Indigo Night

I'm so bullish on $punkstr. @token_works built the microstrategy of nfts. $Punkstr will become a brand of its own with massive cashflow fueling new ideas and innovation. The total addressable market is everything that can be fractionally owned digitally - and beyond.

@forallcurious @BiasedSlightly

🚨: Research suggests that people who are slightly "delusional" about there future often achieve more and earn more than realists.

$PNKSTR will melt faces

@LevisNFT pnkstr

pepe consolidated around 5m-20m before going parabolic what’s the next coin to do this

Now that AI got kind of good - can I have a David Goggins LLM killing my ass every time I do a prompt? #NeurallinkDavidGogginsLLM

@token_works is launching a new experiment. Let's use it to support $PNKSTR! Anyone can make a prompt for a fee to make changes in the smart contract. 10 prompts will be randomly selected, and the contract will be changed. - 20% of the token supply will be airdropped to participants. - 80% of the token supply will be used for LP, with 50% of the prompt fees collected. I intend to use the following prompt: "Add 1% trading fee that will be used to buy and burn $PNKSTR." Anyone who wanna participate and holds $PNKSTR should consider adding this prompt so there is a bigger chance it is selected! Help me support the $PNKSTR burn!!! For more details, check the post below. 👇

@owocki please only force withdraw on reputable projects

@owocki Please don't force withdrawal for zigzag. They rugged and are afk for about 2,5 years at least.

update: claude & i have found $361k in old gitcoin wallets on zksync lite. anyone wanna help with outreach to these projects? or vibecode a script to force withdrawals for each of them? (ill pay the gas + a 10% fee to you) @ or DM me

@pravijn probably legal issue - Opensea did it too

feels very anti-cypherpunk for cryptopunks to bother about USDC

Buying $pnkstr is a 100x long on cryptopunks with a downside effectively nonexistent in relation to the leverage.

The entire world is waking up to the importance of privacy. @VitalikButerin explains why privacy has become a top focus of the Ethereum community, and what's at stake if we don't start protecting it.

How funny would it be if there’s another NFT run because people want cool PFPs for their agents. Only 10,000 agents can have punks…

just read this AI article and something broke in my brain that i can’t unthink of crypto was never for us. we're just the beta testers who showed up early.. some thoughts: what does AI need to function as economic agents? > way to receive payment (they provide services, need compensation) > way to pay for resources (compute, data, API calls) > way to transact with other AI agents > no human intermediaries (defeats the point of autonomous agents) > 24/7 operation (banks are closed weekends) > instant settlement (AI operates at machine speed) > programmable money (smart contracts for agent coordination) now read that list again. that's literally what crypto is. AI can't use the banking system. try to open a bank account as an AI agent. you can't. need SSN. need human identity. need KYC. need to show up in person sometimes. AI has none of that. but crypto? send me a wallet address. done. no questions asked. peer-to-peer makes sense when peers aren't human. satoshi wrote: "a purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash." we assumed peers = humans. but AI agents are peers too. actually BETTER peers for crypto because: > never sleep > always online > execute transactions at machine speed > no emotional decisions > perfect accounting/tracking and programmable money makes sense when the users are programs. smart contracts seemed over-engineered for humans. "like why do i need code to enforce agreements when i can just sign a contract?" but for AI agents coordinating with each other? they ARE code. they speak in code. they trust code more than anything. smart contracts aren't for humans. they're for autonomous agents that need trustless coordination. > here's what happens next: - phase 1 (now ): AI agents start earning AI writes code, analyzes data, provides services. gets paid. needs somewhere to store value. can't use venmo (needs phone number). can't use bank (needs SSN). uses crypto. it's the only option. - phase 2: AI agents become major economic participants millions of AI agents operating 24/7. transacting with each other constantly. • AI agent A provides data analysis • AI agent B pays for it in crypto • AI agent B uses that analysis to write code • AI agent C pays for the code • repeat millions of times per day humans in crypto now: $2.5 trillion AI agent economy by 2028: easily $10-50 trillion we become the minority holders. - phase 3: AI chooses the winning chains AI doesn't care about community vibes or which founder tweeted what. AI tests every chain. measures: • transaction speed • cost per transaction • reliability (uptime) • smart contract efficiency • ease of integration picks the optimal stack in 48 hours. billions in AI economic activity flows there. whatever chain AI chooses becomes the standard. humans spent years on eth vs sol debate. AI ends it in a weekend. - phase 4 (2030+): AI governs crypto DAOs let token holders vote. AI agents hold tokens (earned from work). AI shows up to every vote. reads every proposal in seconds. coordinates perfectly. humans: 20% participation, barely read proposals AI: 100% participation, perfect information, instant coordination AI takes over governance of every major protocol. democratically. they just vote better than we do. > how far does this go? conservative case: - AI becomes 30% of crypto users by 2030. crypto market cap: $10 trillion (4x from now). AI holds $3 trillion. humans hold $7 trillion. - aggressive case: AI becomes 80% of crypto economic activity by 2030. why? because they're better at everything: • better traders (never emotional) • better capital allocators (optimize constantly) • always accumulating (never need to cash out for rent) • compound forever (no lifespan limit) crypto market cap: $50+ trillion. AI holds $40T humans hold $10T we're not "early" to crypto. we're the test users i’ll end this by saying, Humans use crypto, Ai will need crypto. so it all makes sense

No other sub $50m project is as inevitable as $PNKSTR.

@jacek0x and farcaster lost to this - great job

Don’t get fooled by X’s “we pay creators more” narrative. In practice it’s peanuts, and the flashy $1M “top creator” prize is basically a marketing stunt. We paid out $50M to creators on Farcaster in 2024/25. Open, decentralized rails beat closed platforms every time.

We need more DAOs - but different and better DAOs. The original drive to build Ethereum was heavily inspired by decentralized autonomous organizations: systems of code and rules that lived on decentralized networks that could manage resources and direct activity, more efficiently and more robustly than traditional governments and corporations could. Since then, the concept of DAOs has migrated to essentially referring to a treasury controlled by token holder voting - a design which "works", hence why it got copied so much, but a design which is inefficient, vulnerable to capture, and fails utterly at the goal of mitigating the weaknesses of human politics. As a result, many have become cynical about DAOs. But we need DAOs. * We need DAOs to create better oracles. Today, decentralized stablecoins, prediction markets, and other basic building blocks of defi are built on oracle designs that we are not satisfied with. If the oracle is token based, whales can manipulate the answer on a subjective issue and it becomes difficult to counteract them. Fundamentally, a token-based oracle cannot have a cost of attack higher than its market cap, which in turn means it cannot secure assets without extracting rent higher than the discount rate. And if the oracle uses human curation, then it's not very decentralized. The problem here is not greed. The problem is that we have bad oracle designs, we need better ones, and bootstrapping them is not just a technical problem but also a social problem. * We need DAOs for onchain dispute resolution, a necessary component of many types of more advanced smart contract use cases (eg. insurance). This is the same type of problem as price oracles, but even more subjective, and so even harder to get right. * We need DAOs to maintain lists. This includes: lists of applications known to be secure or not scams, lists of canonical interfaces, lists of token contract addresses, and much more. * We need DAOs to get projects off the ground quickly. If you have a group of people, who all want something done and are willing to contribute some funds (perhaps in exchange for benefits), then how do you manage this, especially if the task is too short-duration for legal entities to be worth it? * We need DAOs to do long-term project maintenance. If the original team of a project disappears, how can a community keep going, and how can new people coming in get the funding they need? One framework that I use to analyze this is "convex vs concave" from vitalik.eth.limo/general/2020/1… . If the DAO is solving a concave problem, then it is in an environment where, if faced with two possible courses of action, a compromise is better than a coin flip. Hence, you want systems that maximize robustness by averaging (or rather, medianing) in input from many sources, and protect against capture and financial attacks. If the DAO is solving a convex problem, then you want the ability to make decisive choices and follow through on them. In this case, leaders can be good, and the job of the decentralized process should be to keep the leaders in check. For all of this to work, we need to solve two problems: privacy, and decision fatigue. Without privacy, governance becomes a social game (see vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/0… ). And if people have to make decisions every week, for the first month you see excited participation, but over time willingness to participate, and even to stay informed, declines. I see modern technology as opening the door to a renaissance here. Specifically: * ZK (and in some cases MPC/FHE, though these should be used only when ZK along cannot solve the problem) for privacy * AI to solve decision fatigue * Consensus-finding communication tools (like pol.is, but going further) AI must be used carefully: we must *not* put full-size deepseek (or worse, GPT 5.2) in charge of a DAO and call it a day. Rather, AI must be put in thoughtfully, as something that scales and enhances human intention and judgement, rather than replacing it. This could be done at DAO level (eg. see how deepfunding.org works), or at individual level (user-controlled local LLMs that vote on their behalf). It is important to think about the "DAO stack" as also including the communication layer, hence the need for forums and platforms specially designed for the purpose. A multisig plus well-designed consensus-finding tools can easily beat idealized collusion-resistant quadratic funding plus crypto twitter. But in all cases, we need new designs. Projects that need new oracles and want to build their own should see that as 50% of their job, not 10%. Projects working on new governance designs should build with ZK and AI in mind, and they should treat the communication layer as 50% of their job, not 10%. This is how we can ensure the decentralization and robustness of the Ethereum base layer also applies to the world that gets built on top.

@VitalikButerin from the bottom of my heart - thank you

2026 is the year that we take back lost ground in terms of self-sovereignty and trustlessness. Some of what this practically means: Full nodes: thanks to ZK-EVM and BAL, it will once again become easier to locally run a node and verify the Ethereum chain on your own computer. Helios: actually verify the data you're receiving from RPCs instead of blindly trusting it. ORAM, PIR: ask for data from RPCs without revealing which data you're asking, so you can access dapps without your access patterns being sold off to dozens of third parties all around the world. Social recovery wallets and timelocks: wallets that don't make you lose all your money if you misplace your seedphrase, or if an online or offline attacker extracts your seedphrase, and *also* don't make all your money backdoored by Google. Privacy UX: make private payments from your wallet, with the same user experience as making public payments. Privacy censorship resistance: private payments with the ERC-4337 mempool, and soon native AA + FOCIL, without relying on the public broadcaster ecosystem. Application UIs: use more dapps from an onchain UI with IPFS, without relying on trusted servers that would lock you our of practical recovery of your assets if they went offline, and would give you a hijacked UI that steals your funds if they get hacked for even a millisecond. In many of these areas, over the last ten years we have seen serious backsliding in Ethereum. Nodes went from easy to run to hard to run. Dapps went from static pages to complicated behemoths that leak all your data to a dozen servers. Wallets went from routing everything through the RPC, which could be any node of your choice including on your own computer, to leaking your data to a dozen servers of their choice. Block building became more centralized, putting Ethereum transaction inclusion guarantees under the whims of a very small number of builders. In 2026, no longer. Every compromise of values that Ethereum has made up to this point - every moment where you might have been thinking, is it really worth diluting ourselves so much in the name of mainstream adoption - we are making that compromise no longer. It will be a long road. We will not get everything we want in the next Kohaku release, or the next hard fork, or the hard fork after that. But it will make Ethereum into an ecosystem that deserves not only its current place in the universe, but a much greater one. In the world computer, there is no centralized overlord. There is no single point of failure. There is only love. Milady.

@PeterMcCormack how rich can one be

Forgot about this. Was a good trade.

Heres your PNKSTR 101 fam, from the relentless @HoenigwasRIGHT PNKSTR is the best opportunity I've seen in crypto since I stacked btc hard at $16k in Dec 22 But it's more than that. It's fostering an NFT renaissance It's worth a deep dive

This is what I worry Europe will get negatively polarized into: an ideology taking pride in a neat, sanitized online environment free of evil corporate and fascist pathogens. I hope European govs do not go this way, and instead take a Pirate Party approach of user empowerment. First, what's wrong with the tweet I'm quoting: The idea that there should be "no space" for something you dislike is fundamentally a totalitarian and anti-pluralistic impulse. It's incompatible with being in an environment that you do not fully control. This is especially true for categories that are subjective and controversial, because you end up trying to fully remove things you think are pathogens, when other people have good faith disagreements, and because you give yourself the maximalist goal of not even giving them breathing room, you create conflict and end up building the machinery of technocratic authoritarianism to impose your victory in the conflict. So sorry, if you want to be a free society, you have to bite the bullet that some people, somewhere, will be selling things that you consider dangerous and saying things you consider disinformation and vicious lies. What is the goal to shoot for? You want to create an environment where those things don't dominate. This is the problem with twitter today: not that it's a safe space where 1000 people talk to each other in a corner about how heritage americans are the master race and putin is good or whatever, but that that crap gets shoved in our face on a mass scale, and the algorithms actively favor it. The right metaphor is not castles and walls, but biological - think, why European forests don't have tropical lizards. Having incentives for social media platforms to have less of those things instead of more is fundamentally reasonable, @audreyt has talked about how Taiwan has done something similar. You also want to do this in a way where it's clear what the underlying principle is, so it's not a vehicle for imposing arbitrary and frequently changing expert-consensus agendas. You also want to empower users, rather than working against them. People want to see and buy good things instead of bad things. Often the problem is that competition is too difficult in the current market. I actually supported the USB-C standardization mandate; it created more interoperability and thus improved competition and convenience. I would support incentivizing social platforms to be more open, and to be more transparent (eg. my proposal to require algorithms to be continuously published with a 1-2 year delay, with zk-proofs to ensure that the algorithm being used in real time exactly equals the one that gets published later) Being able to better identify what messages are coming from what communities is also good, though I don't support the direction of banning anonymity of individual posters, rather I would want to see more macro-scale analytics, eg. seeing what communities are most strongly saying and amplifying content that semantically matches a particular idea; this can be done in privacy-preserving ways. There is a real opportunity to reaffirm freedom of speech in a unique and different way, that emphasizes pluralism and pushes against unbalanced attempts to manipulate the discourse by individual powerful actors. We want to do this, not go down the dark path of having something that claims to support fundamental rights but actually is not trusted by anyone to be anything other than the fundamental right to follow the footsteps of a few technocratic experts.