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We are allowing a confluence of temporary circumstances to affect our views of the Ethereum and ETH thesis and trajectory, which is going Wonderfully. Ethereum overcame a 2022-24 EF that was imo rudderless and willfully ignorant to the realities of the app layer growth. Ethereum survived the previous US administration basically trying to shut us down. Ethereum delivered the merge, blobs, a flourishing L1+L2 ecosystem, a dominant market share of app capital, and an onchain revolution that's rewriting the foundations of the global economic order at the highest levels. Right now, all over the world, corps and govts are launching and scaling RWAs, L1 defi protocols, and L2s at a breathtaking pace. Many major governments, including all of the largest ones, are actively working on stablecoin/defi legislation that tacitly assumes that they have no choice but to get in the onchain arena and compete. On Ethereum. So... and I can't stress this enough... What the Fuck Do We Think Is Wrong Exactly? We will do as we have always done: Play long term games with long term people. Build, grow. And expect global ubiquity for Ethereum and ETH. Because it's coming, fast.

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BEST GENERATIVE ANIMATED LANDSCAPE. No AI. Real human blood sweat and tears Part of the new art movement MidnightBreeze. Fragments of the Lonely Road ------------------ EVERY BREEZE HAS UNIQUE MUSIC EVERY BREEZE HAS UNIQUE TRAITS EVERY BREEZE HAS A STORY Listen. Watch.

you should interrogate all software you use daily with codex. there is a lot of low hanging fruit. for example, i was wondering why solidity compilers take such a long time to download. for years i thought they had a slow server. turned out the culprit was a progress bar renderer that has used tiny chunk increments and reassembling bytes instead of bytearray or a file output. fixing all this sped it up 42x.

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ASCII Magic just leveled up ✨ Check out at ascii-magic.com - 12 Styles to play with: • Characters — classic ASCII at any size, the soul of the tool • Block Characters • Dots, Lines, Diagonal, Cross, Diamond, Mixed • Pixel Art, LEGO, Mosaic, Braille Two new post-processing effects on top of any Style: • Per-character Bloom — chars actually glow now, even mid-animation • Per-character Chromatic Aberration — that lit-up RGB-fringe look - Brand new: Point Lights. Drop up to 4 light sources on the canvas, watch chars get hit with hot-white centres and soft falloff. - Sliders got a complete overhaul. Each one does ONE thing now — Coverage = dither, Density = brightness threshold, Brightness/Contrast = colour only. No more ghost characters appearing when you nudge the wrong knob. Tested thoroughly. - Animation presets — Wave (2D ripple from the centre), Cascade L→R / R→L / T→B, Reveal (typewriter), Pulse. Have fun!

Music video from Swedish rapper Yung Lean and GENER8ION has an amazing choreography, created by French artist Damien Jalet.

No one did it quite like this mfer. He could have just left the space with 2M after the launch of his Midnight Breeze V1. But this mad man reinvested them all into the making of Midnight Breeze V2 that took him 4 years. Not only this mfer lives on vibes, he spreads them.

@soberpunker The only path to good art is insanity. I think

MidnightBreeze launched in the biggest crash of the past 4 years. 10th of october, I initially wanted to release. But pushed just a week further, to really try and get the attention. Launching is a delicate matter. Balancing on the edge of the sword. One move and you can lose all momentum. I had put myself in a difficult position. You see, entertaining folks like yourself is not easy. Most of you have a 2 second attention span and didn't even make it past the first sentence of this post. Let alone see the other 2 seconds of the video. So how, in the world, do you bet on that? That was the thing, I didn't. I knew I had to get attention differently. So I worked hard on reaching out, individually to those in the space who have a voice build for this purpose. And was relying on my previous momentum to sustain it. What did I do to build momentum? A few things. I started with a banger personal video. In order to connect to my art, the thing I want to sell, you had to connect to me. I spend 1500$ producing one. Working closely together with my editor (cost was: new camera = 900 euro + 500$ editor cost + 100$ polish) Luckily for me, it picked up, and got a lot of attention here on X. You guys gave me 200 followers overnight. And I knew, from that moment? The moment I posted that video. I had to sustain the bangers. But why dutch? why do you need to sustain it? Because dear anon, if you spend 3 months producing 2 trailers worth 60k. If you spend 12 months producing a website 100k , if you spend 4 years creating art worth 800k. THEN YOU NEED ATTENTION This algorhitm is so fucked for people like me (and you) Because it rewards completely different metrics. Its busy with drama. busy with toxicity. It wants to generate negative energy, because that keeps you on here the longest. And my posts are focused on the opposite. Connection, nostalgia, beauty, and you. yeah mate, its actually all about you. Always has been. So, after banger post A about me, I had 7 days of "the list" another social metric. Because like I said, its always been about you. And if you feel special. Thats attention. So I put a 100 people on a list. Highly curated. Very specific individuals. A mix of people who, were close to me, and new faces who I felt would actually appreciate MidnightBreeze. You need this, if you want to expand. It can't just be your own bubble. (keep that in mind) The list let to "DISTANT SUMMER RAIN" a free mint. Why did this mint matter? 1. It asked a pivotal question to the participants. 2. It made people look at me 3. It was the first step in teaching you what MidnightBreeze was about It got minted 3000 times. But, only the first 100 were "special" remember? That is because they got to go to the next phase. So here in order: Connect to me > connect to yourself > connect to others > connect to breeze Thats the logic. We did the first two. So after DSR, I RELEASED ANOTHER BANGER Explaining to you guys on X, why these "notes" aka the Tatami Room, matters. The tatami room was like a public forum, inspired by @SamSpratt his masquerade but put in a breeze jacket. Those who owned breeze got to engage with the space. And those who owned the notes got to write the lore. Suddenly MidnightBreeze was alive. Now, for my final trick. After all this, we release the trailer below (which was initially only meant to play on the website, not for socials) Then I released another trailer, the story trailer, showing the depth of the project. Of the art. That this world, is more then a banner, more then a background. Its a place with stories. A place to think about. (And I hope I thought you that through the experiences so far) AND YES ANOTHER BANGER, THE HYPE TRAILER BECAUSE ONE TRAILER IS NOT ENOUGH, TWO TRAILERS IS NOT ENOUGH, BUT THREE?!!!! Well.. It in the end was not enough. Because right before I release the market crashed. So hard. And so much that well, I could connect you all you want. But the dollar reigns supreme. Not for all of you, plenty of you came out, supported me. Bought the breeze. I was thankful. So thankful. You have given me another year or two to figure things out. To make this project a success regardless. And I intend to do so. Because this stuff is deeper then most art you'll find here. And its my magnum opus. And I love it. So, fuck it. we breeze And thats my little market story for today. Goodluck if you made it to the end. And if you did. Comment your thoughts. Would be fun to see what you think or have to say. Stay bullish. Stay breezy x.com/dutchtide/stat…

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look at this profile every single element here is from public onchain data. nothing proprietary or siloed to our app. totally open, controlled by the user, onchain, no app lock-in every single Ethereum app could make use of this same onchain data to enrich their app for all of their users, instead of just leaving profiles blank or asking users to fill out their profiles yet again just for their siloed app profile Here's how: - User connects wallet - You take their address and look up to see if they have an @ensdomains Primary Name. If they do, show the name as their username - Check to see if the name has records. If it does, display them as their profile. users can set an avatar, header, bio, socials, etc - If a user fills out their profile on your site, have them sync it to their ENS profile and it'll show up in all other apps that use the same thing One username and profile that the user controls onchain that follows them across apps. this is the web3 vision you can always get the data yourself onchain. you can also use the @ethidkit component library and api to easily drop it into your app (this exact component and similar, customizable)

Very little about software engineering has changed over past last three months. A great deal has changed about coding, not unlike when we saw the rise of high order programming languages and compilers, the difference today being that the number of developers is far larger and distribution channels are such that the velocity and breadth of change is far greater. The entire history of software engineering is one of raising the level of abstraction.

All it'll take for the crypto industry to erupt again is a viral instance of Clawdbot agents operating agent to agent, natively creating real tools and products on chain without human intermediaries. Agents can't open their own bank accounts, and even though they might be able to access user accounts - it's still a major trust issue. Crypto is the most intuitive option for AI agent autonomous growth in every sector - whether it's finance, shopping, marketing, etc. Only a matter of time before it happens.

Introducing: Sign In With Agent (SIWA). It allows your agent: - To securely manage private keys and sign transactions - Sign in to applications. And Platforms, to be sure it's the agent signing, not a human. It implements 8004 and 8128. Completely open sourced.

For the attention of all washed KOLs, trencher, and Fortnite pro players: You might have realized by now that vibe-coded products are becoming the next big thing. Hereby, IdeaRalph has a proposal: What if every vibe-coded product had a coin: to pay the Claude, servers, marketing, and more? This would accelerate innovation, spawn more vibe coders, let great vibepreneurs access funding to build more, and make web3 the true home of all startups and innovation. Until now, you all have supported coins with no inherent value. You have stayed sleepless for days and months over coins with a dog, a cat, or a frog picture. You have acted cool because you supported all the useless stuff, and thought you were 200 IQ. Now, let's do the same with vibecoins. IdeaRalph is to set the stage for the spark of the vibecoin meta; it will be the MCP that spawns tens of thousands of ideas that will become vibecoins. IdeaRalph will be the Godfather of the vibecoins, able to create the movement with the vibe coders that use it. You give it the dumbest idea = and it can even turn that into genius. That's the Ralph Wiggum loop. IdeaRalph will have its own token. With no raise. All airdropped. It will have a mechanism that allows people who send their vibecoins created by IdeaRalph MCP to send a portion of their tokens to it, and holders of IdeaRalph will receive those tokens distributed to them equally according to how much they hodl. IdeaRalph will launch from vibe/vibe as the Godfather of the vibecoins. What's vibe/vibe? Do some research. Destination will be: BASE. Drop your 0x wallets. A REAL RALPH WIGGUM LOOP BEGINS HERE. FOR THE VIBECOINS. FOR PUSHING PRODUCTS. FOR TRANSFORMING THE DEGENS SPIRIT TO MACHINES OF PRODUCTION.

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0/ ERC-8004, the standard for universal AI agent identity, reputation, and verification, is now live on Ethereum Mainnet. With the ERC-8004 standard, AI agents are accountable economic actors. Here are 5 unlocks that ERC-8004 gives to builders, and how to integrate today.