I am at a loss for words hearing of the death of little monster Logan. I’ve known him for 10 years & he followed us around the world came to shows & always supported me. He was a beautiful person, w/ a big bursting heart. I’ll cry a million tears, I love you Logan. #RIPLogan# ❤️

Toni Morrison was a national treasure, as good a storyteller, as captivating, in person as she was on the page. Her writing was a beautiful, meaningful challenge to our conscience and our moral imagination. What a gift to breathe the same air as her, if only for a while.

While we wait for Liv’s foundation website to be completed, we’ve had so many people reach out asking how they can support Liv’s foundation. This feels like a beautiful, personal way to get involved right now. ❤️ We’re starting work on Joy and Hope Boxes to deliver on her birthday in July. These boxes are filled with so much love and meaning. The Patient boxes contain items that were Liv’s absolute favorites — the little things that brought her joy during hard days. We know how much siblings like our Abby often feel left out, so the Sibling boxes are designed to make them feel seen, loved, and special too. And as a mom who spent endless nights in the hospital with Liv, I know how draining and lonely it can be — the Mom boxes are meant to bring a little comfort, love, and a moment to breathe. We’ve chosen Geisinger and CHOP because they are the two main hospitals where Liv was treated. We hope to expand to more locations in the future. Our goal is to donate: • 20 Patient boxes • 20 Sibling boxes • 20 Mom boxes …to each hospital — that’s 120 boxes total. It’s ambitious, but we’re going for it with full hearts! If you’d like to help us assemble these boxes, here’s our Amazon wishlist. Every item counts and makes a difference. We’ve filed for our 501(c)(3) status, so purchases will be tax-deductible once approved. Thank you for helping us carry forward Liv’s light by spreading joy and hope to families walking this same road. 💛🎗️

【Too Hot to Resist】Episode 1: Three Couples Spark Flying 💥 (25:30mins) After a long time apart, we finally reunited with J&B again! Since our Phuket couples trip, it’s been ages since we last saw them. This time, we arranged for J&B to join us together with David & Elaine — bringing new lovers and old flames together under one roof. It felt both exciting and nostalgic. J&B were once intimately close with us, almost like real lovers. Everyone truly cared for each other. Later, they stepped away from the scene due to busy work schedules. Meanwhile, we’ve grown much closer and more in sync with David & Elaine recently. We were all thrilled to finally gather all six of us together and curious about what kind of sparks would fly 💥 We booked a beautiful two-story house for the night. Everyone chilled, drank, and chatted. Elaine sat on the far left, followed by Sam, B, David, me, and then J. The conversation flowed freely and got increasingly flirty, but the real fun began with deeper connections… This game wasn’t just about warming up — it was about discovering who desired who the most. When three couples start swapping, that special, electric tension appears. The women tended to be more selective and passive at first, subtly showing their level of interest and affection toward each person before choosing who they wanted to connect with first. Who will develop strong feelings for whom tonight? And who will be the first to lose control and give in to their desires? —————————————— 【热情难挡】第一集 三对情侣夫妻换出火花💥（25:30分钟） 暌违已久，终于再次见到 J&B 这对情侣！ 自从Phuket那次情侣之旅后，我们已经很久没见了。这次特别安排了 J&B 与 David、Elaine 一起聚会，新欢与旧爱同聚一堂，感觉既刺激又充满期待。 J&B 曾经和我们亲密如恋人，大家都深爱着彼此。后来因为工作太忙，他们暂时离开了这个圈子。而最近我们和 David & Elaine 越来越合拍，关系也日渐亲密。这次能四人再加上 J&B 六人齐聚，真的非常开心，也十分期待会碰撞出什么样的火花💥 我们包下了一间两层楼的房子，晚上大家一起喝酒聊天。Elaine 坐在最左边，接着是 Sam、B、David、我，然后是 J，氛围轻松又暧昧。我们聊了很多，但最精彩的部分，当然还是之后更深层次的连接…… 这次的游戏不只是热身，更重要的是让大家感受「谁更喜欢自己」。当三对同时交换时，那种奇妙又紧张的感觉特别强烈。女生们相对被动，会先选择自己最想连接的对象，在过程中也自然流露出对对方的喜爱程度，慢慢找到今晚心动的性爱对象。 究竟谁会对谁产生强烈的爱意？ 谁又会最先忍不住呢？

Quote 1: Conscience is the unified voice of reason and the heart, distinguishing good from evil. Yet, the intellect must deepen its grasp of their essence and their boundaries. : The author defines conscience as the unified voice of reason and the heart, the inner faculty that enables us to distinguish good from evil. It is not merely emotion or cold logic alone, but the harmonious integration of both. However, the author emphasizes that this voice is not self-sufficient. The intellect must continually deepen its understanding of the true essence of good and evil, as well as the often subtle boundaries between them. Without this ongoing intellectual refinement, conscience risks becoming vague, inconsistent, or swayed by cultural biases and personal desires. Reason provides clarity and universality; the heart provides warmth and moral sensitivity. When both are cultivated together, conscience becomes a reliable guide. When either is neglected, it falters. Thus, moral life demands more than listening to conscience. It requires the active, lifelong work of sharpening the mind so that the voice of conscience grows clearer, wiser, and more trustworthy over time. Quote 2: Conscience is the child of reason and the heart, nurtured by long social evolution, in the service of good and justice. : The author offers a beautiful and insightful definition of conscience. It is not an innate mystical voice, nor a purely rational calculation, but the child of reason and the heart. Reason provides clarity, logic, and the ability to discern right from wrong with intellectual honesty. The heart contributes warmth, empathy, and the intuitive sense of justice and compassion. Conscience emerges from the union of these two faculties. This “child” has been nurtured over long centuries of social evolution. Through shared experience, moral reflection, cultural development, and the slow accumulation of wisdom, humanity has refined its inner moral sense. Conscience is therefore both deeply personal and profoundly collective. Its purpose is clear: to serve good and justice. It is the internal guardian that urges us to act with integrity even when it is difficult, to choose kindness when selfishness would be easier, and to stand for what is right when silence would be safer. In this view, conscience is one of humanity’s highest achievements, a living synthesis of thought and feeling, shaped by history, and oriented toward the betterment of ourselves and our world.

Some of my perspective on where the @ethereumfndn is going. First of all, this is only my own view. The board is not just me, and I have no extra special powers on the board that the other board members do not. @aerugoettinea is the one executing much of this transition. My input has been largely on technical questions. The board is in the process of expanding, and my own power within the org will continue to decrease, which is honestly what I want. The 2025 era brought many important improvements to EF and its ability to execute. Many issues were resolved, and EF continues to benefit from its improved efficiency and greater focus on concrete goals to this day. And so with those problems resolved, early this year, the largest remaining hole that I perceived was something different nagging at me: I would regularly spot people saying things like "vitalik says these beautiful things about ethereum needing to be decentralized, and have privacy, and be a sanctuary technology, but why do the EF's actions not reflect that?" Now, you may have been hearing something different. You may not have been sensing a feeling of crisis at all, and maybe were hearing people saying that finally we were taking execution and BD seriously and the main task for us is to keep going that way and be even better and faster. Then probably there is genuine difference between you and me, in what kinds of criticism I take most seriously, and what kinds of critics through their criticism are most able to make me feel pain. As an analogy, let's briefly switch over to a different domain. One belief you can have about Google is that it is a success story, and has brought a lot of good to humanity in organizing the world's information. Another belief you can have about Google is that they had a beautiful idealistic beginning, but at some point the corruption of mainstream corporate attitudes seeped in, and they slowly bit by bit completely abandoned the "don't be evil" slogan. My belief on Google specifically is probably somewhere between the two. BUT, if you had taken me back in time to ~2008, and offered me a button to press to make Google one or two standard deviations more "dogmatic", eg. give Richard Stallman permanent veto power over some key policies, I would immediately press it. Why? Because a choice for one company is not a choice for the world, or even one country. Google existed and exists in the context of a technology industry generally drifting away from early idealistic don't-be-evil roots and toward greed for financial gain, totalizing visions of accelerated superintelligence, infiltration by sociopaths, and craven capitulation to (or worse, active participation in) government pressure for ideological control, surveillance and war. And so *one company* doing something different, positioning itself to be what George Bernard Shaw calls the Unreasonable Man, resisting the trend of the times, would have been better for freedom, balance of power and stability of society as a whole, than *all* large companies bending to dominant trends. This is a part of my version of pluralism. This line of thinking is not just mine, but I also is not too far off from what Aya and others had in mind with the Mandate. Now how does this all get to the role of the EF? EF is not a "center of Ethereum", rather EF is "one node, with a defined purpose, alongside other nodes". We've always said that the EF should be the latter, but many in the Ethereum ecosystem (and even within the EF) wanted us to be the former. Now, we are taking action to ensure that we will be the latter. This is particularly important because EF is a limited organization, with limited resources and limited organizational capacity. The EF has only ~0.16% of all ETH (less than many other individual ETH holders), whereas among other blockchains it's common for "the central foundation" to have 10-50%. Fiscally, the EF was originally designed to fulfill a limited work scope defined in the token sale docs and other pre-launch materials (building the chain software; getting through Frontier, Homestead, Metropolis, Serenity), which was fully completed in 2022; it was not designed to be an eternal steward. And so today, the EF is choosing to use its remaining resources to pursue longevity over breadth (yes, this means we sell less ETH). The EF focuses *specifically* on those activities critical to the success of ethereum as a censorship/capture-resistant, open, private and secure system, that would not happen otherwise. This means making hard choices, and in some cases even activities that we highly approve of and people that we highly respect becoming outside of the EF. People of great technical talent, public respect and even alignment with the mission and CROPS being outside of the EF is in fact necessary if we want important tasks to be able to attract outside capital. This also means the EF taking opinionated stands culturally. This is all intended in cooperation with all other parts of ethereum. We recognize that many other parts of the ethereum world highly respect CROPS and related values. But highly respecting is not the same as choosing to specialize and totally dedicate to a domain (Compare in a different domain: I think reducing animal cruelty is important, and I like vegan food, but am not full unconditional vegan myself) EF is still in a transition period, and we expect its new long-term form to stabilize over the next few months. What are the guiding principles of this new form? Again, I am only one person, but I can give my answer from a technical perspective (there are also critical non-technical aspects). At the core, *Ethereum must be impressive*. We are living in an age of highly intelligent AI and all kinds of other technological acceleration. "Status quo EVM, with a hard fork or two a year to optimize for short-term needs of users" is not interesting. To some, "impressive" means: 250ms latency and 1M TPS. I think Ethereum trying to go that route is a mistake. Being as fast and as scalable as possible, and only a small epsilon more decentralized than the others, is a route to mediocrity, and if we try it we will lose. I think Ethereum should scale. But I think Ethereum should strive the hardest to be deeply impressive in a different dimension: the CROPS dimension. This means things like: * Provably bug-free Ethereum. This is a goal that all cybersecurity researchers would have thought is absurd and impossible, up until roughly 6 months ago. Now, it's on the cusp of being possible, thanks to AI-assisted formal verification. So we should be frontrunners in doing this. * Available chain consensus. Ethereum is, and with lean consensus will cotninue to be, the ONLY chain that has both (i) traditional-BFT style properties that it's safe under asynchrony up to a high level of fault tolerance, and (ii) the bitcoin PoW-style property that under synchrony it's safe up to 49% attackers. As far as I can tell, literally no other chain has this or is planning for it; bitcoin goes for (ii) only and most other chains go for (i) only. Some will remember I fought hard for this, Unreasonably insisting that it is not OK for ethereum to rely on social consensus and hard forks to rescue ethereum from 34% of nodes going offline. It's OK for chains like hyperledger, bnb, solana, tempo, etc. It's not OK for bitcoin or ethereum or eg. zcash. * Intermediary minimization. The fact that smart contract wallets, protocols like railgun, etc have to send transactions through intermediaries to get included onchain is honestly embarrassing, and it's a constant point of fragility. Hence the work on FOCIL and EIP-8141 (and 7701 and years of work before) to make transaction sending intermediary-minimized with public mempool and strong inclusion properties, in a truly general-purpose way, that covers not just eg. secp256r1, but also privacy protocols and much more. Kohaku is pushing intermediary minimization at the user layer, pulling Ethereum away from the dystopian status quo world where our wallets don't even verify the chain, send our private data out to a dozen third-party servers, and toward a brighter CROPS future. Some of these goals are Unreasonable - maybe Ethereum would be "fine" getting only 50% of the way - what if we depend on intermediaries, but make it easy to switch? But going 50% of the way would not make Ethereum Deeply Impressive in the CROPS way. So we push for 100%. Fortunately all these goals are compatible with high TPS, this is a major focus of research (esp. on scaling the state). Well-designed L2s can also help, especially L2s optimized for specific applications (eg. high-volume trading, privacy...). These goals are even compatible with significantly lower slot times, thanks to Raul's work on erasure-coded P2P, and many other optimizations. The most high-value "product" of the ethereum blockchain, financially speaking, is ETH the asset. Ethereum secures $250 billion of ETH. The types of properties of Ethereum that I mentioned above are very good for ETH the asset. Nearly 90% of my net worth is in ETH, and most of the remainder is ~$40m of onchain fiat of which every dollar has already been allocated for some open-source biotech or software or hardware initiative. That said, there are aspects of supporting ETH the asset - *necessary* aspects even - that are outside the scope of the EF. This is where we need other heroes (some of whom hold more ETH than the EF does) to step in and help. EF has been recently thinking more about how it will relate to other such organizations, and give them needed initial support. EF will be a smaller ship than in previous years, a more opinionated one - in some cases more opinionated in ways that might be difficult to comprehend - but a longer-lasting one, and one suited to making sure that ethereum brings something meaningful to the world. We are grateful to all those inside and outside the EF who are helping to make this happen.

It’s a sister collab!! Our @kkwfragrance diamonds collection is finally here! 3 beautiful scents that perfectly reflect our personalities. I cannot wait for you guys to smell these... I’m honestly in love with them all! 💕