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2/ The Dubai Ethereum Community Hub launched in December at @Hadronfc, hosting lively daily co-working sessions and their second meetup in January in collaboration with the @ETHDubaiConf team! The meetup focused on "The State of DeFi in 2026, and Where the Real Substance Is." The speaker lineup reflected the vibrant local ecosystem and included: 🔸 @asal_alizade - UAE + MENA Lead at @Base 🔸 @danekshea - Solutions Architect Lead at @LayerZero_Core 🔸 @van0k_eth - Senior NEET at @GearboxProtocol 🔸 Kirill Kuznetsov - Senior Solutions Architect at @1inch 🔸 @sarangparikh22 - DeFi expert Stay up to date on future events! 👇 🔗 luma.com/HadronFC?k=c

Will any increases to SSTORE / CREATE costs be accompanied by EIP7825 cap increase? 7825 almost bricked some Gearbox Permissionless contracts (since some deployment functions spend 12-14M gas, dangerously close to the cap), and any significant increases will surely put this over the cap

Expect continued growth but more targeted / less uniform growth for next year. eg. one possible future is: 5x gas limit increase together with 5x gas cost increase for operations that are relatively inefficient to process Potential targets for such increases (my current view): * SSTORE when creating new storage * SSTORE in general (slightly) * Precompiles (all except elliptic curve stuff) * CALLs to contracts with large contract size * Some complex arithmetic opcodes (MODMUL maybe?) * Calldata (slightly)

@banteg If you loved her, then man you’re gonna love Savage Beastfly

so far the most entertaining boss i encountered in silksong

European authoritarians and their enablers in the media are misrepresenting GrapheneOS and even Pixel phones as if they're something for criminals. GrapheneOS is opposed to the mass surveillance police state these people want to impose on everyone. xatakandroid.com/sociedad/cada-…

I don't think it would move the needle this much. From personal experience, contracts that are heavy in compute over storage writes are just query contracts used by devs for infra, and they are generally interacted with through RPC static calls. For most user-facing contracts, SSTORE gas dominates compute gas.

Ethereum contract devs: if we could 10x the gas limit but, to do so, we had to 10x the gas cost of CREATE, CREATE2 and SSTORE, would that still be a net improvement? Why or why not? IOW, if state growth is our main bottleneck to scale L1 gas, should we just fix it with pricing?

In light of today’s @Bybit_Official incident, here’s how we secure our technical @safe multisig at @GearboxProtocol: Continuous monitoring Whenever a new transaction is submitted or an existing one is signed, we immediately receive a notification in our alert channel. This alert shows the transaction hash and who proposed and signed the transaction. Detailed transaction report The most significant feature is the transaction report. It contains parsed transaction call data in a human-readable format, allowing all signers to see actions that occur understandably, both in plain text and in bytecode. Deployment check and whitelisted external calls Whenever the system deploys a new contract or interacts with an existing one, it checks the bytecode and compares it with code in our GitHub repository. Thus, the system constantly recompiles and compares the bytecode with the audited version, providing us with detailed information such as source links, audit reports, etc. This is how we have built a robust system to filter and check all transactions before they go to the technical multisig and affect changes to the protocol.

@naval Then it simply comes down to a vetting agency buying the rights from uninformed citizens for a moderate upfront fee.

@naval Wondering if there could be the same perverse incentives as the housing bubble that caused 2008. I.e. CDO-like bundles of applicants’ tax yield could incentivize vetting agencies to procure as many applicants as they can, regardless of quality.

A market for citizenship: Instead of the government deciding, you, a citizen, pick an applicant from the eligible pool. You get 20% of their tax payments, forever. There’s a secondary market to sell the right to vetting agencies. Pick the next great entrepreneur and retire.

Decentralized Autonomous AI Agents: The Future of Smart Contracts Truly gamifying DeFi with AI… omg buzzwords, ban+report?! Not quite. We can make strategies, gamified entries-exits, conditions for positions, etc. All are accessible via simple text. Intelligent DeFi made real. I’m excited to share my research on AI-driven autonomous agents! Instead of merely speculating about the future, I built a working prototype (learning by building) of a new Cyber economy that implements this vision. Let's discuss it at DevCon!

@GODofETH They also remove sources with very high slippage during price estimation, so illiquid pools don't factor into price computation

@GODofETH Gearbox uses Redstone oracles for weETH/ezETH, which have roughly the same risk profile as Chainlink. I.e., you would need to skew the price for several blocks and in several pools to manipulate them, which is extremely expensive.

Is there not some systemic risk on all of this massively leveraged restaked $ETH on #Gearbox Like, can someone not try to manipulate the price and cause fallout?