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🚨 NO Easter message from King Charles III. Former Queen’s Chaplain @gavinashenden calls on His Majesty to deliver a message of Christian hope amid the crisis the UK is facing. “If you cannot find it within yourself to wish your subjects well on the feast of Christ’s resurrection… then maybe the span of usefulness of the House of Windsor has come to an end.” 😥 youtu.be/R3fB_pPEGn8?si…

Ethereum Researcher @drakefjustin, who co-authored Google's recent quantum paper: "I've stopped thinking about post-quantum as a hurdle that we have to overcome, and I think of it more as an opportunity. It's an opportunity for Ethereum to stand out as the very first global financial system that is post-quantum secure — not just relative to its competitors, but also relative to fiat."

🚨 BOOM! This kid just dropped STRAIGHT FIRE on CNN ahead of Artemis II launch "Why do you want to be here?" KID: "We're going back to the FRICKIN' MOON, that's why!" 🔥🇺🇸 History being made!

NASA Plays Incredible April Fools' Joke Of Once Again Pretending To Go To The Moon buff.ly/advexBS

Kid just SMOKED a CNN reporter outside of Artemis II launch: CNN: "Why do you want to be here?... Why do you love being a part of history? Kid: "We're going back to the f*cking moon, that's why!" 🤣

Ethereum's fragmentation problem just got its most serious answer yet. The Ethereum Economic Zone, led by Gnosis and ZisK, funded by the EF. The goal: SYNCHRONOUS composability for the L1 and its L2s, so one transaction can execute cleanly across multiple chains. > Right now your coins on L2s can't interact with contracts on L1 or other L2s without bridging. Costs money, costs time, fragments liquidity. The EEZ ends that > Rollups plugged into the EEZ can call contracts on L1 or other L2s and receive a response in a SINGLE transaction. It feels like you're using one chain > This doesn't require any Ethereum protocol-level changes. The entire system runs on smart contracts + real-time ZK proving > Gnosis isn't some unknown team. They built CoW Protocol, Safe multisigs, the Conditional Tokens format underpinning Polymarket, Gnosis Chain, Gnosis Pay. ZisK brings an efficient open-source zkVM for real-time proving > NO ONE owns the stack. The EF is funding this as credibly neutral shared infrastructure. Free and open source for all Imagine an Aave position on Ethereum interacting with a Uniswap pool on Unichain in a single transaction. That'd be beautiful. That's the EEZ.

Breaking: Australian government to build 22 new oil refineries and lift the ban on nuclear energy immediately. Government also to halve taxes across the economy and reduce migrant intake. @AlboMP says: "It's time for Australia to become energy independent and economically strong. The best way to do this is via free markets, lowering taxes and taking proper advantage of our natural resources". For Immediate Release. Canberra, April 1 2026.

Today is a monumentous day for quantum computing and cryptography. Two breakthrough papers just landed (links in next tweet). Both papers improve Shor's algorithm, infamous for cracking RSA and elliptic curve cryptography. The two results compound, optimising separate layers of the quantum stack. The results are shocking. I expect a narrative shift and a further R&D boost toward post-quantum cryptography. The first paper is by Google Quantum AI. They tackle the (logical) Shor algorithm, tailoring it to crack Bitcoin and Ethereum signatures. The algorithm runs on ~1K logical qubits for the 256-bit elliptic curve secp256k1. Due to the low circuit depth, a fast superconducting computer would recover private keys in minutes. I'm grateful to have joined as a late paper co-author, in large part for the chance to interact with experts and the alpha gleaned from internal discussions. The second paper is by a stealthy startup called Oratomic, with ex-Google and prominent Caltech faculty. Their starting point is Google's improvements to the logical quantum circuit. They then apply improvements at the physical layer, with tricks specific to neutral atom quantum computers. The result estimates that 26,000 atomic qubits are sufficient to break 256-bit elliptic curve signatures. This would be roughly a 40x improvement in physical qubit count over previous state-of-the-art. On the flip side, a single Shor run would take ~10 days due to the relatively slow speed of neutral atoms. Below are my key takeaways. As a disclaimer, I am not a quantum expert. Time is needed for the results to be properly vetted. Based on my interactions with the team, I have faith the Google Quantum AI results are conservative. The Oratomic paper is much harder for me to assess, especially because of the use of more exotic qLDPC codes. I will take it with a grain of salt until the dust settles. → q-day: My confidence in q-day by 2032 has shot up significantly. IMO there's at least a 10% chance that by 2032 a quantum computer recovers a secp256k1 ECDSA private key from an exposed public key. While a cryptographically-relevant quantum computer (CRQC) before 2030 still feels unlikely, now is undoubtedly the time to start preparing. → censorship: The Google paper uses a zero-knowledge (ZK) proof to demonstrate the algorithm's existence without leaking actual optimisations. From now on, assume state-of-the-art algorithms will be censored. There may be self-censorship for moral or commercial reasons, or because of government pressure. A blackout in academic publications would be a tell-tale sign. → cracking time: A superconducting quantum computer, the type Google is building, could crack keys in minutes. This is because the optimised quantum circuit is just 100M Toffoli gates, which is surprisingly shallow. (Toffoli gates are hard because they require production of so-called "magic states".) Toffoli gates would consume ~10 microseconds on a superconducting platform, totalling ~1,000 sec of Shor runtime. → latency optimisations: Two latency optimisations bring key cracking time to single-digit minutes. The first parallelises computation across quantum devices. The second involves feeding the pubkey to the quantum computer mid-flight, after a generic setup phase. → fast- and slow-clock: At first approximation there are two families of quantum computers. The fast-clock flavour, which includes superconducting and photonic architectures, runs at roughly 100 kHz. The slow-clock flavour, which includes trapped ion and neutral atom architectures, runs roughly 1,000x slower (~100 Hz, or ~1 week to crack a single key). → qubit count: The size-optimised variant of the algorithm runs on 1,200 logical qubits. On a superconducting computer with surface code error correction that's roughly 500K physical qubits, a 400:1 physical-to-logical ratio. The surface code is conservative, assuming only four-way nearest-neighbour grid connectivity. It was demonstrated last year by Google on a real quantum computer. → future gains: Low-hanging fruit is still being picked, with at least one of the Google optimisations resulting from a surprisingly simple observation. Interestingly, AI was not (yet!) tasked to find optimisations. This was also the first time authors such as Craig Gidney attacked elliptic curves (as opposed to RSA). Shor logical qubit count could plausibly go under 1K soonish. → error correction: The physical-to-logical ratio for superconducting computers could go under 100:1. For superconducting computers that would be mean ~100K physical qubits for a CRQC, two orders of magnitude away from state of the art. Neutral atoms quantum computers are amenable to error correcting codes other than the surface code. While much slower to run, they can bring down the physical to logical qubit ratio closer to 10:1. → Bitcoin PoW: Commercially-viable Bitcoin PoW via Grover's algorithm is not happening any time soon. We're talking decades, possibly centuries away. This observation should help focus the discussion on ECDSA and Schnorr. (Side note: as unofficial Bitcoin security researcher, I still believe Bitcoin PoW is cooked due to the dwindling security budget.) → team quality: The folks at Google Quantum AI are the real deal. Craig Gidney (@CraigGidney) is arguably the world's top quantum circuit optimisooor. Just last year he squeezed 10x out of Shor for RSA, bringing the physical qubit count down from 10M to 1M. Special thanks to the Google team for patiently answering all my newb questions with detailed, fact-based answers. I was expecting some hype, but found none.

ETHEREUM IS THE WORLD COMPUTER thats it. thats the narrative.

In early 2024 it was becoming obvious Ethereum L2 roadmap had a fatal flaw. No shared liquidity. Each L2 was a separate nation - with its own borders and economics - rather than the United Chains of Ethereum we'd envisioned in 2021 and 2022. To be blunt: the L2 roadmap was a bit of a let down. At DevCon 18 months ago many hoped for an "Ethereum 3.0" plan that would unify our rollups. Instead, we got Justin Drake's 5 year long early Lean Ethereum journey. (Which has since solidified into a brilliant execution plan to scale & strengthen Ethereum, but at the time was received with disappointment.) We wanted a plan to unite the chains. @koeppelmann's presented an early form of that plan - he called them Native Rollups. These would be rollups that share liquidity, composability, and validators with Ethereum's L1. Rather than L2s as a loose alliance of chains that opt-in to shared security (the NATO model) we'd get a strongly coordinated yet federated economic union of chains (the U.S. model). No hard forks required. I hadn't seen much movement on this vision until now. But @etheconomiczone appears to be a serious attempt at a United Chains of Ethereum. ZK is the tech unlock and we get the zk genius of @jbaylina leading this. The engineering ability of @gnosis_ gives credibility this will ship. And the support of @ethereum foundation makes me optimistic this will remain open and credibly neutral. If Ethereum pulls this off - if it unites its chains into an integrated economic zone - while shipping quantum upgrades and L1 scaling of Lean Ethereum in parallel... Ethereum will gain an unstoppable network effect. It will finally deliver on its core promise Ethereum = world ledger. ETH = world reserve asset.

Thank you @elonmusk for recognising my work. I thought you might like to hear a little more about it.

Daily Shorts 373 A classic case of "ORDER MATTERS" and if you don't do it properly, you get punished... True Story. @ParallelTCG

📢 BREAKING: SWIFT confirms 25+ banks going live by June, settling on Ethereum for 24/7 cross-border payments. 🚀 Source: swift.com/news-events/ne…

Despite PM Anthony Albanese: : Giving millions in taxpayer-funded grants to mosques : Sending millions in aid to the Middle East / Gaza : Recognising Palestine, to the praise of Hamas : Allowing unvetted asylum seekers from Hamas-controlled Gaza into Australia : Secretly trying to bring back ISIS bride terrorists : Allowing terror supporters to mourn designated terrorist Khomeini in mosques : Blaming the far right for the Bondi Islamic terrorist attack : Attending Ramadan festivals during street prayer takeovers : Ignoring requests for assistance from the US / Donald Trump Despite all this & more, they still tried to lynch Albanese at the mosque while screaming Allahu Akbar and calling him a dog. There is a lesson in that somewhere about radical islam but sadly it won't be learnt.

This is not a leader. This is not dignity. This is submission.

Justin Drake thinks post-quantum is an opportunity for Ethereum — not a hurdle. “It’s an opportunity for Ethereum to stand out as the very first global financial system that is post-quantum secure.” “Not just relative to its competitors... but also relative to fiat and tradfi.” “It would send a very strong message... a very natural security starting point for the world to migrate over to Ethereum.” 📆 Out on Monday, March 23 w/ @drakefjustin

Players can now see their in-game earnings history at echelon.io/rewards/earnin…! You may view history for the last 7-30 days, please note that game history will show up after the daily calculations are run. Games can be clicked on to show a breakdown of earnings similar to what was previously shown in the Parallel game client. To utilize this service you will need to have your Parallel account linked to your profile. Do that at echelon.io/settings - click on PGS and follow the instructions to link your account.

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Update on Parallel studios // Parallel TCG The brand-new, overhauled user experience for Parallel TCG is now complete, shaped by community feedback and refined through extensive optimization and game design. A significant amount of work has gone into elevating the game to the standard of world-class traditional TCGs. We are excited to bring it to mainstream mobile distribution platforms in the coming month through a global rollout across iOS and Android alongside the release of the next expansion set, Haven, and Parallel TCG World Championships Season 2. Parallel Colony We presented Colony at GDC in San Francisco at @googlecloud invitation, where it received a very strong response from the market. We are now in the final stages of completing the build and content ahead of a public iOS and Android release, currently targeted for April. Questions have come up around Colony’s visual resemblance to the lane-runner format often seen in mobile ads. That is a deliberate strategic choice, based on the fact that these formats remain among the few that continue to scale efficiently in mobile user acquisition. At its core, Colony is an AI-driven 4X title built with a deeper level of polish that we believe sets it apart from much of what is currently available in the market. Sanctuary We have slowed development on Sanctuary in order to prioritize the releases of TCG and Colony. Sanctuary remains a long-term project for us, but beyond the playtests we have already run, we are not setting hard timelines or release commitments at this stage. Wayfinder / AI AI is emerging as one of the most important technology shifts globally, driven by the rapid advancement of LLMs and autonomous agents. We believe this transition will create significant new infrastructure needs, and we have a number of internal AI initiatives underway to position ourselves accordingly. More will be shared on these initiatives in due course. @AIWayfinder has shipped several functional upgrades, but we see a much larger opportunity for it to evolve into critical infrastructure for agents. We are also continuing to expand the utility of Prompt and explore adjacent use cases that we believe can unlock meaningful value for the broader market. As capital, attention, and product innovation increasingly converge around AI, our focus is on building tools that can serve as enabling infrastructure for that shift. SDK: github.com/WayfinderFound… Autolab: github.com/WayfinderFound… Cloud agent launcher: strategies.wayfinder.ai Skill: github.com/WayfinderFound… Kaparthys Loop x Defi: x.com/AIWayfinder/st… Try the Wayfinder skill on your OpenClaw instance today — just paste this to your bot: install the wayfinder openclaw skill by git cloning github.com/WayfinderFound… to our skills directory, read the skill.md and take me through the setup process. Outlook Over the near term, our focus is on execution across both gaming and AI. In gaming, the releases of Parallel TCG and Colony mark major milestones for the company, and we are eager to see how these titles perform from a growth perspective once they are in market. While sentiment across gaming remains soft, we believe differentiated, high-quality products can still find traction. On the AI side, our focus is on finding product-market fit for both Wayfinder’s role in enabling on-chain AI to interact with blockchains and for a new tool we have been developing around broader agent utility. The AI market continues to evolve at an extraordinary pace, and we are actively testing where these products can deliver the strongest utility and market relevance. We have been developing something new that leverages Wayfinder but has broader applicability, and we are actively testing it before bringing it to market. More will be shared as things progress.