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Most apps connect to services you don’t even know about Status now lets you turn all of that OFF introducing Isolation Mode → run Status fully sandboxed, no third-party connections

A new world is not kindled by technology alone. To rebuild civil society, we need people who choose purpose and integrity over greed. Parallel Society was an experiment in exactly that: turning shared conviction into something real.

Big Tech and data brokers don’t need your messages they just need your patterns even if you use multiple “encrypted” apps, you’re still leaking metadata across them. privacy isn’t just encryption

We are in Parallel Society by @Logos_network find our booth in the FOSS zone Status Network is building: • the first gasless Ethereum L2 • native yield at the protocol layer • composable privacy by default • karma reputation instead of gas fees swing by, chat with the team, and grab custom stickers

Status is privacy by default this isn’t a promise it’s an architecture choice here’s how👇

Domestic violence is one of Europe’s most persistent failures. In Portugal, 30k cases were reported in 2022 w/ 28 fatalities. Survivors are vulnerable - phones, messages + money, location are monitored. This is what the Porto Circle are doing to make a difference ↓

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Status Network vaults are now live on @turtledotxyz! 420k+ registered wallets. Direct deposits. No intermediaries. LPs can earn Karma and liquid rewards ahead of mainnet. Deposits unlock at launch. Why yield governance power matters for LPs 👇 link.status.network/xxevU

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Two years ago, I wrote this post on the possible areas that I see for ethereum + AI intersections: vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/0… This is a topic that many people are excited about, but where I always worry that we think about the two from completely separate philosophical perspectives. I am reminded of Toly's recent tweet that I should "work on AGI". I appreciate the compliment, for him to think that I am capable of contributing to such a lofty thing. However, I get this feeling that the frame of "work on AGI" itself contains an error: it is fundamentally undifferentiated, and has the connotation of "do the thing that, if you don't do it, someone else will do anyway two months later; the main difference is that you get to be the one at the top" (though this may not have been Toly's intention). It would be like describing Ethereum as "working in finance" or "working on computing". To me, Ethereum, and my own view of how our civilization should do AGI, are precisely about choosing a positive direction rather than embracing undifferentiated acceleration of the arrow, and also I think it's actually important to integrate the crypto and AI perspectives. I want an AI future where: * We foster human freedom and empowerment (ie. we avoid both humans being relegated to retirement by AIs, and permanently stripped of power by human power structures that become impossible to surpass or escape) * The world does not blow up (both "classic" superintelligent AI doom, and more chaotic scenarios from various forms of offense outpacing defense, cf. the four defense quadrants from the d/acc posts) In the long term, this may involve crazy things like humans uploading or merging with AI, for those who want to be able to keep up with highly intelligent entities that can think a million times faster on silicon substrate. In the shorter term, it involves much more "ordinary" ideas, but still ideas that require deep rethinking compared to previous computing paradigms. So now, my updated view, which definitely focuses on that shorter term, and where Ethereum plays an important role but is only one piece of a bigger puzzle: # Building tooling to make more trustless and/or private interaction with AIs possible. This includes: * Local LLM tooling * ZK-payment for API calls (so you can call remote models without linking your identity from call to call) * Ongoing work into cryptographic ways to improve AI privacy * Client-side verification of cryptographic proofs, TEE attestations, and any other forms of server-side assurance Basically, the kinds of things we might also build for non-LLM compute (see eg. my ethereum privacy roadmap from a year ago ethereum-magicians.org/t/a-maximally-… ), but for LLM calls as the compute we are protecting. # Ethereum as an economic layer for AI-related interactions This includes: * API calls * Bots hiring bots * Security deposits, potentially eventually more complicated contraptions like onchain dispute resolution * ERC-8004, AI reputation ideas The goal here is to enable AIs to interact economically, which makes viable more decentralized AI architectures (as opposed to non-economic coordination between AIs that are all designed and run by one organization "in-house"). Economies not for the sake of economies, but to enable more decentralized authority. # Make the cypherpunk "mountain man" vision a reality Basically, take the vision that cypherpunk radicals have always dreamed of (don't trust; verify everything), that has been nonviable in reality because humans are never actually going to verify all the code ourselves. Now, we can finally make that vision happen, with LLMs doing the hard parts. This includes: * Interacting with ethereum apps without needing third party UIs * Having a local model propose transactions for you on its own * Having a local model verify transactions created by dapp UIs * Local smart contract auditing, and assistance interpreting the meaning of FV proofs provided by others * Verifying trust models of applications and protocols # Make much better markets and governance a reality Prediction and decision markets, decentralized governance, quadratic voting, combinatorial auctions, universal barter economy, and all kinds of constructions are all beautiful in theory, but have been greatly hampered in reality by one big constraint: limits to human attention and decision-making power. LLMs remove that limitation, and massively scale human judgement. Hence, we can revisit all of those ideas. These are all things that Ethereum can help to make a reality. They are also ideas that are in the d/acc spirit: enabling decentralized cooperation, and improving defense. We can revisit the best ideas from 2014, and add on top many more new and better ones, and with AI (and ZK) we have a whole new set of tools to make them come to life. We can describe the above as a 2x2 chart. There's a lot to build!

0/ ERC-8004, the standard for universal AI agent identity, reputation, and verification, is now live on Ethereum Mainnet. With the ERC-8004 standard, AI agents are accountable economic actors. Here are 5 unlocks that ERC-8004 gives to builders, and how to integrate today.

Choose privacy by default! Choose privacy Choose Status…

status devs making sure that no user pays any gas fee

How many apps do you use daily just to stay “private”?

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Closing 2025 with momentum ✴︎˚ pre-deposits are live, yield is flowing, governance is forming 2026 is about building the first fully gasless chain with native yield and composable privacy Happy new year to all!

This year, Circles formed across the world to identify local "winnable issues" and build solutions for them. Here's some of their wins from 2025 ↓

Here's to a year of true freedom and privacy! 🥂 happy new year to all...

> Crypto is building toward human empowerment, as it has been since the beginning "Empowerment" was the code of the philosophy of the Pirate Party, before crypto even existed.