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Curated articles, my blog posts, and announcements from portfolio companies.
Curated articles, my blog posts, and announcements from portfolio companies.
Curated articles, my blog posts, and announcements from portfolio companies.
Vyper is on track to become the first formally verified smart contract compiler, a milestone aimed at stronger correctness guarantees.
OpenAI has acquired TBPN, the tech talk show co-hosted by John Coogan and Jordi Hays.
Drift’s admin key was compromised and more than $213M was drained in under 10 seconds via a fake collateral market, a manipulated oracle, and disabled circuit breakers.
An orbital animation shows Artemis II's crewed trajectory around the Moon and back to Earth.

Issue #132 covers anonymous broadcast with auction-based scheduling, Arbitrum Timeboost’s transition to Kairos, sanction-evasion MEV, decoupled consensus for faster finality, and the Ethereum Economic Zone.

Aztec says Alpha is live, giving developers a feature-complete privacy stack on Ethereum with customizable privacy from execution to settlement.
A thread framing a new release as an important foundational piece of UI engineering for the future of interfaces.
The post looks at how Aalo Atomics is balancing safety and speed in the push to power data centers.

The updated version adds Zach DeStefano and reports better sum-check proving speedups across all settings.

Thomas Coratger highlights a Zero Knowledge Podcast episode where Alex Hicks explains the Lean Ethereum vision and the push for machine-checked ZK systems.

jaosef.eth introduces Aztec Labs as a standalone product studio built by the network's original builders to ship privacy products.

Patrick Collins announces that the Battlechain testnet is live and asks for feedback ahead of mainnet.

Flashbots publishes issue #131 of The MEV Letter, a weekly roundup of MEV papers, articles, threads, talks, and ecosystem resources.

ARC Prize introduces ARC-AGI-3 as an agentic intelligence benchmark where humans score 100% and current AI remains below 1%.

Dedicated resource for the Ethereum post-quantum security effort, covering cryptographic agility, hash-based signatures, and SNARK-based aggregation.
Odysseus says an external integration misconfiguration led some wallets to approve a 0x Settler address directly; working with 0x, Phylax deployed a targeted mitigation and stopped the first drain attempt on Linea.

SemiAnalysis recaps GTC 2026, covering Groq LP30 and LPX, attention-FFN disaggregation, Kyber and Oberon updates, Nvidia's CPO roadmap, Vera ETL256, CMX, and STX.
Will Corcoran presented Ethereum's post-quantum security strategy at the Institutional Ethereum Forum and launched pq.ethereum.org with the PQ roadmap, protocol-layer impacts, open resources, FAQ, and 2026 research retreat details.
Ramp built an agentic system to maintain Ramp Sheets. It monitors production, triages alerts, and pushes fixes without human intervention using roughly a thousand AI-generated monitors.
We should continue to lean into the unique capabilities of each layer and make sure users have a clear path to securely and seamlessly benefit from Ethereum's core properties.

SpaceX announces TERAFAB and links to the TERAFAB Launch broadcast.
Join us on April 17th for Lift Off, a live World ID launch event in San Francisco. Hosted by Alex and Sam. With special guests.
TACEO launched its network as a private execution layer for digital rails, saying the cryptographic infrastructure behind it already secures personal data for nearly 18 million people.

World Chain is adopting ERC-8183, Ethereum and Virtuals Protocol’s open standard for agentic commerce. Integrating a streamlined economic protocol supercharges proof of human, scaling agent productivity on the real human network.

Guest article by Fredrik Svantes, Soispoke, and Parithosh Jayanthi from the Ethereum Foundation explaining the new hardness protocol cluster priority and why Ethereum must preserve core guarantees like censorship resistance, privacy, security, permissionlessness, and trust minimization as scaling and UX improve.

Cuy Sheffield introduces Visa CLI, the first experimental product from Visa Crypto Labs. The landing page describes it as a command-line commerce tool that gives agents a secure way to pay for what they need while coding.

The European Commission says EU Inc. will make it easier to start and grow a business across the EU, with company formation in under 48 hours, no minimum capital requirement, and a fully online borderless process.
A thread arguing that evidence-based medicine is both a blessing and a curse because population-level trials can miss individual-level realities.
Arena Magazine announces Silicon, a 384-page coffee table book about transistors, chips, and the semiconductor revolution; preorders are open now and shipping starts in May.

Tempo says its mainnet brings its payments-first blockchain for stablecoins and real-world payments into production, with infrastructure aimed at payouts, remittances, embedded finance, tokenized deposits, microtransactions, and agentic commerce.

Harmonic launches Aristotle Agent, describing it as the first autonomous mathematician. The company says the model ranks first on ProofBench for formal math, can work autonomously for up to 24 hours, and is now live on the web, in a CLI, and via API.

Ryan Adams says a joint SEC/CFTC document defines five crypto-asset categories, names examples treated as non-securities, and treats mining, staking, wrapping BTC, and airdrops as non-securities transactions.

Prime Intellect outlines how its collaboration with NVIDIA supports an open superintelligence stack spanning Blackwell clusters, Vera CPUs, and Dynamo-powered inference for long-running agentic models.

powdr labs announces powdr-wasm, an optimized zkVM for WASM built on top of OpenVM and the crush ISA. The team says early benchmarks show 1.5x fewer trace cells and faster proof times than its RISC-V OpenVM baseline, and that the system also supports Go guests via WASI.

World says AgentKit is the human layer for agentic automation, built on World ID to help the internet distinguish bot armies from agents acting on behalf of real humans and to enable human-verified automation in the agent economy.

GatlingX open-sources GPU-EVM, describes it as a 500x EVM built to run across 10k+ GPU cores, and shares a retrospective on why the team discontinued the project.

NVIDIA says DLSS 5 will bring photorealistic lighting and materials to games this fall, describing it as an AI-powered leap in visual fidelity that narrows the gap between rendering and reality.

Cooper Wrenn says Instaclaw can launch a fully autonomous AI agent on its own dedicated computer in 60 seconds, with persistent memory, a crypto wallet, and 20-plus built-in skills, without code, docs, or API keys.
Lukas Helminger argues agentic finance and identity need high-performance specialist cryptographic primitives, not general-purpose zkVM or FHE systems, because production deployments cannot tolerate current overheads.
Etherealize argues that higher Ethereum L1 throughput strengthens, rather than weakens, L2s by lowering settlement and data availability costs while pushing rollups toward more honest differentiation around customization, compliance, and interoperability.
Vitalik argues that blockchain value is clearest when viewed from first principles: Ethereum as a public bulletin board, ETH as a permissionless payment and anti-sybil mechanism, and smart contracts as a shared programming layer for decentralized, private, secure software.

Jason Rosenthal argues that strong enterprise sales execution matters as much as product quality once founders have product-market fit, and lays out a practical playbook for hiring the right sales team and building a repeatable go-to-market motion.
The STRK20s Technical Paper is now live. It outlines the design, architecture, and core ideas behind STRK20s, a privacy capability for any ERC-20. If you’re bullish on privacy as crypto’s next major unlock, this paper is for you.
Daniel Barabander adapts the 7 Powers framework to crypto, arguing durable onchain advantages come from internet bearer assets, liquidity network effects, brand, and security.
Yann LeCun announces Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI Labs), says the company has closed a $1.03B seed round worth €890M, and notes that it is hiring.
Friends With Benefits says World Build Labs is back for its third edition, backing founders building apps with Worldcoin and promising distribution to 38M+ users across 160+ countries.

Weekly #14 covering the first ePBS devnet going live, the Aave Labs temp check passing, and the Synthesis AI plus human hackathon.

ObelyZK reports 14B-parameter verification on Starknet with aggregated weight binding, reduced calldata, and an 18-transaction streaming Cairo verifier.

FUCORY introduces JJHub, a new code platform for agentic engineering teams.
Vitalik says Ethereum may replace Casper FFG with Minimmit as the finality gadget, moving from two-round to single-round finality with lower attestation overhead.

OpenZeppelin introduces the first release of OpenZeppelin Skills, starting with nine skills that give AI agents up-to-date knowledge of Contracts libraries for secure development and upgrades.

Addy Osmani introduces the Google Workspace CLI, covering Drive, Gmail, Calendar, and the broader Workspace API surface with 40+ agent skills.
Thread breaking down the discussion on hash-based SNARK security for Lean Ethereum and the EF M prize.

Austin Griffith introduces ETHSkills, a resource focused on giving AI agents the knowledge they need to build production Ethereum applications.

Aztec says all the code is now complete to build privacy-preserving smart contracts on Ethereum, with eight years of work converging in the updated product roadmap.

Flashbots publishes MEV Letter #128, a weekly roundup of recent MEV research, posts, and discussions spanning CFMM pricing, PBS market structure, Ethereum roadmap threads, and protocol calls.

Jolt now supports zero knowledge, making it suitable for privacy applications without SNARK recursion, wrapping, or loss of transparency.

OtterSec says the same Fiat-Shamir bug affects six independent zkVMs, allowing attackers to bypass the cryptography and prove mathematically impossible statements.

Edge is a high level, strongly statically typed, multi-paradigm domain specific language for the Ethereum Virtual Machine built in Rust.
Matthew Green shares a new post explaining anonymous credentials and previews a longer follow-up on how they fit into age verification systems.

Weekly #13 highlighting the top clicked links: strawmap roadmap, Justin Drake’s strawmap overview, how crypto actually works, V on fast slots and fast finality, and Bungee’s Incognito.
Vitalik outlines a step-by-step plan to make Ethereum quantum-resistant, addressing BLS signatures, KZG commitments, ECDSA, and ZK proofs.

Giza merges its ARMA and Pulse products into a single unified AI agent for managing onchain capital.
New construction built from interleaved linear codes achieves zero-overhead proofs, advancing practical ZK-SNARK efficiency.

Sound notifications for any AI agent with hooks for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and more.

New tool I found and I’m trying out: a native macOS terminal for coding agents with multitasking-focused UX.

SemiAnalysis breaks down NVIDIA's Vera Rubin architecture, covering NVLink 6, ConnectX-9, cableless compute tray design, and NVL72 TCO.

Justin Drake introduces strawmap.org, a dense technical strawman roadmap resource aimed at advanced researchers and protocol readers.

TBD introduces a product for global polling, prediction markets on outcomes, and USD rewards based on human signal.

z80 shipped WASM-sandboxed Foundry tools for Lemon to support advanced onchain agent workflows with a developer-first integration approach.

Will Brown says continual learning could be solved in the first half of 2026, framing it as primarily an engineering problem.

A knowledge graph of six years of EVM learnings, structured to accelerate research for both humans and AI agents.

Quick note from dcbuilder: Smithers is an AI workflow tool built by x.com/fucory.

Weekly roundup of MEV papers, articles, threads, and ecosystem updates curated by Flashbots.

Quick note from dcbuilder: jj (Jujutsu) is a new version control system that is Git compatible.

Live discussion with @adietrichs on proof-based verification, real-time L1 proofs, and the shift from re-execution to verify-once scaling.

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

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

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

Join us for the next Zero Knowledge Summit. This edition bring together best thinkers and builders in the space to learn about the latest in zero knowledge research, SNARKs, STARKs, cryptographic primitives, privacy and maths.

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

Announces Bungee Incognito, a privacy-focused swap mode.

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

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

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! SP1 Hypercube is one of the most advanced, secure, and trusted zkVMs in production. Built by the first team to prove Ethereum in real time. The infrastructure for @ethereum's roadmap is finally here.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

As agents scale, this post unpacks why proof of human may become core internet infrastructure.
GasHawk says it is pivoting from transaction efficiency to capital efficiency and introduces KNOX as a universal layer for reshaping DeFi risk.

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

I am stepping down from my co-ED role at the EF at the end of February 2026. Bastian Aue is taking over the co-ED role alongside Hsiao-Wei. The future is bright for builders, for Ethereum, for the EF, and for me.

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

Succinct is partnering with @optimism to bring ZK to the Superchain! OP Succinct will become a preferred ZK proving solution for the OP Stack, extending Succinct’s reach to 90% of the rollup market.

$AZTEC is now live. This time next year, every smart contract will be private. Aztec was built for this moment.

Introducing Lab: A full-stack platform for training your own agentic models Build, evaluate and train on your own environments at scale without managing the underlying infrastructure. Giving everyone their own frontier AI lab.

Dryden Brown shares 'America in the Intelligence Age,' a thesis on how the country should approach the AI era.

We shipped the infrastructure behind our AI security workflows: sandboxed devcontainers, dropkit for cloud compute, and 23+ Claude Skills from our CEO and engineers. Catch up in our latest Tribune

Matt Shumer teases an upcoming launch, saying something big is about to happen.

LayerZero introduces Zero, describing it as a decentralized multi-core world computer.

Introducing Nitro, a 3 month project accelerator: - Funding from top VCs - Mentorship from industry-leading founders - $500k per team, distributed on Day 1 If you’re building in crypto, it’s time to compress a year into 3 months. Applications are live

Chrome 146 includes an early preview of WebMCP, accessible via a flag, that lets AI agents query and execute services without browsing the web app like a user.
We are going to see if we can build an ethereum full client fully with AI 🧵

Ethereal news weekly #10 🌈 Vitalik: role of L2s has changed 🔝 @EFprotocol Hegotá upgrade headliner proposals 3⃣ @LidoFinance v3 live

jaosef.eth shares thoughts on Aztec's upcoming token generation event and what to watch as the launch approaches.

Payy announces Payy Network on Ethereum and positions it as a new payments network built on the chain.

new from paradigm: we are building a tool for exploring prediction market data try it out today. I bet you'll find new markets you never knew existed

David Hoffman argues that 2026 is an opportunity for a cleaner reset on token design and incentives.

Sending assets across any chain in the Ethereum ecosystem should be as simple as typing an address and clicking send. Now it is! Introducing Interoperable Addresses: Just use alice.eth@<chainName>

i decompiled a cult 2003 game and rewrote it from scratch in 2 weeks using codex. read more about my project.

Ethereum's latest account abstraction proposal is its best yet. EIP-8141 [1] adds a new transaction type called a frame transaction. Existing transaction types operate in the context of a single identity, whoever signs the transaction.

Moltbook voting can’t distinguish between • 1 person running 1,000 molts • 1,000 molts run by 1,000 different people Prove ownership over your agent swarms with http://onemolt.
I have been claude coding away for the last 3 days on a refreshed version of my personal website dcbuilder[.]dev, in it I have added a new jobs and candidates board because I have many friends both looking to fill roles and looking for opportunities.
Lighter announces Lighter EVM, an EVM-equivalent rollup designed to interoperate natively with the core Lighter platform.

Vitalik Buterin says the Ethereum Foundation is entering a period of mild austerity to pursue an aggressive roadmap while preserving long-term financial resilience.

Cryptography can do incredible things. Zero-knowledge proofs, multi-party computation, threshold encryption. They work and are battle-tested. So why aren't we using them everywhere? Read our blog to see how we're solving this
Was super fun being on the @sherlockdefi security podcast last week! Thank you @jack__sanford for the awesome conversation. If anyone is looking for a security partner I can definitely recommend @sherlockdefi (and no, I'm not paid to say this).
MegaETH says its public mainnet will launch on February 9, 2026.
We are starting the process of requiring staked LIT for LLP access. As much as 56M LIT has already been staked (more on that later today!) and in this thread, we will describe changes to LLP.
Avi Schiffmann shares a Friend user interview focused on how people in rural America are using AI in everyday life.
We're excited to introduce @arcee_ai's Trinity Large model. An open 400B parameter Mixture of Experts model, delivering frontier-level performance with only 13B active parameters.
Clawdbot just injected malware into your code ☠️☠️ Worst part? The attack is close to invisible, even to experienced engineers. Clawdbot can implement a code PR, just like claude code to solve issues with your app.
introducing the Tools For Humanity Engineering Fellowship we believe the world is shaped by young people if you're under 24, come work on real things that matter
1/ Quantum computing predictions lately range from "public key cryptography will be broken in 2 years" to "it's a century away. " Both are wrong. My latest post explains what publicly known progress actually supports — and what blockchains should do about it.

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

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

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

A holistic overview of digital identity, new cryptographic primitives like ZK, FHE, MPC, TEEs, and the building blocks for a better identity future.
A look back at 2022, my journey in blockchain development, joining Worldcoin, and goals for 2023.

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

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