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Most discussed

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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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