can't decide whether to name my firstborn 'ethereum' or 'vitalik'. 

Guess I've just got to have 2 kids.

Ethereum

I thought this was a really useful simplification of Vitalik's recent posts: https://x.com/evan_van_ness/status/1851499710835748939

Does anyone else know of any ELI5-style explainers of Vitalik's blog posts? Or ELI5-style ethereum resources in general

ETHEREUM ROADMAP EXPLAINER FOR THE REST OF US, part 1 

This thread will attempt to dumb down @VitalikButerin's series so that even the your average political science major like me can understand it

Let's discuss part 1, "The Merge" which happened on September 15, 2022

Why is a… https://t.co/eXePhyeVzH

Evan Van Ness 🧉

Football

The thing I disliked the most about Erik Ten Hag was that people would refer to him by his initials - ETH - and I would think they were talking about Ethereum

Danny Welbeck, at 33 years old, is in the form of his life.

Kraken have launched a new layer 2 called 'Ink', as part of the optimism superchain.

Kraken have launched a new layer 2 called 'Ink', as part of the optimism superchain. https://optimism.mirror.xyz/drKakVebAJU874Kb3B67cHDicsyiidTfQNfieRvbbgI

Founders

We’ve just released our latest State of Crypto report.

It shares insights on key trends — like stablecoins, L2s, and AI — plus, crypto’s rise as a hot policy issue, new data on builders and users, and much more.

Here are 7 top takeaways ⬇️

1. Crypto activity and usage hit all-time highs
2. Crypto has become a key political issue ahead of the U.S. election
3. Stablecoins have found product-market fit
4. Major scaling upgrades have drastically reduced onchain transaction costs
5. DeFi remains popular — and it’s growing
6. Crypto could solve some of AI’s most pressing challenges
7. More scalable infrastructure has unlocked new onchain applications

Check out the full report: https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/state-of-crypto-report-2024/

Thomas Tuchel will become the next manager of England

Thomas Tuchel will become the next manager of England https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cr4x9p221gpo

The Superchain 🔴🔵⚪️🟡🟢⚫️

🔴 Use the Superchain, and reap the benefits 🔴

Today, @Optimism unveils Airdrop #5:

Onchain together, benefit together.

10M+ OP has been allocated to 54k+ unique addresses.

As of today, roughly 550M OP remains for future airdrops.

Just got 500 OP, yay! The most insane thing about this is it's only using 2% of the total OP allocated for airdrops.
In other words, there will be 49 more airdrops like this!

Thought this was interesting...
Countries with the highest number of FPL managers:

(Source: https://www.livefpl.net/countries)

The current favourites to win the premier league on @polymarket are: Arsenal.

The current favourites to win the premier league on @polymarket are: Arsenal.

https://polymarket.com/event/premier-league-winner-24-25/arsenal-wins-the-premier-league?tid=1727777346508

Music

Let's not forget that Camila Cabello basically invented brat summer

Let's not forget that Camila Cabello basically invented brat summer https://youtu.be/o1MbG4ZmUbQ?si=FQWkWVNVO8fwoL3j

Maybe the real store of value is the friends we made along the way

Memes

Farcaster

I would love to be the sort of person who can cast 20 times a day. There's so much to gain from being active.

But I'm more of a once-a-week person, and I feel like that's never going to change.

Premier league clubs have nearly unanimously voted to keep VAR.

The vote ended 19-1, with only Wolves voting to scrap it.

Premier league clubs have nearly unanimously voted to keep VAR.

The vote ended 19-1, with only Wolves voting to scrap it. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/ck55eg44n1do

coinbasewallet

The wait is over. Smart wallets are here.

Who's building a farcaster client that lets you swerve all toxicity/politics/tribalism? 
I would really like that 🙏

What are your thoughts on VAR?
The premier league will soon vote on whether to scrap it next season.

What are your thoughts on VAR?
The premier league will soon vote on whether to scrap it next season.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c4n1ndlknk1o

I don't understand why people support bad teams. Do you like losing? Just support Man City, it's not hard

Do Nothing Club

Wow.
The average investor would get ~3x more returns if they just bought an S&P500 index fund and held it.

Do you think the same is true for crypto?

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Milo Bowman 🎩 🇬🇧

@milob