Benjamin Bollen

1/ Today, Bhutan celebrates a historic milestone, becoming the first nation to anchor its national digital identity system on Ethereum. 🇧🇹 @VitalikButerin and I were honored to join the launch ceremony on behalf of the Ethereum community, graced by His Royal Highness.

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🇺🇦 We stand with Ukraine! Drop your country’s flag below to show your support 👇

Just to be sure, on this day more than ever: I stand firmly and convincingly on the side of justice, as I have always done. I come from a country with a tradition of illustrious legal scholars, talented lawyers and corageous judges who have defended justice at great cost and often with their own life. I intend to honor that tradition. Also: it is called the Rome Statute for a reason, and I am proud of it.

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And so the journey begins... The Anoma devnet is live! Anoma is officially open for builders of the very first intent-centric applications. anoma.net/blog/helloworl…

Today was the toughest day since starting Safe: We are restructuring the teams and parting ways with 14 teammates, people we deeply respect, who've each contributed meaningfully to our journey. We know this is incredibly hard. There’s no perfect way to do this, and no words that make it feel okay. The co-founders, Richard, Christoph, Tobias, and myself, take full responsibility for the decisions that led us here. To those leaving: I’m sorry. You’ve helped build the foundation we’re now refining. I have personally ensured that we will go beyond the legal requirements to support team members: - Severance: Increase the severance payments beyond what’s required - Garden Leave: Extended garden leave to allow affected team members to plan their next chapter - Vesting: We will convert ‘backloaded’ token vestings into linear vestings, ensuring that team members get their fair share relative to the amount of time they spent in the team - Employment support: We want to ensure people can quickly find new opportunities within the Ethereum ecosystem, and I will reach out to trusted founders and teams to source matching roles. Some of the best talent in crypto is now looking for a place to call home. If you’re hiring, feel free to DM me, I’m happy to make intros! Here's the context 👇 From day one, Safe has been a mission-driven team working on core infrastructure to enable self-custody for individuals and teams in order to move the world’s GDP onchain. Over the past year, complexity has grown. As the ecosystem evolved and opportunities expanded, we scaled our efforts to explore new paths. But that growth came with increased coordination challenges, and over time, it started to affect our ability to move at the pace we expect of ourselves. Expectations from teams building on Safe have grown, and rightfully so. It’s clear that Safe’s role in the ecosystem is more critical, and more exposed, than ever before. So we made the difficult decision to realign for clarity, speed, and long-term resilience. I’m proud of how far we’ve come. Yet, as we stepped back and looked at what’s ahead, it became clear that the structure and roles that got us here won’t carry us into the next chapter. We’re taking the first steps toward a more modular and accountable team structure. Going forward, Safe will operate through three distinct teams: a revenue-focused product company, an innovation-focused R&D lab, and an ecosystem-focused foundation. Stay tuned for more on this… Each team will have the autonomy to optimize for its core goal, develop its own culture and cadence, and take full ownership of outcomes. We believe this structure will make us more focused, more agile, and better aligned with what the ecosystem expects from us. Our mission remains unchanged. Safe exists to make self-custody secure and easy. If anything, that mission is more urgent than ever. In a world increasingly defined by geopolitical instability and systemic risk, people need infrastructure they can trust and control. We are committed to building our next chapter with sharper focus, stronger execution, and deeper alignment to our roots and culture that brought us here. - Lukas

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@crainbf Yes.

Is there something that could disrupt Proof-of-Stake? In my view, the most likely contender would be zk proofs. In the end, PoS tells you the state of some system. And you can trust it because economically it would be infeasible to lie. With zk proofs you can also get the state of some system, but potentially much cheaper. Of course, zk is not consensus and you often still need consensus. But you could have a single chain provide consensus for many zk systems. And that might dramatically reduce the need for PoS chains some day.

@buchmanster Congrats! Sitting down to read it tonight

Introducing the Cycles whitepaper! It's the culmination of years of thinking about 2 things: 1. fundamental liquidity problems in money, finance, and payments 2. the killer use case of blockchains If you haven’t heard me say it, *money is the killer app*. We just haven’t figured out money yet. 🧵

I was waiting all Devcon for an Ethereum 3.0 vision. @koeppelmann delivered it. 👏 Native rollups makes L1 execution great again. Native rollups do not take away from existing rollups - they only add, they rebalance power, they make ETH stronger. Why don't we do this?

Preliminary winners of the @aboutcircles audit competition are here! The competition ran from September 5th until September 19th, with rewards of up to $52k USDC. 122 issues were submitted, 12 of which were valid: 1 Medium and 11 Low. Pull the thread to see the winners' breakdown and their findings

Circles is growing, and we're currently looking for 2 talented individuals to join our team! If you're excited about social money, decentralised identity and building communities this might be the perfect opportunity for you🌍 🧵

Time's up! 🕰️ @aboutcircles audit competition is officially over. Huge thanks to the Circles team for the challenge! Hat Hunters, your hard work brought in 122 findings in total for this competition! Curious about who won? Stay tuned for the winners' announcement 📣

📢 Today, we are pleased to announce that Radicle 1.0 is ready for everyone to use! After five months of feedback and 17 release candidates, we are finally ready to call this release stable. Read the blog post for details, and give it a spin. 🎊 radicle.xyz/2024/09/10/rad…

Attention Hat Hunters!🚨 $52,000 @aboutcircles audit competition is officially live and waiting for you to start hunting! 🗓️ You have until Sept 19th at 15:00 UTC to submit your findings. Let's go hunt!🔥

.@GnosisDAO has now approved 10k GNO (~$1.5m) as token incentives for @gnosispay user. It is as simple as sending at least 0.1 GNO (no lockup) to your pay @safe and start earning 1-5% cash-back on card usage!

The most awaited Gnosis Pay perk has finally arrived! 🦉🎁 Get up to 5% cashback on your card payments with Gnosis Pay. Yes, you heard that right. Here’s everything you need to know about it 🧵