eric siu 🐈‍⬛

I am stepping into the role of interim co-ED @ethereumfndn to continue the progress that Tomasz has made over the last year. Tomasz brought an energy and urgency that the EF needed at a critical time, and I join the community in thanking him for his work on behalf of the Foundation and the network. This task isn't something that I take on lightly, knowing the weight of responsibility of the role through seeing it up close for some time, but it is one that I am prepared to handle. I've served in a management position at the EF over many years, working closely with Hsiao-Wei, Tomasz, Josh Stark, Danny Ryan, Aya, and Vitalik at different points in time. My focus has been deliberately on illegible but essential work, helping management try to make well-informed decisions, working with EF's team leads, considering budgets, articulating strategy, setting priorities, and more. The decisions I make will be guided by a principled insistence on the properties of what we're building (censorship resistance, open source, privacy, security). These properties are what make Ethereum relevant and competitive, and they are the foundation of Ethereum's value proposition to the world and everything the world builds on it; just as Ether is the foundational store-of-value that underpins every transaction across it; and just as both are indispensable to the EF's own treasury. The mandate of the EF is to make sure that real permissionless infrastructure, cypherpunk at its core, is what gets built. Ethereum should outlast us, and it has been our job from the beginning to make sure it is robust enough to do so. I, and the rest of the EF, will work alongside other members of the community - core protocol contributors, researchers and client implementers, auditors and whitehats, incident responders, spec authors, solo stakers and validator operators, node runners, MEV gremlins, rollup and L2 teams, bridge and interoperability integrators, UX and product builders, infra providers and tooling maintainers, educators, community organizers, forum crews, lurkers, and free software advocates, grant-givers and culture-makers, artists, memers, cypherpunks, cyberanarchists, Landian accelerationists, financepunks, femboys, soundcloud rappers, transgenders, disinformationalists, cyborgs, anons, revolutionaries, shitposters, trolls, federal lists, hypebeasts, pirates, preppers, the bros, incels - to make it last 1000 years or more.

This is amazing. I've always believed in organizations that are truth seeking and accept mistakes. My biggest criticism of Ethereum was that it lacked a feedback loop for acknowledging mistakes and improving decision making. I think this post shows we're moving in that direction.

This is now official, we proposed FOCIL (EIP-7805) as a headliner for Hegota 🎉 👇🔗

1/ LLMs encode the past through training data. Prediction markets aggregate beliefs about the future through economic incentives. LLMs reason from what was. Prediction markets price what's coming. Together: a complete epistemic system. I call it cognitive finance.

trustlessness is not a nice to have. it’s the entire point. kudos to @ethinteroplayer team and contributors for making ethereum cypherpunk again

We are excited to share our new report on stablecoin ramps – published under a grant from @EthereumFndn. Stablecoins move money faster & cheaper than traditional channels. But the real bottleneck to adoption is the cost & quality of on/off ramps. Read the report below. ⬇️

Stablecoins are now law in the US. We need to use this opportunity to build more distributed and resilient systems, rather than double down on entirely centralized constructions Excited to welcome @aplus to the game 🔥

@tlsnotary @EFDevcon @heeckhau what are latest performance benchmarks on TLSN?

We’re organizing a zkTLS Day at Devconnect. A full day of talks, workshops, demos and collaboration around proving and verifying web data. If you’re building zkTLS tooling or building on top of it, we’d love to hear from you. Reach out to @heeckhau to get involved.

@lightclients that’s $100M after slippage if dumped in one go. still doable

allocations from tokenomist.ai/filecoin

Protocol Labs - 210m $FIL Filecoin Foundation - 100m $FIL Even at today's prices, that is over $600m. Seems like they should have enough to continue funding libp2p? Am I missing something?

@lightclients @tempo sharks, there has to be another way!

Is there an amount of scale that Ethereum could provide that would convince projects like @tempo to build on top of mainnet instead of adjacent? My intuition says no, since there is a lot of value in owning the stack. But I want to hear the other takes.

@ShabbatQueen idk works for me have u tried this?

What is the most effective treatment for smartphone addiction?

ETHEREALIZE'S NEXT CHAPTER We were born as a marketing and BD arm for Ethereum. Today, we're excited to announce that we’re expanding our mission: Etherealize is building for the next era of finance—where Wall Street merges with Ethereum. (1/12)

@ethereumfndn do you have rss

0/ 'From Whiteboard to Mainnet' premieres Aug 27. This new podcast by Columbia CDFT & Ethereum Foundation’s Academic Secretariat explores open problems and pairs academic researchers with ecosystem contributors to discuss.

@malekanoms @0xBalloonLover yep thanks for saying it. mmm musical chairs!

Some composite thoughts on DATs, which I wanted to get down while the going was still good. 1 - The most logical mNAV for any DAT to trade at is slightly negative to deeply negative. 2 - While (in theory) there is a way for a DAT to add sustained value, we haven't seen anyone do it yet, and the vast majority won't. 3- Bitcoin is the hardest treasury asset for a DAT to add value to because it's already ubiquitous and you can't do much with it. 4 - Leverage is not a source of alpha, it's beta, and most likely misapplied by public company CEOs cosplaying as hedge fund managers. 5 - The main motivation for launching an alt-coin DAT is to give exit liquidity to founders/Labs/Foundations/VCs, sometimes via "locked" tokens, proving once and for all how farcical that concept always was, and how little scruples many in this industry have. Remember that when the underperformance of some altcoins accelerate - they sold already. 6 - Public companies have significant operating costs and executives get high compensation. Who do you think pays for that? 7 - The asset management deals some of these sign (which I didn't even know about until the great work by @BitMEXResearch) seem shady. 8 - A lot of the people doing these--the investors, token contributors, managers, etc--behave the way somebody does when they expect a high return with little risk. That's always a red flag.

@web3privacy @ethereum @fsf @hwwonx @tkstanczak amazing. well done!

@ethereum @fsf this @randomishwalk, @hwwonx, @tkstanczak

Absolute legend joins @ethereum Cypherpunk Congress - Richard Stallman! Hacktivist, inventor of copyleft, GNU, founder of @fsf, GPL author. Free as in "freedom": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_S… congress.web3privacy.info RSVP lu.ma/u2sw5kpv

@debamit007 @ajwarner90 @doganeth_en

@ajwarner90 Hope , this is what you are looking for

Can someone make the David Beckham meme where when people say it is easier to operate an L1 than an L2 they are really just talking about a permissioned POA chain?

Welcome home.

@apolynya @solana oh hiya poly — why are in this hellscape of an app?

When they say the future of markets runs at 22 TPS but NASDAQ handles 2k trades per second

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