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Holy shit. MIT just built an AI that can rewrite its own code to get smarter 🤯 It’s called SEAL (Self-Adapting Language Models). Instead of humans fine-tuning it, SEAL reads new info, rewrites it in its own words, and runs gradient updates on itself literally performing self-directed learning. The results? ✅ +40% boost in factual recall ✅ Outperforms GPT-4.1 using data it generated *itself* ✅ Learns new tasks without any human in the loop LLMs that finetune themselves are no longer sci-fi. We just entered the age of self-evolving models. Paper: jyopari. github. io/posts/seal

Inscriptions have taken down multiple chains and caused huge gas spikes over the last couple of days. However, very few people actually understand what's going on. Here's a simple explanation of inscriptions - how they work and why they're being spammed everywhere 🧵:

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Block 16964664: A user managed to drain five MEV bots by exploiting a bug in mev-boost-relay. Here's the block: etherscan.io/block/16964664 Here's the user: etherscan.io/address/0x3c98… Here's the patch: github.com/flashbots/mev-… Here's the longer explanation:

This fantastic figure by @VitalikButerin illustrates how ERC-4337 signature aggregators can actually reduce data size, and therefore transaction costs, on rollups.

So much alpha in this thread

Highlights from #NeurIPS2022. Thread 🧵

The QQL duel between @CozomoMedici and @punk6529 came down to a difficult decision. On the one hand, Medici put together a strong diptych with perfect spatial alignment. On the other, 6529 has continued their QQL storyline in a clean and elegant way...

Introducing Account Abstraction (AA)! Disconnect the Signer and Account. Make the Account a smart contract that defines what a valid transaction is: - Signature Scheme? - Multiple Signers? - Signers can be replaced? 🤯

Designated verifier proofs are a fascinating building block. Alice sends Bob a ZK-SNARK proof "either X is true about me and data I hold, or I am Bob" Bob knows he did not make the proof, so he knows X is true. But if Bob sends Alice's proof to Charlie, Charlie is not convinced

In case you missed it: I talked about new types of MEV in PoS at Devcon. 6 minutes, short and sweet. youtu.be/rnR7puADz-o

In September a new smart contract standard was approved which will create powerful applications for Web3 in gaming + finance. ERC3525 expands on ERC1155 and introduces semi-fungible tokens to unlock exciting new use cases for NFTs. Here’s all you need to know about ERC3525. 🧵

"AI figures out how to make AI faster." I think we're going to start seeing a lot more headlines like this.

Today an NFT started minting with a function which unfortunately which lets anyone drain all their ETH A few hours later there was an MEV bot skirmish over the ETH in this contract, here's a short thread with some details

Amidst all the reckage and misery, here's your little ray of sunshiny good news for the weekend: What's New in #Eth2. All your #Ethereum Merge updates and everything else right here: eth2.news 🌞 Enjoy! 🌞

@dcbuilder @EthPrague As someone who’s half Czech but never been, it’s nice to get this insider cultural context.

For those of you who attended @EthPrague. Here you have some cultural context

v4.0.0 of ERC721A is now live. We made a lot of changes in this release so let's take a look at some major differences in this release. Once again, huge thanks to @optimizoor for driving this release. 🧵👇

Stocks lost $7 trillion Scam also? cnn.com/2022/05/12/inv…

Ever wanted to use Flashbots from the CLI? ;) npmjs.com/package/flashb…