“ETH is a store of value. ETH is money.”
– @VitalikButerin

A notable moment from Pragma Mumbai, where Vitalik shared how his thinking on ETH's role has evolved.

Eastern European autism provides full immunity against Chinese honeypot operations.

RT @toly: Vitalik is absolutely right that you can’t focus on fees as the product. That’s absolutely meaningless. You need to pick a prod…

Expanding on why I believe "ETH as store of value (SoV)" makes much more sense to focus on than "ETH as fee-burning token".

Three primary reasons:

1. ETH as fee-burning token never was as strong as it seemed
2. Optimizing for ETH as fee-burning token would demand Ethereum and ETH function in ways that are very hard to make compatible with decentralization and capture resistance.
3. Meanwhile, optimizing for ETH as SoV is aligned with Ethereum focusing on its unique strengths (decentralization and CROPS)

EIP-1559 (including its burn) is fine and good, we should keep them. But we should not feel sad if fee burn is < 10% of breakeven indefinitely; the value of ETH comes from elsewhere.

The core idea: the big thing that people appreciate about Ethereum is decentralization and CROPS. The main pragmatic benefit that these things translate into is stability. SoV is the category where that is not an unneeded extra we merely put effort into for ideological reasons, but rather a pragmatic strength from the perspective of people putting in their assets. And in the era of AI disruption, stability will be highly valued.

I love Mumbai

@AquaZero0 started at ETHGlobal and the rest is history 🥹

2027 is going to be a big one.

The moment @kartiktalwar revealed our events for next year during Closing Ceremonies at ETHGlobal Mumbai.

And yes, we’ll be celebrating a decade of ETHGlobal in Lisbon alongside @EFDevcon 🙌🔥

1/ The @colosseum Crypto World’s Fair had 2,973 projects from 106 countries. 🎡 Over the last weeks I went through every category and shared my picks. Here they all are in one place 🧵👇

@Proof_Of_Mind and @0xYudhishthra cooking in the @EFDevcon Agentic Hub by @Celo

this week's theme: how to earn a0points.

make whatever you want. a video, a demo, a thread, a meme. just show
people how points work and how to get them.

post it on x and tag us.

$150 in prizes. $75 first · $50 second · $25 third

rules and deadline are in our telegram, link below.

most liquidity sits in a pool and never gets touched. you get paid for owning it, not for it being useful.

aqua0 works the other way. one commit, available to every venue and every pair on your chain, and you earn when it actually gets used.

we just made earning a lot easier. rd.

season 0 ends december 3. prizes paid in $USDG on @arbitrum.

jeff from hyperliquid got interviewed by Bloomberg

here's the tldr:

- doesn't own a car or real estate, despite being a billionaire
- spends all his time working
- people describe Hyperliquid as an exchange, Jeff thinks of it as a layer where exchanges can be deployed
- sees ized RWAs, especially major stocks
- declined $100M VC offer to put community first
- wants Hyperliquid to be the neutral infrastructure for all of finance

best founder in all of crypto

Si estás en India paste por el Agentic Hub de @Celo en @EFDevcon

@tomasmazz @AquaZero0 👀

🥈 2nd place, Argentina Track at the @colosseum Crypto World's Fair.

The first player of every new game. Thanks @SuperteamAR 🇦🇷

The winners of the Argentina Track of the @colosseum Crypto World’s Fair Hackathon are IN! 🇦🇷

🥇 @AquaZero0 – 1st place
🥈 @bytearenafun – 2nd place
🥉 @appchanguito – 3rd place + Best Demo Day

@pollar_xyz – 4th place
@FUDmarkets – 5th place + Traction
Tap Cards (@joacyjoac) – sfinance_ – UX/UI prize

Big congrats to the winners and to every builder who shipped, because this is the kind of talent that has us excited for what’s next for Solana in Argentina 🧉

This week has been incredible. Some folks have absolutely cooked. Meet this week's winners of the content contest!

1st place @Ifeanyi_gmi - $75
2nd place @PHAZE_001 - $50
3rd place @Jidan_vtx1 - $25

Honourable mention - @Isreal_ee - $5

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RT @toly: 1) what

Resumen del día:

- Conocí a Ceci y a Mili Fara en Areabeta: están haciendo comunidad en Escobar y tienen unas energías bárbaras.

- Primer reunión de onboarding con Franra para nuestro bb @roundly__app, veremos cómo prosigue este lindo proyecto.

- Proyectos nuevos junto a mi FItyrVWb, nada que me emocione más que este tipo de reuniones junto al Tincho.

- Cubriendo @labitconf para @buildersofftr me crucé a grandes tipazos (@nicokennydev @frangss_ @MartinPulitano @FedeTavano @tomasmazz @RochiMinvielle entre otros) que me hicieron pasarla bárbaro y sentirme cómodo (btw salió alto content)

Gran día para cerrar una semana ETERNA.