c-node (CROPS)

with ZSAs emerging as a contentious proposal, it's time to re-examine the human need that inspired them, and to think outside the box for a principled way to deliver it. I propose ZAI, a shielded stability primitive forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zai-shielded…

@grep_cat_ destination: usually yes thinking: intently on phone: no headphones involvement: sometimes

People who go on Walks can you explain the mindset? Do you have a destination? Are you Thinking? Are you on Phone? Are Headphones involved? Do you feel relaxed or no

@deww400 @clipsofcrypto Builders with a theory of mind for what users who conclude anything other than to stay in TradFi and web2 are retarded

circle and tether can also blacklist your funds in 10 seconds. the us govt could make a phone call to the arbitrum multisig or the base security council and have they push an update to halt all activity, turn off the sequencer, etc my point is not to be pedantic, my point is that all these arguments of censorship and shutting down are not rooted in reality. The majority of these chains are sufficiently decentralized. it doesnt matter. If you want everyone to hold native eth on mainnet then fair enough, but builders need to have theory of mind for what users actually want

What is Vitalik's new document actually telling the Ethereum community? David Hoffman says it's not a reaffirmation of values, it's Vitalik telling you what Ethereum is NOT going to be "The real lens for this document is Vitalik telling you what Ethereum is not going to do ... Ethereum is going to be a cypherpunk, super lightweight, super hardened protocol. But it is not going to be an economic engine" "A lot of people in the Ethereum community like me are here to build Ethereum the economic engine. What I hear from this document is Vitalik is not really interested in that" "I have never seen any sort of signal of support from Vitalik or the EF about a green light in that direction. It's always been yellow at best"

@deww400 @clipsofcrypto “Advance the technology so that no government can control it” HyperLiquid could be shut down in 5 minutes at the command of a low tier intern at the US treasury department

theres a huge amount of irony when a cypherpunk simps to governments and says "hey you can't use that!! it's illegal!!" isnt that why we're here? to advance technology so that no government can control it? the fact that hyperliquid is massively growing their ecosystem and has a valuable token despite the legal ambiguity around perps, while ethereum stagnates despite having the most regulatory clarity of any chain, is very telling of what users *actually* want

@deww400 @clipsofcrypto It’s in violation of US laws at the moment

@colludingnode @clipsofcrypto hyperliquid

How dare Tempo launch with a permissioned validator set, a complete inversion of the decentralization ideals promised by the Stripe Megacorp Foundation

@zhivkoto @deanmlittle too late.

@deanmlittle how can we get more ppl to contribute without turning into an academic EIP circle jerk?

after years of battling the inertia of core dev centralization, today, i had the privilege of becoming the first independent core contributor to write, implement and activate a feature on solana mainnet. here's to many more of us smashing the duopoly! 🍾 explorer.solana.com/address/rent6i…

@_Enoch @tayvano_ @litocoen who cares about licenses? just violate them like a chad

It's okay to shoot me; I don't care. I know we disagree on a lot. I was specifically answering the question asked, "which in club does one need to belong to, to get considered by the EF treasury?" and the answer is that a FOSS license is a requirement for consideration. This is not a call to not provide support to Fluid. This is not a demand that Fluid kill itself. This is not about refusing to support builders or punishing business decisions. I am quite sure that the new EF DeFi hires would be happy to talk to Fluid about Ethereum at any time. The EF L2 people talk to Arbitrum all the time even though Arbitrum is BUSL. This is a carrot to DeFi protocols that retain the O in CROPS because the EF believes that the O is important and absolutely does not preclude having a thriving business. Morpho are builders too, and are running a business while providing this FOSS product. They are far from a charity, and the EF has chosen to park some of its Ether with them.

ngl im starting to be pissed at the EF for blatantly overlooking Fluid again and again not because Morpho doesn’t deserve it (at all!!) but that they rather allocate a second time to a protocol they’ve already allocated tens of millions to before giving a nod of appreciation to one of the fastest growing protocols on Ethereum over the past 2 years screams of incompetence and/or bad judgement these guys embody the values of what makes ethereum special discovered ethereum as teenagers as a way to build permissionless financial applications - before they even had a bak account in their name won ethindia hackathon, got mentored by kyberswap guys, raised some money and scaled instadapp to billions of TVL in defi loans 6 years later the guys are still building and have come up with a completely new primitive (turning lending markets into AMM’s) became the second largest DEX on Ethereum just behind Uniswap and one of the largest money markets which in club does one need to belong to, to get considered by the EF treasury?

@apriori0x But the problem is that no two non-normies can agree on what constitutes kayfabe

@colludingnode they do exist they just can't tell kayfabe from reality, like most people on here. and the kayfabe machine is like a firehose, it is good at hacking one's brain, creating feedback loops and dependencies. come to the south, its more obvious.

Normies don't really exist. In 2026, you can sample two random white girls from a Starbucks and they'll probably be Epstein experts, know day-by-day details about the Syrian civil war, or hold their savings in Chinese Yuan

@crystalxduan Hegelian

everyone else talks about how chinese they're becoming but they never talk about how chinese they're being

@alpeh_v i'm going to get different foundations into a bidding war

You guys can blab about censorship resistance, privacy, and decentralization all you want, but real people have real needs in the real world. For example, my dog needs to go out. Can someone from the EF please take my dog for a walk?

@lucidzk milady

idk man ~60% of this industry still settles around those “kids in the sandbox” called ethereum so if you’re betting against that, you’re kinda just betting against crypto itself ergo i’ll take the kids stubbornly iterating toward decentralization, fundamental human privacy, permissionlessness, and credible neutrality with a network spirituality mandate over whatever the shiny permissionless non-permissionless corpo-run re-building not re-building finance is currently being shoved in my face milady

@apoorv1 you think i would ask for ethereum? Bro, I'm a UX maxi. Let's save fees and time by using Binance 🤑

You could walk into a small jewellery store in India, and they would happily give you US dollar cash/ INR cash for USDT. And he would push you to send USDT on Tron, and scoff if you plead to accept it on Ethereum

@dawufi Middle America is even more like this Eddington (2025)

@colludingnode maybe in 2 cities in the US. middle america is not this

@gakonst congrats!

We just launched Tempo Mainnet & the Machine Payments Protocol. Last 5 years our team also created: - Reth: high performance node SDK for Ethereum L1 & L2s. - Foundry: testing framework used to deploy/test >$100B in DeFi. - Wagmi/Viem: Typescript for all crypto web apps. AMA.

@0xMachinis applying the laws of physics to history

@colludingnode What makes you think that China will be a better steward of their currency than the US?

someday we're going to be hiding our Yuan from the government who will be forcing us at gunpoint to transact in dollars

@_Enoch we're gonna need a flatcoin, i'm dead serious

@colludingnode pitch liquity a new product idea

@LefterisJP i will never pay for software

"Just get investors" Thats what crypto users say when you try to charge for software they use daily. Meanwhile, last 2 months: companies shutting down, teams slashed, products killed. "They just didn't find PMF" When no one in an entire industry is willing to pay for software it's not the products failing individually. We have a broken culture. A culture eating its own builders alive.

@quasimatt you're right. normies do exist, and they're all Chinese.

@colludingnode And two Chinese girls from Luckin?