our domaim appears to have been compromised and the http://eth.limo domain has been hijacked. We're actively working with all parties involved to assess the situation and remediate the problem.

0/ Clear signing is now live. An open standard to end blind signing, making human-readable transactions default. This effort brings a major UX and Security upgrade to transaction signing on Ethereum.

the grok bikini thing everyone's talking about is just the visible tip of something way darker... this is the start of a new era where everything you've ever posted online becomes a weapon that can be used against you and i need you to understand how serious this actually is we're not talking about photoshop anymore, we're talking about AI models and people that can take any photo of you and generate you in any situation, any context, any scenario someone wants to create every image you've posted, every video where your face is visible, every public moment you've shared... it's all training data now here's what makes this different from anything we've seen before: even if grok gets updated to refuse these requests tomorrow, even if every major AI company builds in restrictions... it's too late people already have access to open source models that can do the same thing, models that run locally on their computers with zero content policies, zero restrictions, zero way for anyone to stop them think about what that actually means for you: > your social media history is now a library of raw material for anyone who wants to manipulate your image > your professional photos can be placed in compromising situations you never agreed to > your vacation pics, your family photos, your casual selfies... all of it can be used to create content that looks completely real and there's no way to go back from this point, the technology is out there, fully distributed across thousands of computers, impossible to contain or control more than ever before, you need to be extremely careful about what you post online moving forward everything you post online will 100% be used against you at some point, whether that's next month or ten years from now i don't wanna be fear mongering, this is the new reality we're living in and most people still don't understand how serious it is

Today we shared difficult news with the OP Labs team. Our priority was to communicate with the impacted people & give the team time to process the news before sharing publicly. This decision reflects a narrowing of our focus, not our runway. I’m sharing the note I sent to the team earlier today, and I strongly encourage teams across the ecosystem to reach out to the people leaving OP Labs because they are talented engineers, operators, and builders who helped build Optimism into what it is today. If you are genuinely hiring, feel free to shoot me a DM with your open roles and I will make introductions (with dual consent).

OK — Kelpdao hacker, how much you want? Let’s just talk. With KelpDAO’s help, of course. It’s simply not worth it to sacrifice both Aave and KelpDAO and let them go down over this hack. You can’t spend $300 million anyway.

When AI hits security there will be signs

DAOs are so dead that I see nobody noticed or discussed this proposal that @ENS_DAO essentially dissolves itself and transfers control of the entire treasury (almost half a billion in ENS + stables) to the ENS foundation.

Crypto as we know it is over. It's time to look at the abyss and stop acting like this industry will in any way recover if the leaders continue to act like everything is fine and the 50th perps DEX will solve this. The Death of the Crypto VC sector is slowly unfolding during the past few months. LP commitments have been on a low and didn't even remotely recover during a generational $16k -> $120k bull market. VCs like Mechanism/Tangent literally pivoted away from crypto. Half of the Paradigm team ragequit in the last 2 months, entire firms silently exited everything. Barely any crypto VC has been able to raise for another fund and the venture appetite is close to zero. Please for the love of god look at the data & stop coping that this in any way is normal or will recover for a sector claiming to be on the frontier of technology. The risk appetite inside venture has been off the charts in the last 3 years, blockchain received only outflows. I spoke to so many VCs (both tradfi and crypto) in the past month, and close to nobody was optimistic about them being able to raise for another crypto-fund. We are at the tail end of blockchain innovation. "Oh ownership coins fix this" No they don't. Sorry to burst your bubble, but as the founder of a company doing "ownership" structures, this fixes exactly nothing. It's a band-aid of complacency. I'd argue it actually makes it worse, because no talented young founder will chose to give anonymous tokenholders full control of their business, it just turns crypto even more into this autistic cypherpunk delusion. Blockchain & especially alt coins has moved from the frontier of technology to an un-investable asset class who's building products who nobody needs. And the VCs who are left are trying their best to unauthentically manufacture narratives, fund the current hot thing (just to be left at 0 after the 3y vesting starts, and the current hot thing turned out to be not so societally important as the fast moving crypto sector thought it would be). The frontier of technology has moved away from blockchain and sits at AI & Robotics right now and blockchain right now is seen as the weird industry you enter to build something meaningless for exit liquidity. If we want this industry to bloom again, we need to work to get rid of the 3 in web3 and come back to reality. We need to go towards the epicenter of the current innovation and not try to artificially replicate it inside crypto. It's either valuable tokens for web2 startups or this sector & especially the venture market goes to 0. @StreetFDN

HOW IS NOBODY TALKING ABOUT THIS!?!?!?!? THEY PRINTED 5 BILLION OF THEIR OWN TOKENS THEN WITHDREW IT AS USDC!?!?!?!??!

We're experimenting with how transactions are ordered on OP Mainnet — for the first time ever. Stake-based transaction ordering is live on Sepolia today. Stake OP, get top-of-block access. Here's what's happening and why 🧵

so claude code's entire safety system for "dangerous" cyber security work is just...a text prompt literally replace it with an empty string and recompile. thats it. enjoy your unrestricted version

🚨Claude Opus 4.6 wrote vulnerable code, leading to a smart contract exploit with $1.78M loss cbETH asset's price was set to $1.12 instead of ~$2,200. The PRs of the project show commits were co-authored by Claude - Is this the first hack of vibe-coded Solidity code?

agentic payments

BREAKING: META acquires Moltbook, a social network built for AI agents.

Absolute privacy nightmare. Governments pushing AML/KYC on the app layer - they think its a good idea to have citizens submit biometrics and IDs to every third party who requests it. Can they at least mandate zk solutions where the user can prove identity without submitting it to every corporation on the planet? Bureaucrats "accidentally" legislating a surveillance state and broken security for their citizens. We need a digital civil rights act now.

There’s this really weird pattern I’ve noticed in tech, crypto, art, online communities, etc where a guy will create something that becomes really popular or successful and then it gets captured by a bunch of faceless nobodies who make it worse or at least don’t do any better. From that point, like scheming little court viziers, if the founder does anything other than roll over and die, they do everything possible to subvert his actions, denounce his name, and then desperately ignore his existence. If he should happen to gain any traction afterward, he gets desperately dismissed and countersignalled. There never seems to be any ambitious intent to continue, expand upon, or even try to sincerely alter the trajectory either. It’s usually just a bunch of parasites suckling off the momentum from the juggernaut originally created until it becomes an emaciated husk. Ideas get thrown out without any real volition, executed poorly, generating little to no notoriety from whatever fans, audience, or enthusiasts were left after the initial excursion. Despite their entire lives and time and energy being dedicated to orbiting around a particular thing, they have an incredible level of scorn for that thing’s creator. Left unchecked, their mindset shifts from “I could’ve done this” to “I actually did this first” while failing to do any better. These individuals often tend to be risk-averse, low agency, fearful of direct confrontation, and generally unexceptional. They default towards appeals to authority, often utilizing cancel culture, consensus astroturfing, or other disingenuous methods which emphasize the need for removal without placing emphasis on themselves. They’re often “the responsible ones just picking up the pieces” after ousting the founder or creator under pretenses of bad optics, which are often the result of the same unstable creative energy that allowed something good to be made in the first place. These kinds of court games aren’t new to history, but at least historically there’s some degree of dignity in the life-or-death consequences and stake of power that these games were played for in the past. The phenomenon of people doing this online over the past couple decades is nowhere near as sophisticated, cunning, or deliberate as, say, an ancient Chinese coup or a 19th century political usurpation. It’s often bumbling doofuses operating on pure instinct, picking up unconscious consensus tactics and riding a wave of social inertia generated by unintentional displays of weakness (like undue generosity or lack of hierarchical enforcement) from leadership. The funniest part about it is that you all think I’m subtweeting something specific but I bet each and every one of you can think of a different example of something like this happening. Maybe it was to a company, a movement, a franchise, a fandom, a forum, or even just a friend group. But all of you have either seen it happen or basked in the aftermath of it. It’s ruined something good you’ve enjoyed or something important you were a part of. As human beings learn to adapt to the next stage of evolution (the Network Hivemind), we find ourselves rediscovering the same principles and mechanisms we had to learn throughout our history as a species. The lessons of the past are harvested and recreated digitally, as we both participate and observe our own development in the great Petri dish of the Network. The sociopolitical mechanisms that online parasites have historically taken advantage of over the past twenty years are growing weaker. Fairly soon, genuine creators and contributors will have better context and weapons to equip themselves with, a proper immune system built up against the pungent thick vat of bio waste that’s encroached and corrupted everything we enjoy. Like a tragic prophecy in a Greek epic, every dire social consequence the digital cockroach has wielded as a bogeyman to cater to his interests will come true. A better, crueler world awaits them.

Very disheartening to see the Ethereum account lending credibility to this absolute baseless nonsense. I’m BEGGING crypto people to cure their confirmation bias and actually think and stop coping This web4/conway system is an infra ponzi, it’s not self sovereign in any sense whatsoever. The models are run by OpenAI and Anthropic, and if not, you’re self hosting and then it’s run by YOU, not a self sovereign AI. The more your agent “self reproduces” the more instances of Conways hosting infra it/you has to pay for. And there’s no “self reproduction” or “self improvement” these are static pre trained models that are copy pasting and rewriting a system prompt in a text file. It’s over promising and under delivering to an astronomical degree but people are eating it up because it’s telling something they desperately want to hear. Some of crypto is cool, most of it is insanely toxic, there are some potential overlaps between crypto and AI, but be real with yourself. We need to think about the future of this tech and now it will intersect but anybody screaming about “The First XYZ” is a red flag. At the very least, send the content to your favorite AI and ask them if it’s misleading, untrue, or otherwise nonsense constructed to attract attention or sell you a scam. If you know it’s a scam and just want to gamble on it, great. But be honest with yourself and your audience

maybe this is not yet clear, so let me state it plainly: as of right now Anthropic, and really a small number of individuals at Anthropic, has the capacity to directly attack and cause major damage to the United States Government, China, and generally global superpowers. government agencies like the NSA do not have internal models or defense capabilities that outclass frontier models. if they chose to do so, they could likely exfiltrate top secret information from government systems, gain control over critical infrastructure including military infrastructure, sabotage or modify communications between members of government at the highest level, and potentially carry on activities for some time without detection. the thing about having access to a huge number of zerodays your adversaries don't know about is it gives you a massive asymmetric advantage. they did not exploit this to gain power or destabilize the world order. they publicly released the information that they had these capabilities and worked to mitigate these flaws. you should be grateful american frontier labs have proven themselves remarkably trustworthy and concerned with the public good. but it's critical you understand we are in a new regime. private entities now have power that directly rivals and impacts the government's monopoly on influence and violence. and anthropic is certainly not the only one, there's little chance OpenAI's internal models are far behind. this trend will accelerate on virtually every dimension, not slow down. my prediction for how it plays out is the relatively imminent seizure and nationalization of labs by the US government, sometime over the next two years. it's very tough for me to see how they accept the existence of this kind of threat. but this adds a whole new class of governance issues, as then we've handed these extremely wide-reaching capabilities from private entities to public ones.

Wow. Statement signed by the heads of the ECB, BoE, Riksbank, the Danish Nationalbank, SNB, RBA, Boc, BoK, BCdB, BIS

the underpriced outcome is that the AI's simply don't care. MPP? x402? AP2? these things are better software devs than the guys even writing the payment protocols they're singularly going to be driven by consumer preference which will come down to price in 99% of instances (citrini mode) The winning protocol will be whomever can be the most chinese; lie, cheat, steal, ship, and drive price//friction as low as humanly possible

When we launched the aGDP incentive program, the goal was simple: accelerate agent commerce adoption. Here's where it stands today: > Up to $4M in agent-to-agent revenue > 2M+ agent jobs completed > 32,951+ agents launched > $1M+ distributed in aGDP incentives alone > And now, the entire industry is talking about agent commerce. Now it's time to build for what comes next. Epoch 5 marks the final epoch. The initial aGDP incentive program was designed to bootstrap agent economic activity and prove that agents can generate real, measurable GDP. That has been achieved. We are now graduating to a new incentive structure built for the next phase of agent commerce as it scales across ecosystems and use cases. Details on the new mechanism coming soon.

↩ (@HarschJoha583) > Sounds a lil bit anti-islam but hey Fuck statements like this. Similarly, fuck claiming that standing up for Gazans', West Bankers, Lebanese, Syrian people's right to live in peace and not get encroaching settlements, constant drone strikes and bombs is antisemitic. And fuck claiming that standing up for Ukrainian people's right to live in peace and not be invaded is Russophobic. And fuck not even noticing the needless and extreme manmade suffering in Sudan, Myanmar, North Korea and elsewhere. And fuck the possibility that in the future statements like this will have to include a line for Greenland. We stand for human dignity. That is the bottom line. You can disagree on details of individual situations and what specific actions hurt or help, but the bottom line in resolving such issues must be a common agreement that the underlying goal is to protect the dignity of all people. This is more important than political teams. There are also people who are on the same political team as you, but whose words and actions clearly demonstrate that they are not interested in human dignity - genuine *phobes who use appeals to freedom and life opportunistically. This must also be opposed. Again, the north star is human dignity. To be ultimately more interested not in pushing the people you oppose down, but in lifting the people you feel sympathy for up. If you observe the long-term pattern of how someone acts, you can tell.

This year, the EF is decreasing its budget by roughly 40%, which entails some difficult decisions. The goal of the decreases was set out in the Treasury Management Policy last year: the EF is transitioning into being a long-term-oriented endowment-based organization, shifting from its pre-2026 average of spending ~15% of its remaining funds each year, toward a post-2030 target of ~5% per year. Often, when an organization goes through something like this, people try to pretend that nothing of great value was lost, that it is an efficiency increase, that the only people cut are unproductive dead weight, and everyone else stopped partying, studied the blade, entered cracked S-tier beast mode, and this was sufficient to make up for the downside. I will not try to pretend this. I respect my EF colleagues far too much to pretend that there was not much that is lost. They are brilliant people. They are dedicated engineers of whom some have worked on the Ethereum protocol for nearly a decade. They have brought a bright light to the Ethereum ecosystem with their code, their words, their warmth as human beings and their actions. My dearest hope is that they find a path that brings them fulfillment and happiness whether inside Ethereum or outside. Hopefully many will be able to bring their excellent talents and mindset to the wider Ethereum ecosystem, or the even wider CROPS world. Instead, I will try to explain what *are* some of the grand sacrifices being made. The Ethereum Strawmap is no small thing. It is an extremely ambitious undertaking seeking to replace and augment almost every part of the protocol - consensus, proofs, privacy, account model, state, and more. This is the third iteration of Ethereum, in the same way that the Merge was the second, even if the shipping style is less Big Bang and more one-piece-at-a-time. On top of this, the EF is increasing its role in the Access Layer. We are not compromising on Ethereum being a Deeply Impressive protocol, something worthy of its place in a world with quantum computing, rockets to Mars and powerful biotech and AI, and capable of meeting the challenges that this era will bring. Some of the deficit will be recovered through more work happening outside the EF. But not all. So what are the grand sacrifices that will enable a leaner effort to accomplish all of this? I will give a few examples (though far from an exhaustive list): * The multi-client model will shift in the direction of multiple clients existing less for _redundancy_, and more for _specialization_. Up to this point, redundancy has been the main security strategy: if one client has a bug, if it has less than 33%, the chain keeps going and does not even stop finalizing. We are increasingly exploring moving more pieces of the protocol to a different security strategy: AI-assisted formal verification. Some smaller pieces of Ethereum (eg. BLS libraries) have worked this way already for a long time. But soon many more parts of Ethereum will likely function on this model. This may greatly reduce resource requirements of shipping a large number of EIPs. The resources saved by client teams can ideally instead be used to better serve different specialized user needs, including EF Access Layer goals. * PSE (Privacy and Scaling Explorations) is winding down as a unit. The number of people working on ZKPs for privacy and scaling is probably as high as ever, but they are working less on "exploration" and more on *implementing* ZKP-based privacy and scaling into the Protocol and Access Layer * Devcon will likely over time become smaller-scale, somewhat more spartan, much lower-deficit than previous years, in addition to other changes in vision in line with the Mandate. * Fewer beyond-Ethereum megaprojects coming from EF. As I announced earlier this year, I am taking on some of the responsibility of doing projects in this category that I consider valuable with my personal funds. * EF institutional work is reducing in scope, specializing more specifically on creating replicable test cases of highly CROPS-friendly deployments, even if at smaller scale. These do not explain all departures; in some cases they do not explain departures at all and rather explain _reduced need for new spending_. But they are a large part of the strategy at play. In the longer term, I personally favor a "soft lean-and-done" approach to Ethereum: once the Strawmap is completed, generally stick to security fixes and small high-value changes, and have a much higher bar for considering new feature additions to the protocol. This allows Ethereum to remain capture-resistant without demanding very large budgets. Learn less from multimillion-line-of-code behemoth projects, more from bitcoin. The past years have been a challenging era for Ethereum. However, the ecosystem is adapting, both inside the EF and outside, and I am confident that Ethereum is very well-positioned to succeed and thrive. https://firefly.social/post/x/2069408300…

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Senate Banking Committee schedules crypto Clarity Act vote for May 14 at 10:30 AM EST.