Focus on what matters most to you. Prioritize relationships, passions, and goals to create a fulfilling and purposeful life.

Great things never come from comfort zones. Push yourself beyond limits to achieve extraordinary results and personal growth.

Life's best moments often come unexpectedly. Embrace spontaneity and be open to the beauty of the unplanned.

Adversity introduces a person to themselves. Through challenges, we discover our true strength and resilience. Embrace the struggle.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Every great achievement starts with a small action.

Singapore

Sleep is the highest yield activity within reach. Nothing has a higher payoff. Our culture makes this hard to see and tells us to resist it.

SF needs a good 20% more lee kuan yew energy. straight to jail.

SF needs a good 20% more lee kuan yew energy. straight to jail.

https://x.com/sfstandard/status/1834361174554452373

Ethereum

Today's @ethereum #ACDE covered all things Pectra, from minor spec changes to potentially splitting the upgrade into two parts...! 

Here are the main takeaways and next steps:

are we still doing "narrative violation"?

are we still doing "narrative violation"? 

https://x.com/RyanSAdams/status/1834311707961024715

very pivotal all core devs call, strong movement towards a decision to cap the scope of Pectra at devnet-3

tbh tho, has been building a while thru devnets and impl. for those that have been paying attention. devops and testing teams are goated, we should heed their advice

i am legit impressed they managed to make a spacesuit which looks like a pair of pajamas

frames-devs

how do you make it so that a frame shows up like this in the cast, instead of fully loaded?

IMHO, L2Beat's/Vitalik's Stages are incomplete. For Stage 2, in addition, 

- Alternate sequencing triggered within 1 epoch (i.e. 6.4 minutes). Currently, Optimism is 12 hours, which is not acceptable (preferably, there's real-time distributed sequencing) 
- Security council has pause rights only; upgrades even for onchain provable bugs must go through governance, emergency path with >X% approval

Then, there should be an optional Stage 3, or Stage X, where:

- Based or based-like sequencing is mandated
- Security council is dissolved
- Smart contracts upgrades require >Y% (80%?) approval from the protocol's full governance, in addition to >30d delay

For big-tent high-value L2s like Arbitrum One, Stage 3 should be the target. For most, Stage 2 should be perfectly fine, and even Stage 1 enough for many lower-value app-specific L2s.

In the past, I've mentioned many times that upgrade rights to Security Council are not good enough for Stage 1, and that they should only come with freeze or pause rights. That's why I cannot recommend anyone use Arbitrum One or OP Mainnet despite being Stage 1 according to L2Beat. Glad to see that is the case for ZKSync. In addition, I'd like to see an elected Security Council for Stage 1, a unilaterally selected Security Council is also not good enough. (E.g. OP just held its first elections, hope ZKSync will do so soon) 

I have also expressed my opinion on some aspects of Stage 2 being not good enough, you can see that here: https://warpcast.com/polynya/0x6131e8f0

(Disclaimer: I hold some $ZK tokens and am a delegate for both ZK Nation and OP Collective)

In the past, I've mentioned many times that upgrade rights to Security Council are not good enough for Stage 1, and that they should only come with freeze or pause rights. That's why I cannot recommend anyone use Arbitrum One or OP Mainnet despite being Stage 1 according to L2Beat. Glad to see that is the case for ZKSync. In addition, I'd like to see an elected Security Council for Stage 1, a unilaterally selected Security Council is also not good enough. (E.g. OP just held its first elections, hope ZKSync will do so soon) 

I have also expressed my opinion on some aspects of Stage 2 being not good enough, you can see that here: https://warpcast.com/polynya/0x6131e8f0

(Disclaimer: I hold some $ZK tokens and am a delegate for both ZK Nation and OP Collective) 

https://x.com/TheZKNation/status/1834256567316705674

Base

Bitcoin

cbBTC is onchain.

cbBTC is an ERC20 token that is backed 1:1 by Bitcoin (BTC) held by Coinbase.

This means millions of BTC holders can now securely access DeFi apps on Base and Ethereum ecosystems—with more chains coming soon.

we are going to build a massive Bitcoin economy on @base — today is day one

Seraphic Blend

@seraphicblend