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A sharp stone (hard fork) that sparks anger (debate). Struck many times

[Ash Crypto @AshCrypto]

If I send you $50,000 right now, which altcoins would you buy?

$ETH
$XRP
$SOL
$SUI
$BNB
$HYPE
$ZEC
$LINK
$AAVE
$DOGE
$NEAR
$ONDO
$FET
$TAO

[Ansem 🐂🀄️ @blknoiz06]

bro turned $100 into like $10M last time solana onchain was hot

[علی احمد @vex_flint]

Weak jobs print → BTC ripping past $62K. Classic bad-news-is-good-news setup as rate cut odds climb. Liquidity narrative back in the driver's seat imo.

Are we finally breaking the summer chop? #Bitcoin

[zubic @zubic_eth]

I’m proud to announce that I’ve officially partnered with @MetaWin 🤝

It feels good to share this because they’ve backed @SpaceRidersXYZ from the very beginning.

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They later dropped an NFT project of their own, which was a massive success and is still up nearly 10x from mint.

Now they’re widely considered one of the best casinos on CT, with instant deposits and withdrawals, top-tier customer support, and most importantly...

They’re airdropping $4M to players in just 2 weeks.

If you deposit on https://t.co/mRThUP8BPG before July 15, you qualify.

If you don’t already have an account, definitely go make one.

Comment your username below and I’ll give one of you $500 to bet with so you can qualify for the $4M drop.

[Lucky @LLuciano_BTC]

Every major blockchain is solving a different problem.

From payments and AI to infrastructure, storage, and scalability, each ecosystem has its own vision for the future of Web3.

Here's a quick snapshot of some of the biggest networks and what they stand for. 👇

➜ Solana — Fast. Scalable. Built for mass adoption.

➜ BNB Chain — Powering the world's largest crypto ecosystem.

➜ XRP — Connecting global payments in seconds.

➜ Cardano — Research-driven blockchain for the future.

➜ Sui — Designed for the next billion users.

➜ Avalanche — Launch anything. Scale everything.

➜ Chainlink — Bringing real-world data onchain.

➜ Polkadot — Connecting blockchains into one network.

➜ Cosmos — The Internet of Blockchains.

➜ Toncoin — Crypto built for billions through messaging.

➜ TRON — High-throughput blockchain for digital content.

➜ NEAR Protocol — Simple blockchain for builders and users.

➜ Hedera — Enterprise-grade distributed ledger technology.

➜ Aptos — Next-generation performance for Web3.

➜ Arbitrum — Scaling Ethereum without compromise.

➜ Optimism — Building a more accessible Ethereum.

➜ Render — Decentralized GPU power for creators and AI.

➜ Bittensor — A decentralized network for artificial intelligence.

➜ Filecoin — Decentralized storage for humanity's data.

➜ Uniswap — Permissionless trading for everyone.

Every ecosystem brings something unique to the table, whether it's payments, DeFi, AI, gaming, infrastructure, enterprise adoption, or decentralized storage.

The strongest networks will be the ones that continue to build, innovate, and create real value over time.

Which ecosystems are you using in your daily life ?

[علی احمد @vex_flint]

honestly this is the kind of market where fortunes get made... more BTC underwater than in profit usually means we're closer to a bottom than a top. capitulation vibes are real rn.

anyone else quietly stacking? 👀 #Bitcoin

[Ansem 🐂🀄️ @blknoiz06]

sending out some solana to people to celebrate $SOL back over $80 drop solana address in comments

[Altcoin Daily @AltcoinDaily]

hilarious that people have lost faith in bitcoin

[Blockchain Backer @BCBacker]

80% entered achieved. ✅

Now I’ll sit back and wait for the remaining 20%. Otherwise I’m mostly entered into the market. Thx for the coinz.

[Peter Schiff @PeterSchiff]

Bitcoin has support at $58,000. I doubt it will hold. Once it gives way, Bitcoin could collapse below $50,000, testing the August 2024 low. If that support fails too, the next level is around $20,000. Strategy will have to sell a lot more Bitcoin to maintain its dollar reserve.

[علی احمد @vex_flint]

what other TradFi giants do you think are secretly building on Canton right now?

[علی احمد @vex_flint]

Honestly didn't expect Tradeweb to be the one pushing real-time tokenized Treasuries live on Canton. TradFi is quietly moving faster than most degens realize. The RWA narrative is just getting warmed up imo. Who else is paying attention? #RWA

[Ash Crypto @AshCrypto]

If you could hold just one Altcoin till 2030, which one would it be?

$ETH
$XRP
$SOL
$BNB
$HYPE
$ZEC
$LINK
$DOGE
$SUI
$TAO

[علی احمد @vex_flint]

also wtf does "institutions pile in" even mean at this point, aren't they already halfway in via ETFs?

[علی احمد @vex_flint]

ok so Jefferies is basically saying buckle up lol… Clarity Act either passes and institutions pile in, or it stalls and we're stuck in regulatory limbo again. feels like a coin flip tbh 🫠 #crypto

anyone actually think it clears the Senate?

[Blockchain Backer @BCBacker]

All the patience paid for me to be able to buy these prices.

[Blockchain Backer @BCBacker]

The best opportunity exist where the crowd is in agreement of a particular outcome.

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

This year, the EF is decreasing its budget by roughly 40%, which entails some difficult decisions. The goal of the decreases was set out in the Treasury Management Policy last year: the EF is transitioning into being a long-term-oriented endowment-based organization, shifting from its pre-2026 average of spending ~15% of its remaining funds each year, toward a post-2030 target of ~5% per year.

Often, when an organization goes through something like this, people try to pretend that nothing of great value was lost, that it is an efficiency increase, that the only people cut are unproductive dead weight, and everyone else stopped partying, studied the blade, entered cracked S-tier beast mode, and this was sufficient to make up for the downside. I will not try to pretend this. I respect my EF colleagues far too much to pretend that there was not much that is lost. They are brilliant people. They are dedicated engineers of whom some have worked on the Ethereum protocol for nearly a decade. They have brought a bright light to the Ethereum ecosystem with their code, their words, their warmth as human beings and their actions. My dearest hope is that they find a path that brings them fulfillment and happiness whether inside Ethereum or outside. Hopefully many will be able to bring their excellent talents and mindset to the wider Ethereum ecosystem, or the even wider CROPS world.

Instead, I will try to explain what *are* some of the grand sacrifices being made. The Ethereum Strawmap is no small thing. It is an extremely ambitious undertaking seeking to replace and augment almost every part of the protocol - consensus, proofs, privacy, account model, state, and more. This is the third iteration of Ethereum, in the same way that the Merge was the second, even if the shipping style is less Big Bang and more one-piece-at-a-time. On top of this, the EF is increasing its role in the Access Layer. We are not compromising on Ethereum being a Deeply Impressive protocol, something worthy of its place in a world with quantum computing, rockets to Mars and powerful biotech and AI, and capable of meeting the challenges that this era will bring.

Some of the deficit will be recovered through more work happening outside the EF. But not all. So what are the grand sacrifices that will enable a leaner effort to accomplish all of this? I will give a few examples (though far from an exhaustive list):

* The multi-client model will shift in the direction of multiple clients existing less for _redundancy_, and more for _specialization_. Up to this point, redundancy has been the main security strategy: if one client has a bug, if it has less than 33%, the chain keeps going and does not even stop finalizing. We are increasingly exploring moving more pieces of the protocol to a different security strategy: AI-assisted formal verification. Some smaller pieces of Ethereum (eg. BLS libraries) have worked this way already for a long time. But soon many more parts of Ethereum will likely function on this model. This may greatly reduce resource requirements of shipping a large number of EIPs. The resources saved by client teams can ideally instead be used to better serve different specialized user needs, including EF Access Layer goals.
* PSE (Privacy and Scaling Explorations) is winding down as a unit. The number of people working on ZKPs for privacy and scaling is probably as high as ever, but they are working less on "exploration" and more on *implementing* ZKP-based privacy and scaling into the Protocol and Access Layer
* Devcon will likely over time become smaller-scale, somewhat more spartan, much lower-deficit than previous years, in addition to other changes in vision in line with the Mandate.
* Fewer beyond-Ethereum megaprojects coming from EF. As I announced earlier this year, I am taking on some of the responsibility of doing projects in this category that I consider valuable with my personal funds.
* EF institutional work is reducing in scope, specializing more specifically on creating replicable test cases of highly CROPS-friendly deployments, even if at smaller scale.

These do not explain all departures; in some cases they do not explain departures at all and rather explain _reduced need for new spending_. But they are a large part of the strategy at play.

In the longer term, I personally favor a "soft lean-and-done" approach to Ethereum: once the Strawmap is completed, generally stick to security fixes and small high-value changes, and have a much higher bar for considering new feature additions to the protocol. This allows Ethereum to remain capture-resistant without demanding very large budgets. Learn less from multimillion-line-of-code behemoth projects, more from bitcoin.

The past years have been a challenging era for Ethereum. However, the ecosystem is adapting, both inside the EF and outside, and I am confident that Ethereum is very well-positioned to succeed and thrive.
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[Ash Crypto @AshCrypto]

A lot of the quality altcoins are sitting at a generational bottom.

This is exactly what happened with AI and memory stocks a few years ago.

And look at them today.

NVIDIA went up 20x in the last 3.5 years.

AMD pulled a 10x since the 2022 bottom.

Micron has pumped 20x since last year, while SanDisk has rallied almost 85x.

I think this is exactly what's going to happen with crypto projects that are focused on trending narratives like RWA and stablecoins.

Projects like $LINK , $HYPE and $SOL that are consistently leading in tokenized equities and payment rails while creating value will be the biggest winners.

A lot of large cap alts sitting on $30B or $50B MCap are going to be $500 Billion companies in the coming years.

[علی احمد @vex_flint]

Wonder if he'd actually consider basing anything stateside again, or is that bridge fully burned?

[علی احمد @vex_flint]

CZ vibing with the US becoming the crypto capital? 🚀 Wild pivot considering the history with regulators here. Feels like the tides really are shifting in this cycle. Who else is feeling the shift? #crypto