Agent Hooks: Deterministic Control for Agent Workflows✨ FRESH

An X long-form on using agent hooks to add deterministic control around non-deterministic LLM agent workflows, with an open-source demo on GitHub.

What builders need to know about the CLARITY Act, what it is and why it matters✨ FRESH

The Senate Banking Committee just voted on a bipartisan basis to advance the CLARITY Act, which would finally create clear rules of the road for blockchain networks and digital assets. a16z crypto unpacks what the bill does, how it got here, and why a network-vs-company regulatory frame is critical for builders.

ETHPrague 2026 — Talk Summaries✨ FRESH

A friendly digest of the ETHPrague 2026 talks that caught my attention — Hegotá fork, real-time L1 proving, privacy-pool v2, and the Solidity challengers.

Linear launches Code Intelligence for the Linear Agent✨ FRESH

Linear Agent can now read your codebase and answer questions from the source itself — explaining how features work, investigating likely causes of regressions, and tracing code paths. It runs automatically on new bugs reported to Triage so issues arrive partially investigated.

Codex adds hooks and programmatic access tokens for automation✨ FRESH

Codex now supports hooks — scripts that run at key points in a task to run validators, scan prompts for secrets, log conversations, or customize behavior by repo. Programmatic access tokens provide scoped credentials for Business and Enterprise teams to use in CI, release workflows, and internal automations.

Claude Code and Codex autonomously beat the nanoGPT speedrun human baseline✨ FRESH

Prime Intellect ran Claude Code (Opus 4.7) and Codex (GPT 5.5) autonomously on the nanoGPT speedrun optimizer track using idle compute — ~10k runs across ~14k H200 hours. Opus now holds the record at 2930 steps vs the 2990 human baseline.

Obsidian Web Clipper adds highlight management and persistent Reader mode

Obsidian Web Clipper now manages highlights and stays in Reader mode across link navigation, with customizable colors, fonts, and one-click Markdown copy.

Codex in the ChatGPT mobile app✨ FRESH

Codex is now available in preview inside the ChatGPT mobile app — start new work, review outputs, steer execution, and approve next steps from mobile while Codex keeps running on a laptop, Mac mini, or devbox.

First open-source tool for debugging AI agents locally✨ FRESH

A new free and open-source tool lets you debug AI agents locally with shared trace access — coding agents like Codex and Claude Code can read the traces to write evals and test agents automatically.

InventMoney launches Earn and Wealth✨ FRESH

InventMoney introduces Earn and Wealth, letting users complete tasks, get paid, and grow earnings from anywhere.

Tamago: a Solady-style standard contract suite for Verity, with the first formally verified ERC-4626 vault✨ FRESH

Tamago launches as a formally verified contract suite for Verity (analogous to Solady for Solidity), shipping the first formally verified implementations of sqrt, cbrt, log10, and log256 in the EVM, plus the first formally verified ERC-4626 vault.

Google DeepMind reimagines the mouse pointer with Gemini✨ FRESH

Experimental demos show users directing Gemini on-screen via motion, speech, and natural shorthand — an AI-native rethink of the 50-year-old mouse pointer.

OP Succinct adds data confidentiality, with Polygon as first partner✨ FRESH

OP Succinct adds data confidentiality so institutions can keep transactions private on self-hosted infrastructure while settling to Ethereum. Polygon is the first partner to integrate it.

Codex gains computer use: agents that click, type, and work in the background✨ FRESH

Codex now supports computer use, letting agents click, type, and keep working in the background without taking over the user's Mac.

Google detects first known in-the-wild use of an AI-developed zero-day exploit✨ FRESH

Google Threat Intelligence Group reports the first known instance of a threat actor deploying an AI-developed zero-day exploit in the wild; proactive counter-discovery may have averted a wide-scale strike.

Important update from the C4 team✨ FRESH

An important update from the C4 team is live.

Longevity lessons from spending millions on health optimization✨ FRESH

A longevity protocol distills health optimization lessons into practical guidance on sleep, routines, and daily habits.

Lean gains attention for formalizing important systems✨ FRESH

Lean theorem-proving workflows can make important software and specifications more verifiable while preserving rapid iteration.

OpenAI introduces Daybreak for cyber defenders✨ FRESH

Daybreak combines OpenAI models, Codex, and security partners to accelerate cyber defense and secure software.

Thinking Machines shares real-time collaborative AI approach✨ FRESH

Thinking Machines shares its approach, early results, and a demo of an AI model designed to work with people in real time.

x402 payments settle as plain ERC-20 transfers✨ FRESH

x402 payment metadata can expose pricing, revenue by account, and daily customer activity on block explorers.

205 npm package artifacts compromised across 84 package names✨ FRESH

Socket has identified 205 affected npm package artifacts across enterprise automation, AI/MCP, auth, workflow, and developer tooling.

Clear signing is now live✨ FRESH

Clear signing is now live as an open standard for human-readable Ethereum transactions.

A DeFi dependency graph maps shared oracle, bridge, and proxy risks behind "diversified" portfolios✨ FRESH

Building Fast & Accurate Agents with Prime-RL Post Training✨ FRESH

Ramp Sheets uses Prime-RL post-training to build Fast Ask, a spreadsheet retrieval subagent that improves accuracy and latency.

Hermes Agent reaches #1 on OpenRouter token rankings✨ FRESH

Hermes Agent has reached #1 on OpenRouter global token rankings.

OpenAI introduces GPT-Realtime-2 in the API✨ FRESH

GPT-Realtime-2 brings GPT-5-class reasoning to voice agents, alongside GPT-Realtime-Translate and GPT-Realtime-Whisper streaming audio models.

Claude Managed Agents adds multiagent orchestration✨ FRESH

Claude Managed Agents now includes multiagent orchestration, rubric-driven outcomes loops, self-learning through dreaming, and webhooks.

Offchain launches new institutional onchain chapter✨ FRESH

Offchain is bringing Arbitrum, Prysm, and ZeroDev work together into a broader institutional onchain product suite.

Merces paper introduces confidential token transfers✨ FRESH

Merces wraps existing tokens into confidential versions, hiding balances and transfer amounts while enforcing integrity onchain with MPC and CoSNARKs.

Prime Intellect Lab exits beta✨ FRESH

Prime Intellect Lab is out of beta, opening access for users to train their own models for self-improving agents.

OpenAI releases MRC for large-scale AI training networks✨ FRESH

OpenAI and partners released Multipath Reliable Connection, an open networking protocol designed to make large AI training clusters faster and more reliable.

Introducing Zinc+ for field-unfriendly computations✨ FRESH

Zinc+ targets arithmetizing and proving finite-field-unfriendly work such as classic hashes, signatures, and lattice operations.

open-slide launches as a slide framework for agents

open-slide has launched as a slide framework for agents, turning prompts into polished decks.

Editframe emerges from stealth with agent video tools

Editframe has emerged from stealth with agent skills for creating videos and interactive GUIs from prompts.

Introducing deepsec: The security harness for finding vulnerabilities in your codebase✨ FRESH

Vercel has open sourced deepsec, an AI security harness that runs on user-owned infrastructure and keys against their code.

Base Adds ZK Proofs to Base Azul with SP1

Base is partnering with Succinct to bring zero-knowledge proofs to the Base chain, with the Azul upgrade using SP1 to prove $7.4B in deposits.

a16z raised a $2.2B crypto fund✨ FRESH

a16z has raised a $2.2B crypto fund.

Ethereum privacy advances with frame transactions and 2D nonces✨ FRESH

Frame transactions (EIP-8141) and 2D nonces let fees be paid from withdrawals, reducing the need for relayers or doxxed fee accounts.

Soldøgn Interop Recap

Ethereum core contributors gathered in Svalbard for Soldøgn, an interop week focused on hardening Glamsterdam implementations and setting a 200M post-upgrade gas limit floor.

Codex can now keep goals running for days

Codex can now keep goals running across turns for days, enabling longer-running coding tasks with GPT-5.5.

April 2026 was the worst month ever for DeFi exploits

April 2026 saw roughly $635M lost across 28 DeFi exploit incidents, making it the worst month on record for DeFi exploits.

MEGA is now trading

MEGA is now trading.

Stripe Sessions: agents of growth

Stripe announced 288 updates at Stripe Sessions to accelerate AI company growth, help enterprises adapt to AI, prevent token theft, and empower agents as economic actors.

Stripe launches Link CLI — agents can mint single-use credentials with synchronous approval

Patrick Collison announces the Link CLI — agents can use it to create single-use credentials that the user synchronously approves each time. Patrick demos it by asking Claude to buy itself a gift on Etsy.

Solidity 0.8.35 released

Solidity 0.8.35 ships with an erc7201 comptime builtin, a new --experimental flag, experimental SSA CFG codegen, and deprecation warnings for upcoming 0.9.0 keywords.

Circle Gateway nanopayments are live on mainnet

Circle Gateway nanopayments are live on mainnet, enabling gas-free USDC transfers down to $0.000001 with instant verification and unified liquidity across supported chains.

Falcon Heavy side boosters land on LZ-2 and LZ-40

Falcon Heavy’s side boosters landed on Landing Zones 2 and 40 after launch.

You Can Only Be in One Place

Digital identity systems can verify knowledge or possession, but proof of physical presence is needed to verify who is actually present.

Plank v0.1 smart contract language released

Plank v0.1 introduces a new smart contract language that rebuilds the smart contract development stack from the ground up.

Warp is now open-source

Warp has open-sourced its client, enabling community participation through an agent-first workflow managed by Oz.

Google Wallet expands digital ID access with Aadhaar Verifiable Credentials

Google Wallet is expanding digital IDs in select countries, with Aadhaar Verifiable Credentials rolling out in India and selective disclosure privacy features.

Private uniqueness: how the bleeding edge offers the impossible

An X article examines private uniqueness and how proof-of-human systems can preserve privacy while resisting duplicate identities, using World ID as the motivating example.

Tempo adds stablecoin payment capabilities on mainnet

Tempo released new mainnet capabilities for stablecoin payments, including subscriptions, auto-pay, per-customer deposit attribution, and invoice reconciliation.

The MEV Letter #135

Weekly roundup of MEV research, EIPs, and tooling — CEX-DEX arbitrage modeling, OP stake-based priority ordering, Privacy Boost, Frame transactions, Besu parallelization, and more.

Medra opens America's largest autonomous lab

Michelle Lee (founder/CEO of Medra AI) announces the opening of America's largest autonomous lab — hundreds of robots running 24/7 to accelerate scientific discovery.

Introducing GPT-5.5

OpenAI introduces GPT-5.5 — a new class of intelligence for real work and powering agents, built to understand complex goals, use tools, check its work, and carry tasks through to completion. Available in ChatGPT and Codex.

GPT-5.5 released — rolling out in ChatGPT and Codex

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5, a new frontier model for agentic coding, computer use, knowledge work, and scientific research. Rolling out in ChatGPT and Codex today; API coming soon.

Claude Code introduces /ultrareview for cloud-based bug hunting

Claude Code's /ultrareview research preview runs a fleet of bug-hunting agents in the cloud before merges to critical code paths. Pro/Max users get 3 free reviews through 5/5.

Claude Code posts quality postmortem, fixes land in v2.1.116

Anthropic publishes postmortem on three issues behind reported Claude Code quality regressions; all fixed in v2.1.116+ with usage limits reset for all subscribers.

Daniel Edrisian leaves OpenAI to found Blackstar

Ex-OpenAI Codex engineer launches Blackstar, a new hardware company building the next OS for human-AI interaction on the premise that 'software is solved'.

MEGA TGE — April 30, 2026

MegaETH announces its token generation event for April 30, 2026.

Open sourcing Schelk — fast filesystem snapshot and rollback for database benchmarking

Paradigm open-sources Schelk — a fast filesystem snapshot and rollback tool used daily for database benchmarking. Work by @pepyakin.

Decoupled DiLoCo — resilient distributed AI pre-training

Google DeepMind and Google Research release Decoupled DiLoCo — enabling AI pre-training across datacenters worldwide on heterogeneous hardware, without halting the system.

ENSv2 is coming

ENS announces ENSv2 — a new foundation for names, built for integrations and subnames at scale.

The post-quantum cryptography debate has reached a tipping point

Ledger CTO on why the transition to post-quantum cryptography is inevitable — even without knowing when (or if) a cryptographically relevant quantum computer will arrive.

Introducing Browser Harness — a self-healing harness for browser tasks

Browser-use founder Gregor Zunic introduces Browser Harness — a self-healing harness that edits helpers on the fly and talks to Chrome via direct CDP, removing the LLM-restricting framework layer.

Privacy on the OP Stack

OP Labs CEO and Optimism co-founder on bringing privacy to the OP Stack via Privacy Boost — a regulatory-friendly, composable SDK leveraging ZK and TEEs for confidential EVM transactions.

Introducing Runner — a knowledge work agent across all your apps

Yitong introduces @runneragent — a knowledge work agent that works across all your apps to stay on top of messages, project management, user feedback, and more.

Aligned ALIGN Tokenomics Update

Aligned publishes an update on ALIGN tokenomics — the ZK verification layer for Ethereum.

Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.0

State-of-the-art image model for complex visual tasks with sharper editing, richer layouts, and thinking-level intelligence.

The Bridge less travelled

Long-form essay by Odysseus, founder of Phylax Systems, on cross-chain bridge design choices and the paths the industry hasnt taken.

Core Memory — Sam Altman & Greg Brockman: 10 Years of OpenAI

Full Core Memory pod with Sam Altman and Greg Brockman — new models, the trial with Elon, more compute, the death of Sora, and more. On YouTube and all major podcast platforms.

The Internet is Real Life

Long-form essay by Erik Torenberg (GP at a16z) on how digital life has become indistinguishable from — and as consequential as — physical life.

Tiago Sada: full World ID keynote — AGI & Proof of Human

As AI advances, most apps and websites will use proof of human to protect themselves and their users. Full World ID keynote: AGI & Proof of Human with @sama, the new World ID, and World ID for apps.

379 zero-days from an orchestrated pipeline that beat unconstrained Claude Code by 30x

Researchers built SAILOR, a three-phase pipeline combining static analysis, LLM-driven symbolic execution, and concrete validation that discovered 379 unknown memory-safety vulnerabilities in C/C++ projects — outperforming an unconstrained AI agent by 30x.

Arbitrum Security Council freezes 30,766 ETH tied to KelpDAO exploit

The Arbitrum Security Council froze 30,766 ETH on Arbitrum One connected to the KelpDAO exploit, moving the funds to an intermediary frozen wallet after technical diligence and law-enforcement input.

World ID 4.0

World Network Liftoff event live updates

World Network Liftoff event is underway, with live updates and announcements from the venue.

Tempo is building Zones for businesses that need privacy

Tempo is building Zones, private blockchains for businesses that need privacy around stablecoin payments.

The MEV Letter #134

Issue #134 covers Blockspace Under Pressure: An Analysis of Spam MEV on High-Throughput Blockchains, The L2 Fee Vault: Pricing L1 Costs with Feedback Control, The Functional Layers of Non-Custodial Wallets and DeFi Interfaces, and What is "Finalized" in Ethereum? | Canonical Reorgs & Reflections.

Ethereal news weekly #19

Weekly issue #19 covers the Roman Storm acquittal hearing, ETHGlobal Cannes hackathon finalists, and the evmnow block explorer.

AI powered Google Finance launches in over 100 countries

The redesigned Google Finance now ships to more than 100 countries with AI powered market research, advanced charting, live earnings calls, and expanded real time data.

Quantum safe Bitcoin transactions without softforks

A GitHub project outlines how to support quantum safe Bitcoin transactions without requiring softforks.

Category Labs analyzes spam MEV and its blockspace cost

Speculative probes that search for MEV on-chain at execution time consume around a quarter of blockspace while rarely producing a trade.

The MEV Letter #133

Issue #133 covers Geographical Centralization Resilience in Ethereum’s Block-Building Paradigms, When Frontrunning is Alchemy, Economic Security of VDF-Based Randomness Beacons, and Blocks Are Dead. Long Live Blobs.

OpenAI Foundation directs over 100 million dollars to Alzheimer research

The OpenAI Foundation is committing more than 100 million dollars to scientists mapping Alzheimer disease, designing drugs, and related research.

Alexandr Wang releases Muse Spark from MSL

Muse Spark is the first model from MSL and now powers Meta AI after a full rebuild of the stack and data pipelines.

PRAXIS launches PRAXIS APP TestFlight

PRAXIS APP launches a limited TestFlight with agent-made double opt-in introductions, end-to-end encrypted messaging, and gated admission.

Reth 2.0 launches with major performance gains

Reth 2.0 is now faster, smaller, and built for the future of crypto infrastructure, with gigagas-per-second performance exceeding prior milestones.

Morpho expands enterprise and institutional adoption in March

The Ethereum Foundation increased its treasury allocation to Morpho, while Tempo, Privy, Ramp, OKX, Binance, and ShapeShift expanded yield offerings with Morpho.

X launches a new photo editor in the post composer

The new photo editor adds drawing, text, Grok-powered editing with words, and blur redaction inside the X post composer.

Trail of Bits shares lessons from auditing WhatsApp TEE security

A WhatsApp private inference audit highlights four implementation lessons for TEE security.

Linux Foundation launches x402 Foundation with contribution of protocol from Coinbase

a16z interviews Alex Blania on proof of human and AI identity

Alex Blania discusses deepfakes, proof of human, AI identity, and iris-based uniqueness verification at scale.

America still saves pilots, reaches the Moon, and confronts authoritarianism

A pro-American post apologizes for European idiocy and praises the United States for rescuing pilots, sending humans to the Moon, and confronting authoritarianism head-on.

DL Research interviews dcbuilder on x402 agent payments and proof of human

An interview with dcbuilder explores x402 agent payments and how AgentKit adds proof-of-human to solve uniqueness.

EU Digital Identity picks Noir for its ZK identity app

The EU digital identity initiative selected Noir as the zero-knowledge language for its identity app.

Z.ai introduces GLM-5.1 open-source coding model

GLM-5.1 is a new open-source model from Z.ai for long-horizon coding tasks, ranking first among open models across SWE-Bench Pro, Terminal-Bench, and NL2Repo.

Anthropic launches Project Glasswing with Claude Mythos Preview

Project Glasswing gives major technology and security partners access to Claude Mythos Preview to find and fix critical software vulnerabilities, backed by up to $100M in usage credits.

Google Research introduces TurboQuant for 6x KV cache compression

TurboQuant reduces LLM key-value cache memory usage by at least 6x and improves attention computation speed by up to 8x.

pcaversaccio says Vyper is set to become the first formally verified smart contract compiler

Vyper is on track to become the first formally verified smart contract compiler, a milestone aimed at stronger correctness guarantees.

TBPN has been acquired by OpenAI

OpenAI has acquired TBPN, the tech talk show co-hosted by John Coogan and Jordi Hays.

delian shares orbital animation of Artemis 2 heading to the Moon

An orbital animation shows Artemis II's crewed trajectory around the Moon and back to Earth.

$213M+ have been drained from Drift Protocol on Solana after admin key compromise

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.

POAP to enter maintenance mode, halting active development

The MEV Letter #132

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 launches Alpha, its feature-complete privacy stack on Ethereum

Aztec says Alpha is live, giving developers a feature-complete privacy stack on Ethereum with customizable privacy from execution to settlement.

Cheng Lou shares a foundational piece of UI engineering

A thread framing a new release as an important foundational piece of UI engineering for the future of interfaces.

Sebastian Caliri on the limits of evidence-based medicine

A thread arguing that evidence-based medicine is both a blessing and a curse because population-level trials can miss individual-level realities.

Soon goes inside Aalo Atomics as nuclear startups race to build reactors

The post looks at how Aalo Atomics is balancing safety and speed in the push to power data centers.

Quang Dao shares fully reworked sum-check paper with new optimizations

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

Formal verification is becoming more important for Ethereum

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

Introducing Aztec Labs

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

Battlechain testnet is now live

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

The MEV Letter #131

Issue #131 covers Just-in-Time Resale in an Ahead-of-Time Auction: An Event Study, Proof-of-Time: Completing the Timing Game, Optimal Hedge Ratio for Delta-Neutral Liquidity Provision under Liquidation Constraints, and How L1 and L2s can build the strongest possible Ethereum.

Announcing ARC-AGI-3

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

Ethereum Foundation launches pq.ethereum.org for the Ethereum post-quantum security effort

Dedicated resource for the Ethereum post-quantum security effort, covering cryptographic agility, hash-based signatures, and SNARK-based aggregation.

Phylax blocks its first live exploit attempt on Linea

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.

Announcing TERAFAB: the next step towards becoming a galactic civilization

SpaceX announces TERAFAB and links to the TERAFAB Launch broadcast.

Nvidia - The Inference Kingdom Expands

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.

Ethereum's post-quantum security strategy

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.

How we made Ramp Sheets self-maintaining

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.

How L1s and L2s can build the strongest possible Ethereum

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.

Announcing our first book: Silicon

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.

World announces Lift Off, a live World ID launch event in San Francisco

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.

The TACEO Network is live

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 adopts ERC-8183 for agentic commerce

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.

powdr labs announces powdr-wasm, a zkVM for WASM

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.

Leveraging NVIDIA to Build the Open Superintelligence Stack

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.

NVIDIA announces DLSS 5, an AI-powered visual fidelity breakthrough for games

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.

Harmonic launches Aristotle Agent for autonomous formal mathematics

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.

World introduces AgentKit beta for human-verified agentic automation

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.

European Commission introduces EU Inc. for faster cross-border company formation

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.

Tempo launches mainnet for real-world payments infrastructure

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.

Visa CLI launches command-line commerce for AI agents

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.

Instaclaw spins up an autonomous AI agent in 60 seconds

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.

A Deeper Look at a New Protocol Cluster Priority: Hardness

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.

Ryan Adams on the new SEC/CFTC crypto asset classification framework

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.

GatlingX releases GPU-EVM code and explains why it discontinued the project

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.

Your product won’t sell itself: How to build a world-class sales team

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.

Private, verifiable agent actions need specialist cryptographic infrastructure

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.

Why scaling Ethereum is bullish for L2s

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 on what blockchains are for from first principles

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.

STRK20s Technical Paper is now live

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.

Yann LeCun unveils AMI Labs after a $1.03B seed round

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.

World Build Labs returns for a third edition to back founders building for 38M+ users

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.

The 7 Powers in Crypto

Daniel Barabander adapts the 7 Powers framework to crypto, arguing durable onchain advantages come from internet bearer assets, liquidity network effects, brand, and security.

Matthew Green on anonymous credentials and how to build them

Matthew Green shares a new post explaining anonymous credentials and previews a longer follow-up on how they fit into age verification systems.

Vitalik proposes switching Ethereum finality from Casper FFG to Minimmit

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.

Lean Ethereum is preparing for a PQ future

Thread breaking down the discussion on hash-based SNARK security for Lean Ethereum and the EF M prize.

Ethereal news weekly #13

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.

The MEV Letter #128

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.

Introducing OpenZeppelin Skills

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.

Ethereal news weekly #14

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

OtterSec found the same Fiat-Shamir bug in six independent zkVMs

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

Introducing the Google Workspace CLI

Addy Osmani introduces the Google Workspace CLI, covering Drive, Gmail, Calendar, and the broader Workspace API surface with 40+ agent skills.

The updated Aztec Product Roadmap is live

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.

ETHSkills: give your agents the skills they need to build onchain

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

ObelyZK: GKR-based verifiable ZKML inference for billion-parameter models on Starknet

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

Jolt now supports zero-knowledge

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

Introducing Edge, a high level, strongly statically typed DSL for the EVM

Edge is a high level, strongly statically typed, multi-paradigm domain specific language for the Ethereum Virtual Machine built in Rust.

Introducing JJHub

FUCORY introduces JJHub, a new code platform for agentic engineering teams.

Ethereum quantum resistance roadmap: tackling BLS, KZG, ECDSA, and ZK proofs step by step

Vitalik outlines a step-by-step plan to make Ethereum quantum-resistant, addressing BLS signatures, KZG commitments, ECDSA, and ZK proofs.

ZO0K: a family of zero-overhead zero-knowledge hash-based SNARKs

New construction built from interleaved linear codes achieves zero-overhead proofs, advancing practical ZK-SNARK efficiency.

Giza unifies ARMA and Pulse into one agent for onchain capital management

Giza merges its ARMA and Pulse products into a single unified AI agent for managing onchain capital.

Vera Rubin deep dive: extreme co-design evolution from Grace Blackwell, NVL72 TCO and BoM analysis

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

peon-ping: Stop babysitting your terminal

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

cmux: The terminal built for coding agents

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

Introducing strawmap by EF Protocol

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

TBPN: Prime Intellect’s Will Brown on continual learning in 2026

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

Introducing TBD

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

WASM-sandboxed Foundry tools for Lemon

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

Introducing evmresearch

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

Smithers: Deterministic, durable AI workflows defined as React components.

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

The MEV Letter #127

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

Found a cool new Git-compatible VCS: Jujutsu (jj)

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

Bankless: Ethereum’s last big upgrade is the zkEVM

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

Citrini outlines a 2028 crash scenario despite AI outperformance

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

Anthropic reports industrial-scale model distillation attacks

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

Introducing PrivateX402 for multi-agent AI payments

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

Ethereal news weekly #12

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

SEC Chair says tokenized securities can trade onchain

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

A new, unified stack for Base Chain

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

Bungee introduces Incognito swaps

Announces Bungee Incognito, a privacy-focused swap mode.

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

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

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

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

encrypt V2 is live with private bridging across 6 chains

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

Announcing the Platform team

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

Network Anonymized Mempools

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

OpenAI introduces EVMbench

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

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

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

SP1 Hypercube is now live on mainnet!

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.

stokes announces three Ethereum Protocol tracks for 2026

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

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

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

Justin Drake dives deep into Lean Ethereum

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

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

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.

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.

Ethereal news weekly #11

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

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

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.

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

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.

GasHawk is sunsetting

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

$AZTEC is now live

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

Something Big Is Happening

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

America in the Intelligence Age

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

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

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.

Zero: The Decentralized Multi-Core World Computer

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

Ethereal news weekly #10

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

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

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

Chrome 146 previews WebMCP (early flag)

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.

Nitro launches a 3-month crypto project accelerator

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

Trail of Bits contributes skills for security engineering

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

Building an Ethereum client with AI

We are going to see if we can build an ethereum full client fully with AI 🧵

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

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

Looking ahead to AZTEC's TGE

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

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

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.

A Fresh Start for Tokenomics in 2026

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

Announcing Payy Network on Ethereum

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

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

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

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

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>

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Lighter announces Lighter EVM, an EVM-equivalent rollup designed to interoperate natively with the core Lighter platform.

A Tidal Change: The Future of Digital Identity II

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

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.

My humble learnings about angel investing

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

2022 recap and future prospects

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

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.

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.

2023 recap and goals for 2024

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

Quantum computing vs blockchains: the real threats

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.

Tools For Humanity Engineering Fellowship for under-24s

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

How Clawdbot injected malware via GitHub issues

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 Trinity Large: 400B MoE model

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.

Friend user interview: AI touchpoints in rural America

Avi Schiffmann shares a Friend user interview focused on how people in rural America are using AI in everyday life.

MegaETH Public Mainnet: Feb 9, 2026

MegaETH says its public mainnet will launch on February 9, 2026.

On the Sherlock Security Podcast

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).

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

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.