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Been talking with staking and oracle teams about designing for censorship resistance, open source, privacy, and security, and what’s stopping them.

Along the way, teams kept pointing at EIPs and L1 limits, so I wrote it up as app-layer feedback:

ethereum-magicians.org/t/app-layer-in…

The wait is over! ICYMI: the Devcon 8 schedule is here.

4 days of talks, workshops, & conversations with the Ethereum community's important voices.

Explore the program, find the sessions you don't want to miss, & start planning your week in Mumbai.

📱app.devcon.org

after deliberation between contributors...

we have a winner on the Bring Snowmoon to Life bounty created by @CryptoStatuette and funded by @dcp_leo @kennyistyping @olivebranch_net @alexsotodigital and @Summercloudzz

congratulations, @0xnaaate! 🥳

🔜 Devcon 8 🇮🇳

In my humble opinion the @EFDevcon lineup is STACKED

Just starred like 15 talks I want to see. So excited

You know they care when they leave small messages like this in the app.

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Private Ethereum. Now in your browser.

The Cloaked extension is live 🎉

Connect to apps with a fresh address, fund it privately, and keep control of your keys.

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Very important discussion with an Ethereum builder I deeply respect @trent_vanepps 👇

[IMPORTANT] 🚨 Epoch 13’s allocation window will close at 6 AM UTC (2 am
ET) on 22 October.

That’s six extra hours to make your vote count and to support privacy.

Happy allocating!

privacy pools v2 is live

a new privacy layer for ethereum is here

A good day to fund some privacy on @OctantApp

I donated to @torproject @OfflineProtocol @session_app @wslyvh @staycloakedxyz @hisoka_io @vocdoni and more

This is spot on. Maybe we need more satire to market CROPS...

using flock, we just shipped post quantum tornado cash proofs on sha256 with 30ms proving time!

privacy has a bright future on ethereum

ethresear.ch/t/faster-aggre…

Been asking for being able to run a validator behind Tor for a few years on the staker survey. Hoping this will get taken seriously now. Yes, it requires accepting much higher p2p latency and jitter.

I had to testify in a trial I wasn't involved in. Here's my story: x.com/i/article/2111…

Some quick thoughts on people asking how I can support crops and be excited about the changes to @farcaster_xyz

Farcaster (the app) has always had moderation and a social contract. @dwr talked about moderation from the beginning. Having rules for an app doesn’t inherently conflict with free speech or censorship resistance

We don’t allow shitposting on ethresearch. It’s a space for Ethereum research, and moderation helps keep it useful. That’s reasonable. If the mods started banning research about MEV because they personally didn’t think MEV was a problem, that would be a different story. They’d be using their position to suppress ideas within the discussion the forum is supposed to support

I’m directionally for apps experimenting with rules and algorithms that make conversations more productive. We already have algorithms deciding what gets attention, based on what keeps us scrolling. I want people trying other approaches

@balajis is changing Farcaster’s social contract and making it explicit. That doesn’t automatically make every rule or moderation decision good. Applying new rules to old posts is a fair thing to criticize. People wrote those posts under different expectations, and signing something today doesn’t erase that

But Farcaster being built on an open, decentralized protocol matters here. The app’s moderation rules shouldn’t determine whether you can participate in the underlying network. You should be able to use or build another client with different rules and keep your identity, following, and history. That needs to work in practice, too

That’s where my support for CROPS comes in. I want the underlying network to remain open and censorship resistant so different communities can exist on it. I don’t need every app on that network to have the same moderation policy, or to accept every kind of post

Personally, I like the direction of the new social contract. I’ve always found the Network State and techno-optimism interesting without agreeing with everything involved. I’m interested in a social app that rewards building, teaching, and disagreeing productively

I want to write a full post about this, but I’m starting my travels to India. See you soon @JoinEdgeCity @EFDevcon

fun fact, we priced wedgies on a VRGDA

my son and i can only put them together so fast

so the price goes up as we have to build more

and goes back down over 24 hours

let us build yours today at wedgie.dev

Come learn about the 13 projects in @OctantApp's current privacy epoch 👇