Protocol Symposium kicks off tomorrow ☀️ 

Will keep a running thread of the daily sessions here. @vgr  and I will kick things off tomorrow with an overview of the SoP '24 research, future SoP plans, and how to participate throughout the week 😁

Join us on Sep 18, 00:00 UTC: https://app.sola.day/event/detail/8660ddd

VGR’s involvement with Ethereum is not priced in

Great piece from More Perfect Union on a grassroots campaign to fight a Network State project in the SF Bay Delta. 

I'm somewhat local and have been participating in some of these community calls lately. The coverage is spot-on and they talked to all the right people involved.

https://youtu.be/PHlcAx-I0oY

Amplifying this here. Network state crack pottery is as dangerous as it is silly

Lmaoooo https://x.com/thestalwart/status/1833795369660035581?s=46

Ok so things look back on track for Kamala from what I can tell after that debate

The left and even progressives should unequivocally sympathize with this argument

The left and even progressives should unequivocally sympathize with this argument https://x.com/neerajka/status/1833530974212387228?s=46

https://open.spotify.com/track/0OcQ7eGT5Afzxu1QjVtyKc?si=7Oiw0iDXTNKimoauROfzEQ

1/ Great crypto products should just be great products!

Looking back at our summer, we're excited to see how far the space has come, making onchain experiences accessible for everyone ✨

ICYMI, here are some of the most powerful capabilities we @privy  launched over the last few months. More to come!👇

farcards

Interesting angle on @cdixon.eth  RWO argument. “We are thus left with the unsettling reality of an industry that became "evil" before it became useful. It should be no surprise then that much of the public has soured on it.”

Novel path dependency argument I haven’t seen before. He concludes the crypto revolution is getting corrupted and committing “revolutionary suicide.” I mostly agree with the diagnosis but suspect the treatment he proposes is wishful thinking (regulation+self-policing driving valuations down hard enough to kill the “casino” part of the economy to save the “computer” part). Instead the key is to rethink the political-philosophical first principles around a non-apocalyptic vision first how censorship resistance infrastructure can become a check and balance on industrial-era political structures. And the battle actually starts with E2EE not crypto.

https://paragraph.xyz/@unmediatedthoughts/casino-killed-the-computer-star?referrer=0x1da73c35c521946bce66968be540406eda89f995

Harris campaign should be fully panicking

The dark horse rises https://x.com/chameleon_jeff/status/1832690669649059892?s=46

I think this is not the mass adoption cycle, but it will potentially be determinative for DeFi as a vertical 

As Ethereum challengers for DeFi, the hype is around Monad, Berachain, MegaETH, and while all are super interesting, Hyperliquid feels like the dark horse

Consulting and advising for crypto protocols and projects like FastLane and Privy. Prev product @rainbow, work for Uniswap Fdn, Biconomy, Socket and others 

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