
Tamer Hassanein
441 posts





It’s been exactly 200 days since Israel arrested Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya and threw him in prison without any charges. His crime? Using Instagram to show the world what was happening at his hospital in North Gaza. 🧵

Every current problem in the Middle East can be traced back to this exact moment.




Less than 6 months from now, @flow_blockchain will deliver its most significant technical upgrade since launch in 2020: Crescendo 🌊 Here’s my understanding of what is happening and why it matters to Web 3 developers in all ecosystems I believe Crescendo addresses the two biggest opportunities to improve developer experience on Flow: ⚡ Liquidity and DeFi – Crescendo enables a massive improvement in liquidity infrastructure on Flow including on- and off-ramps as well as a native DeFi ecosystem that serves as a liquidity backbone for the entire network. ⚡ Developer Experience – Flow will become as easy to deploy on as any Layer 2 chain, while maintaining 100% of the capabilities and benefits of its Layer 1 architecture as well as the ability to seamlessly compose with Cadence on top of EVM. These technical upgrades are happening at the same time as a rich roadmap of content releases, application launches, and platform improvements driven by the Flow community. This includes on-chain games, social networks, and new collectibles platforms as well as the aforementioned DeFi core ecosystem. Flow already has among the most authentic and vibrant communities – addressing the core liquidity and tooling issues will create massive momentum behind the entire ecosystem, allowing Flow to take its rightful place as the leading network for consumer applications and smart contracts with the most powerful on-chain logic. 💖 Included in Crescendo – Cadence 1.0: A major upgrade of the Cadence programming language which enables fully immutable smart contracts on Flow. If you're a developer #onFlow, make sure you're ready for this breaking change. – Full EVM equivalence: Allowing Flow to host EVM-based smart contracts, platforms, tooling, and utilities natively and fully composable with the Cadence environments. – Performance improvement: Core protocol is getting significant upgrades, e.g. Atree register inlining increases state storage efficiency by nearly 2x. – Performance improvement: Additionally, execution state data (accounts, events, etc.) is now propagated to the edge nodes allowing them to locally serve execution data. Crescendo also enables script execution on the edge nodes, removing rate limits on script execution on private edge nodes and improving network availability by alleviating the resource usage on execution nodes. Timeline 🐣 Initial developer release on dedicated Crescendo test network by end-Feb / early March; 🦚 Flow testnet within 90-120 days of above; 🦅 Flow mainnet within 2-4 weeks of testnet. Flow Town Hall I joined the Flow Town Hall today to talk in-depth about all of this – and much more including Fast Break, the latest NBA experience from Dapper Labs – stay tuned to @flow_blockchain for the recording if you missed it !




This is so heartbreaking. Dozens of new-born babies detached from their incubators at Al Shifa Gaza hospital due to power/oxygen running out. Israel must do more to get them to safety and medical treatment. ASAP.

It's official - Flow just passed 500 million transactions! Over the coming days, I'll work directly with the @findonflow and @flow_blockchain teams to align on the 500 millionth transaction and who wins the 20k FLOW Onwards & upwards from here as we continue to #GoWithTheFlow 🌊



An urgent message for the residents of Gaza:

"Mom, I'm fine." The last words of six-year old boy, Wadea after being stabbed by an Islamophobe 26 times A landlord in the US was so distressed by the Pro-Israel, hateful anti-Muslim news reports, he unleashed his anger upon an innocent Palestinian family who lived in his house. When the mother asked him to pray for peace, he stabbed her and then went on to stab and kill her six-year old son, Wadea. The last words the boy spoke were, “Mom, I’m fine.” Look at what hatred and evil is being created about pure and innocent human beings who happened to belong to a land called Palestine. This is the result of people having been blinded by the darkness of propaganda, and starved of truth or compassion. Though our hearts weep for the love of this one pure young boy, who’s life was extinguished - stabbed no less than 26 times - by one man’s vicious explosion of bitterness, let’s not forget the thousands of other innocent victims on all sides of this dark and gruesome war of propaganda in the land once called ‘Holy’. The only solace I can gain from this, is in the words the small boy spoke as he left this blood-drenched, dying world, “Mom, I’m fine.” It tells us of the reality behind life and death in the grand scheme of things: “Surely God's friends — no fear shall be on them, neither shall they sorrow.” (Q 10:62) You can almost see a cloud of angels fly the soul of the boy, away towards the heavenly light, and through the doors of God’s mercy, as he enters the eternal home of peace and happiness. This is the first stage of never ending happiness, as he is given the glad tidings of Paradise and eternal bliss, and his book is recorded in ‘Illiyyun (the highest heaven); then his soul will rejoice and be happy, and will never feel misery again. Wadea must have seen the ‘betweenness’, which most of us are veiled from. #Palestine #Israel









