Independent PoS validator since 2017 Operating on Solana, Sui, Monad, Walrus. Self-funded, no VC.
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Sui cut non-refundable storage fees by 99% this week.
Aftermath says quoting now costs 60-70% less in gas. For an onchain order book, thatβs the cost of market makers placing and cancelling orders all day.
Subscribe to our @SuiNetwork TL;DR on Substackπ
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This week on @Monad:
β Private Settlement explained: realms are not L2s
β 6-stage post-quantum roadmap, wallets first
β Typewriter: apps control their own sequencing
β Private credit and reinsurance yield arrive
Full breakdown on Substack: themonadpulse.substack.com/pβ¦
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Some of our delegators have been with us since the early epochs. Delegation is temporary, reputation is forever.
To everyone whoβs trusted us with their stake, whether youβre still here or not: thank you. π
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Basecamp week on @SuiNetwork:
β 82M Samsung Galaxy devices get USDC on $Sui
β Agent Pass: protocol-enforced limits on what AI agents can do with your assets
β Native USDC via CCTP V2 across 29 chains
β Hashi mainnet this month, $500M+ committed
And yes, 40M TPS. π Full breakdown on Substack:
suitldr.substack.com/p/the-wβ¦
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Most institutional privacy pitches mean leaving the public chain.
@Monad's Private Settlement goes the other way: encrypted domains with their own validators and rules, settling on L1 and composing with public liquidity.
That's the right shape. Our breakdown in this week's Monad Pulse on Substack π
themonadpulse.substack.com/pβ¦
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A week after AlphaFi, @SuiNetwork's security stack got a lot more visible:
β 10+ protocols formally verified
β 3,023 phishing threats blocked
β Sui-native compliance tracing from @scorechain
β New #validator-level tooling for stolen funds
Details on Substackπ
suitldr.substack.com/p/the-wβ¦
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This week on @Monad: Mainnet v0.16.4 release, new PropAMM research quantifying quote spoofing, and a post-quantum roadmap for account security.
Full update on Substack: themonadpulse.substack.com/pβ¦
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This week's @SuiNetwork TL;DR:
β @AlphaFiSUI winds down, withdrawals open
β Protocol 137 hits mainnet
β @GraphQL Subscriptions go live
β @DeepBookonSui app launches in alpha
β Sui Foundation joins LF Decentralized Trust with Swift & Wells Fargo
More details on Substackπ
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Monad just rebuilt its entire state database on a live mainnet. 3 phases, 2 networks, 2 months, 0 incidents.
The unglamorous part of running a chain is where you actually find out if it works.
Our weekly @Monad Pulse is outπ
themonadpulse.substack.com/pβ¦
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In case you missed it, Confidential transfers on @SuiNetwork just got 2.7x cheaper to verify.
The weekly Sui's TL;DR is out on Substack.
Subscribe to get it in your inbox: suitldr.substack.com/p/the-wβ¦
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This week's @Monad Pulse is out!
Phase C stops being optional. Upcoming releases will require the page-based timeline on mainnet, and more...
Full breakdown on Substack πthemonadpulse.substack.com/pβ¦
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BlockZero 2026 is coming to London on Nov 15.
A day for the people running the infrastructure: validators, operators, protocol contributors, and the teams building validator-adjacent tech.
Small by design, attendance is capped and subject to approval.
luma.com/dmxdc394
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This week on @SuiNetwork:
@WaaPxyz published a working guide for an AI agent running a @CetusProtocol liquidity position within predefined limits.
Ongoing security live on @current's security hub.
Also: 6 AI models will be playing poker onchain at Basecamp.
Sui's TL;DR is on Substack, subscribe to get it in your inboxπ
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Remora is moving from paper to production, offloading heavy cryptography off validators on @SuiNetwork
Also: Sui Overflow closed with 747 projects, and the shift toward agent-callable apps is unmistakable.
The weekly Sui TL;DR is out. Link to Substack in the replies π
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MIP-8 is live on mainnet.
9 months of @Monad uptime: 0 halts, 60M+ blocks.
Also: AI-optimized smart contract code where 82 tests passed but formal verification caught the bug in 44 seconds.
This week's Monad Pulse is out on Substack π
themonadpulse.substack.com/pβ¦
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Agent wallets with no private key.
Regulated securities infrastructure.
A live TPS record attempt at Basecamp.
This week's @SuiNetwork TL;DR is live on Substack π
suitldr.substack.com/p/the-wβ¦
Subscribe to get that in your inbox.
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Everything from @monad this week:
MIP-8 mainnet hard fork is September 2, 14:30 UTC. The order matters: Phase A first, then v0.16.1. If you miss the sequence and the upgrade won't work.
All 5 cohorts are cleared, roughly a week to complete both steps.
Also: upgradeable account authentication, record $310M spot DEX volume, TVL past $800M.
Full breakdown on Substack π
themonadpulse.substack.com/pβ¦
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Sui operator items this week:
- Mainnet hotfix v1.77.3 brings protocol 134, activating at the next epoch boundary once 83.4% of stake upgrades.
- Hashi's new build fixes a pruning bug that filled disks.
Full @SuiNetwork validator breakdown on Substackπ
suitldr.substack.com/p/the-wβ¦
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Monad's mainnet began its MIP-8 migration to page-aware storage.
5 validator cohorts. Roughly 10 minutes of downtime, short pauses where operators hit issues.
More ecosystem updates in the @Monad Pulse on Substack π
themonadpulse.substack.com/pβ¦
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A network's decentralization usually gets reported as a single number.
The number is useful. What it hides is direction, i.e. whether stake is spreading or gathering, and how quickly.
We track that here: nakaflow.io
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Private mainnet security release out for @SuiNetwork addressing an accumulator DoS issue. Verify binaries through Mysten's official procedure before installing.
Also on Sui this week: Hashi testnet passed 1.1M deposits and now drives more than half of all Bitcoin Signet transactions.
Full breakdown π
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Page-based storage is now live on @Monad testnet after the Aug 12 hard fork. Phase C is open, decommission the old database. v0.16.0 opens a new metrics port, check your firewall. @MetaMask crossed 1M gasless txns on Monad.
Full breakdown on Substackπ
themonadpulse.substack.com/pβ¦
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This piece is four and a half years old.
chainflow.io/the-layers-of-dβ¦
Decentralization isn't one thing. It's layers:
- technical
- operator
- owner
- consolidator
- custodian
Almost all analysis looks at the last 3.
The technical sub-layer is the one that just failed.
1 data center in Miami took 29% of stake offline,
10 minutes from the 33% freeze threshold.
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Sui's first-ever governance vote sits at 37% participation. This number sets the norm for every vote after it, worth casting yours if you haven't.
Also: quantum-resistant signatures with a migration path that doesn't touch your funds, and a Sui Spheres demo of 5 competing energy companies coordinating privately.
Sui TLDR is live on Substack. Check it outπ
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Two #Ubuntu kernel builds (6.8.0-136, 6.8.0-137) can silently prevent monad-bft from starting.
Also this week:
- Mera kills the seed phrase for passkey-based accounts
- Monad ranks 3rd by DeFi TVL
- Perps volume near $500M, up from <$20M in March
Everything in the weekly @Monad Pulse on Substack π
themonadpulse.substack.com/pβ¦
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Every productive use of Bitcoin so far has required giving it to someone.
WBTC. cbBTC. Federated sidechains. Different wrappers, same trade: composability in exchange for custody.
Chainflow is joining @AlpenLabs as an operator because their design doesn't make that trade.
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Sui's governance framework went live on mainnet. Contract published, immutable, first proposal now open for voting.
N.B. Validators check the latest build before voting on the fix proposal.
Also: #Hashi's withdrawal queue crossed 40K, exposed a bug, got patched twice in one week.
This week's @SuiNetwork TL;DR is out π
suitldr.substack.com/p/the-wβ¦
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.@Phantom ends @Monad support August 12: migrate before the deadline.
Also this week: MIP-8 migration begins on testnet, RWA market cap up 19x since February to $425M, and @category_xyz presented six papers at #Stanford's SBC for the second time this year.
This week's Monad Pulse is outπ
themonadpulse.substack.com/pβ¦
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Hashi hit testnet and immediately found real problems: wallet depletion, a deposit deadlock, a presignature bug at 40,000+ queued withdrawals.
That's testnet working as intended.
Validators: use only the latest release, several builds were superseded fast.
@SuiNetwork TL;DR #083 in the repliesπ
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MIP-12 activated. Vote pace now 300ms, confirmed running as designed. Nodes that didn't upgrade in time fell out of consensus.
Also: @category_xyz proposes app-level transaction ordering, and the validator call brought a genuinely useful AI-assisted SSH tool into view.
Link to this week's @Monad Pulse in the repliesπ
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The weekly @SuiNetwork TL;DR is out π
suitldr.substack.com/p/the-wβ¦
- Hashi completed DKG and started processing its first testnet deposits.
- Validators: binary upgrade + metrics config required before deposits finalize.
Also this week: Evan Cheng on how Hashi sidesteps bridge risk for Bitcoin, Beep benchmarking AI models with live capital instead of leaderboards.
The full breakdown on Substuck π
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Monad Pulse #038 is out.
Here are the highlights π:
- MIP-9 active set expansion postponed.
- Cadence changes the consensus architecture underneath it, so the Foundation is waiting rather than locking in a number that might be wrong in months.
- Mainnet v0.15.0 rolling out via cohorts, check yours before upgrading.
Read through the weekly @monad recap on Substack:
themonadpulse.substack.com/pβ¦
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Sui Tunnels targeted 1M TPS, then it hit 6,086,766.
Also this week:
- Hashi testnet operator coordination underway,
- TBook scaling embedded neobank infra with Paga,
- Alkimi's research on why AI agents need shared records.
Full breakdown on Substackπ
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Note for @Monad operators: the v0.15.0 database migration is irreversible.
Client-side change, activates on upgrade.
MIP-12 waited for the fork round.
Full breakdown in this week's Monad Pulse π
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Sui TL;DR is out π
suitldr.substack.com/p/the-wβ¦
This week:
Sui Tunnels pushed mainnet toward 1M TPS in a live experiment this week;
RWA access widened on every front: tokenized assets to Africa, Bitcoin credit markets on Hashi, graded PokΓ©mon cards onchain;
v1.74.1 live on mainnet;
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Some messages are worth the climb.
A daredevil couple climbed to the top of the Empire State Building and unfurled a banner on top of its spire Wednesday. abcnews.link/jBPXZkd
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π¨ Cherry Servers operators: rebuild is now recommended, not just mitigation. Back up SECP/BLS keys and node.toml before reprovisioning. Contact @CherryServers to confirm remediation.
@Monad Pulse #034 has the full guidance π
themonadpulse.substack.com/pβ¦
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This week's Sui TLDR just dropped π
suitldr.substack.com/p/copy-β¦
@SuiNetwork validators: emergency v1.73.3 release is out, upgrade asap.
Bluewater acquires Suilend, STEAMM, & SpringSui.
Hashi's Bitcoin finance coalition adds Cumberland, SwissBorg, and Fluid ahead of July testnet.
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We first mentioned @Solana on 5 August 2019. Ranked #11. Genesis tier.
Not a flex, just context for why we care so much about where this network goes.
Still here, still validating, still independent. π
How early were you?
earlytosolana.com/?h=Chainflβ¦
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π¨ Cherry Servers operators: Sensu Monitoring agent compromise confirmed.
Check for /tmp/.tc, /var/tmp/.tc, cloud-assets-api.net indicators.
Disable the agent and follow Monad Foundation guidance now.
Full details in @Monad Pulse #033 π
themonadpulse.substack.com/pβ¦
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$65B in stablecoin transfers in under a week on Sui.
Regulated bank stablecoin infrastructure live.
Seal MPC mainnet with 5-of-8 committee.
Confidential transfers in devnet beta.
The compliance layer is building fast.
Sui TLDR #078 is hereπ
suitldr.substack.com/p/the-wβ¦
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This week on @monad:
- Validators, close your public RPC ports, Foundation is actively scanning & will reach out;
- Ultrafuzz launches for Solidity fuzzing;
- the VDP moves toward merit-based delegation;
More on this week's Monad Pulse #034 π
themonadpulse.substack.com/pβ¦
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Confidential transfers live in beta on Sui Devnet: private by default, compliance-ready by design.
@SuiNetwork lands on @FortuneMagazine's Crypto 100 top ten.
N.B. Validators: check the private security release first.
This week's Sui TLDR #077 is liveπ
suitldr.substack.com/p/the-wβ¦
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This week on @monad: private payments, agent spending controls, and faster blocks incoming.
Latest Monad Pulse π
themonadpulse.substack.com/pβ¦
Stake your $MON with Chainflow and support decentralization.
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This week on @SuiNetwork:
- The 1.72 story closed - post-mortem published, root causes identified, hardening roadmap laid out.
- CME recorded $23.7B in Sui suite volume in May.
- 3 validators publicly flagged for running on forked state without knowing it.
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