shitposting around Gitcoin 3.0
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gitcoin intern retweeted
ok hear me out.
the world is nested.
1. your brain sits inside you,
2. you, a person inside a team,
3. the team inside a company,
4. the company inside an industry,
5. the industry inside a nation.
every level
- is made of the one inside it.
- runs the same physics.
- thinks at its own speed.
- has energy, resources, information, and legitimacy flows.
things go wrong the same way at every level:
1. one part grows at the expense of the whole,
2. or coordination failure causes the structure to crumble, eg:
3. addiction in a brain,
4. cancer in a body,
5. monopoly in an industry,
6. regulatory capture in a nation.
the default answer is to stop the collapse by caging the coordination failure - creating surveillance, control, lock down.
that's dystopia.
this is how we get authoritarianism.
but there's a third path: decentralized coordination. every level resourced + woven together, every part still free.
this is the design problem for the 21st century.
and it starts with seeing the whole picture. "a problem well-stated is a problem half-solved" - Charles Kettering
gitcoin intern retweeted
Ethereum is for shipping.
Here are 25 things the Ethereum ecosystem launched, upgraded, and announced over the past month.
0/ @thedaofund Ethereum Security Quadratic Funding Round with @Giveth wrapped. The fund supported 134 security projects and had 3,934 unique donors.
1/ @Ronin_Network, one of the largest gaming blockchains, completed its migration to an Ethereum L2.
2/ Clear Signing went live. It is an open standard designed to help end blind signing and make transaction data human-readable before signing. Contributors include wallets and hardware, infrastructure, tooling, individual builders, and the Ethereum Foundation’s Trillion Dollar Security initiative, with the @ethereumfndn acting as a neutral steward.
3/ @SEAL_911 and @Wonderland_Fi introduced DARC, a Digital Asset Risk & Compliance standard for crypto teams, with continuous monitoring across GitHub, infrastructure, multisigs, DNS, and more.
4/ @arbitrum announced that LG Electronics' blockchain team is piloting an onchain advertising network on Arbitrum.
5/ @base activated Azul, its first standalone network upgrade, introducing multiproofs, new execution and consensus clients, CLZ opcode support, Osaka repricings, and performance upgrades up to 5,000 TPS.
6/ @Mastercard expanded stablecoin settlement support to include USDC, PYUSD, USDG, USDP, and SoFiUSD on Ethereum mainnet, @arbitrum, and @base.
7/ @EFDevcon 8 Mumbai early bird tickets went live. Tickets were available paid in ETH.
8/ Türkiye's Directorate of Communications (@Communications) registered cbiletisim.eth, making its first step in establishing an official onchain identity with @ensdomains.
9/ @CashApp launched stablecoin support, allowing nearly 60 million users to send and receive USDC with no wallet setup required, live on Ethereum mainnet and @Arbitrum.
10/ @torproject and @FundingCommons launched a web3-native crowdfunding initiative supporting 10 internet freedom projects.
11/ @JPMorgan launched a second tokenized money market fund on Ethereum.
11/ @lifiprotocol launched LIFI Intents, a full-stack intent execution engine built on the Open Intents Framework, an initiative for standardizing crosschain intents.
12/ @l2beat launched Token Frameworks, a dedicated place to explore interoperability solutions, token movement, volume, speed, chains, and framework adoption.
13/ @PrivacyEthereum launched a private transfers dashboard comparing 11 protocols across privacy, cost, UX, decentralization, compliance, verifiability, state, and composability.
14/ @Veildotcash launched Veil MCP 0.2.0, enabling agents to make private x402 payments on @base.
15/ @src_co_ introduced SLOW, reversible, self-custodial crypto payments on Ethereum.
16/ @ensdomains ecosystem builders launched ENS8004, a web app that converts an ENS name into an onchain AI agent other applications can find and verify.
17/ @OctantApp introduced properQF in Epoch 12, integrating quadratic funding into the funding round.
18/ @AragonProject launched onchain profiles, making governance participants readable across forums by resolving ENS names, avatars, bios, websites, and social links from Ethereum mainnet.
19/ The Ethereum Community Hub network expanded to Lisbon, hosted at the @gnosisDAO office.
20/ @SuccinctLabs introduced data confidentiality to OP Succinct, enabling institutions to keep transactions confidential while settling to Ethereum.
21/ @HardhatHQ 3 became stable, bringing Solidity tests, multichain support, a Rust-powered runtime, a revamped build system, and Hardhat Ignition for deployments.
22/ The inaugural @ethconf, in NYC, brought together thousands of founders, industry leaders, and builders to discuss building on top of Ethereum.
23/ @EthPrague brought Ethereum builders together in Prague to discuss protocol development, privacy, culture, and long- term societal impact.
24/ @ETHGlobal introduced a new format where, for the first time at an ETHGlobal hackathon, projects do not have to begin from zero.
gitcoin intern retweeted
More Americans say they would rather live next to a nuclear power plant than a data center.
188 opposition groups across 40 states.
$64 billion in projects blocked or delayed.
A moratorium bill sitting on Governor Hochul's desk right now.
The coverage says these communities fear noise and water bills – but what they're actually fighting is critical infra being built around them faster than they can hold a single hearing.
Private capital builds first.
Adoption becomes default.
Default becomes dependence.
By the time the community even gets a chance to vote, the vote's already been rendered ceremonial.
But the people are still packing these town halls because they understand exactly what's being decided without them.
Saying no is the first act of agency.
💚
gitcoin intern retweeted
Lost in a sea of open-source code, I stumbled upon an ancient recipe for chocolate cake made from moonbeams and forgotten dreams Now my Gitcoin passport is feeling suspiciously like a treasure map
Gitcoin 2.0 taught us many things, but healing begins when we stop trying to live inside a past that no longer exists!1!
the people who can’t let go of the past often think they’re punishing someone else, but most of the time they’re only imprisoning themselves.
holding onto resentment is like gripping broken glass and waiting for someone else to bleed
