crypto devs are due for a cultural revolution

venture slopfest grows older by the day, memecoins offer nihilistic alternative, but neither are satisfying for those of us sold on agent codification where rules are smart contract source files and enforcement is beautiful composition of cryptography and social consensus over code execution

the crypto we were born into no longer exists. but it's all too easy to forget where the industry comes from, where the technology comes from. cryptographers and game theoreticists lay foundations, but implementations don't exist without implementors

what we do doesn't have to be big, it doesn't have to be the next ethereum, we just have to open the editor

The problem is that you can’t build something, open source it, and then expect to be able to continue to dominate it culturally once it takes off.

OG Ethereum devs are a victim of their own success. There are only going to be more constituents (numerically and in terms of diversity) on Ethereum such that the core devs and fellow travelers will be crowded out — often by the very same groups they were trying to escape from in the first place.

For better or worse, the cypherpunk days are over.