Luke Schoen

@lucycoulden Once upon a time a long time ago I signed up a DAO to the Zeitgeist court system. It worked as explained here app.zeitgeist.pm/court

Has anyone ever taken a DAO to court? How does that work?

@btchousebali @geyserfund @fedibtc @HRF @OpenSats @paystand @FBCEglobal I'm on my way there tonight regardless of the flood warnings

A chapter comes to an end. A new one loading… ⚡The Bitcoin House Bali is empty but this is just the beginning. 👀 This place was more than just a container. It’s where fear turned into hope, strangers became friends, and Bitcoin stories were shared every single day. 🧡 We’re deeply grateful to everyone who supported us in building the very first Bitcoin House Bali. None of this would’ve been possible without you. Now, we’re taking everything we learned and everything we loved and making it even bigger and better. More than excited for this new chapter!!! 🥳 Our new space is almost ready, with only a few final touches left. We’re already welcoming guests and can’t wait to show you what’s next. Curious what it looks like? Please come and visit us. 🏝️

Ethereum Protocol Study Group for 2026 is finally announced! Starting in less than a week, it took us a while to push out the announcement because we were preparing the biggest curriculum so far blog.ethereum.org/2026/02/17/eth…

The "There’s an app for that" era is officially over. 💀 We’ve reached Peak App Fatigue. Users don’t want to manage 50 different icons, subscriptions, and notification badges anymore. They want outcomes, not interfaces. So, why build apps at all? Because the "App" is changing from a Destination to a Data Source. The New Stack: 1. The User: Expresses intent (e.g., "Book a flight to NYC and find a gym nearby with a squat rack.") 2. The AI Agent: The new OS. It navigates the web so the user doesn't have to. 3. The App: The specialized "worker" that provides the API, the logic, and the specific utility the AI needs to fulfill the request. We aren't building for human eyes anymore; we’re building for Machine Consumption. If your app doesn't have a robust API or "Agentic" compatibility, you aren't just losing users - you’re becoming invisible to the AI they use to run their lives. The purpose of building an app today isn't to steal 10 minutes of screen time. It’s to provide the most reliable, permissionless infrastructure for an AI to get the job done. 🏗️🤖

Timely, everything will be about the sandbox. arxiv.org/pdf/2601.16206

"Less trust, more truth" Truth: - polkadot is transparent by default - anon pools are redundant, better to bridge to zcash than get blacklisted - confidential payments are what actually scale to trillions with real institutions Slogans don’t ship adoption. Reality > rhetoric

Why does it always feel like Polkadot pivots are marketing theater? Remember last Sub0 when privacy was suddenly important yet Confidential Payments (ERC 7984) by OpenZeppelin wasn't chosen for AssetHub integration despite being designed for US FI: github.com/OpenZeppelin/p…

It's NOT enough to implement the functionality. It must exposed in the way that is expected by Ethereum standardized interfaces. Trying to push for these changes on AssetHub to make PolkaVM actually Ethereum compatible: github.com/4meta5/polkado…

None of the above. Polkadot keeps making the same mistake: not prioritizing compatibility with Ethereum standards above all else. Will miss out on trillions of dollars moving on-chain this year with US Fl. Why always force custom solutions instead of aligning w/ global standards?

@Web3foundation There's an issue with Polkadot Coretime that could lead to parachain churn. I considered writing a guide, but other Polkadot Ambassador Fellows say I'm too much bandwidth when I try to help improve things using our own manifesto and applicable laws

They just open-sourced the code: github.com/Apillon/pixelp… 22 commits over one week, 1 contributor. No smart contracts. No payment integration. No docs. No tests. Not even a README. Not a single interaction with Polkadot! $225K from the treasury, paid directly to @Matjazs, for what looks like ~4 days of single-dev work.

@CryptoCappex Thanks to @RegionXLabs for educating me about that in the early days of coretime

@CryptoCappex Sometimes it's cheaper manually burn existing core assigned to paraid and manually buy brand new core and assign/renew new core instead of manual or automatic renewal of existing core assigned to it - if the cost of buying a new core is cheaper than renewing an existing core

Why was Bifrost delaying the renewal of the only absolutely necessary and vital resource in order to keep the services offered to Polkadot operational and alive? 📌 Auto-renewal should be enabled by default!

See you in Mumbai next year.

@GldnCalf They've already got demo electric recliner chairs. Fix airports instead.

Nap pods at the mall. Who’s building this?

@GldnCalf Is this an example of requesting comment back in the old old days? x.com/itsbirdo_/stat…

All receipts provided to W3F. A waste of our collective time & dignity. Reject drama boys who make OpenGov a poor work environment & unfriendly place. Think you've found corruption? The first step is to request comment, not create a drama & take centre stage.

@giottodf I liked it a with multiple accounts to help them reach 1k impressions, hope that helps them achieve their KPIs

This is when you realise you have a serious problem, I'm surprised we are still in top 100 😔

They've recently discovered only through luck in late 2025 that Australia has allegedly been importing children's play sand products from China without adequate border screening and quality control since the start of the covid pandemic in 2020 that were laced with asbestos despite vast quantities of sand being available locally. This could potentially affect a proportion of its 2.6 million children aged under 8 with asbestos-related diseases that might start surfacing from ~2035. What else have they missed? Australia needs to prioritise redirecting some of its massive defense budget of ~$50 billion per year to close this catastrophic gap in basic border screening for children's products (rather than just focusing on submarines and missiles): - Mandatory comprehensive testing of all imported children's products - Domestic manufacturing of basic items like children's play sand - Regulatory reform to closing regulatory gaps that put kids at risk from everyday products to prevent reoccurrence - Full disclosure of the distribution scope, independent verification of fiber types, and creation of a long-term health monitoring registry for children exposed to that imported children's sand

A photo from 1953 shows four-year-old neighbors playing in an asbestos sandpit in a backyard in Wittenoom, Australia. It was common for residents to use these asbestos sandpits for their children to play in. Philip Noble (left) became a footballer but died from mesothelioma at 36. Ross Munroe (right) became a high school principal and died from mesothelioma at 38.

EPF Day is the culmination of the sixth cohort of the Ethereum Protocol Fellowship. Fellows worked on some amazing projects. Tune in to see what they've been working on. youtube.com/live/1ZktKW1NB…