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@zkDragon 😎

The sequence: 1) Zcashd deprecates, everyone moves to Zakura + Zebra 2) Ironwood upgrade 3) Everyone votes on NU7 upgrade in either Vizor or Zodl 4) NU7 hits and we massively drop latency, and raise TPS for everyone

@balajis @balajis is awesome. More countries should be moving mountains to have him be a part of their future!

From Polychain, a multibillion dollar global fund:

Should the global tech community continue investing in Malaysia? Given recent events, I raise this question respectfully for the consideration of Prime Minister Yang Amat Berhormat Dato’ Seri Anwar bin Ibrahim (@anwaribrahim), for the people of Malaysia, and for our friends in the Malaysian tech community. The answer will be of interest to anyone in global tech that’s considering building, investing, or expanding in Malaysia, including executives at Google, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft, founders of tech unicorns like Coinbase and Solana, and investors at the world’s largest venture capital funds like a16z and Polychain. As context, I am the former CTO of Coinbase and former General Partner at a16z. In October 2024, I opened a startup society called Network School in Malaysia, because I felt I’d been invited in by the government’s pro-tech policies. Specifically, the KL20 initiative set out Malaysia’s ambition of becoming a top 20 global tech hub. Their MDEC digital nomad visas and MM2H investor visas were created to facilitate an influx of global talent and capital. And the Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone was announced to facilitate the flow of capital and talent between Malaysia and Singapore, where I live. When taken in combination with Malaysia’s datacenter buildout and its policy of welcoming visa-free visits for 98% of the world, it seemed like Malaysia might be a great place to build a global tech hub that was simultaneously inexpensive and easy to visit (especially for non-Westerners). And that’s what we did, by creating Network School. It’s an international tech community with its first node in Forest City, Malaysia. We picked Forest City because it had millions of square feet of empty space, because it was one hour from Singapore’s capital markets, and because it was within the Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone. Then, within 18 months, without a single penny of government money, we built Network School into a global attraction that brought thousands of engineers, investors, and builders from 70+ countries to learn technology, burn calories, earn online, and have fun, integrating with the local Malaysian economy along the way. Indeed, in terms of quantifiable contribution to the Malaysian economy, we’ve already invested 100M+ MYR in our campus to make it startup-friendly. For perspective, that’s about 4% of the budget of Johor, the Malaysian state where Forest City is located. We employ dozens of Malaysians directly and indirectly at every level from executive to staff. We’ve backed Malaysian tech startups like Collektr, hosted events for local teams like Superteam Malaysia, and are major customers of many local businesses like barbers, laundromats, and restaurants. We’ve also revitalized the multibillion-dollar Forest City project, causing millions of MYR in real estate appreciation. And, as the video below describes, we were on the cusp of a 500M+ MYR expansion to grow our community, as well as a global merit scholarship with my friend Amjad Masad of Replit. However, that emerging multi-billion dollar success story — which should rightfully have been hailed as a huge victory for the pro-tech policies of the Malaysian government — is at risk of being derailed by a fake story spread by an anonymous account named MP4P. In short: on the day before the July 11 Johor elections, MP4P posted an Instagram post falsely accusing Network School of harboring illegal aliens. The sensational accusations caused a tizzy in Malaysia, until Malaysian authorities came to our campus on July 14 to investigate. (I should note that the officers were very polite and professional.) After checking hundreds of physical passports from 40 countries, including dual passport holders, the authorities confirmed to the press on July 15 that all travel documents were in order. During the process, we cooperated fully; in the thread below you can see a photo of the men, women, and children of Network School smiling and holding up their passports in the bright daylight. Our faces are shown and our names are known; we have nothing to hide. With that said, the process is the punishment. What MP4P did is very similar to the American crime of “swatting”, because MP4P created a hoax report of a serious threat, thereby forcing the Malaysian police to take time away from protecting the Malaysian people towards investigating a nonexistent issue. Moreover, this anonymous MP4P account has also called for Malaysia to boycott Apple, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft…a move that would cost ordinary Malaysians thousands of jobs…even while MP4P’s own Instagram collaborators promote their Apple and Google apps! I mean, we aren’t talking about a credible accuser, but just someone screaming inconsistently at the top of their lungs on social media for traffic, an all-too-common phenomenon these days. Anyway, at this point, all further investment we were planning to make in Malaysia is on hold until we get sufficient assurance that such issues won’t recur. So are the investment plans of many of our friends, including the execs and investors at global tech firms that we brought to Forest City. Because to put it very plainly: we have invested 100M+ MYR in Malaysia, while creating jobs for dozens of Malaysians, and our faces and names are known. Our Malaysian executives and employees deserve the benefit of the doubt over anonymous internet trolls. There are two paths forward. In the first case, if Malaysia still wants continued global tech investment, if it wants to be a top 20 tech hub, if it wants us to revitalize Forest City, then we request an audience with the Prime Minister’s office to discuss the terms of a memorandum of understanding between Network School and the Malaysian government, similar to the document recently signed between the Solana Foundation and the Kazakhstan government. Specifics can of course be discussed, but we would publicly commit to abiding by all Malaysian laws (we already do) and respecting Malaysia’s sovereignty (never in question). In return, they’d get to know our friendly community, and realize that we actually chose Malaysia because we thought it was a great place to build a tech hub where engineers from the global South, investors from the West, and builders from Malaysia itself could meet new people, build cool things, and perhaps create millions of dollars in economic growth in the fullness of time. That vision of peace and trade, internationalism and entrepreneurialism, is still on the table. We aren’t asking for any money — just a meeting, to help restore confidence in Malaysia as an investable jurisdiction. Alternatively, if you don’t want our investment, or those of our colleagues at billion dollar funds and trillion dollar companies, we will of course respect your wishes, and reallocate our capital to other countries instead. Either way, we will remain friends and abide by your decision. Please let us know.

@MikeIppolito_ Could it be a temporary spidey sense that will be back in a few months when we bottom again? 😅

Spidey senses say crypto is bottoming. Can sense a resounding "we're so back" on the horizon.

@cobie @heart_ 🐐

@heart_ If u want me to fix stuff u just need to tell me what’s fucked and if it’s not fixed in a month then u get to call me a slur

Thought cobie had the best intergalactic exit with a $400M check from coinbase instead he got tricked into getting a job for free as a billionaire😭

@zkDragon Dev knows the way

Holders should work to make the coin solve your real-world problems. AKA get the UX good enough to actually do things. Making reliable PoW only pre-confs should be a daily topic until sub-second payments are achieved :)

@raechellambert @akshaybd BUILD

We're buying 100+ acres of land and developing it into an innovation district for entrepreneurs to live and work. It will be in New Hampshire and it's called Freedom Village. We're unveiling our plans for the first time at Freedom Summit Aug 20-21 where we will gather builders across science, energy, startups, AI, housing and community. Join us to live free and build the future in New Hampshire. Comment BUILD and I'll DM you the link. @jhitchco

@chamath Data Availability 😅😅

been saying since last spring that privacy is the last 1,000x & PvE in crypto not just in terms of price, but in terms of the impact it will have on product, adoption, and the ideological trajectory of the industry every day more people are waking up to this encrypt the money

@colaoom ❤️

plenty of projects with way more hype disappeared or rugged over the past few years. Celestia didn’t. they restructured, kept shipping, kept upgrading the network, and kept making strategic moves. iirc mustafa mentioned a ~$100m war chest, which gives them plenty of flexibility to keep building through the bear. still think they’re one of the few top tier teams in web3. let’s see how this acquisition plays out. still bullish celestia:native .

Around 1993, Microsoft began talking to cable companies to make something called "Cablesoft." The ideas was, the internet was slow, clunky, and untrusted for things like commerce. Cable was fast, Microsoft had great tech, they were going to create a corporate "information superhighway" to replace the internet. This sounds very dumb now, but what made this so compelling was they were controlling UX through the TV. The thought was, a TV is SO much better than a crappy computer and it's in the den of every home in America. It was the massive, odds on favorite to win everything. Why didn't it? Because the open nature of the internet encouraged innovation at the edges. Look at the UX on your iPhone today. It simply wasn't possible to dream that up then. Crypto is in its Cablesoft era today. I am begging you all to remember that we are all here because banks suck and should get disrupted. Do not give up AT the finish line and let the bad behavior of the last few years destroy your optimism. Open systems beat closed systems, TradFi won't win everything, keep the faith.

@celestia @sovereignxyz 🤯🙌

Today we are proud to announce that Celestia Labs has acquired Sovereign Labs. This acquisition establishes Celestia Labs as a full-stack custom blockchain development partner for companies building onchain, marking a new chapter for our go-to-market strategy and ambitions.

@artsch00lreject She’s heating up!

data for past 2 weeks

bottom of the first inning 🎬

@LukeGromen @BowTiedLobster

2. Hawkish - Blow up the US (& western) fiscal and debt position. If you think Warsh & Bessent will blow up the US' own fiscal & debt position, then the so-called "debasement trade" is over. Our view = there is 0% chance they will do that. Thank you for coming to our TED talk.

"We want to talk right down to earth in a language that everybody here can easily understand." A thread in two charts. Warsh and Bessent have two choices: 1. Dovish = Do not blow up the US (& western) fiscal and debt position, or...

@blknoiz06 ❤️

idk why i just have feeling this is redemption arc cycle for so many solana alts

@cburniske @LynAldenContact Love a @cburniske long term bull tweet to start the week! LFG!

Finally reading "Broken Money" by @LynAldenContact and it's a good reminder that $BTC and other internet-native hard monies will most reward the patient ($ZEC the most credible complement to $BTC, in this category). From 2016-2025 there was a wave of impatience as the promise of blockchains drew crowds of people that didn't deeply understand Bitcoin, and treated the space as simply another tech platform. Bitcoin is more of a social reboot, than a technological one, and such a reboot takes decades to play out. Now, impatience is washing out to other seemingly faster moving waters, taking us closer to what things felt like in 2015 and before... which will once again reward those that understood all along.

@LoganJastremski Great share. Forgot about this clip. 🤯

A 100x reduction in memory and compute would make local models on commodity hardware like a MacBook or Mac Studio genuinely compelling Until then, the ten most used open weight models in OpenRouter’s weekly ranking run from roughly 198B to 1.6T parameters The smallest is ~160GB of weights. The largest is ~1.5TB With basic serving headroom, that’s roughly 2–11 B200s just to hold the model. Before you add long context KV cache, concurrency, replicas, and the fabric to coordinate those GPUs None of them fits on a normal 24–32GB consumer GPU at useful serving precision Open weights decentralize ownership of the model. They do not decentralize the physical infrastructure required to serve the best models

a website that turns the 1 second bitcoin chart into an actual war

Best guess how corpo chains play out: 1. Tons of corpo chains get announced 2. Majority do PoA L1s (urge to "own the full stack") 3. Many see adoption at first, huge wave of incentives 4. As incentives die off, corpos realize L1s are hard 5. Vast majority (90%+) announce transition to L2s Whole process takes 2-3 years to play out.