This is the right way to "make Ethereum be the home for AI".Don't just do what everyone else would do anyway, just on rails with an octahedron logo instead of a square or circle or pentagon logo. Make something fundamentally better, using meaningful technological improvements in ZK privacy-preserving payments and reputation.Davide Crapis (@DavideCrapis):The internet made access identity-based.Every API call tied to your email, card, or wallet.AI will make it worse.Our proposal:Replace identity with stake.De ...

RT Davide Crapis (@DavideCrapis)The internet made access identity-based.Every API call tied to your email, card, or wallet.AI will make it worse.Our proposal:Replace identity with stake.Deposit once.Make thousands of API calls.Stay unlinkable.Abuse gets slashed.New post with @VitalikButerin 👇 https://t.co/xUAA2cCUtJ ...

Good speech by Cory DoctorowLet's repeal anti-circumvention laws.Nothing should be updateable without the user's permission, nothing critical should be a black box.https://t.co/aXrIFmnfgi ...

Two years ago, I wrote this post on the possible areas that I see for ethereum + AI intersections: https://t.co/y8G3MD5APFThis is a topic that many people are excited about, but where I always worry that we think about the two from completely separate philosophical perspectives.I am reminded of Toly's recent tweet that I should "work on AGI". I appreciate the compliment, for him to think that I am capable of contributing to such a lofty thing. However, I get this feeling that the frame of "work on AGI" itse ...

One reason (not the only reason) why I see people sometimes hesitating to switch more fully to Signal, is that they got into a habit of using Signal as their "high-priority, clutter-free" inbox and Telegram as their "everyone else talk to me" inbox, and thus hesitate to make Signal "cluttered" again.Things that I find work for me in this situation is:* Signal now has a folders feature: you can right-click (if on phone, tap-and-hold) on a contact and an "Add to folder" option appears* Using *another* app (eg ...

I am capitulating, I will call Twitter "X" from now on."Tweet" becomes a generic term for messages on any platform that prioritizes short-form text content with X-like UX, similar linguistically to "kleenex".Usage guide:* "Vitalik is only tweeting on Farcaster and Lens this year, isn't it awful how much of an ivory tower elitist he is?"* "Did you see Donald Trump's shocking new racist tweet on Truth Social?"* "Back when I sent that in 2019, it was a tweet, and by this new definition it still is, but now we ...

It's a good decision!ENS names and records are a form of state that is central to the Ethereum ecosystem, the state is limited in size and there is high value in it being as accessible as possible from anywhere.It's also a semi-financial application, in the sense that buying and holding ENS names has a cost, and ENS names can become very valuable objects.With the expanded scaling roadmap, Ethereum L1 is the ideal place for these applications.More generally, I expect that the optimal architecture for decentr ...

Hyper-scaling Ethereum state by creating new forms of state:https://t.co/7nL9qOQqxOSummary:* We want 1000x scale on Ethereum L1. We roughly know how to do this for execution and data. But scaling state is fundamentally harder.* The most practical path for Ethereum may actually be to scale existing state only a medium amount, and at the same time introduce newer forms of state that would be extremely cheap but also more restrictive in how you can use them.* In such a design, the present-day state tree would ...

Have been following reactions to what I said about L2s about 1.5 days ago.One important thing that I believe is: "make yet another EVM chain and add an optimistic bridge to Ethereum with a 1 week delay" is to infra what forking Compound is to governance - something we've done far too much for far too long, because we got comfortable, and which has sapped our imagination and put us in a dead end.If you make an EVM chain *without* an optimistic bridge to Ethereum (aka an alt L1), that's even worse. We don't f ...

There have recently been some discussions on the ongoing role of L2s in the Ethereum ecosystem, especially in the face of two facts:* L2s' progress to stage 2 (and, secondarily, on interop) has been far slower and more difficult than originally expected* L1 itself is scaling, fees are very low, and gaslimits are projected to increase greatly in 2026Both of these facts, for their own separate reasons, mean that the original vision of L2s and their role in Ethereum no longer makes sense, and we need a new pat ...