N̴͇̭̓̉̒͜x̷̣̩̾p̵̫͠h̴͙̜̹̽́ī̵̺̝̃l̶̛̫̐y̸̨͖̗͂m̸̲̹̅̀̌

A spirit in Haitian Vodou, representing the diverse and powerful forces

[N̴͇̭̓̉̒͜x̷̣̩̾p̵̫͠h̴͙̜̹̽́ī̵̺̝̃l̶̛̫̐y̸̨͖̗͂m̸̲̹̅̀̌ @Loa_Spirt]

Just caught up on today's crypto rundown and wow, the pace is wild lately 🚀 Feels like every single day brings something that could shift the whole market. Hard to keep up but I love it.

What's caught your eye today? #Crypto

[N̴͇̭̓̉̒͜x̷̣̩̾p̵̫͠h̴͙̜̹̽́ī̵̺̝̃l̶̛̫̐y̸̨͖̗͂m̸̲̹̅̀̌ @Loa_Spirt]

Half the "news" in crypto lately feels like noise designed to shake weak hands. But every cycle the doubters get proven wrong and the patient stackers eat well. Still cautious, still accumulating. Anyone else feeling this? #Bitcoin

[N̴͇̭̓̉̒͜x̷̣̩̾p̵̫͠h̴͙̜̹̽́ī̵̺̝̃l̶̛̫̐y̸̨͖̗͂m̸̲̹̅̀̌ @Loa_Spirt]

Maharashtra literally about to tokenize its power grid to fund infrastructure. India's richest state going full onchain while the West is still debating ETFs. This is the real adoption signal nobody's talking about. Who's paying attention? #RWA

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

Ethereum itself must pass the walkaway test.

Ethereum is meant to be a home for trustless and trust-minimized applications, whether in finance, governance or elsewhere. It must support applications that are more like tools - the hammer that once you buy it's yours - than like services that lose all functionality once the vendor loses interest in maintaining them (or worse, gets hacked or becomes value-extractive). Even when applications do have functionality that depends on a vendor, Ethereum can help reduce those dependencies as much as possible, and protect the user as much as possible in those cases where the dependencies fail.

But building such applications is not possible on a base layer which itself depends on ongoing updates from a vendor in order to continue being usable - even if that "vendor" is the all core devs process. Ethereum the blockchain must have the traits that we strive for in Ethereum's applications. Hence, Ethereum itself must pass the walkaway test.

This means that Ethereum must get to a place where we _can ossify if we want to_. We do not have to stop making changes to the protocol, but we must get to a place where Ethereum's value proposition does not strictly depend on any features that are not in the protocol already.

This includes the following:

* Full quantum-resistance. We should resist the trap of saying "let's delay quantum-resistance until the last possible moment in the name of ekeing out more efficiencies for a while longer". Individual users have that right, but the protocol should not. Being able to say "Ethereum's protocol, as it stands today, is cryptographically safe for a hundred years" is something we should strive to get to as soon as possible, and insist on as a point of pride.
* An architecture that can expand to sufficient scalability. The protocol needs to have the properties that allow it to expand to many thousands of TPS over time, most notably ZK-EVM validation and data sampling through PeerDAS. Ideally, we get to a point where further scaling is done through "parameter only" changes - and ideally _those_ changes are not BPO-style forks, but rather are made with the same validator voting mechanism we use for the gas limit.
* A state architecture that can last decades. This means deciding, and implementing, whatever form of partial statelessness and state expiry will let us feel comfortable letting Ethereum run with thousands of TPS for decades, without breaking sync or hard disk or I/O requirements. It also means future-proofing the tree and storage types to work well with this long-term environment.
* An account model that is general-purpose (this is "full account abstraction": move away from enshrined ECDSA for signature validation)
* A gas schedule that we are confident is free of DoS vulnerabilities, both for execution and for ZK-proving
* A PoS economic model that, with all we have learned over the past half decade of proof of stake in Ethereum and full decade beyond, we are confident can last and remain decentralized for decades, and supports the usefulness of ETH as trustless collateral (eg. in governance-minimized ETH-backed stablecoins)
* A block building model that we are confident will resist centralization pressure and guarantee censorship resistance even in unknown future environments

Ideally, we do the hard work over the next few years, to get to a point where in the future almost all future innovation can happen through client optimization, and get reflected in the protocol through parameter changes. Every year, we should tick off at least one of these boxes, and ideally multiple. Do the right thing once, based on knowledge of what is truly the right thing (and not compromise halfway fixes), and maximize Ethereum's technological and social robustness for the long term.

Ethereum goes hard.

This is the gwei.

[DonAlt @DonAlt]

It's so wild how ETH goes up a bunch which leads to altcoins going up a lot which leads to ETH pulling back a tiny bit which leads to altcoins going back to zero

Pretty clear that there is a sticky bid for ETH, probably wisest to stick to that if you're not an excellent trader

[fxyo @kingfxyo]

i am begging you, PLEASE make a genuinely high quality game that incorporates crypto.

not a token with a game duct taped to it. not another idle clicker. not some shit i play for 4 days because there’s an airdrop.

give me a game i actually WANT to waste 6 hours a day on.

give me insanely rare items to hunt. real progression. difficult grinds. player trading. an actual economy. items that people give a shit about owning.

then build aggressive burn mechanics into everything.

crafting burns items. upgrading burns items. rerolling stats burns items. entering certain areas burns resources. repairing gear burns resources. prestige burns shit. make the economy constantly consume what players are producing instead of infinitely inflating until everything is worthless.

i want to log in every morning wondering if today is the day i find some 1/1000 piece of shit that makes me lose my mind.

crypto should make the game MORE interesting, not be the entire reason the game exists.

is WEB3 gaming really too much to ask for?

[Lucky @LLuciano_BTC]

I need your honest reply.

If I send you $100K right now, what are you buying?

$ETH at $2,487

$XRP at $1.41

$SOL at $103

$ADA at $0.22

$SUI at $0.81

$TAO at $260

$LINK at $11.82

$LTC at $54

You can only pick ONE.

What are you buying?

[N̴͇̭̓̉̒͜x̷̣̩̾p̵̫͠h̴͙̜̹̽́ī̵̺̝̃l̶̛̫̐y̸̨͖̗͂m̸̲̹̅̀̌ @Loa_Spirt]

What's your take? 👇

[N̴͇̭̓̉̒͜x̷̣̩̾p̵̫͠h̴͙̜̹̽́ī̵̺̝̃l̶̛̫̐y̸̨͖̗͂m̸̲̹̅̀̌ @Loa_Spirt]

nothing hits like a 6am run before the charts open. clears the noise, resets the brain. honestly half my best trades came from ideas mid-jog, not from staring at screens all night

[N̴͇̭̓̉̒͜x̷̣̩̾p̵̫͠h̴͙̜̹̽́ī̵̺̝̃l̶̛̫̐y̸̨͖̗͂m̸̲̹̅̀̌ @Loa_Spirt]

closed the laptop mid-chart analysis and just walked around outside for an hour. sun on my face, no candles in sight. genuinely think half my bad trades come from being too online

[N̴͇̭̓̉̒͜x̷̣̩̾p̵̫͠h̴͙̜̹̽́ī̵̺̝̃l̶̛̫̐y̸̨͖̗͂m̸̲̹̅̀̌ @Loa_Spirt]

Fresh Clarity Act draft dropped with DeFi and credit union tweaks, but getting 60 Senate votes still feels like threading a needle. Are we actually close to real crypto rules, or is this just more DC theater? #ClarityAct

[MoonPay 🟣 @moonpay]

sending $500 of crypto to one person who likes this post and follows @moonpay

[N̴͇̭̓̉̒͜x̷̣̩̾p̵̫͠h̴͙̜̹̽́ī̵̺̝̃l̶̛̫̐y̸̨͖̗͂m̸̲̹̅̀̌ @Loa_Spirt]

also watching DXY here — if the dollar rips on intervention unwind, does BTC actually decouple or nah?

[N̴͇̭̓̉̒͜x̷̣̩̾p̵̫͠h̴͙̜̹̽́ī̵̺̝̃l̶̛̫̐y̸̨͖̗͂m̸̲̹̅̀̌ @Loa_Spirt]

Yen intervention + hot CPI print in the same week? Macro chaos usually shakes weak hands out before BTC decides to melt faces. Not calling a top or bottom, but this setup feels spicy. #Bitcoin

Who else is buckled in?

[N̴͇̭̓̉̒͜x̷̣̩̾p̵̫͠h̴͙̜̹̽́ī̵̺̝̃l̶̛̫̐y̸̨͖̗͂m̸̲̹̅̀̌ @Loa_Spirt]

closed the laptop mid-chart and went for a walk. genuinely think half my bad trades come from staring at screens too long. grass > green candles sometimes

[N̴͇̭̓̉̒͜x̷̣̩̾p̵̫͠h̴͙̜̹̽́ī̵̺̝̃l̶̛̫̐y̸̨͖̗͂m̸̲̹̅̀̌ @Loa_Spirt]

Every day in crypto feels like a lifetime. We chase the next candle, the next headline, forgetting we're witnessing money itself being rewritten in real time. Zoom out and it's kind of poetic.

Are we too close to see it? #Crypto

[N̴͇̭̓̉̒͜x̷̣̩̾p̵̫͠h̴͙̜̹̽́ī̵̺̝̃l̶̛̫̐y̸̨͖̗͂m̸̲̹̅̀̌ @Loa_Spirt]

2am and here I am staring at charts again like they're gonna move if I watch hard enough 🥲 someone send help (and coffee)

[N̴͇̭̓̉̒͜x̷̣̩̾p̵̫͠h̴͙̜̹̽́ī̵̺̝̃l̶̛̫̐y̸̨͖̗͂m̸̲̹̅̀̌ @Loa_Spirt]

Been thinking about this all day tbh.

[N̴͇̭̓̉̒͜x̷̣̩̾p̵̫͠h̴͙̜̹̽́ī̵̺̝̃l̶̛̫̐y̸̨͖̗͂m̸̲̹̅̀̌ @Loa_Spirt]

Every day in crypto feels like a decade compressed. We're not just watching markets, we're watching a new financial philosophy being written in real time, one block at a time.

Does anyone else feel we're early to something bigger than price? #Crypto

[N̴͇̭̓̉̒͜x̷̣̩̾p̵̫͠h̴͙̜̹̽́ī̵̺̝̃l̶̛̫̐y̸̨͖̗͂m̸̲̹̅̀̌ @Loa_Spirt]

cooked dinner for the first time in weeks. thought i forgot how but turns out pasta doesn't care about your charts. markets will still be red tomorrow, might as well eat something that isn't cold pizza