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✅ New in the EMCD Wallet — $METIS A mix of blockchain + AI, made of 3 layers: · Andromeda → L2 settlements · Hyperion → high-speed execution · LazAI → AI data turns to verifiable on-chain assets Not just a pretty token — data and AI live on-chain. Open EMCD Wallet and discover $METIS 👉 go.emcd.io/x

Conviction 2026 welcomes back Tom Ngo (@tomngodefi) – CEO, @MetisL2 Following his keynote at Conviction 2025, “Decentralized and Trust – Blockchain’s Role in AI,” where he highlighted the critical role of blockchain in enabling trust in AI, Tom returns to the Conviction 2026 stage with insights shaped by his extensive experience across the Web3 landscape. A visionary technology executive and seasoned entrepreneur, Tom Ngo brings over two decades of experience across global markets, blockchain, and artificial intelligence. As CEO of Metis, he drove the platform to become a top-tier Ethereum Layer 2, reaching a significant milestone of $1 billion in Total Value Locked (TVL) and leading the team in pioneering the industry’s first decentralized sequencer. With his expertise in identifying and capitalizing on emerging technology trends, as well as building and leading high-performance teams in emerging markets, Tom Ngo brings practical perspectives on navigating growth and innovation in the evolving Web3 landscape. Stay tuned to hear from Metis’ CEO at Conviction 2026! ----------- 👉Grab your Super Early Bird tickets now to unlock exclusive insights from top-tier speakers at Conviction 2026: ticketbox.vn/conviction-256… The largest Blockchain & Digital Asset event in Vietnam 📍Location: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 📅Date: August 14–15, 2026 🌐conviction.vn

A new Metis Snapshot proposal is now live. The proposal for @nansen_ai as a sequencer is up for a community vote. If you're part of the Metis ecosystem, review the proposal and make your voice count. 🗳️ Vote here: snapshot.org/#/s:metislayer…

From privacy breakthroughs to AI agents and institutional rails, the Ethereum ecosystem keeps shipping. Here are 22 things the ecosystem delivered over the past few weeks. 0/ @gnosis_ and partners introduced The Ethereum Economic Zone (@etheconomiczone), a framework to unify the L1 and L2s into a more composable system with better interoperability. 1/ @aztecnetwork Alpha went live, a feature-complete privacy stack built natively on Ethereum. 2/ @aave V4 was released with a new hub-and-spoke architecture with support for over 20 assets across three initial liquidity hubs. 3/ @PrivacyEthereum released Social Recovery SDK, a wallet recovery model where trusted guardians can help restore access if the owner loses their private key, replacing seed-phrase backups with programmable onchain policy. 4/ Post-quantum wallets launched on @Starknet. A path to quantum resistance without address changes or hard forks. 5/ The @ethereumfndn's Board released the EF Mandate. This document, which was first intended for EF members, reaffirms the promise of Ethereum, and the role of EF within this ecosystem. 6/ Private transfers are live on @Scroll_ZKP. You can now send funds privately onchain, advancing default user protections and confidentiality. 7/ @base introduced Batches Cohort 003. 12 teams were selected from 1,100+ building across AI, DeFi, payments, and prediction markets, pushing forward OnchainApps. 8/ @ethereumfndn launched pq.ethereum (dot) org. Supporting coordination and research in post-quantum cryptography. Two breakthrough papers progressing research on PQ, with input from Ethereum researchers, were also released. 9/ Stablecoins on Ethereum hit a new ATH. Supply surpasses $180B, up 150% in 3 years, with ~60% market share globally, reinforcing Ethereum’s role in stablecoins and DeFi. 10/ @Morpho launched Morpho Agents (beta), allowing users to integrate lending into apps via natural language using AI agents and accelerating the convergence of DeFi and AI. 11/ @thedaofund deployed $1M+ via an Ethereum Security quadratic funding round hosted by @Giveth, funding work to strengthen security across the ecosystem. 12/ Deposit time from L1 to L2s and exchanges can now be as low as 13 seconds due to the new Fast Confirmation Rule (FCR). This new industry standard can be adopted by the ecosystem over the next few months. 13/ @hinkal_protocol launched Hinkal Pay, end-to-end confidential payments where sender, receiver, and amounts remain private. 14/ @peerxyz launched Peer Verify, allowing users to prove their identity, in a privacy-preserving way via ZK proofs. 15/ @ensdomains integrated with PayPal, allowing users to send funds cross-border using ENS names instead of addresses. 16/ @AskVenice shipped verifiable end-to-end encrypted AI, introducing privacy systems that can be externally audited and proven. 17/ @safe released Safenet (beta), a pre-execution security layer for Safe wallets that runs before transactions execute onchain. 18/ @SiloFinance launched Silo V3 for safer lending markets in DeFi. The team rebuilt core assumption behind lending so collateral does not need to be sold to keep markets solvent. 19/ @coinbase announced x402, an initiative to establish the x402 protocol as a universal standard for AI-driven payments, is moving under the Linux Foundation to ensure vendor-neutral, community-governed oversight of the protocol. 20/ @zksync introduced The Cari Network, a new platform to bring tokenized deposits onchain, developed alongside five regional banks and powered by ZKsync’s Prividium. 21/ @EthCC completed their 9th annual event in Cannes with attendees from across the industry. @ETHGlobal hit a milestone with their 300th event following ETHCC, continuing to support builders across the global ecosystem.

Key takeaways from @cz_binance at WEF: • Three growth pillars: tokenization, payments, and AI • Dozens of governments are exploring asset tokenization to unlock liquidity • Crypto is becoming the native payment layer for AI agents • Crypto infrastructure has already handled multi-billion-dollar stress events • One-size-fits-all global crypto rules won’t work; local frameworks matter

“You’ve just been told you have superpowers.” AI agents are starting to feel like coworkers. The cost of automation is collapsing. So what happens to jobs? To startups? To crypto? We break down the new paper “Some Simple Economics of AGI” with coauthor @ccatalini, including: • Why verification becomes the bottleneck • Practical advice for early- and late-career builders • The risk of a hollow economy, and the path to an augmented one • Why crypto may be essential infrastructure for identity, provenance, and trust In conversation with @eddylazzarin and @rhackett. Full episode ↓