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Total market cap of crypto is the same as SpaceX. How does that make you feel about crypto?
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Bittensor has a smart team 🧠
Bittensor just introduced Conviction Governance today, this is the biggest ecosystem to experiment with it They replaced simple token voting, with CV = Stake × Time, forcing operators to lock TAO to gain voting weight @gardens_fund have been pioneering the mechanism since 2021
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Bittensor just introduced Conviction Governance today, this is the biggest ecosystem to experiment with it They replaced simple token voting, with CV = Stake × Time, forcing operators to lock TAO to gain voting weight @gardens_fund have been pioneering the mechanism since 2021
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if you can write, speak and ai in english, I have a job opening for you follow and dm for details
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working on smth the ongoing problem with bankr and beyond: dev sells the token to fund the project, just like the recent example with @mac_eth what if dev could create a lending hook to keep exposure to his token while getting funded? the problem with current lending primitives: dev can easily get his position liquidated → cascade liquidations → lost exposure lending markets can be reshaped into a better product won’t say more until released but always felt excited about innovations
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the fact that @base had to mention they are exploring a token is 🐻 this can only mean they are not having enough network activity, otherwise why would you mention it?
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Traditional crowdfunding is a pipeline. You raise, you spend, the relationship ends. GrowFi on Ethereum is a flywheel. Every producer, investor, and consumer makes the platform more valuable for everyone else. Here's how the network effects work 🌱🧵 x.com/higrowfi/status/206474…

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you can just do things. you can just have a stupidly simple idea for a drone detection system, so obvious in your head that surely it already exists you can just spend the next weeks hyper focusing on research, only to realize it's not that simple, and maybe you're onto something you can just join a European defense hackathon and get the parts for your first prototype delivered 1 hour before it starts you can just spend 48 hours manically soldering, 3D modeling, printing, hot gluing, taping, cutting, coding firmware, fixing bugs, unrolling fiber optic cables, testing with a mini drone, building a pitch deck, and demoing it on stage where it kind of works but doesn't quite detect the drone you can just apply to an official FPV drone detection crash test in Ukraine, run by Ukraine's Ministry of Defense, without even having a working prototype yet, and get officially invited a few weeks later you can just realize you now have one month to build a working version from scratch, pack all your tools, and fly to the middle of Romania, to your cofounder's house, to spend 3 weeks hacking from 10am to 3am while frantically ordering more parts and bashing your heads against the infinite struggle of building hardware, electronics and software all tightly coupled together you can just try to open a company and a bank account in Portugal while in Romania, and fight the bureaucracy so hard that your bro has to call his mom to physically walk into a civil registry office in the countryside of Portugal, so she tells the registry lady to call you, so you can unlock the company formation process you can just fly back to Portugal to open the bank account in person, go to a Portuguese army innovation conference, and realize how hard it is to innovate in defense without being at war, and how far most European armies still are from the reality of what's happening in Ukraine right now you can just track down and buy the only Mac Studio M4 Max in Portugal, second hand, from a guy in the middle of the country, because it's sold out everywhere with an 8 week waiting list, since it's the only computer with enough compute and low enough power draw to live inside our portable field hub and detect FPV drones in real time you can just decide to travel to a country at war to test your product, and have the trip land just one week after the largest combined Shahed and cruise missile attack that country had seen in over four years of war you can just fly to Budapest, meet your cofounder and spend 2 days in a tiny hobbit house outside the city assembling and soldering the last sensor node, then drive last minute to a field full of wild horses to test the full system with a simple DJI drone, not really sure if it's going to work on the crash test you can just race to the Budapest train station straight off the field, buried in luggage, and board a 20 hour overnight train to Kyiv all by yourself, then talk your way past the Hungarian border police when they get scandalized that a Portuguese guy is rolling into wartime Ukraine with what looks like a weapon in a huge peli case, when it's really just a computer and homemade microphones connected by fiber optics you can just get to Kyiv and spend 2 days locked in your hotel room finishing the system hub, failing to get a GPS fix indoors to test the setup from your hotel bed, while air raid alerts go off every day and you head down to the shelter to wait them out with the other guests, passing around a plastic cup of Ukrainian champagne from Crimea you can just rent a car on the outskirts of Kyiv, get lost because the address was missing one letter after the number, walk 20 minutes at night to find the rental office, and finally get a reliable Skoda to drive to the crash test site at an undisclosed location you can just offer to pick up another participant from the train station on the morning of the test, whose train runs late because it had to be evacuated midway, and strike up a great conversation about defense, AI, Ukraine and acoustic detection the whole way there you can just show up late because you had to navigate to the site on pure vibes and old school map reading, and then start setting up alone while nothing seems to be working you can just beg the organizers for a stronger powerbank to feed the hub, realize after an hour of troubleshooting that the 4th node is dead (and you need at least 4 to detect anything), swap its GPS module right there in the field, and watch it all come alive 5 minutes before the first FPV test flight you can just spend the whole day in the field, eating dust under sun, wind and rain, alongside a field of other manufacturers all chasing the same problem in their own way, while your system hums along detecting and tracking real combat-grade FPV drones in real time, 50 meters out, plotting them on a map like radar, built from a pile of prototyping parts hacked together beautifully, to become a passive acoustic system that nothing can jam, made of 4 homemade microphones connected by fiber optics to a central compute hub you can just not have the official numbers yet, because the organizers are still processing them, but know exactly what you saw with your own eyes, a handmade system tracking combat drones in real time in the middle of a war and use that as fuel to drive you even more obsessed with cracking this problem you can just then take an overnight train to Lviv with all your gear, to compare notes with one of the leading Ukrainian acoustic-detection companies, only to evacuate the station over a bomb threat with your suspicious-looking giant peli hardware case you can just carry on toward Poland, meet a lovely Ukrainian soldier on the train who hands you drip coffee and gives you genuinely great product feedback, but ultimately fails to convince the border officer that you're not transporting a bomb you can just be pulled off the train with all your luggage and spend the next 12 hours questioned by 3 different teams of customs officers, in varying levels of broken english, about who you are, what you're doing, and what every single piece of electronics you're carrying actually does you can just have your whole prototype held at the border for further inspection, maybe to be returned in a couple of months, because nobody could quite believe it's just a regular computer and a bunch of homemade microphones connected by fiber optics you can just find a way to still make it to Vilnius in time for day 2 of the NATO-Ukraine innovators forum, despite losing your flight, and schmooze your way onto the stage to pitch in front of a panel of European defense VCs, running on coffee and zero sleep, in a way that makes sure they remember you you can just do all of that in 80 days, from the initial idea in your head to a working prototype, built with your own hands, that detects and tracks fiber optic guided FPV combat drones in real time, the ones that cannot be detected any other way, in a real test in the middle of Ukraine, so that fewer soldiers die at the frontline to this new class of weapon that has redefined modern warfare forever you can just start doing things and end up with a passive, electronic-warfare-immune acoustic detection system for FPV drones, cheap enough to blanket the frontline, holding up under live battlefield conditions in the most battle hardened country on earth right now you can just do things.
An FPV combat drone, detected and tracked in real time by sound alone. Four passive acoustic sensors connected by fiber, plotting it on a map like radar. Emitting zero RF, with nothing to jam. Silent Mesh is built to detect fiber-optic guided FPV drones, the deadliest new threat at the frontline, invisible to every other system. You can hear them before you see them.
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TL;DR - I’m bullish on ETH and tired of the doomerism and complaining
TL;DR - I’m bullish on ETH and tired of the doomerism and complaining The gap between builder and market sentiment around Ethereum, and the actual potential of the Ethereum ecosystem, feels unreal right now. The reality is that Ethereum is the leading programmable blockchain by a large margin on most meaningful metrics. It has the deepest liquidity, the largest developer base, the most mature tooling, the most composable stack, the most developed DeFi ecosystem, etc. Yes, other chains have interesting things going on. I am not saying anyone should underestimate Solana, Canton, the L2s, or even Tron or BNB Chain. They deserve the respect and recognition they have worked hard to earn. But most of their unique advantages only matter because Ethereum is the benchmark they are differentiating against. Ethereum is the benchmark. Ethereum is the default. It is the largest credibly neutral universal settlement layer. It is the leader in this space. And yet the Ethereum community often spectacularly fails to acknowledge and communicate this advantage. Somehow, the dominant narrative has become one of unmet expectations, internal conflicts, lack of hope, frustration, and an uncertain future. I call bullshit on that narrative. If crypto is the infrastructure for the future financial system (spoiler: it is), then Ethereum is still best positioned to sit at the center of it: a shared settlement layer for regulated and unregulated DeFi, tokenized RWAs, L2s, ZK identity systems, and even collectible NFTs. Yes, other projects want to be this centerpiece too. But today they still need to prove they deserve to be considered serious contenders in that race. Ethereum already has its starting number. I know token prices are not where we want them to be. But this reminds me of old Vitalik's post asking whether crypto had earned the market cap it had back then. I approach that question a bit differently than he did, but I think it is still a very valid question. Did crypto earn its valuation back then? Has Ethereum earned today's valuation and price? In many ways, yes. We have built a lot of great tech. We have solved many hard problems. Progress in areas like ZK has gone far beyond what most of us expected five years ago. And yes, the institutions are coming. But do we know how they are supposed to make money once they arrive? Can we explain where and how crypto gives them material improvements over legacy technology - enough to produce real savings, better efficiency, or higher margins? Is what we have built compatible with their tech stacks and compliance requirements? Do we have solid business cases for them? And if you’re not a fan of institutions, can you explain how we are replacing them in a way that lets me recommend a DeFi product to my friends without their money somehow ending up funding North Korea? Why should they abandon those institutions and go crypto? And is your argument valuable enough to justify the crypto valuations you expect? Personally, I can answer most of those questions positively. But the answers are not obvious or very solid. In many cases, we are still at the beginning of the journey, not the end. So I do not expect prices or valuations to behave as if we had already reached the finish line. There is still a ton of work to do, a lot of things to build, and a lot to prove. But today, more than at any point in the past, I am optimistic that we will be able to answer those questions soon-ish. It feels like we are in the "Trough of Disillusionment" phase of the Gartner Hype Cycle, and we’re starting to climb the "Slope of Enlightenment". Since 2016, my thesis for crypto has been simple: the IT infrastructure for finance - or more generally, for value exchange - is mostly risk and cost. It is rarely a unique competitive advantage. So it makes sense for many actors to share that risk and cost instead of each owning and maintaining it for themselves. Today, more than ever, I believe Ethereum is the best possible candidate for that common, shared IT infrastructure and it offers the strongest ecosystem to build on (together with L2s). If you made it this far, thank you. A like or RT would be much appreciated, if only to justify the time I spent composing this ragepost. ;)
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Razvan- ZER8🧠 retweeted
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Weird people with 0 ethics if you ask me, don't care how much money they have.
You can just stop listening to these guys
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Eth made a lot of people rich, not a lot of them have the honor to at least admit it.
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Regret is the ultimate poison. If you are thinking about taking the leap and doing whatever it is that you love, you need to just go for it. You will always regret the things that you don't do, not the things you did.
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I believe governance that works is harder to build than the token that funds it I believe in Squid and love the product.
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what's the latest research in tokenomics? :)
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For all the Ethereum haters out there, pls remember every innovation we had for the last 10 years in this industry was due to Ethereum. NFTs Dexes Perps ICOs Stablecoins
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I’ve been feeling impatient and disillusioned with Ethereum and saw @TrustlessState sold. Figured I’d do some research and maybe start to exit myself. After reviewing, I’m more optimistic than I’ve been in years and won’t be selling. I think the problem is that Glamsterdam, native rollups, preconfs, lean Ethereum, etc. are super boring. We all want to see some flashy use cases we can see and touch, but Ethereum isn’t a consumer product. It’s not even typical internet infrastructure like (Stripe and AWS). It’s digital bedrock (like DNS and HTTPS). CT reminds me of engineering demos where the non-technical audience would be more impressed with the junior dev’s flashy UI than the 100x backend engineer’s data pipelines. The trilemma (secure, scalable, trustless) is solvable and Ethereum still seems to be the best positioned to do so. The “marketing” used to be WAY better and the vibes have fallen apart but I don’t think that matters all that much. I’d rather the devs focus on delivering the increasingly logical and achievable roadmap. L2s were a mess and the “blockchain revolution” has been taking longer than anticipated but when is progress ever linear? In the future when nation states, corporations and ai agents are digitizing identity, ownership records, permissions, and contracts, what’s going to underpin it? Siloed servers with fragile APIs and janky data normalization? Paper still? I still think the “world computer” is IMMENSELY valuable and I still think Ethereum will be the bedrock that enables it. I plan to keep betting my ETH on it for now.
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ETH bears are just people who think the financial internet will settle on a VC chain with 12 validators.
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Not sure about the rest. But it's hard for me to be bullish crypto without being bullish on Ethereum
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