Th3Silph

Living early, thinking long term 🌱 | Crypto market observations. Patience pays 🧘

[𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡🌴 @tropicalvirtual]

Jumping through portals with 100+ Voyagers at the @OtherGamesXYZ event on @OthersideMeta .
Saved some tigers too 🐯 @TypicalTigerNFT

[Kraken @krakenfx]

Sicher handeln mit EU-regulierten Futures und Krypto-gestützter Margin

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Grok Imagine

[figge @mfigge]

updates for @OthersideMeta

vibecode world to release on tues mar 3 now
was going to be today but still buggy

platform update on mar 12 now
on top of the regular updates
will include Agent API
using x402

last thing
mei and ben made this tech demo
just proving out npc tech w stable performance
7,450 npcs
we also did another one with 10k
stuff you can only do on Otherside

[NODE @nodefnd]

Thanks to all who attended and celebrated our opening and 10,000 by @larvalabs last weekend.

It takes a network to make art work.

[Th3Silph @Th3Silph]

nice!

[CyberKongz @CyberKongz]

700 NFTs sold!
$DEATHSTR

https://t.co/2lX3QYMrHt

[The Gate @TheGateIKZ]

The Gate is updated.

New cards are live, searchable, sortable, build ready.

What are you building?

[CoinDesk @CoinDesk]

JUST IN: Grayscale files S-1 for BNB ETF.

[CoinDesk @CoinDesk]

https://t.co/IcKVSVGPgc

[CoinDesk @CoinDesk]

Charles Hoskinson warns the U.S. could be pushed into a recession as trade partners decouple and global capital shifts away.

“If you lose half of your trading partners… your consumption goes down.”

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

In 2026, I plan to be fully back to decentralized social.

If we want a better society, we need better mass communication tools. We need mass communication tools that surface the best information and arguments and help people find points of agreement. We need mass communication tools that serve the user's long-term interest, not maximize short-term engagement. There is no simple trick that solves these problems. But there is one important place to start: more competition. Decentralization is the way to enable that: a shared data layer, with anyone being able to build their own client on top.

In fact, since the start of the year I've been back to decentralized social already. Every post I've made this year, or read this year, I made or read with https://t.co/BJ3J4TvNNu, a multi-client that covers reading and posting to X, Lens, Farcaster and Bluesky (though bluesky has a 300 char limit, so they don't get to see my beautiful long rants).

But crypto social projects has often gone the wrong way. Too often, we in crypto think that if you insert a speculative coin into something, that counts as "innovating", and moves the world forward. Mixing money and social is not inherently wrong: Substack shows that it's possible to create an economy that supports very high-quality content. But Substack is about _subscribing to creators_, not _creating price bubbles around them_. Over the past decade, we have seen many many attempts at incentivizing creators by creating price bubbles around them, and all fail by (i) rewarding not content quality, but pre-existing social capital, and (ii) the tokens all going to zero after one or two years anyway.

Too many people make galaxy-brained arguments that creating new markets and new assets is automatically good because it "elicits information", when the rest of their product development actions clearly betray that they're not actually interested in maximizing people's ability to benefit from that information. That is not Hayekian info-utopia, that is corposlop.

Hence, decentralized social should be run by people who deeply believe in the "social" part, and are motivated first and foremost by solving the problems of social.

The Aave team has done a great job stewarding Lens up to this point. I'm excited about what will happen to Lens over the next year, because I think the new team coming in are people who actually are interested in the "social": even back when the decentralized social space barely existed, they were trying to figure out how to do encrypted tweets.

I plan to post more there this year.

I encourage everyone to spend more time in Lens, Farcaster and the broader decentralized social world this year. We need to move beyond everyone constantly tweeting inside a single global info warzone, and into a reopened frontier, where new and better forms of interaction become possible.

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

2026 is the year we take back lost ground in computing self-sovereignty.

But this applies far beyond the blockchain world.

In 2025, I made two major changes to the software I use:

* Switched almost fully to https://t.co/ZIKj4U5XFM (open source encrypted decentralized docs)
* Switched decisively to Signal as primary messenger (away from Telegram). Also installed Simplex and Session.

This year changes I've made are:

* Google Maps -> OpenStreetMap https://t.co/Xm0pad5nh9, OrganicMaps https://t.co/yvbwXqEPwo is the best mobile app I've seen for it. Not just open source but also privacy-preserving because local, which is important because it's good to reduce the number of apps/places/people who know anything about your physical location
* Gmail -> Protonmail (though ultimately, the best thing is to use proper encrypted messengers outright)
* Prioritizing decentralized social media (see my previous post)

Also continuing to explore local LLM setups. This is one area that still needs a lot of work in "the last mile": lots of amazing local models, including CPU and even phone-friendly ones, exist, but they're not well-integrated, eg. there isn't a good "google translate equivalent" UI that plugs into local LLMs, transcription / audio input, search over personal docs, comfyui is great but we need photoshop-style UX (I'm sure for each of those items people will link me to various github repos in the replies, but *the whole problem* is that it's "various github repos" and not one-stop-shop). Also I don't want to keep ollama always running because that makes my laptop consume 35 W. So still a way to go, but it's made huge progress - a year ago even most of the local models did not yet exist!

Ideally we push as far as we can with local LLMs, using specialized fine-tuned models to make up for small param count where possible, and then for the heavy-usage stuff we can stack (i) per-query zkp payment, (ii) TEEs, (iii) local query filtering (eg. have a small model automatically remove sensitive details from docs before you push them up to big models), basically combine all the imperfect things to do a best-effort, though ultimately ideally we figure out ultra-efficient FHE.

Sending all your data to third party centralized services is unnecessary. We have the tools to do much less of that. We should continue to build and improve, and much more actively use them.

(btw I really think @SimpleXChat should lowercase the X in their name. An N-dimensional triangle is a much cooler thing to be named after than "simple twitter")

[CZ 🔶 BNB @cz_binance]

A small step in helping to make America the Capital of Crypto, by giving access to the 3rd largest crypto.

[CZ 🔶 BNB @cz_binance]

Deeply grateful for today’s pardon and to President Trump for upholding America’s commitment to fairness, innovation, and justice.
🙏🙏🙏🙏

Will do everything we can to help make America the Capital of Crypto and advance web3 worldwide.

(Still in flight, more posts to come.)

Onwards. 💪

[CoinMarketCap @CoinMarketCap]

LATEST: ⚖️ SEC Chair Paul Atkins and CFTC Chair Michael Selig will hold a joint event on Tuesday to discuss harmonizing crypto regulation between the two agencies.

[CoinMarketCap @CoinMarketCap]

🚀 CMC Market Pulse: TACO Trades Back on the Menu.

BTC -6.47%, ETH -11.14%! $3.02T market cap. Volatility returns with nearly $1B in long liquidations on Tuesday. BitGo goes public, NYSE teases 24/7 tokenized securities trading, and Trove sparks a major ICO backlash.

Let’s break down this week’s top crypto narratives 🧵

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