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@lex_node @ethereumfndn Is there anyone who thinks the EF is doing a good job?

I feel like @ethereumfndn is not really following through on the mandate. This guy is head of ecosystem development at the EF and his account has been nonstop bullposting Tempo for weeks. Tempo is awesome but certainly not CROPs-maximalist. There's another guy who has been doing an apologetics tour claiming that "code is law" and "decentralization" means 9 people can confiscate funds at any time. What was the point of such a controversial mandate and "signing the pledge" if people who work at the EF are still going to spend their time (and in effect the EF's money) promoting non-CROPS (in the latter case arguably anti-CROPS) positions?

@lex_node I genuinely thought we were all trying hard and then I read things like this

"keys were stored in a password manager....we relied on carefully scripted and simulated upgrades to preserve security rather than a multisig or hardware-backed signing...." to me it looks like our 'industry' will need to go to 'zero' & be rebuilt by people who care

Outside of the narrow crypto enthusiasts, who are more fundamentally driven or have niche use cases

My hot take is that banks with distribution will offer enough of the benefits of the crypto banks faster than crypto banks will gain distribution

Crypto neobanks are a fad and will get squeezed out

@safetyth1rd Banger

The most obvious truth about fertility is also the most controversial to say Encouraging women to pursue careers over families decreases fertility. Countries do this to pump their gdp, not realizing it kills the country long term Being a mother and housewifeneeds to be as least as respected as working a job Maybe more: women can create life. Men can only assist.

@rasputincat_ @greptile A great engineer once told me to just not write bugs

@greptile’s recent price hike starting to look cheap but whether it’s $1 or $25 per review this is just too egregious when 70-80% of AI reviews are wrong.

@intern_cc Thee should be positively classified not negatively

@yugacohler @linear Agree this has always been a Linear weakness

If @linear would build a really good Gantt Chart feature into its app, it would be unstoppable. Right now there is no good project/initiative timeline view - we use Sheets for that. No reason this couldn’t be inside Linear itself.

@AlanaDLevin @artemis Is an API available for agents? Couldn’t see one in menu

Circle stock is up nearly 30% today. Reports suggest that the market is reacting to "news" that USDC in circulation grew 70% YoY But it shouldn't have been a surprise! This data (and much more!) is available daily on @artemis Markets should update at the speed with which information becomes available. Artemis has been making similar information has been available and accessible for awhile

@ideacasino @fintechfrank More than the price of the largest digital asset. Seems fair

@fintechfrank director of digital assets strategy comp starts at 82k?

Morgan Stanley is hiring like crazy for crypto. I one-shotted a list of roles and comp with Claude.

this may be the tipping point for x402 adoption by vendors - if agents can exchange value, what will they build?

@kleffew94 @Cloudflare x402 is the most interesting primitive I’ve seen in a long time

This is really cool work from @cloudflare. Instead of blocking bots, you can monetize them by default. Cloudflare devs can leverage x402 to turn (what would otherwise be bot abuse into a paid, programmable demand channel

@ramboINX ok this is great

Clean up your wallets in a couple clicks, import ur wallet then bulk moooove. Now live on Infinex (for patrons and soon everyone)

@jessepollak bravo

Tl;dr: We’re focusing the Base app to be trading-first to drive demand and distribution for every asset and to be the best app for whatever you do in the onchain economy. Since announcing the Base app in July, hundreds of thousands of you have used the app to create, trade, save, spend, and build. Seeing the adoption has been incredible. We've also heard clear feedback about what's landing and isn't. Three themes stand out: - The app felt overly focused on social. It came across as too close to web2, and didn’t show support for the full breadth of assets that people want to trade. - Everyone wants more high quality assets. In general there is a desire to engage with and trade high quality assets. This is the most important opportunity as we bring capital markets onchain. - The feed needs to surface everything: Having a feed of what's happening onchain is a good idea, but it needs to surface apps, stocks, predictions, and every asset class (with social tokens are just one of many). In a world where everything is tokenized and tradeable, the single most valuable thing we can do is drive demand and distribution to everyone. That’s exactly what the Base app is going to do. We’re going to make the Base app the best place to trade and use every asset. Concretely this means: 1. We’re going to build for trading first. Having trading as our primary focus will help us bring demand and capital for all rapidly growing asset classes in the economy. 2. We’re going to bring more high quality assets onchain. To best serve the trading use case, we’re going to make it so everything is tradable in the app — protocols, apps, stocks, predictions, memes, and yes creators too. We’re going to lean into a finance-first UX. We be 3. We’re going to lean into a finance-first UX. We believe it makes more sense to layer social features on top of finance, than the other way around. This means we'll continue to experiment with features like copy-trading, feed-trading, and leaderboards. This is going to be hugely additive to the Base economy because it's going to drive more capital and users to every asset and app. Base app will be the best self-custodial wallet to trade and use every asset, globally accessible, with fast, simple onboarding for everyone, everywhere. Base chain will continue to be the best chain to build anything, now supercharged with even more distribution. We’re building this together, in the open, and seeing how people use the app keeps teaching us what matters most. Thank you for the continued feedback. Stay based.

@wagmiAlexander Congrats mate!

We met in Dec 2019, just before the world shutdown — for months, we were all we had. A few years later, she didn’t even blink when I quit my job to mess around with “internet coins”. She was my partner through the worst and best days — and now, for the rest of our days. 🥂

@VitalikButerin x.com/cavalier_eth/s…

You can just build on L1.

@ben_kurrek @infinex make the prices go up

What’s one thing you wish your extensions did that they don’t do today? Can be anything. - More user preferences - ability to customize UI - aggregated list of token approvals Etc.. I’m looking for pain points and wins so we can shape the @infinex extension together.

I will be honest, I am gonna swing for the fences here and fat finger around... don't expect me to be a good trading role model

@SNXified higher

I would like to hardcode $ETH = 5000 USDC and $SNX = 6 USDC please...