exwhyzee.eth 👾

chief of taste @playground_ai | product & design mercenary | founder @ethbelgiumhq | prev @arweaveeco @joinedenai | hanging out @developer_dao

[ETHBelgium 🇧🇪 @ETHBelgiumHQ]

A bunch of ETHBelgium frens and @exwhyzeth will be in NYC next week for @ethconf

Coming from Belgium too? We've got a group chat going:
https://t.co/GdtzPrrNhc
Join in, say hi, and coordinate plans

We're also cooking up something at the venue 👀 More on that soon!

[exwhyzee.eth 👾 @exwhyzeth]

soon in nyc @ethconf!

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@BalouOnX @trophyoflegends @okx @OKXDutch @star_okx @EraldOnChain @Haider tiger woods who

[exwhyzee.eth 👾 @exwhyzeth]

afkcore

[exwhyzee.eth 👾 @exwhyzeth]

haven't stress-tested it on a truly hostile codebase yet. the real test is what happens when you point it at a ten year old monorepo with fifteen conflicting token systems and ask it to build you a design system from that mess.
if it holds up there, the category is solved.

[exwhyzee.eth 👾 @exwhyzeth]

fwiw i'm more excited about design right now than i've been in years. the parts of the job that sucked are going away. that's the whole reason

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs: make prototypes, slides, and one-pagers by talking to Claude.

Powered by Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable vision model. Available in research preview on the Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, rolling out throughout the day.

[exwhyzee.eth 👾 @exwhyzeth]

the category of "design tool" is dead. what's replacing it doesn't have a name yet. it's some blend of prototype + design system + handoff + generative surface. this is the first real attempt at naming it by building it.

[exwhyzee.eth 👾 @exwhyzeth]

@okx lfg

[exwhyzee.eth 👾 @exwhyzeth]

the 22nd called for this

[exwhyzee.eth 👾 @exwhyzeth]

looking for a few creators to make short-form AI content (tiktok/reels style). you’ll be using AI tools to generate visuals + turn them into content

close to the team, pushing content and learning what actually works fast, dm's open

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@sushikev congrats kev!

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https://t.co/bdc6gmtZ3E

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gm 🇸🇰

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@ETHBelgiumHQ @ETHGlobal @icp_Belgium 🚀

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ux/acc

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

2026 is the year that we take back lost ground in terms of self-sovereignty and trustlessness.

Some of what this practically means:

Full nodes: thanks to ZK-EVM and BAL, it will once again become easier to locally run a node and verify the Ethereum chain on your own computer.

Helios: actually verify the data you're receiving from RPCs instead of blindly trusting it.

ORAM, PIR: ask for data from RPCs without revealing which data you're asking, so you can access dapps without your access patterns being sold off to dozens of third parties all around the world.

Social recovery wallets and timelocks: wallets that don't make you lose all your money if you misplace your seedphrase, or if an online or offline attacker extracts your seedphrase, and *also* don't make all your money backdoored by Google.

Privacy UX: make private payments from your wallet, with the same user experience as making public payments.

Privacy censorship resistance: private payments with the ERC-4337 mempool, and soon native AA + FOCIL, without relying on the public broadcaster ecosystem.

Application UIs: use more dapps from an onchain UI with IPFS, without relying on trusted servers that would lock you our of practical recovery of your assets if they went offline, and would give you a hijacked UI that steals your funds if they get hacked for even a millisecond.

In many of these areas, over the last ten years we have seen serious backsliding in Ethereum. Nodes went from easy to run to hard to run. Dapps went from static pages to complicated behemoths that leak all your data to a dozen servers. Wallets went from routing everything through the RPC, which could be any node of your choice including on your own computer, to leaking your data to a dozen servers of their choice. Block building became more centralized, putting Ethereum transaction inclusion guarantees under the whims of a very small number of builders.

In 2026, no longer. Every compromise of values that Ethereum has made up to this point - every moment where you might have been thinking, is it really worth diluting ourselves so much in the name of mainstream adoption - we are making that compromise no longer.

It will be a long road. We will not get everything we want in the next Kohaku release, or the next hard fork, or the hard fork after that. But it will make Ethereum into an ecosystem that deserves not only its current place in the universe, but a much greater one.

In the world computer, there is no centralized overlord.
There is no single point of failure.
There is only love.
Milady.

[exwhyzee.eth 👾 @exwhyzeth]

gm 2026

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@Boewu_ lfg

[exwhyzee.eth 👾 @exwhyzeth]

the good design renaissance is here

[nanda @nandafyi]

6 months ago to now

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gm

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@iamtguy @helloSQD congrats!