This is a segment from The Breakdown newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. “A great challenge of life: Knowing enough to think you are right, but not knowing enough to know you are wrong.” — Neil deGrass Tyson “Ideas are so fragile,” Sir James Dyson reflected in a recent interview. He would know, given the…
Thanks to Arantxa Zapico, Benedikt Wagner, and Dmitry Khovratovich from the EF cryptography team for their contributions, and to Ladislaus, Kev, Alex, and Marius for the careful review and feedback. The zkEVM ecosystem has been sprinting for a year. And it worked! We crossed the finish line for real-time proving! Now comes the next phase:…
This is a segment from The Breakdown newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. “There was no lightbulb moment in the story of the lightbulb.”— Steven Johnson, How We Got to Now The lightbulb has come to be associated with serendipitous flashes of inspiration — the moment when a fully formed idea pops into an inventor’s…
This is a segment from the 0xResearch newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. Markets turned risk-off, with BTC dropping below $86,000, underperforming both equities and gold ahead of a busy week for economic data. Despite the market downturn, there were small pockets of outperformance, with AAVE pushing the Lending and Ethereum Eco indices higher. We…
This is a segment from The Breakdown newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. “The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress.” — Sir Edward Coke, the Attorney General of England, 1604 In 1604, the Court of King’s Bench decided what’s now known as Semayne’s Case in favor of the defendant,…
Disclaimer: The following blog is a proposal from the Stateless Consensus team. Content may not imply consensus views, and the EF is a broad organization that includes a healthy diversity of opinion across Protocol and beyond that together strengthen Ethereum. Special thanks to Ladislaus von Daniels and Marius van der Wijden for reviewing this article….
This is a segment from the 0xResearch newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. As dispersion continues, this week has pointed to concrete shifts rather than narrative noise. Aerodrome’s net income moved toward breakeven as emissions fell in line with revenue, while USDai’s TVL showed stepwise growth. At the same time, tokenized assets continued to scale…
“By 2026, Google’s main product will not be search but AI.” — Kevin Kelly, 2016 When Kevin Kelly met Larry Page at a party in 2002, he asked why anyone would invest in a company that offers its product for free: “I still don’t get it. There are so many search companies. Web search, for…
This is a segment from the 0xResearch newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. Performance across major assets diverged yesterday. Gold, BTC, and the S&P 500 posted gains of 0.95%, 0.55%, and 0.39%, respectively, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq slipped -0.12%. The divergence was driven largely by Oracle, whose shares fell -11% after disappointing quarterly revenues and…
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