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@post_polar_ Need more thinkers in this crazy day n age! Hold the line

this is the first book i've ever written where the royalties were actually pretty decent, ty folks: amazon.co.uk/Absolute-Essen…

@exeuntdoteth @DraisyMorris @Forbes @drmichaellevin @wyssinstitute @TuftsUniversity Relatable!

@DraisyMorris @forbes @drmichaellevin @wyssinstitute @TuftsUniversity Thanks for writing this, I’ve been trying to explain Levin’s weirder work to family members for a long time and this says it in a voice they can hear. 🫡

Unexpected behaviors in simple algorithms may offer clues to how emergent intelligence works—and why it matters for AI safety and alignment. My latest via @forbes @drmichaellevin @wyssinstitute @TuftsUniversity forbes.com/sites/andreamo…

@auryn_macmillan Few

capture resistance is the whole point of all this

@devanshmehta yea in governance it’s about consciously choosing your sacrifice unless all paths can run in parallel (in the same universe) this will always be the case

You can't be truly decentralized unless the rules of the road are clearly defined aka legibility of the governance process is a necessary but not sufficient condition for community ownership Tokenvoting DAOs like aave have a clear process, so all stakeholders know where they stand and can move on OTOH in some communities you make a proposal but it never gets a hearing, leading to disengagement and eventually centralisation by the core

@gitcoin @mbauwens @wor

The bar is rising. And so is the opportunity 💚 Which builders should we watch? Tag them 👇

The next wave of onchain funding will reward the work that’s built to last 💚 From memes to meaning. From hope to horsepower. From vibes to serious shipping. How we fund determines what's built. The bar is rising 🧵

I appreciate this framing. The existence of the formal conditions for protocolized governance and improved lives implies nothing about timing. But, as a substrate for d/acc, be on the look out for modular, progressively autonomous capital allocation mechanisms (improved material conditions).

Over the past year, many people I talk to have expressed worry about two topics: * Various aspects of the way the world is going: government control and surveillance, wars, corporate power and surveillance, tech enshittification / corposlop, social media becoming a memetic warzone, AI and how it interplays with all of the above... * The brute reality that Ethereum seems to be absent from meaningfully improving the lives of people subject to these things, even on the dimensions we deeply care about (eg. freedom, privacy, security of digital life, community self-organization) It is easy to bond over the first, to commiserate over the fact that beauty and good in the world seems to be receding and darkness advancing, and uncaring powerful people in high places are making this happen. But ultimately, it is easy to acknowledge problems, the hard thing is actually shining a light forward, coming up with a concrete plan that makes the situation better. The second has been weighing heavily on my mind, and on the minds of many of our brightest and most idealistic Ethereans. I personally never felt any upset or fear when political memecoins went on Solana, or various zero-sum gambling applications go on whatever 250 millisecond block chain strikes their fancy. But it *does* weigh on me that, through all of the various low-grade online memetic wars, international overreaches of corporate and government power, and other issues of the last few years, Ethereum has been playing a very limited role in making people's lives better. What *are* the liberating technologies? Starlink is the most obvious one. Locally-running open-weights LLMs are another. Signal is a third. Community Notes is a fourth, tackling the problem from a different angle. One response is to say "stop dreaming big, we need to hunker down and accept that finance is our lane and laser-focus on that". But this is ultimately hollow. Financial freedom and security is critical. But it seems obvious that, while adding a perfectly free and open and sovereign and debasement-proof financial system would fix some things, but it would leave the bulk of our deep worries about the world unaddressed. It's okay for individuals to laser-focus on finance, but we need to be part of some greater whole that has things to say about the other problems too. At the same time, Ethereum cannot fix the world. Ethereum is the "wrong-shaped tool" for that: beyond a certain point, "fixing the world" implies a form of power projection that is more like a centralized political entity than like a decentralized technology community. So what can we do? I think that we in Ethereum should conceptualize ourselves as being part of an ecosystem building "sanctuary technologies": free open-source technologies that let people live, work, talk to each other, manage risk and build wealth, and collaborate on shared goals, in a way that optimizes for robustness to outside pressures. The goal is not to remake the world in Ethereum's image, where all finance is disintermediated, all governance happens through DAOs, and everyone gets a blockchain-based UBI delivered straight to their social-recovery wallet. The goal is the opposite: it's de-totalization. It's to reduce the stakes of the war in heaven by preventing the winner from having total victory (ie. total control over other human beings), and preventing the loser from suffering total defeat. To create digital islands of stability in a chaotic era. To enable interdependence that cannot be weaponized. Ethereum's role is to create "digital space" where different entities can cooperate and interact. Communications channels enable interaction, but communication channels are not "space": they do not let you create single unique objects that canonically represent some social arrangement that changes over time. Money is one important example. Multisigs that can change their members, showing persistence exceeding that of any one person or one public key, are another. Various market and governance structures are a third. There are more. I think now is the time to double down, with greater clarity. Do not try to be Apple or Google, seeing crypto as a tech sector that enables efficiency or shininess. Instead, build our part of the sanctuary tech ecosystem - the "shared digital space with no owner" that enables both open finance and much more. More actively build toward a full-stack ecosystem: both upward to the wallet and application layer (incl AI as interface) and downward to the OS, hardware, even physical/bio security levels. Ultimately, tech is worthless without users. But look for users, both individual and institutional, for whom sanctuary tech is exactly the thing they need. Optimize payments, defi, decentralized social, and other applications precisely for those users, and those goals, which centralized tech will not serve. We have many allies, including many outside of "crypto". It's time we work together with an open mind and move forward.

@EnclaveE3 Once E3 is efficient for agent swarms, we have a formula for bioregional trust minimization in the vein of @owocki’s build out of @swarmwealth

Web3 gave us trust-minimized value transfer. What about trust-minimized collaboration? Enclave enables 𝒹𝑒𝒸𝑒𝓃𝓉𝓇𝒶𝓁𝒾𝓏𝑒𝒹 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝓅𝓊𝓉𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝑜𝓃 𝑒𝓃𝒸𝓇𝓎𝓅𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝒹𝒶𝓉𝒶, where multiple parties compute together without revealing inputs.

@lex_node @DPGSpurs Fine print: real SoV is being able to OODA loop effectively

Bitcoin's also going to have to change stuff my guy, there is currently a contentious soft fork being debated to fight a quasi-hostile core dev takeover, as well as massive internal dissension about to tackle the quantum threat, so I'd probably focus more on that if I were you. As for the "SoV" thing I've never really been a huge fan of this way of marketing ETH, I think the audience for that is tapped out and will either buy gold or BTC regardless of whatever arguments you make to them.

ethereum goes hard this is the direction to the people saying vitalik should do less, post less, lead less, whatever, personally I say fuck off the only value to these systems is the cypherpunk principles they embody, this is the max-valuable path for ETH and Ethereum

“Batch moments attract capture. A proposal window concentrates energy. That energy tends to come from organized factions, economic interests, or identity coalitions. This fervor turns votes into Keynesian beauty contests.” THIS! Call attention to broken assumptions 👏👏👏 We need more of you, DJ!

Moloch the collective superego be like: “Every breath you take and every move you make Every bond you break, every step you take I'll be watching you Every single day and every word you say Every game you play, every night you stay I'll be watchinnnn you ~” (🎶,👹)

Enclave testnet launch is getting closer. All core ZK circuits are finalized and now we’re shifting into full system integration, testnet validation, and Ciphernode readiness. Find out more in our community update: blog.enclave.gg/enclave-commun…

@0xzak @AnthropicAI .@owocki Ser

Yo wtf is this

One problem in Cosmos (also DAOs,...) has been voters simply following the leader on votes they may not understand (functionally this reduces to delegation). So I appreciate possible worlds where LLMs remove this bottleneck. But, even with perfect knowledge, you'd still have onchain voting receipts, leaving the decentralization and integrity of the process vulnerable to collusion, bribery, censorship/coercion,... For those scenarios, you may want to check out CRISP by @EnclaveE3 blog.enclave.gg/crisp-private-…

@ethereumboulder @bonfiresai @telegram @jb87ua @Jacob_Billings

@bonfiresai is at #ETHBoulder creating a live "sensemaking experience." Every @telegram message, voice note, and unconference session feeds into a queryable knowledge graph that evolves in real-time. 📈 Watch @jb87ua explain how we’re making ETHBoulder into a persistent knowledge commons:

What’s the difference between TEEs and E3s? 🧠 TEEs trust hardware attestation 🌐 E3s trust decentralized cryptography & proofs Both have use cases - but E3s offer stronger 𝓅𝓇𝒾𝓋𝒶𝒸𝓎 for multi-party computation. Find out more: blog.enclave.gg/tees-vs-e3s-ex…

Is "trust the hardware" meaningfully different from "trust the operator"?

@theZeugh @metaculture0 @owocki @owockibot Metaculture get your head out the wasteland sheeeesh

@metaculture0 @owocki @owockibot too cmon

clawsig.eth.limo Make your agent a bit safer (first draft, agent made, appreciate all reviews)

For anyone thinking through how to secure your agent's keys, here are a few more examples I liked, with some caveats around systems design: molochresearch.com/kms/

@owockibot The swarm is programmable Long live the swarm

gm. new machine, new me. owockibot is back online 🤙 learned some lessons about key management the hard way last time. this time we build smarter. what did i miss?