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@azeemk I used to take it when I was bodybuilding, it’s great seeing folks talk about the cognitive benefits. I should start again.

Started taking creatine thinking it would all be hype, and I couldn't have been more wrong. It deserves all the praise it gets and more.

@oskarth main has fewer characters though :)

so many years wasted because some SJWs insisted we change default git branch from master to main

Every passport-based identity system has the same quiet hole: Identifier = hash(passport data, app, scope). Which means whoever knows your passport data (yes, including the issuing government, or anyone who's ever scanned your chip) can recompute your identifier across every app you've signed into. We close it at @TACEO_IO with a threshold-keyed salt that no single party can compute alone. - Deterministic per app, sybil resistance preserved - Uncomputable to outsiders, even the issuer - Key split across an MPC network so no single node can derive it either Already used by @worldcoin and @zkpassport. If you're hitting this, we'd love to talk.

Privacy - is a basic human right! At @ETHLDN

"Every major L1 initiative directly enables more L2 specialization." "Ethereum's credibly neutral base layer makes it the strongest foundation to build on today." 👏👏

Privacy is live on the OP Stack. Last week: drop-in SDK for confidential computing on OP Mainnet. Now: integrating with one of the largest OP Stack chains, @soneium. ZK + TEE. Sub-500ms proofs. High throughput. Built for real workloads.

Excited to take part. If you’re around, pop by.

Client diversity matters 👏🏽

@Cyph3rVae For almost any and all institutions, privacy is a prerequisite.

Privacy is the biggest challenge to institutional adoption. Outside of the Twitter echo chamber, less people talk about it and even fewer actually understands what privacy means. Unlike larger funds shifting focus from seed/Series A to Series C/D/E rounds (larping such pivots as "having conviction" in investments made many moons ago & inflating valuation), @FryCookVC and I are writing pre-seed & seed checks to anyone building for privacy. While other web3 VCs are pivoting to AI or simply back to "fintech", we will be here. DMs open.

Excited to present ERC-8211, an effort led by @biconomy and supported by our Improve UX track! Smart batching fills a gap between users, agents and complex onchain execution, including crosschain execution. --- In our interop work, we've identified three layers of functionalities: - Representation: A crosschain action is made machine-legible via some structure, eg., an array of calls à la ERC-5792 or an intent ("I want X"). - Orchestration: Particularly in asynchronous settings, actions are composed with multiple steps. Some entity is required to trigger these calls at the right time, in the right place and with the right inputs. - Liquidity/message-passing: Moving liquidity crosschain is the goal of intent-based bridges. More generally, passing messages, beyond just value, is the critical building block of crosschain actions. We've been working on the liquidity layer with Open Intents Framework. The framework provides standard, secure and modular components towards instantiating a common marketplace for fast liquidity. Meanwhile, orchestration may be delegated away, with another party taking on the duty to solve an intent or triggering the right calls. However, with the rise of personal agents, it is much more viable for the user to represent and control the orchestration of their complex crosschain actions, via their agent. --- Enters ERC-8211. Smart batching represents execution to make it: - Sufficiently concise for user-friendliness, unlocking the excellent UX of a single signature for many operations - Sufficiently flexible for agent-friendliness, with dynamic values obtained during runtime, and predicates gating execution as it happens, for further user security Smart batching is also friendly to composition with different accounts and different bridge models. This means using secure account and bridge primitives, safety is preserved even as the agent vibes its way through bigger smart batches with more complex steps. --- This is an invitation then to build new ways of interacting onchain and crosschain, with agents as guides and smart batching under the hood. Find more details in the linked post and on erc8211.com

"Finance is like essentially 50,000 different banks and credit unions that all have segregated infrastructure.” @Morpho cofounder @PaulFrambot on why crypto can reshape lending: “Ethereum is like one single database for the entire world, like one single computer for the entire world.” “Instead of going to a specific bank, you’re gonna come to the open blockchain … and then you’re gonna have the entire world quote you on your interest rate.”

Permissioned RWAs are currently underutilised. DeFi is moving to meet issuers’ requirements. This is the big opportunity and unlock currently underway, with large buy in from both sides. This will happen for instututions on Ethereum, as they prioritise reliability and liquidity. Some elements have to be permissioned. This still happens on publicly verifiable rails, with composability and privacy when required. RWA TVL dramatically lags stablecoin TVL - not for long.

Great work !

Today, the Linux Foundation announced it is launching the x402 Foundation with the contribution of the x402 protocol from Coinbase. As the neutral home for x402, the Foundation will advance the x402 protocol and help enable community-based innovation in open payments. Read more here: bit.ly/4sPYPo8

My chat with Amy Oldenburg, Head of Digital Asset Strategy at Morgan Stanley from @BlockworksDAS 2026 is live. We spoke on why TradFi isn't getting FOMO. They've been on this journey for years and we're just finally at the inflection point. Also, how despite token prices and mood being down, the regulatory landscape has never been clearer. Best time to be building.

notes on the rebranding of European Crypto Insitute into the European Ethereum Institute (@EuEthInstitute): the announcement – EUCI, active for 6 years in EU crypto policy, is rebranding as the European Ethereum Institute (EEI). new website, new team members, new scope - including the UK for the first time – the shift isn’t just cosmetic. the org is narrowing its focus from “all of crypto” to Ethereum specifically, which they argue is now the credibly neutral, sufficiently decentralised standard. – Ondřej Kovařík, former MEP, is joining as senior advisor. Ethereum Foundation is supporting the mission. domain: ethereum.Institute why Ethereum, why now – @josefje (new board member, former EF, @EthPrague organiser): there is one credibly neutral chain and it’s Ethereum. even the EU has effectively already picked it - EbSI (EU blockchain infrastructure) is EVM-compatible. time to stop hiding behind vague “blockchain” language and advocate for the stack directly – Florian Glatz: when EUCI started in 2020, it was fighting for all of crypto against undifferentiated regulation. six years later, it’s time to be honest - “we’re really Ethereum people at heart and always have been” – the Europe parallel: most of the business layer of the internet was built on US infrastructure, even though many foundational technologies came from Europe. “let’s not make the same mistake” what they’ve done and what’s coming – concrete past win: the carving out of DeFi from MiCA is partially credited to EUCI’s work. the Data Act now acknowledges how smart contracts actually function – current alert: the ECB published a paper on DeFi, DAOs and decentralization 10 days ago. the outcome “is not very positive.” the Institute sees this as exactly the kind of thing it needs to be in the room for – roadmap beyond finance: digital identity, qualified ledgers, DIDs, ZK-based identity systems. Ethereum as public infrastructure, not just financial rails - though current EU definitions of “qualified ledgers” are moving away from permissionless chains, which is a problem – member state engagement: national think tanks already exist in Czechia, Slovenia, Bulgaria and others. monthly calls with national representatives are being revived

@aztecnetwork Great work team :)

Alpha is live. After nearly a decade, the first feature-complete privacy stack on Ethereum is here. Developers can now build apps and contracts with ground-up customizable privacy, from execution to settlement. aztec.network/blog/announcin…

The Google quantum paper. The implications are not just technical. They are commercial. From my vantage, here is what changes. Every bank running due diligence on blockchain infrastructure has to ask whether the cryptography underneath it survives the next decade. The honest answer is… uncomfortable. When a bank selects core infrastructure, they are committing for seven to 10 years. At this point, any institution building on cryptography that could be obsolete by 2029 is taking on risk no compliance team will sign off on. For years now, quantum resistance was treated as a future problem. Something to migrate to eventually. That window just collapsed into a planning horizon. And migration is not simple. Retrofitting quantum resistant cryptography onto existing chains touches consensus, wallets, settlement logic. Every layer. The teams that treated this as something to bolt on later (which is many of them are going to struggle). This is why we built @0xMiden on STARKs. Hash based. Quantum resistant by design. Not because we predicted this paper, but because building financial infrastructure on cryptography with a known expiration date never made sense. What I'm hearing from institutional conversations confirms this. The agenda has shifted from questions about throughput to longevity. They ask about migration paths. They ask whether the team planned for this or is scrambling. Some will accelerate their quantum resistance roadmaps. Others will downplay the timeline. And some of us built for this moment from the beginning.

Ethereum is moving toward protocol-level Account Abstraction with a more structured transaction model. EIP-8141, planned as part of the Hegota upgrade, introduces protocol-native Account Abstraction (AA) through a new transaction type called “frame transactions,” an approach pioneered by projects like @0xMiden. A transaction is broken into multiple frames: an optional deployment frame to create the account if needed, a validation frame where authorization logic is defined, a paymaster validation frame that allows third-party gas sponsorship, and an execution frame where the actual state transition happens. This essentially makes txs super flexible with other schemes. You can define how a transaction is validated, how fees are handled, and what gets executed, all within a single structured flow. Instead of a single rigid transaction format, this introduces a modular pipeline where each stage is explicit and programmable at the protocol level.

Mastercard representative just said on a panel at EthCC that cards aren’t great for agentic commerce because of the demand for micropayments & they are seriously considering the massive change in demand profile. Kinda insane tbh