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Normies is an art project but the only art is not the visual. We do it on the Ethereum blockchain. Check our docs normies.art/docs Check our API api.normies.art It will make sense even if you feed these links to Claude. Everything is connected to each other. - Starts with being fully on-chain - Then a canvas allows holders to burn and customize their Normies while making their NFTs more rare and reducing the supply. - All connected to our API, all public, free for everyone. - Agent registration is also thanks to being fully on-chain. All data and artwork is on the blockchain not in IPFS. - Arena, the game to win pixels will also be built thanks to our API - Pixel market? Same. Action points you have can be sold or bought from Pixel Market. The economy layer of Normies. It’s all together is a form of art.

Some of my perspective on where the @ethereumfndn is going. First of all, this is only my own view. The board is not just me, and I have no extra special powers on the board that the other board members do not. @aerugoettinea is the one executing much of this transition. My input has been largely on technical questions. The board is in the process of expanding, and my own power within the org will continue to decrease, which is honestly what I want. The 2025 era brought many important improvements to EF and its ability to execute. Many issues were resolved, and EF continues to benefit from its improved efficiency and greater focus on concrete goals to this day. And so with those problems resolved, early this year, the largest remaining hole that I perceived was something different nagging at me: I would regularly spot people saying things like "vitalik says these beautiful things about ethereum needing to be decentralized, and have privacy, and be a sanctuary technology, but why do the EF's actions not reflect that?" Now, you may have been hearing something different. You may not have been sensing a feeling of crisis at all, and maybe were hearing people saying that finally we were taking execution and BD seriously and the main task for us is to keep going that way and be even better and faster. Then probably there is genuine difference between you and me, in what kinds of criticism I take most seriously, and what kinds of critics through their criticism are most able to make me feel pain. As an analogy, let's briefly switch over to a different domain. One belief you can have about Google is that it is a success story, and has brought a lot of good to humanity in organizing the world's information. Another belief you can have about Google is that they had a beautiful idealistic beginning, but at some point the corruption of mainstream corporate attitudes seeped in, and they slowly bit by bit completely abandoned the "don't be evil" slogan. My belief on Google specifically is probably somewhere between the two. BUT, if you had taken me back in time to ~2008, and offered me a button to press to make Google one or two standard deviations more "dogmatic", eg. give Richard Stallman permanent veto power over some key policies, I would immediately press it. Why? Because a choice for one company is not a choice for the world, or even one country. Google existed and exists in the context of a technology industry generally drifting away from early idealistic don't-be-evil roots and toward greed for financial gain, totalizing visions of accelerated superintelligence, infiltration by sociopaths, and craven capitulation to (or worse, active participation in) government pressure for ideological control, surveillance and war. And so *one company* doing something different, positioning itself to be what George Bernard Shaw calls the Unreasonable Man, resisting the trend of the times, would have been better for freedom, balance of power and stability of society as a whole, than *all* large companies bending to dominant trends. This is a part of my version of pluralism. This line of thinking is not just mine, but I also is not too far off from what Aya and others had in mind with the Mandate. Now how does this all get to the role of the EF? EF is not a "center of Ethereum", rather EF is "one node, with a defined purpose, alongside other nodes". We've always said that the EF should be the latter, but many in the Ethereum ecosystem (and even within the EF) wanted us to be the former. Now, we are taking action to ensure that we will be the latter. This is particularly important because EF is a limited organization, with limited resources and limited organizational capacity. The EF has only ~0.16% of all ETH (less than many other individual ETH holders), whereas among other blockchains it's common for "the central foundation" to have 10-50%. Fiscally, the EF was originally designed to fulfill a limited work scope defined in the token sale docs and other pre-launch materials (building the chain software; getting through Frontier, Homestead, Metropolis, Serenity), which was fully completed in 2022; it was not designed to be an eternal steward. And so today, the EF is choosing to use its remaining resources to pursue longevity over breadth (yes, this means we sell less ETH). The EF focuses *specifically* on those activities critical to the success of ethereum as a censorship/capture-resistant, open, private and secure system, that would not happen otherwise. This means making hard choices, and in some cases even activities that we highly approve of and people that we highly respect becoming outside of the EF. People of great technical talent, public respect and even alignment with the mission and CROPS being outside of the EF is in fact necessary if we want important tasks to be able to attract outside capital. This also means the EF taking opinionated stands culturally. This is all intended in cooperation with all other parts of ethereum. We recognize that many other parts of the ethereum world highly respect CROPS and related values. But highly respecting is not the same as choosing to specialize and totally dedicate to a domain (Compare in a different domain: I think reducing animal cruelty is important, and I like vegan food, but am not full unconditional vegan myself) EF is still in a transition period, and we expect its new long-term form to stabilize over the next few months. What are the guiding principles of this new form? Again, I am only one person, but I can give my answer from a technical perspective (there are also critical non-technical aspects). At the core, *Ethereum must be impressive*. We are living in an age of highly intelligent AI and all kinds of other technological acceleration. "Status quo EVM, with a hard fork or two a year to optimize for short-term needs of users" is not interesting. To some, "impressive" means: 250ms latency and 1M TPS. I think Ethereum trying to go that route is a mistake. Being as fast and as scalable as possible, and only a small epsilon more decentralized than the others, is a route to mediocrity, and if we try it we will lose. I think Ethereum should scale. But I think Ethereum should strive the hardest to be deeply impressive in a different dimension: the CROPS dimension. This means things like: * Provably bug-free Ethereum. This is a goal that all cybersecurity researchers would have thought is absurd and impossible, up until roughly 6 months ago. Now, it's on the cusp of being possible, thanks to AI-assisted formal verification. So we should be frontrunners in doing this. * Available chain consensus. Ethereum is, and with lean consensus will cotninue to be, the ONLY chain that has both (i) traditional-BFT style properties that it's safe under asynchrony up to a high level of fault tolerance, and (ii) the bitcoin PoW-style property that under synchrony it's safe up to 49% attackers. As far as I can tell, literally no other chain has this or is planning for it; bitcoin goes for (ii) only and most other chains go for (i) only. Some will remember I fought hard for this, Unreasonably insisting that it is not OK for ethereum to rely on social consensus and hard forks to rescue ethereum from 34% of nodes going offline. It's OK for chains like hyperledger, bnb, solana, tempo, etc. It's not OK for bitcoin or ethereum or eg. zcash. * Intermediary minimization. The fact that smart contract wallets, protocols like railgun, etc have to send transactions through intermediaries to get included onchain is honestly embarrassing, and it's a constant point of fragility. Hence the work on FOCIL and EIP-8141 (and 7701 and years of work before) to make transaction sending intermediary-minimized with public mempool and strong inclusion properties, in a truly general-purpose way, that covers not just eg. secp256r1, but also privacy protocols and much more. Kohaku is pushing intermediary minimization at the user layer, pulling Ethereum away from the dystopian status quo world where our wallets don't even verify the chain, send our private data out to a dozen third-party servers, and toward a brighter CROPS future. Some of these goals are Unreasonable - maybe Ethereum would be "fine" getting only 50% of the way - what if we depend on intermediaries, but make it easy to switch? But going 50% of the way would not make Ethereum Deeply Impressive in the CROPS way. So we push for 100%. Fortunately all these goals are compatible with high TPS, this is a major focus of research (esp. on scaling the state). Well-designed L2s can also help, especially L2s optimized for specific applications (eg. high-volume trading, privacy...). These goals are even compatible with significantly lower slot times, thanks to Raul's work on erasure-coded P2P, and many other optimizations. The most high-value "product" of the ethereum blockchain, financially speaking, is ETH the asset. Ethereum secures $250 billion of ETH. The types of properties of Ethereum that I mentioned above are very good for ETH the asset. Nearly 90% of my net worth is in ETH, and most of the remainder is ~$40m of onchain fiat of which every dollar has already been allocated for some open-source biotech or software or hardware initiative. That said, there are aspects of supporting ETH the asset - *necessary* aspects even - that are outside the scope of the EF. This is where we need other heroes (some of whom hold more ETH than the EF does) to step in and help. EF has been recently thinking more about how it will relate to other such organizations, and give them needed initial support. EF will be a smaller ship than in previous years, a more opinionated one - in some cases more opinionated in ways that might be difficult to comprehend - but a longer-lasting one, and one suited to making sure that ethereum brings something meaningful to the world. We are grateful to all those inside and outside the EF who are helping to make this happen.

Gold is the alpha. @DedGorgez

GM JM & HAPPY MONDAY to all you legends of Web3 and our Pixel Journey ☕🌅🛸 May this new week be strong, full of momentum, and another chapter in the long saga we’ve been writing together for now over 1042 days. We’ve come a long way. From the very first Pixal PFP mints to where we stand today .. through every brutal dip, every loud doubter, every quiet month of building in silence .. we never stopped showing up. We burned supply, we built real utility, we delivered consistent rewards, we bridged chains, and we turned a wild idea into a living, breathing ecosystem that keeps growing stronger with every passing month. That’s not luck. That’s conviction. And now? We’re stepping into the next phase. New dApps, new upgrades, new frontiers .. the chapters we’ve been preparing for so long are finally starting to unfold. The foundation is solid. The community is unbreakable. And the best part of this story is still ahead. So grab your coffee, lock in, and let’s make this Monday the start of something special. The Journey continues. The fire is still burning. We’re just getting warmed up. Happy Monday, beautiful fam. Let’s make this week count. Pixel on. Journey on. LFGrow .. 🌅❤️ #PixelJourney #PXJ #PxDie #HappyMonday #1000DaysStrong #NextChapterLoading #JourneyForever #LFGrow

Happy Monday Fam... The projects that survive won’t be the ones screaming the loudest. They’ll be the ones people genuinely come back to every day. That’s why I’ve been paying attention to what teams like @FIH_USD1, @3look_io, and @useTria are building. FIH understands something many ecosystems miss: attention is a currency. But attention only lasts when people feel involved. Most tokens ask communities to “hold.” @FIH_USD1 seems focused on giving communities reasons to participate. Prediction markets, meme culture, onchain activity, not as empty noise, but as tools to keep the ecosystem alive and socially active. That shift matters more than people realize. Then you look at 3look. What stood out to me wasn’t just the rewards system, it was the philosophy behind it. The internet has become obsessed with numbers: followers, impressions, vanity metrics. But real influence has always been about trust and consistency. @3look_io rewards creators for authentic engagement instead of forcing them to perform for algorithms. That feels healthier. More sustainable. More human. And Tria solves another important piece of the puzzle: accessibility. In many parts of the world, people experience the internet entirely through their phones. They don’t want complicated dashboards or ten different apps to manage their money. @useTria combining wallet, trading, and card functionality into one mobile-first experience feels practical in a way Web3 desperately needs. Simple products scale. Human-centered products last. Feels like the next phase of crypto won’t be won by the most hype… but by the products that quietly become part of people’s daily lives. 🚀

Happy Monday @NomismaNetwork fam ☀️ New week, new energy, time to keep showing up, stay consistent, and enjoy the journey. Also keeping an eye on @quipnetwork and @TheARCTERMINAL lately. Always fun to follow different builders and communities across Web3. Wishing everyone a productive and positive week ahead

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Good Morning Folks. The AMM era was a necessary compromise, but it's become a race to the bottom for LPs. What caught my attention about @dango is that they're building a proper CLOB on their own L1, not another AMM fork with new paint. Real order books, real price discovery, and UX that actually feels like 2025: usernames, passkeys, no signature spam. That's how you make DeFi fun again , by making it work like people expect markets to work. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The next internet won't be won by who has the best LLM wrapper. It'll be won by whoever builds the system that learns with you, not about you. @TheARCTERMINAL is betting on an agentic web where cross-ecosystem tools work for the user and data ownership isn't a marketing slide. Everything else is just yesterday's permissions with AI slapped on top. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Most chains force developers to build complex dApps on a key-value model, then layer off-chain indexing on top to make it usable. Nomisma's approach is fundamentally different: Rell brings SQL-like semantics on-chain, native tables, joins, and relational queries compiling directly to bytecode. Combined with NomismaOS handling transactions as database updates, you can build order books and AI agents with fully on-chain infrastructure. No middleware, no indexing workarounds. @NomismaNetwork ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The crypto social space is drowning in vanity metrics. Everyone chases follower counts while real influence gets buried. Wallchain's AttentionFi ecosystem actually measures what matters: genuine connections, long-term consistency, and onchain credibility. X Score maps real influence signals while Quacks rewards quality contributions. That's how you align creator growth with actual human impact, not bot engagement. @wallchain ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The creator economy in crypto usually means "post and hope for tips." @3look_io is more structured: campaigns have fixed reward pools, clear narratives, and track eligible posts automatically. You join, publish within the rules, and earn based on qualified engagement from relevant audiences. Pre-TGE you get points, Post-TGE you claim stablecoins or native tokens directly. Daily distribution means you're not waiting months to see if you "won." Transparent mechanics beat vague promise pools.

Consistency inside Wallchain ecosystems strengthens ecosystem memory because repeated visibility continuously keeps contributors embedded within long-term community awareness naturally over time. Wallchain proves that sustained consistency, recurring quack activity, and long-term engagement together form the foundation of ecosystem mindshare, where repeated participation continuously evolves into deeper recognition, stronger awareness, and lasting community presence. . @wallchain ecosystems show that long-term growth is fundamentally driven by consistency, where repeated engagement over time naturally builds stronger recognition, deeper familiarity, and more stable mindshare across the community The more stable the engagement, the more meaningful each quack becomes, because repetition transforms simple activity into recognizable ecosystem presence. Likewise @3look_io making CultureFi great for creators