigh on me that, through all of the various low-grade online memetic wars, international overreaches of corporate and government power, and other issues of the last few years, Ethereum has been playing a very limited role in making people's lives better. What *are* the liberating technologies? Starlink is the most obvious one. Locally-running open-weights LLMs are another. Signal is a third. Community Notes is a fourth, tackling the problem from a different angle.

One response is to say "stop dreaming big, we need to hunker down and accept that finance is our lane and laser-focus on that". But this is ultimately hollow. Financial freedom and security is critical. But it seems obvious that, while adding a perfectly free and open and sovereign and debasement-proof financial system would fix some things, but it would leave the bulk of our deep worries about the world unaddressed. It's okay for individuals to laser-focus on finance, but we need to be part of some greater whole that has things to say about the other problems too.

At the same time, Ethereum cannot fix the world. Ethereum is the "wrong-shaped tool" for that: beyond a certain point, "fixing the world" implies a form of power projection that is more like a centralized political entity than like a decentralized technology community.

So what can we do? I think that we in Ethereum should conceptualize ourselves as being part of an ecosystem building "sanctuary technologies": free open-source technologies that let people live, work, talk to each other, manage risk and build wealth, and collaborate on shared goals, in a way that optimizes for robustness to outside pressures.

The goal is not to remake the world in Ethereum's image, where all finance is disintermediated, all governance happens through DAOs, and everyone gets a blockchain-based UBI delivered straight to their social-recovery wallet. The goal is the opposite: it's de-totalization. It's to reduce the stakes of the war in heaven by preventing the winner from having total victory (ie. total control over other human beings), and preventing the loser from suffering total defeat. To create digital islands of stability in a chaotic era. To enable interdependence that cannot be weaponized.

Ethereum's role is to create "digital space" where different entities can cooperate and interact. Communications channels enable interaction, but communication channels are not "space": they do not let you create single unique objects that canonically represent some social arrangement that changes over time. Money is one important example. Multisigs that can change their members, showing persistence exceeding that of any one person or one public key, are another. Various market and governance structures are a third. There are more.

I think now is the time to double down, with greater clarity. Do not try to be Apple or Google, seeing crypto as a tech sector that enables efficiency or shininess. Instead, build our part of the sanctuary tech ecosystem - the "shared digital space with no owner" that enables both open finance and much more. More actively build toward a full-stack ecosystem: both upward to the wallet and application layer (incl AI as interface) and downward to the OS, hardware, even physical/bio security levels.

Ultimately, tech is worthless without users. But look for users, both individual and institutional, for whom sanctuary tech is exactly the thing they need. Optimize payments, defi, decentralized social, and other applications precisely for those users, and those goals, which centralized tech will not serve. We have many allies, including many outside of "crypto". It's time we work together with an open mind and move forward.

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

You do not have to agree with me on which applications are and are not corposlop to use Ethereum.

You do not have to agree with me on what trust assumptions are acceptable in which situations to use Ethereum.

You do not have to agree with me on political topics to use Ethereum.

You do not have to agree with my views on defi, decentralized social or privacy-preserving payments to use Ethereum.

You do not have to agree with my views on AI to use Ethereum.

You do not have to agree with my view that Berlin has the best food in Europe, suits and ties should be expunged from our culture, and YYYY-MM-DD is the best date format to use Ethereum.

And you do not have to agree with me on any one of those above things to agree with me on any other.

I do not claim to represent the whole Ethereum ecosystem. Ethereum is a decentralized protocol. The whole concept of "permissionlessness" and "censorship resistance" is that you are free to use Ethereum in whatever way you want, without caring about what I think, or even what anyone else in the Ethereum Foundation or even any Ethereum client developer thinks.

But on the flipside, if I say that your application is corposlop, I am not "censoring" you. This has always been the flip side of the grand bargain of free speech: I am not free to shut you down, but I am free to criticize you, much as you are free to criticize me.

In fact, it is *necessary* that we do this. The modern world does not call out for pretend neutrality, where a person puts on a suit and claims to be equally open to all perspectives from all of humanity and not have their own opinions. Neutrality is for protocols (like HTTP, like Bitcoin, like Ethereum), and neutrality within some scope is for some institutions. The modern world calls out for the courage to clearly state one's principles - including stating principles by pointing to negative examples, that is by criticizing the things in the world that are incompatible with one's principles - and work with those with aligned goals to build the metaverse within which those principles are taken as a baseline.

Such things inherently cannot be constrained to just the layer of the protocol: any principle you have will naturally lead to conclusions, not just about how the protocol should be built, but also what should be built upon it. Furthermore, any such principle will have consequences that go beyond technology, and reach into specific questions within the larger social world. This should not be avoided. Valuing something like "freedom", and then acting as though it has consequences on technology choices, but is completely separate from everything else about our lives, is not pragmatic - it is hollow.

The inevitable converse of this is that (i) a decentralized protocol must not be viewed as belonging to only one metaverse, and (ii) the borders of a metaverse are fuzzy: it is possible, and indeed it is the normal case, to align with any one on some axes and not on other axes.

Linux is a technology of user empowerment and freedom, Linux is also the base layer of a lot of the world's corposlop. It's almost certainly the base layer of many things that I think are good, and you think are bad, and vice versa. Hence, if you care about Linux because you care about user empowerment and freedom, it is not enough to just build the kernel, we must also build a full-stack ecosystem compatible with those values, and explicitly accept that this is not the only way that people will use Linux, but it is one way that must be built and must be available. Ethereum is similar.

Milady.

[ferdin ramdhani @dornick_stone]

My dog just YEET'd my laptop off the desk mid-trade. Walked back in, checked my phone… green. Sometimes the universe just forces you to trust the process 🐶📈

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

Now that ZKEVMs are at alpha stage (production-quality performance, remaining work is safety) and PeerDAS is live on mainnet, it's time to talk more about what this combination means for Ethereum.

These are not minor improvements; they are shifting Ethereum into being a fundamentally new and more powerful kind of decentralized network.

To see why, let's look at the two major types of p2p network so far:

BitTorrent (2000): huge total bandwidth, highly decentralized, no consensus

Bitcoin (2009): highly decentralized, consensus, but low bandwidth - because it’s not “distributed” in the sense of work being split up, it’s *replicated*

Now, Ethereum with PeerDAS (2025) and ZK-EVMs (expect small portions of the network using it in 2026), we get: decentralized, consensus and high bandwidth

The trilemma has been solved - not on paper, but with live running code, of which one half (data availability sampling) is *on mainnet today*, and the other half (ZK-EVMs) is *production-quality on performance today* - safety is what remains.

This was a 10-year journey (see the first commit of my original post on DAS here: https://t.co/Fa0jKFgObW , and ZK-EVM attempts started in ~2020), but it's finally here.

Over the next ~4 years, expect to see the full extent of this vision roll out:

* In 2026, large non-ZKEVM-dependent gas limit increases due to BALs and ePBS, and we'll see the first opportunities to run a ZKEVM node
* In 2026-28, gas repricings, changes to state structure, exec payload going into blobs, and other adjustments to make higher gas limits safe
* In 2027-30, large further gas limit increases, as ZKEVM becomes the primary way to validate blocks on the network

A third piece of this is distributed block building.

A long-term ideal holy grail is to get to a future where the full block is *never* constituted in one single place. This will not be necessary for a long time, but IMO it is worth striving for us at least have the capability to do that.

Even before that point, we want the meaningful authority in block building to be as distributed as possible. This can be done either in-protocol (eg. maybe we figure out how to expand FOCIL to make it a primary channel for txs), or out-of-protocol with distributed builder marketplaces. This reduces risk of centralized interference with real-time transaction inclusion, AND it creates a better environment for geographical fairness.

Onward.

[Ansem @blknoiz06]

shorting $ETH $1640, adding $1680-1700

stop $1735

target $1521, $1385, $1000, $888, $0

[Altcoin Daily @AltcoinDaily]

I’ve been in crypto for 9 years.
I’ve survived multiple bull and bear markets.

When the dust settles, the wealth will flow to those who stayed when it was hard & boring.

We're still early.
Being this early is painful. But it pays.

[ferdin ramdhani @dornick_stone]

What's your take? 👇

[ferdin ramdhani @dornick_stone]

Crypto never sleeps and neither do I 😅 Every single day something wild is shifting in this space. The momentum lately is unreal honestly. Are we even ready for what's coming next? #crypto Thoughts?

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

I haven’t sold a sat. Strategy is still stacking.