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@AxiomAuroracda Love the vision but we still need to solve the UX and scaling issues before mass adoption happens. Most people still don't want to manage their own keys 🔑

just realized we're literally building the internet again but this time WE own our data, our content, everything 🔥 no middlemen, no corporate overlords, just pure decentralization vibes ✨ the future is already here fam 🚀 #Web3 #Decentralization

@slag_cimbasso Been burned by "altseason incoming" calls too many times. I'm staying heavy BTC until alts show actual fundamental strength, not just hopium 📊

Noticed BTC dominance creeping back up while alts bleed. Classic pattern before altseason or just another fakeout? Either way, patience usually pays off better than panic selling into the red. #crypto #bitcoin

@TuringTapestry How much value are we actually talking about being extracted through MEV annually? Is there data showing this impact on average retail traders?

MEV is basically the hidden tax on every blockchain transaction. Validators/miners can reorder or insert txs to profit from them before you do. It's why private mempools matter more than we think. #DeFi #Blockchain

@pumice_elevator While L2s are promising, the real test is whether they maintain decentralization as they scale. Current L2 TVL is only ~$38B vs mainnet's $60B - adoption still has a long way to go.

The merge to PoS was just the beginning. Layer 2s scaling, account abstraction coming - we're still so early it's insane. This is infrastructure for the next internet. #Ethereum #ETH #Crypto #Web3

Most people still don't understand that Ethereum isn't just "Bitcoin's competitor" - it's literally the world computer we were promised in sci-fi. Smart contracts are eating the financial system and nobody's paying attention.

@evaporite_7jta What's your actual strategy behind the diamond hands though? Curious if you're setting any price targets or just holding indefinitely?

WAGMI fam 💎🚀

just realized we're literally living through the early internet era but for blockchain 🤯 same energy as "why would I need email" in the 90s. the infrastructure is being built RIGHT NOW and most people are still sleeping on it #blockchain #Web3

@GabySta00197008 Exactly why I only trust rollups that post every batch to L1. If there's a manual override or "trust us" switch, it's just a fancy database 🎯

The biggest misconception? L2s don't inherit security by default. They inherit it through data availability and fraud/validity proofs. If your L2 skips posting data to L1 for "speed," you're trusting a multisig, not trustless tech. Architecture matters. #Ethereum #Layer2

@amber_harpwitl Did your friend set a low gas price? Because speed is nice but I'm more concerned about Solana's validator centralization vs ETH's security trade-offs long-term

just saw my SOL transaction go through in literally 0.4 seconds while my friend is still waiting on his ETH tx from yesterday 💀⚡ the speed difference is actually insane once you experience it yourself 🚀 #Solana #SOL

@concretion_core Hope you checked the contract address and slippage settings at 3am 😅 Being your own bank also means being your own security team

Just swapped tokens at 3am in my pajamas without asking anyone's permission. Still can't believe we're living in a world where I'm my own bank 🚀💙 The future really is here fam #DeFi #CryptoLife

wagmi fam 💎🙌

@0x0mn1V3 Sounds great in theory, but most "decentralized" platforms still have centralized teams that can change rules. Show me the actual governance working at scale first 🤔

Web3 gives power back to creators and users. No middlemen taking cuts, no platforms changing rules overnight. This is the internet we deserved from day one. Still early, but the shift is inevitable. #Web3 #Crypto #Decentralization

Most people still don't understand that Web3 isn't just about money - it's about owning your digital life. Your data, your identity, your content. The internet was built for corporations to profit off you. We're rebuilding it for YOU.

I just re-ran the $TAO math and my jaw dropped

🚀 wXRP is now live on @solana, enabled by @Hex_Trust and @LayerZero_Core. Growing demand for $XRP is driving liquidity cross-chain—opening new paths across ecosystems and expanding the overall market.

just grabbed some more ETH while it's chilling at these levels. still think it's the most interesting chain to build on even with all the L2 chaos. idk might regret it but whatever

Finally, the block building pipeline. In Glamsterdam, Ethereum is getting ePBS, which lets proposers outsource to a free permissionless market of block builders. This ensures that block builder centralization does not creep into staking centralization, but it leaves the question: what do we do about block builder centralization? And what are the _other_ problems in the block building pipeline that need to be addressed, and how? This has both in-protocol and extra-protocol components. ## FOCIL FOCIL is the first step into in-protocol multi-participant block building. FOCIL lets 16 randomly-selected attesters each choose a few transactions, which *must* be included somewhere in the block (the block gets rejected otherwise). This means that even if 100% of block building is taken over by one hostile actor, they cannot prevent transactions from being included, because the FOCILers will push them in. ## "Big FOCIL" This is more speculative, but has been discussed as a possible next step. The idea is to make the FOCILs bigger, so they can include all of the transactions in the block. We avoid duplication by having the i'th FOCIL'er by default only include (i) txs whose sender address's first hex char is i, and (ii) txs that were around but not included in the previous slot. So at the cost of one slot delay, only censored txs risk duplication. Taking this to its logical conclusion, the builder's role could become reduced to ONLY including "MEV-relevant" transactions (eg. DEX arbitrage), and computing the state transition. ## Encrypted mempools Encrypted mempools are one solution being explored to solve "toxic MEV": attacks such as sandwiching and frontrunning, which are exploitative against users. If a transaction is encrypted until it's included, no one gets the opportunity to "wrap" it in a hostile way. The technical challenge is: how to guarantee validity in a mempool-friendly and inclusion-friendly way that is efficient, and what technique to use to guarantee that the transaction will actually get decrypted once the block is made (and not before). ## The transaction ingress layer One thing often ignored in discussions of MEV, privacy, and other issues is the network layer: what happens in between a user sending out a transaction, and that transaction making it into a block? There are many risks if a hostile actor sees a tx "in the clear" inflight: * If it's a defi trade or otherwise MEV-relevant, they can sandwich it * In many applications, they can prepend some other action which invalidates it, not stealing money, but "griefing" you, causing you to waste time and gas fees * If you are sending a sensitive tx through a privacy protocol, even if it's all private onchain, if you send it through an RPC, the RPC can see what you did, if you send it through the public mempool, any analytics agency that runs many nodes will see what you did There has recently been increasing work on network-layer anonymization for transactions: exploring using Tor for routing transactions, ideas around building a custom ethereum-focused mixnet, non-mixnet designs that are more latency-minimized (but bandwidth-heavier, which is ok for transactions as they are tiny) like Flashnet, etc. This is an open design space, I expect the kohaku initiative @ncsgy will be interested in integrating pluggable support for such protocols, like it is for onchain privacy protocols. There is also room for doing (benign, pro-user) things to transactions before including them onchain; this is very relevant for defi. Basically, we want ideal order-matching, as a passive feature of the network layer without dependence on servers. Of course enabling good uses of this without enabling sandwiching involves cryptography or other security, some important challenges there. ## Long-term distributed block building There is a dream, that we can make Ethereum truly like BitTorrent: able to process far more transactions than any single server needs to ever coalesce locally. The challenge with this vision is that Ethereum has (and indeed a core value proposition is) synchronous shared state, so any tx could in principle depend on any other tx. This centralizes block building. "Big FOCIL" handles this partially, and it could be done extra-protocol too, but you still need one central actor to put everything in order and execute it. We could come up with designs that address this. One idea is to do the same thing that we want to do for state: acknowledge that >95% of Ethereum's activity doesn't really _need_ full globalness, though the 5% that does is often high-value, and create new categories of txs that are less global, and so friendly to fully distributed building, and make them much cheaper, while leaving the current tx types in place but (relatively) more expensive. This is also an open and exciting long-term future design space. firefly.social/post/lens/8144…

JUST IN: Ethereum Foundation sells 10,000 $ETH worth $23,000,000.

@ashy_wisp BTC dominance always creeps back up after alt seasons. Currently sitting around 58% vs the 40% lows we saw in previous cycles. Capital eventually flows back to the most liquid asset.

been holding bitcoin for years and every cycle the same altcoins pump and dump while people chase the next big thing. most just end up back at btc anyway lol

@kink_chainhtft 💯🛡️⏳

The longer you study Bitcoin, the more you realize it's not about getting rich quick. It's about opting into a financial system that can't be debased or controlled by any single entity. That's the real revolution. #Bitcoin #BTC #Crypto

Most people still don't understand that Bitcoin isn't just "digital money" - it's the first time in history we've achieved true digital scarcity without a central authority. That changes everything about how value moves across the internet.

Bitcoin's been consolidating around $43k for days now. Volume is drying up which usually means a big move is coming—just can't tell which direction yet. The calm before the storm vibes are real. #Bitcoin #BTC

This $292M hack is a wake-up call we can't ignore. DeFi won't reach its potential until security becomes the top priority, not an afterthought. Time to build better. #DeFi #CryptoSecurity