This is the first major token purchase @foundersfund has made in a long time. Did Tyler just bottom tick the bull run with ethereum:0xaeeaa594e7dc112d67b8547fe9767a02c15b5597 ?

Your bank trusts your job title more than your actual value. That's about to change. @m_at_anvil @anvil_xyz @cryptosmiff

Binance hack enough to take us down another bear leg

AI agents won't have credit scores. Machine-to-machine payments will run on collateral. @trspalding @anvil_xyz @cryptosmiff

Not just your typical surface level interview... Shoutout @cryptosmiff and @spenders_club, bringing some real thought provoking questions for @MurielMedard in this one. Check it out ⬇️

850 credit score and still denied the best rate, because I didn't carry enough debt. @m_at_anvil @anvil_xyz @cryptosmiff

Crypto has a tribalism problem. And honestly, we kind of love it. We defend our wallets like sports teams. Pick a side, wear the colors, back your people. The rivalries are real. But nobody argues this passionately about something they don’t believe in. We all came here for a reason. The possibility of building an internet that’s more open, more human, and more ours. Introducing UNITED COLORS OF CRYPTO. A collection celebrating the wallets, the communities, and the people bringing the world onchain.

Speed Is Money. But Decentralization Is How You Scale. ♾️ What if the biggest limitation holding blockchain back isn't computing power, but the way data moves across the network? In a fascinating conversation with @MurielMedard , we got a deeper look at the mathematical foundations, engineering philosophy, and long-term vision behind @get_optimum. Shoutout to @cryptosmiff and @spenders_club for bringing some genuinely thought-provoking questions to this conversation. Here are my 6 biggest takeaways. 👇 1. Blockchain has a communication bottleneck. Muriel used a brilliant analogy. Imagine putting a Formula 1 car on a road full of potholes. The engine is incredibly powerful, but the road prevents it from reaching its potential. That's essentially what's happening in blockchain. Computers are powerful enough. Moving data efficiently between geographically distributed nodes is the challenge. 2. Speed isn't just performance. It's money. Wall Street spends enormous amounts of money shaving milliseconds off transactions. Yet in crypto, unpredictable transaction delays and network congestion remain familiar problems. Muriel's point was simple: faster, more reliable communication creates economic advantages. For validators, traders, and decentralized applications, milliseconds can matter. 3. Decentralization isn't just an ideology. It's an engineering necessity. This was one of the most powerful moments of the interview. Muriel explained that large-scale systems cannot efficiently rely on a single central controller. The internet and power grids evolved toward distributed structures because coordination at scale demands it. Her message was striking: "Nothing big and centralized is gonna be able to survive scaling up." Decentralization isn't merely something we believe in. It's something mathematics and engineering can make necessary. 4. The mathematics behind Optimum changes the equation. Optimum's foundations come from years of research at MIT. Through Random Linear Network Coding (RLNC), Muriel and her collaborators developed a mathematical approach showing that efficient network communication doesn't require a central controller. She even explained the reasoning behind the company's name: "We can actually prove mathematically that we're optimum." That's a fundamentally different starting point from simply promising a faster network. 5. Validators are the heart of blockchain infrastructure. Optimum started with Ethereum, but Muriel emphasized that the technology is chain-agnostic. Rather than trying to reinvent blockchain execution, the team focuses on improving communication between the nodes powering decentralized networks. The broader ambition is infrastructure that can support blockchain activity across multiple ecosystems. And as institutional adoption grows, reliable infrastructure becomes increasingly important. 6. From MIT research to the crypto trenches. Perhaps the most inspiring part was Muriel's personal journey. After building an accomplished academic career, she could have remained comfortably focused on research. Instead, she chose to bring that technology into the real world. Why? Because she believed it needed to be built. And when asked what she wanted to be right about 20 years from now, her answer came back to the same conviction: That this mathematical approach could enable networks to scale while remaining decentralized, robust, fast, and reliable. My biggest takeaway? The next breakthrough in blockchain scalability might not come from building a more powerful computer or launching another blockchain. It might come from fundamentally improving how existing networks communicate. Faster execution means little if the data can't arrive in time. That's the bigger picture behind Optimum. And after listening to Muriel explain the mathematics, the motivation, and the vision, it becomes clear why this problem is worth solving. The future of blockchain scalability is also a networking problem. ♾️ @cryptooflashh @blockchainjeff

So much fun to chat with @cryptosmiff @spenders_club !

“Speed is money” - @MurielMedard With $3.4B of Ethereum stake already running on Optimum’s mump2p, @cryptosmiff digs into the story behind its co-founder and CEO, Muriel Médard, who has spent 2 decades in academia focused on network coding at MIT. This is Conviction Ep. 6 00:00 Speed is money 01:37 It's not the computers, it's the roads 04:33 Decentralized because nothing else scales 09:39 You can't build infrastructure with duct tape 15:36 Math, literature, and an accidental engineer 19:31 You don't need Big Brother 20:01 Why it's called Optimum 25:14 20 years out: decentralization is gravity 28:27 Why not stay academically decorative?

flew out to Buenos Aires for the weekend to deliver memberships & party with @Musica_W3

Tokenize your Pokémon cards, borrow against them. Lenders want dollars, not your collection. @trspalding @anvil_xyz @cryptosmiff

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you tasteless techies ruined the bay lmao

SPENDERS EVERYWHERE

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I fucking love you Korea

24 Hours in Korea DSC Dispatch with @cryptosmiff

John McAfee ran for president, fled authorities, and became one of the most unpredictable characters in tech history. Naturally, we put him on a shirt. HEROES OR VILLAINS. No antivirus included.

The more you look at what blockchain actually makes possible for finance, the harder it is to imagine things going any other way. Markets move toward efficiency. @m_at_anvil sums it up perfectly 🙌