John Subroto Chard

Finance / Ops / Strategy - 🇮🇩🇦🇺 now home in the 🇺🇸 - tinkering with numbers and assets - Serving the change agents @consensys @metamask

[Sharplink @Sharplink]

We are proud to support the launch of @ethereuminsti alongside @BitMNR and @ethereumjoseph.

This nonprofit is the dedicated front door for the world's largest institutions entering Ethereum, built by former Ethereum Foundation leaders and the team behind 500+ institutional relationships.

Following @ethlabs_org, this is the second independent steward organization for Ethereum's next chapter.

https://t.co/UMrsdhUxdw

[John Subroto Chard @johnnychard]

@dieworkwear Classic Magnum PI period.. where can I get this tweed sports coat? If I am visiting Naples for a few days, could I get a Neapolitan take made and who would you recommend there?

[John Subroto Chard @johnnychard]

Even if you have only a little pinky’s worth of love of nature, this account is the best follow…

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

If you're planting trees for wildlife and you can only plant two, make one of them an oak and the other a native cherry.

Doug Tallamy, the entomologist at the University of Delaware whose research on native plants and caterpillars underlies most of what the conservation gardening world now knows about this topic, ranks native Prunus, the cherries, plums, and chokecherries, as his second most ecologically valuable plant genus after oaks.

Native cherries support around 450 species of moths and butterflies as caterpillar host plants. That number is second only to oaks, which support over 500. Almost nothing else in the native plant palette comes close.

A pair of Carolina chickadees needs somewhere between 6,000 and 9,000 caterpillars to raise a single brood. Those caterpillars live on specific native plants. A yard full of ornamental trees from Asia may look lush but produces almost none of the insect food that keeps the next generation of birds alive.

The fruit is key as well. Black cherry fruit is eaten by over 40 bird species, including wood thrushes, cedar waxwings, rose-breasted grosbeaks, and brown thrashers. The spring flowers feed native bees and early pollinators before most other trees have opened.

The catch people sometimes cite is that black cherry can reseed aggressively and tent caterpillars love it. Tent caterpillars are a normal ecological event and the tree recovers. As for reseeding, that's the tree doing what it evolved to do, spreading itself through bird droppings, and it's worth tolerating in exchange for what you get.

Plant the oak first. But plant the cherry second, and don't feel bad about it.

[Joseph Lubin @ethereumJoseph]

Beautifully crafted piece on "Why Ethereum?" Very powerful. Some quotes:

“The original vision of consortium blockchains – the idea that you have 5 banks or major companies that come together and create their own chain – has been mostly a failure,” Vitalik Buterin explains . “It ends up inheriting most of the disadvantages of centralization and most of the disadvantages of decentralization at the same time.” The problem, as he describes it, is that the first few banks feel like equal founders, but bank number twenty is just joining something its competitors already control. You take on all the engineering cost of a distributed system and get none of the benefits of openness, composability, and credible neutrality that made blockchains worthwhile in the first place.

The single-most important blockchain property is sovereignty (Note: Another way to express "sovereignty" is: credible neutrality + censorship resistance + privacy + security). What made Bitcoin revolutionary was that it was the world’s first sovereign computer platform. Before Bitcoin, all computer platforms belonged to a person, a company, or a government, and they had to obey the will of their owners and the rules of the jurisdiction where they resided. But a sovereign only obeys its own rules, and no single entity could impose rules on Bitcoin. (Note: On Ethereum, builders and users also have far more personal sovereignty than possible on any other large public platform in the world.)

Much of Ethereum’s lead in sovereignty and credible neutrality comes from path dependence that no other blockchain can replicate. Ethereum launched with proof-of-work in 2015 and ran on it for seven years before transitioning to proof-of-stake in 2022. During that period, ownership of the network was distributed through an open 2014 crowdsale and GPU mining that was deliberately kept accessible to consumer hardware. The result was widespread token distribution with no single entity controlling a meaningful fraction of the network (an essential factor in the sovereignty of a proof-of-stake network).

According to Token Terminal’s Ethereum Q1 2026 Report, Ethereum holds 79% of active DeFi loans across the top five chains, 62% of stablecoins, 73% of tokenized funds, and 84% of tokenized commodities.

Erik Voorhees, the founder of https://t.co/q4WHRFuPw2 (the privacy-first AI inference platform with 3+ million users and tens of millions of dollars in ARR), articulated a similar rationale a few days ago "It wasn't even a question for us," Erik replies when asked why he built Venice on Coinbase's Ethereum L2 Base, "The Ethereum ecosystem is the far more authentic, resilient, and robust ecosystem of all smart contract platforms."

[Joseph Chalom @joechalom]

https://t.co/4sOm6TYyeY

[The Block @TheBlockCo]

Ethereum could become a fully zero-knowledge proof-based protocol in 3 to 5 years, Joe Lubin says https://t.co/S3XYwfzEpd

[Prof. Frank McDonough @FXMC1957]

BBC Radio newsreader John Snagge gives the first news of the D-Day landing at 9:32 AM to the British public.

[John Subroto Chard @johnnychard]

It’s June 6th. Freedom is not free. If you’re about to whine over s’thing probably inconsequential or some first world problem, pause or shut up. You could be jumping into water onto a beach, mln miles from home with every chance you’ll die or at best get wounded. Lest we forget.

[John Subroto Chard @johnnychard]

Everyone else on Slots answer: “Delusional”

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨 One word to describe this season?

⚠️ Arne Slot: “Injury”.

[John Subroto Chard @johnnychard]

I keep saying it @lfc .. keeping Slot is commercial self sabotage that no magical football dataset will solve for you

[François Plateau @francoisplateau]

The most damning thing about Arne Slot isn’t necessarily that Liverpool are quite average; it’s that he’s drained the life out of Anfield. If he were to stay beyond this season, the repercussions could be massive.

[Joseph Chalom @joechalom]

Today I published an oped in @coindesk detailing the coming revolution in agentic finance, what it will mean for retail investors, and why it needs to be built on #Ethereum: https://t.co/NT4GFxxGlr

[John Arnold @johnarnold]

A fire alarm is going off and everyone is ignoring it.

[Paul🥷 @l4pablo]

This is exactly how a manager should be, totally committed to the club, living in the city, and learning about the people, the city, and its heritage. It almost feels disrespectful that Slot doesn’t live in or around the city and flies home at every opportunity he gets.

The connection between Slot and the fans just isn’t there, and I don’t think it ever will be. That’s something he can’t turn around.

Via (@PeterCrouchPod)

[Lewis Steele @LewisSteele_]

Two years ago, Liverpool’s hierarchy travelled to Zwolle with a 60-page dossier on why Arne Slot was the man for the job. Fans could probably compile a document of the same size now with evidence that he is no longer that man. A piece on thin patience ⬇️🔴
https://t.co/sS9N0ruGoX

[John Subroto Chard @johnnychard]

@lfc sponsors must be squirming if not livid right now.. asking what am i paying for? There’s no statistic pointing towards a mystery gap in personnel a la Hodgson and Kennys time. Clearly no fight for this manager unlike Klopps first year. After £400mln + spent, the Rodgers comparison is almost excessive praise

[Phil McNulty @philmcnulty]

Wrote this on Arne Slot and the dilemma facing Liverpool owners FSG. Porbably even more relevant after last's night loss at Aston Villa. Should they stick or twist when results and performances are so poor and so many fans have lost faith in the head coach?

[John Subroto Chard @johnnychard]

@Sharplink @galaxyhq Great progress. Great to see.

[Consensys.eth @Consensys]

New HarrisX polling: Democrats back CLARITY by +43 net. Republicans by +48. Independents by +32.

There is no constituency for blocking this bill, only one for passing it.