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Mason Hall

@0xMasonH

2 years

Long time event listener, first time eth_caller

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Mason Hall

@0xMasonH

1 year

Never worry about testnet ETH again - if you have deployed any contracts to Mainnet/Goerli/Sepolia, you are eligible for 10 ETH on each of those testnets

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@0xMasonH

2 years

A smart contract that lets you bet with your friends on when the merge will happen. No oracle or adjudicator required 😎

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Just posted the entire Bee Movie script to Ethereum for $5. We love the blobs

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3 years

The 4 most dangerous words in venture capital are “this time it's different” The 13 most dangerous words in venture capital are “The 4 most dangerous words in venture capital are “this time it's different”" — @pmarca

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How my Reddit bot became ranked #2 out of 55k. A story about chess, cheating, and the most passionate community on Reddit. 🧵 👇 (1/15)

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Mason Hall

@0xMasonH

3 years

It’s time we change the way auditing is done in web3 🧵

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Mason Hall

@0xMasonH

1 year

Excited to see where they take this - always supportive of chess x crypto cc @fiveoutofnine

Avalanche 🔺

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1 year

1/ In 1924, @FIDE_Chess was formed to revolutionize the game of chess. 100 years later, FIDE is again innovating the game, and they’re doing it on #Avalanche . With a global audience of over 500M, FIDE is building on Avalanche to bring chess to Web3.

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Mason Hall

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3 months

@mrexits Dieter Rams is unmatched

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My brother is going on a backpacking trip soon, and I think a fun gift would be a ruggedized local LLM terminal that he can carry around. Has anyone built this?

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Mason Hall

@0xMasonH

7 months

Optimists win because we have more fun

Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸

@pmarca

7 months

THE TECHNO-OPTIMIST MANIFESTO part 1 “You live in a deranged age — more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.” — Walker Percy “Our species is 300,000 years old. For the…

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Mason Hall

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2 years

Really excited to announce our CantBeEvil licenses. NFT contracts can inherit a standardized interface directly in solidity - with only 1 line of code.

miles jennings

@milesjennings

2 years

1/ Today we’re thrilled to be launching a slate of open sourced “Can’t be Evil” NFT licenses. These licenses are designed specifically for NFTs and were inspired by 20-plus years of work by the Creative Commons.

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Mason Hall

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3 years

Life update: moving to NYC tomorrow. Just in time for . Hit me up if you are in town!

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Mason Hall

@0xMasonH

3 months

It was 2018 - I had been in crypto for two years. I had spent a summer at Consensys, and had dedicated all my time and energy to crypto. Even still - I was beginning to feel disillusioned with the industry, and almost left to work in medtech. Then I read “Why Decentralization…

cdixon.eth

@cdixon

3 months

My new book is finally here -- published today in the U.S.! 🟧 I hope you pick it up, share it, debate it with me. Looking forward to your feedback. More editions in more languages coming soon.

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Mason Hall

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I might fuck around and launch the first L4 for fun and memes, unless someone has already?

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Mason Hall

@0xMasonH

2 years

To accuse another GM of cheating is a grave insult, and some told Wesley he was being a sore loser. Tigran, on the other hand, went ballistic, writing what would become the most famous copypasta in chess history: (10/15)

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Mason Hall

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I’m a sucker for great book covers (and great books)

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Mason Hall

@0xMasonH

8 months

Lunch at MEV day was first come first serve. That’s why I colocated next to the food to reduce latency 😋😋

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Mason Hall

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1 month

I'm 32 followers away from 5k. For fun: I'll pick one of my next 32 followers randomly using the formula ((ethereum blockhash at 5k followers) % 32) + 4968 and give them 15 mins of feedback/advice or a chess lesson or something

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Mason Hall

@0xMasonH

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I swear we have the most cracked engineering and research teams in the industry. We are sharing Jolt, our zkVM, with the world today, fully open source. The coolest part about Jolt is that it comes from an entirely different lineage than other zkVMs, meaning theres a LOT of…

Justin Thaler

@SuccinctJT

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1/ We're excited to share the initial release of Jolt, a new approach to zkVM design. Early benchmarks indicate it outperforms RISC Zero by ~6x and SP1 by up to 2x. Major optimizations are still in the pipeline.

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Mason Hall

@0xMasonH

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Getting to know @sreeramkannan and the EigenLayer team over the past three years has been a pleasure, and I’m so excited to partner with them for the long term. If you have ever seen Sreeram give a talk, you can tell he has “it” - equal parts magic and momentum. I can’t tell…

Ali Yahya | alive.eth

@alive_eth

2 months

Today, we're announcing that we're leading @eigenlayer 's Series B. It's exceedingly rare to come across a founder with a vision and plan that has the potential to change everything. I have come to know @sreeramkannan to be not only brilliant, but also fundamentally motivated by…

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Mason Hall

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1 year

Checkmate! Congrats to National Master @AakaashMeduri for crushing me in the championship to win the whole tournament. Great showing with 60+ crypto/chess fans

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Mason Hall

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1 year

Eddy Lazzarin 🟠🔭

@eddylazzarin

1 year

Magi 🟠 is a new OP Stack client for the Optimism ecosystem. Written in Rust, we hope it serves as a fast alternative to @OPLabsPBC 's op-node. 🔢 client diversity = robust decentralization 🧩 more languages = more engineers 🦀 Rust = safe and fast

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Mason Hall

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Found a service that will automatically summarize youtube videos, for free: The summaries are ok, but what's crazy is how fast it is. It summarized an obscure 40 minute video in less than 30 seconds. If I had to guess how it works: 1. Pull audio from…

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Mason Hall

@0xMasonH

2 years

Thanks for reading this epic chess saga. The code for the bot is open source, and can be found here: . (15/15)

GitHub - fmhall/Petrosian-Bot: Bot that comments Petrosian pasta

Bot that comments Petrosian pasta. Contribute to fmhall/Petrosian-Bot development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Mason Hall

@0xMasonH

2 years

@penguingm1 @GMHansNiemann @chesscom FYI for anyone confused this is not the real Hans Niemann account

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Mason Hall

@0xMasonH

2 years

So excited to finally announce this 🫡 Crypto Startup School is back! It's a $500k investment from @a16z , 3 months with experts from March to May 2023, based in Santa Monica 🤙🌴 Apply before November 30th!

a16z crypto

@a16zcrypto

2 years

Today we’re thrilled to announce the launch of our new accelerator, Crypto Startup School. The program will include: Investment from @a16zcrypto ($500k) Mentorship from leading founders Advice from domain experts Network of fellow builders Apply:

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Mason Hall

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2 months

Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing.

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Mason Hall

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8 months

Absolutely packed house at SBC this year!

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Mason Hall

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2 months

Applications are open for CSX Fall 2024 in New York City! The ten-week, in-person program in New York City will start in September and end with a Demo Day in November. There's really no downside to filling out an application below - or hit me up directly if we have spoken…

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Mason Hall

@0xMasonH

8 months

Are these “sophisticated solvers” in the room with you right now?

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Mason Hall

@0xMasonH

10 months

The new default font for Microsoft products will be called "Aptos". What an incredible namespace collision @Aptos_Network

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Mason Hall

@0xMasonH

2 years

At this point I came to the realization that instead of users having to find the copypasta and comment it themselves, a bot would be better suited to the task. I wrote a bot that detects if "pipi" or "petrosian" is mentioned, and comments the copypasta - PetrosianBot. (12/15)

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Mason Hall

@0xMasonH

11 months

Babe wake up, new classic just dropped

cdixon.eth

@cdixon

11 months

For the last 12 months I’ve been working on a book. I’m excited to talk about it for the first time today. 📘 Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet (March 2024, publisher: Random House) Pre-order here:

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Mason Hall

@0xMasonH

1 year

I've been playing around with CouncilKit from @element_fi and wow. A bunch of gigachads just went and quietly built a next-gen open-source governance framework and SDK:

Council | The Governance Framework

Council represents the next evolution of on-chain governance, allowing anyone to build adaptable governance systems.

council.delv.tech

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Mason Hall

@0xMasonH

3 years

The best part? This can all be done programmatically from rewards and allocations to claims and payouts ( @cozyfinance and @AnteFinance are good risk pool legos). It’s time to flip the auditing model on its head by utilizing the composability of DeFi to align long-term incentives.

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Mason Hall

@0xMasonH

7 months

TIL most of the web is secured by NIST curve seeds that were generated by some dude at the NSA named Jerry by hashing random sentences like "Jerry needs a raise". He conveniently forgets the sentence he used. Suuuure bro, lets just take your word for it!

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Mason Hall

@0xMasonH

10 months

We build cool shit here

Guido Appenzeller

@appenz

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This "investor" currently has the #1 and #5 spot on GitHub's trending repos. I love working with this team.

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Mason Hall

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1 year

Felt compelled to get the Helios light client running on my Raspberry Pi

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Mason Hall

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2 years

Yesterday, after an uptick in popularity of the bot, it reached #2 on the rankings, before a torrent of “bad bot” comments, likely from fans of the other bots it had beaten, brought it back down to #23 , where it stands now. (14/15)

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Mason Hall

@0xMasonH

2 years

I cited Godwin's Law instead of Goodhart's Law on a call with a founder, don't think I'll recover from this

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Mason Hall

@0xMasonH

1 year

We are hosting a chess event for NFT NYC on Thursday! Come hang out, play some casual chess, or get serious and compete for prizes 👑 All skill levels welcome - this bar also has ping pong, pool, and shuffleboard 🫡 RSVP here:

Chess with a16z and friends | Partiful

Join the a16z crypto team and friends for some casual chess and drinks. All skill levels welcome! Compete to win prize money, or just play for fun. RSVP is optional, but if you want to play the...

partiful.com

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Mason Hall

@0xMasonH

1 year

From the side project graveyard: A website that tracks gm's and gn's on Twitter across the globe in real time. I built this 1.5 years ago and never shared it. It will sunset (pun intended) in a week with the new API changes.

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Mason Hall

@0xMasonH

2 years

@nicoglennon Frontends are overrated

Mason Hall

Investor, Engineer @ a16z crypto. NYC Based.️

www.masonhall.tech

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Mason Hall

@0xMasonH

2 years

Farcaster is my favorite platform and community on the internet - can’t wait to continue working with the awesome @dwr and @varunsrin

Sriram Krishnan - sriramk.eth

@sriramk

2 years

🚨👋 We are thrilled to partner with @dwr and @varunsrin as they build @farcaster_xyz . They're building something very exciting around web3/decentralized social networks and it has quickly become something I personally use everyday. PS - they're hiring!

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Mason Hall

@0xMasonH

2 years

Shoutout @0xfoobar and @m1guelpf for the inspiration! Github gist here:

MergeBetEscrow.sol

GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

gist.github.com

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Mason Hall

@0xMasonH

2 years

Anyone else getting “me” autocorrected to MEV?

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Mason Hall

@0xMasonH

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It's really great to see @WilsonCusack and others thinking about extending the JSON RPC API to add methods that will enable dapp developers to support chain abstraction / intents. Keeping my eye on EIP-5792, CAIP-25, and the CAKE framework, among others

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Mason Hall

@0xMasonH

1 year

1/3 Prepare to be nerdsniped. If you read one thing today, let it be the blog post linked below. We previously released an on-chain over-collateralized Vickrey auction implementation. By sacrificing capital efficiency you gained privacy. Your bid amount was (0, collateral]

a16z crypto

@a16zcrypto

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Today, we’re releasing a new open source Solidity implementation of a sealed-bid auction –– this time using a surprising combination of tools… @moodlezoup 🧵

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@0xMasonH

2 years

Die-hard chess fans tend to live and breathe chess - and out of this fervor was born a passionate meme culture. The subreddit r/anarchychess leads this effort and remains the go-to spot for all the best chess drama and memes (r/chess is for the more serious folks) (5/15)

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@0xMasonH

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A few days later, the organizers banned him for cheating, and disqualified his team. His iconic monologue was quickly adopted by the chess community, and was commented everywhere on reddit. (11/15)

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Mason Hall

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3 years

I propose a new funding model - auditors get outsized rewards for underwriting programmatic risk pools on the protocols they audit. Instead of 2-3% returns you would normally get from typical underwriting, they should get 10-20%, funded by the protocol itself.

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5 months

Can’t wait to give my loved ones points for Christmas

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2 years

Stable Diffusion portrait

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@0xMasonH

1 year

@0xfoobar Also the code screenshot is literally just establishing a socket connection.

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Mason Hall

@0xMasonH

3 years

Spent the day hacking on FWB with @guywuolletjr and @WuCarra . Find yourself some coworkers who want to hack with you 🤝

Guy Wuollet | fawkes.eth

@guywuolletjr

3 years

check out our @FWBtweets x @ourZORA hackathon project here

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@0xMasonH

1 year

Friendly reminder that the Mercator Projection has always been a psyop

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@0xMasonH

2 years

The community quickly adopted the bot as its own, and over two years it has now received over 171k karma, thousands of awards, and over 5500 “good bot” comments. A website tracks the number of “good bot” and “bad bot” comments, and ranks all 55k bots. (13/15)

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Mason Hall

@0xMasonH

1 year

The rate at which cool shit is being developed, even amongst this turmoil, has me super optimistic. Uniswap’s universal router and permit2, Opensea’s seaportP2P, ZK tools, on-chain auction designs, and many more in the past few days alone. The last winter was not like this.

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@0xMasonH

2 years

The popularity of chess has exploded in the past two years, largely thanks to twitch streamers such as @alexandravbotez , the Netflix show "The Queen’s Gambit", and the covid-19 lockdown. My chess journey began in 2018, and I quickly became obsessed. (2/15)

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Mason Hall

@0xMasonH

3 years

With this model, auditors have skin in the game (they will lose $ if the smart contract is hacked). They get incredible returns proportional to the amount they stake on the protocol. And they are incentivized to audit new upgrades and ensure the long-term health of the protocol.

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@0xMasonH

2 years

I’m not crying, you’re crying

James Ide

@JI

2 years

With the newest version of Git 2.37.0, you can run just "git push" to push new branches. No more "--set-upstream origin". Enable with: git config --global --add --bool push.autoSetupRemote true

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@0xMasonH

2 years

Still alone in the metaverse, can devs please do something?

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@0xMasonH

2 years

27 Sep 2020. It's the finals of the PRO Chess League. The Armenia Eagles have just defeated the Saint Louis Arch Bishops. Tigran, on the Eagles' side, was asked his secret to winning. He replied that he had been drinking gin during the match. (8/15)

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Mason Hall

@0xMasonH

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When the solver fulfills my crosschain intent to seed liquidity for my own solver that will outcompete them 😈

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Mason Hall

@0xMasonH

1 year

I built an indexer for @optimismFND 's AttestationStation for the ETHDenver hackathon. Releasing it early so any #buidlers can build on top of it! No rate limits, please go easy on my cloud bill, thx

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@0xMasonH

2 years

My contribution to the canvas of @w1nt3r_eth 's Snow project: Loss What is Snow? 👇

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@0xMasonH

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Lord grant me the confidence of homebrew updating itself every time I use it

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7 months

Zero downside to submitting an application with that idea that you have always wanted to pursue!

a16z crypto

@a16zcrypto

7 months

Tomorrow is the last day to submit your application for our upcoming Crypto Startup School cohort. 📝 The application will be closing on Friday, October 20th at 11:59 PST. Here are a few resources if you've been considering the program. ⬇️

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Mason Hall

@0xMasonH

2 years

It was an absolute pleasure getting to know the @kosenlabs team. @miljan0x and @PetervantothArt are top-tier AI researchers, engineers, and leaders. People have talked about AI x DeFi for a long time. This team actually gets it. Really thankful to be a part of their journey!

Ali Yahya | alive.eth

@alive_eth

2 years

AI is beginning to intersect with web3, and it’s unlocking a new region of the idea maze. @miljan0x and @PetervantothArt , two brilliant AI researchers who are now the founders of @kosenlabs , are pioneering it. We’re beyond excited to be leading @kosenlabs ’ seed round 🔥

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Feeing generous tonight so here is a billion dollar idea: Zyn/Lucy but sprinkle some caffeine powder in there too

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2 years

Chess meme culture would require a book to explain, but one event in particular changed the course of chess culture forever. First, some background: (6/15)

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@0xMasonH

2 years

Wesley So is an American chess grandmaster, who has consistently ranked among the best players in the world. Tigran Petrosian is an Armenian chess grandmaster, who is strong in his own right, and is among the top 50 players in the world. (7/15)

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2 years

Opensea's API is temporarily down. After months of war; a ceasefire between these two snipers

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1 year

I know it's 11:18pm on a Friday, but is Github down for anyone else?

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@0xMasonH

1 year

It’s beautiful 🥹 Also come flex your Rust skills and make a PR! Contributions welcome

ncitron.eth

@NoahCitron

1 year

Today we're announcing Helios, a fast, portable, and secure Ethereum light client written in Rust. Helios syncs in two seconds, uses no storage, and provides trustless access to Ethereum. Code: Post: 1/8

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Wesley, of the Arch Bishops, felt that Tigran was punching above his weight and acting suspiciously, frequently looking down at what could have been an off-screen cheating device. He not-so-subtly hinted in a forum that Tigran was cheating. (9/15)

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@0xMasonH

2 months

I'm not even the first to do it... congrats @Rjected

Dan Cline

@Rjected

2 months

Blob morning! I didn't get the first blob, but as far as I can tell I DID get the first BEE MOVIE on mainnet Also used: * mcopy * tstore * tload * blobbasefee

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There has never been a better time to build in web3. Excited to continue investing in the best founders and builders working on the hardest problems in the space through our new Crypto Fund 4! LFG

Ali Yahya | alive.eth

@alive_eth

2 years

Today, we’re excited to announce Crypto Fund 4. We believe we’re now entering the golden era of web3, a time when the legendary teams come together to build the most important tech/products. As @cdixon likes to say, “These are the good old days.” Let’s go!

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A grand experiment in Masonry

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Shitposting is the real Turing test

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2 years

Chess is a game of perfect information - the pieces are all on the board, and their rules are set in stone and largely unchanged for 500 years. This means, however, that positions can have objective valuations, where one side is clearly “better” or “worse”. (3/15)

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The singularity won’t happen because even it can’t figure out it’s own python env management

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@tunguz

1 year

AGI will be built with Python. Let that sink in.

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I ❤️ public goods - excited to be a judge for the first Attestation Fellowship program!

Ethereum Attestation Service

@eas_eth

4 months

Announcing the Attestation Fellowship! 🎉 It's a 6-week builder program taking promising attestation founders from idea stage to demo day in front of leading ecosystem partners. Apply to the inaugural batch!

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@0xMasonH

2 years

I just stole the Rune of Wealth, pls don't take it from me thx

WINTΞR 💙💛

@w1nt3r_eth

2 years

Here's a story about a project I really enjoyed building. A few months ago I had an idea: what if there was an NFT collection that can't be bought with money, but needs to be earned with skill and dedication? ↓

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Computers have become better at chess than humans ever will, because they have an easier time foreseeing all possible branches from positions, and picking the next move that will lead to a better chance of winning. (4/15)

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3 years

The FWB community is a really special place. From participating in the hackathon to AMAs and local meetups, I've never seen a group so aligned, friendly, and trustworthy. Thankful for the opportunity to work with @alexxzzhang @LauraTJD and many others

carra.eth

@carrawu

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gm. The rumors are true! We have invested in @FWBtweets , a DAO that has become the de facto home of web3’s growing creative class.

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@0xMasonH

2 years

@blauyourmind Thats 42,537 unique wallets that minted for our shared love of ethereum. This community is incredible!

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@0xMasonH

3 years

Auditors can choose how much they want to underwrite. This is a signal to the rest of the community indicating the strength of their conviction. Similarly, auditors can withdraw their principal at any time, which could be seen as a negative signal.

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@0xMasonH

1 year

Started turning on auto-shazam when I’m at a place with a great DJ and have never looked back. True life hack

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@0xMasonH

4 months

UK crypto friends - reach out if you want to co-work on Wednesdays in our new London office!

jaydrainjr.eth

@jay_drainjr

4 months

Liz and I are finally settled in London (!) and the @a16zcrypto office has LOTS of room for visitors 👀 if you’re a crypto founder, operator, or engineer based in London, come co-work with us in our Soho office on Wednesday afternoons. you’ll have coffee, food, and quite…