Steven Renwick

.@SnowflakeDB is fast becoming the standard for enterprise data stacks - so I am excited about this integration we have built to bring @TiloresHQ entity resolution tech to Snowflake's data cloud. Use it to identity unique entities (e.g. customers) across massive datasets. 💪

Unexpected Greenpeace banner at AWS Summit in Hamburg 🤔

@SquidgeRugby video blocked already. :(

Union Bordeaux-Begles will defend their European title in Bilbao after closing out a thriller against Bath. Despite not being former professional players, we sat down to dissect the game, how Bordeaux won it, and what Bath will learn from here... youtu.be/fHD4qipOu_Y

Gavin Wood hasn’t posted on X in 5 months. 5 months. And somehow nobody on his team has said a word about it. In 2025, X isn’t optional for the founder of a crypto project. It’s the difference between people believing in what you’re building — or not even knowing it exists. Narrative moves price just as much as technology does. Sometimes more. Look at Vitalik. He posts constantly. Shares ideas, progress, opinions, random thoughts at 2am. People feel like they’re inside the process. They feel like there’s someone at the wheel with a vision and a voice. Gavin? Total silence. And this isn’t a small problem. In crypto, founder silence reads as disinterest. As abandonment. As something being wrong behind the scenes. It doesn’t matter that Polkadot is building superior technology. If the architect doesn’t speak, the market doesn’t listen. The worst part isn’t that Gavin doesn’t post. The worst part is that he’s clearly being advised by the wrong people. Someone in his inner circle should have flagged this months ago. That says a lot about the team around him. DOT’s technology is real. The interoperability is real. The ecosystem is growing. But as long as the founder stays invisible on X, the price is going to keep reflecting exactly that — absence. Vitalik understood that building in public is part of the job. Gavin hasn’t figured that out yet. Until that changes, $DOT will keep being an undervalued asset for reasons that have nothing to do with the tech. Consider yourself warned.

I do find the anti-Palantir rhetoric pretty irrational. It is pretty much mass hysteria - Palantir has been identified as the bogey man and everybody just piles in whenever they are mentioned.

@sebuzdugan @FullpathCDXP Agreed

@FullpathCDXP unifying is cute, but without rock solid identity resolution your agents hallucinate silently

Fullpath’s CDP unifies and cleans your data so AI agents work from day one.

Why do 95% of Data & AI projects fail to deliver measurable business value, and what's actually going wrong? youtu.be/pLM8LeAn-_8

Big news! We are now working together with @TiloresHQ to deliver real-time identity and entity resolution capabilities to Government agencies. Learn how this collaboration helps agencies create unified, accurate views of people and organizations: carah.io/TiloresPR @Major_Grooves

Tilores has partnered with @Carahsoft to enable US Federal, State and local agencies to use Tilores real-time identity resolution technology to build complete, unified views of individuals and organizations. carahsoft.com/news/tilores-p…

@sawinyh identity resolution for the win! well done on making that bit work. It is not easy.

Identity resolution is the part I'm proudest of. Same person, four platforms, different usernames. Deterministic matching on email/phone, probabilistic on name + company + username similarity. One unified contact 💪

Robin Dunbar says your brain caps out at ~150 stable relationships. After that, people just fall off. Not because you stop caring, but because you can't track that many threads at once. I built PingCRM to push past that limit. Open-source, self-hostable, AI-powered. 🧵

Why do Graph Databases fail at Entity Resolution, and what should you use instead? youtu.be/8Jh-yLMfI4U

@lily_mendz @gavofyork you are so right. 👏👏👏 Crazy that nothing is done about this.

.@gavofyork, how much do you trust your developers at Parity? Just to be clear, I’m not suggesting they are inefficient or anything like that. So far, they’ve done a great job building the ecosystem. But what happens in the hypothetical case that there are delays in the product they are developing (which is quite common in this industry), and there is no product release for another year or more? Do you truly believe the ecosystem could withstand that? I think there are some internal leadership roles that need to be filled and responsibilities divided among developers: some continuing to work on the future product, while others focus on delivering immediate solutions. Why hasn’t a global campaign (by regions) been created to attract new developers to experiment, showing them what works now, and giving them proper support? Why, even after three months, are we still seeing social media without a clear presence or a consistent content strategy that shows what we should expect from Polkadot in the future? Who will still be around to witness the birth of these products if the ecosystem itself is failing to attract people to watch? It’s like organizing a huge festival in a massive venue, but keeping the doors closed so that only the singers and security staff attend. It’s time to step up and stop taking the easy path. This is simply a matter of coordination. Come on, @Polkadot you can do better.

@polkarhythm @lily_mendz @gavofyork pretty sure it needs adoption. Polkadot so far is a classic example of "if we build it they will come" mentality. Look at the adoption of Solana in comparison. They have an incredibly strong community approach. Remember Betamax had better video technology that VHS...

@JPodhorsky @sachalansky @Web3foundation @solana he is kinda right though. For actual adoption success, building the ecosystem and culture matter more than pure tech and performance. Betamax was technically superior to VHS....

@sachalansky @Web3foundation @solana You promoting Solana ok

Solana vs Polkadot — the numbers nobody talks about: ⚡ Block propagation: Solana: ~100ms (Nakamoto coeff: 19) Polkadot: ~100ms (Nakamoto coeff: 178) 🏁 Finality: Solana: 12.8 seconds Polkadot: ~30 seconds* Solana needs 19 entities to hit 100ms. Polkadot needs 178. 🧵

@Krayt78 @zaskoda @Polkadot @Orbiter8Game thanks for the explanation(s). This is pretty interesting. Then your challenge is to get any game developer to be incentivised to put any part of the game (skins ownership, game records etc) onto a blockchain (DOT). People default to familiar tech. A server is easy...

@Major_Grooves @zaskoda @Polkadot @Orbiter8Game yes its one of the core tenets of blockchain - "Dont trust, Verify" On a public blockchain everything is transparent and uncensorable so you dont need to "trust" that someone is doing the right thing since you can see it by yourself.

I just pushed 12 smart contracts onto @Polkadot 's testnet. It's a game prototype. Fully onchain, no servers behind it. I had two things I wanted to figure out: how #Polkadot contracts actually differ from EVM in practice, and whether you can make a fun game work entirely onchain. Started with PVM. Hit a wall pretty fast. Contract size limits, stack errors, the kind of stuff that makes you stare at compiler output for way too long. It's not ready for complex contracts yet. The docs say so themselves, which is fair. So I switched to REVM. And honestly? It just worked. Performance is on par with what I get on EVM. No weird errors, no workarounds needed. All 12 contracts deployed and running on testnet without issues. That surprised me a bit. Going in, I expected more friction from a non-EVM chain. But with REVM the experience was basically identical. Next I want to try PVM again but with Rust contracts, using the RevX IDE that @paritytech devs just made public. Curious if that changes the experience. Anyone building contracts on Polkadot right now? What's your setup?

@zaskoda @Krayt78 @Polkadot @Orbiter8Game fwiw I know a company using blockchain (inc DOT iirc) in a real-world setting and one advantage of blockchain for them is that the blockchain Tx records are considered "trusted". It removes the need for a server to be audited as compliant.

@zaskoda @Krayt78 @Polkadot @Orbiter8Game should a game be designed to match a server/blockchain's transaction speed or should it not be the other way around? I can imagine blockchain/DOT working for something like online chess. But then does it bring an actual advantage over a server?

@zaskoda @Krayt78 @Polkadot @Orbiter8Game ok layman's question here - what do you actually mean by "make a game work on chain"? What am I meant to imagine here as far as a "game" goes and why does a blockchain matter?

@Krayt78 @Polkadot You can definitely make a fun game work fully on chain. We were doing just that with @orbiter8game. I had to step away from the project due to family issues. But you're inspiring me to revisit it. I strongly believe that blockchain native games are the right path forward.

@andreasklinger @thekitze @levelsio I added him to a Twitter list of people who I would like to see post on Threads (i.e. a positive thing). The guy freaked out, blocked me, reposted a screenshot of my list, then had a whole bunch of sycophants jump in to criticise me. Was one of my weirdest wtf moments online.

how the hell is this even about "freedom of speech" and getting cancelled you can have opposing opinions to friends - heck you can even judge people themselves and their povs independently from each other (and you should imho) but why the hell would you make publicly fun of people who are [even if just internet] friends of yours just superweird

i've supported and defended @levelsio publicly *countless* times when ppl blocked him, dunked on his takes, ego etc. after texting and interacting a bunch on twitter i invited him for coffee in 2017 when we both lived in nl and he replied "that would be a waste of time, it's low ROI" don't confuse this for a stan-type relationship, we actually interacted a lot before this, he even subscribed to me and texted "dude i'm your biggest fan" etc. which is confusing af to me i asked him to have a conversation on a podcast countless times over the years and he kept inventing different conditions a week ago he RT-ed some random dude and i dmd him to ask "man how come you supports anyone about anything but never gave one of my apps a chance" .. (by chance i meant to even try them, because i know how some of them can help him out to be more productive) he replied "brother this is begger energy", which kinda hurt. when ppl ask me for a RT boost even now (especially someone i interact with constantly) i try to at least be helpful and not insulting the guy's fame and x revenue hit him so hard in the head really forgot how to interact with human beings and forgot that some words actually hurt, especially coming from someone you've been looking up to someone and saw them as an inspiration for over 10 years i had a draft to invite him to tinkerers because everyone wants him there, but i knew what he's gonna reply with, and i'm glad i didn't send it the last straw for me is when literally everyone on the timeline has been congratulating @tinkererclub success publicly and privately. i mean literally all the big names. heck i even made amends with ppl i haven't interacted with in years, and i'm happy i did so. the supports mean A LOT especially cuz i'm navigating an uncharted territory of growth i haven't seen before. guess who i wanted to ask for advice? another unsent draft. the only thing pieter had to say was to dunk on me twice about my tweet about antidepressants (which was VERY hard to write and confess publicly) the person who was trying to sell an ai therapist to people is now making fun of mental health and depression imagine being this rich and famous but still to have this amount of bitterness and saltiness in you, it's actually sad tbh this is a skill issue because i continue to confuse acquaintances for friends. i don't have friends, and that's fine. if i ever lose my head to reach this level of being cruel to ppl i want you to call me out if anything this makes me wanna be more helpful and nicer to people i hate to admit it, but some of you mfs were right about him, i just couldn't see clearly. hardest block i've pressed in my life. but i've burned bridges and cut off *way* closer people this year over toxicity. i'm starting fresh. sayonara brother, i wish you all the best ✌️