Valerio D Napoli

Hollywood VFX-wizard turned Crypto code-geek.

Developing smart contracts, exploring DeFi & Web3.

Technologist, finance expert, eToro Popular Investor.

[Valerio D Napoli @valedinapoli]

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[Brave @brave]

By popular request: Brave now has Containers!

In Brave for desktop, you can now separate your browsing sessions with a couple of clicks.

Here's what this means...

[Coin Bureau @coinbureau]

🎥WATCH: TETHER CEO EXPLAINS WHY $184B USDT DID NOT APPLY FOR MICA

Paolo Ardoino said Tether did not apply for MiCA license because “it is very dangerous when it comes to stablecoins.”

He said the rules could force issuers to park 60% of reserves in “uninsured cash deposits” at small European banks unable to handle redemptions.

"I think it's a very not well thought legislation," Ardoino said, adding he "skipped MiCA to protect the 400 million plus users” of Tether.

[Proton @ProtonPrivacy]

A defence contractor has figured out how to track you without ever needing your name, face, or numberplate.

The product, SignalTrace, instead listens to the devices you're carrying, and their sensor clips onto existing cameras your city has likely already got mounted.

1/12

[Valerio D Napoli @valedinapoli]

When in history did a ban *ever* work as intended?

[Coin Bureau @coinbureau]

🚨JUST IN: UK PM STARMER ANNOUNCES SOCIAL MEDIA BAN FOR CHILDREN UNDER 16

"It’s a BIG step for our country.. Social media is making our children unhappy and unsafe"

"I just can’t let that go on anymore, This is real change for our children and our future."

[Valerio D Napoli @valedinapoli]

@Marisalamontagn @SaP011 In Italy, government and judicial system are independent - the Prime Minister has no power over judges. Which makes sense, on paper.

[Valerio D Napoli @valedinapoli]

The Italian judicial system is independent of the government. Giorgia Meloni recently tried to reform it at the constitutional level to make prosecutors (and judges) more accountable for misconduct, including through a new disciplinary court. The changes required a popular referendum to pass, but Italians voted No in March 2026, so the reform failed.

[Valerio D Napoli @valedinapoli]

@RockyAtotheK @grok watch and fact-check this video

[Valerio D Napoli @valedinapoli]

@mal_shaik The vast majority of your findings are already explained in Anthropic's free SkillJar courses. No need to read the source code for these.

[Valerio D Napoli @valedinapoli]

@KatieMiller @claudeai Share the full conversation, not a screenshot.

[Valerio D Napoli @valedinapoli]

@samuelgodson55 @travelingflying In less than 12 hours, on Friday night / Saturday? Unlikely.

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

I'm actually trying to do something even more ambitious:

Create "cypherpunk principled non-ugly ethereum" as a bolt-on to the present-day system, in a way that's as tightly integrated and interoperable as possible, and then grow it over time, in the mean time making sure ethereum itself gains the cypherpunk and simplicity properties that just necessarily have to be system-wide (eg. censorship resistance, zk prover friendliness, consensus properties). Then, in 5 years (or maybe way sooner with AI coding and verification, who knows), we have an open pathway to turn the existing system into smart contracts written in the language of the new system if/when we want.

Ethereum has already made jet engine changes in-flight once (the merge), we can do it ~4 times more!

(state tree, Lean consensus, ZK-EVM verification, VM change)

[Valerio D Napoli @valedinapoli]

@EHuanglu They inadvertently used @vieri_bobo's face at 0:56

[Gordon Fang @GoujianofYue]

BEEN SAYING THIS

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

Encrypted messaging, like @signalapp, is critical for preserving our digital privacy. Two important next steps for the space are (i) permissionless account creation and (ii) metadata privacy.

@session_app and @SimpleXChat are two messaging apps pushing these directions forward.

For this reason I've donated 128 ETH to each. Addresses available on their websites if you wish to follow on:

https://t.co/07ORUYDCu8
https://t.co/FQde3IK0uz

But also, actually download and use them!

Neither of the two are perfect pieces of software, they have a way to go to get to truly optimal user experience and security. Strong metadata privacy requires decentralization, decentralization is hard, users expecting multi-device support makes everything harder. Sybil / DoS resistance, both in the message routing network and on the user side (without forcing phone number dependence) adds further difficulty.

These problems need more eyes on them. I wish all teams working on these important problems best of luck.

[Valerio D Napoli @valedinapoli]

@abuaatish @basedotmeme Also, people voluntarily doxing their addresses for nothing.
Meanwhile, the NSA:

[Valerio D Napoli @valedinapoli]

@fulcanelli_sol Thanks so much! Really glad it helped. Concentrated liquidity arbitrage is one of those topics where the complexity isn't obvious until you're deep in it. If you write anything or build public code on these concepts, feel free to tag me, I'll be happy to see what you created.

[Valerio D Napoli @valedinapoli]

@waleedmk70 @inno_ox @sns @solanamobile Just a buggy website, nothing was taken from me. As a scam, that would be pretty lame.