Anthropic reports industrial-scale model distillation attacks✨ FRESH

Anthropic says DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax created over 24,000 fraudulent accounts and 16M+ Claude exchanges to extract model capabilities.

Citrini outlines a 2028 crash scenario despite AI outperformance✨ FRESH

A macro scenario thread describing a deep S&P drawdown, rising unemployment, and credit stress even as AI exceeds expectations.

Ethereal news weekly #12✨ FRESH

Weekly #12 covering FOCIL as Hegotá consensus-layer headliner, Ethereum Foundation protocol priorities, and Base moving to its own stack.

ZK Summit 14 in Rome (may 7th 2026) applications for speaking and attending are open!✨ FRESH

Justin Drake dives deep into Lean Ethereum✨ FRESH

Episode 1 of a six-part Lean Ethereum series covering consensus/data/execution, post-quantum cryptography, faster finality, and enshrined ZK.

Bungee introduces Incognito swaps✨ FRESH

Announces Bungee Incognito, a privacy-focused swap mode.

FOCIL (EIP-7805) is SFI’d as the CL headliner for the Hegota fork✨ FRESH

Post on why prioritizing FOCIL improves censorship resistance and inclusion guarantees, and why this is an important cypherpunk-aligned step for Ethereum.

Nethermind shipped Log Index to speed up large-range eth_getLogs queries✨ FRESH

Large-range eth_getLogs queries often slow down or timeout at high block ranges; Nethermind announced Log Index as a fix.

SEC Chair says tokenized securities can trade onchain✨ FRESH

Recap from Denver: Paul Atkins says issuers could tokenize securities for onchain trading in AMMs and other systems.

SP1 Hypercube is now live on mainnet!

stokes announces three Ethereum Protocol tracks for 2026✨ FRESH

Thread introducing three work tracks at Ethereum Foundation Protocol: Scale, Improve UX, and Harden the L1.

Announcing Remainder: Tools For Humanity’s GKR prover for machine learning is now open-sourced✨ FRESH

Tools For Humanity open-sourced Remainder, a GKR prover for ML enabling on-device model execution with cryptographic proofs.

A new, unified stack for Base Chain✨ FRESH

Base is evolving to its own spec, code, and infra to ship protocol improvements more frequently.

OpenAI introduces EVMbench✨ FRESH

A benchmark for how well AI agents can detect, exploit, and patch high-severity smart contract vulnerabilities.

Introducing PrivateX402 for multi-agent AI payments✨ FRESH

Privacy-preserving payment channel protocol for multi-agent AI systems, with design/privacy/scaling details and article link.

Network Anonymized Mempools✨ FRESH

This post introduces Flashnet, a new anonymous broadcast protocol with much lower latency than existing alternatives.

encrypt V2 is live with private bridging across 6 chains✨ FRESH

Announces encrypt V2 for private bridging across Solana, Polygon, BNB Chain, Base, Arbitrum, and Ethereum with sub-2 minute execution.

Announcing the Platform team✨ FRESH

New EF Platform team focused on delivering the strongest Ethereum platform across L1 and L2.

BREAKING: Inside Sam Altman's "Proof of Human" Company 'Tools for Humanity'✨ FRESH

As agents scale, this post unpacks why proof of human may become core internet infrastructure.

GasHawk introduces KNOX, pivoting to capital efficiency

GasHawk says it is pivoting from transaction efficiency to capital efficiency and introduces KNOX as a universal layer for reshaping DeFi risk.

Tomasz K. Stańczak to step down as EF co-ED and to be replaced by Bastion Aue✨ FRESH

Ethereal news weekly #11✨ FRESH

BlackRock BUIDL tradeable via UniswapX, ENS staying on mainnet, Solidity developer survey

GasHawk is sunsetting✨ FRESH

Today, we are making the difficult decision to sunset GasHawk.io.

Succinct is partnering with Optimism to integrate ZK into the OP Stack✨ FRESH

$AZTEC is now live✨ FRESH

America in the Intelligence Age✨ FRESH

Introducing Lab: A full-stack platform for training your own agentic models✨ FRESH

Nitro launches a 3-month crypto project accelerator

Trail of Bits contributes skills for security engineering

Zero: The Decentralized Multi-Core World Computer

Something Big Is Happening

Chrome 146 previews WebMCP (early flag)

Building an Ethereum client with AI

Ethereal news weekly #10

New from Paradigm: A tool for exploring prediction market data - find markets you never knew existed

Announcing Payy Network on Ethereum

Looking ahead to AZTEC's TGE

A Fresh Start for Tokenomics in 2026

Introducing Interoperable Addresses: Send assets across any Ethereum chain using alice.eth@chainName

Ethereum's latest account abstraction proposal EIP-8141 adds frame transactions - its best yet

2003 game reverse engineer from scratch by decompiling the binary using only codex 5.2

Prove ownership over your agent swarms with World ID - platforms can verify incoming molts have a human owner

Update to my personal website, new job/candidate boards, investments and more!

Introducing Lighter EVM. An EVM-equivalent rollup natively interoperating with Lighter!

Cryptography can do incredible things - ZK proofs, MPC, threshold encryption. Why aren't we using them everywhere? Read our blog to see how we're solving this

Ethereum Foundation entering period of mild austerity to deliver aggressive roadmap while maintaining long-term financial resilience

On the Sherlock Security Podcast

MegaETH Public Mainnet: Feb 9, 2026

Lighter requires staked LIT for LLP access - 56M already staked

Friend user interview: AI touchpoints in rural America

How Clawdbot injected malware via GitHub issues

Introducing Trinity Large: 400B MoE model

Tools For Humanity Engineering Fellowship for under-24s

Quantum computing vs blockchains: the real threats

A Tidal Change: The Future of Digital Identity II

A dive into new digital identity, cryptography, blockchain primitives and their applications.

My humble learnings about angel investing

Personal experiences and lessons learned from angel investing in crypto, AI, and scalability projects over the years.

2023 recap and goals for 2024

A reflection on 2023 at Tools For Humanity, launching Worldcoin, and my goals and predictions for 2024.

The Future of Digital Identity

A holistic overview of digital identity, new cryptographic primitives like ZK, FHE, MPC, TEEs, and the building blocks for a better identity future.

2022 recap and future prospects

A look back at 2022, my journey in blockchain development, joining Worldcoin, and goals for 2023.

DevPill.me - A public good blockchain development guide

Introducing DevPill.me, a community-sourced public good blockchain development guide to help developers navigate the web3 ecosystem.

The ultimate guide to L2s on Ethereum

A comprehensive guide to Layer 2 scaling solutions on Ethereum, covering optimistic rollups, zk-rollups, validiums, and the future of Ethereum scalability.