The hard truth is that in order to build a successful blockchain, one must become a blockchain (on 24/7/365 and omnipresent around the world) - a lifestyle choice that is not for the faint of heart

Hire artists, not soldiers

Ethereum is the settlement layer of the internet-native economy And we're incredibly excited to continue accelerating the adoption of Ethereum by backing the world's first purpose-built ether generation company, @TheEtherMachine Led by one of Ethereum's most esteemed OGs, Andrew Keys @AK_EtherMachine, The Ether Machine is making the internet's most productive asset and its institutional-scale yield more accessible than it's ever been before

Introducing: DAWN’s Storage Black Box Partner: @storj Storj Brings decentralized storage to the DAWN Black Box allowing consumers the ability to offer enterprise-grade storage from their homes, with simple modules to upgrade the Black Box to 120TB of capacity.

Introducing: DAWN’s Black Box partner @Helium We’re bringing the People’s Network to the DAWN Black Box offering decentralized wireless for all. As a Black Box user, you’ll be helping power the Helium Network so you can get rewards when people tap into your WiFi connection from their mobile devices.

hey @0xLTR if you're going to publish your trash sponsored research slop, please include the proper disclosures around why @OpacityNetwork wasn't included in your zkTLS overview when they are the clear market winner thanks!

Hearing rumors that @akileshpotti is at ICML and in fact a real human rather than a multimodal agent

Introducing: DAWN’s Black Box Network partner @pipenetwork Another fellow @solana project, Pipe brings its decentralized Content Delivery Network (CDN) to the Black Box, allowing users to directly participate in global content delivery. With a push of a button you're instantly participating in Pipe's CDN network.

Venture deals for crypto payments companies are interesting right now... It's a great problem for our industry to have because the pie is getting bigger, but since there are A LOT of companies that are doing very well and seeing monthly TPV (total payment volume) grow from $10M to $100M fairly quickly, it becomes particularly challenging to separate very good from great. But seeing founders building successful and profitable businesses on a new tech stack is something to celebrate, regardless of whether they're venture-scale.

Fascinating paper from @ritualnet that addresses the data privacy issue with 3rd party LLM inference by splitting the prompt among nodes and performing sharded LLM inference: