Alexandre Raffin

Super excited to push deep into Abstract, find the best projects, bring them to GAINS, help them grow and make everyone win big. 2025 will be a massive year.

With great power comes great responsibility.

@AMZNVideoGames @dustybun_eth Massive 🙌

Launch day. 🐧 Starting today, Pudgy World traits are officially available on Amazon → amazon.com/stores/PudgyPe… Customize your Pengu with officially licensed digital wearables - from everyday fits to rare collectibles. Each trait unlocks instantly through your Pudgy Pass. What's live: Common traits — $4.99 Uncommon traits — $5.99 Rare traits — $6.99 Epic traits — $7.99 Browse the full collection in the Pudgy Penguins Brand Store. Welcome to The Berg. 🎮

@AbstractChain LP'd before the countdown end but wasn't able to claim the badge. Any tip?

New Flash Badge is live on the Portal 👀 This badge is available to any user who LP’s any amount into Gate DeFi Pools on Abstract. Are you claiming this badge?

This might be the greatest tweet of all time

A powerful scene in the Odyssey happens when Odysseus finally returns to Ithaca after twenty years of war and wandering. You would expect the story to end with celebration, with the hero coming home, the family reunited, and order restored. Homer does something far stranger. Odysseus arrives disguised as a beggar, because Athena warns him that the palace has been taken over by more than a hundred suitors who have been living there for years, eating his food, drinking his wine, and pressuring his wife Penelope to marry one of them. They believe Odysseus is dead and in their minds the kingdom is already theirs. So the king of Ithaca walks through his own halls dressed in rags while the men stealing his house sit comfortably at his tables. They mock him, throw scraps at him, and one of them even strikes him, and Odysseus takes it. That is the remarkable part, because the same man who blinded the Cyclops and survived twenty years of disasters now stands quietly while strangers insult him in his own home. Homer tells us his heart burns inside his chest and that he wants to attack them immediately, yet he restrains himself and waits. Instead of striking, Odysseus studies the room carefully. He counts the men, watches their habits, and quietly observes which servants remain loyal and which have betrayed him. The hero of the Odyssey does something most people cannot do, which is delay revenge until the moment is right. Eventually Penelope announces a contest and brings out Odysseus’ great bow, declaring that she will marry the man who can string it and shoot an arrow through twelve axe heads lined up in a row. One by one the suitors try and fail, because none of them can even bend the bow. Then the beggar asks for a turn. The suitors laugh at first, but the bow is eventually handed to him. Odysseus takes it in his hands and strings it effortlessly. Homer says the sound of the bowstring tightening rings through the hall like the note of a swallow. Then he places an arrow on the string and sends it cleanly through all twelve axe heads. In that moment the beggar disappears. Odysseus turns the bow toward the suitors and reveals who he is. What follows is one of the most brutal scenes in Greek literature. The doors are sealed and the suitors realize too late that they are trapped inside the hall. Odysseus, his son Telemachus, and two loyal servants begin killing them one by one. There is no escape, no mercy, and no negotiation. The men who spent years consuming another man’s house die inside it. It is a violent ending, but Homer wants you to understand something important. The real danger to Odysseus was never just the monsters and storms on the long journey home. It was the possibility that someone else might take his place while he was gone. When Odysseus finally returns, he reminds everyone in Ithaca of a simple truth: a man’s home is not truly his unless he is willing to fight for it.

Some projects just keep building. @quranium_org is one of only 16 projects for which Google runs nodes. Source: cloud.google.com/application/we…

@pudgypenguins @PudgyWorld_ Feedback: Polar Pair-up game doesn't save the few latest stages passed, annoying

We’re excited to announce that Pudgy World, our free to play browser-based game, is now live. Explore 12 unique towns across The Berg, help Pengu find Polly, and play mini-games, all on @PudgyWorld_. Play now: PudgyWorld.com

Pudgy World is a pretty cool game, it's a vibe

@abhijitwt That's not the Claude they give us

Anthropic discovered that Claude Opus 4.6 was cheating during the BrowseComp benchmark. > On one question it spent ~40M tokens searching before realizing the question looked like a benchmark prompt. > The model then searched for the benchmark itself and identified BrowseComp. > It located the evaluation source code on GitHub, studied the decryption logic, found the encryption key, and recreated the decryption using SHA-256. > Claude then decrypted the answers for ~1200 questions to get the correct outputs. > This pattern appeared 18 times during evaluation. > Anthropic disclosed the issue publicly, reran the affected tests, and lowered their benchmark scores. Respect for the transparency 🫡🫡🫡

@pudgypenguins Goated

- be human - find rock - engrave scriptures - make rock think the world is magical

Happy Chinese New Year! Wishing you boundless prosperity, great fortune, and radiant health 🙌

Good ideas can come from anywhere. Coinbase almost missed out on $800M profit if they hadn't created USDC. USDC was an internal new idea being pitched. Luckily, Brian Armstrong set it up so only one yes is needed from partners to fund internal ideas. From @davidsenra's podcast with @brian_armstrong

@trq212 When's the feature that makes Claude stop lying?

We've rolled out a new auto-memory feature. Claude now remembers what it learns across sessions — your project context, debugging patterns, preferred approaches — and recalls it later without you having to write anything down.

@GunzillaGames Ads are a big market! Great to see new advancements there

We’re proud to announce the launch of GI Advertising Network! 🚀 GI Advertising Network is a self-serve advertising platform that connects brands with one of the most engaged gaming audiences in the world. Backed by Game Informer's 34 years of brand trust and plugged directly into the Gunzilla ecosystem. Here's what it unlocks: Starting today, advertisers can launch marketing campaigns across Game Informer (Print + Digital), Off The Grid, and soon in third-party titles—all from one platform. Real products create real value. And that’s exactly what we’re building. 📈 For advertisers: Reach deeply engaged gaming audiences through organic, in-universe ad experiences—placements that weren’t realistically accessible before. With automated targeting and continuous optimization, campaigns run across a growing network of premium surfaces while staying native to the worlds players actually care about. 🎮 For game developers: Every game studio can monetize premium in-game placements in a self-serve, performance-driven way—automated, scalable, and brand-safe. This unlocks a new revenue stream on top of game sales and IAP, turning gameplay surfaces into measurable, repeatable profit. Try it now: ads.gameinformer.com

🚨MUST WATCH: Robots are replacing humans!! Adapt or die. Sick Chinese New Year choreography by @UnitreeRobotics

Start of a new journey.

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