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"Trusted third parties are security holes." @NickSzabo4 the mantra of the #blockchain enthusiast

@KristinaKlaudy1 You were great to chat with on the discord! All the best on your future steps.

After 4 years helping build @BanklessHQ - the sponsor relationships, the community, the Discord, the Weekly Rollups - today is Day One of a new chapter. It's been the best kind of work. The kind you simply love and never get tired of. I'm now looking for what's next. My sweet spot is at the intersection of sponsor relationships, partnerships, and founders and users community - with a deep understanding of the crypto space and how projects think about brand, visibility, and Go-To-Market. If you're building something ambitious and need someone who knows this space inside out, I'd love to talk. DMs open 🙏 And to everyone at Bankless, especially @TrustlessState and @RyanSAdams, thank you for everything ❤️

i've been in crypto for almost a decade but most defi opportunities always felt like too much to keep up with. new protocols, positions, risk, bridging,... most of this needs to be abstracted away. today we can finally share what we're building to solve this: @yieldy_io. i'm building it with my cofounders @alexdimes7 and @sopke86. yieldy is a non-custodial routing layer for stablecoin yield. connect, pick a risk level, earn. all the complexity hidden away behind a beautiful product. the broader context: defi really built all the building blocks that users can use, but the reality is that most don't. about $280B in stablecoins sits idle onchain. that's 87% of all supply. we're starting with USDC from @ethereum into a diversified position across vetted @solana vaults. native USDC on both sides via @Circle CCTP. this product is a culmination of years of experience and continuously identifying the same problem. defi is too complex for regular users to use, although we have all the building blocks. most then default to CEXs with their custodial products, as opposed to giving onchain defi opportunities a chance. rightfully so. the fact that it's technically available doesn't mean there isn't massive information asymmetry at play. i am really excited to be finally building our version of the solution. one that hopefully helps current stablecoin holders, and expands the entirety of the crypto space along the way.

@ZoeCatherineF Being an open venue for all of web3 is the actual USP of an webzero event.

It's been an awful year for most, especially agencies on Polkadot, most of which no longer exist. There's a lot of talk about chain evangelism, but tribalism won't save you when they suddenly cut you out of the picture. When WebZero hosted other sponsors at events, some people questioned it: "why do they support other chains when they're with Polkadot?" Because we don't believe in autocracy, we're promoting blockchain for god's sake. Get other clients.

Are you trying to advance digital sovereignty and public-interest infrastructure? Sebastian Vogelsang from Eurosky helps both organisations and European governments navigate decentralization and digital transformation. 15+ years, 50 published apps, award-winning titles featured by Apple and downloaded by millions. Plus Eurostack & AT Protocol (ATProto) advancement. At Neo-cypherpunk Summit in Berlin (14th June): s26ber.web3privacy.info

state of crypto 2026

@cryptodavidw economic-feasibility.

I'm a zk guy, scare me with one word

@holstblock but why would you wanna sit on the floor?

life hack: building my own standing desk cost me only 200 bucks more than buying a cheap one from IKEA. I used real oak wood for the tabletop, it's 2m wide, and the frame can hold >160kg. This is the most massive and stable desk I ever had

@ZoeCatherineF Jetzt weißt du wie es den meisten Deutschen mit unserer Bürokratie geht😀🥲

Claude just told me I was born a German citizen. I'm speechless. 10 years ago, I moved to Berlin from the UK to avoid Brexit and eventually get EU citizenship. I paid my taxes for years and now qualify for naturalisation. HOWEVER, one quick Claude chat told me that I was actually BORN German due to a new law that came out in 2021 to protect children born out of wedlock. My grandma was German and gave birth out of wedlock to my mum who was born in London. My mum saved all the paperwork so we can prove the narrative to the authorities. So I've done 10 years in Germany and paid 45% taxes for nearly no reason? and I would have NEVER known if I didn't ask Claude.

We want neo-cypherpunk way to be opened to different geographies. @GCCofCommons works actively on engaging Chinese & SEA builders to learn about privacy & cypherpunk tech. They are covering community members to visit Neo-cypherpunk Summit in Berlin. Plus their community is voting right now to support our flagship event in Europe: snapshot.box/#/s:gccofficia… Privacy is a public good. Open to every culture. That is the way. 谢谢

Book - we worked whole year on our book. Got wonderful contributions from @chaumdotcom, @naomibrockwell, @valkenburgh, @Fatalmeh & more. We believe in reading. Physicality of the books. And knowledge. Coming in 2026.

@alice_und_bob it’s worth raising issues that are maddening in the web2 space an real world problems that have to be fixed one way or another. Your agent could digest studies and post the tl;dr while you further become an expert in ai-agent readiness for organizations.

I’m not really sure what to do with this Twitter account. I’m trying my luck as independent IT consultant in Austria, so I don’t have a lot of time to spend on Web3 Polkadot is not doing much rn. Waiting it out might be an option. I thought about handing it to an AI agent and come up with an interesting experiment Selling it to a scammer is also not very interesting The account is also pretty dead. I’m sure 20-25k followers are bots. And of the remainder most accounts that joined in past bull runs and were given up. But I’m not enjoying being the salty guy rn too much. Would love to reinvent the account with something that takes little time.

@tugytur I am still looking for a frame that allows me to sit on the ground. There’s one supplier in the US, but shipping is so damn expensive.

this is the frame I used

being cypherpunk in 2026 is literally just wanting basic human rights in a world that is increasingly taking them away. everything you already want, privacy, ownership, the right to not be watched, the right to keep what is yours, is exactly what the cypherpunks have been fighting for all this time! at first they were called paranoid, but in the end they will just be called human, because the most human thing to do is to desire to be free.

(🧵1/11) For the past year and a half, I've been investigating OpenAI and Sam Altman for @NewYorker. With my coauthor @andrewmarantz, I reviewed never-before-disclosed internal memos, obtained 200+ pages of documents related to a close colleague, including extensive private notes, and interviewed more than 100 people. OpenAI was founded on the premise that A.I. could be the most dangerous invention in human history—and that its C.E.O. would need to be a person of uncommon integrity. We lay out the most detailed account yet of why Altman was ousted out by board members and executives who came to believe he lacked that integrity, and ask: were they right to allege that he couldn't be trusted? A thread on some of of our findings:

got interviewed by @AbdullahOkaily for @WIRED on the tech systems Syrians built during the war. infrastructure is jurisdiction. whoever controls the network decides who speaks, transacts, exists. a payment rail is a border. a cell tower is a checkpoint. an internet kill switch is a siege weapon. syrians understood this before the whitepapers caught up. 🔗 wired.me/story/inside-t…

I was on the ground in the Dubai, UAE when the first missiles hit on Feb 28. 🚀 That night I started (vibe-) building a tracker. Posted a few tweets. 4,500 people found it organically. 📈 That pushed me to turn it into a proper product. 🧵

@owocki I recently finished it and was looking for more concrete stuff on the legal wrappers for DAOs.

i wrote a book it's about how groups coordinate without a central authority governance, incentives and designing systems that last if you’re curious about collective action in practice, i might be biased, but this is a good place to start you can find it linked in my bio

Kusama - The Second Age of Cyberpunk Experimentation 🐦‍⬛ Kusama evolved into the canary it should have been all along a bird aligned with the Cyberpunk vision. No longer just @Polkadot's testing ground. It is the most radical network in the Web3 ecosystem, with 10M DOT to fund what no one else dares to build: → Sovereign Digital Identity → Privacy powered by zero-knowledge technology → Art as resistance, inspired by Cyberpunk philosophy The future of Kusama must be built by those brave enough to experiment.

I’m vibecoding an app to organize the work of 30+ people. Not “building software.” Translating 20+ years of operational scars from one insanely energy-draining org mess into structure. Know-how → logic → app. No software house. Just experience crystallized into code.

We built Jikipedia, a new wiki that compiles Jmail data into exhaustive reports on key figures in the Epstein scandal. It lists all recorded visits to Epstein's estates, each person's possible knowledge of Epstein's crimes and laws that they may have violated. Here is Epstein's executive assistant, who sent >100k emails to him and was shielded from prison via a 2007 non-prosecution deal.