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[wizgot @wizgotD]

@AltcoinSherpa Singapore the city has a soul, its either the soul is not to your liking or you havent had chicken rice

[ZachXBT @zachxbt]

No one seems to mention Scam Altman’s other company WorldCoin aka World which launched with a predatory low float crypto token $WLD that was on par with SBF / FTX companies.

They have preyed on people from low income countries for biometric data by giving away small amounts of $WLD tokens.

The tech was intended a way to prove you’re a human except it has resulted in a black market for verified accounts.

The token supply inflates at unsustainable levels while insiders regularly OTC holdings.

[Zac @Zac_labs]

Singapore’s AI obsession just hit Everest peak.

The Foreign Minister is self-hosting Claude on a Raspberry Pi and building a diplomatic knowledge graph using Karpathy’s LLM Wiki pattern. Wahlao!

SG devs, the minister is coming for your job. And he’s not even using Cursor — he’s on NanoClaw running locally. Can someone git pull his code and give it a test.

Only bad thing? He dropped this on Facebook instead of X. Minister, we need to talk.

https://t.co/JzU3ZeBdPz

[wizgot @wizgotD]

@henlojseam @DeFi_Dad ef sells eth?

[Koen @Koenmtb1]

We're hiring @ the Aztec Foundation!

Work with me to support the decentralised infrastructure operators!

Offer support, help improve documentation and look out for their interests as important stakeholders in the @aztecnetwork ecosystem.

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[Balaji @balajis]

I have never been more bullish on crypto.

Because the rules-based order is collapsing and the code-based order is rising. So the short term price doesn’t matter.

As international law breaks down, we will need not just onchain currencies, but onchain companies. As the post-war order breaks down, we’ll similarly need the post-internet order. States will fail, and the network will take their place.

We need internet capitalism, we need internet democracy, and we need internet privacy. So we need cryptocurrency.

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[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")

[wizgot @wizgotD]

@jessewldn U lost me at blockchain

[wizgot @wizgotD]

@Zac_Aztec Interesting, can make it like a mini competition and do it as a wave?

[James | Snapcrackle @Snapcrackle]

Someone had to make the Fusaka cheat sheet.

Here you go

[NEAR Protocol @NEARProtocol]

✦ NEW PRODUCT LAUNCH ✦

Introducing NEAR AI Cloud and Private Chat—two products that offer hardware-backed, verifiable privacy and are built around one simple yet powerful principle:

Users should own their AI 🧵

[wizgot @wizgotD]

Went to get a nvme disk 2 weeks back & the cashier random discussed btc prices and made a roughly accurate prediction @88k as the bottom.

[Justin Drake @drakefjustin]

🤯 two 5090s now prove every L1 EVM block 🤯

The @zksync Airbender team pulled off something insane ahead of tomorrow's https://t.co/cTmas4QhBE demo. Mainnet proofs on two gaming GPUs. One box, ~1kW—basically a toaster.

Props to @robik, Michael Carrili, @MarcinM02, @Shamatar.

The L1 gas limit is going higher. So much higher.

Beast mode. Gigagas L1. Believe in something.

[ETHGlobal @ETHGlobal]

Crypto keeps losing billions because people keep mishandling their keys.

@PatrickAlphaC breaks down the hacks, fat-fingers, phished wallets, npm compromises, and other disasters that keep repeating.

The lesson is brutally simple: Use hardware wallets, multisigs, secrets managers, and calldata verification like your money depends on it. If you don’t understand your keys and your txns, you don’t have crypto, someone else does.

[wizgot @wizgotD]

@ameensol Depends if the regime cares about the proof

[Justin Drake @drakefjustin]

Progress toward real-time proving for Ethereum L1 is nothing short of extraordinary.

In May, SP1 Hypercube proved 94% of L1 blocks in under 12 seconds using 160 RTX 4090s. Five months later Pico Prism proves 99.9% of the same blocks in under 12 seconds, with just 64 RTX 5090s. Average proving latency is now 6.9 seconds.

Performance has outpaced Moore's law ever since Zcash pioneered practical SNARKs a decade ago. Today's Pico Prism results are a striking reminder of that exponential curve.

Beyond performance, zkVM diversity is remarkable. At least nine zkVMs are racing toward real-time proving: Airbender, Ceno, Jolt, OpenVM, Pico Prism, R0VM, SP1 Hypercube, Ziren, ZisK. That diversity is strength, similar to CL and EL client diversity.

Fusaka, expected in December, will simplify real-time proving. EIP-7825 caps per-tx gas usage, enabling more parallel proving via subblocks. MODEXP, a prominent "prover killer", is being repriced with EIP-7823 and EIP-7883.

By year's end several teams will prove every L1 EVM block on a 16-GPU cluster, drawing less than 10kW total. The 10kW target—about the same as a Tesla home charger—matters for on-prem proving in garages and offices, eliminating reliance on cloud proving.

gigagas frontier

L1 throughput has grown 100x since genesis ten years ago, from 20 kilogas/sec to 2 megagas/sec. With zkEVMs we can 100x again, in half the time. The key is to bypass validators as Ethereum's current scalability bottleneck.

Lean execution proofs also decentralise validation. Goodbye 4TB NVMe, 8 cores, 64GB RAM recommended by EIP-7870. A Raspberry Pi running statelessly, or even a phone, will soon suffice. The scalability vs decentralisation dilemma is dying.

Zooming out, the lean Ethereum vision is gigagas L1 and teragas L2. Gigagas L1 (10K TPS) means high-value payments, trading, and social apps directly on mainnet. Teragas L2 (10M TPS) means welcoming the entirety of finance onto Ethereum.

Nov 22: Ethproofs day demo

Behind the scenes teams are preparing a special Devconnect demo. In 38 days my home validator will run on zkEVM proofs. My mighty Geth node will go dark—no more execution client.

Devconnect Argentina is Ethereum's world fair. World fairs unveiled the lightbulb, running water, cars, refrigeration, phones, escalators. Real-time proving is Ethereum's lightbulb moment.

Ethereum's future is bright. Believe in something :)

[Ameen Soleimani @ameensol]

disagree with all of this, fwiw

cryptographically proving that your funds aren't associated with criminal funds (even if they happen to use the same privacy protocol as you) is a *good* thing

it is *reasonable* for merchants to request such proofs from privacy users

[koeppelmann @koeppelmann]

Certainly not a good look to get the decimals wrong when minting stables and not having procedures in place to catch that early.

[wizgot @wizgotD]

@divine_economy Mid last year it looked quite bad however, the ship is sailing in better form now. The community is us, we made the noise that got changes in.