Happy to share that @bitrefill is the lead sponsor for my Devcon 8 coverage in Mumbai🇮🇳 Their support keeps independent crypto conversations going, and I’m grateful to have them back for a second event. You can also find them co-hosting the Free Society Hackathon and afterparty with @Zcash and @joinwebzero during Devcon week. Links below 👇

I spoke with @bajpaiharsh244 from @Zcash about what it will take to make shielded payments practical for everyday use. We discussed the work toward faster payments, the potential for businesses to build payroll, merchant payments and private stablecoins on zcash:native, and what it would take to move beyond being a place to hold funds to a place to spend them. We also discussed Zcash’s plans for quantum-resistant cryptography👇

Ethereum has spent its first decade proving that a decentralized network can operate at global scale. I asked @ethereumJoseph what he thinks the next decade is really about, and what @ethereum needs to become as adoption expands beyond the crypto industry👇

I spoke with @EliBenSasson from @Starknet about quantum resistance, Ethereum’s shift toward proof-based verification, and Starknet’s potential role in connecting Bitcoin and Ethereum. We also discussed private payments on smartphones and how STARK proofs could help verify AI computations as agents begin handling real transactions👇

I sat down with @wellsda2 CEO of @OndoPerps to discuss where financial markets could be heading as trading moves increasingly onchain. We covered the implications of 24/7 markets, onchain derivatives, liquidity and leverage. A few questions I explored: > Could “market hours” eventually disappear for global investors? > Could perpetual markets become a primary way to express views on traditional assets? > What happens when trading collateral itself can generate yield? > And could 24/7 derivatives become an important source of price information before traditional markets even open? We also discussed what still needs to be solved before onchain derivatives can support the scale and sophistication of major institutional markets. A look at how the architecture of financial markets could evolve 👇 – at Singapore

List of services worldwide that had 0 downtime since inception 1. Ethereum End of list.

Companies should integrate @selfxyz for KYCs. It is safe and keeps everything secure. Time for web2 to integrate web3 tech🫡

🚨Starting a new series! Ethereum: The Settlement Singularity. Ten pieces walking through what @Ethereum is actually being rebuilt into, one part of the roadmap at a time. Every video covers a real mechanism and shows how it works and why it matters! Soon🔥

Glamsterdam targets L1 throughput across three consecutive layers. > ePBS (EIP-7732) moves block building into the protocol. Validators stop trusting off-chain relays and pick directly from builder bids submitted at the protocol level. > BALs (EIP-7928) enforce access lists at the block level so transactions can execute in parallel instead of one at a time. The builder declares every address and storage slot touched, and clients use that map to parallelize execution. > Gas repricings (EIP-7981 & EIP-8037) close data and state growth exploits. EIP-7981 prices access list data at 64 gas per byte, killing the old EIP-2930 block size exploit and making transaction-level access lists economically obsolete once BALs exist. EIP-8037 raises state creation costs so higher gas limits don’t cause runaway state growth. ePBS and BALs each stand on their own. Only when these three are improved together can ethereum:native credibly target a much higher gas limit(aligned on a ~200M floor post-Glamsterdam) without compromising verification speed, node requirements, or long-term state growth.

ETH L2 ecosystem 30 transaction count heat Check🔥 > @base: 11.60M txns (+94%) > @arbitrum: 1.50M txns (+59%) > @unichain: 989.85k txns (+53%) > @Ronin_Network: 207.52k txns (+38%) > @Starknet: 266.36k txns (+35%) > @world_chain_: 1.20M txns (+19%) > @Optimism: 1.42M txns (+18%) > @plumenetwork: 218.07k txns (+8.0%)

You've been bridging across chains without ever knowing if you got the best deal. No competition for your order, no guaranteed best price, no real choice. Here's the infrastructure that just changed that 🧵

0/ Glamsterdam’s two headliners (ePBS & Block-Level Access Lists) are getting all the attention. What’s underrated? Eight other EIPs scheduled for inclusion in the upgrade. Here’s what’s broken today and how each one fixes it 👇

This is one of the reasons why exchange listings are no longer exciting or bullish! Still most holders wants their tokens to get listed on an exchanges but that also means, it is the top for 75% of the tokens! Are we just looking for exit liquidity?

When all the DeFi protocols are bleeding TVL, @sparkfinance is actually attracting TVL during this period. My reasons: It has deep stablecoin liquidity, no restaking exposure and no cross-chain bridge dependencies. Spark Protocol TVL went from $7B to $8.4B+ in under 3days. > $SPK is up 50%+ in the same window. > $600M came in a single day. > Justin Sun moved $170M in USDC and USDT alone. This is what a DeFi flight-to-quality rotation looks like in real time. Capital did not leave the ecosystem, it repriced risk and moved to wherever it felt safer. Spark sits inside the @SkyEcosystem (formerly MakerDAO). The architecture that looked boring two weeks ago is exactly what risk-averse capital is looking for right now. The broader DeFi drama this month has done one thing clearly, it has separated protocols by perceived trust tier. Whether the TVL holds depends on whether the fear holds but the rotation is real, the numbers confirm it.

Ethereum's global settlement layer proposes a new block every 12 seconds. For institutional capital, that's a problem and liquidity doesn't wait 12 seconds to settle. Strawmap's plan is to reduce it to 2-second block times. Resulting in faster production & finality. More👇

Wallets can now earn a fee on every stablecoin payment their users make. Till now, swap fees were the only model. @WalletConnect Pay adds a payment-based revenue stream that scales with users and spend, not just trades. 50M $WCT for early integrators👇

Ethereum's next hard fork is called Glamsterdam. The first generalized devnet launches next week. Here's what it actually changes: > ePBS (EIP-7732), moves block building from off-chain MEV relays directly into the protocol. Reduces trust assumptions, improves decentralization of block production, and addresses MEV-related centralization. > Block-Level Access Lists (EIP-7928) & gas repricing enables more efficient, predictable execution and lays groundwork for parallel transaction processing. > 60M gas limit target, baseline is 60M, but devnets are stress-testing significantly higher limits. The gas repricing work in this fork is what makes those increases sustainable rather than dangerous. Each upgrade adds a layer of infrastructure most users will never directly see. Every DeFi protocol, L2, and dApp depends on it anyway. Learn more👇

Silver has been in supply deficit every year since 2021, 820M oz cumulative gap. 70% of silver comes as a byproduct. You can't mine more on demand. The thesis is strong. The problem is access. @SilvertimesSTT gives you onchain silver exposure & earns yield. Watch now👇

Stablecoin transfer on the ethereum ecosystem are 10-100x cheaper. > Ethereum: $0.03 > L2s: $0.0008

Congrats on 500B transactions. Here are the metrics that tell the other side of the story about $ETH vs $SOL TVL: > Ethereum: $53.19B > Solana: $5.4B Stablecoin supply: > Ethereum: $163B > Solana: $15B > ETH staked (economic security): 37.25M ETH ATH > Solana validator count: down from 2,000 to 791. > Ethereum RWA issuance: $15B+ > Solana RWA issuance: $1.9B+ > Solana inflation cost to holders: $4.32B/year > Ethereum inflation cost to holders: $1.88B/year