As a corporate lawyer, I've been incorporating companies for 17 years, & it's a mess. Somehow we really got robots & AI before a halfway decent startup app.

So I built it myself--oneshot formation, cap table, governance and onchain identity for your startup today.

where we are in the perpetual pendulum swing between suits and cypherpunks

Dario Amodei was so worried about Y2K that his high school teacher still remembers it decades later.

He’s been a doomer for much longer than I thought!

Whether this is true or not, the need for assets the government can't seize has never been stronger

This is why we Ethereum

have been trying to use agents for more stuff

they have a long way to go

very American-centric right now

do you know there are countries where nearly every single purchase no matter how small requires ID, phone #, etc.? sad but true...and grokbot for example will not accept such details in its vault...

MAKE IT HARDER. GO EVEN LOWER

My $ETH stays firmly put no matter how low we go

Nothing in this world will shake me out of the fortress I’ve built

We’ll get thru this storm, just like we’ve gotten thru all the others

JUST SURVIVE

Crypto bros:

It’s true and overwhelmingly positive that blockchains are being adopted through tokenized RWAs and fiat stablecoins. I understand the push to rebrand the industry around Finance (or grouping it with other Frontier tech) rather than "crypto".

But to me, the word crypto has e beliefs around cypherpunk tech, decentralization, and the creation of entirely new economic institutions.

I believe "crypto" in its original sense will make a resurgence in the years ahead. As public blockchain rails become deeply integrated into legacy system, they’ll also lay the foundation for something far more transformative: the dominance of decentralized exchange, the proliferation of futarchy, the global preference toward non-sovereign money, and entirely new forms of economic coordination.

We’ll need a word to distinguish these new institutions from the traditional ones they’re replacing.

Fortunately, we already have one.

So yeah, I’m going to keep calling it crypto.

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2 days privacy workshop with financial institutions in NYC. Chatham house so one panel get lively between panelists and audience.

Major bank:
"If you need to trust me, you don't need a Blockchain".

The world is healing.

Can we add this in the first block post Glmasterdam? @ox_shaman @barnabemonnot

get-rich-quick button. 2020-2022 edition.

I wanted to test if a Solana program with no source available could be pulled from the chain and reverse engineered into a byte identical open source version

So I took the daosfun contract and did just that

Found a critical security vulnerability in the mainnet program too, oops!

All smart contracts can be perfectly reverse engineered now

There is no security by obscurity anymore

github.com/lalalune/daosf…

I am a technology optimist. I believe:

1. decentralization and censorship-resistance (real versions of these properties, not larps) matter to human freedom in the coming age of AI

2. self-sovereign money, implemented by code and maintained through decentralized consensus, is the final form of money. But it needs to be truly decentralized -- cut out every possible weakness, trust assumption, keeper, etc. Of course there will be connectors to the real world - harden those maximally

3. AI will write most smart contract code. Spec-driven development with Formal Verification will be how new contracts are written rigorously. FV will also be crucial to securing all the infra including the blockchain itself

4. AI will harden our surfaces, with some unfortunate hacks in the process, but ultimately the crypto and financial industries will come out stronger

5. properly-constructed and properly-indexed data lakes will enable agents to build software far more productively

6. governments will move to restrict AI usage in the future, causing true decentralization and CR to matter in dramatic fashion

7. quantum security will be a must for any ledger where people trust their assets. And specifically, blockchains will need to deliver quantum-resistance while retaining programmability and performance. Again, no larping

8. ZK will be an important part of the puzzle too, as it'll be increasingly important to prove off-chain computation and utilize the result on chain. But again, performance and effortlessness for users will be the differentiator

9. pragmatic and composable privacy will be the missing piece for real adoption. People will use apps that stack together stablecoins, DeFi, blockchain settlement, passkey or MPC authentication, and friction-free onramps, but the part that gets fintechs over the line is knowing that user balances will remain private while still being able to tap into shared liquidity

10. blockchain will serve as the global, universal marketplace, for anyone anywhere to get the best opportunities. For that we will need guarantees of fair execution, protection from frontrunning, and a convergence of all of the best assets

At @category_xyz and the @monad Foundation, we are assembling all of these missing pieces in parallel with extreme urgency, and I hope this is clear from our actions. See you in the future

We have strayed too far away from the core value props that carried the industry up to this point. The mean reversion back to cypherpunk will be led by futarchy, AI, and the EVM.

@lex_node shields up

Exactly why Ethereum has 100% uptime

The devs ship absolute perfection not garbage.

New @edge_pod!

A few years ago, Zcash looked almost dead.

A lot changed: price is up 40x, zcash:native wallets work, and there's huge flows into ZEC.

These Zcash builders say the price run is no fluke.

"It's not like we did the year of Zcash and it's over now. It's just the start."

me on same side as solana, who'd have thought lol?

Heard of a top law firm completely cutting off Harvey and all API calls to Claude/OpenAI after they saw what openAI did with navier strokes

Now hosting everything locally with GPUs they own, running Kimi and deepseek

Think you’ll see a lot more of this going forward

everytime there is moveVM hack it reminds of this guy!

moveVM is the future bruh gmove, solidity sucks, EVM sucks bruh

anyways good luck to initia team, hope you guys come back stronger 🫡

For an asset to become a SoV it must endure devastating crashes where all hope seems lost, only for a group of holders to traumabond, reaffirm the mission, and emerge as hardened believers.

This cycle must repeat multiple times. Keep that in mind when evaluating potential SoVs.