Tired: Two-pizza teams Wired: Two-slice teams @danshipper on the best team structure in the AI-era

The next Amazon is an open protocol.

Today the EF and OA announce zkAPI—a new means for private AI Picture this: deposit ether into a vault, sign a zk proof, get a fixed amount of private inference. Advances like these help us move past middlemen's requirements that we link our data and identities. Read more below

Five years, a few bull markets, and 100's of IRL activations later, my Coinbase run is over. I came to crypto because the internet should move value the way it moves information: open, instant, and owned by the people using it. I came to Coinbase because of the people. I'm proud of what we built with @CoinbaseWallet and what it is today. Crypto apps were painful to use. Getting them in front of real people was the fastest way to figure out what sucked and fix it. It took building Base Cafe's around the world and onboarding thousands of merchants to start making USDC payments work. @brian_armstrong gave us the space to do things differently: tremendous agency, a long-term view, and no theater led to an unreasonable amount of shipping with joy. Forge and the AI work I did across Coinbase came from the same place: less stuff between an idea and getting it into someone's hands. I'm proud of the team and culture we built inside the Coinbase mothership and am fortunate to have led the most talented engineers, designers, and product people I've ever worked with. Right before the end, I got one last thing through: changing the name back to Coinbase Wallet. yw. Thank you to Brian and @emiliemc for the trust, and @jessepollak and @cobie for pushing what's possible. 🙇 to my ride-or-die Wallet OGs @shalinpei and @sid_coelho , @0xaneri and the whole team. You are all truly the best. To all the CT folks I met along the way: you're all way cooler in person and i'm lucky to have met so many of you. 💙 Time to build on a new frontier. 🫡

This tweet is already bullish, and I want to add some nuance because the way I see it there is something even subtler and more awesome about it Yes, pushing computation “offchain” with the computation committed to and proven succinctly onchain is awesome because it saves a ton of work to the network and allows for super light nodes. That’s a cryptographic world bulletin board, but not quite a computer imo Indeed, a world computer should also be the main owner of its state. You can keep state offchain, meaning that contention resolves out of band from the ethereum network. This is not necessarily something we want however, because the state of ethereum, its liquidity, its accessibility, is a huge part of why ethereum enjoys such massive network effects. When a liquidation is meant to resolve, I don’t want it to resolve on Aave’s server, with a brittle API governing access to the pool’s state and its updates. I want the ability to learn the state of the pool by looking at the chain, and the ability to act upon that state unmediated by sending a transaction that I know will be included given ethereum’s peerless censorship-resistance and that I know will execute given ethereum’s 100% uptime. This still leaves room for a lot of presettlement infra stitching things together, but it’s much stronger than ethereum being a “simple” checkpoint for what’s happening outside of a limited view of the world state. Composability is the superpower of blockchains, and the more granular and accessible state is onchain, the more permissionless it becomes to compose and innovate. The vision of ethlabs as I’d put it is to have the best state for the L1 as liquidity hub and the most secure place to hold and mint assets from, with L2s spawning differentiated state neighbourhoods that both leverage and reinforce L1’s, bringing new users, more liquidity and growing the onchain economy by eating the offchain one. That’s what we mean when we say ethereum becoming the root of the global economy. For this we need scale, speed and security. We’ll be pushing hard on those!

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My agents should be able to do anything I can on a computer or a phone ( and I should be held accountable for their behavior).

Why should asset issuers create a liquidity pool on Uniswap? "It's kind of like being listed on every exchange on earth at once"

realizing blender MCP just nuked an entire design economy. crazy

I just lost $300 using Instinct. Can I please get a refund?😭@noahrshinn