sqrDAO 🇻🇳 | Web3 Builders Unite!

Web3 Builders-Driven Community in Vietnam and SEA

[sqrDAO 🇻🇳 | Web3 Builders Unite! @sqrDAO]

Opportunity doesn't live only in London or SF. It can show up anywhere.

Last month, 6 teams flew into Da Nang for the EMpower Founders Residency.

They came to get their product in shape, and for the beach...

Recap below 🧵

[sqrDAO 🇻🇳 | Web3 Builders Unite! @sqrDAO]

@john_nomadz You can book your co-working time here: https://t.co/TC7HPWl8DF

Or, if you want to get curated support, feel free to join our Danang Hub Community: https://t.co/jknANrLqq7

[sqrDAO 🇻🇳 | Web3 Builders Unite! @sqrDAO]

Gm from Da Nang!

Anyone around for the fireworks fest this weekend? 🎆 Our admin team is waiting for you.

Let's catch up in our hub 👀

📍 Level 10, NAPA Riverside Building, Da Nang

[sqrDAO 🇻🇳 | Web3 Builders Unite! @sqrDAO]

Check out our hub activities here https://t.co/MV99Io1EdA

[yutish @star_yutish]

you had to be there!

kudos to @Team1VN & @houyaoi 🇻🇳🔥

[John 🧳 @john_nomadz]

Photos from the @Team1VN & @Dashpay event arrived 📸

Thanks again to everyone for an awesome evening!

And special thanks to @houyaoi for the amazing Vietnamese cultural vibes 🇻🇳

[ngjupeng 🇲🇾🇻🇳 @ngjupeng]

When you are using a crypto neobank, who actually owns your money?

After the recent fight between @MikeSilagadze and @raagulanpathy, I got curious, so I had Claude read the actual Terms of Service of 18 crypto neobanks and sort them into 3 categories:

- You own your money
- Crypto neobank holds your funds for you but doesn't own it
- Crypto neobank owns your money

It turns out that most of them are still self-custodial, and besides Kast, there's another neobank that actually owns your money ☠️

https://t.co/qsZJBWVbBp

Disclaimer: analyzed by Claude, let me know if any of them are wrong

[sqrDAO 🇻🇳 | Web3 Builders Unite! @sqrDAO]

@gmryot @xitadel_fi @afscott Keep up with the good work 🤜

[sqrDAO 🇻🇳 | Web3 Builders Unite! @sqrDAO]

The @xitadel_fi team has been cooking!

If you want a masterclass on the Bond Layer and Liquid Treasury Tokens, grab your headphones and check out this episode with @gmryot and @afscott 🎙️

[Solana Foundation @SolanaFndn]

New episode of Solana is Global with @afscott:
Xitadel's Bond Layer

Alex interviews @gmryot, founder of @xitadel_fi, about onchain debt, their Liquid Treasury Token (LTT) and its mechanics.

Check out the full episode 👇

[Solana Foundation @SolanaFndn]

New episode of Solana is Global with @afscott:
Xitadel's Bond Layer

Alex interviews @gmryot, founder of @xitadel_fi, about onchain debt, their Liquid Treasury Token (LTT) and its mechanics.

Check out the full episode 👇

[sqrDAO 🇻🇳 | Web3 Builders Unite! @sqrDAO]

@Lisk @LiskSEA 👉 Check out the videos here: https://t.co/yJTZxPeGJz

[sqrDAO 🇻🇳 | Web3 Builders Unite! @sqrDAO]

Watch the EMpower Founders Residency unfold!

The full journey is officially live on our website. Replay 3 weeks of intense building, late-night coding, and life at the residency in Da Nang 🇻🇳

From cohort intros to the daily grind - see what happens when Web3 builders lock in together.

👉 Check out the videos here: https://t.co/bbdTYH7qCA

[Dash @Dashpay]

On the field, teams compete. In Web3, we collaborate
⚽️
Watch Party with @Team1VN and Dash. July 7.
Cold beers. Merch. Lucky draw. Good people.
RSVP: https://t.co/c7NlJsdTEL
@sqrdao @QRwallet_X @Danangdfl24

[PolyPay @poly_pay]

We didn't build PolyPay for anonymity.

We built it so businesses can keep what should stay private, private.

[Team1 Vietnam @Team1VN]

Đã đến lúc biến ý tưởng thành hiện thực.

@AvaxTeam1 vừa ra mắt Builder Grants, với mức tài trợ lên đến 30.000 USD cho mỗi dự án.

Đặc biệt, Accelerator Grants sẽ được đánh giá bởi hội đồng bỏ phiếu gồm các thành viên contributors từ cộng đồng.

Nếu bạn đang xây dựng trên @avax, đừng bỏ lỡ cơ hội này. Bắt đầu đăng ký ngay! 🔺

https://t.co/0UksR1Ho2c

[Tuoi Tre News @VietNewsGateway]

Ho Chi Minh City reported strong economic growth in the first half of 2026, with gross regional domestic product (GRDP) expanding 8.55 percent year on year, according to the city's statistics office.

Read more: https://t.co/bbkDypBDxo

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

Two weeks ago, Ethereum researchers met in Berlin to continue charting the protocol's long-term trajectory, following along discussions with client teams in Svalbard in April.

The updated strawmap is at https://t.co/9e2AQ6rhz6, and I attached a picture of it to this post.

My own high-level takeaways:

* "Lean Ethereum" is not a single one-shot upgrade, it is a collection of improvements that will come online to the Ethereum network over the course of three or four years. But make no mistake, this IS the third major iteration of Ethereum in the same way that the Merge was the second. Almost every major piece of the protocol will be replaced:

- Verification through recursive STARKs, rather than direct re-execution. Recursive STARKs become an enshrined first-class core component of the protocol
- Replacing everything quantum-vulnerable with quantum-safe alternatives
- Consensus: decoupled available chain and finality, one or two-round finality. Theoretically optimal security properties, simpler than today, and faster than today
- Multidimensional gas
- State: not just tree structure, but what *types* of state are available
- Changes to client architecture
...

At the same time, simplification, cleanup and future-proofing. And this will all be done in a way that minimizes disruption to existing application. We've done this before (the Merge), we can do it again.

* H-star (aka Hegota) is probably Ethereum's last thematically "pre-Lean" fork. Starting from I-star, most of everything we do will have a very strong "Lean" feel to it in one way or another.

* Privacy is no longer an afterthought, it is a first class goal. When designing Frames, the mempool, additions to the state tree, we explicitly ask the question "okay, how do quantum-safe, intermediary-free privacy protocol transactions go through this, and what is the overhead?"

* Formal verification of everything for security.

* FV also makes us much more comfortable with canonicalization (having pieces of the protocol that are directly defined as a piece of bytecode expressed in some language). evm-asm is being written in part to become a canonical proof system for the EVM.

* Quantum safety has shifted up a LOT in priority. This adds a lot of work (eg. finalizing a quantum-safe blobs design has become urgent; this work has already been ongoing for months)

* Probably the single most disruptive part of the plan is the changes to state. There is growing consensus around leaving present-day-style "dynamic state" mostly unchanged, but scaling it only a medium amount, and adding new types of state that are more scalability-friendly (eg. no need for builders to sync/store all of it) but more restrictive, and that will scale a large amount.

eg. possible Ethereum in 2030: 2 TB of present-day-style (dynamic) state, and 100 TB of new-style (scalable but restrictive) state

This "new-style" state would work very well for ERC20s, NFTs, many defi use cases, but not eg. highly "central" objects like Uniswap contracts, or onchain order books, or other complex things (which are crucial for Ethereum but which only take up a small percentage of state)

Hence, it will not be *necessary* to rewrite any apps, but it will be *very cost-effective* to eg. rewrite an ERC20 token into a newer design that uses a new type of UTXO storage that is currently being explored, so that it will have >10x lower txfees.

Design of these new state types (current ideas: keyed nonces, ring buffers, UTXOs, statically accessible state, temp state) is an area where we will need a lot of feedback from application developers (incl. privacy-friendly application developers) and probably several rounds of rethinking and iteration.

* In the context of a much larger total state size, we need to figure out the incentive issues around who stores this state and what motivates them to. Even saying "each node stores 1%" is not good enough - why do they store that 1% and why are they willing to serve it? This is being elevated as a first-class research area.

* Ethereum will need to have a "VM" other than EVM in one form or another - at the very least, we need something like leanISA for recursive STARKs - and the gains are large in exposing it to users so that we support programmable privacy and better scalability. Right now, the most likely contenders are leanISA and RISC-V.

My own ideal is that in this world, we adjust the protocol so that the EVM becomes a high-level-language compiler-level feature, and the protocol only "sees" RISC-V / leanISA directly. But this is still far away.

* Gas limit increases, blob increases and slot time decreases will happen many times over the next ~5 years. We expect a large gas limit increase with Glasterdam. Each step of increased scale or decreased slot time is a matter of getting to the point where it is safe to do it, which comes from a combination of client optimization and protocol changes.

Ethereum is CROPS.

Ethereum is scaling.

Ethereum is reinventing itself.

Onward.

[a16z crypto @a16zcrypto]

. @rhackett on why the "autonomous" in DAO finally works:

“People would talk about it as a group chat with a bank account. But they had higher aspirations than that: maybe you could have an internet-native organization where people all over the world coordinate via decentralized protocols.”

“AI is now able to digest and ingest tons of information and help people make better decisions. It’s completely game-changing.”

“Let the machines take care of the stuff that humans frankly don’t want to deal with.”

@MTSlive @gbrl_dick

[Ethereum @ethereum]

The internet is better when everyday services respect the people using them.

@ProtonMail inspires the broader privacy movement with encrypted web tools for everyone to use.

[Tuoi Tre News @VietNewsGateway]

Singaporean visitors can now pay in Vietnam using QR codes

Details: https://t.co/uwgyzl0A6q

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Vietnam’s economy surged +8.39% in Q2, beating estimates.