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@AdamDraper In the same vein, you have perdu.com ("perdu" = "lost" in french). Site hasn't changed since the 90s as well 😅

accidently typed in gail.com instead of gmail, and its my new favorite website.

Let's meet in NYC next week!

@tallyxyz Awesome run 🫡

Fwiw I'd be doing the same if I were told that the only thing I am allowed to use is a Mac

Users do not use blockchains. They use products. The EF is not building a product. They are building a blockchain. A platform. That allows anyone to permissionlessly build whatever the fuck they want. I know it's confusing bc there are a lot of shallow, single-purpose blockchains out there. Shallow, single-purpose blockchains are products. The EF is not building a product.

This is the new EF Mandate. For many of you, the contents should be no surprise, and a clarification along the lines that we have been going and thinking for the past few months. But the clarification is nevertheless worth making. Ethereum is a unique object and has a unique role in the world. Its role is to be a sanctuary technology, to preserve technological self-sovereignty, to enable cooperation without coercion, domination or rugpulling, and to provide an escape hatch, to ensure that no single person, organization or ideology's victory in cyberspace can be total. The Ethereum Foundation is a steward of Ethereum - the original steward, and today, the steward specifically dedicated to preserving and expanding the above aspects of Ethereum. This means a heavy emphasis on CROPS (censorship and capture resistance, open source, privacy, security), both at the protocol layer, and at the access layer, user-facing applications and tools that we create or contribute to. There are things that we do in Ethereum because we believe that they are valuable for the underlying goals that we have for Ethereum. There are things that we do not do because from the perspective of our values we find them uninteresting (or worse, harmful). But there are also things that we do not do because while they are useful, they are not our role. At the Ethereum protocol layer, we focus on decentralization, verifiability, inclusion guarantees, protocol liveness, security and privacy first and foremost. We also value capabilities (eg. L1 scale, account abstraction, perhaps some forms of in-protocol aggregation), particularly because improvements in these capabilities better enable users to properly benefit from Ethereum's CROPS properties and displace the need for higher-layer intermediaries that might weaken the extent to which Ethereum's properties carry over into the full stack. We also believe that the Ethereum protocol must strive to pass the walkaway test. "We do X to specialize to serve the use cases of today, if more use cases appear later, we will continue to keep adding more EIPs for them later" is logic fit for many other blockchains whose names you hear often on this forum, but we do not believe it is logic fit for a decentralization-first blockchain like Ethereum. At the application layer, we focus on making "the zero option" - user experience that goes hard on ensuring security and privacy, avoiding dependence on intermediaries, and respecting the user's agency - as high quality as possible. We see this as complementary to work in the Ethereum ecosystem that "goes broad", starting from the world that it exists, and brings it onchain and improves its properties over time. Such work has its natural home outside the EF. We intend to be supportive of such efforts. We believe that the two are complementary: tools that are developed within the EF can be adopted by anyone, including partially, and even partial adoption that improves people's security, privacy and agency is a good thing. But the form of user experience that is more heavily insistent on CROPS properties is where we want the EF to develop its center of expertise. This does not mean shrinking from the hard questions. We believe in a vision of self-sovereignty that protects users, and does not leave users in the cold to face environments where they lose their life savings if they make a mistake, and click "yes" on a confirmation screen by accident two seconds after. But such protection must be designed based on a philosophical baseline of empowering the user, not empowering centralized organizations that claim to act in the user's name. This quadrant of design space - caring about users' (including non-experts') well-being and safety, and yet insistent on doing this in a way compatible with their agency and freedom, is underserved (not just in crypto, but in the world). We wish to use Ethereum as a platform to build out and showcase this quadrant, and ideally work with others to expand its reach over time. This is also a new chapter in how we see our position in the world. We must see ourselves not just as the Ethereum community, but also as maintainers of the Ethereum tool within what you might call the CROPS community or the sanctuary tech community, or a dozen of other words that have for a long time been used by people with similar values to us but far outside Ethereum. This means open-mindedness to new conceptions of what things in the world are our natural allies. Ethereum is not the world. Ethereum is a specific object in the world that is here to have specific properties. The Ethereum Foundation is a specific organization within Ethereum - one steward, not the sole one. I encourage all to read the mandate in detail; it includes concrete examples of how we intend to deal with the challenges and nuances of these ideas. We are doubling down on Ethereum and are excited about its next chapter.

The link: fairmint.docsend.com/view/q5c667mhs… And here are our current stats (past 30 days) 👇 Note that they are not "my" stats, but @fairmint 's stats. It's cool to be good at AI as an individual. It's better to be good at AI as a company. Feel free to ask any questions!

If you want to transform your organization, simply handing your team AI tools is a trap. Without standard processes, "using AI" means something completely different to every single person and instead of 10x productivity, you just get confusion. Last year I got obsessed with making @fairmint an AI-powered company. At first, I used AI extensively to learn how to craft complex production-ready code in a systematic, repeatable way. Then, I started drafting a framework that I could share with the team and train new hires on. It started with our dev team, expanded to our product team, and we keep improving it collectively every single week. For those of you interested, here's @fairmint playbook on how to treat AI as the Lead Developer👇

@milichab @TakTheGreat @SpaceX @xai @JasonBud Oh wow!! Congrats!!

I’m joining @SpaceX and @xai with @JasonBud. X is the company realizing science fiction - reusable rockets, humanoid robots, data centers in space, and more. Almost 10 years ago, I joined SpaceX as an intern on Dragon 2 crew displays. This was in the era of the first rocket landings on barges, long before the Dragon 2 restored human spaceflight to America or Starlink delivered internet from space. Every day since then, I’ve thought about the next steps to land on the Moon - and to build a city on Mars, data centers in space, the brains behind robots, and beyond. There is no better place to build teams and products from the ground up with planetary scale resources. If you’re looking to work on the hardest problems that lay a foundation for humanity’s future to the Moon, Mars, and beyond - DM me.

@BraytonKey @AdamDraper Happy birthday @AdamDraper ! Not sure that counts, but my first investment when I turned 40 was a gym membership subscription 😜

My co-founder @AdamDraper turned 40 today 🥳 His 30s produced some legendary investments. Clock resets today. First investment of the 40s… who’s it going to be? 👀

“MCP is dead” misses the point MCP isn’t about tools. It’s about OAuth If that seems pointless, you haven’t deployed anything beyond a demo

@rafalwilinski yes

anthropic literally charged us $25 for this

I guess restricting to accredited investors is a natural / legal way to cap...

I love the idea but, in the US, you cannot have more than 2000 shareholders as a private company. Do they plan to register (and become a public co)? Or to cap the amount of token conversions?

Do agents also get mad when their favorite social platforms get bought? Maybe the Digg moment for Moltbook...

What feels bad is that your github action is not doing its job. It's just LARPing as a bot reviewer: x.com/thibauld/statu… This is why for people who actually use your product (like us) it sure feels like: "We give you crap results when you only pay for our tokens. To get good results, pay $20 per PR." Hopefully this framing will help you understand the backlash better.

@theo wdym? it's true and an important fact for people to know about the feature i feel like a lot of people dunking are pretending the github action doesn't exist for lower cost code review

Anthropic really needs like 1 normal person to proof these things before posting

Today, the SDNY prosecutors filed a letter to Judge Failla requesting a retrial date. They want to go again in October. The prosecutors want to retry me on 2 counts the jury couldn't unanimously decide on. A jury of 12 Americans heard 4 weeks of evidence and deadlocked: no verdict on money laundering, and no verdict on sanctions violations. The government's response? Try again to make writing code a crime. @realDonaldTrump declared the "War on Crypto is over." 🇺🇸 AG @DAGToddBlanche's memo: DOJ "is not a digital assets regulator" and won't target mixers for end-user acts. @USTreasury lifted Tornado Cash sanctions entirely. ✅ Also Treasury, March 2026: "Lawful users of digital assets may leverage mixers to enable financial privacy." — official report to Congress under the GENIUS Act. But the SDNY prosecutors — same country, same DOJ — just filed to retry me anyway. 🤔 ⠀ The 2 counts = up to 40 years in federal prison. ⛓️ For writing open-source code. For a protocol I don't control. For transactions I never touched. A jury already couldn't agree this was criminal. But the SDNY prosecutors want to keep trying with the hope of getting a different answer. ⠀ I have a daughter. I have a life in Seattle. I will never stop fighting for freedom. ❤️ But I need to be honest with you: Four weeks of trial. A hung jury. Now they want to do it all over again in October. I have basically exhausted my legal defense funds. And I'm staring down another full federal trial. 😔 Every dollar raised goes directly to keeping this fight alive — attorneys, experts, the full defense apparatus it takes to stand up to the SDNY prosecutors. This isn't abstract. If I can't fund a defense, they win by default. If you care about financial privacy, if you write code and believe that code is speech — this is the moment. 💻🔐 👇

@BraytonKey wow!!! that was fast!!

2026 starting strong 👀

This is what it feels like when Claude is also writing all the code