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@arjunbhuptani @EverclearOrg @LayneHaber @RHLSTHRM Sad to hear this, but you have lots to be proud of.

We've made the difficult decision to wind down @EverclearOrg. @LayneHaber @RHLSTHRM and I started Connext (later Everclear) in 2017 to help solve the painful UX holding Ethereum back from mainstream adoption. Over the last 9 years, our team: - Shipped the first production L2 (using state channels) in 2018. - Contributed to the creation of the @MolochDAO, catalyzing renewed interest in DAOs. - Pioneered the first intent-based bridge in 2020. - Created the Chain Abstraction vision and demonstrated it's potential for staking/restaking protocols. - Pushed forward ERC-7281 as a neutral, open standard for bridged tokens. - Brought clearance to DeFi. - Processed over $6B in network volume. Throughout that time, we've also done our best to stay true to our principles and the crypto ethos; pushing for a higher bar of transparency and trust-minimization for ourselves and the space at large. Even though this isn't the ending we ultimately wanted, I am *incredibly* proud of what our team has accomplished and grateful to those who have supported us all of these years ❤️ Longer post-mortem coming soon. In the meantime, if you are a team that is hiring: we have a team of 10x operators who have executed ruthlessly through some of the harshest market conditions on shoestring budgets. Reach out!

@CarlBeek @badcryptobitch Onward and upward, Carl. I wish you well.

After 7 incredible years, I've decided that Friday May 29th will be my last day at the Ethereum Foundation. I'm humbled by the projects I got to work on along the way: from the KZG ceremony, to helping architect the early design of the Beacon Chain, and a lot in between. At the age of 23, the Ethereum space welcomed me on the basis of having some great (and many stupid) ideas and let me influence a multi-billion dollar technology, an incredible opportunity I will remain forever grateful for. Ethereum has had a huge impact on me, and I hope my work has had an impact on Ethereum, and in turn on the world. To every researcher, core dev, EFer, and community member, whether we worked together closely or not: thank you. The strength of Ethereum is, and always will be, the people behind it striving to make it what it is. I'm grateful to have spent these years among you. What's next: I don't entirely know yet. For now I'll be enjoying time with my wife and our 1-month-old while I figure it out. Longer term, I'll find or create something with brilliant people at the intersection of engineering excellence, hard problems, and useful products driving economic activity at scale. If that resonates, or you just want to catch up, slide into my DMs!

Around $3 Trillion dollars were laundered through banks in 2025 despite the warrantless surveillance regimes they facilitate for governments. And they want you to think that people making peer-to-peer transactions on chain are the problem that needs to be outlawed.

An infinite number of modern Trek writers typing for an infinite amount of time could never come up with something as great and inspiring as Kirk's 'Risk is our Business' speech.

@poapxyz I love my POAPs

POAP is going into maintenance mode as of March 16th. Existing issuers will continue to have access to POAP platform tools as usual, but new issuers will no longer be able to access the platform. Read more about what's happening 👇

Let me be clear. There is no legitimate business reason for anyone to have these personal records about you. Even government counterterrorism/crime needs would be better addressed with limited zkproof-based gating of trusted financial on and off ramps w/o mass surveillance.

@AsherBlackPalm Horse and carriage

I love it when two words with different meanings come from the same root, only to be reunited thousands of years later, side by side, through word play in new languages. E.g. blood brother, deep dive

@ValidatorEth @freedomfactory @base geoff.eth

I'm giving away another @freedomfactory to someone with their ENS or @base Name set as their Twitter/X display name. Reply with your ENS name below.

Strayan buildooors - shamelessly legendary ETHSydney gathering @glamperd @metasal @semicondurian @mooshnet @creditcartel @gami @sassal0x @0xJeeva @nawazahmednz @eth_strategy_ @SunilTomJose @jqhils @Hari_Alpha1 @gamiwtf @smooothoor et al @helixco_ @ausbuildooors haus

Happy birthday, Ethereum

@barstoolsports @ttmygh They’re the girls from Twinnies wildlife rescue. Paula and Bridgette Powers

You’ve never seen an interview like this one

🌀Tropical Cyclone Alfred 🌀 #onlyinaustralia Don’t let a fallen tree stop you getting onto the M1. Natural disasters either bring out the worst in humanity or the best. Everyone working together to get home safely.

.@Snowden on how he came to participate in the original Zcash ceremony: “I was aware of it from a professor at Johns Hopkins University by the name of Matthew Green. I think he tweeted a link to a paper called Zerocash. This was before it became Zcash. And I just saw the idea of this. Of course, I had been a longtime Bitcoin user, and I was like, ‘This is amazing. This is incredible.’ It’s something very important that, frankly, should have been integrated into the actual Bitcoin network through protocol improvements at that period in time. But they hadn’t really taken privacy seriously, and unfortunately, they still don’t. So, I was looking at this more like an academic project than some kind of—everybody makes crypto coins now to try to get a capital return on it. But this, they were going, ‘How do we get this key—construct this key—that if anybody had it, it would be harmful, and how do we make sure nobody does?’ So they created this thing called the ceremony, where they would basically do a cryptographic round among many different participants around the world—different people. The way it was structured was such that if there was one honest person in the entire cohort, the dangerous part, the dangerous properties of this key, wouldn’t exist. You could basically ensure the network was fully safe. And all you needed was one honest person—one person whose keys weren’t stolen, whatever. Everybody else could be against it, could be trying to exploit it, could be doing whatever, and it would work. This was something that I got approached about. I can’t recall actually who approached me. It might have been @zooko—I believe it probably was Zooko—who might have gotten to me because I had written about this paper and my interest in it and said, ‘Hey, would you be willing to serve as a part of this ceremony?’ And I went, ‘Well, why not?’ You know, I am one person where nobody knows where I am, what I’m doing, whatever. It would be very hard to target me. I know quite a lot about computer security, but at the same time, I can at least have the honesty layer. So my sort of vulnerability in this would be hacking, right? It would be surveillance, it would be cameras in the walls from the Russians or whatever, stealing my computer, using a bad computer, or whatever. Other people might not have a hacking risk—they might have a social risk, they might have an honesty risk, something like that. But by being a part of this larger cohort, you could make sure that basically nobody cheated the network, and it worked, right? Since then, there have never been any—as far as anyone knows—sort of greater emissions that should have happened on the network. And eventually—and this is why it came out later—they moved beyond it, and that key is no longer used. It’s no longer a threat to the network. That whole sort of proving channel is gone. And they used a more modern solution that didn’t have these same risks.”

I think there is a few with us vying for the CBO roll within the party. That aside, the @LibertariansAus are absolutely 💯 committed to removing CGT from Bitcoin disposal and giving Aussies 🇦🇺 much needed currency 💵 options. The best money is born of the private market, not a manipulated product brought to you by centralised controllers. #pow #btcismoney

I contributed to the Privacy Pools Ceremony! You can view the steps to contribute here: ceremony.pse.dev You can view my attestation here: gist.github.com/glamperd/ddc05…

@PrivacyScaling @ctrlc03 @0xjei @Chia_Tea @kld_diagne @NicoSerranoP Don’t forget the foundational efforts of @weijie_eth and @gubsheep

The Trusted Setups project has added great value to the Ethereum and ZK ecosystems. Its legacy continues through shared tools and knowledge. Special thanks to @glamperd, @ctrlc03, @0xjei, @Chia_Tea, @kld_diagne, and @nicoserranop for their contributions over the years ❤️🙏❤️

New post from PSE's Trusted Setup team: a retrospective on development of trusted setup tools including Perpetual Powers of Tau, KZG ceremony and p0tion. mirror.xyz/privacy-scalin…

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This terrific talk by @valkenburgh from Devcon is now up. Keynote: Glass Houses and Tornados youtu.be/7LRbiZ_FiSg?si… via @YouTube