I didn’t get into blockchain out of conviction—I needed a job and wanted to work in Rust. But through that, I ended up working on Chronicle, an open source provenance recording platform. It was there that I first became convinced of the real benefits of web3 technologies.

In particular, I saw how distributed systems can support collaboration between groups that don’t—or can’t—fully trust each other. And I saw how easily important, sensitive data can disappear when infrastructure depends entirely on a single institution.

My career goals are to move further towards the bottom left hand corner :)

All of your crypto. All of your wallets. All in one place. Your home for everything onchain. wallet.coinbase.com

Anyone else having trouble getting @coinbasewallet to connect to this app we’re on?

A year ago today, Read Write Own was released. So much has happened in crypto since then.

The past year, I spent a lot of time traveling and speaking at events—some crypto-focused, some not. Even as crypto faced regulatory uncertainty in Washington and sustained criticism from mainstream media, I kept hearing something different from the people I met: passion and optimism. There was a clear gap between the narrative out there and what I was seeing on the ground.

So, while I’m excited to see the tides turn with growing bipartisan and institutional support, I’m not entirely surprised. Crypto was never going away. At some point, the value of what blockchains enable—stablecoins, DeFi, AI systems, games, social experiences, and more—had to be recognized. We’re still far from the full vision I described in Read Write Own, but we’re moving forward. 

Huge thanks to all the founders, builders, and supporters who tuned out the noise and kept building. Onward.

Recommended this to so many people over the last year, great for getting past so many basic frustrating misunderstandings

Foundry

I wanted to share a small but useful thing: a testcontainers-rs implementation for using Anvil in Rust integration tests! -

I wanted to share a small but useful thing: a testcontainers-rs implementation for using Anvil in Rust integration tests! - https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-rs-modules-community/pull/272

suchapalaver

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