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The markets did a solid job forecasting last week. The latest Low Pass details what's up next for this week: open.substack.com/pub/lowpass/p/…

Low pass update: The markets were correct in the major categories: Big night for Paul Thomas Anderson and Michael B. Jordan. More on what to look for this coming week in Low Pass #2 on Monday. polymarket.com/event/oscars-2…

It took 9 years and 3 billion miles to get this shot. The icy mountains of Pluto.

Low Pass update: Oscars prediction @Polymarket markets see many major contests as mostly over while the NY Times and others in the drama and attention business still insist they’re wide open: Best Picture has One Battle After Another trading around three‑to‑one over Sinners even as a lot of coverage keeps calling it “neck and neck,” Best Actor markets have quietly flipped to a clear Michael B. Jordan edge while plenty of pundits still talk like it’s a Chalamet coin flip. We shall see Sunday. Lowpass.substack.com

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This was a super fun one! Great trading tips. Thanks @Domahhhh and @ss_starck ! Shout out @enDAOed

Sample issue - lowpass.substack.com/p/low-pass-1-f…

Today I debut a new lie detector for the week's headlines with a little help from lots of @Polymarket data: lowpass.substack.com/p/low-pass-1-f…

This is great news because all I want to do is just keep building really cool stuff in the exponential age with my friends

. @LuckyLuker2, Director of Security at @MetaMask, took the @EthereumDenver 2026 main stage to share best practices for working with AI agents like @OpenClaw.

People are saying @EthereumDenver is done. Many are talking about competitive conferences or “replacements” if it dies (like ETH NYC in June) I do have some concerns: - Logistical woes (sign up is still confusing, WiFi is painful) - Mistreatment of speakers from the community like @winternet - Questionable allocation of resources (ie critically reduced rates of visa sponsorship, TJ Miller) - Dubious sponsors like Digital Ascension Group — In spite of this, it was still an excellent conference because of: - High signal attendance. It wasn’t crowded, but the right people showed up - Side events, shows, and meetings were stupid tasteful and productive (s/o @zerion @0xMiden @thewavecapital @thisisarculus @joinwebzero @OdysseyFi @MetaMask @DogeOS) - Substantive announcements from @DromosLabs @OctantApp @SECGov and developments from almost every builder I talked to (especially in DeFi) - Talks, topics, and speakers were seriously good (@HesterPeirce @hosseeb @provenauthority were some of my favorites) - The podcast studio/content team was excellent—very professional - Even though so many international attendees had to/chose to stay home, it still had the same open, inclusive, weird-but-good vibe — The spirit of Ethereum will live beyond any conference, but ETH Denver is my home conference and will always be special. If this is our last one; it was a great one to go out on.

At @MetaMask Builder Nights in Denver, ERC-8004 co-author @marco_derossi explained how composable reputation allows AI agents to work cross-chain.

After 10 years of 100% Ethereum uptime, we're excited for 11.

I am stepping into the role of interim co-ED @ethereumfndn to continue the progress that Tomasz has made over the last year. Tomasz brought an energy and urgency that the EF needed at a critical time, and I join the community in thanking him for his work on behalf of the Foundation and the network. This task isn't something that I take on lightly, knowing the weight of responsibility of the role through seeing it up close for some time, but it is one that I am prepared to handle. I've served in a management position at the EF over many years, working closely with Hsiao-Wei, Tomasz, Josh Stark, Danny Ryan, Aya, and Vitalik at different points in time. My focus has been deliberately on illegible but essential work, helping management try to make well-informed decisions, working with EF's team leads, considering budgets, articulating strategy, setting priorities, and more. The decisions I make will be guided by a principled insistence on the properties of what we're building (censorship resistance, open source, privacy, security). These properties are what make Ethereum relevant and competitive, and they are the foundation of Ethereum's value proposition to the world and everything the world builds on it; just as Ether is the foundational store-of-value that underpins every transaction across it; and just as both are indispensable to the EF's own treasury. The mandate of the EF is to make sure that real permissionless infrastructure, cypherpunk at its core, is what gets built. Ethereum should outlast us, and it has been our job from the beginning to make sure it is robust enough to do so. I, and the rest of the EF, will work alongside other members of the community - core protocol contributors, researchers and client implementers, auditors and whitehats, incident responders, spec authors, solo stakers and validator operators, node runners, MEV gremlins, rollup and L2 teams, bridge and interoperability integrators, UX and product builders, infra providers and tooling maintainers, educators, community organizers, forum crews, lurkers, and free software advocates, grant-givers and culture-makers, artists, memers, cypherpunks, cyberanarchists, Landian accelerationists, financepunks, femboys, soundcloud rappers, transgenders, disinformationalists, cyborgs, anons, revolutionaries, shitposters, trolls, federal lists, hypebeasts, pirates, preppers, the bros, incels - to make it last 1000 years or more.

SharpLink's CIO @sheffieldreport outlines their approach to institutional DeFi infrastructure… "We're doing DeFi differently. We're doing it institutionally on a public company balance sheet...trying to bring a level of institutional rigor to DeFi."

This viral hot take post - underblown or overblown?

Sharing this because I thought the image was really cool. That's the only reason. didn't even take the time to read it.

@francescoswiss Don't want your money, but your brain could be very helpful - seedprotocol.io

If you're a founder and you're starting to build your company now: I want to invest. The best companies start at the bottom of the market.