do protocols define truth, or just suggest truths for the community to decide whether to accept?

Been diving into the world of blockspace and execution commitments -- sharing some aggregated links for those interested. Mostly Ethereum-focused for now, but will be adding resources from other ecosystems. Thoughts and theses to come. github.com/ryanchern/comm…

even the most consensus bet in crypto is contrarian

congrats to the entire team 🫡

we could’ve been here rn

taxes are a psyop using monetary payments to distract you from all the non-monetary value the government extracts from you

wrote something new today blockchains and the monopoly on truth have been thinking about a narrative for why blockchains are long-term valuable. this is my attempt at presenting this write.as/maanav/blockch…

learn a language not to learn the language, but to learn language

the beauty of being human is not just the ability to point at symbols, but to create our own symbols

for an industry aiming to solve consensus and human coordination we don’t seem to agree on anything

where there is language there is life where there is life there is violence where there is violence there is language

L1, L2, "network extensions" et al. commit the central subterfuge essential to crypto marketing today: they posit themselves as architectural innovations when in fact they are political distinctions. As a result we spend years in a circular debate about what the words mean -

Lfg

Blockchains are trapped in the path dependence of scaling onchain execution. We just released some of our thinking on native offchain compute. With a protocol opinionated about offchain infra, you can just do so much more. More to come.

why is anil kapoor on this lmao

this was so much fun

cancel culture reflects a return from the declarative back to the ostensive-imperative things feel a lot more politically divided because everyone’s explicitly pointing at each other now

made some new art "sacred center"

congrats kings

*insert comment about why my ETH bags aren’t pumping*