notebooklm having a mobile app is honestly one of the most underrated lifehacks ive found recently. the ability to zoom through podcasts on 5 different research papers a day while commuting is crazy alpha…

On Oct 20, 2025, blockful purchased 14.4M votes via LobbyFi during the Arbitrum Security Council election. In this article, we share our reflections on what this event brought to light about DAO governance vulnerabilities. 🔗 paragraph.com/@blockful/arbi…

even after a month, this article from Jay Yu 🐟 is still the best introductory exposition to http 402 (and by extension on x402). panteracapital.com/http-402s-mode… i learnt a lot when it came out. give it a read, if you haven't.

One of the interesting results in the b-privacy paper is how weighted voting impacts ballot secrecy. Ballot secrecy is normally defined as the inability to tie a vote back to the voter. For example, if the voter submits an encrypted vote, then once it is decrypted and used to

The internet missed one protocol: money. As AI systems start to transact, the need for a native internet payment protocol becomes structural. HTTP 402 introduces a standardized, blockchain-based payment rail built for both humans and machines.

this will be fun, all are welcome! we'll be jamming about x402 in berkeley, comment for RSVP

x402 black magic in $PING Easy RUG design. MINTER on Server side could technically just batchMint to random addresses with random txHashes. - No correlation check between address and txHash - No validation of deposit & address, could be any address Good that PING is only 1

The x402 payment standard by Coinbase and Cloudflare has been getting rapid experimentation over the past two weeks. If you wanna get up to speed you should read Jay Yu 🐟's recent essay examining the new internet native payment standards. panteracapital.com/http-402s-mode…

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> "Everyone in SF is only doing AI stuff" > All the nerds showed up for Whitepaper Reading Club event reading about x402 crypto whitepapers in SF Great event hosted by Derrick - Investing at Big Brain and Jay Yu 🐟 and ṙ̵͔͇̗͖o̷̗̬̹͑n̵̹͍̣̖̓͒̿g̷͍̼͊̎͋̅̾͝x̴̧̨̣͚̘̎̌̇̿͒̽̕í̵̐

> echo "SF x402 nerds assembled" > first Whitepaper Reading Club on x402 w/ Derrick - Investing at Big Brain + BRIAN SΞONG complete at Blockchain at Berkeley HQ nerdsniping series loading.... [██▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒] 4.02%

First SF Whitepaper Reading Club was a huge success!! 👏 Kudos to Derrick - Investing at Big Brain BRIAN SΞONG Jay Yu 🐟 and many others from Blockchain at Berkeley for hosting with such a nice space 🌳+ the boba treats🧋 We studied the x402 protocol, with heated discussion from local builders who

so excited for this!! Much much more research initiatives to come :))) and incredibly fortunate to welcome danning to our team!

every cycle, there are always 3-4 bottoms-up primitives that mature, stick around, and truly expand the applications horizon of crypto in 2020-2021, this was AMMs, lending, stables. in 2024-2025, this is perps, launchpads, pred markets never fade crypto primitives.