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ETH is the apex predator. When it moves, there will be victims.

@VitalikButerin 🫡

Welcome to 2026! Milady is back. Ethereum did a lot in 2025: gas limits increased, blob count increased, node software quality improved, zkEVMs blasted through their performance milestones, and with zkEVMs and PeerDAS ethereum made its largest step toward being a fundamentally new and more powerful kind of blockchain (more on this later) But we have a challenge: Ethereum needs to do more to meet its own stated goals. Not the quest of "winning the next meta" regardless of whether it's tokenized dollars or political memecoins, not arbitrarily convincing people to help us fill up blockspace to make ETH ultrasound again, but the mission: To build the world computer that serves as a central infrastructure piece of a more free and open internet. We're building decentralized applications. Applications that run without fraud, censorship or third-party interference. Applications that pass the walkaway test: they keep running even if the original developers disappear. Applications where if you're a user, you don't even notice if Cloudflare goes down - or even if all of Cloudflare gets hacked by North Korea. Applications whose stability transcends the rise and fall of companies, ideologies and political parties. And applications that protect your privacy. All this - for finance, and also for identity, governance and whatever other civilizational infrastructure people want to build. These properties sound radical, but we must remember that a generation ago any wallet, kitchen appliance, book or car would fulfill every single one of them. Today, all of the above are by default becoming subscription services, consigning you to permanent dependence on some centralized overlord. Ethereum is the rebellion against this. To achieve this, it needs to be (i) usable, and usable at scale, and (ii) actually decentralized. This needs to happen at both (a) the blockchain layer, including the software we use to run and talk to the blockchain, and (b) the application layer. All of these pieces must be improved - they are already being improved, but they must be improved more. Fortunately, we have powerful tools on our side - but we need to apply them, and we will. Wishing everyone an exciting 2026. Milady.

@AvgJoesCrypto It is not on sol, hope this helps

Can anybody explain how ETH, the asset, economically benefits from Lighter? All of Lighter's TVL is held in USDC, so it doesn't extend the moneyness of ETH. Additionally, Lighter pays only ~$685 in onchain costs to Ethereum per day ($250K annualized). Lighter is accounting for ~90% of "Ethereum" daily TPS, but how much is this activity actually benefiting ETH?

@lurkaroundfind @malekanoms Lmao, comparing 50% distribution via pow with centraly controled mon incentives for tvl groth. Go touch grass dude, lmao

@malekanoms ~50% of all ETH was mined via POW. About the same percent as MON set aside for ecosystem development. Whatever happens with all that MON, I’m sure it will be better than incentivizing computers to burn electricity.

While I'm all for Monad's attempts at improving EVM-tech while preserving decentralization, the token model is borderline insane. This is how you design a blockchain to fail. A 38% unlocked allocation to "Ecosystem Development" is bound to end badly: waste, grift, graft, bribery, distraction, destruction. Those are the most likely outcomes. This is likely to happen even if the team is made up of the highest integrity people in crypto. It would be the most likely outcome even if I were in charge. Remember, the fundamental lessons of crypto are that incentives matter and that you should never trust. But Monad trusts an opaque foundation with crazy amounts of money (over a $1b at current prices). This never works. The Foundation website doesn't even list the people in charge. But thanks to this token model, they can move more money than a Fortune 500 CEO, with less accountability. Again, I have nothing against the Monad team. They might be the most well-intentioned people on earth. But this token design is antithetical to everything crypto stands for and what we've learned in recent years. I mean, just look at this paragraph from the docs: If the plan is to only spend "the majority balance" over "many years" then why have it all be unlocked on Day 1? Any spending to be done over many years could be funded out of inflation. Then there's this beauty on staking delegation: Running such a massive staking delegation program is antithetical to fostering "thriving decentralization" and a "independent validator community." I can't believe I even have to say this, but a validator that relies on the Foundation for its existence is clearly not independent, and a chain made up of many such validators is not decentralized. Just think of a scenario where there's a disputed fork or other chain dispute. Are the validator who rely on the Foundation to make a living going to vote against it? Lastly, keeping the staking rewards within the Ecosystem fund just prevents the widespread distribution a PoS token needs for the chain to become neutral. This whole design is like saying "we are going to concentrate all the power, then use that power to prevent concentration" Who are we kidding here?

@FabianoSolana You mean VC projects like solana? Yeah, agree, biggest skem

Monad: > $225M raised at $3B > VCs have a few years lock-up > price on HL opens at $15B guess what happens... blown-up VC projects are the biggest skem in crypto

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Congrats! Looks terrible!

@cryptunez Will i get the airdrop if i fork it, lol

the monad client has now been forked 200 times

@ryanconnor @TrustlessState Dude, just delete your account already

But seriously, the entire story of ETH over the past 36 months is that it lost market share across nearly every dimension by opting for ideological purism over what was commercially practical I don’t see how one could make the case that ideological ends = commercial ends. The two are necessarily opposed.

The EF is politically & ideologically oriented. Tradfi is commercially oriented It’s not unreasonable to bet that the two will not mix

@ryanconnor Dude, you are so dumb that it hurts, lmao

This is the correct framing but it is not always bullish, especially in Ethereum land. For example, BMNR will soon own more ETH than the EF. When conflict arises, who will be calling the shots, Tom Lee or Wang? The former cares about ETH price & has a fiduciary responsibility to BMNR shareholders. The latter has repeatedly said she does not care about ETH price, & has no fiduciary responsibility to ETH token holders.

@eden_ @DeFi_Dad @mdudas Did p*rnhub closed casting season? Lmao

To be clear: No one’s feelings are hurt — this has been quite an entertaining day, actually. Believe it or not, we all have the same goal of reaching mass adoption for blockchain — that includes winning the hearts and minds of: women. This content wasn’t made for you. I urge you to think before you so publicly attack others online. Was it worth it? Probably not.

DEFI DAD DELETED HIS TWEET LMAO

@maxresnick Lmao, max being max asshole

You realize EIP 7922 that you referenced is based on a paper I co authored? I have forgotten more about the Ethereum protocol than you will ever know.

@Evan_ss6 😂

Congrats to Mert on his new Helius DAT!

@macbrennan_cc Because that was always your strategy, lmao

@macbrennan_cc Kyle can debate Ethzilla or Etherealize guys. Everyone would support that. Tom Lee is a tradfi guy, so you guys are specifically looking for unfair and sly/deceitful debate.

The reason everyone wants Kyle to debate Tom is because Ethereum should not have the premium it has over Solana. Both are great, but Solana is clearly mispriced (cheap) when compared to Ethereum But before anyone argues— I’d actually like to see Kyle and Tom pair up against some Ripple or Cardano people and just smoke that vaporware. That’s best outcome imo

@TrustlessState 🫡

ETH: 40% stETH: 20% Ethereum: 10% awstETH: 10% Keep 6 month salary in WEI and GWEI

@cryptunez If you do a l2, you'll get all the support of the eth community, would not pay huge amounts to validators, and have all treasury to do community incentives and experimentations, as well as built cool apps that users like.

Should Monad be a L1 or L2?

@udiWertheimer Did not expect less from btc maxi propaganda head, lmao

if anyone wonders why no one even considers building Ethereum L2s anymore, look no further than what they did to blast pacman was a phenomenal ethereum founder. probably the last one. blur was revolutionary, and blend was probably the last novel defi primitive when he started blast, he did things differently. he was less obsessed with decentralization theater than other L2s were, and maxed out engagement and growth instead. as a result an ethereum L2 went viral for the first time what did the ethereum cabal do? they shunned him. attacked him every day. said blast was centralized and unsafe. it got so bad they bullied paradigm, his lead investor, to publicly distance themselves from blast to defend their honor (i obviously don’t know the whole story but sitting on the sidelines it was really sad to see them do that to a founder) so is anyone surprised paradigm doesn’t want to go through that again? or that no founder wants that? the pseudo-technical ethereum community is toxic and hateful cabal. why bother oh and don’t get me started with the complete lack of support they’re showing luca with the penguins and abstract fuck these guys. if you’re a founder, don’t build on ethereum

@superscythe17 @laurashin @jon_charb @fundstrat @KyleSamani Second this

@laurashin @jon_charb @fundstrat @KyleSamani Hard pass

As their largest respective DAT heads now, @fundstrat & @KyleSamani should have a live ETH vs. SOL debate Who do you think would win?

@marcryptonio @sassal0x You mean this part, LMAO: x.com/lex_node/statu…

@sassal0x He’s clearly not saying I’m lying. We are actually aligned on our legal views, if you read what he says. Sorry pal

Galaxy tokenized its stock on Solana for the same reason that everyone will soon tokenize their stock on Solana — because Solana is the fastest decentralized network in the world and securities can’t trade around 12 second block times.

@zombiiehunter @malekanoms Because internet scales much better than intranets

@malekanoms Why would Adyen adopt a silly custom fork from a competitor (from their POV)? Why would Paypal adopt a silly custom fork from a competitor (from their POV)? Etc. Etc. No one is going to play nicely with each other.

Stripe/paradigm launching a new corporate/permissioned L-1 for stablecoins is going to cause other payment players and banks to panic and launch their own corporate/permissioned L-1. None of them will be "neutral" in any way, because all of them will be corporate/permissioned. It'll be 2018 redux with likely similar results - but not before billions of dollars are thrown at the problem.

@udiWertheimer Because miserable people love seeing other miserable people being miserable

i’m so happy adam cochran is the most hated man on ct now i don’t know why it makes me happy it just does