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Unfortunately @DeFi_Land @TheOnlyFarms have now shut down. Which means no more Blue Pig Farms. For now. We don't know if that sky coloured rascal will ever be back, but for now our farming days are over.

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21 crypto projects are shutting down if you have assets on any of these, move them out 1. Fantasy top (@fantasy_top_) → Core mode sunset ~mid-June 2. Magic Eden ME Wallet (@MagicEden) → x.com/MagicEden/stat… 3. Leap Wallet (@leap_wallet) → x.com/leap_wallet/st… 4. Dmail (@Dmailofficial) → x.com/Dmailofficial/… 5. Intergaze (@intergaze_xyz) → x.com/intergaze_xyz/… 6. Yupp ai → (@yupp_ai) x.com/pankaj/status/… 7. Tally (@tallyxyz) → x.com/tallyxyz/statu… 8. Fey Protocol (@feyprotocol) → x.com/feyprotocol/st… 9. Angle Protocol (@AngleProtocol) → x.com/AngleProtocol/… 10. DataHaven_xyz (@DataHaven_xyz) → x.com/DataHaven_xyz/… 11. Step Finance (@StepFinance_) → x.com/StepFinance/st… 12. Parsec Finance (@parsec_finance) → x.com/parsec_finance… 13. ZeroLend (@zerolendxyz) → x.com/zerolendxyz/st… 14. PolynomialFi (@PolynomialFi) → x.com/PolynomialFi/s… 15. Nifty Gateway → x.com/niftygateway/s… 16. SlingshotCrypto (@SlingshotCrypto) → x.com/SlingshotCrypt… 17. Runiverse Game (@RuniverseGame) → x.com/RuniverseGame/… 18. Soundxyz (@soundxyz_) → x.com/soundxyz_/stat… 19. MilkyWay (@milky_way_zone) → x.com/milky_way_zone… 20. Pixiland Social (@pixilandsocial) → x.com/pixilandsocial… 21. Blocto App (@BloctoApp) → x.com/BloctoApp/stat… x.com/0xvietnguyen/s…

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sociallyartful.sol.site does this mean we can get rid of Linktree? @sns

Checking out @SkullShaman’s "Skull Shaman Madness - Yondood Mad Dgn". The "UNGUIDED" tag and gritty graffiti vibes are so distinctive. See more of their world via linktr.ee/skullshaman View: drip.haus/skullshaman/co… #Yondood #SolanaNFTs #SolanaEcosystem

@VitalikButerin We'd go even further and say: Tokens don't need liquidity. As gambling, tokens offer little new, but as an organising mechanism they've proven to be a properly new and innovative. We've done A LOT more of the former than the latter. But we've still done a bunch of the latter.

How I would do creator coins We've seen about 10 years of people trying to do content incentivization in crypto, from early-stage platforms like Bihu and Steemit, to BitClout in 2021, to Zora, to tipping features inside of decentralized social, and more. So far, I think we have not been very successful, and I think this is because the problem is fundamentally hard. First, my view of what the problem is. A major difference between doing "creator incentives" in the 00s vs doing them today, is that in the 00s, a primary problem was having not enough content at all. In the 20s, there's plenty of content, AI can generate an entire metaverse full of it for like $10. The problem is quality. And so your goal is not *incentivizing content*, it's *surfacing good content*. Personally, I think that the most successful example of creator incentives we've seen is Substack. To see why, take a look at the top 10: substack.com/leaderboard/te… substack.com/leaderboard/cu… substack.com/leaderboard/wo… Now, you may disagree with many of these authors. But I have no doubt that: 1. They are on the whole high quality, and contribute positively to the discussion 2. They are mostly people who would not have been elevated without Substack's presence So Substack is genuinely surfacing high quality and pluralism. Now, we can compare to creator coin projects. I don't want to pick on a single one, because I think there's a failure mode of the entire category. For example: Top Zora creator coins: coingecko.com/en/categories/… BitClout: businessofbusiness.com/articles/insid… Basically, the top 10 are people who already have very high social status, and who are often impressive but primarily for reasons other than the content they create. At the core, Substack is a simple subscription service: you pay $N per month, and you get to see the person's articles. But a big part of Substack's success is that they did not just set the mechanism and forget. Their launch process was very hands-on, deliberately seeding the platform with high-quality creators, based on a very particular vision of what kind of high-quality intellectual environment they wanted to foster, including giving selected people revenue guarantees. So now, let's get to one idea that I think could work (of course, coming up with new ideas is inherently a more speculative project than criticizing existing ones, and more prone to error). Create a DAO, that is *not* token-based. Instead, the inspiration should be Protocol Guild: there are N members, and they can (anonymously) vote new members in and out. If N gets above ~200, consider auto-splitting it. Importantly, do _not_ try to make the DAO universal or even industry-wide. Instead, embrace the opinionatedness. Be okay with having a dominant type of content (long-form writing, music, short-form video, long-form video, fiction, educational...), and be okay with having a dominant style (eg. country or region of origin, political viewpoint, if within crypto which projects you're most friendly to...). Hand-pick the initial membership set, in order to maximize its alignment with the desired style. The goal is to have a group that is larger than one creator and can accumulate a public brand and collectively bargain to seek revenue opportunities, but at the same time small enough that internal governance is tractable. Now, here is where the tokens come in. In general, one of my hypotheses this decade is that a large portion of effective governance mechanisms will all have the form factor of "large number of people and bots participating in a prediction market, with the output oracle being a diverse set of people optimized for mission alignment and capture resistance". In this case, what we do is: anyone can become a creator and create a creator coin, and then, if they get admitted to a creator DAO, a portion of their proceeds from the DAO are used to burn their creator coins. This way, the token speculators are NOT participating in a recursive-speculation attention game backed only by itself. Instead, they are specifically being predictors of what new creators the high-value creator DAOs will be willing to accept. At the same time, they also provide a valuable service to the creator DAOs: they are helping surface promising creators for the DAOs to choose from. So the ultimate decider of who rises and falls is not speculators, but high-value content creators (we make the assumption that good creators are also good judges of quality, which seems often true). Individual speculators can stay in the game and thrive to the extent that they do a good job of predicting the creator DAOs' actions.

Love the detail in @ArtBe11a's work, especially the textures in Digital Visions: Yuzuki Narita. Her pieces on Foundation & Exchange Art always have such a unique vibe. Take a look on DRiP: drip.haus/artbella/colle… #Cyberpunk #SolanaNFTs #SolanaEcosystem

Exploring the masked mystery in "Fake It" by @DuckzzyOG. Love how the vibrant urban style captures that digital identity vibe. DUCKZZY always brings such unique energy to the chain. 🎨✨ Check it out on @drip_haus: drip.haus/duckzzy/collec… #FakeIt #SolanaNFTs #SolanaEcosystem

1/10 To our valued Truffle community, It is with a heavy heart that we announce Truffle (truffle.wtf) will be winding down operations with an official closing date of August 15, 2025. We are committed to managing this transition with care for our users.

Love how @Inkduw captures that digital-noir vibe in this piece. The detail on the eyes is just haunting. Check out inkd-drip-01-05-202666 on DRiP: drip.haus/inkd/collectib… #CyberpunkArt #SolanaNFTs #SolanaEcosystem

@VitalikButerin Cypherpunk can coexist with the institutions we all rely on if it avoids aggressive opposition. The issue stems from radical factions, like some Bitcoiners, who seek to disrupt every system—even those that don't concern them.

The relationship between "institutions" and "cypherpunk" is complex and needs to be understood properly. In truth, institutions (both governments and corporations) are neither guaranteed friend nor foe. Exhibit A: theregister.com/2026/01/11/eu_… European Union seeking to aggressively support open source Exhibit B: fightchatcontrol.eu European Union bureaucrats want Chat Control (mandatory encryption backdoors) Exhibit C: the Patriot Act (which, we must note, _neither party_ now expresses much interest in repealing) Exhibit D: the US government is now famously a user of Signal Basically, the game-theoretic optimum for an institution is to have control over what it can control, but also to resist intrusion by others. In fact, institutions are often staffed by highly sophisticated people, who have a much deeper understanding of these issues than regular people and a much deeper will to do something about them. An important driver of many people's refusal to use data-slurping corposlop software is company policy. Some people have the misperception that my words yesterday about the importance of using tools that maximize your data self-sovereignty are something that will appeal to individual enthusiast communities, but will be rejected as unrealistic by efficiency-minded "serious people". But this is false: "serious people" are often _more_ robustness-minded than retail and many already have policies even stricter than what I advocate. I predict that in this next era, this trend will accelerate: institutions (again, both corporations and governments) will want to more aggressively minimize their external trust dependencies, and have more guarantees over their operations. Again, this does not mean that they want to minimize *your dependency on them* - that's the thing that we as the Ethereum community must insist on, and build tools to help people achieve. But that's precisely the complexity of the situation. In the stablecoin world, this means: * Asset issuers in the EU will want a chain whose governance center of gravity is not overly US-based, and vice versa (same for other pairs of countries) * Governments will push for more KYC, but at the same time privacy tools will improve, because cypherpunks are working hard to make them improve. The more realistic equilibrium is that non-KYC'd assets will exist, and ability to use them with strong privacy will grow, but also over the next decade we'll see more attempts at "ZK proof of source of funds". We will see ideological disputes over how to respond to this * Institutions will want to control their own wallets, and even their own staking if they stake ETH. This is actually good for ethereum staking decentralization. Of course, they will not proactively work to give you the user a self-sovereign wallet. Doing _that_ in a way that is secure for regular users is the task of Ethereum cypherpunks (see: smart contract wallets, social recovery). Ethereum is the censorship-resistant world computer: we do not have to approve of every activity that happens on the world computer. I did not approve much of three million dollar digital monkeys, I will not approve much of privacy with centralized (including multisig/threshold) decryption backdoors. But the existence of those things is not up to me to decide. What *is* up to us is to build the world that we want to see on top of Ethereum, and make that world strong, so that it can prosper in the competition, both on the Ethereum chain itself, and against the centralized world. At best, we can interoperate with the non-cypherpunk world to better bootstrap the cypherpunk world. For example, spreads on decentralized stablecoins can decrease if it's easy for people to run arbitrage strategies where they hold positive quantities of a centralized stablecoin and negative quantities of the decentralized one. If we want prediction markets to avoid sliding into sports betting corposlop, we should explore improving their liquidity by helping traditional financial entities use them to hedge against their existing risks. What is a bet from one side is often a purchase of insurance from the other side, and if we want prediction markets to evolve in a healthy way, it may be overall better for the counterparties of the sophisticated traders earning big APYs to be buyers of insurance than to be naive bettors who constantly lose money. Synergies like this should be explored across all domains. This is why I do not believe that cypherpunk requires total hostility to institutions. Instead, I support a policy that institutions are already used to using against each other: openness to win-win cooperation, but aggressively standing up for our own interests. And in this case, our interest is building a financial, social and identity layer that protects people's self-sovereignty and freedom.