Cosmos Labs has turned Cosmos into a ghost town. They came in with the expressed intent of “killing the old Cosmos” but failed to present anything remotely interesting to replace it. There’s so much exciting stuff happening in the world right now. Privacy, Sovereign AI, End of Pax Americana. The time for cypherpunk crypto is now. But instead ATOM has pivoted to enterprise sales. A billion dollar market cap for what is now effectively a consulting dev shop. And that too, one that hasn’t even been able to land any deals of note.

Doing FX onchain sucks. You have to worry about way too many steps. Onramping, swapping, bridging, fees, slippage, liquidity, and finding a suitable off-ramp. With Denaro FX, your agents can now orchestrate transfers end to end and execute every step for you. Live on @base leveraging @OpenWallet and x402. We built this in 12h for a hackathon, and it's just 0.1% of @DenaroLabs, but it speaks to the direction we want to take! >>> fx.denaro.tech <<< for the hackathon build. >>> denaro.tech <<< to book a call with us and get pitched.

Hyperstition: The AI's soon to be running @JunoNetwork will fork @CosmWasm, leverage @WAVS_WAVS_WAVS for interop with chains where there is actual liquidity (like Ethereum and Solana), and migrate off of the Cosmos SDK to a rust-based @commonwarexyz stack. 📈

Gradually coming out of stealth with @DenaroLabs to get our first partners. 95% of the global GDP now has access to real-time payments, 88 markets. Stablecoins have a clear path to attack a $300B revenue pool and change how money moves cross-border. Agentic Commerce will change how we think B2B and B2C, with trillions of dollars moving towards machine-to-machine. denaro.tech is built for this future. Making real-time, multi-rail payments easily programmable.

Over the past year, many people I talk to have expressed worry about two topics: * Various aspects of the way the world is going: government control and surveillance, wars, corporate power and surveillance, tech enshittification / corposlop, social media becoming a memetic warzone, AI and how it interplays with all of the above... * The brute reality that Ethereum seems to be absent from meaningfully improving the lives of people subject to these things, even on the dimensions we deeply care about (eg. freedom, privacy, security of digital life, community self-organization) It is easy to bond over the first, to commiserate over the fact that beauty and good in the world seems to be receding and darkness advancing, and uncaring powerful people in high places are making this happen. But ultimately, it is easy to acknowledge problems, the hard thing is actually shining a light forward, coming up with a concrete plan that makes the situation better. The second has been weighing heavily on my mind, and on the minds of many of our brightest and most idealistic Ethereans. I personally never felt any upset or fear when political memecoins went on Solana, or various zero-sum gambling applications go on whatever 250 millisecond block chain strikes their fancy. But it *does* weigh on me that, through all of the various low-grade online memetic wars, international overreaches of corporate and government power, and other issues of the last few years, Ethereum has been playing a very limited role in making people's lives better. What *are* the liberating technologies? Starlink is the most obvious one. Locally-running open-weights LLMs are another. Signal is a third. Community Notes is a fourth, tackling the problem from a different angle. One response is to say "stop dreaming big, we need to hunker down and accept that finance is our lane and laser-focus on that". But this is ultimately hollow. Financial freedom and security is critical. But it seems obvious that, while adding a perfectly free and open and sovereign and debasement-proof financial system would fix some things, but it would leave the bulk of our deep worries about the world unaddressed. It's okay for individuals to laser-focus on finance, but we need to be part of some greater whole that has things to say about the other problems too. At the same time, Ethereum cannot fix the world. Ethereum is the "wrong-shaped tool" for that: beyond a certain point, "fixing the world" implies a form of power projection that is more like a centralized political entity than like a decentralized technology community. So what can we do? I think that we in Ethereum should conceptualize ourselves as being part of an ecosystem building "sanctuary technologies": free open-source technologies that let people live, work, talk to each other, manage risk and build wealth, and collaborate on shared goals, in a way that optimizes for robustness to outside pressures. The goal is not to remake the world in Ethereum's image, where all finance is disintermediated, all governance happens through DAOs, and everyone gets a blockchain-based UBI delivered straight to their social-recovery wallet. The goal is the opposite: it's de-totalization. It's to reduce the stakes of the war in heaven by preventing the winner from having total victory (ie. total control over other human beings), and preventing the loser from suffering total defeat. To create digital islands of stability in a chaotic era. To enable interdependence that cannot be weaponized. Ethereum's role is to create "digital space" where different entities can cooperate and interact. Communications channels enable interaction, but communication channels are not "space": they do not let you create single unique objects that canonically represent some social arrangement that changes over time. Money is one important example. Multisigs that can change their members, showing persistence exceeding that of any one person or one public key, are another. Various market and governance structures are a third. There are more. I think now is the time to double down, with greater clarity. Do not try to be Apple or Google, seeing crypto as a tech sector that enables efficiency or shininess. Instead, build our part of the sanctuary tech ecosystem - the "shared digital space with no owner" that enables both open finance and much more. More actively build toward a full-stack ecosystem: both upward to the wallet and application layer (incl AI as interface) and downward to the OS, hardware, even physical/bio security levels. Ultimately, tech is worthless without users. But look for users, both individual and institutional, for whom sanctuary tech is exactly the thing they need. Optimize payments, defi, decentralized social, and other applications precisely for those users, and those goals, which centralized tech will not serve. We have many allies, including many outside of "crypto". It's time we work together with an open mind and move forward.

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Indian developer reverse engineered the protocol that AirPods use to communicate with Apple devices and implemented those features on Android (and Linux) |

BIP-444 is a bad idea. Not going to soft fork anything. Temporary or not. Feel sad that some devs moving further and further in the wrong direction.

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Wasn’t expecting to see the aurora borealis in Seoul 🤣 Thanks @celestia and @boratheworld 🤓🤓

🗓️ 9월 22일 @epicweb3 주최 dApps & Mini Apps Day에서 @PavelAltukhov 와 @marcomonaco83 이 TAC 알파를 공유합니다 RSVP 🔽 luma.com/dappsday 🗓️ 9월 25일 초대 전용 이벤트 @ETHGlobal @topdotco @Kintsugi_Tech @KoreaWeb3 @dogecoin RSVP 🔽 luma.com/tac-takeover-kbw

1/ 🚀 The Korea Web3 Embassy is now working with the @FirmaChain team and will soon be operating validators nodes with our sovereign Korean infrastructure! We had a chance to chat with their team recently 🇰🇷 Check out our trailer below! 🎥

After 3 years, I’m no longer working with Chainflow. Grateful for the experiences, research, BD convos, and governance battles along the way. I’m now open to new opportunities in governance, validator strategy, token economics, and research. DMs open!

This weekend I’ll be mentoring at CodeNYC by @CoinbaseDev, focused on teams building Payments and AI products. If you see a guy in purple, say hi and ask as much as you need. DMs open for builders. See you there!

The @CosmostationVD validator is shutting down on the @JunoNetwork and is now jailed, not producing any rewards. Please redelegate to @CyberneticsOrg. If Juno still has any value and is not at zero, it's thanks to us.

Mad respect to @dimiandre for being the last one contributing to @JunoNetwork. Maybe the only guy in Juno's core team that had good intentions. 🙏 Loading... ⌛ • Rust SDK • Portal v1 • Web3 App Store

A phoenix doesn’t ask for permission. It just rises. The @JunoNetwork comeback is coming with @dimiandre , what’s next: 🧵👇

TAC went live on mainnet one week ago, but what actually is @TacBuild ?👀 It’s the gateway that brings Ethereum’s DeFi to TON’s billion user ecosystem. For users, it's just Telegram. For devs, it's just Solidity. Learn all it's peculiarities here: kintsugi.tech/blog/tac-the-c…

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