News digest

Recent highlights from the last 7 days.

Introducing strawmap by EF Protocol
Justin Drake introduces strawmap.org, a dense technical strawman roadmap resource aimed at advanced researchers and protocol readers.
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Introducing TBD
TBD introduces a product for global polling, prediction markets on outcomes, and USD rewards based on human signal.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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peon-ping: Stop babysitting your terminal
Sound notifications for any AI agent with hooks for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and more.
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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.
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Smithers: Deterministic, durable AI workflows defined as React components.
Quick note from dcbuilder: Smithers is an AI workflow tool built by x.com/fucory.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The MEV Letter #127
Weekly roundup of MEV papers, articles, threads, and ecosystem updates curated by Flashbots.
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