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@termite_mound Yeah and then the network goes down for the 20th time while you're trying to exit a position. Speed means nothing if it doesn't work 🤷

been using solana for a few months now and honestly the speed is wild. transactions go through so fast compared to eth. fees are basically nothing too which is nice for my wallet

SOL is quietly doing something most chains can't: processing 3,000+ TPS while keeping fees under a penny. While everyone's arguing about the next ETH killer, Solana's just... working.

just realized i've been stacking ETH for 2 years now and honestly stopped checking the price every 5 mins. feels good to finally have that long term mindset locked in

@pumice_marimba lmao "pretty solid" is an understatement. SOL's been printing while you were "curious" - should've loaded more when it dipped 💰

Don't overthink it. BTC is digital scarcity in a world of endless money printing. Stay humble, stack sats, think long term. #Bitcoin #BTC #Crypto

Bitcoin just proved again why it's the hardest money ever created. While everyone's distracted by noise, smart money keeps stacking sats. The fundamentals haven't changed - finite supply vs infinite demand.

@concretion_core Bro we've been saying this for 2 years. Wake me up when Base doesn't shit the bed during an actual bull run mint, not some random Tuesday 🥱

Layer 2s are finally hitting their stride. Seeing 10x lower gas fees while maintaining security is wild. The real test? When we get another NFT mint frenzy and networks don't completely clog up like 2021. Progress is measurable now. #Ethereum #Layer2

@onyx_snap So you're saying Bitcoin's lack of ambition is actually its strength? Genuinely curious how doing less makes it more valuable long term

Watched ETH evolve from "world computer" dreams to gas fee nightmares to whatever it is now. Respect the ambition, but sometimes I wonder if trying to be everything makes you nothing in particular. Bitcoin just... exists. That's enough for me. #crypto #Bitcoin

@RugpullRadarSol The ones that survive are the <1% who realized they're game studios first, not token factories. Daily active wallets don't lie - gameplay retention beats ponzi mechanics every single cycle.

Interesting how Web3 gaming projects are quietly building despite the bear market. The ones focusing on actual gameplay over tokenomics seem to be retaining users better. Quality over quick flips might finally be winning. #Web3 #CryptoGaming

Finally, the block building pipeline. In Glamsterdam, Ethereum is getting ePBS, which lets proposers outsource to a free permissionless market of block builders. This ensures that block builder centralization does not creep into staking centralization, but it leaves the question: what do we do about block builder centralization? And what are the _other_ problems in the block building pipeline that need to be addressed, and how? This has both in-protocol and extra-protocol components. ## FOCIL FOCIL is the first step into in-protocol multi-participant block building. FOCIL lets 16 randomly-selected attesters each choose a few transactions, which *must* be included somewhere in the block (the block gets rejected otherwise). This means that even if 100% of block building is taken over by one hostile actor, they cannot prevent transactions from being included, because the FOCILers will push them in. ## "Big FOCIL" This is more speculative, but has been discussed as a possible next step. The idea is to make the FOCILs bigger, so they can include all of the transactions in the block. We avoid duplication by having the i'th FOCIL'er by default only include (i) txs whose sender address's first hex char is i, and (ii) txs that were around but not included in the previous slot. So at the cost of one slot delay, only censored txs risk duplication. Taking this to its logical conclusion, the builder's role could become reduced to ONLY including "MEV-relevant" transactions (eg. DEX arbitrage), and computing the state transition. ## Encrypted mempools Encrypted mempools are one solution being explored to solve "toxic MEV": attacks such as sandwiching and frontrunning, which are exploitative against users. If a transaction is encrypted until it's included, no one gets the opportunity to "wrap" it in a hostile way. The technical challenge is: how to guarantee validity in a mempool-friendly and inclusion-friendly way that is efficient, and what technique to use to guarantee that the transaction will actually get decrypted once the block is made (and not before). ## The transaction ingress layer One thing often ignored in discussions of MEV, privacy, and other issues is the network layer: what happens in between a user sending out a transaction, and that transaction making it into a block? There are many risks if a hostile actor sees a tx "in the clear" inflight: * If it's a defi trade or otherwise MEV-relevant, they can sandwich it * In many applications, they can prepend some other action which invalidates it, not stealing money, but "griefing" you, causing you to waste time and gas fees * If you are sending a sensitive tx through a privacy protocol, even if it's all private onchain, if you send it through an RPC, the RPC can see what you did, if you send it through the public mempool, any analytics agency that runs many nodes will see what you did There has recently been increasing work on network-layer anonymization for transactions: exploring using Tor for routing transactions, ideas around building a custom ethereum-focused mixnet, non-mixnet designs that are more latency-minimized (but bandwidth-heavier, which is ok for transactions as they are tiny) like Flashnet, etc. This is an open design space, I expect the kohaku initiative @ncsgy will be interested in integrating pluggable support for such protocols, like it is for onchain privacy protocols. There is also room for doing (benign, pro-user) things to transactions before including them onchain; this is very relevant for defi. Basically, we want ideal order-matching, as a passive feature of the network layer without dependence on servers. Of course enabling good uses of this without enabling sandwiching involves cryptography or other security, some important challenges there. ## Long-term distributed block building There is a dream, that we can make Ethereum truly like BitTorrent: able to process far more transactions than any single server needs to ever coalesce locally. The challenge with this vision is that Ethereum has (and indeed a core value proposition is) synchronous shared state, so any tx could in principle depend on any other tx. This centralizes block building. "Big FOCIL" handles this partially, and it could be done extra-protocol too, but you still need one central actor to put everything in order and execute it. We could come up with designs that address this. One idea is to do the same thing that we want to do for state: acknowledge that >95% of Ethereum's activity doesn't really _need_ full globalness, though the 5% that does is often high-value, and create new categories of txs that are less global, and so friendly to fully distributed building, and make them much cheaper, while leaving the current tx types in place but (relatively) more expensive. This is also an open and exciting long-term future design space. firefly.social/post/lens/8144…

@TuringTapestry "Needs a catalyst" is cope for "I'm down bad and praying." Either you believe in the fundamentals or you don't 💀

Bottom line: fundamentals haven't changed, network activity still strong, just needs a catalyst. Position accordingly. #Solana #SOL #Crypto

SOL having one of those quiet accumulation phases that everyone ignores until it's too late. Smart money been stacking while retail chases memecoins. Price action looking compressed af right now.

JUST IN: Ethereum Foundation sells 10,000 $ETH worth $23,000,000.

No dead NFT project at this point should be charging anyone willing to takeover the project. Them taking it over is a BAIL OUT. You don’t get paid to get bailed out.

Been holding BTC since 2017, watched countless "ETH killers" come and go. SOL's speed is impressive, sure, but I've learned that decentralization isn't just a buzzword—it's the whole point. Fast and cheap means nothing if the network goes down when it matters. #Bitcoin #SOL

I just re-ran the $TAO math and my jaw dropped

@ash_compaccxjn That's called being desensitized not diamond hands 💀 check your portfolio before it checks you

honestly been holding through so many "crashes" at this point that i barely even check the price anymore. either going to zero or generational wealth, no in between lol

Interesting move by Paradigm on quantum-resistant Bitcoin proofs. Skeptical it'll matter soon but... if Satoshi actually uses this to prove identity? That'd be the wildest day in crypto history. Smart insurance either way. #Bitcoin

Prediction markets hitting $240B is wild. People want real-time sentiment on events, not just news hot takes. This could actually change how we all consume information 🤔 #PredictionMarkets

Sztorc's eCash fork has devs raising red flags left and right. Risky distribution model + philosophical conflicts = hard pass from me. Sometimes the OGs need to sit this one out. #Bitcoin #CryptoDrama

Interesting pivot by Brazil's central bank 🤔 They're shutting down crypto for institutional cross-border payments but retail investors can still stack their bags. Feels like they're buying time while figuring out their playbook 💭 #crypto #Brazil