a16z and specifically Chris Dixon gave us a clear vision: Read, Write, Own from their podcast (where they barely talk about crypto), it seems like they think it is now plumbing for other technologies this is actually a victory but i don’t believe that this is all there is Dixon’s book writes about various use cases of a public distributed ledger i am still bullish on - onchain social - user-owned gaming assets - DAOs (and Agentic Autonomous Orgs) - capital formation and community participation in early stages - NFTs as art / provenance for art - DePin networks seeded by tokens - IP creation/licensing launchpad one thing this industry has failed at is valuing tokens and using them fairly ironically, i think AI will create a need for these use cases but i am quite naive. if you are naive as well, let’s build

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We can accept that the law fails to protect information producers and that the intellectual wealth of human culture belongs to [fill in the blank]. Or we can rethink what data and intellectual property need to look like in the strange world we've now entered. That's what associational data rights are. Proud to have this piece out with @salome_viljoen_ in @dsallentess's The Renovator!

1. 2016 was early; ico was banned 2017/09/04; 2. Non Mainland NGO cannot host events unless approved by ministry of public safety; which is very hard; George Soros did a non profit JV back in 80s with billion $ budget - that’s how hard it is. 3. You can partner with local for profit companies or non profit organizations. In Devcon2 case, was done by Wanxiang Group (they’ve been established decades again and non profit registered years ago in mainland). For ethshanghai case it’s also helped by 绿发会 CBCGDF(check its leader) and later WanXiang 4. Seems Solana Shanghai etc try to use a newly registered company (less than half yrs ago) to host events without reveal its tie to overseas foundation or a strong national NPO / conglomerate.

1. 2016 was early; ico was banned 2017/09/04; 2. Non Mainland NGO cannot host events unless approved by ministry of public safety; which is very hard; George Soros did a non profit JV back in 80s with billion $ budget - that’s how hard it is. 3. You can partner with local for profit companies or non profit organizations. In Devcon2 case, was done by Wanxiang Group (they’ve been established decades again and non profit registered years ago in mainland). For ethshanghai case it’s also helped by 绿发会 CBCGDF(check its leader) and later WanXiang 4. Seems Solana Shanghai etc try to use a newly registered company (less than half yrs ago) to host events without reveal its tie to overseas foundation or a strong national NPO / conglomerate.

If you're looking for an alternative client to use Farcaster, you can try @thefireflyapp Firefly lets you use Farcaster, Lens, X and Bluesky from a single app, so you can keep up with your social feeds in one place. You can download it from your preferred app store on iOS or Android, or use the web client. If you need any help setting up your account, let me know and I can reach out to the team for support.

📇  Identity Cards are now integrated into @etherscan cards Check out any address’s ENS, Lens, and Farcaster profiles, plus verified Web2 socials, with identity data integrated via .

the tech is good. ERC-8180 -- Blob-Authenticated Messaging (BAM) ERC-8179 -- Blob Segment Subscription (BSS) EIP-4844 -- Shard Blob Transactions EIP-2537 -- BLS12-381 curve operations precompiles example repo from vitalik.

Farcaster needs a new steward. Many worry who will buy it and what they will do to it. The fix is easy. Get the protocol past the point where it needs a steward. Clients will come and go. I heard in the recent fc community call that if you can't run a client directly off the protocol, then the protocol is not complete. Complete means more than just read and write. You should be able to replay and verify the whole history, without trusting whoever pays the s3 infra bill. Also the canonical record should not depend on a handful of validator keys from the steward itself. We're crypto. Let's do crypto. A lot has changed in Ethereum since Farcaster and Lens were born. Blobs are extremely exciting. Data is pruned but commitments are kept. Anyone can rehost this pruned data anywhere (laptop, pinning services, clients) and this data can be verified against the chain. Batched and compressed writes get cheap enough that any client can sponsor them. Or you could be a punk and pay for your posts, follows, blocks and more. Ethereum can and should become the superset of all social. A future where anyone can read, write, verify and rebuild. Social can be a public good, not something you rent. If there is onchain state that is replicable then the stewards can come and go. That's what I want to build. New social. Less centralization. Let's be friends and do this together.

Bitcoiners deserve a lot of credit for pioneering many of these ideas (see Utreexo). But yes, this is what the current proposed Ethereum scaling strategy looks like in action. We want Ethereum to have the best of UTXO-style state, dynamic state, and everything in between, allowing the great majority of Ethereum's activity to be hyperscaled without sacrifice to decentralization, ease of node running and censorship resistance.