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1/ 🌍 Building the future we actually want to accelerate toward. Last week I spoke at @balajis’ Network State Conference, sharing what we’re building in Switzerland- a permanent village and accelerator for decentralized, open-source, and d/acc technology.

@robinhanson @EricCrampton Please do

Should we randomly send smart kids off for an isolated year of thought?

@functi0nZer0 Accurate 😅

Vulnerable post that may come off as a red flag for some people or some kind of deterrent, but I think it’s important to be open about this sort of stuff to show that social media should be more than just manufactured positivity to compare against Today, I finally took the long overdue step of having an initial consultation with a psychotherapist - not because of any recent event, but rather my realising that after four years I’ve still not done anything to process the aftermath of the Indexed attack and a lot of my subsequent work in crypto security This perfectly genteel man asks me to explain my background/history, and I realised halfway through a ten minute monologue that he wouldn’t be unjustified in writing “Walter Mitty lunatic, pure delusions of grandeur” on my file and nothing else It made me realise that there are so many of us working in crypto that live absolutely *insane* lives, and trying to explain them to the man on the Clapham omnibus would rightfully get us sectioned Anyway, back to arguing about the Strait of Hormuz or commenting on the latest story about Clavicular, I guess

Wondering what is ETHReS, sharing one of the stages with us?🔬 🔹 ETHReS (Ethereum Research Symposium) brings together researchers and practitioners working on cutting-edge blockchain and Ethereum-related topics: from consensus and cryptography to DeFi, security, and scaling solutions. Expect deep dives, academic insights, and the future of Ethereum research, all in one place. Learn more or send your submission at: ethres.org

@DStrachman Get a ferry over to the zoo!

Recommendations for Sydney, Australia please! I love museums, galleries, parks, nature preserves, eye opening experiences, and would love to hear what you love!

Dear friends, This year has been tough across the board for major crypto events, and community-driven events have been hit especially hard. ETHPrague is no exception. We made a deliberate investment in improving the venue based on last year’s feedback. At the same time, we have to be realistic about what we can sustainably deliver. To protect the core of the event - great talks, smooth hackathon experience and high signal networking - we are scaling back some non-essential extras. Here’s what is changing: No swag. We have already been moving in this direction to reduce waste, and this year we are cutting merchandise entirely. 🔹 No livestream. ETHPrague will remain a primarily in-person event. Talks will still be professionally recorded and published afterward, but we are optimizing for the on-site experience. 🔹Cutting core bounties to $2,500 each. The final price pool stays at $40,697. This was a tough one, but under current conditions it was necessary. 🔹No live plants. We cannot justify the cost of renting or buying new plants this year, though we will reuse decor elements we have built over time. 🔹Very limited catering. Only snacks, water & filtered coffee will provided free of charge (primarily to hackers). An affordable restaurant quality catering will be available directly on-site. 🔹Cutting one stage - but not really.  One stage is gonna be taken over by our friends at ETHRes. 🔹We'll only record 2 stages. Some talks will have to be unrecorded at the workshop stage. What this means for ticket holders: If you purchased a full-price ticket, you will keep all promised perks - in fact, you are a superhero to us. You are helping make ETHPrague possible, and we want to treat you that way. You'll keep the same perks as hackers + you will receive an invitation to a special networking gathering which is usually only dedicated to speakers. General attendee and student tickets are be reduced to 40EUR and will not include any extra perks. The Superhero ticket will remain available with its full set of perks + Trezor T for if more superheroes show up. 👉 Our goal is still the same: to create an event that inspires ambitious ideas, meaningful conversations, and a new generation of builders turning bold visions into reality. While we won't be able to feed your stomachs we are certain that we'll feed your brains! Thanks for understanding, and thank you to everyone helping keep ETHPrague strong. We are still incredibly excited to see you in Prague. Cheers, The ETHPrague team  ✌️

European universities produce the most VC-backed Deep Tech founders. Switzerland is leading the way. Data: Europe based VC-backed Deep Tech startups since 2020 Source: The 2026 European Deep Tech Report

Game theory vs EV. Game theory suggests: click red because it's the only option guaranteed for your survival. If you're wrong and blue wins, you're fine. If you're right, then you survive. All blue choosers die. But, pure prisoners dilemma isn't the only way to estimate what to do in critical situations. There's also EV or Expected Value. Depending on you moral/ethical/utility values you will just automatically pick the highest EV option. In this case, the highest EV option is "everyone lives" because the net loss of choosing red is demented. I would use a stronger word there. But you catch my drift.

CT is basically what the world looks like when you press the red button. 😆 repeated games are good things. Civilization depends on them.

@alpeh_v I don’t know, I just don’t think there are any good moments lately.

I’m pretty sure these the sells and the tweets are on a regular schedule but that just makes the bit where they always come out at exactly the wrong moment 100x funnier

🇫🇷 A French tax official was arrested for selling crypto investors' home addresses and financial records to criminal networks. 41 kidnappings followed. One every 2.5 days since January 2026. The criminals didn't need to hack anything. They bought a list from someone inside the government. France is the most dangerous country in the world right now if you hold crypto and someone knows about it 💀 Source: Le Mond

Looking forward to seeing more of this as people realize that slop is relative and we have been surrounded by it for too long.

“if everything around seems dark, look again, you may be the light” — Rumi

A lot of us would be more wonderful, if they followed these rules.

Yeah vegan meat mogul turned crypto scammer is a very 2026 headline.

@blockful_io @LidoFinance @aave Awesome effort

We voted YES on Lido’s proposal, which kickstarted the DeFi United Fund and brought the entire market together to repay the debt resulting from the Kelp DAO hack on Aave. The proposal will allocate 2,500 stETH from Lido’s treasury to help cover the Kelp/Aave losses from the rsETH exploit, but with one condition: that others also contribute and help repay the full amount extracted in the attack: 116,500 ETH. Following the initiative, other protocols stepped up with their own donations, launching the DeFi United Fund. Within 24 hours, 69,500 ETH had been raised at the defiunited.eth address. Aave has just announced it will allocate 25,000 ETH from its treasury to the fund. Ethena, Ink, Frax Finance, and LayerZero have already committed to donating, and Kelp will likely do the same, though they have not yet announced how much or when. Even so, everything indicates that the full amount needed to repay the hack debt will be raised. DeFi Will Win.

That's really how I feel haha

@claudedonze 🥶

Swiss Franc so strong they're considering negative rates again

My laptop got hacked yesterday by someone claiming to be Pierre from the Cardano Foundation. I have had a relationship with Pierre in the past, we've talked, we've video called. He reached out to me for a new call, asking about Atrium. I responded and setup a call for the next day. In the invite, there was a Microsoft Teams link to join. I joined, I saw Pierres face, his voice, and two other CF members in the call.(I now think this was AI) It was lagging a bit, and said my Teams software was out of date. It kicked me out and said that I needed to install the new Teams software through the Microsoft Terminal. I stupidly did this, but my laptop was dying so I shut it off immediately. I never use Teams so I thought this was normal. I messaged him and told him let's just use Google Meets, created the call, and sent the link. He said he got busy and asked me to reschedule. I have now realized that this was all fake, and a scam. Moral of the story, be careful. Trust nothing, trust no one. AI is making scamming more sophisticated, and as someone who is quite technical savvy, I just got cooked.