Web3Fusion

Russia’s hope that it can create tech “national champions” by banning all their competitors is delusional. Every real national super app was forged in fierce private competition (WeChat, KakaoTalk, LINE). Competition and innovation are two sides of the same coin.

⚡ BULLISH: Solana just flexed on the entire payments industry 755% YoY growth rate - not just leading crypto platforms, but ALL payment platforms according to per Artemis.💎 Let that sink in. Solana is outpacing Visa, Mastercard, PayPal - everyone. While tradfi is celebrating single-digit growth, Solana is rewriting what's possible in payments infrastructure. This is what real-world utility looks like. This is what mass adoption looks like. The sleeping giant isn't sleeping anymore. 🔥

When we launched in 2020 Ethereum privacy was either mixers or theory. Today zk-proofs are cheap enough for production use, shielded & private transfers run live on L1, and end-to-end privacy (writes, reads, proving) is actively moving into protocol design. We went from visionary to obsolete - to maybe they were right all along. Privacy belongs on L1

⚖️ BREAKING: The CFTC just withdrew its bill that would have banned sports and political prediction markets. This is a complete 180 from the previous administration's stance. Prediction markets are officially back on the table. 📊 What does this mean for the future of decentralized forecasting? The regulatory landscape just shifted in a major way.

The Bitcoin corporate revolution is HERE 🔥 100 largest public companies are now holding 1.12 million BTC But here's the kicker: Strategy alone controls 63% of that stack That's not just corporate treasury strategy—that's conviction at scale 💪 The race for Bitcoin is intensifying, and most people still don't see what's coming... @Bitcoin #finance #money

2026 is the year we take back lost ground in computing self-sovereignty. But this applies far beyond the blockchain world. In 2025, I made two major changes to the software I use: * Switched almost fully to fileverse.io (open source encrypted decentralized docs) * Switched decisively to Signal as primary messenger (away from Telegram). Also installed Simplex and Session. This year changes I've made are: * Google Maps -> OpenStreetMap openstreetmap.org, OrganicMaps organicmaps.app is the best mobile app I've seen for it. Not just open source but also privacy-preserving because local, which is important because it's good to reduce the number of apps/places/people who know anything about your physical location * Gmail -> Protonmail (though ultimately, the best thing is to use proper encrypted messengers outright) * Prioritizing decentralized social media (see my previous post) Also continuing to explore local LLM setups. This is one area that still needs a lot of work in "the last mile": lots of amazing local models, including CPU and even phone-friendly ones, exist, but they're not well-integrated, eg. there isn't a good "google translate equivalent" UI that plugs into local LLMs, transcription / audio input, search over personal docs, comfyui is great but we need photoshop-style UX (I'm sure for each of those items people will link me to various github repos in the replies, but *the whole problem* is that it's "various github repos" and not one-stop-shop). Also I don't want to keep ollama always running because that makes my laptop consume 35 W. So still a way to go, but it's made huge progress - a year ago even most of the local models did not yet exist! Ideally we push as far as we can with local LLMs, using specialized fine-tuned models to make up for small param count where possible, and then for the heavy-usage stuff we can stack (i) per-query zkp payment, (ii) TEEs, (iii) local query filtering (eg. have a small model automatically remove sensitive details from docs before you push them up to big models), basically combine all the imperfect things to do a best-effort, though ultimately ideally we figure out ultra-efficient FHE. Sending all your data to third party centralized services is unnecessary. We have the tools to do much less of that. We should continue to build and improve, and much more actively use them. (btw I really think @SimpleXChat should lowercase the X in their name. An N-dimensional triangle is a much cooler thing to be named after than "simple twitter")

⚡️ BIG NEWS for crypto users! Kraken just enabled $USDC deposits and withdrawals on the Algorand network 🚀 What this means for you: ✅ Low-cost transfers ✅ Near-instant transactions ✅ More flexibility with your stablecoins This is exactly the kind of innovation we need in crypto. More options = better experience for everyone. #Kraken #USDC #Algorand #Crypto

BREAKING: Donald Trump just dropped a MASSIVE $5 billion lawsuit against JPMorgan and CEO Jamie Dimon 🎯 The accusation? Cutting off his access to banking services. This is getting WILD. A former president vs one of the world's biggest banks. The financial world is watching this closely. ⚖️💰 What do you think happens next? 👀

Happy birthday Bitcoin. 17 years since the genesis block.

@ProtonPrivacy Seriously, I'm very impressed with Lumo AI and its high level of NIST security! You surpass Claude and all other good models.

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@alexalbert__ Please Alex, Claude needs the full high level of NIST security. Lumo AI is 1000% more efficient.

This feedback is amazing, thank you everyone! The team is already mapping out fixes for the issues that came up.

@asklumo @johnnyomaha Lumo is much better for smart contracts, security audits, and complex APls than Claude Opus 4.5. Very impressive-good job, devs!

So I sorta tried out @asklumo as a lark - holy cow it's really good. Don't sleep on it like I did. Considering the Lumo plus plan now...

Big news in cross-chain DeFi! 🔗 Backed and Chainlink just announced XBridge—a game-changing solution that lets you transfer tokenized stocks seamlessly between Solana and Ethereum. This is exactly the kind of infrastructure innovation that bridges blockchain ecosystems and unlocks real-world asset potential. 🚀💼🌉 via Coindesk

It’s struggling with the header/footer layout. It needs to be able to manage the space on the left, right, top, and bottom much better and take the user’s context into account. Its biggest weakness shows up when there’s a band in the header and another one lower down, and you ask it to move that lower band all the way to the top—it really has trouble doing that.

Reply with all your Opus 4.5 gripes so we can fix everything before our next model The more specific (including prompts), the more likely we'll be able to fix it!

For years, I've complained internally at the EF that we do not have enough expertise at p2p: we think a lot about cryptoeconomics, BFT consensus and blocks, but we take the p2p networking layer for granted. I think that's no longer true, and PeerDAS shows it. @raulvk and others at EF have done heroic work both at making PeerDAS work so smoothly, and at setting up a roadmap that increases propagation speed, resilience, and network-layer privacy at the same time. Excited to see this work keep moving forward.

@TheCryptoFarley @AdamBoudj @djqianfusion @najkidwai @MikeLempres @SunnyFengHan You got message from us in private

“So you’re saying @djqianfusion rugged $xchng, $wkas & $fsn? “Yes, Dave.” “And @najkidwai & @MikeLempres were on the board and quit without comment?” “Hmm.” “And DJ is still stringing everyone, including his teacher @SunnyFengHan, along for over a year now?” “Correct, Dave.”

@alexalbert__ Opus 4.5 never works for complex things… Sonnet 4.5 is better. I don't trust Opus anymore.

Opus 4.5: 7.5-8/10 helpful. I finally trust this model to write for me and it actually has good judgement/taste as to what matters. For coding, it feels like it can just work forever and not get stuck in the same vibe coding doom loops as previous models. Some things are still not perfect: memory, computer use, document creation, proactivity, etc but there's a clear line of sight to improvements on those (some product UX innovations are required here as well). At this point it feels like we are only a few model generations away from nearing a 10/10 for me.