Jamie Zigelbaum (tracheopteryx)

Why DAOs? This question may be one of the most profound of our time. My answer led me to contribute to @iearnfinance two years ago, to co-found @coordinape, and to devote my life to this work. I dive deep in this 45min talk. twitter.com/PodcastDelphi/… ꜜ14

it's crazy to think that people used to write actual code, by hand 😳

@Prince_Canuma @GoogleDeepMind Awesome, thank you!

@zigelbaum @GoogleDeepMind Here is the benchmark code you can give codex to run after you do the step above

TurboQuant: Open Evals on MLX 🔥 Yesterday I launched mlx-vlm v0.4.4 with major TurboQuant performance improvements. Today, the open benchmark results on MM-NIAH (val, 520 samples) using Gemma 4 26B IT by @GoogleDeepMind on M3 Ultra: → 0 quality loss — 78% accuracy for both BL and TBQ → 97% answer agreement across all context lengths → 30–53% KV cache savings (where TBQ is active) → 1.16x decode speedup at ~60K context Benchmark code 👇🏽

I am going to tell you a deep secret of the English language. When we want to tell the truth, we use Germanic-derived words. When we want to lie, we use Latin-derived words. - Germanic (Old English) words → concrete, direct, sensory, testable - Latinate/French words → abstract, bureaucratic, distancing, often euphemistic Death / harm Germanic (plain, testable):kill, die, hurt Latinate (distancing, euphemistic):terminate, expire, neutralize, collateral damage 👉 “We killed civilians” vs “There was collateral damage” Lying / deception Germanic:lie, cheat, hide Latinate:misrepresent, obfuscate, prevaricate 👉 “He lied” vs “He misrepresented the facts” Money / exploitation Germanic:take, steal, pay Latinate:appropriate, extract, leverage, monetize 👉 “They’re taking your money” vs “They’re extracting value” War / violence Germanic:fight, bomb, burn Latinate:engagement, kinetic action, force projection 👉 “We bombed them” vs “We conducted kinetic operations” Bureaucracy / responsibility Germanic:you broke it, you did it Latinate:mistakes were made, systemic failure occurred 👉 Notice how the subject disappears. Money / exploitation Germanic:take, steal, pay Latinate:appropriate, extract, leverage, monetize 👉 “They’re taking your money” vs “They’re extracting value” War / violence Germanic:fight, bomb, burn Latinate:engagement, kinetic action, force projection 👉 “We bombed them” vs “We conducted kinetic operations” Bureaucracy / responsibility Germanic:you broke it, you did it Latinate:mistakes were made, systemic failure occurred 👉 Notice how the subject disappears. If you see a public statement filled with Latin-sounding words, you are being fooled, tricked, manipulated, or lied to.

My timeline is full of annoying anti-openclaw tweets trying to convince me to pivot to Hermes. wtf, stop. No thank you.

So far, Nayib Bukele is on track to be the Lee Kuan Yew of Latin America. The Simon Bolivar of the new century. He focused on building up his own country. He embraced hard money and cut off hard drugs. He did imprison criminals, but did so with the minimum necessary force. He persuaded first, and compelled only when absolutely necessary. Like Lee Kuan Yew, Bukele turned his country into a bonafide showcase for a global audience. Bukele built a domestic coalition in his native Spanish and an international coalition in fluent English. He balanced El Salvadoran nationalism with diplomacy and capitalism, recruiting Tether, xAI, Bitcoin, and tech to the country. Incredibly, he’s made El Salvador into a model not just for Latin Americans, but for North Americans. And he did it in less than ten years, with absolutely no precedent in the region.

World War World War 2 <— you are here World War 3 2 World 2 War World War: Tokyo Drift World and War World 7 War 8

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We're hiring @ the Aztec Foundation! Work with me to support the decentralised infrastructure operators! Offer support, help improve documentation and look out for their interests as important stakeholders in the @aztecnetwork ecosystem. aztecfoundation.bamboohr.com/careers/24

Ethereum’s endgame is getting rebuilt, not upgraded. With Lean Consensus (née Beamchain), @ethereum is starting from the endgame: cleaning up technical debt, pushing toward fast finality and preparing for a post-quantum future. It’s one of the most ambitious protocol workstreams for Ethereum and for crypto infrastructure overall. I had a conversation with @drakefjustin to understand what Lean Ethereum really is in terms of: real-time proving, the path to higher L1 throughput and what it unlocks for rollups. Stay tuned for the full episode of TheCoordinate podcast!

@DrNickA I haven’t felt this excited since then, an apt comparison

It’s DeFi summer in agent world

He was DEFEATED ELEVEN TIMES. Attacked. Threatened with DEATH. Nearly blind. Addicted to opium just to function. They told him to stop. He spent forty-six years refusing. His name was William Wilberforce. Born in Hull, 1759. He could have lived a comfortable life. Wealthy family. Safe seat in Parliament. Instead he chose to destroy the most powerful economic system in the British Empire. The slave trade. He didn't fight alone. Thomas Clarkson rode 35,000 miles gathering evidence. Olaudah Equiano, man who had been enslaved himself, gave testimony that no politician could ignore. Wilberforce took their evidence to Parliament. They voted no. He came back. They voted no. He came back. Lost by eight votes. MPs deliberately stayed away so they wouldn't have to choose a side. He came back. Again. And again. And again. By now his eyesight was nearly gone. His body was breaking. He'd been on opium since he was 29. Twenty years after he started, they voted again. 283 to 16. The slave trade was abolished. But he wasn't finished. Slavery itself was still legal. He fought for another twenty-six years. In July 1833, lying in bed, barely able to move, he received word. Parliament had voted. Slavery was abolished across the entire British Empire. Three days later, William Wilberforce died. He held on just long enough. They buried him in Westminster Abbey. Help keep our stories alive. proudofus.co.uk/support Be part of us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

Yes, I joined the auction of @aztecnetwork. And look, you can FUD & complain – but that's how you push the price lower. I think that Aztec is one of the few privacy protocols with great potential. And I want to support them. Quick fact for you: Almost EVERY team building with privacy today is using tools the Aztec team developed. They are the ground-level infra. Plus: 1. The @aztecnetwork Ignition chain is live on Ethereum mainnet and actively producing blocks. It’s the first decentralized L2 on Ethereum, ever 2. Their Alpha Network should be shipping before the end of Q1, 2026 3. Aztec has a unique blockspace because it has private storage and execution that no other chain has. Aztec has a very strong product. And I am sure that they will ship. Sentiment changes, anon.

You don’t care about the project beyond how it could enrich you. You made a speculative play for financial rewards with no guarantee of return and it didn’t work out for you. Now you’re complaining about it as loudly as you can and shitting on a project with actual vision and value for the world. This is exactly what is wrong with crypto. Not the builders grinding to improve our world, but the gamblers who don’t take responsibility for their own decisions and blame others.

1. Privacy was so hyped. You can see the Privacy tokens PA in 2025 2. They wanted to build a strong community 3. we believed to see some useful game changer projects in Aztec but after almost 1 year, literally nothing 4. Bcs if Privacy hype, i wanted to bag some Privacy tokens and Aztec was one of them. I joined the community and grinded so hard to get some perks for token sale 5. I wanted to accumulate 200k tokens to run Sequencer in mainnet. But now I'm completely regretting it

How @aztecnetwork cooked (f*cked) its community - first most of us joined aztec network by running nodes. In first days they created Apprentice & Guardian role to make us keep our nodes up to get those roles. Renting vps and rpc wasn't cheap, i spent more than $300 to keep my nodes up. Many of you may have spent more. - they always have been flexing on how many active nodes they had (+25k) on their network, helping the decentralization of thenetwork - they (Claire Kart & Roberto) created "the path of sacred flame". From uninitiated to Illuminated (uninitiated > initiated > Archivist > paragon > illuminated). Getting those roles weren't easy and it needed high effort. - it doesn't finish here. They even created more roles like memelord, mastero, content chronicler, high attester, proposer commander, etc. Getting those roles was pretty hard! e.g. only 1-2 memelord per week. - they added weekly townhalls (added townhall roles as well to bring huge number of attendees). They were distributing roles in townhalls with shoutouts. They made us feel those roles are really valuable. - people were creating contents, memes, articles, supporting aztec team tweets and etc. for more than 6 months even though there wasn't any infofi campaign. (Free marketing for Aztec) - no one looked for any airdrop. We all knew there's no airdrop as claire Kart (aka mother of kitchens) was shitting on airdrops. But we expected something like Zama, perks for core community on presale. Like different FDVs based on contribution. - they introduced CCA (aka max extraction sale mechanism). An auction with unlimited cap & unnecessary bs terms. They somehow gathered 300k random wallets for early phase as a reward for the community and for max extraction as well. - they putted a random guy with x txs in uniswap with Illuminateds (the highest role in Aztec) in the same place! And what was the advantages for early participants? 25% of our bids fills in the first day at $350m fdv. Although the final fdv for us was around $390M-$400M and for public was $450M-$460M. Not much difference at all! - "no airdrop but we love you". You actually hate us. Farming community and extracting money from community and leave them in loss≠ love - they didn't even spend a penny to list their token at clearing fdv. They just let it go and still saying long-term bs as an execution for their bad performance at tge - no matter haw good is your product. You're nothing without community and everyone know that. I've been in crypto since 2021 and never felt that i need privacy here. Privacy in crypto is only useful for thieves and hackers. - >70% of tokens are in team and investors hands. Not even giving 1% to community... So in the end, how are we supposed to support them? It's like scammers steal your hard earned money and expects us to support them for stealing our money 😂

Blink and you’ll miss it. 45% of tokens from the sale are staked. 95% of currently staked tokens are from pre-TGE diamond hands. It’s been 24 hours.

i'm seeing Aztec's TGE get a lot of hate on my TL. all coming from people who have no interest in the amazing tech that @Zac_Aztec, @jaosef and the rest of the team has been building for the last 8+ years. is the market timing optimal to launch a token? no. is that stopping the team? no. another testament that shows that they are not here to build something just to "pump" their bags. hats off to the entire team and best of luck in the coming days and weeks. i was very lucky to work with @clairekart, @Kelsey0x and a few others on the marketing team and if you're talking about Aztec now or have been doing so for the last months is because they are doing their job right. so stfu with all of the hate and negativity. privacy wins. ethereum wins.

@sjdedic Bad take. It’s important to do hard things and sometimes they are expensive to do. Grateful some capital allocators see that.

Another incredibly underwhelming launch today: Aztec They raised $157M and are now trading at $59M market cap, $215M FDV. Even that feels too expensive. Their public sale two months ago was at a $480M FDV, immediate losses of over -50%. Retail is down bad. a16z and other tOp TiEr investors are probably down even worse. This reflects everything that’s wrong with the industry: - Massively overfunded VCs bidding valuations to infinity - Founders with ego issues allowing bids to infinity - Too much focus on infra and academic experiments instead of real businesses with revenue - Blind public investors aping for quick flips without understanding what they’re buying Stop complaining, because as long as you won't show more discipline with your investments, nothing will change.

I love seeing founders stand by their principals. Crypto is not about numba-go-up. It may seem that way, and I know the pain of market volatility intimately, but remember why we are here. We are here to transform the world, to build a new economy that will enable human flourishing to a level never dreamed. Well, that's why I'm here, and that's why I love this project.

“Reverse prompting” makes it sound so much gentler sliding down the slope from apex thinker as it’s become clear that asking this intelligence what to do is better than telling it what to do…