🌅 2026 is here 🌅 Venice.ai first full year recap… • +400% YoY Pro subscriber growth • +20% compound monthly rev growth • 1.7m registered users • 323 million LLM requests • 137 million images generated • 1.4 million videos generated • 170 million API

“Ethereum was not created to make finance efficient or apps convenient. It was created to set people free” This was an important - and controversial - line from the Trustless Manifesto ( trustlessness.eth.limo ), and it is worth revisiting it and better understanding what it

Gemini CLI Wrapped Last 365 Days 📊 Total Tokens: 652.6M Total Messages: 3.3K Total Sessions: 43 Longest Streak: 7 days Top Model: gemini-2.5-flash Top Language: Python Get yours: ❯ npx gemini-wrapped Credit: Jack Wotherspoon ivanov Numman Ali

NEW: i wrote a complete technical guide to building agent-native software (co-authored with claude) it covers: - the five pillars of agent native design (parity, granularity, composability, emergent capability, self-improvement) - files as the universal interface - agent

Ethereum itself must pass the walkaway test. Ethereum is meant to be a home for trustless and trust-minimized applications, whether in finance, governance or elsewhere. It must support applications that are more like tools - the hammer that once you buy it's yours - than like

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The biggest takeaways/nuggets from my interview with geoff on AI-native software engineering and the Ralph loop: 1. Software development and software engineering are now two different professions, and one of them is over. Software development, the work of translating

As an advisor to the Ethereum Foundation To our community in Iran, our eyes and thoughts are with you and the entire Iranian population. We see you bravely fighting tyranny and being brutally silenced, all your rights scraped, and communications cut Many of you travelled from Iran to

TRAILER premiere! ❤ Rory Kennedy’s new documentary about my life, my way, Queen of Chess releases on @Netflix February 6th.✨ TRAILER👉 youtube.com/watch?v=8pmJgt… #ChessConnectsUs #QueenOfChess @Netflix #Sundance2026 #SundanceFilmFestival #SundancePremiere #Netflix

I used to think Sapiens was a great book. Sweeping, provocative, the kind of book that makes you feel like you finally understand the big picture of human history. It's on every CEO's bookshelf, assigned in universities, praised as a masterwork of synthesis. Yuval Noah Harari is

2026 is the year we take back lost ground in computing self-sovereignty. But this applies far beyond the blockchain world. In 2025, I made two major changes to the software I use: * Switched almost fully to fileverse.io (open source encrypted decentralized docs) *

Logical Intelligence introduces first energy-based reasoning AI Model, and brings Yann LeCun to leadership as founding chair of their Technical Research Board The 6-month-old Silicon Valley start-up, unveiled an “energy based” model called Kona and says it is more accurate and

I no longer agree with this previous tweet of mine - since 2017, I have become a much more willing connoisseur of mountains. It's worth explaining why. x.com/VitalikButerin… First, the original context. That tweet was in a debate with Ian Grigg, who argued that blockchains

On the one hand, AI influencers are breathlessly raving about Claude Code, Clawdbot, and Cowork. And on the other hand, most people I know—even software engineers—are despondent, overwhelmed about how everything is changing so quickly. I hear this from people early in their

A few years ago I wrote a guest article in Bankless on how Bitcoin is a toxic industry leader. The thinking was not so much around quantum or security budget- although security budget was top of mind then- but rather that BTC stands for nothing besides fiat collapse and has no

Africa today has 3 areas at war, western Sahel, East (Horn and Sudan) and the Great Lakes 🔴Most of the country is at war or the war is at the heart of the state situation 🟠War on the periphery of the state or not central to it but still politically and militarily predominent

AI Has Already Conquered AGI, And We're Too Scared to Admit It? NATURE: In a bombshell revelation that's shaking the foundations of science and society, a team of top researchers from the University of California, San Diego, has declared that artificial general intelligence

Many analysts still refuse to accept a simple reality: the United States is not going to fight another war in the Middle East. After replacing the Taliban with the Taliban in #Afghanistan, burning through more than a trillion dollars, and helping create a failed state in #Iraq,

Two years ago, I wrote this post on the possible areas that I see for ethereum + AI intersections: vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/0… This is a topic that many people are excited about, but where I always worry that we think about the two from completely separate philosophical

Huckabee in trouble? Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, UAE, Indonesia, Pakistan, Türkiye, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine, OIC, the Arab League and the GCC strongly condemn US Ambassador to Israel, who said it would acceptable for Israel to exercise