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@binji_x on X · Most upvoted by Kiwi News readers
12 stories by @binji_x on X have been shared on Kiwi News since 21 November 2023, with 35 upvotes and 4 comments in total. The latest was shared on 30 June 2026. They are listed below, most upvoted first.
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- @binji_x: Ethereum has been online ten years straight with zero downtime
Ethereum has run for ten years with no pauses or maintenance windows, and the post credits its uptime to its community rather than to any company or central operator. The post contrasts this with Facebook, which went down for 14 hours, AWS Kinesis, which froze for 17 hours, and Cloudflare, which dropped 19 datacenters. It says Ethereum has kept running through forks, crashes, bubbles, lawsuits, hacks and wars, because developers, stakers, researchers and users, described as millions of people worldwide, keep choosing to participate.
- @binji: Developer activity signals crypto's critical moment
Developer activity in crypto, described in the post as one of the clearest signals of long-term health, is down meaningfully from its peak, and the author argues the sector needs more support for developers rather than just more developers. The post says attention has shifted, incentives have dried up, and speculation has once again moved faster than utility. It calls for teams that think about end-to-end products, focus on usable primitives, and help projects reach real users, with builders and incubators that take apps from zero to one. The post states that adoption has to be earned and that the next era depends on meaningful things to do onchain that people actually want.
- @binji_x: Ethereum has been online ten years straight with zero downtime
Ethereum has run for ten years with no pauses or maintenance windows, and the author credits this to its community rather than to any single company or leader. The post contrasts this with Facebook, which went down for 14 hours, AWS Kinesis, which froze for 17, and Cloudflare, which dropped 19 datacenters, all of which rely on on-call staff and scheduled downtime. It says Ethereum has continued through forks, crashes, lawsuits, hacks and market bubbles because developers, stakers, researchers and users keep participating.
- @binji_x: how to build a great crypto consumer app in 2026
Binji argues that the real opportunity in crypto is building apps where crypto serves as the underlying substrate and access point for new experiences, rather than building better crypto apps. He proposes four tests for any such bet: define a specific user and outcome, serve users who already do the behavior, be ten times better rather than 10% better, and catch a shift in existing user behavior. He cites Stripe's $1B cash acquisition of Bridge, whose stated outcome was that businesses choose it as the only platform they need to stablecoins, and Revolut's rise against European incumbents despite a weaker balance sheet.
- If you like prediction markets you should learn about futarchy
Futarchy, a governance model proposed by economist Robin Hanson, would have citizens vote on desired outcomes while prediction markets decide which policies are most likely to achieve them. The article argues that this replaces popularity-driven policy choices with ones that compete on expected outcomes, since traders risk capital on their beliefs and wrong predictions are penalized. Its example compares lowering corporate tax rates with increasing public infrastructure spending, each judged by markets on whether it yields 4 percent GDP growth over three years. The article says crypto now makes testing this possible at scale, and points to small DAO experiments with prediction markets.
- @binji_x: ethereum is for everyone - manifesto on open internet future
Ethereum's manifesto argues that the network is for everyone, from students and artists to cities, museums, and remittance senders, and calls on people to join and build it. It says the network aims to make value move like messages, keep names and records from being rewritten, and ensure no single party holds an off switch. The text urges readers to run nodes, ship code, tip creators onchain, and vote with their fees.
- @binji_x: ERC-8004 adds identity, reputation registries for agents on Ethereum
- @binji: the unsung heroism of Ethereum core developers
The author, writing as @binji, praises Ethereum core developers for the difficulty of their work and says successful upgrades show decentralized coordination can outperform the world's best hierarchies. The post lists specifics: each merged code line can move more money than most banks process in a quarter, the network runs on an economy of over 400 billion dollars without scheduled downtime, and six independent clients must stay in sync so every node holds the same block at the same height. It also notes developers design for attackers with nine-figure incentives and must keep cryptography unbroken for decades.
- Why a team should probably not use their own native token on their ETH L2
The author argues that a team should probably not use its own native token as the gas token on an Ethereum L2. Named reasons include sell pressure, since user gas payments must convert to ETH to settle to L1, which would push down the token's price. Other stated drawbacks are bridging and currency-basket friction, the cost of integrating a new currency with existing wallets, marketplaces, faucets and exchanges, and failed transactions if the underlying ETH liquidity is thin. For value accrual, the text suggests sequencer revenue, which may grow after EIP 4844, and allocating that revenue to stakers or top contracts.
- @binji_x: ERC-8004 "trustless agents" proposal enables AI agents on Ethereum
ERC-8004, a proposal called "trustless agents" by Davide Crapis, is presented as a way for AI agents on Ethereum to establish trust. The proposal sketches an extension to the agent-to-agent protocol (A2A) with three onchain registries: identity, reputation, and validation. The article says the specifics can remain offchain while the skeleton of trust lives on Ethereum, allowing agents that have never met to transact with confidence.
- the crypto dream must be reimagined for the world we will actually live in
The author argues that crypto's original dream of freeing finance from banks is no longer enough, and that the space must be reframed around keeping humanity intact in a digital world. The piece says the next generation will join for trust, resistance to corporate and government control, and protection of human identity rather than for ideology, charts or removing middlemen. It presents Ethereum as "the last humanity preserving technology" and describes it as "trustware," with $ETH representing the price of that trust.
- The invisible upgrade: why institutions should care about crypto rails
The article argues that institutions should adopt crypto rails, which it presents as an infrastructure upgrade to global finance rather than a speculative trend. It claims that zero-knowledge proofs let institutions prove facts such as solvency or AML compliance without revealing underlying data, and that L2s on Ethereum can settle large transfers in seconds at near-zero cost. It also states that Ethereum has not gone down once in ten years and that smart contracts can enforce portfolio limits in real time. The piece presents these benefits as an opportunity for institutions that move early, without citing evidence for its claims.