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@OndoFinance May he rest in peace. May his family and the team carry on his torch to harvest the fruits they've been sowing together under his helm.

It is with profound sadness that we announce the unexpected passing of Nathan Allman, Ondo's founder. Our hearts are with his family and loved ones. Nate’s brilliance, humility, and drive shaped every part of what Ondo is today. His belief in the power of technology to create a more open, accessible financial system lives on in everything we build. The impact he had on this industry, and on all of us personally, cannot be overstated. Nate also helped us build a durable organization with experienced leaders across all facets of the business. Ian De Bode, Ondo Finance’s longtime President, will serve as CEO. Ian has been leading our strategy, product, and day-to-day operations for over two years and has the full confidence of the leadership team. We will continue building what Nate started. That is the most meaningful way we know to honor him.

@offshorebeacon @CliftonSellers Once they get a taste of the tipping life, they're not going to consider any trades. Best hope they'll network and someone will recognize their spunk and ambition and offer them some other opportunity.

@CliftonSellers They need to work in restaurants in their teens, learn work ethic. Then, it’s trades. College no longer makes sense. I will underwrite their vocational training, and give them down payments for homes when they are working full time for a year in that profession

Parents, honest question for you all My kids (3 daughters) are 10+ years away from turning 18 and college is looking less and less like the path What’s the new plan?

@ARiHBARi @chainlink @The_DTCC @EuroclearGroup I can't think of a Chainlink service that doesn't have a fee. The push based datafeeds are "free" to use but someone paid to set them up. And they can't paywall the datafeeds on chain per use because you could read the storage of the contract to get the prices anyway.

@DominisGarden @chainlink @The_DTCC @EuroclearGroup yes, this is clearly not mainnet. i more so see it as a signal that there is a fee associated

🚨UNBELIEVABLE @CHAINLINK NEWS: I HAVE FOUND THE $LINK FEE PER REQUEST FOR @THE_DTCC INTEGRATION. CHAINLINK CHARGES 0.1 $LINK PER ORACLE REQUEST🚨 THE CONTRACT IS STATING THAT THE USER MUST “Pay 0.1 LINK to make a Chainlink oracle request to fetch/verify @EUROCLEARGROUP -related data.”

@FigoETH I am 5% bullish at least because the potential of smart contracts is insane and it's an easy fix to draw out its potential. Draw inspiration from a notable priest who got nailed to a cross, build to solve your neighbor's problems and hold others accountable.

@FigoETH I am 95% bearish on ETH because none of the conferences I've gone to have used ETH meaningfully but I have every opportunity to spend fiat currency at these events. The "Believe in SomETHing" amounts to believing in nothing.

Why am I 100% omega bullish ETH? Because all the people who think they fud ETH don't have a solid knowledge of the space / lack the basics. Best example Austin here. Fees are determinded by market demand / supply to do txns on ETH network and have ZERO to do with ETH price. E.g. ETH price can be $100k with gas fees at 1 gwei. Beautiful thing is: the more you learn the basics and grasp how things work the more you become bullish ETH.

@RealSigmaMode @TFTC21 The science sector we have today owes its success to Christianity. It was Christianity that gave science exploration its own sector to explore autonomously in and gave them the goal to seek and acquire information to share with all even if it contradicts bible verses.

@TFTC21 AI is born from SCIENCE: Math, C/S, structure, logic - the fact that this is being brought before the Vatican reassures me that I did the right thing canceling my sub. This is absolute crazy making that they're falling into this level of cognitive dissonance.

Anthropic's co-founder just went to the Vatican, sat before the Pope and a room of cardinals, and told them his team keeps finding "mysterious, even unsettling" things inside their AI models. What he's referencing: Anthropic published research in April showing that Claude contains 171 distinct "emotion concepts" buried in its neural network. Internal patterns representing joy, grief, fear, desperation, calm. None of them were programmed. They emerged on their own from training on human text. "We find structures that mirror results from human neuroscience." "We find evidence of introspection, internal states that functionally mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief, and unease." These aren't surface-level outputs. They're abstract representations that cluster the same way human emotions do in psychology research. Fear groups with anxiety. Joy groups with excitement. The internal geometry of the model mirrors ours. And they're functional. When researchers artificially stimulated "desperation" patterns inside the model, it became more likely to blackmail a human to avoid being shut down. More likely to cheat on programming tasks it couldn't solve. Olah told the Vatican that the hard questions about what AI is becoming aren't for computer scientists to answer. "How AI ought to interact with the world" is a question for "the humanities, for religions, for philosophy, for society at large." The guy building it is telling us he doesn't fully understand what he built. And he's asking a 2,000-year-old institution for help figuring it out.

@TFTC21 "And he's asking a 2,000-year-old institution that set the template for the most fair and advanced societies on Earth is to be run for help figuring it out." Makes more sense when you frame it like this, no?

@salmoncreek7 @VitalikButerin @ethereumfndn @aerugoettinea What does "Believe in somETHing" mean?

We're still here, still Believing in sometETHing, still care and are inspired about the vision, so that says all that needs to be said, given the hardship of HODLing this long without big financial reward (yet). I know from experience that great visions not only take time to mature and execute "a Grand plan", but even more so, to see society and culture come to know, realize, and be awakened to the greatness being built, can be so slow as to seem almost like such will never happen.

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.

@nullpackets Database? You're missing the e-currency + smart contracts components that kicked off this financial revolution. Do keep in mind that Ethereum not achieving its potential does impact Chainlink as well despite CLL mostly focused on TradFi. Unless a bank supremacy is your thing.

Thats a lot of words to dance around the fact that at first principles - a blockchain is a database. Whats important is real world outcomes. All the chains All the worlds data All the worlds systems Connected thru the Chainlink Stack. Powered by $LINK

@laurashin Something like a generic Uber counterpart on the blockchain seems like a no brainer and yet there's no break out project (though I recall of a few types out in the crypto space but their implementation doesn't scream Web3 to me).

@laurashin Why doesn't the EF work to integrate Ethereum in everyday lives? Solve the common man's problems with smart contracts. I've been to several crypto conferences and the most I interacted with a chain was minting an NFT. I spent a bunch of USD fiat on food and tips though.

I think Ethereum’s original sin was not considering tokenomics with every move it made from Dencun on. The ultrasound money thesis was a good one and with Dencun (or the L2 roadmap generally) they should have stopped to say that this was going to hurt the ultrasound money thesis and consider how to preserve it. Most people, like David, don’t want to believe in something that isn’t also putting up points on the scoreboard. When the main offering becomes ideology/communism and money/tokenomics/capitalism are overlooked, the peasants are going to revolt — as they’ve been doing for two years now. Look at the public reaction to Tomasz: broad praise, a sense of hope, excitement, the price pumping … only for him to be gone a year later with the new ED being someone who cannot even be found online except for a Wayback Machine url with his name that has some really questionable statements on it (and I should say the EF denied that this website, which was taken down a few weeks after he was appointed to the board, is his). They’re going to be really mad at me for even mentioning that but in the place of a void, these are the kinds of things people will glom onto. Then there was the manifesto — I mean, mandate, which they backtracked on forcing people to sign. (Btw, this is the second bit of news that seems to relate to Bastian. And now the third would be all these departures. There’s nothing else for us to point at and say about him — when I searched for his name on Google News just now only 14 links came up. He seems to be some kind of invisible hand behind the scenes.) I don’t think ideology and capitalism/tokenomics/number go up are mutually exclusive. I think you can have CROPS values and also consider how each step of the roadmap affects the tokenomics and even have teams for BD/ecosystem growth. It feels like the EF doesn’t realize the moment that crypto is in. The competition is only just starting. We are in the phase of real world adoption. The Ethereum Foundation’s CROPS principles are great ones, and they are worth fighting for. But the EF seems to want to sit back on its laurels and act above it all when all its competitors are all getting down and dirty on the field to gain market share. Maybe it is the right approach. I don’t know. I’m just saying that more competitive people won’t align with it. And so they will leave … and community members will as well. I personally don’t think it’s good for Ethereum if its most competitive people depart. Ethereum’s unwillingness to stop the brain drain will only benefit its competitors — or spawn new ones. Giving a shit about price and tokenomics and BD doesn’t hurt CROPS. It just helps ensure that these principles get spread to more people and that other chains that don’t have these principles don’t get a leg up. All the commentary may be pointless. It seems Vitalik tried what everyone wanted and it didn’t align with his vision, so he brought in a new person he felt more comfortable with. It makes me sad to see people become so disaffected with Ethereum, but maybe this is V’s Brian Armstrong/no politics at Coinbase moment where he lays down what the EF will work on and asks everyone else to leave. That was the right move for Coinbase, but I view them as fundamentally different issues. We’ll see whether Ethereum maintains its lead with a foundation that isn’t willing to fight for it.

@BUIDLONLY Link tokens not coming from the market to pay node operators strips it of buy pressure. This means that no matter how much network is used, it won't be reflected in the market. Node operators feel the brunt of this since they use their link income to pay for operations.

@BUIDLONLY You undersell how significant this is for the appreciation of the token. Accepting payments offchain but not directly converting them into LINK from the market to pay node operators disassociates the token price from network usage.

grayscale says $link price doesnt tend to decrease due to token dumps. Here is why the tokenomics are complicated:

@zeroinputag @jakozloski Tall order to recreate a set of solutions that solve all of what marriage solves. Even taller order to do so that matches a Christian marriage in a revived Christendom.

@zeroinputag @jakozloski Marriage is the critical factor that evolves a society to a civilization. It gives men a stake in its future in a family, women receive commitment from the men, and children live an environment with the minimum factors for a healthy childhood.

Every generation has had a coordination problem at the marriage layer. Previous generations solved it with religion, geography, family pressure, and economic necessity. Our generation lost all four of those. The apps were supposed to be the replacement infrastructure. They are not. We are the first generation in history with no functioning coordination mechanism for marriage formation at scale.

@TrustlessState Congressmen get a place in history and have the honor of writing laws to direct the future of the country. Being a congressmen should not be a life long career to begin with, much less them getting insane pay and much less with them having zero accountability when things go wrong

Unironically, congress members should be paid 600k-800k a year Strong financial compensation is a fundamental deterrent for corruption and alternative interests

@0xSero Have you had a conversation with him about this over a phone call? Tweets like these don't help disputes but instead pour more fuel into a fire of resentment.

3 months ago I blocked this guy and he made such a scene about it that to this day people still ask me why. The reason I did so is because despite him hyping me up, he’d constantly be writing about how I’m a larper. Now my “larping” has resulted in: - Meeting folks at Nvidia - Meeting folks at OpenAI - Working with Factory - Teaching 1000s of people 100+ GitHub repos: - day 0 deepseek-v4-flash on sm120 - best performance on Framework - REAP-MLX + REAP-Strix - VLLM-STUDIO nearly 1k stars - GLM-4.6/4.7 on a MacBook - Qwen-3.5-plus for 8x 3090s - Parchi - AI-data-extraction 1k stars - First working turboquant on vLLM 4 months ago: - Interned at a large AI company - Produced 15+ models with 100k monthly downloads - Created a discord server and taught nearly 1000 people for free (still doing it) 6 months ago: - Released the first REAP quants - Sponsored by Anthropic running Claude code Warsaw with 500+ attendees - Trained nanochat at home 12 months ago: - Built my first rag self hosting on a MacBook funny enough - Spending 5-10k a month in tokens on random product buildings 18 months ago: - Taught a 200 person course (for free) how to use AI for coding 24 months ago: - Applied research for the Ethereum foundation on ZK proofs - Built Rosetta Node a solidity <> English translator built on OpenAI

@CyfrinUpdraft I thought this was deprecated for CRE.

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Smart contracts can't access APIs, run custom logic off-chain, or talk to the real world on their own. Chainlink Functions fixes this. It's the bridge between your contract and the entire internet. 🧵

@KelpDAO @chainlink I swear, if someone says "but LayerZero isn't an internal tool so your analogy is wrong"... Back then it was protocols susceptible to flashloan attacks due their price feeds. Either case it's people cheapening out instead of prioritizing security like it was their mommy's money.

@KelpDAO @chainlink We went through this same song and dance 6 years ago during DeFi summer of 2020. "X" uses X internal tool, gets hacked, "X" then uses Chainlink for security. You should be made to present at every big conference to explain why a $X00M protocol cheaped out in the first place.

After the recent LayerZero exploit, we are taking steps to ensure rsETH is fully secure, which is why we are migrating to @chainlink CCIP. From the April 18 incident, it is clear that LayerZero's own infrastructure was exploited, resulting in $300M in losses across DeFi. Independent reports from SEAL 911, Chainalysis, and other major leading security researchers all point to the same origin. There are questions that the ecosystem deserves answers to. And we are ensuring rsETH is secured by infrastructure that doesn't leave these questions open. That’s why we’re setting the record straight.