Roman

Building @chainlinklabs | | Prev @Blackstone, @McKinsey || All opinions are my own

[Roman @romankca]

Unsure who believes le chaton fat is true vs know it’s a joke

[patagucci perf papi @kenwheeler]

imagine if this technology fell into the wrong hands and foreigners could just one shot beige crud apps at will

[Chris Barrett @ChrisBarrett]

Fable 5 takedown: When intelligence runs through centralized chokepoints, access can be changed overnight.

The future needs decentralized AI models & the verifiable infrastructure to connect, secure, and coordinate them.

That’s why Chainlink matters.

Decentralized AI has to win

[ClaudeDevs @ClaudeDevs]

As a result of a US government directive, we are suspending access to Claude Fable 5 for all users. You can continue to use all other Claude models.

Here’s what this means for you:

Across Claude products, new sessions will run on your selected default model or Opus 4.8, and existing Fable 5 sessions will end with an error.

On the Claude Platform, requests to Fable 5 will also return an error. Please update your integrations to other Claude models.

We know this is a disruption to your workflows; we appreciate your patience and support.

[Roman @romankca]

Claude Plus subscription is unusable, 4 prompts in the chat and you need to wait 4h

[Den ❤️‍🔥 @OnChainDen]

Den just blew past $10B in transaction volume, and we're sprinting towards $100B

Now we're hiring our next Full Stack Engineer to help us scale

Join our team to ship features end-to-end across web and mobile, helping the world's largest organizations secure their stablecoins and crypto

Apply below 👇

[Deedy @deedydas]

The vibes in SF feel pretty frenetic right now. The divide in outcomes is the worst I've ever seen.

Over the last 5yrs, a group of ~10k people - employees at Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Nvidia, Meta TBD, founders - have hit retirement wealth of well above $20M (back of the envelope AI estimation).

Everyone outside that group feels like they can work their well-paying (but <$500k) job for their whole life and never get there.

Worse yet, layoffs are in full swing. Many software engineers feel like their life's skill is no longer useful. The day to day role of most jobs has changed overnight with AI.

As a result,
1. The corporate ladder looks like the wrong building to climb.
Everyone's trying to align with a new set of career "paths": should I be a founder? Is it too late to join Anthropic / OpenAI? should I get into AI? what company stock will 10x next? People are demanding higher salaries and switching jobs more and more.

2. There’s a deep malaise about work (and its future).
Why even work at all for “peanuts”? Will my job even exist in a few years? Many feel helpless. You hear the “permanent underclass” conversation a lot, esp from young people. It's hard to focus on doing good work when you think "man, if I joined Anthropic 2yrs ago, I could retire"

3. The mid to late middle managers feel paralyzed.
Many have families and don't feel like they have the energy or network to just "start a company". They don't particularly have any AI skills. They see the writing on the wall: middle management is being hollowed out in many companies.

4. The rich aren’t particularly happy either.
No one is shedding tears for them (and rightfully so). But those who have "made it" experience a profound lack of purpose too. Some have gone from <$150k to >$50M in a few years with no ramp. It flips your life plans upside down. For some, comparison is the thief of joy. For some, they escape to NYC to "live life". For others still, they start companies "just cuz", often to win status points. They never imagined that by age 30, they'd be set. I once asked a post-economic founder friend why they didn't just sell the co and they said "and do what? right now, everyone wants to talk to me. if i sell, I will only have money."

I understand that many reading this scoff at the champagne problems of the valley. Society is warped in this tech bubble. What is often well-off anywhere else in the world is bang average here.

Unlike many other places, tenure, intelligence and hard work can be loosely correlated with outcomes in the Bay. Living through a societally transformative gold rush in that environment can be paralyzing. "Am I in the right place? Should I move? Is there time still left? Am I gonna make it?" It psychologically torments many who have moved here in search of "success".

Ironically, a frequent side effect of this torment is to spin up the very products making everyone rich in hopes that you too can vibecode your path to economic enlightenment.

[Roman @romankca]

Swatch closing all its UK stores and many French ones on a release day for “public safety”… says a lot about the state of security in those countries lol

[Roman @romankca]

Thanks Claude for the Sharpe

[Zach Rynes | CLG @ChainLinkGod]

The $290M rsETH bridge exploit appears to be the result of a compromised 1-of-1 DVN configuration on @LayerZero_Core

The sole validator was @LayerZero_Labs itself, meaning one forged transaction from a single entity was sufficient to drain the entire bridge

In other words, a single point of failure (either private key or 3rd party RPC compromise)

I flagged this centralization risk years ago, unfortunate that it took an exploit for the issue to get broader attention

[Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph]

🔥 BIG: Chainlink partners with SIX Group, operator of the Swiss and Spanish national exchanges, to bring €2+ trillion in European equities data onchain.

[Boris Cherny @bcherny]

Dogfooding Opus 4.7 the last few weeks, I've been feeling incredibly productive. Sharing a few tips to get more out of 4.7 🧵

[Roman @romankca]

If you think crypto is bad UX try banking in the Caribbean (esp grenada)

- sending $5’000 from XCD to USD

- $50 of transfer fees + a spread you have never heard of

- banks loses the transfer

- charges $200 to investigate

- doesn’t find anything

- money gone

That’s why we need crypto more than ever

[Roman @romankca]

Same for “build your free Bloomberg with cc”

[Roman @romankca]

The amount of “how to build a Polymarket trading bot with Claude Code” content is insane 😂

Nothing says edge like thousands of people deploying the exact same bot

[Roman @romankca]

Trying to get Claude Code and Claude Cowork to work together for ops workflows.

Cowork is better for clean, well-designed docs.
Claude Code is better for research and updating markdown across files.

But running both creates duplicate folder systems, fragmented context, and Cowork seems to compact memory every 3 prompts.

Anyone found a setup that actually works? (Feel like having the same root for both will make smth explode)

[Roman @romankca]

And this CRE skill may help you get that up and running quickly 😜 https://t.co/VkZxtpv40w

[Roman @romankca]

Prediction markets are everywhere right now.
Two CRE templates if you want to build one:

1. AI-settled (Gemini): https://t.co/9lvlZPb5H0

2. Data Feed-settled (BTC/USD): https://t.co/mfuNUYr6tO

Both open source, both cover the full flow.

[Roman @romankca]

And many more templates to help you get started with Chainlink Runtimes Environment here: https://t.co/Wp0YTbvcNc