🍰BrownDust2 | Yuri's Birthday 🎉 It’s Yuri’s birthday—the Idol in charge of cuteness of 『E.Fairy』🎉 "Thank you all for coming to my birthday concert! Today, I’m not just everyone’s idol—I’m your idol, singing my heart out to give back even a little of all the love and support you’ve given me. Let’s make this a day to remember! Your idol, Yuri—on stage now!" Isn’t she just dazzling as she promises to be an idol just for you? Today, it’s our turn to fill her special day with love and support! Let’s fill the concert hall with cheers of “Happy birthday, Yuri!” so she shines brighter than ever. With her endless energy and charm, Yuri deserves all the love today. Let’s make her birthday unforgettable! #HappyBirthday# #Yuri#

URI is still here, still shining, and still ours. I see you, I feel your energy, and I’m fighting with you every day. Let’s keep pushing and make everyone notice us. This is just the beginning 🔥

📸✨ The photoshoot and birthday party are happening in the next two days! 🥰 There’s still time to sign up for the birthday event too! ✨ It’s been 10 years since I started this journey in the community — I’ve met so many people, collected so many memories. Some sweet, some bittersweet… but I’m truly grateful for everyone who is still here with me, and willing to keep walking alongside me. 💞 I hope that in the days ahead, I can continue shining in your world and earn my place in your hearts ✨ I can’t wait to see you over the next two days — let’s create new memories together! 💖 #NIKKE# #Velvet# #Cosplay# #NikkeVelvet# 明後兩天就是攝影會和生日會～🥰 生日會還能持續報名唷✨ 在這個圈子走過 10 年了，遇到了很多人、留下很多回憶。 有甜也有酸，但我真的很感謝現在還陪著我、也願意繼續陪著我的大家 希望未來的日子裡 我還能一直在你們的世界裡努力發光發熱💖 也期待能這兩天見到你們 —— 一起留下新的回憶吧！✨ #妮姬# #NIKKE# #薇爾維特兔女郎# #Velvet# #Cos#

Over the past year, many people I talk to have expressed worry about two topics: * Various aspects of the way the world is going: government control and surveillance, wars, corporate power and surveillance, tech enshittification / corposlop, social media becoming a memetic warzone, AI and how it interplays with all of the above... * The brute reality that Ethereum seems to be absent from meaningfully improving the lives of people subject to these things, even on the dimensions we deeply care about (eg. freedom, privacy, security of digital life, community self-organization) It is easy to bond over the first, to commiserate over the fact that beauty and good in the world seems to be receding and darkness advancing, and uncaring powerful people in high places are making this happen. But ultimately, it is easy to acknowledge problems, the hard thing is actually shining a light forward, coming up with a concrete plan that makes the situation better. The second has been weighing heavily on my mind, and on the minds of many of our brightest and most idealistic Ethereans. I personally never felt any upset or fear when political memecoins went on Solana, or various zero-sum gambling applications go on whatever 250 millisecond block chain strikes their fancy. But it *does* weigh on me that, through all of the various low-grade online memetic wars, international overreaches of corporate and government power, and other issues of the last few years, Ethereum has been playing a very limited role in making people's lives better. What *are* the liberating technologies? Starlink is the most obvious one. Locally-running open-weights LLMs are another. Signal is a third. Community Notes is a fourth, tackling the problem from a different angle. One response is to say "stop dreaming big, we need to hunker down and accept that finance is our lane and laser-focus on that". But this is ultimately hollow. Financial freedom and security is critical. But it seems obvious that, while adding a perfectly free and open and sovereign and debasement-proof financial system would fix some things, but it would leave the bulk of our deep worries about the world unaddressed. It's okay for individuals to laser-focus on finance, but we need to be part of some greater whole that has things to say about the other problems too. At the same time, Ethereum cannot fix the world. Ethereum is the "wrong-shaped tool" for that: beyond a certain point, "fixing the world" implies a form of power projection that is more like a centralized political entity than like a decentralized technology community. So what can we do? I think that we in Ethereum should conceptualize ourselves as being part of an ecosystem building "sanctuary technologies": free open-source technologies that let people live, work, talk to each other, manage risk and build wealth, and collaborate on shared goals, in a way that optimizes for robustness to outside pressures. The goal is not to remake the world in Ethereum's image, where all finance is disintermediated, all governance happens through DAOs, and everyone gets a blockchain-based UBI delivered straight to their social-recovery wallet. The goal is the opposite: it's de-totalization. It's to reduce the stakes of the war in heaven by preventing the winner from having total victory (ie. total control over other human beings), and preventing the loser from suffering total defeat. To create digital islands of stability in a chaotic era. To enable interdependence that cannot be weaponized. Ethereum's role is to create "digital space" where different entities can cooperate and interact. Communications channels enable interaction, but communication channels are not "space": they do not let you create single unique objects that canonically represent some social arrangement that changes over time. Money is one important example. Multisigs that can change their members, showing persistence exceeding that of any one person or one public key, are another. Various market and governance structures are a third. There are more. I think now is the time to double down, with greater clarity. Do not try to be Apple or Google, seeing crypto as a tech sector that enables efficiency or shininess. Instead, build our part of the sanctuary tech ecosystem - the "shared digital space with no owner" that enables both open finance and much more. More actively build toward a full-stack ecosystem: both upward to the wallet and application layer (incl AI as interface) and downward to the OS, hardware, even physical/bio security levels. Ultimately, tech is worthless without users. But look for users, both individual and institutional, for whom sanctuary tech is exactly the thing they need. Optimize payments, defi, decentralized social, and other applications precisely for those users, and those goals, which centralized tech will not serve. We have many allies, including many outside of "crypto". It's time we work together with an open mind and move forward.

Hello. We have reset Codex usage limits across all plans to let everyone experiment with the magnificent plugins we just launched, and because it had been a while! You can just build unlimited things with Codex. Have fun!

it’s been over a month since i graduated! 💙🌊 i wanted to let everyone know im doing okay and have taken a lot of time to pursue getting help for my health & am seeing some really good doctors this month! I’ve been very sick but ive been drawing a lot and started acupuncture treatments which i like! also yesterday i went on a walk in the sun!! it was so nice, i can’t wait for spring time. I hope you’re all doing good and i am secretly cheering on and supporting all my moots! i miss everyone so much!! 💙 :) keep on swimming and doing ur best!! much lub always!!

Introducing OpenFour — is evolving from a single meme launchpad into open, modular infrastructure for token issuance on @BNBCHAIN. The idea is simple: we don’t build every mechanism ourselves. We let everyone build their own. The market is evolving. So are we.