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250k LOC (130k in April alone!), near 10 000 theorems and we’re closing in on a fully formally verified compiler. Here are a few highlights from our recent work on verifying Vyper

@EricForgy @0xMachinis I don't disagree on the moral hazard part from AAVE now being seen as TBTF, but if the protocol managed to find enough willing entities to donate or lend to it, then maybe it's note quite (un)dead yet? It's more like distressed investing/financing.

@0xMachinis @bennylada Moral hazard. The protocol failed. It deserves to die. The GFC created zombie banks. Now we have zombie protocols dependent on endless bailouts.

I am pretty disgusted by DeFi at the moment. DeFi United makes me sick. It is simply a bailout. Nothing more.

@0xngmi @Crypto_McKenna why are there two waifus?

@Crypto_McKenna Ouhhh... Husbant... You commissioned a 1:1 replica of the Anglo Saxon Sutton Hoo helmet... Now We Are Homeress...

My exact 1:1 replica on the Anglo Saxon Sutton Hoo helmet is currently under commission and it took me a full year to find an exceptional armourer to do this. It will take 6-9 months to complete but will be an exact 1:1 replica of what is housed in the British Museum. Maybe the coolest thing I’ve ever spent money on and will be a treasured family heirloom for generations to come. You need to be collecting historical artifacts and trinkets.

@oliverwkim @jcaetanoleite Because it was reverse engineered from a selected set of Asian success stories instead of inferred from first principles? So all potential failed examples (India, Indonesia, Ghana,...) don't qualify simply because they didn't achieve development

@jcaetanoleite How so?

What are the best examples of Developmental States which failed?

Web3 has lost over $400m to hacks in 2026 and it’s only April. Here is why Vyper's design is set to change how we do smart contract security. 🧵 below:

@newmichwill @banteg

@banteg That's all good but how to live without software?

with dprk sophistication approaching mossad levels, a good strategy might be not installing any software, not going to any conferences, and not talking to anyone besides people you have known for 5+ years and keep in contact regularly.

@robotevm And I think that's fine. DEXes/aggregators, LPs and traders are not necessarily (never?) aligned and nobody should be losing money to maintain the fiction that they are.

@bennylada as a trader, cowswap revenue doesn’t do anything for me, i want the best execution and most of the time they don’t give me that

Next time someone posts a number-go-up volume chart for a DEX, remember CoW got its volume divided by 10 and still maintained the same revenue level (the metric that actually matters). Absolute legends

it's a remarkable milestone for anyone working on compilers and smart contract security: Vyper is set to become the _first_ formally verified smart contract compiler, effectively allowing you to mathematically prove that the entire compilation pipeline preserves the contract logic _and_ to prove that the contract logic itself is correct. Oh, and the cool thing is, my snekmate math functions have been formally verified :D. 🐍💙

@big_tech_sux explaining the breakthroughs on formal verification. Come and listen. Taylor Stage, at @EthCC .

going to finish formally verifying the compiler this month!

formal language semantics + e2e formally verified compiler + formal evm model means that proofs about source code imply true properties about the compiled bytecode 😱🤯🤯

Milestone: the @vyperlang frontend is now emitting directly Venom IR 🚀. We no longer go thought the original Vyper IR. So now formal verification can be simpler, and we also got some additional gains.

@oliverwkim @CharlieTTEcon Conscription also included some education (both in North and South) so it's not that strange that the war years would have contributed to increased literacy.

@oliverwkim @CharlieTTEcon North Korea claimed to have achieved 90% literacy rate by 1949. Large grain of salt too, but there are reports by both Southern sources and USAMGIK confirming the efficacy of their literacy campaign. Hangeul is easy to learn after all!

TIL that South Korea's illiteracy rate plunged from 78% to 26% in just 8 years, from 1945-53, according to data from the Ministry of Education.* * take w a large grain of salt. Big if true! h/t @CharlieTTEcon

@0xjesstech Yes, you just gotta switch to @vyperlang

Something big is happening. We can finally avoid the stack too deep nightmare 🧵

The decline in fertility around the world (see posts by @JesusFerna7026) will be a defining feature of our time. Democracies would do well in changing the rules of the game so that results are more forward-looking. E.g. votes for retirees counting 0.5 & parents 1*(1+0.5*children)

@quasicoh more like contextual embeddings than regular word2vec though? also continuous vs. discrete like what we have sounds like it could be fun to play with

Yeah, probably more accurate to say word2vec. Either way, he was barking up the wrong tree. Chomsky certainly never bothered to learn any such things! x.com/dhtikna/status…

If you squint a bit, Epstein was kinda sorta proposing transformers...