Over 4,000 builders are now competing in Crypto World's Fair.
We will award the best 21 startups overall, in addition to prizes for top founders using Solana, Hyperliquid, Zcash, Tempo, and Ethereum (Base, Robinhood Chain, Arbitrum, and ETH L1).
Lots of people dunking on Terrance Tao but trust me, that’s who you want running the 10,000 agents.
Don’t get too overzealous, compute is not substitute for idea guys.
I can’t stress enough how little an idea matters compared to the agency of the people executing the idea.
I have had the privilege of knowing and sometimes even working with some of the most successful people (by various metrics).
The difference between mediocre and excellent work and outcomes is predominantly one of agency.
In practice this means: they dont wait for things to happen to them they go out and make things happen for them.
They don’t wait for someone else to do something, for someone to teach them, for someone to give them the path, etc. They just go out and find a way to do it.
I think the single biggest superpower these people have is the realization/belief that the world around them is completely mutable. Most everything that happens is because a person made it happen.
I used to tell people to look around the room you’re sitting in. Look at everything. Every noun. It almost all exists because a person willed it into existence. Nothing is stopping you from doing the same.
I see people online all the time dismissing someone else’s success because “I had that idea first” or whatever. I mean… yeah? If so then the difference is… you. So a bit of a self own whenever I hear that.
Number one tip: act with agency.
This is a shame. As capital has concentrated at the top and companies have stayed private longer, venture has become perhaps a more important driver of where capital goes than the public markets. As much as people make fun of VCs, they do have an important role to play in the current system.
Every dollar that goes into a company because it’s got a good chance of being marked up by a greater fool is one that doesn’t go into a company that could genuinely improve the future.
go fuck yourself @sama
claiming that you solved navier stokes because 10000 agents ran in circles for 88hours on a multimillion dollar gpu cluster to formalize in lean a blowup case under controlled external forcing is pure scientific vulgarity the clay mathematics institute millennium prize does not ask m whether you can artificially force a singularity in a fluid by injecting an ad hoc smooth external forcing term f(x,t) to twist the vortex until it breaks the real problem questions the fundamental stability and global smooth existence for 3dimensional incompressible euler & navier stokes equations under natural conservation laws and viscous dissipation alone using a mathematical loophole on forced equations to parade a century old victory is a major conceptual scam Altman
technically & epistemologically what you present as an agi breakthrough is nothing more than bruteforce combinatorial autoformalization the ai did not understand fluid mechanics it simply navigated a continuous search space previously mapped out and constrained by the monumental work of human mathematicians like tristan buckmaster/ levent alpöge / diego córdoba or tarek elgindi coordinating 10000 agents to check the logical consistency of a 100 page proof via lean is a software engineering feat and computational parallelization triumph not an intrinsic scientific discovery it is the victory of the compute bulldozer over abstract human intuition repackaged for the public as a higher mathematical consciousness
to this theoretical imposture you add a disgusting ethical and industrial cynicism taking advantage of private codex sessions and informal preprints from academic researchers to siphon their research leads and then trying to redact or erase the contribution of levent alpöge under the pretext that he works at rival anthropic is intellectual serfdom openai behaves like a feudal lord of silicon appropriating the cognitive subsistence of independent scholars threatening their careers behind closed doors if they protest and turning community academic labor into a privatized pressrelease
this entire staged event serves a desperate financial agenda in a pre ipo panic facing the slowdown of scaling laws and growing investor skepticism over the profitability of foundational models openai needs to manufacture an artificial sputnik moment claiming to solve a millennium prize without immediately submitting the proof to traditional peer review means using the prestige of fundamental mathematics as cheap marketing fuel to inflate a delusional valuation!!!
real science is not a clout chase on social media or a compute spike spent to rob the clay mathematics institute it is a quest for elegance physical truth and universal rigor to decode reality true artificial intelligence will not emerge from hostile corporate takeover of academic work hidden behind computational bruteforce but from architectures capable of generating new conceptual paradigms by masquerading constrained formalization as the collapse of physics greatest mysteries you did not solve navier stokes you only proved how far silicon valley will go to prostitute scientific integrity for capitalist spectacle
1/ We’re excited to unveil the third of 8 dedicated hackathon tracks for Crypto World’s Fair.
The Base track, supported by @base, will award $25,000 across the top 5 startups integrating with the Base blockchain.
Join and compete:
If you're building in the payments space, you should 100% be building on @tempo
Here is a really fantastic opportunity to hack on something with @colosseum and show us where you are innovating!
Bonus points from me personally if you are at the forefront of integrating @mpp or gearing up for the @openstandard $OUSD launch
Wow, new model just dropped. Congrats on the new model. Looks like it scores higher on the benchmark than the old model. That’s good. The old model was state of the art but now it isn’t. That’s how it works. Can’t wait to see the next model, which will be bigger. I love the model business.
A major startup competition, first incubated in the @solana ecosystem, is now adding EVM support for the first time.
Let’s show them a good time @ethereum 🫡
The Arena is opening once more. And this time it’s bigger than ever.
@solana will always be our birthplace. But as we’ve learned in the couple of years running Colosseum, competition compounds, and everyone benefits as a result.
Can’t wait to see what founders across all of crypto are building. What will you build?
1/ Announcing Crypto World’s Fair, our next startup competition open to all builders across blockchain ecosystems! 🎡
Registration for the online hackathon is open, and runs Sept 14 to Oct 12.
Millions in prizes & VC funding will be awarded to winners: