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Most discussed
Guardian will no longer post on X from its official accounts (4 comments)
Naval asks (in 2004) to securitize citizenship (3 comments)
News
Ethereum Foundation shares its report
Bluesky crosses the 15 million user mark
Results of the “Into the Nouniverse” writing contest
ETHGlobal Bangkok 2024 finalists
EF launches its 2025 Internship Program
DEGEN describes its experiences with Conduit
Essays & Talks
Josh Stark explains that Ethereum's distinctive property is hardness
Vitalik introduces the concept of info finance
Justin Drake introduces the Ethereum Beam Chain
Péter Szilágyi discusses the Ethereum Beam Chain
Tim Daubenschütz speaks about demand-based recurring fees in practice
Thumbs' shares their Culture Quest
Peteris Erins describes two ways of thinking about agents
WMP helps us understand Wow - Zora's new memecoin platform
Rina Diane Caballar says that the Open-Source Software is in crisis
Dan Schwarz shares the story of Google's Prediction Markets
Brian Merchant suggests that Bluesky's success is a rejection of big tech's operating system
Bari Weiss speaks with Peter Thiel about the triumph of the counter-elites
Peter Norvig shows how you can teach yourself programming in 10 years
Yash Bora describes the availability cascade for the onchain agentic economy
Tudorizer writes about the fascination with seeds instead of fruits
Gavin Anderegg suggests that maybe Bluesky has “won”
Devconflict contest submissions
Peteris Erins describes the 4 rollup architectures and the future of Gnosis Chain
Pavel Fedotov comments on the L1 vs. L2 debate in Ethereum’s future
Abhijith comments on the onboarding the next 1 billion vs. 1 million users debate
Products
Launch: Telegram's Mini Apps 2.0
Launch: ZERϴ Network by Zerion
Launch: New Lens
Launch: Family wallet
Launch: wow by Zora
Found: μCritAir
For devs
bumblefudge.eth and pryvit.eth describe the lifecycle of a blockchain standard
Postage Stamps in Swarm
Anton Bukov on Solana protocol
Ethereum Data Structures (2020)
Surge: Supercharging Ethereum
Art
Being Borges by Ana María Caballero
“Onchain art” preservation is a myth
Events
2025 Protocol Berg
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