Jerome Kelsey | lift.cash

AI and robotics won’t just make us more productive — they change the shape of competition. The “safe” move becomes act first, justify later. That’s a multipolar trap. In my new piece: how applying AI to can flip traps into Multipolar Wins. medium.com/multipolar-win…

In the persuasion economy, data is a commodity; trust is the only true moat. AI commoditises logic, leaving a void that only human character can fill. • Authenticity over accuracy. • Behaviour over briefing. In a world of synthetics, we value what cannot be faked.

@wolfejosh This might be more about sea lanes and global trade to ensure USD remains in demand to offset trillions in debt causing collapse if BRICS and/or Euro starts to become relevant reserve currencies... especially regarding energy. Canada, Panama, Venezuela, Greenland are USD levers

@VitalikButerin Try OpenChat… you might be pleasantly surprised

In 2026, I plan to be fully back to decentralized social. If we want a better society, we need better mass communication tools. We need mass communication tools that surface the best information and arguments and help people find points of agreement. We need mass communication tools that serve the user's long-term interest, not maximize short-term engagement. There is no simple trick that solves these problems. But there is one important place to start: more competition. Decentralization is the way to enable that: a shared data layer, with anyone being able to build their own client on top. In fact, since the start of the year I've been back to decentralized social already. Every post I've made this year, or read this year, I made or read with firefly.social, a multi-client that covers reading and posting to X, Lens, Farcaster and Bluesky (though bluesky has a 300 char limit, so they don't get to see my beautiful long rants). But crypto social projects has often gone the wrong way. Too often, we in crypto think that if you insert a speculative coin into something, that counts as "innovating", and moves the world forward. Mixing money and social is not inherently wrong: Substack shows that it's possible to create an economy that supports very high-quality content. But Substack is about _subscribing to creators_, not _creating price bubbles around them_. Over the past decade, we have seen many many attempts at incentivizing creators by creating price bubbles around them, and all fail by (i) rewarding not content quality, but pre-existing social capital, and (ii) the tokens all going to zero after one or two years anyway. Too many people make galaxy-brained arguments that creating new markets and new assets is automatically good because it "elicits information", when the rest of their product development actions clearly betray that they're not actually interested in maximizing people's ability to benefit from that information. That is not Hayekian info-utopia, that is corposlop. Hence, decentralized social should be run by people who deeply believe in the "social" part, and are motivated first and foremost by solving the problems of social. The Aave team has done a great job stewarding Lens up to this point. I'm excited about what will happen to Lens over the next year, because I think the new team coming in are people who actually are interested in the "social": even back when the decentralized social space barely existed, they were trying to figure out how to do encrypted tweets. I plan to post more there this year. I encourage everyone to spend more time in Lens, Farcaster and the broader decentralized social world this year. We need to move beyond everyone constantly tweeting inside a single global info warzone, and into a reopened frontier, where new and better forms of interaction become possible.

@VitalikButerin We are working on a design for non-token weight ed voting we call Fractal Sortition for some NGOs (one is quite a household name) medium.com/freedao/fracta…

We need more DAOs - but different and better DAOs. The original drive to build Ethereum was heavily inspired by decentralized autonomous organizations: systems of code and rules that lived on decentralized networks that could manage resources and direct activity, more efficiently and more robustly than traditional governments and corporations could. Since then, the concept of DAOs has migrated to essentially referring to a treasury controlled by token holder voting - a design which "works", hence why it got copied so much, but a design which is inefficient, vulnerable to capture, and fails utterly at the goal of mitigating the weaknesses of human politics. As a result, many have become cynical about DAOs. But we need DAOs. * We need DAOs to create better oracles. Today, decentralized stablecoins, prediction markets, and other basic building blocks of defi are built on oracle designs that we are not satisfied with. If the oracle is token based, whales can manipulate the answer on a subjective issue and it becomes difficult to counteract them. Fundamentally, a token-based oracle cannot have a cost of attack higher than its market cap, which in turn means it cannot secure assets without extracting rent higher than the discount rate. And if the oracle uses human curation, then it's not very decentralized. The problem here is not greed. The problem is that we have bad oracle designs, we need better ones, and bootstrapping them is not just a technical problem but also a social problem. * We need DAOs for onchain dispute resolution, a necessary component of many types of more advanced smart contract use cases (eg. insurance). This is the same type of problem as price oracles, but even more subjective, and so even harder to get right. * We need DAOs to maintain lists. This includes: lists of applications known to be secure or not scams, lists of canonical interfaces, lists of token contract addresses, and much more. * We need DAOs to get projects off the ground quickly. If you have a group of people, who all want something done and are willing to contribute some funds (perhaps in exchange for benefits), then how do you manage this, especially if the task is too short-duration for legal entities to be worth it? * We need DAOs to do long-term project maintenance. If the original team of a project disappears, how can a community keep going, and how can new people coming in get the funding they need? One framework that I use to analyze this is "convex vs concave" from vitalik.eth.limo/general/2020/1… . If the DAO is solving a concave problem, then it is in an environment where, if faced with two possible courses of action, a compromise is better than a coin flip. Hence, you want systems that maximize robustness by averaging (or rather, medianing) in input from many sources, and protect against capture and financial attacks. If the DAO is solving a convex problem, then you want the ability to make decisive choices and follow through on them. In this case, leaders can be good, and the job of the decentralized process should be to keep the leaders in check. For all of this to work, we need to solve two problems: privacy, and decision fatigue. Without privacy, governance becomes a social game (see vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/0… ). And if people have to make decisions every week, for the first month you see excited participation, but over time willingness to participate, and even to stay informed, declines. I see modern technology as opening the door to a renaissance here. Specifically: * ZK (and in some cases MPC/FHE, though these should be used only when ZK along cannot solve the problem) for privacy * AI to solve decision fatigue * Consensus-finding communication tools (like pol.is, but going further) AI must be used carefully: we must *not* put full-size deepseek (or worse, GPT 5.2) in charge of a DAO and call it a day. Rather, AI must be put in thoughtfully, as something that scales and enhances human intention and judgement, rather than replacing it. This could be done at DAO level (eg. see how deepfunding.org works), or at individual level (user-controlled local LLMs that vote on their behalf). It is important to think about the "DAO stack" as also including the communication layer, hence the need for forums and platforms specially designed for the purpose. A multisig plus well-designed consensus-finding tools can easily beat idealized collusion-resistant quadratic funding plus crypto twitter. But in all cases, we need new designs. Projects that need new oracles and want to build their own should see that as 50% of their job, not 10%. Projects working on new governance designs should build with ZK and AI in mind, and they should treat the communication layer as 50% of their job, not 10%. This is how we can ensure the decentralization and robustness of the Ethereum base layer also applies to the world that gets built on top.

@rustyrockets If you are serious about moving the “control” to the people, look up democratic economic systems (on incorruptible tech) and alternative governance like Fractal Sortition

Since 9/11, every crisis has felt like another excuse for control.

Fractal Sortition lets communities self-select capable delegates through open discussion, then uses random selection to keep power fair and uncorruptible. Democracy, in turn, can deselect bad actors. 👉 Read the full article on Medium medium.com/freedao/fracta…

@dominic_w Lots of smoke & mirrors out there, but I’d say just use ChainFusion to bridge to this so that well meaning users/devs of 0G have an option to do something meaningful… or at least mitigate their platform risk

AI grift & fakery in Web3 growing daily. Screenshots from a new EVM clone... FACT — only the Internet Computer (ICP) can host AI models and sovereign apps actually onchain, and allows AI ☕️ to build safely. Product of ~10 years work & 100s million$. Ads are crazy misleading

@dominic_w Nice binary number

256 submissions from early access users/thanks for participating. judges got some work to do ☕️

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Multipolar Traps are a strong candidate for much of what ails us in this world. So I wrote an article on how we can mitigate them. Would love to hear comments and feedback 🙏🏼 medium.com/multipolar-win…

@owocki @PLiminality Great to see David getting promoted ❤️

NEW POD - David Rug introduces Project Liminality – @PLiminality – and the Interbrain. From coherence beacons to islands of truth, we explore how narrative, tech, and collective wisdom can rewire the way humanity thrives. 00:00 – Intro 03:20 – Project Liminality and Inner Brain 07:40 – The Third Attractor and Game A vs. Game B 12:30 – Storytelling as a Leverage Point 17:30 – Vision, Culture, Strategy Framework 24:50 – Institutions vs. Execution 30:45 – Inner Brain as Collective Knowledge Gardening 41:00 – Coherence Beacon and Social Resonance 46:30 – Miracles, Memetic Conveyor Belts, and Scaling 53:20 – DAOs, Dream Nodes, and Pilot Users 57:40 – Outro At Allo.Capital we are building capital allocation for the next internet. Learn more @ allo.capital 🎧 YouTube: @project-liminality" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@project-limin… 🌐 OpenCollective: opencollective.com/projectliminal… 💻 GitHub: github.com/ProjectLiminal…

Ok… seriously. You say you want FREEDOM. You say you care about FREEDOM. But do you ever look at what freedom is—fundamentally?

After going and securing my critical passwords for financial, email and social accounts it was nice to know that I didn’t need to do this for Open Chat, NNS, Dmail, Oisy Wallet and other #ICP services Thanks @dfinity

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@jer_kelsey shown at the front of the line, representing #LiftCash It pays to be early.

Will be there!

@RayDalio I wish this were more obvious and ubiquitous to most.

While it's easier to avoid confrontations in the short run, the consequences of doing so can be massively destructive in the long term. It's critical that conflicts actually get resolved--not through superficial compromise, but through seeking the important, accurate conclusions. In most cases, this process should be made transparent to relevant others (and sometimes the entire organization), both to ensure quality decision making and to perpetuate the culture of openly working through disputes. #principleoftheday

Economic freedom is the last frontier of human freedom. And just like democracy gave the people more political freedom, blockchain will now give people more economic freedom. It's time to democratically, and collectively, hold the purse strings.