David L

@shawmakesmagic interesting

We replaced Privy with our own free open source option steward.fi The privy team have been very nice and supportive but ultimately their product cannot be integrated into open source projects without making every developer sign up, and it’s crazy expensive

@ChShersh ITMO spotted

I think y'all need to look at a proper CV for once

I've never seen anyone who lacked agency last in a crypto role more than a couple months. I expect the industry to remain that way - it's inherent to the technology and (consequentially) the mission. Startup recruiters will eventually catch onto that, I think.

OKAY HAD TO CALL THIS OUT Been hearing this a lot from friends interviewing at AI companies: the moment recruiters see “crypto” on a resume, they instantly become skeptical. And honestly, I get it. Crypto attracted a lot of unserious people during the hype cycles. That definitely damaged the industry’s reputation. But completely dismissing people because they worked in crypto is also a mistake. I’ve spent 8 years around this industry and met some incredibly smart people, both technical and non-technical. On the engineering side, people had to work on distributed systems, smart contracts, real money infrastructure, security problems most startups never have to think about DeFi especially forced engineers to move fast while constantly dealing with exploits, attacks, and entirely new categories of risk. The industry changed insanely fast, so people had to learn fast and ship under pressure. And on the non-technical side: yeah, I understand why crypto BD has a weird reputation sometimes. There were definitely people who thought: partying at conferences + farming Telegram groups + saying “I know this guy” = business development. But that’s only one side of it. There are also genuinely hardworking operators in crypto who deeply understand: tech, partnerships, GTM, incentives, sales funnels, internet culture, community psychology and distribution A lot of people in crypto had to build, market, sell, adapt, and survive at the same time. And honestly, that creates very high-agency people. Crypto has both talented people and absolute weirdos. Just like every other industry. So putting a blanket label on everyone coming from crypto is probably the wrong way to evaluate talent.

@hummusonrails @arbitrum I transact with stablecoins on Arbitrum on a daily basis, and intend to keep doing so.

10 million stablecoin holders across @arbitrum. Use cases range from simple bill payments, to agentic commerce. Stablecoins make so much possible, and with $1 trillion of stablecoin activity, Arbitrum is the home for stablecoins.

@Rubyto Don't really have an opinion yet, but the campaign has been really fun to watch (pun intended) so far. It might be doing exactly what they intended (my guess is essentially just brand awareness for both AP and Swatch among younger millenials and gen-z).

we're all gonna be so disappointed with this swatch x AP collab, i can feel it

Web3 Devs Underground (@Web3_Devs) is a really neat org based here in TLV. They organize informative - and highly technical - online and offline events with top builders and academics in Web3 and cryptography. This upcoming online event would be a great first watch.

@ZoeCatherineF It's great to see how resilient WebZero has become.

It's been an awful year for most, especially agencies on Polkadot, most of which no longer exist. There's a lot of talk about chain evangelism, but tribalism won't save you when they suddenly cut you out of the picture. When WebZero hosted other sponsors at events, some people questioned it: "why do they support other chains when they're with Polkadot?" Because we don't believe in autocracy, we're promoting blockchain for god's sake. Get other clients.

@tarasjeans men use temu?

temu is just shein for men

@hummusonrails Marketing assets, mini-apps & landing pages without collection of personal data or log-in -> fine to be vibe-coded imo I think/hope that's what he meant.

"... non-technical teams shipping production code." That line should cause everyone to be deeply worried. People looking to exploit systems are not going away. The problems of scalability are not disappearing. Vibe coded mission-critical production systems cannot be the future of financial rails.

@hummusonrails Useful post. Been discussing this kind of agent-minded optimization a lot lately with @__hndrx__

Cloudflare's new site checks across 5 dimensions: - Discoverability - Content accessibility - Bot access control - Protocol discovery ... and.. Commerce 💱 What does it even mean to be ready for agentic commerce?

We've all run to Lighthouse to check our sites for accessibility, performance, and SEO scoring. Have you checked your agentic readiness scoring, yet? .@Cloudflare launched isitagentready[dot]com last week, and it may be the next Lighthouse you need to bookmark.

Fraud proofs have been on the @helloSQD roadmap for a long time. They've been needed and requested by SQD customers from the start. Now they are here. Pay attention to Snoopy - I expect this cryptographic primitive to be widely adopted.

@hummusonrails חג שמח

Happy Independence Day! 🇮🇱

@aaron0v demand for onchain data just coming slower than anticipated, but I do feel confident it is coming

Yep. Indexing on Solana is expensive and no one wants to pay much for it.

@yuvalxyz I will always care about RPCs, habibi

Counting down 24hrs till people stop caring about RPCs again

@hummusonrails One can always add their preference to the prompt!

Now that everyone is prompting code, is it time to retire this great debate?

@antoniogm For me, the nostalgia lies with jambon-beurre. My meal of choice when rushing around Paris in my late teens. Owing to religious obligations taken on since then, I'll never have one again. I'd like to think the memories only shimmer brighter, as a result.

A sandwich that reminds you of that spring afternoon in the 90s in the Campo Santa Margherita in Venice, splitting a prosciutto sandwich with the Danish girl you met in the hostel, the world just shimmering with adventure and possibility. La Panineria, West Village

@BFreshHB agree, but some mornings are flat white mornings though

cortado > cappuccino i don't make the rules ☕️

@ashira_solomon It's not too much fire that makes us machmir. It's that we don't know where the lines are, so we default to machmir.

I find that converts and Baal Teshuva’s together is too much fire! They usually become soooo machmir. People usually assume this is the best match but I don’t always think that’s the case.

@ariel_haivri this is going to be my first kitniyot year, excited

There’s nothing to “abolish.” Kitniyot is mutar. The MOST you would need to do is Hatarat Nedarim. I did this last year. I eat soft Matzot, hummus, tehina, and rice on Pesach. It’s great. Take the Kitniyot pill, bros.

@Ozery lookin' fresh

Stuck at home war make man feel stachy