It’s in the details ;)

Just spent 90 minutes subtly tweaking how my todo list is sorted in Obsidian. Exhilarating.

'Wherever you get your podcasts' is one of the most cyberpunk, open web, crypto-native, composable ideas out there.

But it's maybe the only example people see daily.

Give us more! Where is 'wherever you get your podcasts' for social media, for tickets, for medical records??

EigenLayer launches on mainnet today, taking the first steps towards our vision of building the verifiable digital commons!
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Ethereum is the verifiable internet.
Rollup is the verifiable web server.
AVS is verifiable SaaS.
Eigenlayer is the verifiable cloud.…

For my local-first and distributed systems friends...

ZK proofs may not feel relevant yet, but they will be soon. ZK proofs let an untrusted computer succinctly prove it did some known work.

You could use ZKs to prove
- that a binary was compiled from specific source code
-…

Universe is pretty cool

'If we can make something decentralized, out of control, and of great simplicity, we must be prepared to be astonished at whatever might grow out of that new medium.' - Tim Berners-Lee

Today, we’re announcing that we’re leading Espresso Systems’ Series B ☕

Ethereum’s scalability end-game is all about rollups—potentially thousands or even millions of rollups, each one a mini-ecosystem or an application that is built on top of Ethereum’s bedrock of security. The…

CSX applications are now open for our Fall 2024 cohort in NYC. If you’re building in crypto, this is the place to be

Just used my global entry ID to get into a bar and the bouncer thought I was in the FBI. Saying no made it worse 🤷‍♂️

Welcome aboard to Andrea⚡️ and Peak‎‎ 🧙🏻‍♂️. From our first meeting it's been obvious that this is a team that loves to ship.

I'm excited to keep working with them in for CSX in London!

Frames is a great example of composability, extensibility and **ownership** in a consumer app.

Farcaster is fun!

Chris Dixon’s vision for crypto, laid out in Read Write Own, captures why I got into crypto: free (self-owned/libre) software & open protocols.

Read Write Own is widely available in stores (go buy it!), so it’s a good time to break down why Chris’ vision resonated.

If you’re…