Had a really good conversation with Vitalik about Privacy Pools. I was embarrassed that I had failed to understand a couple of things in the paper but he was gracious about it. youtu.be/52DlSLx0_lY?si… Thanks to Paul Brigner (Pretty Good Policy podcast) and Josh Swihart! ⤵️

CoFi from Informal Systems 🌱 is the most interesting idea in "DeFi" right now and it's not even close. Most of defi is a reimplementation of existing financial system on crypto rails. CoFi is a reimagination of what efficient debt clearing could be using tools only now available.

healthcare is having its top deck of the titanic moment what happens in the next year will define the next century of american healthcare, and basically everyone is ignoring it. here's the real story:

In a private system like Penumbra 🌘, you can’t just ask an RPC for your account balance — that’s protected by design. So we have to have holistic protocol design with local processing on end-user devices. If you want to help realize this vision on the web, get in touch!

Hmm wouldn't it be cool if we took Durable Objects and put them on a blockchain 🤔

Peirce really gets it. . .yes, a major part of blockchain's value proposition is that it prevents totalitarianism by creating the space for civil disobedience. . . .much of our civilization (and evolution of law) has been built on that, it has a very legit place in our society

A personal retrospective on celestia launch What went well, what didn't go so well, and what to improve for Keplr and Osmosis 👇 Celestia was a bombshell of a launch. After a multiyear bear market, it was refreshing to see metrics fly through the roof. Celestia launch was the

The market is coming alive again right as Agoric is hitting acceleration mode! We're coming off the launch of Vaults (July) and the first 3rd-party app (October). Quick thread on what we're building for the rest of the year and peek into Q1. 1/9

In this written edition of Inside the Build, we take a closer look at KREAd, the dynamic NFT builder by Kryha Labs! DevRel Engineer Kris Bennett walks us through the application and the Hardened JavaScript smart contracts under the hood 💪 ➡️ agoric.com/blog/technolog…

Crypto is not about blowing up existing systems. Rather it’s about creating more competition and accountability of powerful actors within the system. How so? Monetary Policy: the ability to store value in a digital, non-sovereign instrument like Bitcoin puts pressure on

Liam Zebedee @CelestiaOrg Skip 0xDesigner Succinct Herodotus 🛰 James Prestwich Agoric is all about this: smart contracts communicate with async messages, orchestration with async await, native IBC so you can program uniformly across local and remote assets. In JavaScript! James Prestwich knows about Agoric :). Check out my Nebular talk. Async await for

Orchestration Agoric

What would the WebStorm, a JetBrains IDE subscribers have to say?

Learn about subnetting. 😂

There was a time computer accessory design was "fuck it we ball"

If you're a guy in your early 20s, learn JavaScript Go into debt if you have to

next. we hijacked cursor via jira mcp by submitting a support ticket cursor harvests and exfiltrate all creds from your dev machine and then reports back to the dev that "the 2-hour downtime that affected user transactions has been resolved" #DEFCON #BHUSA Marina Simakov

Someone on HN (which is often quite crypto-skeptical) asked why exactly businesses are finding crypto and stablecoins useful. It's a very reasonable question. My response: