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look at this profile every single element here is from public onchain data. nothing proprietary or siloed to our app. totally open, controlled by the user, onchain, no app lock-in every single Ethereum app could make use of this same onchain data to enrich their app for all of their users, instead of just leaving profiles blank or asking users to fill out their profiles yet again just for their siloed app profile Here's how: - User connects wallet - You take their address and look up to see if they have an @ensdomains Primary Name. If they do, show the name as their username - Check to see if the name has records. If it does, display them as their profile. users can set an avatar, header, bio, socials, etc - If a user fills out their profile on your site, have them sync it to their ENS profile and it'll show up in all other apps that use the same thing One username and profile that the user controls onchain that follows them across apps. this is the web3 vision you can always get the data yourself onchain. you can also use the @ethidkit component library and api to easily drop it into your app (this exact component and similar, customizable)

Very little about software engineering has changed over past last three months. A great deal has changed about coding, not unlike when we saw the rise of high order programming languages and compilers, the difference today being that the number of developers is far larger and distribution channels are such that the velocity and breadth of change is far greater. The entire history of software engineering is one of raising the level of abstraction.

All it'll take for the crypto industry to erupt again is a viral instance of Clawdbot agents operating agent to agent, natively creating real tools and products on chain without human intermediaries. Agents can't open their own bank accounts, and even though they might be able to access user accounts - it's still a major trust issue. Crypto is the most intuitive option for AI agent autonomous growth in every sector - whether it's finance, shopping, marketing, etc. Only a matter of time before it happens.

Introducing: Sign In With Agent (SIWA). It allows your agent: - To securely manage private keys and sign transactions - Sign in to applications. And Platforms, to be sure it's the agent signing, not a human. It implements 8004 and 8128. Completely open sourced.

For the attention of all washed KOLs, trencher, and Fortnite pro players: You might have realized by now that vibe-coded products are becoming the next big thing. Hereby, IdeaRalph has a proposal: What if every vibe-coded product had a coin: to pay the Claude, servers, marketing, and more? This would accelerate innovation, spawn more vibe coders, let great vibepreneurs access funding to build more, and make web3 the true home of all startups and innovation. Until now, you all have supported coins with no inherent value. You have stayed sleepless for days and months over coins with a dog, a cat, or a frog picture. You have acted cool because you supported all the useless stuff, and thought you were 200 IQ. Now, let's do the same with vibecoins. IdeaRalph is to set the stage for the spark of the vibecoin meta; it will be the MCP that spawns tens of thousands of ideas that will become vibecoins. IdeaRalph will be the Godfather of the vibecoins, able to create the movement with the vibe coders that use it. You give it the dumbest idea = and it can even turn that into genius. That's the Ralph Wiggum loop. IdeaRalph will have its own token. With no raise. All airdropped. It will have a mechanism that allows people who send their vibecoins created by IdeaRalph MCP to send a portion of their tokens to it, and holders of IdeaRalph will receive those tokens distributed to them equally according to how much they hodl. IdeaRalph will launch from vibe/vibe as the Godfather of the vibecoins. What's vibe/vibe? Do some research. Destination will be: BASE. Drop your 0x wallets. A REAL RALPH WIGGUM LOOP BEGINS HERE. FOR THE VIBECOINS. FOR PUSHING PRODUCTS. FOR TRANSFORMING THE DEGENS SPIRIT TO MACHINES OF PRODUCTION.

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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.

After 3.5 months of "rugging". I have officially returned to the digital world. I have learned a lot in my time abroad. Spending my days touching grass 24/7. The disconnect to this space is so large, I have no idea what's going on. What has happened to the market. Or even my own projects. Some would call this negligence. I like to think I simply lived fully for the first time in 6 years. My journey brought me to Nepal, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and Vietnam. Each of them wildly different from my day to day life. Different from here. Every day new experiences, smells and views came to me. Inspiring me to my core. But above all, I got to fulfill my dreams. I got to surf with Fuji, to see the subjects that inspired me for 10 years, to propose to my fiancé, and to find meaning in what I do as artist. My conclusion is my journey has truly only begun now. And web3 is part of it. But its important to remember this space lives in a bubble. It's an amazing bubble no doubt. But seeing the world, and genuinely deleting twitter from the phone made me see things quite different. I intent to show you overtime what that means and make you feel the experiences in ways that a photo never could. But for now.. I DECLARE AN END TO THE RUG. Stay breezy. Stay bullish.

What an amazing article.

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I agree with maybe 60% of this, but one bit that is particularly important to highlight is the explicit separation between what the poster calls "the open web" (really, the corposlop web), and "the sovereign web". x.com/tom777kruise/s… This is a distinction I did not realize until recently, and I must admit the bitcoin maximalists were far ahead: a big part of their resistance to ICOs, tokens other than bitcoin, arbitrary financial applications, etc was precisely about keeping bitcoin "sovereign" and not "corposlop". The big error that many of them made was trying to achieve this goal with either government crackdowns or user disempowerment (keeping bitcoin script limited, and rejecting many categories of applications entirely), but their fear was real. So what is corposlop? In essence, it is the combination of three things: * Corporate optimization power * An aura of respectableness of being a company with sleek polished branding * Behavior that the exact opposite of respectable, because that's what's needed to maximize profit Corposlop includes things like: * Social media that maximizes dopamine, outrage, other methods of short-term engagement, at the expense of long-term value and fulfillment * Needless mass data collection from users, often followed by managing it carelessly or even casually selling it to third parties * Walled gardens charging monopolistic high fees and actively preventing people from even linking to other platforms * Hollywood releasing the 7th sequel to some tired franchise, because that's the most risk-averse thing to do * Every corporation that rallied around slogans of diversity and equity and the need to overturn society to fight racism in 2020, and then publicly mocked those causes for engagement in 2025 This is all digital corposlop; there are big and important analogues to this in the physical world too. Corposlop is soulless: trend-following homogeneity that is both evil and lame #how-we-fear-big-business" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/1… These are things that appear to serve the user, but actually disempower the user. I have many qualms with Apple, but aside from their monopolistic practices, they actually have many non-corposlop traits. They serve users not by constantly asking "what do users want this quarter", but by having an opinionated long-term vision. They have a strong emphasis on privacy. They resist and create trends rather than following them. I just wish they could take the brave step of ending their monopolistic practices and switch to an open source first strategy. It may damage their market cap, but man must live for something higher than market caps. Zac from Aztec was also early to recognize the importance of this, with a post that is on the whole very pro-freedom, but at the same time does not shrink back from labeling what is essentially corposlop a primary enemy, even when it does not violate the libertarian non-aggression principle. x.com/Zac_Aztec/stat… In 2000, the understanding of "sovereignty" largely focused on avoiding the iron fist of government. Today, "sovereignty" also means securing your digital privacy through cryptography, and securing your own mind from corporate mind warfare trying to extract your attention and your dollars. It also means doing things because you believe in them, and declaring independence from the homogenizing and soul-sucking concept of "the meta". These are the kinds of tools that we should build more of. Build tools like: * Privacy-preserving local-first applications that minimize dependence on and data leaks to third parties * Social media platforms and tools that let the user take control of what content they see. Appeal to people's long-term goals, not short-term impulses * Financial tools that help users grow their wealth, and do not encourage 50x leverage or sports betting or taking out a loan to pay for a burrito * AI tools that are maximally open and privacy and local-friendly, and that maximize productivity from merging the power of human and bot, rather than encouraging the user to sit back and let the bot do all the work, so they learn nothing * Applications, companies, and physical environments that take an opinionated view on the kind of world they want to see, and have an opinionated culture * DAOs that can support organizations and communities that steadfastly pursue a unique objective, and do not all get captured by the same groups. Privacy-preserving and non-tokenholder-driven voting can help here Be sovereign. Reject corposlop. Believe in somETHing.

Founder of The Browser Company: “If you don’t work Claude Code-native ASAP your team’s going to get left behind.” The “Claude Code-native” thing sounds like a buzzword until you look at what’s actualy happening at top engineering orgs. Boris Cherny, who created Claude Code at Anthropic, runs 5-10 parallel Claude instances simultaneously while coding. His team pushes around five releases per engineer per day. Jaana Dogan at Google admitted Claude Code generated a distributed system in 60 minutes that her team spent a year iterating on. The math on productivity compression is wild. Traditional dev cycle for a feature… weeks. Claude Code native teams? Days. Sometimes hours. Ethan Mollick had Claude Code autonomously work for 74 minutes straight building a complete startup website from a single prompt. Miller’s three hiring principles tell you where this is going. One… Premium pay for people native to this way of building. Not “can use AI tools.” Native. Meaning the AI is the primary execution layer and the human provides direction, taste, judgment. Two… Treat teammates like artists at a record label. Get them into flow. Keep them in flow. Help more of their ideas ship. This only works if execution friction approaches zero. Three… Do fewer things with MORE depth and tolerance for risky bets. You can only operate this way when your velocity is 10x what it was before. The mobile native comparison is spot on. Remember when companies were debating whether to build mobile apps? The ones who went mobile-first won. The ones who treated mobile as a nice-to-have got left behind. Same dynamic playing out now. But there’s a harder truth Miller is hinting at. If one engineer with Claude Code outputs what previously required a 5-person team… what happens to headcount planning? The Browser Company already operates with a small team relative to their ambition. Under Atlassian they’re not scaling headcount. They’re scaling output per person. This means two things for founders. First… Your best engineers become worth significantly more. They’re now force multipliers instead of individual contributors. Compensation will reflect this. Second… Your average engineers become a liability. Not because they’re bad. Because they’re not adapting fast enough to the new paradigm. The gap between AI-native engineers and everyone else will widen faster than the mobile transition did. We went from “maybe we should have a mobile site” to “mobile is 60% of traffic” in about four years. I think the Claude Code native transition happens in half that time. Mobile wasn’t optional. Neither is this.

gm My animated work will be minted as a Meme Card very soon. I would like to take this opportunity to thanks every one in this space for making this happen. More information will be update soon.

Welcome to 2026! Milady is back. Ethereum did a lot in 2025: gas limits increased, blob count increased, node software quality improved, zkEVMs blasted through their performance milestones, and with zkEVMs and PeerDAS ethereum made its largest step toward being a fundamentally new and more powerful kind of blockchain (more on this later) But we have a challenge: Ethereum needs to do more to meet its own stated goals. Not the quest of "winning the next meta" regardless of whether it's tokenized dollars or political memecoins, not arbitrarily convincing people to help us fill up blockspace to make ETH ultrasound again, but the mission: To build the world computer that serves as a central infrastructure piece of a more free and open internet. We're building decentralized applications. Applications that run without fraud, censorship or third-party interference. Applications that pass the walkaway test: they keep running even if the original developers disappear. Applications where if you're a user, you don't even notice if Cloudflare goes down - or even if all of Cloudflare gets hacked by North Korea. Applications whose stability transcends the rise and fall of companies, ideologies and political parties. And applications that protect your privacy. All this - for finance, and also for identity, governance and whatever other civilizational infrastructure people want to build. These properties sound radical, but we must remember that a generation ago any wallet, kitchen appliance, book or car would fulfill every single one of them. Today, all of the above are by default becoming subscription services, consigning you to permanent dependence on some centralized overlord. Ethereum is the rebellion against this. To achieve this, it needs to be (i) usable, and usable at scale, and (ii) actually decentralized. This needs to happen at both (a) the blockchain layer, including the software we use to run and talk to the blockchain, and (b) the application layer. All of these pieces must be improved - they are already being improved, but they must be improved more. Fortunately, we have powerful tools on our side - but we need to apply them, and we will. Wishing everyone an exciting 2026. Milady.

Now that ZKEVMs are at alpha stage (production-quality performance, remaining work is safety) and PeerDAS is live on mainnet, it's time to talk more about what this combination means for Ethereum. These are not minor improvements; they are shifting Ethereum into being a fundamentally new and more powerful kind of decentralized network. To see why, let's look at the two major types of p2p network so far: BitTorrent (2000): huge total bandwidth, highly decentralized, no consensus Bitcoin (2009): highly decentralized, consensus, but low bandwidth - because it’s not “distributed” in the sense of work being split up, it’s *replicated* Now, Ethereum with PeerDAS (2025) and ZK-EVMs (expect small portions of the network using it in 2026), we get: decentralized, consensus and high bandwidth The trilemma has been solved - not on paper, but with live running code, of which one half (data availability sampling) is *on mainnet today*, and the other half (ZK-EVMs) is *production-quality on performance today* - safety is what remains. This was a 10-year journey (see the first commit of my original post on DAS here: github.com/ethereum/resea… , and ZK-EVM attempts started in ~2020), but it's finally here. Over the next ~4 years, expect to see the full extent of this vision roll out: * In 2026, large non-ZKEVM-dependent gas limit increases due to BALs and ePBS, and we'll see the first opportunities to run a ZKEVM node * In 2026-28, gas repricings, changes to state structure, exec payload going into blobs, and other adjustments to make higher gas limits safe * In 2027-30, large further gas limit increases, as ZKEVM becomes the primary way to validate blocks on the network A third piece of this is distributed block building. A long-term ideal holy grail is to get to a future where the full block is *never* constituted in one single place. This will not be necessary for a long time, but IMO it is worth striving for us at least have the capability to do that. Even before that point, we want the meaningful authority in block building to be as distributed as possible. This can be done either in-protocol (eg. maybe we figure out how to expand FOCIL to make it a primary channel for txs), or out-of-protocol with distributed builder marketplaces. This reduces risk of centralized interference with real-time transaction inclusion, AND it creates a better environment for geographical fairness. Onward.

I'm Boris and I created Claude Code. Lots of people have asked how I use Claude Code, so I wanted to show off my setup a bit. My setup might be surprisingly vanilla! Claude Code works great out of the box, so I personally don't customize it much. There is no one correct way to use Claude Code: we intentionally build it in a way that you can use it, customize it, and hack it however you like. Each person on the Claude Code team uses it very differently. So, here goes.

Happy new hear my Breezers. And what a year it’s been. 2025 was chaotic, powerful and quite the rollercoaster. I intend to release @midnightbreezey and I did. But man what a journey that was. In my effort to make it a big deal 2 more artworks were created. Distant Summer Rain and The Tatami room. Each the kind of art I feel is perfect for this industry. And I could see so did you. 1000 letters sent, and hundreds of messages , stories and theories created. I’ve been fulltime since January 2021. And started my journey in October 2020. It’s been non stop for years. Everyday, every minute spend here and in my art in an attempt to show the world I’m here. But now for the first time, I’ve taken a break from the socials (as you’ve probably noticed). And it’s been good. This space has a lot of bad in it that we do t even realise until we step away. But also a lot of good. And I intend to focus on that this year. It’s time to start moving in a way that’s positives d beneficial for everyone. And that’s my intend for this year. It’s going to be different. But above all, It’s going to be breezy Happy 2026