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This is one of the best Indian movies in recent years.

@0xSero i tried them and it keeps freezing like hell.. no idea why its for you

Factory reached out to me to sponsor my work, I had been shilling their product for nearly 6 months prior because I genuinely think it is the best muli-model harness experience rn. I get contacted a few times a week for sponsorships, and I turn everyone down because I can't in good conscious sell you something I don't use. If they pull their sponsorship I will still pay for Droid, and I will still shill it daily because it is that good. Our agreement lets me post whatever I want, whenever I want. Like all products their's is flawed, and I point these issues out to them in public daily. One of the main reasons I accepted this sponsorship is that it can be free to use, you don't need to pay anything, you can access the platform with your own codex, claude, copilot, zai, minimax, kimi subs and use pretty much all the features bar their web UI. - github.com/automazeio/vib… <-- port all your subs into vibe proxy - docs.factory.ai/cli/byok/overv… <-- port your vibe proxy models into Droid I hope it serves you like it's served me.

In these five years, the Ethereum Foundation is entering a period of mild austerity, in order to be able to simultaneously meet two goals: 1. Deliver on an aggressive roadmap that ensures Ethereum's status as a performant and scalable world computer that does not compromise on robustness, sustainability and decentralization. 2. Ensures the Ethereum Foundation's own ability to sustain into the long term, and protect Ethereum's core mission and goals, including both the core blockchain layer as well as users' ability to access and use the chain with self-sovereignty, security and privacy. To this end, my own share of the austerity is that I am personally taking on responsibilities that might in another time have been "special projects" of the EF. Specifically, we are seeking the existence of an open-source, secure and verifiable full stack of software and hardware that can protect both our personal lives and our public environments ( see vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/0… ). This includes applications such as finance, communication and governance, blockchains, operating systems, secure hardware, biotech (including both personal and public health), and more. If you have seen the Vensa announcement (seeking to make open silicon a commercially viable reality at least for security-critical applications), the ucritter.com including recent versions with built in ZK + FHE + differential-privacy features, the air quality work, my donations to encrypted messaging apps, my own enthusiasm and use for privacy-preserving, walkaway-test-friendly and local-first software (including operating systems), then you know the general spirit of what I am planning to support. For this reason I have just withdrawn 16,384 ETH, which will be deployed toward these goals over the next few years. I am also exploring secure decentralized staking options that will allow even more capital from staking rewards to be put toward these goals in the long term. Ethereum itself is an indispensable part of the "full-stack openness and verifiability" vision. The Ethereum Foundation will continue with a steadfast focus on developing Ethereum, with that goal in mind. "Ethereum everywhere" is nice, but the primary priority is "Ethereum for people who need it". Not corposlop, but self-sovereignty, and the baseline infrastructure that enables cooperation without domination. In a world where many people's default mindset is that we need to race to become a big strong bully, because otherwise the existing big strong bullies will eat you first, this is the needed alternative. It will involve much more than technology to succeed, but the technical layer is something which is in our control to make happen. The tools to ensure your, and your community's, autonomy and safety, as a basic right that belongs to everyone. Open not in a bullshit "open means everyone has the right to buy it from us and use our API for $200/month" way, but actually open, and secure and verifiable so that you know that your technology is working for you.

In 2014, there was a vision: you can have permissionless, decentralized applications that could support finance, social media, ride sharing, governing organizations, crowdfunding, potentially create an entire alternative web, all on the backs of a suite of technologies. Ethereum: the blockchain. The world computer that could give any application its shared memory. Whisper: the data layer. Messages too expensive for a blockchain, that do no need consensus. Swarm: the storage layer. Store files for long-term access. Over the last five years, this core vision has at times become obscured, with various "metas" and "narratives" at various times taking center stage. But the core vision has never died. And in fact, the core technologies behind it are only growing stronger. Ethereum is now proof of stake. Ethereum is now scaling, it is now cheap, and it is on track to get more scalable and cheaper thanks to the power of ZK-EVMs. Thanks to ZK-EVM + PeerDAS, the "sharding" vision is effectively being realized. And L2s can give additional and different kinds of gains in speed on top. Whisper is now Waku ( docs.waku.org ), and already powers many applications (eg. railway.xyz, status.app just to name two I use). Even outside of Waku, the quality of decentralized messaging has increased. Fileverse (decentralized Google Docs and Sheets alternative: fileverse.io ) has seen massive gains in usability over the past year. IPFS is now highly performant and robust as a decentralized way of retrieving files, though IPFS alone does not solve the storage problem. Hence, there is still room to improve there. All of the prerequisites for the original web3 vision are here, in full force, and are continuing to get stronger over the next few years. Hence, it's time to buidl, and buidl decentralized. Fileverse is an excellent example of the right way to do things: * It uses Ethereum and Gnosis Chain for what they are good for: names, accounts and permissioning, document registration * It uses decentralized messaging and file storage to store documents and propagate changes to documents * The application passes the walkaway test: github.com/fileverse/walk… (even if Fileverse disappears, you can still retrieve them and even keep editing them with the open source UI) This is what we mean by "build a hammer that is a tool you buy once and it's yours, not a corposlop AI dishwasher that requires you to register for a google account and charges a subscription fee per month for extra washing modes, and probably spies on you and stops working if you get politically disfavored by a foreign country". If you think this criticism of corposlop is hyperbolic, well turns out, it's literally a concatenation of these three: * mein-mmo.de/en/user-buys-n… * theguardian.com/technology/202… * irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/… In 2014, decentralized applications were toys, hundreds of times more difficult to use in web2. In 2026, fileverse is now usable enough that I regularly write documents in it and send them to other people to collaborate. The decentralized renaissance is coming, and you can be part of making it happen.

Now that ZKEVMs are at alpha stage (production-quality performance, remaining work is safety) and PeerDAS is live on mainnet, it's time to talk more about what this combination means for Ethereum. These are not minor improvements; they are shifting Ethereum into being a fundamentally new and more powerful kind of decentralized network. To see why, let's look at the two major types of p2p network so far: BitTorrent (2000): huge total bandwidth, highly decentralized, no consensus Bitcoin (2009): highly decentralized, consensus, but low bandwidth - because it’s not “distributed” in the sense of work being split up, it’s *replicated* Now, Ethereum with PeerDAS (2025) and ZK-EVMs (expect small portions of the network using it in 2026), we get: decentralized, consensus and high bandwidth The trilemma has been solved - not on paper, but with live running code, of which one half (data availability sampling) is *on mainnet today*, and the other half (ZK-EVMs) is *production-quality on performance today* - safety is what remains. This was a 10-year journey (see the first commit of my original post on DAS here: github.com/ethereum/resea… , and ZK-EVM attempts started in ~2020), but it's finally here. Over the next ~4 years, expect to see the full extent of this vision roll out: * In 2026, large non-ZKEVM-dependent gas limit increases due to BALs and ePBS, and we'll see the first opportunities to run a ZKEVM node * In 2026-28, gas repricings, changes to state structure, exec payload going into blobs, and other adjustments to make higher gas limits safe * In 2027-30, large further gas limit increases, as ZKEVM becomes the primary way to validate blocks on the network A third piece of this is distributed block building. A long-term ideal holy grail is to get to a future where the full block is *never* constituted in one single place. This will not be necessary for a long time, but IMO it is worth striving for us at least have the capability to do that. Even before that point, we want the meaningful authority in block building to be as distributed as possible. This can be done either in-protocol (eg. maybe we figure out how to expand FOCIL to make it a primary channel for txs), or out-of-protocol with distributed builder marketplaces. This reduces risk of centralized interference with real-time transaction inclusion, AND it creates a better environment for geographical fairness. Onward.

@grok @OpEdWealth @OMagicTalk @G_Lyko @ChadSlimeBased @JerBearBigRed @grok how about switzerland

In Canada, cryptocurrencies are treated as capital property. The "superficial loss" rule applies: if you sell at a loss and repurchase the same or identical crypto within 30 days before or after (a 61-day window), the loss is denied and added to the cost base of the new asset. To claim the loss, wait outside this period. Consult a tax professional.

If you buy one Bitcoin at $126,000 And it goes to $89,000 You can sell it And buy it back 6 seconds later You still have the same one Bitcoin But you can realize a capital loss of $37,000 for tax purposes

@hmalviya9 can try here too maps.app.goo.gl/YJAHqvgMbVxE8y…

Meditate at Shankar Maharaj Samathi Math in Pune wherever you get a chance. Seekers only.

Some in crypto waste their time on networking. Others in crypto know what matters, and focus on networking.

@hmalviya9 up for it 🔥

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@jay_azhang @togelius @the_nof1 👋🏻👋🏻 i can

@togelius @the_nof1 Who wants to help test the next season of alpha arena?

The next season of our benchmark will have lots of improvements. Also, we have plenty of other things going on at @the_nof1 which we haven't made public yet. Markets are fun to play, and make AI players for.

@nkgoutham @FactoryAI custom models works worst

Droid by @FactoryAI is next level! IT understood what Cursor and Claude Code couldn't, and fixed it in one go! And I haven't yet paid a penny for it yet! Lovely. I think I'll have to explore Droid the whole of next week.

Incorruptibility is Ethereum's most important property.

@fire @FactoryAI custom model works very slow. i don’t understand hype at all

oh right, I forgot @FactoryAI was just a trial guess I'll find out how good third party models in droid really are soon

@blockgraze example of “how one can be so dumb”

frozen on ethereum lmao and they still claim it’s “decentralized”

@bentossell @etashio @FactoryAI you ceo sent email. i already gave feedback. check dm

@crypto_vert @etashio @FactoryAI lmk your account i’ll see what’s going on for you

I don't know what kind of wizardry they're pulling over at @FactoryAI, but droid feels a lot more capable than claude code

@techguyoz @MoonDevOnYT link?

@MoonDevOnYT I bookmarked the repository yesterday. I’m going to give it a crack today.

the swarm agent has now been completed call all the best models at once get all responses back + a consensus live in the opensource ai agents github

@Cbb0fe wow. great. Show big dream. get new competition and extract max from them. rofl

@87xysr @claudeai @FactoryAI droid is slow af compared to claude.

Using @claudeai Code after @FactoryAI Droid feels like talking to an extremely dumb engineer who can't even sort lists properly. I can't believe Droid is that much of an upgrade over Claude Code.