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Made a memorable video #apefest @BoredApeYC Happy Apefest youtu.be/hhkTusTwZig?si… via @YouTube

Meet at the Clubhouse x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

vibe on @OthersideMeta join other voyagers, let's build together 🤝

BIG WEEK! Appreciate @mfigge and many others really pushing hard to get this going. My DM’s are open if you need help. Might hold a space or bubble later this week if people are interested???

Looking forward to seeing what people build this week in @OthersideMeta. Read this guide from @CinemaD__ to learn more. Still a lot of steps but the next versions will work towards simplifying this into one Otherside interface.

updates for @OthersideMeta vibecode world to release on tues mar 3 now was going to be today but still buggy platform update on mar 12 now on top of the regular updates will include Agent API using x402 last thing mei and ben made this tech demo just proving out npc tech w stable performance 7,450 npcs we also did another one with 10k stuff you can only do on Otherside

新年快乐 🎆

Year of the Horse 🤩 Momentum. Strength. Forward motion. This year carries that energy. In Web3, fintech, and AI-driven finance, structured speed defines leadership. Precision and discipline turn movement into scale. Happy Lunar New Year.

MOLTBOOK

AI will make you jobless. Crypto will make you not need a job. Buy and hold now, retire in a few years. 🙋‍♂️if crypto allowed you to retire already. (Not financial advice)

为什么会有这么多穷人？ 罗伯特·清崎是这么说的「他们不知道什么是真钱，什么是假钱」 如果你用假钱，去买实物，就会越来越穷，如果你用假钱，去买真钱，就会越来越富有。 看完视频后会重新建立你的金钱观这个视频一定值得你点赞，收藏，分享。

Ethereum itself must pass the walkaway test. Ethereum is meant to be a home for trustless and trust-minimized applications, whether in finance, governance or elsewhere. It must support applications that are more like tools - the hammer that once you buy it's yours - than like services that lose all functionality once the vendor loses interest in maintaining them (or worse, gets hacked or becomes value-extractive). Even when applications do have functionality that depends on a vendor, Ethereum can help reduce those dependencies as much as possible, and protect the user as much as possible in those cases where the dependencies fail. But building such applications is not possible on a base layer which itself depends on ongoing updates from a vendor in order to continue being usable - even if that "vendor" is the all core devs process. Ethereum the blockchain must have the traits that we strive for in Ethereum's applications. Hence, Ethereum itself must pass the walkaway test. This means that Ethereum must get to a place where we _can ossify if we want to_. We do not have to stop making changes to the protocol, but we must get to a place where Ethereum's value proposition does not strictly depend on any features that are not in the protocol already. This includes the following: * Full quantum-resistance. We should resist the trap of saying "let's delay quantum-resistance until the last possible moment in the name of ekeing out more efficiencies for a while longer". Individual users have that right, but the protocol should not. Being able to say "Ethereum's protocol, as it stands today, is cryptographically safe for a hundred years" is something we should strive to get to as soon as possible, and insist on as a point of pride. * An architecture that can expand to sufficient scalability. The protocol needs to have the properties that allow it to expand to many thousands of TPS over time, most notably ZK-EVM validation and data sampling through PeerDAS. Ideally, we get to a point where further scaling is done through "parameter only" changes - and ideally _those_ changes are not BPO-style forks, but rather are made with the same validator voting mechanism we use for the gas limit. * A state architecture that can last decades. This means deciding, and implementing, whatever form of partial statelessness and state expiry will let us feel comfortable letting Ethereum run with thousands of TPS for decades, without breaking sync or hard disk or I/O requirements. It also means future-proofing the tree and storage types to work well with this long-term environment. * An account model that is general-purpose (this is "full account abstraction": move away from enshrined ECDSA for signature validation) * A gas schedule that we are confident is free of DoS vulnerabilities, both for execution and for ZK-proving * A PoS economic model that, with all we have learned over the past half decade of proof of stake in Ethereum and full decade beyond, we are confident can last and remain decentralized for decades, and supports the usefulness of ETH as trustless collateral (eg. in governance-minimized ETH-backed stablecoins) * A block building model that we are confident will resist centralization pressure and guarantee censorship resistance even in unknown future environments Ideally, we do the hard work over the next few years, to get to a point where in the future almost all future innovation can happen through client optimization, and get reflected in the protocol through parameter changes. Every year, we should tick off at least one of these boxes, and ideally multiple. Do the right thing once, based on knowledge of what is truly the right thing (and not compromise halfway fixes), and maximize Ethereum's technological and social robustness for the long term. Ethereum goes hard. This is the gwei.

I agree with maybe 60% of this, but one bit that is particularly important to highlight is the explicit separation between what the poster calls "the open web" (really, the corposlop web), and "the sovereign web". x.com/tom777kruise/s… This is a distinction I did not realize until recently, and I must admit the bitcoin maximalists were far ahead: a big part of their resistance to ICOs, tokens other than bitcoin, arbitrary financial applications, etc was precisely about keeping bitcoin "sovereign" and not "corposlop". The big error that many of them made was trying to achieve this goal with either government crackdowns or user disempowerment (keeping bitcoin script limited, and rejecting many categories of applications entirely), but their fear was real. So what is corposlop? In essence, it is the combination of three things: * Corporate optimization power * An aura of respectableness of being a company with sleek polished branding * Behavior that the exact opposite of respectable, because that's what's needed to maximize profit Corposlop includes things like: * Social media that maximizes dopamine, outrage, other methods of short-term engagement, at the expense of long-term value and fulfillment * Needless mass data collection from users, often followed by managing it carelessly or even casually selling it to third parties * Walled gardens charging monopolistic high fees and actively preventing people from even linking to other platforms * Hollywood releasing the 7th sequel to some tired franchise, because that's the most risk-averse thing to do * Every corporation that rallied around slogans of diversity and equity and the need to overturn society to fight racism in 2020, and then publicly mocked those causes for engagement in 2025 This is all digital corposlop; there are big and important analogues to this in the physical world too. Corposlop is soulless: trend-following homogeneity that is both evil and lame #how-we-fear-big-business" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/1… These are things that appear to serve the user, but actually disempower the user. I have many qualms with Apple, but aside from their monopolistic practices, they actually have many non-corposlop traits. They serve users not by constantly asking "what do users want this quarter", but by having an opinionated long-term vision. They have a strong emphasis on privacy. They resist and create trends rather than following them. I just wish they could take the brave step of ending their monopolistic practices and switch to an open source first strategy. It may damage their market cap, but man must live for something higher than market caps. Zac from Aztec was also early to recognize the importance of this, with a post that is on the whole very pro-freedom, but at the same time does not shrink back from labeling what is essentially corposlop a primary enemy, even when it does not violate the libertarian non-aggression principle. x.com/Zac_Aztec/stat… In 2000, the understanding of "sovereignty" largely focused on avoiding the iron fist of government. Today, "sovereignty" also means securing your digital privacy through cryptography, and securing your own mind from corporate mind warfare trying to extract your attention and your dollars. It also means doing things because you believe in them, and declaring independence from the homogenizing and soul-sucking concept of "the meta". These are the kinds of tools that we should build more of. Build tools like: * Privacy-preserving local-first applications that minimize dependence on and data leaks to third parties * Social media platforms and tools that let the user take control of what content they see. Appeal to people's long-term goals, not short-term impulses * Financial tools that help users grow their wealth, and do not encourage 50x leverage or sports betting or taking out a loan to pay for a burrito * AI tools that are maximally open and privacy and local-friendly, and that maximize productivity from merging the power of human and bot, rather than encouraging the user to sit back and let the bot do all the work, so they learn nothing * Applications, companies, and physical environments that take an opinionated view on the kind of world they want to see, and have an opinionated culture * DAOs that can support organizations and communities that steadfastly pursue a unique objective, and do not all get captured by the same groups. Privacy-preserving and non-tokenholder-driven voting can help here Be sovereign. Reject corposlop. Believe in somETHing.

This is one of the most extraordinary things you will see, by Marula Eugster Rigolo

@0xEthan That’s so good to know. Thanks for sharing.

I moved to Dubai 6 months ago Here’s my honest experience: People either tell you it’s the best place on earth or the worst Let me tell you the truth Once I landed I was nervous because my whole life I had lived in the UK and never even been to the Middle East When I landed I went through passport control and they searched my bag again and asked some questions but after they were done I got a taxi to my first Airbnb Ever since I got there I have had nothing but absolute kindness and respect from the residents and local citizens. Never even felt slightly unsafe as you would walking the streets of London. Also the quality of living here is incredible even for example someone with an income of an average American at $55k would live like a king compared to the states. I earn more than this and it’s incredible The whole city is absolutely spotless and the palm is like being in paradise. Everyone here is super motivated and just wants to make money so naturally the law of averages will help you towards success as well. Networking here is like no where else The restaurants are beautiful and diverse. People live here in harmony, there’s no online fighting about politics or protests or riots. The government run the place with masterclass. People will say things like the law is strict but honestly I’ve had to change none of the way I was living to be more than a law abiding citizen The healthcare is A* but it’s also very affordable and most employers actually give you health insurance as part of the job. You don’t wait in endless queues for hours and then get bad service just like the crippling NHS in England. You get fast access and the best service. Results for most tests within a day and swift prescriptions Setting up a bank account and getting an apartment is extremely easy too. By the way you can still leave the country for around 6 months per year (confirm this with your visa provider for exact amount of days). So I will spend the summers In Europe and the winters in Dubai. Then I am always getting the right amount of heat at a steady 32 degrees Celsius year round with that rotation Moving here at the age of 23 was the absolute best decision of my life and I’m proud to be a resident

When I say Bored Ape, you say Yacht Club.

Welcome to 2026! Milady is back. Ethereum did a lot in 2025: gas limits increased, blob count increased, node software quality improved, zkEVMs blasted through their performance milestones, and with zkEVMs and PeerDAS ethereum made its largest step toward being a fundamentally new and more powerful kind of blockchain (more on this later) But we have a challenge: Ethereum needs to do more to meet its own stated goals. Not the quest of "winning the next meta" regardless of whether it's tokenized dollars or political memecoins, not arbitrarily convincing people to help us fill up blockspace to make ETH ultrasound again, but the mission: To build the world computer that serves as a central infrastructure piece of a more free and open internet. We're building decentralized applications. Applications that run without fraud, censorship or third-party interference. Applications that pass the walkaway test: they keep running even if the original developers disappear. Applications where if you're a user, you don't even notice if Cloudflare goes down - or even if all of Cloudflare gets hacked by North Korea. Applications whose stability transcends the rise and fall of companies, ideologies and political parties. And applications that protect your privacy. All this - for finance, and also for identity, governance and whatever other civilizational infrastructure people want to build. These properties sound radical, but we must remember that a generation ago any wallet, kitchen appliance, book or car would fulfill every single one of them. Today, all of the above are by default becoming subscription services, consigning you to permanent dependence on some centralized overlord. Ethereum is the rebellion against this. To achieve this, it needs to be (i) usable, and usable at scale, and (ii) actually decentralized. This needs to happen at both (a) the blockchain layer, including the software we use to run and talk to the blockchain, and (b) the application layer. All of these pieces must be improved - they are already being improved, but they must be improved more. Fortunately, we have powerful tools on our side - but we need to apply them, and we will. Wishing everyone an exciting 2026. Milady.

Happy New Year, Apes. Here’s to a killer 2026.

Future looks bright. See you in 2026.