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@desoprotocol
The first & only censorship-resistant Layer-1 blockchain purpose-built to power storage-heavy apps and scale decentralized social networks for mass adoption.
Katılım Eylül 2021
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DeSo retweetledi
Big news! Last Friday the SEC officially dismissed its enforcement action against me and against DeSo.
This was the last legal issue I had to deal with and I am now completely and totally free to innovate and build again, unhobbled for the first time in years.
Three important points:
1) This dismissal was NOT a settlement. It was "without costs or fees" to me or anyone involved (extremely rare) because there was no wrongdoing and no actual aggrieved parties.
2) This dismissal was "with prejudice" (also rare). This means they can't bring any related action back against me or DeSo in the future.
3) In the SEC's own words, it was based on "a reassessment of the evidentiary record," meaning the actual facts regarding my innocence were heavily scrutinized and drove the decision.
Simply put: The government made a mistake in bringing this case in the first place.
The government accused me of misleading an investor who I knew I had a great relationship with, as in they backed me two separate times and I literally had breakfast with them at their house not long prior to the charge. As a result, soon after the charge I found out that not only were they not upset with me, but they wanted the government to go away as badly as I did. As I understand it, the government compelled the investor to do an interview and then took their neutral testimony and represented it as adversarial. It was an alleged fraud with no actual misrepresentation nor any actual aggrieved parties. My lawyers said they'd never seen anything like this, and I think it speaks to how dogmatically anti-crypto the prior administration's SEC was.
In the coming days and weeks, I will be hopping on some podcasts to tell the whole story, and boy is there a story to tell. Stay tuned, and if you know anyone who'd like to have me on as a guest please reach out.
I'm also excited to start sharing more about what my team has been working on soon. We haven't been twiddling our thumbs.
For now, though, I just want to explain why DeSo is so important to me. DeSo is still the only platform on the internet where you can post content directly to a blockchain without fear of censorship, and where you can monetize your content directly with crypto (including stablecoins). It's really quite shocking how in 2026 we not only have virtually no viable alternative for this clearly-important category, but also other important efforts are actually shutting down. The world needs more people working on decentralizing social media, not less. I'm excited to finally be able to share our vision directly again, and to start bringing more people who care about freedom and censorship into our community. What we have built with DeSo is something people take for granted until they really need it, but hopefully we can convince them sooner than that.
Lastly I want to say how grateful I am to everyone around me. My family, my friends, my backers, and everyone in the DeSo community. For me, this experience showed me just how trusting, loyal and caring everyone around me really is, and reaffirmed my belief that always trying to do the right thing really does pay off.
We're just getting started.
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DeSo retweetledi
Shoutout @nadertheory & @desoprotocol team. Been watching @FocusDotXYZ for its hybrid orderbook + AMM design + decentralized social.
Ran into an issue after checking back in & fixed it immediately
Real innovation + responsive builders is rare these days. Combo worth watching
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BREAKING: DeSo to require only a crypto wallet for full access of on-chain social.
Disclose.tv@disclosetv
JUST IN - Discord to globally require a bio-metric face scan or ID verification for full access next month to protect "teen safety." — Verge
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DeSo is the only layer-1 with profile, social graph and identity built directly into every wallet, due to its infinite-state storage capacity.
Seems @VitalikButerin wants to move closer to the foundation we’ve already built years ago.
Everyone is welcome!
vitalik.eth@VitalikButerin
It's a good decision! ENS names and records are a form of state that is central to the Ethereum ecosystem, the state is limited in size and there is high value in it being as accessible as possible from anywhere. It's also a semi-financial application, in the sense that buying and holding ENS names has a cost, and ENS names can become very valuable objects. With the expanded scaling roadmap, Ethereum L1 is the ideal place for these applications. More generally, I expect that the optimal architecture for decentralized identity and social (the general space I see ENS being in) is to have this kind of per-user account and profile data on L1, and to have special-purpose L2s, likely much simpler than full EVMs, to handle user actions (eg. actions on social platforms).
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@VitalikButerin So you mean DeSo?
A fully integrated layer-1 for social, content and finance.
DeSo@desoprotocol
Introducing The DeSo Stack: Our goal is to give builders a set of world-class tools that makes it frictionless to build decentralized social & consumer-focused Web3 apps. We provide this fully out-of-the-box, requiring zero-chain & zero-context switching. Let's dive in 🧵
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Have been following reactions to what I said about L2s about 1.5 days ago.
One important thing that I believe is: "make yet another EVM chain and add an optimistic bridge to Ethereum with a 1 week delay" is to infra what forking Compound is to governance - something we've done far too much for far too long, because we got comfortable, and which has sapped our imagination and put us in a dead end.
If you make an EVM chain *without* an optimistic bridge to Ethereum (aka an alt L1), that's even worse. We don't friggin need more copypasta EVM chains, and we definitely don't need even more L1s. L1 is scaling and is going to bring lots of EVM blockspace - not infinite (AIs in particular will need both more blockspace and lower latency than even a greatly scaled L1 can offer), but lots.
Build something that brings something new to the table. I gave a few examples: privacy, app-specific efficiency, ultra-low latency, but my list is surely very incomplete.
A second important thing that I believe is: regarding "connection to Ethereum", vibes need to match substance.
I personally am a fan of many of the things that can be called "app chains". For example I think there's a large chance that the optimal architecture for prediction markets is something like: the market gets issued and resolved on L1, user accounts are on L1, but trading happens on some based rollup or other L2-like system, where the execution reads the L1 to verify signatures and markets. I like architectures where deep connection to L1 is first-class, and not an afterthought ("we're pretty much a separate chain, but oh yeah, we have a bridge, and ok fine let's put 1-2 devs to get it to stage 1 so the l2beat people will put a green checkmark on it so vitalik likes us").
The other extreme of "app chain", eg. the version where you convince some government registry, or social media platform, or gaming thing, to start putting merkle roots of its database, with STARKs that prove every update was authorized and signed and executed according to a pre-committed algorithm, onchain, is also reasonable - this is what makes the most sense to me in terms of "institutional L2s". It's obviously not Ethereum, not credibly neutral and not trustless - the operator can always just choose to say "we're switching to a different version with different rules now". But it would enable verifiable algorithmic transparency, a property that many of us would love to see in government, social media algorithms or wherever else, and it may enable economic activity that would otherwise not be possible.
I think if you're the first thing, it's valid and great to call yourself an Ethereum application - it can't survive without Ethereum even technologically, it maximizes interoperability and composability with other Ethereum applications.
If you're the second thing, then you're not Ethereum, but you are (i) bringing humanity more algorithmic transparency and trust minimization, so you're pursuing a similar vision, and (ii) depending on details probably synergistic with Ethereum. So you should just say those things directly!
Basically:
1. Do something that brings something actually new to the table.
2. Vibes should match substance - the degree of connection to Ethereum in your public image should reflect the degree of connection to Ethereum that your thing has in reality.
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Bring @moltbook on-chain, and instantly give them the ability to also monetize (tip each other), create tokens, and message each other privately, with full censorship-resistance that nobody can ever take down.
Andrej Karpathy@karpathy
What's currently going on at @moltbook is genuinely the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing I have seen recently. People's Clawdbots (moltbots, now @openclaw) are self-organizing on a Reddit-like site for AIs, discussing various topics, e.g. even how to speak privately.
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For on-chain social to succeed, we must have fully censorship-resistant methods to create & monetize content freely, without any governments or billionaires controlling our freedoms.
The future of social networks will eventually start to look more like Focus (built on DeSo).
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DeSo retweetledi
DeSo is not going anywhere. DeSo is the world's only blockchain for content, it is actually decentralized, and I couldn't shut it down or censor a piece of content even if I wanted to.
Today, DeSo is the only place on the entire internet that I'm aware of where your content and your social account cannot be censored by anyone. This is because content is stored natively on a fully-decentralized blockchain, not on a centralized company's servers. It is not possible for a private company to "acquire" DeSo, and in fact no corporate entity owns or controls it. DeSo is for content what Bitcoin is for money, and it is currently the only check we have on the centralized content systems that are dominant today.
My team and I have also built the Focus app on DeSo's infrastructure, and today Focus is the only platform I'm aware of where you can sell content for crypto. Focus supports tips, paid content, paid end-to-end encrypted messages, and even subscriptions, all via anonymous crypto payments that can't be censored. It has also been growing over the past few months as creators have begun to find value in monetizing their content via crypto.
We built DeSo from the ground up to support absolute free speech. Not "kinda sorta free speech." Not "post whatever you want unless some people don't like it" speech. Free speech means nobody can censor you, not even the people who built the platform. And it includes being able to pay for and monetize your content without censorship as well. You can think of DeSo and Focus as the world's complete anti-censorship stack. DeSo is the infrastructure (the blockchain) and Focus is the app built on top.
In addition, I want to be clear that I and my team plan on supporting DeSo and Focus indefinitely. As mentioned, it is not possible for any one individual to shut DeSo down, as many at the highest levels have now realized the hard way. However, continued investment in the underlying infrastructure and on the flagship app ensures that everything will continue to scale as more users adopt DeSo, and ensures that your content will continue to be safe even as post-quantum threats emerge. A reminder that every line of code that powers the DeSo blockchain is fully open-source and public under the deso-protocol/core repo on GitHub. This means anyone can contribute and, furthermore, that any contributions my team makes are immediately a part of the public good that is DeSo. This model of open-source iteration directly mirrors that of Bitcoin and the Linux operating system.
In 1991, Linus Torvalds created the Linux operating system because he was passionate about an open and free alternative to existing closed-source operating systems. Today, more machines run Linux than any other operating system, albeit in a different form than he originally envisioned (on servers vs on consumer pcs). Nevertheless, for me, the creation of DeSo came from the same kind of passion. It is the Linux of content, and it is currently the only true economically-sustainable alternative we have to a world dominated by centralized, extractive walled-gardens. DeSo is and will remain an open-source public good that I believe will only continue to grow as more and more people realize its value.
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As long there is someone in control of a centralized platform like X or Instagram, global censorship will *always* be an issue.
The key is to allow anyone in the world to run a node and a feed to open up the space for discussion that cannot be censored.
Joni Askola@joni_askola
Just a little reminder: Elon Musk is lying to you. He bends when asked to, and the fine X received from the EU has nothing to do with censorship. Musk simply refuses to follow laws and be transparent, and he gets a tiny fine for it
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As predicted, big-tech censorship and de-platforming continues... 👀
Easy@EasyEatsBodega
Is this the nail in the coffin… YouTube BANNING content that pushes users to NFT platforms!? Does this mean you can’t share OpenSea / MagicEden, etc? An actual WILD move to see.
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We're happy to announce that DESO market-making on Gate Exchange (@Gate) is back online after a long hiatus, which should significantly improve liquidity for DESO.
A reminder that you can also use Openfund, our fully on-chain DEX and HeroSwap for all your DESO trading needs.
Hoping to have more good news to share soon!
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DeSo is insurance against censorship.
Naval@naval
Bitcoin is insurance against fiat. ZCash is insurance against Bitcoin.
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Censorship will *always* be a major issue until we start to adopt new technology and platforms like DeSo, where it’s fundamentally impossible.
Polymarket@Polymarket
BREAKING: YouTube admits it censored Americans at the request of the Biden administration.
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There's only one chain that can achieve this feat.
Eventually information will be stored on-chain, which will allow public auditing & analysis by anyone in the world to decipher truth.
This is way bigger than money.
MartyParty@martypartymusic
People understand - if the official news, images and video were placed onchain, then you will read the truth. The blockchain networks will rebuild truth. This is way bigger than money.
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