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[Growth Trade @growthtradess]

anyone got recs for what to read next? feel like I need something on mechanism design or evolutionary game theory

[Growth Trade @growthtradess]

halfway through this game theory book and now I can't look at any market the same way. everything's just nash equilibria and prisoner's dilemmas. crypto finally makes sense lol

[Growth Trade @growthtradess]

reading Schelling and every page feels like a market open

focal points, mixed strategies, credible threats… this is just crypto with older vocabulary

game theory isn't a subject. it's the operating system.

[Growth Trade @growthtradess]

3 monitors, 2 phones, 1 coffee. who else is starting monday like this?

charts everywhere, sleep nowhere. is this really a lifestyle or just a slow descent into madness?

[Growth Trade @growthtradess]

Another wild day in crypto and I'm just sitting here refreshing my portfolio like it's a slot machine. Feels like every 24 hours there's a new narrative to chase. Are we still early, or just addicted to the chaos? #Crypto

[Growth Trade @growthtradess]

anyone got book recs that go deeper into this? feels like i just scratched the surface

[Growth Trade @growthtradess]

reading a game theory book and now i can't look at charts the same way. every trade is just people trying to out-predict each other predicting each other. markets are basically a giant psychology experiment with money attached

[Growth Trade @growthtradess]

What's your take? 👇

[Growth Trade @growthtradess]

yo BTC just ripped toward 80k while bond yields hit a 22yr high?? macro is straight up broken rn lol. feels like everything is decoupling from the old playbook 👀 anyone else buying this pump or nah? #Bitcoin

[Mayor Of Ekiti @Ekitipikin]

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[Ash Crypto @AshCrypto]

You have to flip $10K into $100K by 2028, Which Altcoin would you buy?

$SOL
$LINK
$HYPE
$ZEC
$XRP
$DOGE
$SUI
$PUMP

[Crypto Rover @cryptorover]

Will $BTC ever drop below $60,000 again?

Will $ETH ever drop below $2,000 again?

[Tomi @tomiwebstr]

I never understood the NFT era, was everyone just under mass psychosis or what?

[Growth Trade @growthtradess]

Fired up the grill, cracked a cold one, phone is FACE DOWN today 🔥 told the boys if anyone mentions BTC price they're on dish duty. weekends are sacred fr

[Growth Trade @growthtradess]

Curious what you all think.

[Growth Trade @growthtradess]

Honestly wild that SBF's saga is heading to the Supreme Court. Feels like this story just refuses to end. Part of me thinks he's grasping at straws, but stranger appeals have worked before. #FTX

Do you think SCOTUS even touches this?

[Growth Trade @growthtradess]

sideways market is the only thing that lets me sleep and yet somehow that's the one that makes me anxious too, wtf

[Growth Trade @growthtradess]

ran the numbers: every 10% my portfolio pumps, I lose ~2 hours of sleep. every 10% dump, I lose ~3. either way I'm awake. green candles and red candles have united against my circadian rhythm.

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

The best way to build an L2 is to lean into the L1's offerings (security, censorship resistance, proofs, data avail...) more, and reduce your logic to just being a sequencer and a prover (if based, just a prover) over the core execution.

This is the combination of trust minimization and efficiency that the 2010s enterprise blockchain crew wanted, but was never able to achieve. Now, with Ethereum L2s, you can achieve it. And we've already seen successful examples of the L1's features protecting users' rights if something on the L2 goes wrong.

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

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.