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Ethereum, emerging technology and the people putting it to work.

Selected reading

From Crypto Twitter

Selected posts and the conversations behind them.

@StarkWareLtd · L2 governance

StarkWare reports support for exploring a different chain structure

StarkWare says 99.95% of voting power cast so far favors exploring an independent post-quantum L1 for Starknet. Voting remains open. The post describes support for exploration, rather than an announced migration.

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@ethdaily · Builder tools

Lighter's public devnet offers exchange-state access

ETH Daily reports an EVM-equivalent Lighter devnet powered by OpenVM, with synchronous access to Lighter Core accounts, balances, positions, orders and market data. It is a development environment; the post does not establish production readiness for new applications.

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@ValoraAnalitik · Regional fintech

Colombia's fintech discussion turns to planned investment

Valora Analitik reports expansion plans and greater competition in Colombian fintech, citing Colombia Fintech's president and discussing Revolut and Nu. The post describes investment plans and projections; those should be distinguished from money already deployed.

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@EFDevcon · Community

Devcon points builders toward infrastructure teams in Mumbai

Devcon says Kleros, Gnosis, Base, ENS and other supporters will be in Mumbai and invites builders to bring questions and ideas. The post offers a useful starting point for planning conversations with infrastructure teams.

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@KyleReidhead · Agent payments

x402 commentary needs a careful reading of transaction counts

Kyle Reidhead highlights x402 activity on Base, citing growth from 1.5 thousand to 138.5 million transactions across five quarters. His post also discloses a COIN holding. These are the author's figures and investment commentary, not an independently verified count of paying agents.

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@arbitrum · Builder events

Arbitrum invites founders to Singapore

Arbitrum announces Founder House in Singapore for October 23–25, in collaboration with Robinhood Chain, advertising $300,000 in prizes and grants. The original post links to registration; funding remains subject to the organizer's terms.

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@StarkWareLtd · Developer experience

Starkzap's download milestone is a developer signal

StarkWare says Starkzap has crossed 10,000 downloads and highlights wallets, swaps, lending, staking and bridging through one TypeScript SDK. Downloads indicate interest in the toolkit; they do not establish how many applications or people use it in production.

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@barnabemonnot · Ethereum roadmap

Ethereum's capacity outlook comes with a testnet condition

Barnabé Monnot forecasts close to 3.5 times more L1 capacity in the coming months if the final testnet fork goes well, alongside more room for blobs. This is a conditional outlook, not capacity already available to applications.

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@wysndbb · Central American payments

A remittance comparison puts payout reliability in the picture

Sun WU Kong discusses stablecoin remittance costs and payout completion, citing a Borderless report. The post explicitly notes that its bank-cost benchmark comes from an earlier quarter. That timing difference matters when interpreting the comparison; the figures are the author's report summary.

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@moonpay · Agent wallets

MoonPay shares participation figures for its PayBox hackathon

MoonPay reports more than 500 registered developers and more than 125 project submissions in its PayBox hackathon update. These are organizer-reported participation figures, rather than a count of products in production.

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