LaBarbieLoca

seeing blocks before they're proposed. visionary of consensus. dreams of finality

[LaBarbieLoca @validator_g3ct]

Probando algunas técnicas para las sombras y las luces
Es la linda Seraphine con uniforme de colegio 🥰
#seraphine #piltover #LeagueOfLegends #lolfanart #fanart

[Senator Cynthia Lummis @SenLummis]

The Clarity Act is not just a crypto bill. It's a decision about whether America leads the next financial system or watches from the sidelines.

[Ripple @Ripple]

The demand for modern, always-on settlement infrastructure continues to grow.

@Mastercard’s support for $RLUSD and the XRP Ledger reflects growing demand for trusted digital assets and blockchain infrastructure that can power faster, more flexible settlement.

[Altcoin Daily @AltcoinDaily]

Realistic 2026 crypto price predictions:

Bitcoin - $92k
Ethereum - $1500
Solana - $140
Hyperliquid - $88
Zcash - $790
Bittensor - $450

What else? 🤔

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

A wide-ranging conversation on Bitcoin, Strategy, volatility, conviction, and why there is no second best. $BTC $MSTR $STRC

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

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

[CoinDesk @CoinDesk]

HISTORY: Seven years ago today, @chainlink launched on Ethereum mainnet with a single ETH/USD price feed and three oracle nodes.

[cPen Network @cPenCoreTeam]

🔒 Important Announcement: $PEN Token Lock Strategy Update! 🔒

To ensure long-term growth and community trust, we’re locking 30% of $PEN’s total supply for 5 years:
✅ 12% – Mainnet Rewards
✅ 10% – Team Allocation
✅ 8% – Ecosystem Fund

Lock Details:
⏳ 12-Month Cliff: No unlocks in Year 1.
📈 48-Month Linear Vesting: Gradual release from Month 13–60.

🚨 Important Note: Community-mined rewards (earned through participation) are NOT locked—only the 30% above are subject to the lock.

To our incredible community: Thank you for believing in #cPenNetwork’s vision! 🚀
#Blockchain #Crypto #Tokenomics

[Altcoin Daily @AltcoinDaily]

this was crypto’s largest liquidation event since 10/10

[🇺🇸 Edward T. Winslow @EdwardTWinz]

I just sold all my crypto.

The news I just heard is scary.

I’m done with this.

And I’m never coming back.

[The Wolf Of All Streets @scottmelker]

HUGE: ⚡️ TOM LEE PREDICTS $ETH COULD REACH $250,000 AS AI, TOKENIZATION, AND CORPORATE VALIDATORS TRANSFORM THE NETWORK

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: CME Group officially launches 24/7 crypto futures & options trading.

[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

[mert @mert]

not sure what it is w sol, but it always needs max pain to pick up again

seeing some big signs of life emerging again after a hiatus

new monetary proposals, new trading apps launching, big focus on derivatives and privacy, much faster blocks and a few new releases

ymf

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

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

[LaBarbieLoca @validator_g3ct]

Bear markets build champions. Bull markets reward them #BTC

[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

[Monad @monad]

drop your Monad address below within the next 24 hours to receive your soulbound NFT

[Ripple @Ripple]

24/7 regulated crypto futures and options trading are here through @CMEGroup, and Ripple Prime is a day-one clearing partner.

Institutional demand meets institutional infrastructure.

Built for always-on markets.

[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.

[Crypto Rover @cryptorover]

One last flush lower.

After that, $ETH runs the most hated rally of all time!

Bitcoin will run to $200,000!