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With the support of @EFetheverywhere, we’re launching the Buenos Aires Ethereum Community Hub, hosted at our new Aleph Hub. We’re proud to host the first Ethereum Community Hub in Latin America! Argentina continues to position itself as a growing and strategic node in the global Ethereum ecosystem.

@wslyvh 🫡

Trying to be more active building in public again! Working on a few ideas in parallel, open-source, privacy-first. Will share more of my indie hacker journey: the process, the wins, the dead ends. Let's go! 🚀

@fede_intern Yes please

i'm thinking if we should show some people in buenos aires the crazy cool things we're doing with claude + codex + open source LLMs + our experience in software engineering + hardware + math + products. we've been doing things i don't see anybody even try yet. let me know if you're around the city and we can show you some cool things

@Etherealize_io @DeFi_Dad Nice

Etherealize CEO Vivek Raman explains Ethereum in testimony to Congress “We founded Etherealize to transform US capital markets for the 21st century. Our team is a powerhouse of Wall Street veterans combined with the best technologists across the Ethereum ecosystem. We are ready to push forward financial innovation in the US. Previously, I traded credit on Wall Street at Morgan Stanley, UBS, Deutsche Bank, and Nomura . . . Much of the system still operates like it’s in the stone age. Today it can take days to send money and weeks to finalize trades. Hundreds of billions of dollars of value still flow through paper, faxes, and manual spreadsheets. Now, at last, a one-time upgrade to the US capital markets is sitting right in front of us.” “Public blockchains allow for programmable dollars that settle in seconds, global ledgers that allow real-time regulatory oversight, and global access that expands opportunity far beyond Wall Street . . . The private sector already sees this. BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, Deutsche Bank, UBS, and many more are already building on Ethereum because it is the most secure and most decentralized settlement layer in the world. As a result, $140 billion of stablecoins, $10 billion of real, useful tokenized assets and institutional grade applications live on Ethereum. All of this happened despite regulatory uncertainty. With the Clarity Act, we can 100x that innovation.” “Decentralization means the network — just like the internet — is owned by none and accessible by all. For Ethereum, it means over 1 million validators around the world independently verifying transactions and ensuring trust without a single point of failure. What does decentralization mean in institutional terms? It means resilience, maximum security, and minimized counterparty risk.”

If you are in #Ethereum. The @EFprotocol account needs more followers.

@maxminted @crecimientoar Vamooooooos

¿Quién para? @crecimientoar

@pbrody 🫡

So, momentous news to share today: it's my last day at EY. I'm sad but also super excited for the future. I'm incredibly proud of the team I've built up, and I'm very grateful for the kindness of all the people at EY over the last decade. I'm also proud and happy to share that Clare Adelgren, my deputy for the last few years, is taking on the role of Global Blockchain Leader. I cannot imagine a person better prepared for this role. There's lots more cool stuff happening for me, and I'll share some of that in the near future once it's fully baked.

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@clairekart @tkstanczak @EthereumDenver Pleasantly surprised to hear this!

As long as @EthereumDenver host a conference, I’ll be there. It’s my favorite conf of the year. It’s not the biggest, it’s the highest signal. The programming is always top notch, I actually see all my old crypto friends, I learn by watching the talks. It’s not trying to be a Token, or a Breakpoint, or a Consensus. It’s an ETHDenver.

Defi is a central part of the value that Ethereum provides. Financial empowerment is a central part of what it means to have agency and freedom in our current world. Finance is far from the only thing that Ethereum is good for, but it is an important thing. This post discusses how the Ethereum Foundation is approaching defi. Defi today makes the world's best savings, risk management and wealth-building opportunities permissionlessly available worldwide. We need to build on that. Ethereum's early defi era was great because it dared to dream and innovate and come up with totally new paradigms (eg. AMMs). Defi tomorrow will bring back that spirit. Don't just "make a better stablecoin", dig a layer deeper, and think about the underlying problem (risk management, hedging one's future expenses), and come up with an even better solution. But also, as the EF, we are not interested in supporting "onchain finance" or even "defi" indiscriminately. We have a specific vision of what we want to see out of defi: permissionless, open-source, private, security-first global finance that maximizes people's control over their own assets, minimizes centralized chokepoints and trusted third parties, and democratizes risk management and wealth building (the two key goals of finance according to modern portfolio theory) as well as payments. We want protocols that pass the walkaway test: that keep working even if the original team suddenly disappears without warning (or even: becomes hostile / compromised without warning). Bringing this vision to reality will inevitably take a lot of work. Defi is a complex toolchain, including various onchain components, user-side offchain components (ie. wallet, local agent...), other offchain components, etc. The things that we care about include areas like: * Improving security of defi through "traditional" means, eg. audits, standards, wallet-side safeguards * Improving security of defi through "new" means, eg. AI-assisted formal verification, user-side agents as safeguards * Oracle security and decentralization (there's A LOT of skeletons in the closet here, we as an ecosystem really need to point a big eye of sauron at it for a while) * Privacy. Both privacy-preserving payments, and privacy of more complex use cases (eg. what does it mean to have a maximally privacy-preserving CDP? there are clearly benefits in reducing liquidation-sniping risk, but it requires hard tech to get there) * Open source, and improving the licensing / forkability situation in defi Ethereum is a permissionless protocol, and nothing stops people from deploying insecure protocols, protocols that enshrine ultimately unneeded centralized trust in the name of convenience, or dopamine-maximizing gambleslop. However, we *are* interested in working with anyone aligned to make permissionless, open-source, intermediary-minimizing and security and user-agency-maximizing defi ecosystem as strong as possible, so that it can be not just individuals and institutions' first choice in Ethereum, but also a globally compelling way to manage funds for anyone who needs its properties.

Wow huge pull for EF! Congrats @CharlieStLouis & @ivangbi_ & to all of us

1/ Today the EF is sharing a bit more about how it's approaching DeFi going forward:

@parithosh_j @GiulioRebuffo @ralexstokes @ethereumfndn @adietrichs @vdWijden @raulvk @barnabemonnot @lightclients @fredrik0x @soispoke @samcmAU 👀

@GiulioRebuffo @ralexstokes @ethereumfndn @adietrichs @vdWijden @raulvk @barnabemonnot @lightclients @fredrik0x @soispoke @samcmAU is cooking on that end already!

Announcing three new tracks for our work at @ethereumfndn Protocol this year! tl;dr: - Scale (@adietrichs, @vdWijden, @raulvk) - Improve UX (@barnabemonnot, @lightclients) - Harden the L1 (@fredrik0x, @parithosh_j, @soispoke) 1/...

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Excited to watch Tomasz "back in the ring" as a builder & entrepreneur in the ecosystem. I hope we see more of that at the EF as the quasi-government of Ethereum. A healthy rotation of internal & external players brings fresh energy & perspective. Could help EF avoid the ivory tower of academia or the career bureaucrats of government

Wow big news re: @ethereumfndn leadership! Thank you for your service @tkstanczak. It was impressive to witness the rapid progress you made at the EF. I appreciated your quick-thinking, decisive action, and open communication throughout the brief time we worked together… it’s what EF needed. I didn’t agree with every decision but I strongly believe the directions set & personnel shifts were overwhelmingly positive. Bravo Congrats @aerugoettinea! Few may know Bastian. He mostly operated behind-the-scenes (certainly not an ego who demands the spotlight) but after working together for years I can say he’s one of the most intelligent and high-integrity people I’ve met. Someone I often looked to for counsel throughout my years at the EF. Wishing you the best The EF is in great hands. Looking forward to the future for Ethereum. Upward & onward

You do not have to agree with me on which applications are and are not corposlop to use Ethereum. You do not have to agree with me on what trust assumptions are acceptable in which situations to use Ethereum. You do not have to agree with me on political topics to use Ethereum. You do not have to agree with my views on defi, decentralized social or privacy-preserving payments to use Ethereum. You do not have to agree with my views on AI to use Ethereum. You do not have to agree with my view that Berlin has the best food in Europe, suits and ties should be expunged from our culture, and YYYY-MM-DD is the best date format to use Ethereum. And you do not have to agree with me on any one of those above things to agree with me on any other. I do not claim to represent the whole Ethereum ecosystem. Ethereum is a decentralized protocol. The whole concept of "permissionlessness" and "censorship resistance" is that you are free to use Ethereum in whatever way you want, without caring about what I think, or even what anyone else in the Ethereum Foundation or even any Ethereum client developer thinks. But on the flipside, if I say that your application is corposlop, I am not "censoring" you. This has always been the flip side of the grand bargain of free speech: I am not free to shut you down, but I am free to criticize you, much as you are free to criticize me. In fact, it is *necessary* that we do this. The modern world does not call out for pretend neutrality, where a person puts on a suit and claims to be equally open to all perspectives from all of humanity and not have their own opinions. Neutrality is for protocols (like HTTP, like Bitcoin, like Ethereum), and neutrality within some scope is for some institutions. The modern world calls out for the courage to clearly state one's principles - including stating principles by pointing to negative examples, that is by criticizing the things in the world that are incompatible with one's principles - and work with those with aligned goals to build the metaverse within which those principles are taken as a baseline. Such things inherently cannot be constrained to just the layer of the protocol: any principle you have will naturally lead to conclusions, not just about how the protocol should be built, but also what should be built upon it. Furthermore, any such principle will have consequences that go beyond technology, and reach into specific questions within the larger social world. This should not be avoided. Valuing something like "freedom", and then acting as though it has consequences on technology choices, but is completely separate from everything else about our lives, is not pragmatic - it is hollow. The inevitable converse of this is that (i) a decentralized protocol must not be viewed as belonging to only one metaverse, and (ii) the borders of a metaverse are fuzzy: it is possible, and indeed it is the normal case, to align with any one on some axes and not on other axes. Linux is a technology of user empowerment and freedom, Linux is also the base layer of a lot of the world's corposlop. It's almost certainly the base layer of many things that I think are good, and you think are bad, and vice versa. Hence, if you care about Linux because you care about user empowerment and freedom, it is not enough to just build the kernel, we must also build a full-stack ecosystem compatible with those values, and explicitly accept that this is not the only way that people will use Linux, but it is one way that must be built and must be available. Ethereum is similar. Milady.

5 Steps to Make Ethereum Driven by LLMs 1/ Validator operators delegate to agents the decision-making on accepting/rejecting network upgrades and setting the parameters. 2/ EIP authors use LLMs to create and submit EIPs. 3/ EIP editors use LLMs to review and approve EIPs. 4/ All Core Devs use LLMs to moderate meetings and vote on EIP inclusion and spec changes. 5/ Client teams generate codebases from specs. It is important for Ethereum to be the first chain to be LLM-driven; it is an advantage akin to being the first PoW chain. Ethereum has a natural advantage because it already has an existing spec that LLMs were trained on, and a very transparent governance process that LLMs can be trained on (all past ACD calls, EIP processes, open discussions) and participate in. The EF recently hired tooling coordinators and established a dAI team. Between ACD moderators, tooling coordinators, Ethereum Cat Herders, EIP editors, and the dAI team, there should be a high-priority process on: 1/ Ensuring that agentic participation in the EIP submission process is simple and functional. 2/ EIP editors have tooling for AI review of all EIPs. 3/ There is AI support for real-time ACD moderation (connected to chat, analyzing the discussion content in real time, and making suggestions). 4/ Expanding forkcast.org over time to be a real-time, listener-context-aware broadcast of the Ethereum governance process. 5/ Establish a cross-client team of core devs that would work on an AI-generated client codebase driven by specs only. Such a client should be fully formally verified, test-covered, and developed in parallel to other codebases until it becomes a canonical client codebase.