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@nikitabier Very creative to make a dark ether logo on a black background so it can stand out

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@Polymarket Fix your infrastructure. PM api has been unusable recently.

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@BobSummerwill 100%

I am sad to say that is my take as well, Dankrad. Back to the subtraction and poetry. It's all very well intentioned, but does not speak to a sense of urgency or situational awareness. 2025 was by far the best year in EF history for leadership under Tomasz. Now I don't know.

@VitalikButerin EF and vitalik need to do less talking and philosophing and do focus more on the scaling and product shipping schedule. Without survival, there is no role for Ethereum in this competitive world for sure.

This is the new EF Mandate. For many of you, the contents should be no surprise, and a clarification along the lines that we have been going and thinking for the past few months. But the clarification is nevertheless worth making. Ethereum is a unique object and has a unique role in the world. Its role is to be a sanctuary technology, to preserve technological self-sovereignty, to enable cooperation without coercion, domination or rugpulling, and to provide an escape hatch, to ensure that no single person, organization or ideology's victory in cyberspace can be total. The Ethereum Foundation is a steward of Ethereum - the original steward, and today, the steward specifically dedicated to preserving and expanding the above aspects of Ethereum. This means a heavy emphasis on CROPS (censorship and capture resistance, open source, privacy, security), both at the protocol layer, and at the access layer, user-facing applications and tools that we create or contribute to. There are things that we do in Ethereum because we believe that they are valuable for the underlying goals that we have for Ethereum. There are things that we do not do because from the perspective of our values we find them uninteresting (or worse, harmful). But there are also things that we do not do because while they are useful, they are not our role. At the Ethereum protocol layer, we focus on decentralization, verifiability, inclusion guarantees, protocol liveness, security and privacy first and foremost. We also value capabilities (eg. L1 scale, account abstraction, perhaps some forms of in-protocol aggregation), particularly because improvements in these capabilities better enable users to properly benefit from Ethereum's CROPS properties and displace the need for higher-layer intermediaries that might weaken the extent to which Ethereum's properties carry over into the full stack. We also believe that the Ethereum protocol must strive to pass the walkaway test. "We do X to specialize to serve the use cases of today, if more use cases appear later, we will continue to keep adding more EIPs for them later" is logic fit for many other blockchains whose names you hear often on this forum, but we do not believe it is logic fit for a decentralization-first blockchain like Ethereum. At the application layer, we focus on making "the zero option" - user experience that goes hard on ensuring security and privacy, avoiding dependence on intermediaries, and respecting the user's agency - as high quality as possible. We see this as complementary to work in the Ethereum ecosystem that "goes broad", starting from the world that it exists, and brings it onchain and improves its properties over time. Such work has its natural home outside the EF. We intend to be supportive of such efforts. We believe that the two are complementary: tools that are developed within the EF can be adopted by anyone, including partially, and even partial adoption that improves people's security, privacy and agency is a good thing. But the form of user experience that is more heavily insistent on CROPS properties is where we want the EF to develop its center of expertise. This does not mean shrinking from the hard questions. We believe in a vision of self-sovereignty that protects users, and does not leave users in the cold to face environments where they lose their life savings if they make a mistake, and click "yes" on a confirmation screen by accident two seconds after. But such protection must be designed based on a philosophical baseline of empowering the user, not empowering centralized organizations that claim to act in the user's name. This quadrant of design space - caring about users' (including non-experts') well-being and safety, and yet insistent on doing this in a way compatible with their agency and freedom, is underserved (not just in crypto, but in the world). We wish to use Ethereum as a platform to build out and showcase this quadrant, and ideally work with others to expand its reach over time. This is also a new chapter in how we see our position in the world. We must see ourselves not just as the Ethereum community, but also as maintainers of the Ethereum tool within what you might call the CROPS community or the sanctuary tech community, or a dozen of other words that have for a long time been used by people with similar values to us but far outside Ethereum. This means open-mindedness to new conceptions of what things in the world are our natural allies. Ethereum is not the world. Ethereum is a specific object in the world that is here to have specific properties. The Ethereum Foundation is a specific organization within Ethereum - one steward, not the sole one. I encourage all to read the mandate in detail; it includes concrete examples of how we intend to deal with the challenges and nuances of these ideas. We are doubling down on Ethereum and are excited about its next chapter.

@CulperResearch lol research better why vitalik was selling

NEW: We are short Ether $ETH, and ETH-linked securities, incl. $BMNR. We think ETH tokenomics are impaired following the December 2025 Fusaka upgrade. Vitalik knows it and is selling, while $ETH's most ardent bull, Tom Lee, is throwing good money after bad. $ETH is going lower.

@haumicharts @brodmd71 Native token will benefit indirectly as the ecosystem expands. The DCF certainly does not apply in the new paradigm

@brodmd71 No they don’t. And the problem with most blockchains/crypto. They don’t capture the value of their adoption and so they trend lower

A reality most crypto investors aren't ready for is that Solana and Ethereum are likely going to underperform in the coming years. Institutions aren't adopting them. There are newer and better chains that learned from their mistakes and are already beating them to it.

@haumicharts They will realize if each institution adopts its own chain, it is not much better than what they have now.

@fundstrat @consensus_hk @ethereumJoseph @BitMNR @SharpLink @Consensys Why does your hair always look this stylish in these photos

Looking forward to @consensus_hk in a few days @ethereumJoseph @BitMNR @SharpLink $BMNR @Consensys

@debamit007 Absolutely

The only reason chains exist instead of a database is they can be verified by the public. Hence the term public ledger. I can throw my 10 year old raspberry pi on my home network and verify the state of bitcoin network without trusting anyone. For Solana it takes a data center machine that I can't control to tell me what is the true state of Solana. If you still don't see the problem with that then sure Bitcoin is the same as solana ? Bitcoin is the same as JPMC ? Bitcoin is the same as Robinhood ?

@NoLimitGains Dealers short call options and then hedge by selling spot??? How does that make sense?

🚨 BITCOIN IS BEING HELD IN PLACE, AND IT’S ABOUT TO BREAK If you’re wondering why BTC keeps hovering around $85k-$90k no matter how many people try to push it… I have the answer for you. And it likely resolves within the next ~72 hours. Here’s what’s actually going on: Bitcoin is sitting right on a critical options flip level around $88k ABOVE THAT LEVEL: Market makers are effectively forced to sell into green cancles and buy dips. Any rally is limited and the price goes right back to the middle. BELOW THAT LEVEL: The behavior changes completely, selling pressure feeds on itself and volatility grows instead of getting absorbed. That’s why price keeps getting pulled back to the same area over and over again. It’s not because of traders. Now look at why $90K keeps rejecting. There’s a massive concentration of call options sitting at $90,000. Dealers are short those calls. Every time price pushes toward that level, they hedge by selling spot BTC. So what looks like “sell pressure” is really forced supply showing up exactly where traders expect momentum. That’s why every $90K attempt fails miserably. On the downside, $85K is doing the opposite. There’s heavy put positioning there. As price drops, dealers hedge by buying spot. That’s why dips are bought immediately. This creates a tight range that feels completely normal on the surface, but it’s not stable at all. The reason this matters now is because of timing. A large chunk of option exposure will expire on DECEMBER 26, the day after christmas. Roughly three quarters of the current gamma profile disappears at expiry. Once we get past December 26, that pressure will be completely GONE. Not because people suddenly change their minds, but because the forces pinning price in place are gone. Btw, I’ve been studying macro for the last 22 years, and I’ve been in Bitcoin since 2013. I called the last two major market tops and bottoms. When the next bottom is in and I start buying BTC again, I’ll say it here publicly so you can copy me. If you still haven’t followed me, you’ll regret it.

@JamesEastonUK probably just etf and DAT wallets

Holders with between 10k - 100k $ETH ($29M - $290M) has shot up violently. Probably something.

@uttam_singhk @VitalikButerin @ethereum Good stuff. How is block generation parallelized when BAL is not available? Still need sequential process?

How do we scale the ETHEREUM L1 10x ?? 🚨 Part 1: Block-Level Access Lists (EIP-7928) (0:00) Intro to BALS (0:34) How @ethereum L1 works now (2:49) Parallel IO + Parallel EVM (4:18) Modification in Block Structure Like & RT for Ethereum

@FabianoSolana The fee looks cheap for solana is because validators are compensated by high inflation. All holders are paying for it, implicitly. This cannot last long

txs in 2025: Solana: ~35B Ethereum: ~550M Users paid roughly $10M in gas fees for ~35B transactions on Solana, while paying around $1.5B on Ethereum for ~60x fewer transactions

I am being threatened with rape and murder for representing my clients. We are documenting each of these threats and will address them through the appropriate legal channels. Threats of violence will not stop us from fulfilling our ethical duties as attorneys or from continuing our work to bring accountability and help build a better crypto industry.

@philipliao_ A “decentralized” chain uses a “centralized” gas token? Make it make sense ?

Took a quick glance at Tempo's tech docs Some highlights: - 500ms block times - fully EVM compatible - no native token, gas is paid in stables. How? - pathUSD is the defacto ultimate gas token (whoever the issuer is here will print) - enshrined DEX allows for multihop routing to get pathUSD from any USD stable - a new Tx Type that has: - native tx batching (a list of calls, allows for single tx approve + swap) - native gas sponsorship - native support for WebAuthn keys and FaceId keys (your phone and browser are wallets by default, don't need to download an extension) - Parallel nonces (allows for sending multiple txs at the same time, very useful for relayers) Takeaways: - pathUSD will become a hugely important stable - Tempo's new Tx Type overlaps with the majority of 4337's value prop, this is a blow to that ecosystem and allows an alternative to appear - Tempo UX will be incredible Insanely Bullish for crypto adoption

@tempo @AnthropicAI @Coupang corp chain

Tempo’s testnet is live! Any company can now build on a payments-first chain designed for instant settlement, predictable fees, and a stablecoin-native experience. Tempo has been shaped with a wide group of partners validating real workloads including @AnthropicAI, @Coupang, @DeutscheBank, @DoorDash, @Lead_Bank, @mercury, @nubank, @OpenAI, @Revolut, @Shopify, @StanChart, and @Visa. Since our announcement, @brexHQ, @Coastal, @crossriverbank, @deel, @faire_wholesale, @Figure, @GustoHQ , @Kalshi, @Klarna, @Mastercard, @Payoneer, @withpersona, @tryramp, and @UBS have also joined as design partners. Dedicated payment lanes, stablecoin gas, deterministic finality, a built-in stable asset DEX, and programmable smart accounts are all live on testnet. If you’re building or modernizing payment flows, you can start integrating and testing today.

@sassal0x @ameensol @KyleSamani @jessepollak solana will be a much better eco without them

@ameensol @KyleSamani @jessepollak All three of these people - Jon, Kyle and Anatoly - have done more collective gaslighting than almost anyone in the crypto ecosystem. They are just incredibly shitty people.

the solana manlets cheered when @KyleSamani was gaslighting ETH nerds so their boos when @jessepollak gaslights said manlets about "alignment" mean nothing to me🙃 just business

The inconvenient truth is #solana uses new issuance to subsidize validators’ high hardware cost in order to keep txn fee low, at the expense of token holders. This is not immediately noticeable, but definitely not sustainable in the long run.

@blknoiz06 Wonder how much Aya is paid

eth foundation was paying their lead dev $100k a year??? LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

@cjhtech True

lost count of the amount of death sentences Ethereum has been given over the years if you think centralized entities yield the power to kill ETH you just don’t get it. ETH is limitless