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Remember wagmi? We should bring back that vibe

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I'm hiring for the Proofs at OP Labs, help us build and secure Optimism! Solidity and/or Go. If you think you'd be a good fit get in touch.

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Another confirmation that general purpose ZK VMs are the future (e.g. RISC Zero, etc). Nobody will write custom circuits. "This is hard to do with rigid zkEVM circuits that hardcode lots of cells and constraints. So we moved to a more general-purpose zkVM architecture - one that’s lighter-weight, extensible, and better suited to proof continuation." https://x.com/Scroll_ZKP/status/1916871844151406649

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5 gigagas for ethereum in 4 years. It’s at least a new difficulty bomb to make increases be the default. Let’s go 📈 https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/9698

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1/ The @optimism fault proof system got a massive upgrade today: We’re shipping MT Cannon 💥 An upgraded version of Cannon — the fault proof VM — now with 64-bit support and multithreading! 🧵...

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The Boundless decentralized ZK prover market. https://x.com/boundless_xyz/status/1914718088278290704

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https://x.com/beeple/status/1913793532248182941?s=46

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Zora is pretty cool https://zora.co/coin/base:0x47974c98ea514c2a5ed69e502f8e5eb87df4e7a6?referrer=0x2f4d3b38d59d0a59f35430eeacbaf176106f3a58

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“Ethereum _needs_ to have an even bigger oversupply of capacity for the next 5-10 years, otherwise it is far too risky to build on.” https://x.com/hasufl/status/1912439030030999586

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The blockchain investor perspective in 2025 is like the Internet investor perspective in 2001: wishing that supply was constrained to fix the short-term price. But builders are actually seeing the opposite: the real threat is that we're already running out of data availability on L1. See how we're been maxing out blob space: https://dune.com/queries/3757544/6319515 This might make investors happy temporarily (ETH go up), but then L2s will be forced to look at alt DA. Thankfully L1 upgrades are increasing blob space starting with Pectra in a month. Maybe bad for short-term investments but it's long-term bullish: building a strong ecosystem at a time when regulatory headwinds have finally turned and all of tradfi is starting to build.

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This shows both *why* privacy matters, and that Railgun is mature and safe to use. (It’s also really easy, just use the Railway app) https://x.com/cointelegraph/status/1905130199932428448?s=46

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@clanker There seems to be a bug where @rainbow executes the transaction on Arbitrum instead of Base. Not sure if it affects other wallets. The same contract address on Arbitrum (which doesn't have a contract deployed) is receiving random transactions.

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Is it possible to disable the "...casted for the first time in a while" notifications? I don't see a setting for that.

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I like what they’ve done with Zora https://zora.co/coin/base:0xf5ce88249680fea61aefef69dfe1aa9dc84bcd41?referrer=0x2f4d3b38d59d0a59f35430eeacbaf176106f3a58

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Might have been better for crypto when they were trying to kill it rather than insider trade it and pump VC coins

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Base is going to be using flashblocks. Because it forces a MEV priority auction by fee and gives revert protection it should reduce their L1 usage too https://x.com/buildonbase/status/1895223243713458184

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The Pectra upgrade activates on the Holesky testnet in 15 minutes

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I don't want well-rounded people. I want people who are amazing at something the team needs. It's great if they have other attributes too, but not at the expense of the primary one.

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Unichain is live - joining the Superchain as a stage 1 rollup with permissionless fault proofs.

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Help us build Optimism! The Proofs team at OP Labs needs Solidity and Go engineers. There’s work to be done on enabling more options in the proof system, including multi-proofs which is the path to stage 2 - and there are working ZK proofs for the OP Stack already! https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/oplabs/a0932c4c-ecbb-423d-bc03-1f5069f11a17 https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/oplabs/ece37406-2612-40e5-826a-0081233a3059

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