Lino Velev

The Arbitrum Growth Circle is live and we’re looking for industry people to participate. Working in fintech or financial services and interested to develop your onchain stack, please reach out. If you’re a Web3 business at any stage looking to GTM with fintechs, do the same!

@lyuben wait didn’t that get blocked on some governance level and now they’re trying to push it again?

oh, no, we (🇧🇬) are part of that shit....so he (Trump) will come to ask for support? did i mention- the only EU member state (besides Hungary!)

@jricetweets what’s your favorite use case so far?

My open claw is about to be busy.

@realmotioninc @wrappedxyz @livingwithwill @JeetRaut @PiSquared love that the two of you know each other!

During @wrappedxyz @livingwithwill heard from @JeetRaut on how @PiSquared is building infra for agentic payments 👇

honestly great to see what a longstanding partner UNICEF has been for blockchain this call for applications gives $100k to solutions - improving transparency & accountability of public goods funding - new financing models for digital public goods deadline is march 10th

@ImperiumPaper @megaeth all the best with the new role @ImperiumPaper, hope our paths cross again very soon !

Today is my first day as Economics Lead at MegaETH. @megaeth’s approach to its onchain economy is a good match for my own, and I’ll be focused on helping MegaETH grow a thriving onchain economy that solves real problems for real people, companies, and organizations.

@devanshmehta @ImperiumPaper @megaeth yeah, I was thinking the same. But 🟢flag on intellectual honesty leading to collab rather than tribalism.

@ImperiumPaper @megaeth amazing news! so glad you ar going to be the one piloting the new incentive structure for blockchains where higher TVL = greater revenue, compared to peers where usage = revenue its also funny you were critical about megaeth & are now leading that part x.com/ImperiumPaper/…

Nice work @nashpointfi. Been following along closely for almost a year now. The progress has been incredible

@yungdoteth @0xsmac @Y0K0S0N I mean they're sorta on equal footing now. My mom in her 60s who adopted email 3 y ago and still can't figure out CC. On her own just produced a pitch deck with AI to secure an innovation grant on mixing some compounds in asphalt to improve public roads 🤯

@0xsmac @Y0K0S0N the coal miners will simply learn to code!!

there is some irony to coastal elites freaking out about AI job displacement now that it’s seemingly at their doorstep hollowing out middle america labor was ok because of ~efficiency gains~ but now that white collar jobs are at risk it’s time to scream FIRE! and pull the alarm

@Polymarket bro the fact that there's a liquid prediction market on whether the US government will blacklist an AI company for refusing mass surveillance is the most cyberpunk thing that actually happened today

This is a huge opportunity for Europe. Welcome Anthropic with open arms. Roll out the red carpet. Visa for all employees. Europe already controls the AI hardware bottleneck through ASML. Add the world's leading AI safety lab and you have the foundations of an AI superpower.

@friedmandave @jack @AndrewCurran_ @blocks why class act?

@jack @AndrewCurran_ @blocks Ouch. Class act but ouch.

we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company. #### today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone. first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay. we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly. i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures. a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers. we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold. to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward. to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow. jack

@offstage_x @StaniKulechov @aave for most of us easter europeans that got that lucky was more than 6 mo. Estonians are wealthy…

A full circle moment: @StaniKulechov’s dad saved up for 6 months to buy him a computer. He would have had to handle tons of paperwork, visit banks IRL during weekdays, and wait hours or even days in processing funds. Now he just uses @aave.

@0xAtomist @castle_labs @OAK_Res @hazeflow_xyz loved reading it so much!

@castle_labs @OAK_Res @hazeflow_xyz Been looking forward to this one since we wrote the report!

2 months ago, we shipped our end-of-year report with @OAK_Res and @hazeflow_xyz Packed with the key takeaways from 2025 and actionable insights for 2026. Join us Thursday, 26 February at 3 pm UTC for a fast look at how the year has begun, and where it’s headed next.

@DeVladinci often you ask something, they generate a “look good” response that avoids deeper analysis and research. You push, they do the work and then keep it in the context window well. Like lazy initiation. Maybe your prompts are not that challenging. …Or you found a very eager one :)

@lvelev I don’t know. Interesting, never seen to be lazy. Mine should be lazy and frustrated, then i will have full work experience :)

LLMs aren’t lazy. That’s the problem. Being lazy is not a bad trait to have, especially in software development. You start extracting things to save yourself time. LLMs don’t, they need to be told to.

This hits home

@ry_paddy Web3 has been very good in pushing the boundaries model wise, but the capital there is too little and mostly very high risk/sophistication/return and instant liquidity oriented. Most of the long term oriented one in sovereign wealth or the occasional billionaire.

I’m a huge fan of what you’re saying especially on the axis of blended capital — where you use the “quasi public” part not to make the capital cheaper, or even more risk tolerant, but a lot more patient.

openai.com/index/introduc… @OpenAI just dropped EVMbench. TL;DR - Codex 5.3 hits 72.2% score, compared to 31.9% on 5. - On both Detect and Detect and Patch modes it's far from human security experts working on smart contract. - Full papers linked inside.

@ventsy bookmarked

Front-end only, no ads, just works: tsachev.us/time-zone-plan…

Needed to find a meeting time with someone in GMT+2 today. Every timezone overlap site is drowning in ads. So I asked Codex to build one and deploy it to GitHub Pages.