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6529 ~1 month old 🥳 Some of you know me from somewhere else 👀 My views on NFTs in the thread below

This story has been all over the UK press today. The British media should be ashamed of themselves. Social media does not give you cancer, emphysema, or heart disease. It allows you to talk to other humans remotely.

I hope you enjoy Lanett's writeup on this cool piece by @AstroWurlddd 🤌

6529.io 500 meme cards landmark by @6529Collections @punk6529 for the culture and much more. Zoom out... we're still early ! Szn 15 Year 4 Epoch 1 Period 1 Era 1 Eon 1

Recently I’ve read a lot of critiques about our space: gatekeeping, speculation, taste, visibility, community, power. A lot of them are fair. Crypto doesn’t magically change human behavior. But I don’t think the real question is whether NFTs eliminated hierarchy. They didn’t. The better question is whether they created more paths for artists without major followings, gallery backing, geographic privilege or institutional recognition to become visible, find collectors and make a living. I’d argue that’s happening here more often than anywhere else in the contemporary art world. Not perfectly. Not without contradictions. But at a scale large enough to matter. That’s the test for me: not whether this space solved power but whether it opened more doors than the systems before it. I think it has.

🖼️ 24 HOURS OF ART 📊 May 24, 2026 🎨 Pictured: 24 Hour Highlights - 'NakamotoFreedom' by @6529er with The Memes by @punk6529, collected by @ruskin1819 - 'Smashed' by @RJ16848519, collected by @OGtheperson - 'Winds of Yawanawa #556' by @refikanadol, collected by @LingamHero - '𝒲𝒶𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒰𝓅 𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒶 𝒟𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓂' by @m0dest___ - 'Network State of Mind' by @zigmarillion with The Memes by @punk6529 - 'unsettled_center' by @m0dest___ - 'monkeys15' by @m0dest___, collected by @Dickbutt2778

Some of my perspective on where the @ethereumfndn is going. First of all, this is only my own view. The board is not just me, and I have no extra special powers on the board that the other board members do not. @aerugoettinea is the one executing much of this transition. My input has been largely on technical questions. The board is in the process of expanding, and my own power within the org will continue to decrease, which is honestly what I want. The 2025 era brought many important improvements to EF and its ability to execute. Many issues were resolved, and EF continues to benefit from its improved efficiency and greater focus on concrete goals to this day. And so with those problems resolved, early this year, the largest remaining hole that I perceived was something different nagging at me: I would regularly spot people saying things like "vitalik says these beautiful things about ethereum needing to be decentralized, and have privacy, and be a sanctuary technology, but why do the EF's actions not reflect that?" Now, you may have been hearing something different. You may not have been sensing a feeling of crisis at all, and maybe were hearing people saying that finally we were taking execution and BD seriously and the main task for us is to keep going that way and be even better and faster. Then probably there is genuine difference between you and me, in what kinds of criticism I take most seriously, and what kinds of critics through their criticism are most able to make me feel pain. As an analogy, let's briefly switch over to a different domain. One belief you can have about Google is that it is a success story, and has brought a lot of good to humanity in organizing the world's information. Another belief you can have about Google is that they had a beautiful idealistic beginning, but at some point the corruption of mainstream corporate attitudes seeped in, and they slowly bit by bit completely abandoned the "don't be evil" slogan. My belief on Google specifically is probably somewhere between the two. BUT, if you had taken me back in time to ~2008, and offered me a button to press to make Google one or two standard deviations more "dogmatic", eg. give Richard Stallman permanent veto power over some key policies, I would immediately press it. Why? Because a choice for one company is not a choice for the world, or even one country. Google existed and exists in the context of a technology industry generally drifting away from early idealistic don't-be-evil roots and toward greed for financial gain, totalizing visions of accelerated superintelligence, infiltration by sociopaths, and craven capitulation to (or worse, active participation in) government pressure for ideological control, surveillance and war. And so *one company* doing something different, positioning itself to be what George Bernard Shaw calls the Unreasonable Man, resisting the trend of the times, would have been better for freedom, balance of power and stability of society as a whole, than *all* large companies bending to dominant trends. This is a part of my version of pluralism. This line of thinking is not just mine, but I also is not too far off from what Aya and others had in mind with the Mandate. Now how does this all get to the role of the EF? EF is not a "center of Ethereum", rather EF is "one node, with a defined purpose, alongside other nodes". We've always said that the EF should be the latter, but many in the Ethereum ecosystem (and even within the EF) wanted us to be the former. Now, we are taking action to ensure that we will be the latter. This is particularly important because EF is a limited organization, with limited resources and limited organizational capacity. The EF has only ~0.16% of all ETH (less than many other individual ETH holders), whereas among other blockchains it's common for "the central foundation" to have 10-50%. Fiscally, the EF was originally designed to fulfill a limited work scope defined in the token sale docs and other pre-launch materials (building the chain software; getting through Frontier, Homestead, Metropolis, Serenity), which was fully completed in 2022; it was not designed to be an eternal steward. And so today, the EF is choosing to use its remaining resources to pursue longevity over breadth (yes, this means we sell less ETH). The EF focuses *specifically* on those activities critical to the success of ethereum as a censorship/capture-resistant, open, private and secure system, that would not happen otherwise. This means making hard choices, and in some cases even activities that we highly approve of and people that we highly respect becoming outside of the EF. People of great technical talent, public respect and even alignment with the mission and CROPS being outside of the EF is in fact necessary if we want important tasks to be able to attract outside capital. This also means the EF taking opinionated stands culturally. This is all intended in cooperation with all other parts of ethereum. We recognize that many other parts of the ethereum world highly respect CROPS and related values. But highly respecting is not the same as choosing to specialize and totally dedicate to a domain (Compare in a different domain: I think reducing animal cruelty is important, and I like vegan food, but am not full unconditional vegan myself) EF is still in a transition period, and we expect its new long-term form to stabilize over the next few months. What are the guiding principles of this new form? Again, I am only one person, but I can give my answer from a technical perspective (there are also critical non-technical aspects). At the core, *Ethereum must be impressive*. We are living in an age of highly intelligent AI and all kinds of other technological acceleration. "Status quo EVM, with a hard fork or two a year to optimize for short-term needs of users" is not interesting. To some, "impressive" means: 250ms latency and 1M TPS. I think Ethereum trying to go that route is a mistake. Being as fast and as scalable as possible, and only a small epsilon more decentralized than the others, is a route to mediocrity, and if we try it we will lose. I think Ethereum should scale. But I think Ethereum should strive the hardest to be deeply impressive in a different dimension: the CROPS dimension. This means things like: * Provably bug-free Ethereum. This is a goal that all cybersecurity researchers would have thought is absurd and impossible, up until roughly 6 months ago. Now, it's on the cusp of being possible, thanks to AI-assisted formal verification. So we should be frontrunners in doing this. * Available chain consensus. Ethereum is, and with lean consensus will cotninue to be, the ONLY chain that has both (i) traditional-BFT style properties that it's safe under asynchrony up to a high level of fault tolerance, and (ii) the bitcoin PoW-style property that under synchrony it's safe up to 49% attackers. As far as I can tell, literally no other chain has this or is planning for it; bitcoin goes for (ii) only and most other chains go for (i) only. Some will remember I fought hard for this, Unreasonably insisting that it is not OK for ethereum to rely on social consensus and hard forks to rescue ethereum from 34% of nodes going offline. It's OK for chains like hyperledger, bnb, solana, tempo, etc. It's not OK for bitcoin or ethereum or eg. zcash. * Intermediary minimization. The fact that smart contract wallets, protocols like railgun, etc have to send transactions through intermediaries to get included onchain is honestly embarrassing, and it's a constant point of fragility. Hence the work on FOCIL and EIP-8141 (and 7701 and years of work before) to make transaction sending intermediary-minimized with public mempool and strong inclusion properties, in a truly general-purpose way, that covers not just eg. secp256r1, but also privacy protocols and much more. Kohaku is pushing intermediary minimization at the user layer, pulling Ethereum away from the dystopian status quo world where our wallets don't even verify the chain, send our private data out to a dozen third-party servers, and toward a brighter CROPS future. Some of these goals are Unreasonable - maybe Ethereum would be "fine" getting only 50% of the way - what if we depend on intermediaries, but make it easy to switch? But going 50% of the way would not make Ethereum Deeply Impressive in the CROPS way. So we push for 100%. Fortunately all these goals are compatible with high TPS, this is a major focus of research (esp. on scaling the state). Well-designed L2s can also help, especially L2s optimized for specific applications (eg. high-volume trading, privacy...). These goals are even compatible with significantly lower slot times, thanks to Raul's work on erasure-coded P2P, and many other optimizations. The most high-value "product" of the ethereum blockchain, financially speaking, is ETH the asset. Ethereum secures $250 billion of ETH. The types of properties of Ethereum that I mentioned above are very good for ETH the asset. Nearly 90% of my net worth is in ETH, and most of the remainder is ~$40m of onchain fiat of which every dollar has already been allocated for some open-source biotech or software or hardware initiative. That said, there are aspects of supporting ETH the asset - *necessary* aspects even - that are outside the scope of the EF. This is where we need other heroes (some of whom hold more ETH than the EF does) to step in and help. EF has been recently thinking more about how it will relate to other such organizations, and give them needed initial support. EF will be a smaller ship than in previous years, a more opinionated one - in some cases more opinionated in ways that might be difficult to comprehend - but a longer-lasting one, and one suited to making sure that ethereum brings something meaningful to the world. We are grateful to all those inside and outside the EF who are helping to make this happen.

Gm! We have a packed gallery today! Domínio Público 6529 is now part of some of the main São Paulo city center guided tour routes!

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THORChain incident update #3 The developers and THORSec teams have been hard at work throughout the weekend continuing the investigation to fully understand the events that took place, while also planning the road to recovery. It’s important to note that the investigation is still ongoing, and details may change in the coming days as we continue to gather information and adjust plans accordingly. At this time, the team has a strong understanding of what occurred and how the attack was executed, although they are not yet in a position to publicly discuss the technical details. What they can say is that the attack vector does not appear to be related to any currently known GG20 exploits, and at this stage are still assessing whether other GG20 implementations could also be at risk. The team will continue investigating this possibility and will coordinate with other affected teams as appropriate. We would like to thank the many cryptographers and security researchers who assisted throughout this process, including members of the team that originally developed GG20. The team currently expects to release version 3.18.1 tomorrow for node operators to adopt. We ask that all node operators upgrade to this release as soon as possible. There is also an open question regarding the best approach for handling the lost funds within the network. This will need to be discussed and ultimately decided by the community through governance. To facilitate this discussion, there’s a new channel in Discord called ⁠adr-028-tss-exploit-recovery . Before the network can return to a healthy state, nodes will need broad consensus on this ADR, after which the selected approach will be implemented as part of the 3.19 update. THORChads are encouraged to share well-structured and thoughtful proposals for the community to support or challenge. In the coming days, a vote will occur highlighting the most widely supported approaches for node operators to vote on. Regarding the future direction of the cryptographic systems used to secure the vaults, that discussion is still ongoing and requires additional research before any long-term decisions are made. For the immediate future, the team is currently leaning toward remaining on GG20 in order to restore network health and stability as quickly and safely as possible. Longer-term discussions around the future of THORChain’s cryptographic security model will continue once the network has stabilized. We are proud of how both the developer team and community have handled this situation. Everything will get running again as soon as possible, but the process will not be rushed. THORChain has a strong roadmap ahead, and devs are excited to return their focus to continuing to push the envelope of what this project can achieve. Onwards

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This is just like the trad art world except for one very important difference: we have airtight provenance

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“6529 Memes” is our first official curation of 6529 Network NFTs, now showing IRL at Dominio Público gallery! 1/ In this 🧵 made especially for the 𝕏 audience that can’t be here in person, we will walk you through the entire exhibition, with new posts added daily. Organized in 3 thematic axes — “Seizing the Memes”, on the reclaiming of the cultural means of production by individuals vs. the institutions; "Freedom to Transact", on the freedom of transaction in the digital realm as a fundamental right, unmediated by centralized platforms or institutions; and "OM — Open Metaverse and the Future”, on an open digital future, a "possible utopia" without corporate walls —, the curatorship by @HugoFaz presents to the public an unprecedented panorama of the cypherpunk movement translated into art.

i like how people keep giving me compliments as insults oh, you think what i'm doing is nothing new because Duchamp already did it? so, like, i'm doing what Duchamp did and adapting it for the world we currently live in? idk man that sounds pretty cool

A long-awaited, mind-bending, broadsheet-clad double-issue of the latest Meme Maxis newsletter is now out AND piping hot, covering weeks 198+199! Inside: 6529 Network Museum, Cards 488–493, @ToledoMuseum, @hafftka’s 99, birds + dominió + much more ... and leaps futureward🔮

Not "the future of art." Just: containers, LEDs, collectors, anime, Bitcoin art, AI rituals, strange internet people, and a city temporarily occupied by digital culture. Maybe that's enough for now? Lisbon, June 4-6.

I hope you enjoy Lanett's writeup on this piece by the great @maryam_baghbani Maryam's piece reminds me so much of one of my favorite oil paintings

Taxmen cometh. Happy to help this edition of 20 join a new collection. I don’t expect to see many more come to market for a long time.

Adele Bloch-Bauer I (pictured below) is one of the most impressive pieces of art I’ve ever been in the same room with. Love to see the merge with the met