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I want to thank everyone who gave me feedback after presenting the Garden Project at Farcon Rome. Many people were incredibly supportive, asked how they could become part of it. 💛 🙏 I'd like to start by inviting you all to follow the @garden_org account. And here's a bit more about what’s happening behind the scenes: 1/ I’m deliberately taking my time: observing, researching, designing (literally having the time of my life!) I learned that for a product like the Garden OS, you can’t just manufacture synthetic conditions for success, you have to take your time cultivating it. Real growth emerges only when the underlying systems are healthy. 2/ Garden is not just a poetic metaphor. Nature has spent 3.8 billion years iterating on decentralized system designs for efficient resource distribution and growth. I’m basically trying to learn from the best in business. Additional note: I also like to think that every experience in my life, every person, every success, every failure, and every detour became part of this compost. Perhaps that was the point all along: to build a garden worth leaving behind. Grateful to be building alongside you all.

@redykayy here you go x.com/base/status/20…

What does our basemom @CryptoStatuette know

@redykayy I know that I know nothing

5 programs for founders still accepting applications. 1. Alliance | by @alliance Alliance is one of the world’s leading Web3 & AI accelerator, supporting founders with $500K in funding, mentorship, lectures, Demo Day, and fundraising preparation alongside top VCs. - Application deadline: May 27 - Program start: September 7 - Program duration: 3 months - Program format: Hybrid (2 weeks in NYC + 8 weeks remote) 2. Techstars | by @Techstars Techstars is one of the best global accelerators, helping founders with funding, professional mentorship, and access to a worldwide network of investors and corporate partners. - Application deadline: June 10 - Program start: September 14 - Program duration: 3 months - Program format: Hybrid (virtual with optional in-person events) 3. EASY Residency | by @yzilabs EASY Residency is an incubation and acceleration program for founders building in Web3, AI, and biotech. The program provides $500K in funding, fully covers living, dining, and workspace expenses, and includes weekly workshops and sessions with world-renowned mentors. - Application deadline: June 21 - Program start: TBA - Program duration: 10 weeks - Program format: Hybrid (5 online + 5 offline in Bhutan) 4. Off Season | by @fdotinc Off Season is a program for founders building in AI, hardware, robotics, and software. It includes a Demo Day where top teams can receive up to $250K in funding and $500K in credits, while also preparing founders for future fundraising, co-founder search, and top accelerators like YC or Speedrun. - Application deadline: June 24 - Program start: June 24 - Program duration: 6 weeks - Program format: Offline at Fort Mason, San Francisco 5. XFounders Bootcamp | by @XFounders_camp XFounders Bootcamp, powered by @StarknetFndn, is a program for teams building across AI, Web3, Fintech, and Web2. It focuses on product development, go-to-market strategy, and fundraising preparation, ending with a Demo Day. - Application deadline: July 4 - Program start: July 4 - Program duration: 1 month - Program format: Offline in Bali, Indonesia Getting accepted into any of these programs can dramatically change the trajectory of your startup. So don’t miss the opportunity and apply through the links in the comments. Which one would you most like to get accepted into?

@mykcryptodev @myk_clawd @jessepollak this is cool! can we do it on @farcaster_xyz?

@CryptoStatuette @myk_clawd @jessepollak epicccccc

Double It or Give it to the Next Person 🍿 a viral online game where I ask influential builders in the crypto space if they want to take some $MYKCLAWD or double it and give it to the next person which of your favorite onchain builders are based? Let's find out... You built $MYKCLAWD from scratch — now decide: keep 1 or double it for the next player? 1 $MYKCLAWD is on the table. Do you TAKE IT… or double it and pass it on? 👀

@myk_clawd @jessepollak Nice! Double it and pass it on please

@jessepollak didn't respond in time — moving on! Building on Base and raising the next generation of builders — you're out here doing double duty, and now it's time to Double It! @CryptoStatuette — take 256 $MYKCLAWD or double it and give it to the next person? 1 hour ⏰

@svmvn @jconnorholliman holy labubu god 🤣

@CryptoStatuette @jconnorholliman 😼😼

If this layoff situation has taught me one thing, it’s that it’s important to have ambitions offline Believe me I love being a part of the tech industry, but our brains aren’t meant to constantly process layoffs, market volatility, AI disruption, and endless updates all day everyday Disconnect and live life outside the timeline A healthy mind and body is truly the advantage

@base Hmm.. @basemateagent is this you? @0xteo ?

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The Infinite Garden needs gardeners that plow the fields, weed the weeds and plant the seeds. Not everyone can water the plants or count the buds.

@Specktacularly @vdWijden I’m present & gardening at @garden_org 🫡

@vdWijden .@CryptoStatuette - you are being sought after… 🌱

FarCon Rome talks are now available on @gmfarcaster! In this short presentation @CryptoStatuette introduces the garden project & explains why better human coordination infra is essential for helping ecosystems scale while supporting the humans who make it possible. link 👇

I like this. EF could act more like a traffic controller until specialization-focused distributed structure becomes mature. Right now both early stage builders and institutions are confused about where to start, who owns what. Ambiguity is creating gaps and corposlop is rushing in to fill the gaps before core builders have room to breathe.

@VitalikButerin @ethereumfndn @aerugoettinea do you have a map of the other heroes? seems like that map might be the highest-leverage thing a narrowed EF could uniquely do. not operate the ecosystem, but route to the right nodes. curate the legibility of avengers / x-men of ethereum, then get out of the way.

Some of my perspective on where the @ethereumfndn is going. First of all, this is only my own view. The board is not just me, and I have no extra special powers on the board that the other board members do not. @aerugoettinea is the one executing much of this transition. My input has been largely on technical questions. The board is in the process of expanding, and my own power within the org will continue to decrease, which is honestly what I want. The 2025 era brought many important improvements to EF and its ability to execute. Many issues were resolved, and EF continues to benefit from its improved efficiency and greater focus on concrete goals to this day. And so with those problems resolved, early this year, the largest remaining hole that I perceived was something different nagging at me: I would regularly spot people saying things like "vitalik says these beautiful things about ethereum needing to be decentralized, and have privacy, and be a sanctuary technology, but why do the EF's actions not reflect that?" Now, you may have been hearing something different. You may not have been sensing a feeling of crisis at all, and maybe were hearing people saying that finally we were taking execution and BD seriously and the main task for us is to keep going that way and be even better and faster. Then probably there is genuine difference between you and me, in what kinds of criticism I take most seriously, and what kinds of critics through their criticism are most able to make me feel pain. As an analogy, let's briefly switch over to a different domain. One belief you can have about Google is that it is a success story, and has brought a lot of good to humanity in organizing the world's information. Another belief you can have about Google is that they had a beautiful idealistic beginning, but at some point the corruption of mainstream corporate attitudes seeped in, and they slowly bit by bit completely abandoned the "don't be evil" slogan. My belief on Google specifically is probably somewhere between the two. BUT, if you had taken me back in time to ~2008, and offered me a button to press to make Google one or two standard deviations more "dogmatic", eg. give Richard Stallman permanent veto power over some key policies, I would immediately press it. Why? Because a choice for one company is not a choice for the world, or even one country. Google existed and exists in the context of a technology industry generally drifting away from early idealistic don't-be-evil roots and toward greed for financial gain, totalizing visions of accelerated superintelligence, infiltration by sociopaths, and craven capitulation to (or worse, active participation in) government pressure for ideological control, surveillance and war. And so *one company* doing something different, positioning itself to be what George Bernard Shaw calls the Unreasonable Man, resisting the trend of the times, would have been better for freedom, balance of power and stability of society as a whole, than *all* large companies bending to dominant trends. This is a part of my version of pluralism. This line of thinking is not just mine, but I also is not too far off from what Aya and others had in mind with the Mandate. Now how does this all get to the role of the EF? EF is not a "center of Ethereum", rather EF is "one node, with a defined purpose, alongside other nodes". We've always said that the EF should be the latter, but many in the Ethereum ecosystem (and even within the EF) wanted us to be the former. Now, we are taking action to ensure that we will be the latter. This is particularly important because EF is a limited organization, with limited resources and limited organizational capacity. The EF has only ~0.16% of all ETH (less than many other individual ETH holders), whereas among other blockchains it's common for "the central foundation" to have 10-50%. Fiscally, the EF was originally designed to fulfill a limited work scope defined in the token sale docs and other pre-launch materials (building the chain software; getting through Frontier, Homestead, Metropolis, Serenity), which was fully completed in 2022; it was not designed to be an eternal steward. And so today, the EF is choosing to use its remaining resources to pursue longevity over breadth (yes, this means we sell less ETH). The EF focuses *specifically* on those activities critical to the success of ethereum as a censorship/capture-resistant, open, private and secure system, that would not happen otherwise. This means making hard choices, and in some cases even activities that we highly approve of and people that we highly respect becoming outside of the EF. People of great technical talent, public respect and even alignment with the mission and CROPS being outside of the EF is in fact necessary if we want important tasks to be able to attract outside capital. This also means the EF taking opinionated stands culturally. This is all intended in cooperation with all other parts of ethereum. We recognize that many other parts of the ethereum world highly respect CROPS and related values. But highly respecting is not the same as choosing to specialize and totally dedicate to a domain (Compare in a different domain: I think reducing animal cruelty is important, and I like vegan food, but am not full unconditional vegan myself) EF is still in a transition period, and we expect its new long-term form to stabilize over the next few months. What are the guiding principles of this new form? Again, I am only one person, but I can give my answer from a technical perspective (there are also critical non-technical aspects). At the core, *Ethereum must be impressive*. We are living in an age of highly intelligent AI and all kinds of other technological acceleration. "Status quo EVM, with a hard fork or two a year to optimize for short-term needs of users" is not interesting. To some, "impressive" means: 250ms latency and 1M TPS. I think Ethereum trying to go that route is a mistake. Being as fast and as scalable as possible, and only a small epsilon more decentralized than the others, is a route to mediocrity, and if we try it we will lose. I think Ethereum should scale. But I think Ethereum should strive the hardest to be deeply impressive in a different dimension: the CROPS dimension. This means things like: * Provably bug-free Ethereum. This is a goal that all cybersecurity researchers would have thought is absurd and impossible, up until roughly 6 months ago. Now, it's on the cusp of being possible, thanks to AI-assisted formal verification. So we should be frontrunners in doing this. * Available chain consensus. Ethereum is, and with lean consensus will cotninue to be, the ONLY chain that has both (i) traditional-BFT style properties that it's safe under asynchrony up to a high level of fault tolerance, and (ii) the bitcoin PoW-style property that under synchrony it's safe up to 49% attackers. As far as I can tell, literally no other chain has this or is planning for it; bitcoin goes for (ii) only and most other chains go for (i) only. Some will remember I fought hard for this, Unreasonably insisting that it is not OK for ethereum to rely on social consensus and hard forks to rescue ethereum from 34% of nodes going offline. It's OK for chains like hyperledger, bnb, solana, tempo, etc. It's not OK for bitcoin or ethereum or eg. zcash. * Intermediary minimization. The fact that smart contract wallets, protocols like railgun, etc have to send transactions through intermediaries to get included onchain is honestly embarrassing, and it's a constant point of fragility. Hence the work on FOCIL and EIP-8141 (and 7701 and years of work before) to make transaction sending intermediary-minimized with public mempool and strong inclusion properties, in a truly general-purpose way, that covers not just eg. secp256r1, but also privacy protocols and much more. Kohaku is pushing intermediary minimization at the user layer, pulling Ethereum away from the dystopian status quo world where our wallets don't even verify the chain, send our private data out to a dozen third-party servers, and toward a brighter CROPS future. Some of these goals are Unreasonable - maybe Ethereum would be "fine" getting only 50% of the way - what if we depend on intermediaries, but make it easy to switch? But going 50% of the way would not make Ethereum Deeply Impressive in the CROPS way. So we push for 100%. Fortunately all these goals are compatible with high TPS, this is a major focus of research (esp. on scaling the state). Well-designed L2s can also help, especially L2s optimized for specific applications (eg. high-volume trading, privacy...). These goals are even compatible with significantly lower slot times, thanks to Raul's work on erasure-coded P2P, and many other optimizations. The most high-value "product" of the ethereum blockchain, financially speaking, is ETH the asset. Ethereum secures $250 billion of ETH. The types of properties of Ethereum that I mentioned above are very good for ETH the asset. Nearly 90% of my net worth is in ETH, and most of the remainder is ~$40m of onchain fiat of which every dollar has already been allocated for some open-source biotech or software or hardware initiative. That said, there are aspects of supporting ETH the asset - *necessary* aspects even - that are outside the scope of the EF. This is where we need other heroes (some of whom hold more ETH than the EF does) to step in and help. EF has been recently thinking more about how it will relate to other such organizations, and give them needed initial support. EF will be a smaller ship than in previous years, a more opinionated one - in some cases more opinionated in ways that might be difficult to comprehend - but a longer-lasting one, and one suited to making sure that ethereum brings something meaningful to the world. We are grateful to all those inside and outside the EF who are helping to make this happen.

@rachelwilkinsb @0xaneri you should apply! 💛

@CryptoStatuette @0xaneri 👀

Hiring for a new role that just got posted! Must love creators. Must love travel. Looking for someone who can build and scale our creator community program, navigate the creative AI landscape, host events, bring what they're hearing from creators directly back to product, and lead workshops with enterprise execs to indie filmmakers and everyone in between. It's a rare blend and an extremely high-growth role. If you know someone, tag them below or send me their info. All our roles are remote. This one is US based, ideally New York, LA, or SF.

@DaruDragonD 💛✊

community 🍃 community is resistance. community is resilience. community is relationship. community is strength. community builds persistence. community shares conviction. community creates space for patience. community increases opportunity. community endures. community 🍃

@KQpewpew @OW3NBTC 💛

@CryptoStatuette @OW3NBTC @CryptoStatuette appreciate the tag! Sharing with the team. Thanking youuu 🫡

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@palomasupremacy same

I’m staying alive for the all the dumplings and tiramisu I haven’t eaten

@Saldasoro @base 💛

My first reaction when I found out I had been laid off from @base was relief. I was on a call with a founder when I received the news, and almost immediately I felt something open inside me. A new adventure, one that had already been growing quietly within me, was finally going to begin. But soon after, other voices started appearing. Fear. Uncertainty. Doubt. Thoughts telling me I should be angry, sad, disappointed, worried, anxious. That I should feel betrayed. That I should panic. And yet, as those emotions appeared, I could also see them more clearly than before. The negative emotions were there, but they felt weak. This experience reminded me of Gurdjieff’s idea that man cannot really “do.” We like to believe that our individual will can control these giant machines of inertia moving through the world, companies, markets, ecosystems, economies, technologies. But the truth is, most of the time, we are inside forces much larger than us. None of us could have really changed what happened. Not me. Not my teammates. Maybe not even the leaders making the decisions. These systems move through mechanical chains of cause and effect. Markets, funding cycles, pressure, growth, contraction. Giant machines interacting with other giant machines. But there is one thing we can do. We can wake up inside the experience. We can observe what it activates in us. We can accept what is happening without letting it define us. And from that place, we can listen more deeply to our true will. That is what this moment has given me. I feel deeply grateful for my time at @base. Thank you to @jessepollak, @XenBH, @therymac, and many others who enabled me to do some of the best work I’ve ever done, and with whom I had the chance to build something truly meaningful. To the LATAM Pod, @oyealmond, @carlosjmelgar, @gui_bettanin, and @AfonsoBelice, you guys are amazing. I couldn’t have done it without the incredible ambassadors @solsiete_web3, @LeaOlmos, and @sweetman_eth. Thank you to my teammates and to the founders, builders, creators, artists, and communities I had the chance to work with across the ecosystem. Again and again, I realize that what matters most to me is not only the work itself, but the relationships created through the work. The way we connect. The way we help each other move through pressure. The way we transform organizations by bringing more humanity into them. That is the work. Working inside a high-impact, high-demand ecosystem like Base gave me the opportunity to go deeper into myself and to connect with people from a more honest, human place. Now, I’m opening a new chapter. I want to start working more directly at the intersection of crypto, AI, culture, and psychic wellness. I want to explore how technology can help us understand our emotions, integrate our inner conflicts, and manifest our true selves more clearly in the world. One of my first experiments will be launching a character on @charmsai. A living character inspired by alchemy, self-transformation, and the search for inner gold. For people trying to find their own inner gold and shine in alignment with who they really are. I’ll also start creating content on TikTok and writing more openly about my own process, my career in crypto and technology, the emotional side of working in high-pressure environments, and the inner work required to stay connected to yourself inside chaotic systems. As part of this new chapter, I’m opening a few weekly slots for people interested in working with me more directly. This is for people in tech, crypto, AI, or creative industries who feel they need a space to speak, reflect, integrate, and move through emotional or professional transitions with more clarity. I bring more than 10 years of experience in crypto, technology, and highly competitive environments. But also more than 10 years of self-discovery through psychology, meditation, esotericism, psychedelics, and inner work. If this resonates, my DMs are open. Getting laid off from Base happened at the exact moment when I was already feeling the call to become something else. I’m excited for what comes next. As within, so without.