Geopolitics

The US does not play a ball with minimum corporate tax

The US does not play a ball with minimum corporate tax

https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/g7-agrees-to-exempt-us-multinationals-from-global-minimum-tax/article69749671.ece

finland

beer

"The call of a forest"

Unfiltered lager.

coffee

Missing from this list: Cà Phê Cốt Dừa

DeFi

algo-trading

The best performing DeFi vaults in June, 2025

👉 Read our best performing DeFi vaults report: https://tradingstrategy.ai/blog/the-best-performing-stablecoin-vaults-june-2025

We have added Sonic, and other new chains, for reporting

- We cover 3495 stablecoin-denominated vaults out of 9939 total vaults

- Hype++, gTrade (Gains), Peapods continue to dominate the best-performing stablecoin yields

- Concrete and Panoptic have launched some highly performing vaults

- Almanak launches its flagship Autonomous Liquidity USD vault for yield optimisation 

- maxAPY launches its multichain yield optimisation USD vault

- Harvest Finance Autopilot comes to the IPOR protocol, as the OG DeFi protocol offers yield optimisation across other Harvest vaults

We also changed rolling returns tracking from three months to one month to better reflect the volatile nature of cryptocurrencies.

Hungry for higher DeFi yield? Check our latest montly best DeFi vaults report.

Miniapp coming soon.

Food

It's Friday.

My eyes are bagged like kangaroo.

Please recommend any new Visual Studio Code themes to keep my eyes open.

Python

Now drinking: Granny's potato lager 🥔🥔🥔

All-time high on Base strategy vault is up 6.8% in the past 7 days. https://tradingstrategy.ai/strategies/base-ath

Farcaster mini-app and integration is coming

ethdev

Ethereum

When Vyper ships, 🐍 snekmate ships too. You know, at Vyper, we build _with_ each other, not from ivory towers. We're in the trenches _together_. So what's the TLDR for this release: I target now the latest `0.4.3` Vyper version and have shipped mainly two new features:
- Utility functions for contract deployments using `CREATE`, `CREATE2`, and `CREATE3`.
- A `block_hash` function that extends access to historical block hashes _beyond_ the native 256-block limit (using EIP-2935).

Please note that this release will make all 🐍 snekmate contracts now target the new Vyper default EVM version `prague`.

I genuinely believe Vyper is still one of the most underappreciated tech in Ethereum. I really encourage people to try it; the snake 🐍 is friendly, promise😄! https://x.com/vyperlang/status/1937466654817935799

Release: https://github.com/pcaversaccio/snekmate/releases/tag/v0.1.2

The JSON-RPC providers are desperate to sell you additional services.

Like MEV protection on Base, where MEV does not even exist.

JSON-RPC is a commodity, like gasoline. Just buy it where it is cheapest. There is no meaningful difference in products.

Also never buy any additional services, because then as a customer you won't be vendor locked in, and you can switch to other, cheaper, providers.

crypto

The value of nothing.

Sometimes you just need to be very early and have most criminal market makers.

Why is Hungary so bad?

Hungary has now become poorest nation in the EU, stealing the title from Romania.

Poland and Romania have had significant economic growth, but why hasn't Hungary?

It comes down to Mr Orban and his poor economic policies, as well as his other policies.

https://pogatsa.substack.com/p/why-is-orbans-hungary-still-a-low

https://pogatsa.substack.com/p/poverty-in-orbans-hungary

https://pogatsa.substack.com/p/extensive-versus-intensive-growth

Economics

Global debt, the pyramid scheme.

And the invention of fiat currency.

Global debt, the pyramid scheme.

And the invention of fiat currency.

https://youtu.be/hHMVjZ5r38A?si=AUCThEOvQZFXN_1T

Recursive self improvement:

The AI that can modify its own Python code.

Recursive self improvement:

The AI that can modify its own Python code.

https://youtu.be/C1kuCIr_6MI?si=TwiAQh2Kt5nFdZnS

Frontend

Talks about crypto and coffee. Building onchain algo trading - check out my channels /algo-trading and /python

Mikko

@moo