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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.

@barnabemonnot · Builders

Permissionless capability still needs usable tooling

@barnabemonnot distinguishes what Ethereum can support from what feels ready for users. He argues that an open protocol leaves application and tooling teams work to do, including shared standards that prevent fragmented account experiences.

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@chainlink · Institutions

Chainlink shares a Sibos conversation with DTCC

@chainlink shares a clip featuring Sergey Nazarov and DTCC’s Nadine Chakar at Sibos, with a follow-up linking their broader tokenization discussion. The post documents a conversation; it does not itself announce a new production integration.

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@jessepollak · AI & payments

Jesse Pollak’s agentic-finance positioning for Base

@jessepollak positions Base as infrastructure for agentic finance. The brief post states a direction; it does not announce a product release or provide trading-volume evidence.

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@barnabemonnot · Protocol & security

A validator chart needs a consolidation check

@barnabemonnot disputes a shared staking chart because it counts validator consolidations as exits, linking to beaconcha.in’s explanation. His point: check what a metric includes before interpreting it as validators leaving.

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@EFDevcon · Events

Devcon highlights its Sanctuary Tech Builders discount

@EFDevcon points developers, designers and others working on open, privacy-preserving, decentralized tools to the Sanctuary Tech Builders ticket discount. The original post links to the ticket page; it does not specify a discount amount.

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@ShutterNetwork · Privacy & governance

Shutter seeks funding for private, verifiable voting

@ShutterNetwork says it is participating in Octant Epoch 13 to fund work on private, verifiable voting for DAOs and real-world elections. This is a funding appeal and statement of intended work, not confirmation that an election system has been deployed.

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