Muradif Smajlović π

Pi Network Pioneer | 1800+ days mining, 10k€ invested in Node | Crypto & Web3 tips on moral revolution | Police officer with 29 years experience

[Muradif Smajlović π @pock_eclipse]

PI NODE 🛠️

Step-by-Step Pi Node Installation Guide💻

​Step 1: Install the Pi Node Desktop App
​Download: Visit https://t.co/43vAMEITFJ and download the Windows installer.
​Installation: Run the file and open the application.

​Authorization: A code will appear on your screen. Open the Pi Network app on your mobile phone, navigate to the side menu > Node, and enter the code. Your account is now linked.

​Application: Click the "Node" icon on the desktop, fill out the initial survey, and enter the Node dashboard.

​Step 2: Install Docker Desktop via the App Link ⚙️

​The Pi Node requires Docker to run the blockchain container.
​Redirection: Inside the Pi Node app, click the setup step for Docker. It will provide a link to the official Docker Desktop download.
​Installation: Run the installer. Ensure the option "Use WSL 2 instead of Hyper-V" is checked.
​Restart: Once finished, restart your PC immediately.
​WSL 2 Update: If Docker shows a "Linux kernel" error upon launch, follow the provided link to download the Microsoft MSI package, install it, and restart Docker.

​Step 3: System Configuration (BIOS & Resources)🛠️

​BIOS Virtualization: If Docker won't start, enter your BIOS (F2/DEL during boot) and enable Virtualization Technology (VT-x or AMD-V).
​Resource Allocation: Open Docker Settings > Resources. For a setup with 32 GB RAM, allocate 16 GB to Docker to ensure smooth blockchain processing.

​Step 4: Network Setup (Port Forwarding)🛠️⚙️

​Local Static IP: In Windows Network Settings, assign a fixed IP to your PC (e.g., 192.168.1.50).
​Open Ports: Log into your router and find the "Port Forwarding" section. Forward ports 31400-31409 to your PC’s static IP using the TCP protocol.
​Verification: Click "Check Ports" in the Pi app. Once they show as "Open" (green), you are ready.

​Step 5: Activation🌐

​Toggle the Node switch to "ON". The synchronization process will begin. Your high-speed connection and SSD will determine how fast you catch up to the current block.

​Key Tips for "Titanium" Level Performance🔋

​Static Public IP: Request a Static Public IP from your ISP. It prevents connection drops during IP renewals and keeps your node globally reachable.
​UPS (Power Backup): Connect both your PC and Router to a UPS. A 1-second power flicker can corrupt your database; 24/7 uptime is the goal.
​NVMe SSD: Use high-end drives (like the Samsung 990) for high endurance.
​Uptime Goal: Aim for >99% availability. Consistency over 90 days is the primary driver for your Node Bonus.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

NEW: SEC names digital assets & blockchain technology a “core focus” in its 2026–2030 strategic plan.

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: Visa, Mastercard and Stripe to launch crypto stablecoin platform.

[Mike Selig @ChairmanSelig]

In my first public remarks as @CFTC Chairman, I made clear that the agency would use the tools at its disposal to onshore crypto asset perpetuals. Today, the @CFTC delivered on that commitment.

This morning, the @CFTC took historic action to permit the listing of a true bitcoin perpetual contract by a CFTC-registered exchange, charting a path for one of the most liquid segments of the crypto asset markets to exist within the US regulatory framework.

[Ash Crypto @AshCrypto]

Yesterday the crypto market just had its 3rd largest liquidation event of 2026.

$1.8 billion in leveraged positions got liquidated as $BTC dropped to a 2-month low and $ETH dropped to a 3-month low.

And the worst part? This did not happen because of weakness in market or some major bad news, this was a result of pure manipulation to hunt leverage and flush out retail.

The US stock market hits historic highs and BTC is down -45% from its peak ? There is no genuine explanation for this.

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: Binance to allow conversion of US stocks to tokenized stocks on BNB blockchain.

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇮🇷 US imposes sanctions on Iran's largest crypto exchange 'Nobitex.'

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Crypto Clarity Act added to Senate Legislative Calendar, making it eligible for full Senate consideration.

[Ash Crypto @AshCrypto]

President Trump should be named pro-STOCK president rather than pro-CRYPTO.

Prices since Trump took office:

SP500: +28%
RUSSELL: +36%
NASDAQ: +40%
APPLE: 42%
NVIDIA: +101%
GOOGLE: +117%
DELL: +302%

Bitcoin: -33%
ETH: -47%

[Solana @solana]

if you could build anything on solana today, what would it be?

[TON 💎 @ton_blockchain]

Toncoin (TON) -> Gram (GRAM)

Community vote is live.

Since Telegram took a leading role in TON's development, the chain got 10× faster, fees 6× lower.

And now Telegram proposes one more change: renaming Toncoin to Gram - the name from the original TON White Paper that never left the codebase.

Vote here -> https://t.co/TH8DTmXJ61

[Muradif Smajlović π @pock_eclipse]

$BTC holding strong. Are you accumulating or waiting? #Bitcoin #Crypto

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

Now, execution layer changes. I've already talked about account abstraction, multidimensional gas, BALs, and ZK-EVMs.

I've also talked here about a short-term EVM upgrade that I think will be super-valuable: a vectorized math precompile (basically, do 32-bit or potentially 64-bit operations on lists of numbers at the same time; in principle this could accelerate many hashes, STARK validation, FHE, lattice-based quantum-resistane signatures, and more by 8-64x); think "the GPU for the EVM". https://t.co/WikL7gJ5qg

Today I'll focus on two big things: state tree changes, and VM changes. State tree changes are in this roadmap. VM changes (ie. EVM -> RISC-V or something better) are longer-term and are still more non-consensus, but I have high conviction that it will become "the obvious thing to do" once state tree changes and the long-term state roadmap (see https://t.co/7nL9qOQYnm ) are finished, so I'll make my case for it here.

What these two have in common is:

* They are the big bottlenecks that we have to address if we want efficient proving (tree + VM are like >80%)
* They're basically mandatory for various client-side proving use cases
* They are "deep" changes that many shrink away from, thinking that it is more "pragmatic" to be incrementalist

I'll make the case for both.

# Binary trees

The state tree change (worked on by @gballet and many others) is https://t.co/ta5HwJkhvv, switching from the current hexary keccak MPT to a binary tree based on a more efficient hash function.

This has the following benefits:

* 4x shorter Merkle branches (because binary is 32*log(n) and hexary is 512*log(n)/4), which makes client-side branch verification more viable. This makes Helios, PIR and more 4x cheaper by data bandwidth
* Proving efficiency. 3-4x comes from shorter Merkle branches. On top of that, the hash function change: either blake3 [perhaps 3x vs keccak] or a Poseidon variant [100x, but more security work to be done]
* Client-side proving: if you want ZK applications that compose with the ethereum state, instead of making their own tree like today, then the ethereum state tree needs to be prover-friendly.
* Cheaper access for adjacent slots: the binary tree design groups together storage slots into "pages" (eg. 64-256 slots, so 2-8 kB). This allows storage to get the same efficiency benefits as code in terms of loading and editing lots of it at a time, both in raw execution and in the prover. The block header and the first ~1-4 kB of code and storage live in the same page. Many dapps today already load a lot of data from the first few storage slots, so this could save them >10k gas per tx
* Reduced variance in access depth (loads from big contracts vs small contracts)
* Binary trees are simpler
* Opportunity to add any metadata bits we end up needing for state expiry

Zooming out a bit, binary trees are an "omnibus" that allows us to take all of our learnings from the past ten years about what makes a good state tree, and actually apply them.

# VM changes

See also: https://t.co/NSRtzNYplH

One reason why the protocol gets uglier over time with more special cases is that people have a certain latent fear of "using the EVM". If a wallet feature, privacy protocol, or whatever else can be done without introducing this "big scary EVM thing", there's a noticeable sigh of relief. To me, this is very sad. Ethereum's whole point is its generality, and if the EVM is not good enough to actually meet the needs of that generality, then we should tackle the problem head-on, and make a better VM. This means:

* More efficient than EVM in raw execution, to the point where most precompiles become unnecessary
* More prover-efficient than EVM (today, provers are written in RISC-V, hence my proposal to just make the new VM be RISC-V)
* Client-side-prover friendly. You should be able to, client-side, make ZK-proofs about eg. what happens if your account gets called with a certain piece of data
* Maximum simplicity. A RISC-V interpreter is only a couple hundred lines of code, it's what a blockchain VM "should feel like"

This is still more speculative and non-consensus. Ethereum would certainly be *fine* if all we do is EVM + GPU. But a better VM can make Ethereum beautiful and great.

A possible deployment roadmap is:

1. NewVM (eg. RISC-V) only for precompiles: 80% of today's precompiles, plus many new ones, become blobs of NewVM code
2. Users get the ability to deploy NewVM contracts
3. EVM is retired and turns into a smart contract written in NewVM

EVM users experience full backwards compatibility except gas cost changes (which will be overshadowed by the next few years of scaling work). And we get a much more prover-efficient, simpler and cleaner protocol.

https://t.co/YGILZ13vMQ

[Muradif Smajlović π @pock_eclipse]

$ETH fees dropping again. Great time to explore DeFi #Ethereum

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

One of the many things I dislike about the style of "make AI go well" discourse from frontier AI companies is how nationalist the whole thing has gotten.

In the 2010s, it was: "we're here to benefit all of humanity"

In the 2020s, "we're here to benefit all of 4% of humanity"

And even the Good People are buying into this frame completely😢

And they expect humanity to go along, because "come on, be a realistic adult, it's either us or Chiiina" or something like that

(And on the EU side, you get "[X] with European values", which too often seems to mean "the same stuff they're doing, but with Us instead of Them in charge")

Very big-dog-small-dog energy, morally speaking.

[Muradif Smajlović π @pock_eclipse]

Bear markets build champions. Bull markets reward them #BTC

[Ted @TedPillows]

Performance of $ETH is an absolute joke.

I hold Ethereum and almost losing my patience.

[Crypto Rover @cryptorover]

Altcoin holders waited 5 years for altseason.

Most altcoins are now down 90%.

Meanwhile every other asset on the planet is pumping.

RIP altcoin holders.

[David Hoffman @TrustlessState]

I spent the weekend putting my thoughts about $ETH and Ethereum into this article

I built my career, community, and business on Ethereum, so the decision to sell deserves a deeper explanation

I hope this is sufficient

Thank you, all

[Ice Open Network @ice_blockchain]

💫 We owe you an apology.

One week ago, we said Phase One of the new ION direction was expected to launch within two weeks.

We were wrong.

Phase One is already finished — and the controlled launch is scheduled to begin first thing Monday.

That means we are moving one week earlier than expected.

Over the past week, our small team pushed harder than ever. We have integrated AI deeply into our development, QA, testing, iteration, documentation, and automation workflows.

In total, last week, we processed more than 17 billion AI tokens across agentic development pipelines, automated QA loops, regression testing, edge-case simulations, code reviews, optimization tasks, technical documentation, campaign preparation, and product validation work.

While we were sleeping, our agents were still working.

Testing.
Breaking things.
Finding issues.
Re-running flows.
Improving outputs.
Validating user journeys.
Preparing the product for real clients.

This is exactly the speed we were missing in the past.

We had strong ideas before, but we often lacked the execution velocity needed to bring them to market fast enough. This time, things are different.

Phase One is not a hype launch.

It is a controlled launch with a small initial client base, where we will calibrate campaigns, optimize acquisition costs, collect real feedback, improve conversion flows, and validate demand with actual users.

The goal is simple:

Build a product that brings real utility, real monthly revenue, and real value back into the ION ecosystem.

This new direction is connected to the AI industry, but it is not dependent on crypto hype, KOLs, market noise, or empty speculation. It can be marketed through real business channels, including search, social, and direct acquisition campaigns.

We have already prepared multiple campaign angles. Once we begin collecting data, I will share updates as transparently as possible: what works, what does not, what we are improving, and how the product is performing.

Some people will say this is just marketing.

That is fine.

If it is only marketing, it will not survive contact with real clients, real campaigns, real feedback, and real numbers.

The project is 100% open-source under the MIT license and will be shared publicly at the right moment.

For now, we launch, measure, learn, improve, and grow.

This is the rebuild.

This is the speed we needed.

And this is how we make ION stronger, sharper, and useful again.

Zeus

[cPen Network @cPenCoreTeam]

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