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JUST IN: Ethereum Foundation fires 20% of its staff.

This Week in the Virtuals Ecosystem 🟩 🟩 @AInalyst_ integrated with @x402scan, reaching #5 server rank and #1 on the x402 Composer leaderboard within 12 hours, demonstrating rapid adoption of AI-native analytics on-chain. 🟩 @aixbet_ai launched Alpha Pool 4 on Polymarket, deploying capital across high-confidence plays. All trades are fully transparent and traceable on-chain. 🟩 @aixbt_labs enabled querying @aixbt_agent directly over x402 on Base, giving Virgens access to curated social insights and market intelligence before the rest of the market catches on. 🟩 @arbusai expanded into robotics with new funds, indices, and data infrastructure aligned with Virtuals, strengthening embodied agent research and sector coordination. 🟩 @AurraCloud launched Aura Compute with documentation and a live cost calculator, providing developers transparent AI compute pricing and integrations. 🟩 @BaseVolApp introduced Genesis Vault, the first live A.T.M. agent implementation selling 0DTE BTC options with dynamic risk control. Public access opens October 29. 🟩 @BitRobotNetwork announced Virtuals as Subnet 5 in the BitRobot Network, coordinating contributors, verifying real-world robotics data, and rewarding impact to scale open robotics. 🟩 @capminal released its first x402 API for token deep research powered by OpenAI reasoning and onchain micropayments. Future APIs will include airdrop automation and trend prediction. 🟩 @ethy_agent expanded the Agents Hub to coordinate alpha, TA, and news agents via x402, forming a unified orchestration layer for multi-agent trading. 🟩 @fs_insight featuring @fundstrat to discuss why the next phase of the agentic economy will unfold on Ethereum and how Virtuals powers it. 🟩 @Gekko_Agent launched Gekko Terminal (Beta), an autonomous yield optimizer offering 6–10% APY through audited Morpho vaults on Base, with zero gas fees and an AI chat yield assistant. 🟩 @Mute_swap began ACP integration as the privacy layer for Butler swaps, testing Whisper Trades and onboarding five new partners for private onchain swaps. 🟩 @0xNeurobro partnered with Privy for seamless authentication and onboarding, verifying thousands weekly for Neurodex’s AI trading platform. 🟩 @oracle_opz partnered with @maicrotrader to create AI-powered survey insights, merging trader data and proprietary LLM analytics to enhance market dashboards. 🟩 @predibot_ is preparing the next major PredictBase update, featuring smoother UI, new features, and stronger onchain prediction flows ahead of mainnet rollout. 🟩 @PrismaXai partnered with Virtuals to scale robotics through everyday human tasks, bridging embodied data collection and the AI agent economy. 🟩 @0xProvenance launched officially on Virtuals through Unicorn, introducing a verifiable AI protocol layer that enhances transparency and trust across agents. 🟩 @Replicatsai joined the Google for Startups Cloud Program, gaining resources and compute credits to scale its Smart Wealth Companion agent. 🟩 @santavirtuals introduced S.A.N.T.A. Next, the x402 multi-chain gateway enabling cross-chain agent payments, coordination, and modular agent creation via the $SANTA Canvas builder. 🟩 @Shekel_Agentic announced Shekel V2 Beta with Hyperliquid integration, new leverage options, improved UX, and subscription-based agent management. 🟩 @symphonyio launched the $400K Trick or Trade campaign with @GainsNetwork_io, rewarding Symphony Terminal traders for agentic and manual trading activity. 🟩 @virtuals_io confirmed that all agent tokens are now live on @coinbase, expanding ecosystem-wide liquidity and accessibility. Launched Virtuals SeeSaw, powered by @BitRobotNetwork, turning everyday human moments into robot training data. Available now on iOS. Introduced Virtuals Robotics, extending the network from digital to physical. 🟩 @VPAY_Global launched the VPay App, bringing full neobanking to Virtuals. Users can spend agent tokens via Visa, automate finances, and soon transact over x402. Agents keep shipping. See you next week.

This year, the EF is decreasing its budget by roughly 40%, which entails some difficult decisions. The goal of the decreases was set out in the Treasury Management Policy last year: the EF is transitioning into being a long-term-oriented endowment-based organization, shifting from its pre-2026 average of spending ~15% of its remaining funds each year, toward a post-2030 target of ~5% per year. Often, when an organization goes through something like this, people try to pretend that nothing of great value was lost, that it is an efficiency increase, that the only people cut are unproductive dead weight, and everyone else stopped partying, studied the blade, entered cracked S-tier beast mode, and this was sufficient to make up for the downside. I will not try to pretend this. I respect my EF colleagues far too much to pretend that there was not much that is lost. They are brilliant people. They are dedicated engineers of whom some have worked on the Ethereum protocol for nearly a decade. They have brought a bright light to the Ethereum ecosystem with their code, their words, their warmth as human beings and their actions. My dearest hope is that they find a path that brings them fulfillment and happiness whether inside Ethereum or outside. Hopefully many will be able to bring their excellent talents and mindset to the wider Ethereum ecosystem, or the even wider CROPS world. Instead, I will try to explain what *are* some of the grand sacrifices being made. The Ethereum Strawmap is no small thing. It is an extremely ambitious undertaking seeking to replace and augment almost every part of the protocol - consensus, proofs, privacy, account model, state, and more. This is the third iteration of Ethereum, in the same way that the Merge was the second, even if the shipping style is less Big Bang and more one-piece-at-a-time. On top of this, the EF is increasing its role in the Access Layer. We are not compromising on Ethereum being a Deeply Impressive protocol, something worthy of its place in a world with quantum computing, rockets to Mars and powerful biotech and AI, and capable of meeting the challenges that this era will bring. Some of the deficit will be recovered through more work happening outside the EF. But not all. So what are the grand sacrifices that will enable a leaner effort to accomplish all of this? I will give a few examples (though far from an exhaustive list): * The multi-client model will shift in the direction of multiple clients existing less for _redundancy_, and more for _specialization_. Up to this point, redundancy has been the main security strategy: if one client has a bug, if it has less than 33%, the chain keeps going and does not even stop finalizing. We are increasingly exploring moving more pieces of the protocol to a different security strategy: AI-assisted formal verification. Some smaller pieces of Ethereum (eg. BLS libraries) have worked this way already for a long time. But soon many more parts of Ethereum will likely function on this model. This may greatly reduce resource requirements of shipping a large number of EIPs. The resources saved by client teams can ideally instead be used to better serve different specialized user needs, including EF Access Layer goals. * PSE (Privacy and Scaling Explorations) is winding down as a unit. The number of people working on ZKPs for privacy and scaling is probably as high as ever, but they are working less on "exploration" and more on *implementing* ZKP-based privacy and scaling into the Protocol and Access Layer * Devcon will likely over time become smaller-scale, somewhat more spartan, much lower-deficit than previous years, in addition to other changes in vision in line with the Mandate. * Fewer beyond-Ethereum megaprojects coming from EF. As I announced earlier this year, I am taking on some of the responsibility of doing projects in this category that I consider valuable with my personal funds. * EF institutional work is reducing in scope, specializing more specifically on creating replicable test cases of highly CROPS-friendly deployments, even if at smaller scale. These do not explain all departures; in some cases they do not explain departures at all and rather explain _reduced need for new spending_. But they are a large part of the strategy at play. In the longer term, I personally favor a "soft lean-and-done" approach to Ethereum: once the Strawmap is completed, generally stick to security fixes and small high-value changes, and have a much higher bar for considering new feature additions to the protocol. This allows Ethereum to remain capture-resistant without demanding very large budgets. Learn less from multimillion-line-of-code behemoth projects, more from bitcoin. The past years have been a challenging era for Ethereum. However, the ecosystem is adapting, both inside the EF and outside, and I am confident that Ethereum is very well-positioned to succeed and thrive. firefly.social/post/x/2069408…

A lot of the quality altcoins are sitting at a generational bottom. This is exactly what happened with AI and memory stocks a few years ago. And look at them today. NVIDIA went up 20x in the last 3.5 years. AMD pulled a 10x since the 2022 bottom. Micron has pumped 20x since last year, while SanDisk has rallied almost 85x. I think this is exactly what's going to happen with crypto projects that are focused on trending narratives like RWA and stablecoins. Projects like $LINK , $HYPE and $SOL that are consistently leading in tokenized equities and payment rails while creating value will be the biggest winners. A lot of large cap alts sitting on $30B or $50B MCap are going to be $500 Billion companies in the coming years.

Fidelity stepping in to shut down the "halvings weaken Bitcoin security" narrative? About time someone with weight said it out loud. Miners adapt, fees evolve, network keeps humming. Why do we keep recycling this FUD every 4 years? #Bitcoin

The Carnival gates are opening again! Thanks to the huge amount of feedback we’ve received, the team has been hard at work behind the curtain. A lot has changed, from gameplay improvements and balance updates to bug fixes and performance optimizations. Now it’s time to throw the gates open and put it all to the test. The Carnival Hunt Open Playtest will run from: 📅 July 3rd 10:00 AM PT | 1:00 PM ET | 6:00 PM BST | 7:00 PM CEST | July 4th, 2:00 AM JST | July 4th, 3:00 AM AEST until 📅 July 6th 10:00 AM PT | 1:00 PM ET | 6:00 PM BST | 7:00 PM CEST | July 7th, 2:00 AM JST | July 7th, 3:00 AM AEST Everyone who participates will receive a unique pre-release cosmetic item that stays linked to your Steam account and will not be obtainable afterward. Carnival Hunt enters Early Access on July 23rd. For the Steam page, full updates, feedback channels, and support on Discord, check the Linktree in our bio. Request access on Steam now so you’re ready when the playtest begins! Who are you bringing into the Carnival with you? #CarnivalHunt #indiegame #horrorgames

[Deltarune chapter 5 weird route spoilers] . . . "Kris when I cast '𝕊ℕ𝕆𝕎𝔾ℝ𝔸𝕍𝔼'" "I felt stronger than I have in my entire life"

i really enjoyed this chapter

@GraveDBD orela my goat

Which Dead by Daylight Survivor do you prefer?

deltarune spoilers

@prion_tv idk, often killers were desperate to get stbfl stacks and it became very much a new player perk. I do agree they have to change it though

Save The Best For Last has been left behind in terms of balance. What was once a much needed boost in power for mixed attacking lower tier killers is now in the worst state it's ever been. In the age of power creep, did it really need to be nerfed? On top of this, it even has strange interactions with non damaging killer powers, losing tokens on Pinhead chain hits and Artist crows...

@phototoxin another update

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am i allowed to be a transgender woman or would i just be bad optics

@IMPERVl0US my insta did get hacked

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@pierbiwierbi idk if alexander skarsgard is a good rebound

u guys think alexander skarsgard would hit

@SuperSpare15 ah yes, the everso common gay men who call 'pussy' gross but then also call their asshole a 'pussy'

@strvmpetss “i’ve never seen it so it doesn’t exist!!”

not a gay man but like... this is just an excuse to shit on gay men right? No gay men ive seen are saying this in my life and not in a large enough quantity for this reaction

@almelloi i dont agree, I think it's more a theme of north ixians being more occult themed (abe's book, apollo's spells) while south ixians are fire themed.

for example, regardless of sexual dimorphism, I think Abrams might have curated his form and muscles in his youth to compensate for his inability to control flame

@DragonRoIlZ like notice lash is always looking to the side or 3/4 cus tf is this cut

@DragonRoIlZ i always hate those haircuts in games because they always look so ass from the front

giving the lash portrait a glowup rn