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We won this case against the US treasury. Smart contracts (with no admin key/rights) are not capable of being owned. This is a huge victory for privacy advocates, smart contract developers, and free speech enjoyoors!! Thank you to @iampaulgrewal, @coinbase, the legal team…
Privacy wins. Today the Fifth Circuit held that @USTreasury’s sanctions against Tornado Cash smart contracts are unlawful. This is a historic win for crypto and all who cares about defending liberty. @coinbase is proud to have helped lead this important challenge. 1/6
Dragonfly invested into PepperSec, Inc., the developers of Tornado Cash, in August of 2020. We made this investment because we believe in the importance of open-source privacy-preserving technology. Prior to our investment, we obtained an outside legal opinion that confirmed that…
You either get why the fight for Tornado Cash is existential for crypto, or you don't get crypto.
Ethereum core developer @preston_vanloon took the stand to testify in the defense of @rstormsf This is why I love Ethereum - ETH is being built with a vicious commitment to values and freedom. Rainbows and unicorns in the front, but claws and teeth in the back.
Many years ago, Nelly gave me an NFT of the Validator. It was my first NFT and I still use it for my ENS PFP! Thanks again, @ArtbyNelly app.ens.domains/prestonvanloon…
Ethereum turns 10 in 5 days. "Validator". The piece celebrates Ethereum’s shift to Proof of Stake: the cast‑off hard hat marks miners’ exit, while the scales highlight validators’ duty to weigh each block honestly. I painted "Validator" in 2018.
No one tell @terencechain about this. He already responds to github notifications faster than I can read them 😂
Here’s a tip, ladies - marry a man who gets GitHub notifications on his smart watch
Real talk: all the headliners we've seen in glamsterdam show incredible quality & thoughtfulness. The level of work authors put into these EIPs deserves serious praise No matter which headliner gets in, this is already a win for Ethereum, community leveling up year after year 🫶
This is a thread about enshrinement. There has been always a push from different sectors to have ePBS without the removal of trusted players. The common saying is "we may be enshrining the bad thing". I want to dispute this vehemently, and this may be a long thread. 1/11
Some personal news: I'm joining @arbitrum as a Developer Evangelist to help meet developers where they are and drive adoption. I'll be working alongside my goated colleagues @hummusonrails, @aboutlo & the rest of the Arbitrum Foundation. As some of you may know, I have a…
Work in crypto? Care about opsec? You need a security checklist. Check out Sentry from @audit_wizard.
Hacks aren't just from vulnerable code. They happen because people use personal laptops for work, because a new dev hire was infected by malware, or because multi-sig ops were not perfect. We decided it was time to fix this, so we built Sentry, a platform that secures your OpSec
Web3 security has grown beyond just on-chain hacks. Now, orgs are faced with ever-evolving threats targeting web2 and OpSec attack vectors, and we must evolve to combat them. We've frustratingly seen many organizations fall victim to easily preventable compromises (large…
How are folks conducting Software Engineering interviews in the age of AI? There are already tools that can transparently overlay an AI interface during interviews and it will listen to audio to give real time answers. Will interviewers have to become experts in body language?
Join me on the main stage tomorrow at 11:55. We’re launching the Ethereum Community Foundation to put ETH back on track. Real burn, real alignment, real momentum. The ticker is $ETH.
Arbitrum Everywhere
A lot of people have been using the phrase "Arbitrum Everywhere" lately. Want to give a little bit of color into how it encapsulates a lot of the multi-dimensional strategy of Arbitrum's vision moving forward. The goal is for Arbitrum as a product to support developers and…
The test driven development folks will be the most successful engineers leveraging AI to get work done. - Don't use AI to write your tests - Write the tests first, then ask AI to implement - The tests are the specification, be good at writing effective tests
About 4 years ago, I really struggled to find a mortgage lender that would work with me due to my crypto holdings and the nature of my work. This update is incredible and I look forward to the day where self custody is considered too.
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 US Federal Housing Finance Agency issues order to count Bitcoin & crypto as an asset for a mortgage.
This is really cool to see the EF support for @rstormsf's legal defense.
The EF is donating $500K to the legal defense of Roman Storm, and we will match up to a further $750K in donations from the community. Privacy is normal, and writing code is not a crime.
The stars are aligning for ETH: ⏩ $1.25bn ETF inflows over 19 straight days ⏩ Adoption as a treasury asset ⏩ Price turnaround (+100% from lows) Institutions are noticing. We’ve come together to tell the world why. Introducing ETH: Digital Oil for the Digital Economy (1/7)
Which, if any, crypto credit/debit card offerings allow for the creation of virtual card numbers for online transactions? I create a new card number for every subscription or online retailer and would like to do this while using crypto or earning crypto rewards.