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All developers and founders eventually get rugged by their favorite platform. Then they become open, permissionless platform maxis.

Last week, the United States refused to participate in the UN’s review of the Global Compact on Migration. The United States objects to the Global Compact on Migration and UN efforts to facilitate replacement migration to the United States and our Western allies.

This is a strategic investment in the EVM ecosystem, excited to see where it leads 🔒

The principles & values of today's public education are the opposite of USA founders' intentions. Students must learn natural rights, liberty, and myriad dangers of govt power! Children also need strong moral foundations. Poor education is the root of a LOT of our problems.

No matter the poll, Bukele's approval rating is nearly always over 90%. In the last three polls, it's 93%, 93%, and 94%. I've never seen anything like this. We need to study this regime. The international community has massively underestimated the importance of public order.

@ethPandaOps created a benchmark to evaluate intelligence models on Ethereum protocol knowledge. This is a good step along the path of engraining the models more deeply into core development: ethiq.ethpandaops.io

One of the consequences of looking through the possible alternatives for a new Linux distro: I now believe that easy rollback is a thing that Cannot Be Unseen. In a good way! NixOS people can get a bit fanatical and weird about this, but I now think they're essentially correct. Once you grasp what it's like for your software installation's history to be a series of snapshot states, any one of which you can revert to at any time to back out of an update problem, it starts to seem silly and self-sabotaging to not have that. I don't know if NixOS or some other distribution fundamentally built around this concept is going to win. I do think we're going to see a trend towards package managers turning into system-snapshot managers. Setups functionally like pacman + snapper + limine will become the normal out of the box experience rather than optional extras. Because... Cannot Be Unseen. Once you know this is possible, why on Earth would you *not* do it?

@defiprime @donnoh_eth @ethPandaOps It’s great. If we can get the Ethereum agents to reach a point where the many and various trade offs and design considerations are readily explorabke by all, that will go a long way to improving the EIP pipeline and reducing key man risks.

@punk5736 @donnoh_eth @ethPandaOps ethereum knowledge evals matter more than people think. agents already sound confident while missing basic protocol edge cases

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@szeloof @atomic_semi Welcome to Texas 🤠

I’m thankful for 4 years in California . But, the Next Phase is in Texas. We shift our hiring focus to build huge operations in Austin, Texas. Join us ! The team is really great. @atomic_semi New 120,000 square feet HQ for R&D and production:

Gabriel's writing on how governance is evolving in the L2 ecosystem is clarifying. Several Stage 1 L2s are designed with de facto administrative boards without legal accountability. The Stage 1 L2 is going to be a stable category and needs to be setup correctly.

okay some of you don't understand how all these foundations and security councils work now and how they *should* work so let me put you on game if your answer to a question about L2 security is "the DAO constitution says x, y, z", you are not a serious person all legal obligations of most "foundations" are completely toothless because there are no shareholders to monitor and sue for misconduct, only a perfunctory "supervisor" who is usually the law firm (or an affiliate) that was selected and paid by the same people -- yes, I'm sure they will sue their own client! the foundation bylaws typically expressly say no duties to tokenholders or anyone else (chain depositors etc.) are owed by anyone the only exception is projects I work on because I feel "power without responsibility" is objectively worse than tradfi and most DAO/Foundation setups are utterly irresponsible when I worked for ZKsync helping design their security councils etc., we published EVERYTHING!!! everyone signed contracts, you can look them up and know *exactly* what their duties are--no "DAO constitutions", only contracts (will link in reply) most importantly, the DAO is able to sue misbehaving security members *without relying on any 'foundation directors'* or similar insiders, because the DAO can appoint its own Supervisor with independent legal authority to sue....without this, all legal obligations of a Foundation are toothless vis a vis the DAO/tokenholders no matter what they say!!! even if there are some (which usually there are not), it's extremely misleading to point to them as if they mean something, as there is no one independent with the ability to sue over them these are the psyops cooked up by "cryptolawyers"--they get paid millions to ensure tokenholders and depositors and users are utterly powerless and "team" is protected at all costs at this point Paypal's execs and board of directors have more "transparency and accountability" than most L2 councils--their contract terms must be published with the SEC, shareholders even get a 'say on pay' for their compensation and know all its terms, and shareholders can directly sue them for misconduct

@TrustlessState @LiquityProtocol

Bring back Single-Collateral DAI

Despite everything that's happened in recent days I'm as bullish the idea of decentralized finance as ever. That's not cope or me making light of current events, this KelpDAO exploit is ugly and still ongoing. It calls into question a lot of the core designs of DeFi, starting with how protocols appraise the risk of derivative and bridged assets. But if "shit blowing up in a crisis" was reason enough to abandon a financial primitive then there'd be no banking system. There'd also be no debt, equity, derivatives, or insurance. And there definitely wouldn't be any money, seeing how most of the currencies that have ever existed "blew up in a crisis" My bullishness on DeFi stems from a core belief that handing important decisions to code, cryptography, and consensus leads to a safer financial system than handing it over to blokes, bankers, and bureaucrats. But we need to be a lot better and a hell of a lot more prudent to achieve that vision.

The Venezuelan revival is underway, with force. There is a long and beautiful road ahead 🇻🇪 Thank you @POTUS, @marcorubio, and @MariaCorinaYA.

@yougogirl_eth Great work, that visualization is a hit

because of the revived interest in explain.worldcomputer.art i cleaned it up and added some lessons

Great anthropological lens on America 🇺🇸 from @palladiummag palladiummag.com/2026/04/16/the…

cairo is the first language where every program is provable by default. you write normal code, the runtime generates a proof of correct execution. that's like writing in Rust and getting memory safety without thinking about it. except it's computational integrity. devs don't care about zk. they care about what it gives them for free.