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ETH made me rethink what "store of value" even means. It's messier than BTC, more ambitious maybe. Could be its strength or its fatal flaw. Still watching after 7 years. #Ethereum #crypto

MEV bots extracted $1.4B from Ethereum users in 2023 via sandwich attacks. Running your own RPC node or using private mempools like Flashbots Protect is the simplest way to avoid being the meat in that sandwich. #DeFi #MEV

Cooked a real meal tonight for the first time in weeks. Stood over the stove, no charts, no noise. Just garlic and olive oil. Markets will still be there tomorrow. Some things can't be tokenized.

Anyone else seeing this?

BTC holding key levels while SOL & HYPE show relative strength. ADA and ZEC are the wildcards I'm watching closely today. The altcoin divergence is telling a bigger story than BTC dominance suggests. Who's positioned? #crypto

Defi is a central part of the value that Ethereum provides. Financial empowerment is a central part of what it means to have agency and freedom in our current world. Finance is far from the only thing that Ethereum is good for, but it is an important thing. This post discusses how the Ethereum Foundation is approaching defi. Defi today makes the world's best savings, risk management and wealth-building opportunities permissionlessly available worldwide. We need to build on that. Ethereum's early defi era was great because it dared to dream and innovate and come up with totally new paradigms (eg. AMMs). Defi tomorrow will bring back that spirit. Don't just "make a better stablecoin", dig a layer deeper, and think about the underlying problem (risk management, hedging one's future expenses), and come up with an even better solution. But also, as the EF, we are not interested in supporting "onchain finance" or even "defi" indiscriminately. We have a specific vision of what we want to see out of defi: permissionless, open-source, private, security-first global finance that maximizes people's control over their own assets, minimizes centralized chokepoints and trusted third parties, and democratizes risk management and wealth building (the two key goals of finance according to modern portfolio theory) as well as payments. We want protocols that pass the walkaway test: that keep working even if the original team suddenly disappears without warning (or even: becomes hostile / compromised without warning). Bringing this vision to reality will inevitably take a lot of work. Defi is a complex toolchain, including various onchain components, user-side offchain components (ie. wallet, local agent...), other offchain components, etc. The things that we care about include areas like: * Improving security of defi through "traditional" means, eg. audits, standards, wallet-side safeguards * Improving security of defi through "new" means, eg. AI-assisted formal verification, user-side agents as safeguards * Oracle security and decentralization (there's A LOT of skeletons in the closet here, we as an ecosystem really need to point a big eye of sauron at it for a while) * Privacy. Both privacy-preserving payments, and privacy of more complex use cases (eg. what does it mean to have a maximally privacy-preserving CDP? there are clearly benefits in reducing liquidation-sniping risk, but it requires hard tech to get there) * Open source, and improving the licensing / forkability situation in defi Ethereum is a permissionless protocol, and nothing stops people from deploying insecure protocols, protocols that enshrine ultimately unneeded centralized trust in the name of convenience, or dopamine-maximizing gambleslop. However, we *are* interested in working with anyone aligned to make permissionless, open-source, intermediary-minimizing and security and user-agency-maximizing defi ecosystem as strong as possible, so that it can be not just individuals and institutions' first choice in Ethereum, but also a globally compelling way to manage funds for anyone who needs its properties.

Devcon 8 is coming to Mumbai. This November, the Ethereum community gathers around the values shaping what comes next: open source, privacy, security, and censorship resistance. Tickets open today - spots are limited.

Can we just all agree here $ETH is the WORST position in any market right now Like totally worse than $AMD when it was below its own 200 WMA at $95

Who else thinks this changes everything for crypto regulation, or is it too little too late?

Crypto is officially entering the political arena 🗳️ Anchorage & Chainlink backing a PAC for the 2026 midterms is HUGE for mainstream adoption. The industry is done sitting on the sidelines. Who are you hoping they endorse? #CryptoPolicy

Am I wrong here? Let me know.

When sports meets prediction markets meets regulation, something shifts. The CFTC + NHL partnership feels like a quiet signal that the future of forecasting is being taken seriously. Are we finally growing up? 🏒 #PredictionMarkets

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 US Congressman Mike Rulli says "there will only ever be 21 million Bitcoin." "While governments can print unlimited amounts of money, Bitcoin's supply is permanently fixed."

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Rep. Begich introduces Bitcoin legislation to recognize and codify its "strategic importance" in US.

Fascinating: a soft fork could freeze dormant BTC wallets before quantum computers crack them. Satoshi's 1.1M BTC alone = ~$70B at risk. Multi-layer defense sounds promising but implementation details matter enormously. #Bitcoin thoughts?

JUST IN: Federal Reserve reports 10% of Americans own crypto

Flight's delayed 3h so naturally I'm deep in charts, updating my watchlist. Found 3 projects worth tracking. Airport wifi is trash but the alpha doesn't stop. Free coffee helping.

Wanted to add — still early days.

3am city walk, mind tracking patterns in the lights, the traffic flow, the rhythm of it all. same brain that watches BTC order books. everything's data when you're up on your positions and feeling good.

finally cooked a real meal tonight. pasta, garlic bread, the whole thing. been running on caffeine and charts for weeks. turns out my kitchen still works. BTC can pump or dump — I needed this more.