@VitalikButerin vitalik.eth
Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum, has been actively discussing and promoting various topics, including the importance of open-source and verifiable self-driving cars, the need for a culture of distinguishing between pocket money and long-term savings, and the significance of full-stack openness and verifiability. He also emphasized Ethereum's key property of incorruptibility, which ensures that even a 51% attack cannot make an invalid block valid. Additionally, he expressed excitement about the growth of layer [--] solutions, such as Base, and their potential to provide faster withdrawal times and improved security.
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Social Influence
Social category influence cryptocurrencies #262 finance #1830 technology brands stocks social networks countries celebrities exchanges events #1052 travel destinations
Social topic influence ethereum #17, if you, in the, ai, crypto #1570, twitter #1801, money, bitcoin, blockchain #873, decentralized #3
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @zengjiajuneth @robinhanson @arthurb @pourteaux @glenweyl @noahpinion @elonmusk @trustlessstate @nathanpmyoung @vitalikbuterin @thedevanshmehta @ethereumfndn @vladzamfir @el33th4xor @aisafetymemes @vgr @owocki @danrobinson @balajis @polymarket
Top assets mentioned Ethereum (ETH) Bitcoin (BTC) USDC (USDC) zkSync (ZK) Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)
Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"Self-custody is important. And social recovery and multisig is a great way to do it. A quick reddit post on how I think about choosing guardians for social recovery and multisig wallets: https://old.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/11tijiv/how_i_think_about_choosing_guardians_for_multisig/ https://old.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/11tijiv/how_i_think_about_choosing_guardians_for_multisig/"
X Link 2023-03-17T06:01Z 5.9M followers, 1.2M engagements
"I hope Zcash resists the dark hand of token voting. Token voting is bad in all kinds of ways (see ); I think it's worse than Zcash's status quo. Privacy is exactly the sort of thing that will erode over time if left to the median token holder. https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2021/08/16/voting3.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2021/08/16/voting3.html"
X Link 2025-11-30T09:31Z 5.9M followers, 1.2M engagements
"One metaphor for Ethereum is BitTorrent and how that p2p network combines decentralization and mass scale. Ethereum's goal is to do the same thing but with consensus. Another metaphor for Ethereum is Linux. * Linux is free and open source software and does not compromise on this * Linux is quietly depended on by billions of people and enterprises worldwide. Governments regularly use it. * There are many operating systems based on Linux that pursue mass adoption * There are Linux distributions (eg. Arch) that are highly purist minimalistic and technologically beautiful and focus on making the"
X Link 2026-01-08T06:46Z 5.9M followers, 435.6K engagements
"In [----] I plan to be fully back to decentralized social. If we want a better society we need better mass communication tools. We need mass communication tools that surface the best information and arguments and help people find points of agreement. We need mass communication tools that serve the user's long-term interest not maximize short-term engagement. There is no simple trick that solves these problems. But there is one important place to start: more competition. Decentralization is the way to enable that: a shared data layer with anyone being able to build their own client on top. In"
X Link 2026-01-21T08:02Z 5.9M followers, 601.4K engagements
"@RyanSAdams ETH is a store of value and one of the most important apps on ethereum"
X Link 2026-02-06T16:46Z 5.9M followers, 1.1M engagements
"@0xSisyphus Yeah and encouraging financially desperate people to gamble is bad because the likely outcome is that they become even more financially desperate"
X Link 2026-02-14T16:12Z 5.9M followers, 90.6K engagements
"@killerstorm @ciscoguru @zooko Nah dude the real smart money is going all in on Ixcoin"
X Link 2018-11-17T20:29Z 5.9M followers, [---] engagements
"We should put resources toward a proper (trustless serverless maximally Uniswap-like UX) ETH - BTC decentralized exchange. It's embarrassing that we still can't easily move between the two largest crypto ecosystems trustlessly"
X Link 2020-03-24T20:47Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"Congrats on the launch all"
X Link 2020-12-01T12:08Z 5.9M followers, 19.4K engagements
"Why we need wide adoption of social recovery wallets: https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/01/11/recovery.html https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/01/11/recovery.html"
X Link 2021-01-10T22:23Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"8. Twitter banning @sci_hub is sad. You should definitely NOT click this link to SciHub's telegram bot and violate the publishing cartels' god-given right to massive profits. https://telegram.me/scihubot https://telegram.me/scihubot"
X Link 2021-01-12T07:27Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"I'm more pessimistic about this now especially because of the PoS switch. We will need oracles. And if we want to make stablecoins robust to USD collapse (by switching to their own native CPI if that happens) we'll need more active governance"
X Link 2022-01-01T22:14Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"Amazing resource by @liamihorne on EIP-4844 (aka. proto-danksharding): https://www.eip4844.com/ https://www.eip4844.com/"
X Link 2022-03-19T13:51Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"My own EIP-4844 (aka. proto-danksharding) technical FAQ: https://notes.ethereum.org/@vbuterin/proto_danksharding_faq https://notes.ethereum.org/@vbuterin/proto_danksharding_faq"
X Link 2022-03-19T13:52Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"@NathanpmYoung @ESYudkowsky @slatestarcodex @eigenrobot @s8mb @robertwiblin @willmacaskill @moskov Good idea done"
X Link 2022-05-24T14:30Z 5.9M followers, [--] engagements
"What do you disagree with me the most on (followees can reply anyone else can quote tweet I'll read both)"
X Link 2022-06-05T02:54Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"My 40-liter backpack travel guide: https://vitalik.ca/general/2022/06/20/backpack.html https://vitalik.ca/general/2022/06/20/backpack.html"
X Link 2022-06-20T15:03Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"Agreeing with the proverb "those who most want to rule people are those least suited to do it" and supporting DAOs being run by transferable governance tokens is a contradiction. Transferable governance tokens are all about giving more power to "those who most want to rule""
X Link 2022-07-28T17:12Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"@slipscreen Triple vaxxed last dose [---] months before getting covid"
X Link 2022-09-08T16:49Z 5.9M followers, [--] engagements
"@AnthonyLeeZhang Put $7 into a 2-of-2 multisig and leave them having to negotiate taking it out"
X Link 2022-10-21T22:20Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"I propose the term "alfalfa leak" for something that doesn't give you an easy path to short term profit but is still ultimately good for you"
X Link 2022-12-05T14:58Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"@donnoh_eth @dankrad @daddysether @l2beat To me for something to qualify as L2 at all it must have a security property that is meaningfully stronger than a multisig even if it's not a rollup-like total guarantee. Validiums satisfy this. Optimiums can but require rigorous analysis of what the exact security gain is"
X Link 2024-01-17T23:25Z 5.9M followers, 30.2K engagements
"I'm feeling quite unhappy about with "this cycles celebrity experimentation" so far. "Financialization as a means toward an end" I can respect if the end is worthy (healthcare open source software art etc). Financialization as the final product 🤮 Ashton and Mila's Stoner Cats was vastly more honorable than anything we've seen from this [----] celebrity memecoin era - at least there was an actual show being funded. How do we push things in a better direction"
X Link 2024-06-05T09:47Z 5.9M followers, 1.2M engagements
"Against choosing your political allegiances based on who is "pro-crypto" https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/07/17/procrypto.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/07/17/procrypto.html"
X Link 2024-07-17T17:06Z 5.9M followers, 2.6M engagements
"@Neiro_Dog Charity donation done covering all animal coins from the past year or so That said I appreciate it if coin holdings just get allocated to the charities directly😊 It's [----] we can start doing more sophisticated public goods fun-ding eg. see https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/03/29/memecoins.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/03/29/memecoins.html"
X Link 2024-08-15T10:45Z 5.9M followers, 2.1M engagements
"@EthereanVibin ETH bullposting is good"
X Link 2024-09-11T04:15Z 5.9M followers, 1.1M engagements
"@not_qz @optimizoor People have mentioned it's on my queue to look into more deeply So far I'm still in my @fileverse arc I used it to write today's post https://radicle.xyz https://radicle.xyz"
X Link 2024-09-28T15:24Z 5.9M followers, 23K engagements
"Technically any currency is permissioned: you need permission from one existing holder to become a holder. This suggests that actually there is a continuous tradeoff space between the apecoin and zuvillage levels of permissionedness and we can imagine structures in the middle: where becoming a member requires permission from more than one existing member but it's nevertheless quite open. Eg. you could imagine a quadratic funding style mechanism weighted by existing membership points to accumulate membership points This is the sort of thing that I would love to see the @Optimism citizens'"
X Link 2024-10-21T08:47Z 5.9M followers, 42.6K engagements
"@BruestleJeremy Appreciate your work [--] MB of data in [--] second is 16k compression funcs per sec one more order of magnitude improvement and we're all set 😀"
X Link 2024-10-23T23:38Z 5.9M followers, 36.4K engagements
"@RyanSAdams @odin_free"
X Link 2024-10-31T05:34Z 5.9M followers, 177K engagements
"What I would love to see in a wallet: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/12/03/wallets.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/12/03/wallets.html"
X Link 2024-12-03T11:00Z 5.9M followers, 1.6M engagements
"ARS/USD is at exactly the same level as it was one year ago. Quite an impressive turnaround for a currency that was previously on a seemingly unstoppable road to hyperinflation. Inflation rates have also been decreasing quickly in recent months"
X Link 2024-12-12T06:56Z 5.9M followers, 771.2K engagements
"Left: the goal. Right: the means"
X Link 2025-01-05T17:16Z 5.9M followers, 295.3K engagements
"We do need better cause prioritization in ethereum core dev. Like if I had to choose between (i) the blob target increase from [--] to [--] and (ii) literally everything else in Pectra I would choose (i). What's the equivalent for Fusaka and G* (Obviously a big part of the answer is: blobs and blobs though I think L1 EVM improvements are important too my favorites are EOF - full AA via [----] and SIMD+EVMMAX plus moderate gas limit increases) We're doing peerdas. Maybe explore more ambitious versions of peerdas eg. https://notes.ethereum.org/NgKvvYiAQ7WdxPECCVdGUQ"
X Link 2025-01-08T15:02Z 5.9M followers, 653.1K engagements
"The @Soneium situation is a good live demonstration of how launching an ethereum L2 is great for businesses and users. Businesses can make very fine-grained choices around how much control they keep vs give to users. But whatever rules they choose that's what the rules are. Everything is onchain transparent and auditable by third parties. You can make a very closed system where there's no escape hatch and where the operator can edit the state root but then users will know exactly what they are getting into and @l2beat and armies of independent internet sleuths will help them. You can also"
X Link 2025-01-15T16:05Z 5.9M followers, 914.1K engagements
"@FesCrypto In Texas even female cows are free to self-identify as bullish"
X Link 2025-01-15T18:34Z 5.9M followers, 549.5K engagements
"@hasufl ". It's better to offend millions by standing aggressively for what you believe in than it is to try to keep everyone happy and end up standing for nothing. Be brave. Fight for your values. ." guess the source 😁"
X Link 2025-01-19T20:03Z 5.9M followers, 102.7K engagements
"@balajis Milady"
X Link 2025-01-25T16:56Z 5.9M followers, 108.6K engagements
"@ehnveee Milady"
X Link 2025-01-30T16:11Z 5.9M followers, 26.2K engagements
"L1 is scaling. A big shoutout to all the developers working on EIP-4444 (history expiry) statelessness (see the new binary tree EIP ) client efficiency upgrades and other features that will make higher L1 gas limits decentralization-friendly. https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/9257 Ethereum's gas limit is already up above [--] million. https://t.co/RODCBf4KFZ https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/9257 Ethereum's gas limit is already up above [--] million. https://t.co/RODCBf4KFZ"
X Link 2025-02-04T00:57Z 5.9M followers, 659.1K engagements
"@owocki @ameensol make communism great again Milady"
X Link 2025-02-12T20:20Z 5.9M followers, 4.9M engagements
"@ethereumfndn @alex_pertsev Privacy is normal and writing code is not a crime. Milady"
X Link 2025-02-26T11:03Z 5.9M followers, 124.4K engagements
"My own current privacy roadmap (much lighter on L1 changes but also more limited in its consequences): Highly encourage people to read both https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/a-maximally-simple-l1-privacy-roadmap/23459 "Make Ethereum Cypherpunk Again" isn't simply a slogan for me it's a statement of intent. This isn't branding. It's resistance. This isn't about playing nice. It's about reclaiming Ethereum's soul Look it's very simple: Ethereum must provide privacy unconditionally. Today https://t.co/purQVONXKX https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/a-maximally-simple-l1-privacy-roadmap/23459 "Make"
X Link 2025-04-11T01:32Z 5.9M followers, 562.9K engagements
"@dawangdege47536 @sapphycrypto @elidourado @ezraklein @DKThomp Here you go moo moo moo. Moo deng moo (cow) moonkin"
X Link 2025-04-25T01:42Z 5.9M followers, 460.6K engagements
"@lunar_mining but what if I like freedom and I also like the torch of reason"
X Link 2025-05-09T09:55Z 5.9M followers, 33.7K engagements
"A fun math aside on the idea of splitting a large zk proving workload between multiple provers. Suppose you have N provers and you have a proving workload that you split into N parts (so one part per prover). You require provers to pre-register but registration is open-access. Suppose you have a constant fault rate (eg. 1/5 of registered provers fail). Provers expect to complete in one round (eg. 3s). If one prover fails other provers have to come in and re-prove that load. How many rounds does it take for the entire workload to get proven Answer: log*(N) (yes that's the iterated-log"
X Link 2025-05-21T18:04Z 5.9M followers, 298.2K engagements
"Does digital ID have risks even if it's ZK-wrapped https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/06/28/zkid.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/06/28/zkid.html"
X Link 2025-06-28T09:35Z 5.9M followers, 349K engagements
"@chainyoda @pbrody This is why pragmatism is wrong. If something is unjust you have a duty to rebel this is more important than comfort. And so I often wash my clothes with my own bare hands"
X Link 2025-08-08T06:22Z 5.9M followers, 504.3K engagements
"Importantly low-risk defi is often very synergistic with a lot of the more experimental applications that we in ethereum are excited about"
X Link 2025-09-21T01:08Z 5.9M followers, 132.3K engagements
"Note that this was from 2007 a decade before his more recent shifts and two years before his quote "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible" (see where he claims to choose freedom. https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian/ https://gwern.net/doc/politics/2007-thiel.pdf https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian/ https://gwern.net/doc/politics/2007-thiel.pdf"
X Link 2025-10-03T00:03Z 5.9M followers, 167K engagements
"Kohaku code and roadmap Full-stack privacy and security are first-class priorities in Ethereum. 8/ We aim to have a demo ready by @EFDevcon Our code is free for all to use worldwide. Find it at : https://t.co/ZoHX2Cetiq https://t.co/ApF86vcd80 https://t.co/cHIw1oEkj4 Roadmap at : https://t.co/R2dKD9vHPj 8/ We aim to have a demo ready by @EFDevcon Our code is free for all to use worldwide. Find it at : https://t.co/ZoHX2Cetiq https://t.co/ApF86vcd80 https://t.co/cHIw1oEkj4 Roadmap at : https://t.co/R2dKD9vHPj"
X Link 2025-10-09T08:19Z 5.9M followers, 490.6K engagements
"Excited to see how far Polymarket has come over these years. Prediction markets have improved a lot since the early days of Augur v1 in [----] and Polymarket has been the key driving force making this happen. Markets on everything. Were proud to announce that $ICE the owner of @NYSE and the largest exchange company in the world is making a strategic investment of $2 billion into Polymarket valuing us at $9 billion post-money. Our partnership with ICE marks a major step in https://t.co/oShaglRx9p Markets on everything. Were proud to announce that $ICE the owner of @NYSE and the largest exchange"
X Link 2025-10-10T03:29Z 5.9M followers, 758.5K engagements
"@DanFriedman81 @StaniKulechov @aave"
X Link 2025-10-11T04:45Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"@imdyingslowly @bryan_caplan me immortality and no AI risk are a pretty sweet deal though I'd be curious about the details of "no tech progress" eg. are we allowed to keep bugfixing the existing starship and eventually actually use it to do Mars colonies"
X Link 2025-10-18T04:13Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"I wish more ZK and FHE people would give their overhead as a ratio (time to compute in-cryptography vs time to compute raw) rather than just saying "we can do N ops per second" It's more hardware-independent and it gives a very informative number: how much efficiency am I sacrificing by making my app cryptographic instead of trust-dependent It's also often better for estimation because as a developer I already know how much time my computation takes to compute raw so I can just multiply. (Yes I know this is hard because the ops required are heterogeneous between executing and proving"
X Link 2025-10-18T05:28Z 5.9M followers, 316K engagements
"@inversebrah @odin_free @sandeepnailwal @0xPolygon @Polymarket @VitalikButerin"
X Link 2025-10-21T09:35Z 5.9M followers, 50.2K engagements
"@ittaia The key is that "breaking safety" is far from god power. You can revert finalized blocks (to some extent) but you can't eg. edit people's accounts and move their coins into your account"
X Link 2025-10-27T01:10Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"In general in this area people are way too overindexed on fancy stuff and underindexed on early detection testing (breathalyzer tests are now almost available) and cleaning the air (ventilation filters uvc). The goal isn't 100% effective per-person defense the goal is getting an order-of-magnitude reduction in R0. These things are pretty independent of the details of the actual virus (though of course you need the sequence to be able to make tests for it)"
X Link 2025-10-27T02:56Z 5.9M followers, 57.9K engagements
"@sassal0x you should also get air quality sensors and air filters our metabolism consumes [--] molecules of O2 for every molecule of glucose; air is invisible so it's easy to miss but it's also really important"
X Link 2025-11-03T14:43Z 5.9M followers, 57.5K engagements
"@random_walker I also agree with [--] out of [--] of these. I've expected for a while that the tasks that AI will take the longest time to reach human level are precisely the ones that are most illegible and difficult to put into metrics"
X Link 2025-11-12T19:10Z 5.9M followers, 39K engagements
"@Istvan_A_Seres General-purpose ZKPs are the transformers of crypto: one really powerful and really general technology that just washed away decades of application-specific hard work across dozens of domains. That and quantum which makes hash-based everything more appealing"
X Link 2025-12-17T21:36Z 5.9M followers, 45K engagements
"Given that there's such high demand for it this seems like the sort of thing that individual social media platforms could do without needing any agreement no In which case the problem is that social media is not competitive enough. So the real institutional problem is figuring out how to make social media more competitive. My best answer is adversarial interoperability. Someone should go make an alt client for these platforms that filters out bots (maybe also filter out nazis and auto-replace them with ideologies that are funnier) put in the work to maintain it even in the face of the"
X Link 2025-12-25T08:25Z 5.9M followers, 51.7K engagements
"I still have no idea how to get those tickets intentionally; in my case back then I went to the wrong train station ( instead of ) and I only noticed [--] min before departure so I was looking around visibly confused and a kid ran up and offered to help get me a new ticket in exchange for [---] usd; all the seats on the trains were taken so from what I could tell it took him significant negotiation to get the ticket I still feel very grateful to him more people should do that"
X Link 2025-12-31T19:44Z 5.9M followers, 43.8K engagements
"@MazMHussain"
X Link 2025-12-31T19:53Z 5.9M followers, 111.2K engagements
"@heymarcopolox Milady"
X Link 2026-01-30T11:41Z 5.9M followers, 32.7K engagements
"@alpeh_v What's an example of a major political action of a major world government in the last five years that was motivated by rationalism (Either lesswrong-style or even more broadly)"
X Link 2026-02-01T11:06Z 5.9M followers, 34.8K engagements
"I think there's a fundamental difference between "speculation backed by speculation" and "speculation backed by feedback from some high-quality signal (ideally reality itself) on reasonably short time periods". Ponzis are the former and if you make something that is the former then yeah it's a ponzi. If you make something that is the latter then to a first approximation you have some hope of instead getting the benefits of a stock market. What I'm advocating is more like "ISAs for creators" than it is like creator coins as they have been done so far. The ultimate buyer that backs the"
X Link 2026-02-01T13:55Z 5.9M followers, 36.2K engagements
"@post_polar_ That sounds like a posh social club in downtown SF funded by tech venture capitalists that's desperately trying to astroturf alcohol into being an avant-garde countercultural cool thing and larps as a network state"
X Link 2026-02-08T10:48Z 5.9M followers, 41.4K engagements
"# 1: : * . * / . . 90- 00- 10- . [----] . [--] ( ) [----] . * 1990- . . . * . New York Times. : (1992) (1994-2000) (2008) . . * 80% . (i) - (ii) [----] (iii) [----] 51% 80% . : [----] . [----] . . ( ): : [----] [--] . . : [----] . . . . . : . ; . ( ) [--] () . . - . "
X Link 2026-02-12T12:49Z 5.9M followers, 122.3K engagements
"# 2: . ( ) : ( ) . . . . - - . ( : ) . . [------] . . . . - : . : * . * . * ; ; 1000- . . . . [--] . ( ) ICE . . . : . 70% 30% . 70% 30% * 30%: . * 70%: . * ( ) : 70% * 70% . .. . . . ( : ). . ( ) . : ."
X Link 2026-02-12T12:49Z 5.9M followers, 74.6K engagements
"Not clear. Most such professions have de-jure or de-facto exemptions for working on yourself and so using AI may be classified as "working on yourself but using a different kind of new tool". Of course this depends on the tool/service distinction in practice such things are decided in part by relevant actors' interests etc; there's a stronger case for the argument if you're using open-weights local AI vs a proprietary model hosted only by the creator. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021960982881611914 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021960982881611914"
X Link 2026-02-12T14:53Z 5.9M followers, 27.2K engagements
"@glenweyl Yeah I agree with this"
X Link 2026-02-12T18:38Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"Amazing to see @AragonProject leading the way in bringing privacy to governance. Privacy is normal. In elections. In boardrooms. In governance. But onchain Its been missing. For the first time private voting at scale is now possible fully onchain with @PrivacyEthereum the team building @zkMACI and Aragon. https://t.co/3UvuyOMowu Privacy is normal. In elections. In boardrooms. In governance. But onchain Its been missing. For the first time private voting at scale is now possible fully onchain with @PrivacyEthereum the team building @zkMACI and Aragon. https://t.co/3UvuyOMowu"
X Link 2025-08-20T12:15Z 5.9M followers, 300K engagements
"why does it matter if there are no intermediate nodes you're still going up from storing 64n bytes for the raw data (assuming 32-byte keys and values) to storing 96n bytes Is it that the bottom layer is only 64*n now If so you can get the same benefit in a "regular" merkle tree by just storing adjacent pairs of leaf nodes together and recomputing the hash every time (only one extra hash computation per branch and you save half the data)"
X Link 2025-08-27T14:09Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"Complexity is a big cost and easy to underrate. And for most use cases to date the privacy property has not been needed. Though I expect this will change soon; at the very least quantum will require us to switch to STARK proving even for client-side privacy apps. Though even before the greater efficiency of STARKs has a lot of advantages"
X Link 2025-08-27T22:53Z 5.9M followers, 35.2K engagements
"@secparam Metaculus's median date for when quantum computers will break modern cryptography is 2040: Seemingly about a 20% chance it will be before end of [----]. https://www.metaculus.com/questions/3684/when-will-a-quantum-computer-running-shors-algorithm-or-a-similar-one-be-used-to-factor-one-of-the-rsa-numbers-for-the-first-time/ https://www.metaculus.com/questions/3684/when-will-a-quantum-computer-running-shors-algorithm-or-a-similar-one-be-used-to-factor-one-of-the-rsa-numbers-for-the-first-time/"
X Link 2025-08-27T23:17Z 5.9M followers, 34.9K engagements
"@chris_j_paxton western SF is great to stay in the problem is it's so hard to get to"
X Link 2025-08-28T13:49Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"@theZeugh @chris_j_paxton house prices (both buy and rent) go up to like a bazillion dollars it's good for incumbents but no one else plenty of studies that density is good for enabling wealth and productivity which is upstream of having more resources to solve basically any social problem"
X Link 2025-08-28T13:56Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"This is basically left-Balajism @balajis 😁 I think one of the better reasons why this stuff has often been considered right-coded so far (there are many bad reasons too) is that doing things like this requires a lot of sophistication and inconvenient personal choices eg. it's much easier to rally [----] people from across the internet than in one city and if you do the former people have to move to join the thing. This makes it only accessible to a limited demographic and not the people most in need of it. Though some overrate the extent to which that is a knockdown argument eg. many people"
X Link 2025-08-29T22:11Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"@ATabarrok Because the housing market is not about housing it's an obfuscated market for a sort of NFT that contains a weird bundle of various rights including a city residence permit"
X Link 2025-08-30T21:06Z 5.9M followers, 49.7K engagements
"My off-the-cuff guess (low confidence) is that what El Salvador is doing is actually smarter than what CT thinks: * Used addresses are quantum-vulnerable because the ECDSA pubkey is leaked unused addresses are quantum-resistant because they're secured by hashes * The reason to split into multiple unused accounts is a UX convenience it lets you spend coins from one account without leaking the pubkey for the others * Yes the "correct" way to do this is to have a deterministic wallet and put change into a new address. But this is actually not so simple: to be able to pre-generate new addresses"
X Link 2025-08-31T12:17Z 5.9M followers, 44.3K engagements
"I'll take the open borders side Also in a more "alliances and sentiment" way focusing on high-level philosophical points. (I'm pragmatic on the actual issue - I'll gladly take compromises like "if a non-citizen even shoplifts they are immediately thrown out" if that means two more law-abiding people get to come) Some moralisms on the restrictionist side that I really dislike are: * Framing forcing more open immigration as coercive and putting up walls to prevent people from peacefully crossing a border to trade labor as not coercive. To me the latter is clearly the more coercive thing (I'm"
X Link 2025-08-31T22:33Z 5.9M followers, 37.4K engagements
"@louisvarge die medically or information-theoretically I assign nonzero probability to earth - die - cryo - revive - interstellar"
X Link 2025-09-01T02:22Z 5.9M followers, 90.3K engagements
"Isn't a bunch of the episodes like "investigate a distress call sent out by some other group that ran into a problem" The enterprise has a 99% survival rate on these missions precisely because they're the hotshots and have the big guns. The ensigns are the ones who went in before them offscreen"
X Link 2025-09-01T03:07Z 5.9M followers, 29.3K engagements
"2026 is the year that we take back lost ground in terms of self-sovereignty and trustlessness. Some of what this practically means: Full nodes: thanks to ZK-EVM and BAL it will once again become easier to locally run a node and verify the Ethereum chain on your own computer. Helios: actually verify the data you're receiving from RPCs instead of blindly trusting it. ORAM PIR: ask for data from RPCs without revealing which data you're asking so you can access dapps without your access patterns being sold off to dozens of third parties all around the world. Social recovery wallets and timelocks:"
X Link 2026-01-16T18:32Z 5.9M followers, 570.9K engagements
"How I would do creator coins We've seen about [--] years of people trying to do content incentivization in crypto from early-stage platforms like Bihu and Steemit to BitClout in [----] to Zora to tipping features inside of decentralized social and more. So far I think we have not been very successful and I think this is because the problem is fundamentally hard. First my view of what the problem is. A major difference between doing "creator incentives" in the 00s vs doing them today is that in the 00s a primary problem was having not enough content at all. In the 20s there's plenty of content AI"
X Link 2026-02-01T13:42Z 5.9M followers, 540.9K engagements
"RT @benjaminion_xyz: Right who wants to talk about Fast Finality on Ethereum We're figuring out where the theoretical meets the practica"
X Link 2026-02-17T15:20Z 5.9M followers, [---] engagements
"@R_Tyler_Smith @RyanSAdams I think it originated on /r/buttcoin. As I remember the vocab there: bitcoin - buttcoin ETH - mETH (or "etherbutts" or "ethere-ho-hum") IOTA - IdIOTA ETC - classic mETH me - Vitalik Butterin (two t's)"
X Link 2020-06-10T21:27Z 5.9M followers, [---] engagements
"@zhusu Personally I hope that doge can switch to PoS soon perhaps using ethereum code. I also hope they don't cancel the 5b/year annual PoW issuance instead they put it in some kind of DAO that funds global public goods. Would fit well with dogecoin's non-greedy wholesome ethos"
X Link 2021-09-02T01:12Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"Happy new year Today a mini-tweetstorm of some of the things I've said and written over the past decade and what I think about those subjects today"
X Link 2022-01-01T22:13Z 5.9M followers, 45.9K engagements
"My argument for why the future will be multi-chain but it will not be cross-chain: there are fundamental limits to the security of bridges that hop across multiple "zones of sovereignty". From https://old.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/rwojtk/ama_we_are_the_efs_research_team_pt_7_07_january/hrngyk8/ https://old.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/rwojtk/ama_we_are_the_efs_research_team_pt_7_07_january/hrngyk8/"
X Link 2022-01-07T17:13Z 5.9M followers, 24.3K engagements
"What are the craziest and most unhinged criticisms of me you've seen on twitter or elsewhere Here are a few good ones I wonder what else people have seen that I haven't"
X Link 2022-01-13T21:17Z 5.9M followers, 16.1K engagements
"Getting some confirmations from a couple sources that it's legit. Deleting my warning for now. But continue to be vigilant and always be slow and careful when sending irreversible crypto transactions. @Ukraine To follow up on @VitalikButerin's tweet I've confirmed directly with Ukrainian Ambassador @olex_scherba that the addresses are correct and in the control of the Ukrainian govt. Give Defending free and open societies may be the best thing we ever do with our BTC and ETH. @Ukraine To follow up on @VitalikButerin's tweet I've confirmed directly with Ukrainian Ambassador @olex_scherba that"
X Link 2022-02-26T16:24Z 5.9M followers, 20.5K engagements
"@visegrad24 Please be careful. [--] years ago one of the Russians getting a Western visa was me along with my family. This gave my dad a chance to start a great business and gave me a chance to grow up without the influence of zombie ideology. We should not throw such possibilities away"
X Link 2022-04-27T17:47Z 5.9M followers, 16.9K engagements
"Pro-tip: if you're "tired of having to explain the same thing [---] times" on the internet write an article that explains your view clearly in long-form Then in the future you and others who see the issue the same way can just keep linking to it"
X Link 2022-06-07T11:21Z 5.9M followers, 15.2K engagements
"Is there any economic research on how morale affects economic growth It feels like everyone agrees that in military contexts morale is absolutely critical. So surely it should have a significant impact in regular life too. But I haven't seen anyone trying to talk about this"
X Link 2022-07-16T08:23Z 5.9M followers, 12.2K engagements
"The terminal total difficulty has been set to [-----------------------]. This means the ethereum PoW network now has a (roughly) fixed number of hashes left to mine. predicts the merge will happen around Sep [--] though the exact date depends on hashrate. https://bordel.wtf https://bordel.wtf"
X Link 2022-08-12T12:48Z 5.9M followers, 20.4K engagements
"Normalize saying "dub" (instead of "double-yoo") as the name of the letter W. All letters deserve a one-syllable name"
X Link 2022-09-12T16:58Z 5.9M followers, 15K engagements
"Looks like the "hashrate will drop weeks before the merge due to miners rushing to sell ahead of everyone else" thesis has been proven completely false. I'm a bit surprised I argued against a 50% drop but definitely expected like 5-10%"
X Link 2022-09-14T17:05Z 5.9M followers, 11.6K engagements
"It's okay to hate the fact that X is a monopoly and desperately wish for more competition to emerge but at the same time not hate X as a whole and even believe that X is made up of largely good people"
X Link 2022-12-13T21:41Z 5.9M followers, 16.3K engagements
"What do I think about Community Notes https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/08/16/communitynotes.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/08/16/communitynotes.html"
X Link 2023-08-16T02:49Z 5.9M followers, 23.9M engagements
"What else could memecoins be https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/03/29/memecoins.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/03/29/memecoins.html"
X Link 2024-03-29T08:59Z 5.9M followers, 3.5M engagements
"My current views: [--]. Superintelligent AI is very risky and we should not rush into it and we should push against people who try. No $7T server farms plz. [--]. A strong ecosystem of open models running on consumer hardware are an important hedge to protect against a future where value captured by AI is hyper-concentrated and most human thought becomes read and mediated by a few central servers controlled by a few people. Such models are also much lower in terms of doom risk than both corporate megalomania and militaries. [--]. Splitting into "small" and "large" categories exempting small and"
X Link 2024-05-21T12:10Z 5.9M followers, 427.7K engagements
"Prediction markets and Community Notes are becoming the two flagship social epistemic technologies of the 2020s. Both truth-seeking and democratic built around open public participation rather than pre-selected elites. I want to see many more things like this"
X Link 2024-07-02T10:55Z 5.9M followers, 1.2M engagements
"Happy 9th birthday Ethereum Looking forward to seeing what the next decade brings"
X Link 2024-07-30T04:47Z 5.9M followers, 1.2M engagements
"I think people will be surprised by how quickly "cross-L2 interoperability problems" stop being problems and we get a smooth user experience across the entire ethereum-verse (incl L1 rollups validiums even sidechains). I'm seeing lots of energy and will to make this happen"
X Link 2024-08-05T10:21Z 5.9M followers, 1.8M engagements
"@AraBalaghi Quantum computing is the incentive if nothing else. EOAs will be dead in the long-term future whether we like it or not because quantum computing will eventually break ECDSA"
X Link 2024-10-18T12:49Z 5.9M followers, 135K engagements
"@betolip @NeoCallss @Hexologist31 the ticker is ETH"
X Link 2024-10-26T00:08Z 5.9M followers, 1.8M engagements
"One part of L2 scaling is Ethereum increasing its blob capacity. The other part is rollups becoming more data-efficient. Good to see @Starknet rising to the challenge. Would love to see more EVM rollups increasing data efficiency too (see ) https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/10/17/futures2.html#3 Demand for Ethereum blobs is steadily increasing surpassing the target blob rate. We've introduced our first solution to this challenge: Starknet v0.13.3 Blob gas on Starknet is now 5x cheaper; already live on Testnet and expected to go live on Mainnet this week. https://t.co/EUeyTrjcnv"
X Link 2024-11-18T12:22Z 5.9M followers, 1.3M engagements
"@sgoldfed Regular reminder to L2s that are not you and @Optimism: If you want to get mentioned in examples instead of me just ping-ponging between optimism and arbitrum over and over again get to stage [--] (and have sufficient security audits to justify it). It's that simple. 😊"
X Link 2024-12-03T11:57Z 5.9M followers, 115.8K engagements
"Scaling Ethereum L1 and L2s in [----] and beyond https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/01/23/l1l2future.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/01/23/l1l2future.html"
X Link 2025-01-24T04:38Z 5.9M followers, 2.8M engagements
"The more I think about it the more I think 2013-era morality is pretty much correct: * free speech good * starting companies and making good products good * monopolies bad vendor lock-in bad * democracy good * greed bad * trying to achieve national security through oppressing people bad * cosmopolitan humanitarian values caring about faraway people etc good Things we've "learned" since then have been harmful more than helpful"
X Link 2025-02-05T19:01Z 5.9M followers, 1.4M engagements
"Thank you to everyone to has given their kind support over the last few weeks"
X Link 2025-02-09T06:59Z 5.9M followers, 924.4K engagements
"Simplifying the L1 https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/05/03/simplel1.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/05/03/simplel1.html"
X Link 2025-05-03T07:03Z 5.9M followers, 1.3M engagements
"Privacy was always the true alpha. Privacy is the new alpha Privacy is the new alpha"
X Link 2025-05-04T04:32Z 5.9M followers, 1M engagements
"@WiraTwins23 @tobyordoxford or you can have some peaceful moo animals"
X Link 2025-05-09T07:55Z 5.9M followers, 151.7K engagements
"Ethereum L1 is the world ledger. Ethereum Layer [--] will be the master ledger for the 🌎🌍🌏. Permissionless to inspect use and add data or functionality to. Credibly neutral. Censorship resistant. Tamper resistant and tamper evident (via slashing and transparency). Incessantly progressively decentralizing Ethereum Layer [--] will be the master ledger for the 🌎🌍🌏. Permissionless to inspect use and add data or functionality to. Credibly neutral. Censorship resistant. Tamper resistant and tamper evident (via slashing and transparency). Incessantly progressively decentralizing"
X Link 2025-06-20T12:22Z 5.9M followers, 1.1M engagements
"My response to AI 2027: The AI [----] post is high quality I encourage people to read it at I argue a misaligned AI will not be able to win nearly as easily as the AI [----] scenario assumes because it greatly underrates our ability to protect ourselves especially given the (pretty magical) technologies that the authors admit will be available in [----] in their scenario. https://ai-2027.com/ https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/07/10/2027.html https://ai-2027.com/ https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/07/10/2027.html"
X Link 2025-07-10T18:17Z 5.9M followers, 368.7K engagements
"Amazing to see so many major L2s now at stage [--]. The next goal we should shoot for is in my view fast (1h) withdrawal times enabled by validity (aka ZK) proof systems. I consider this even more important than stage [--]. Fast withdrawal times are important because waiting a week to withdraw is simply far too long for people and even for intent-based bridging (eg. ERC-7683) the cost of capital becomes too high if the liquidity provider has to wait a week. This creates large incentives to instead use solutions with unacceptable trust assumptions (eg. multisigs/MPC) that undermine the whole point"
X Link 2025-08-06T16:29Z 5.9M followers, 850.3K engagements
"These days I get much more excited about open-weights AI models with good editing functionality than those that are just for creating from scratch"
X Link 2025-08-11T10:42Z 5.9M followers, 105.6K engagements
"This is a good decision and I respect it. Not every business should be trying to appeal to many customers as possible in the name of "not being maximalist". We need the stubborn ones who believe in their cause and their tribe and see their work as a labor of love to it. Poll suspended. Our allegiance is with Bitcoiners. You have spoken. Who even allowed this I'm back at my desk. - Steaktoshi Poll suspended. Our allegiance is with Bitcoiners. You have spoken. Who even allowed this I'm back at my desk. - Steaktoshi"
X Link 2025-10-12T04:27Z 5.9M followers, 438.2K engagements
"Excited to see @brevis_zk's Pico Prism entering the ZK-EVM proving arena An important step forward in ZK-EVM proving speed and diversity. Announcing Pico Prism the state-of-the-art zkVM for Ethereum real-time proving. 99.6% of blocks proven under [--] seconds 6.9s average with [--] RTX [----] GPUs. This marks a major step toward scaling Ethereum by 100x and a future where you can validate the chain from a phone. https://t.co/nroP8A8Q9H Announcing Pico Prism the state-of-the-art zkVM for Ethereum real-time proving. 99.6% of blocks proven under [--] seconds 6.9s average with [--] RTX [----] GPUs. This"
X Link 2025-10-15T12:07Z 5.9M followers, 938.3K engagements
"I really appreciate both @sandeepnailwal's personal contributions and @0xPolygon's immensely valuable role in the ethereum ecosystem. To recap: * Polygon hosts @Polymarket which is probably the single most successful example of a "not just boring finance" app that has actually been successful and provided value. * Polygon has also hosted plenty of other applications that have needed high levels of scalability. * Polygon put a lot of resources into ZK-EVM proving early on both by bringing in Jordi Baylina's team and through other efforts and greatly helped in moving the space forward. *"
X Link 2025-10-21T01:56Z 5.9M followers, 1.3M engagements
"We need open source and verifiable self-driving cars"
X Link 2025-11-02T14:11Z 5.9M followers, 674.7K engagements
"Agree on this. I'd also add the moral argument that sandwiching is theft. So: * If "code is law" morally then the sandwichers are playing a fair game and the hackers are too. * If "code is not law" then the sandwichers themselves are the thieves and the hackers are heroes. The idea that the hackers alone are the ones committing evil seems like a needle thread precisely to exonerate wealthy financial exploiters while throwing the legal hammer at those who dare challenge them. I'm glad it's being challenged"
X Link 2025-11-04T11:13Z 5.9M followers, 49.4K engagements
"Galaxy brain resistance: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/11/07/galaxybrain.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/11/07/galaxybrain.html"
X Link 2025-11-07T21:21Z 5.9M followers, 1.6M engagements
"Prediction about this "show which country the account is from" thing: In the short term it will have lots of positive effects. In the medium term the sophisticated actors will find ways to pretend to be from countries that they are not. Lots of ways to rent individual people's passports phone numbers IP addresses etc. Getting a million accounts with fake location will be medium-hard getting a single account with fake location and then getting it to a million followers will be easy. In six months the actually-random Eurasian country-based political troll accounts with names like "Defend"
X Link 2025-11-23T21:54Z 5.9M followers, 459.6K engagements
"@elonmusk I think you should consider that making X a global totem pole for Free Speech and then turning it into a death star laser for coordinated hate sessions is actually harmful for the cause of free speech. I'm seriously worried that huge backlashes against values I hold dear are coming in a few years' time"
X Link 2025-12-09T11:27Z 5.9M followers, 493.1K engagements
"Table of contents:"
X Link 2025-12-17T19:06Z 5.9M followers, 19.3K engagements
"Some lessons from Zuzalu:"
X Link 2025-12-17T19:06Z 5.9M followers, 14.9K engagements
"The easy ability to call @grok on twitter is probably the biggest thing after community notes that has been positive for the truth-friendliness of this platform. The fact that you don't see ahead of time how grok will respond is key here - I've seen many situations where someone calls on grok expecting their crazy political belief to be confirmed and grok comes along and rugs them"
X Link 2025-12-25T09:37Z 5.9M followers, 1.2M engagements
"@rstormsf Done. Re-posting the contents for public consumption:"
X Link 2026-01-09T06:51Z 5.9M followers, 97.5K engagements
"@IntCyberDigest TIL Anna's Archive"
X Link 2026-01-22T21:02Z 5.9M followers, 46.4K engagements
"RT @dannyryan: Thank you @tkstanczak 🙏 And welcome Bastian 🔥 Bastian is the single most thoughtful and wise person I have ever worked wit"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:35Z 5.9M followers, [--] engagements
"Travel time = distance [---] https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/04/14/traveltime.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/04/14/traveltime.html"
X Link 2023-04-14T07:14Z 5.9M followers, 1M engagements
"The one comment I'll make is that I feel bad that @solana and other projects are getting hit in this way. They don't deserve it and if ethereum ends up "winning" through all other blockchains getting kicked off exchanges that's not an honorable way to win and in the long term probably isn't even a victory. This is especially true since the real competition is not other chains it's the rapidly expanding centralized world that is imposing itself on us as we speak. I wish all honorable projects a fair outcome in this whole situation"
X Link 2023-06-30T05:00Z 5.9M followers, 1.5M engagements
"All L2s should be working on (trustless merkle-proof-based) CCIP resolvers so that we can have ENS subdomains registerable updateable and readable directly on L2s. ENS is super-important it needs to be affordable https://docs.ens.domains/dapp-developer-guide/ens-l2-offchain https://docs.ens.domains/dapp-developer-guide/ens-l2-offchain"
X Link 2024-01-03T13:37Z 5.9M followers, 1.9M engagements
"The promise and challenges of crypto + AI applications: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/01/30/cryptoai.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/01/30/cryptoai.html"
X Link 2024-01-30T11:23Z 5.9M followers, 3.7M engagements
"@dcinvestor If I did not believe in ETH as SOV I would not hold 90% of my net worth in it"
X Link 2024-08-27T15:04Z 5.9M followers, 1.1M engagements
"@toghrulmaharram If I could time capsule orbit SSF DAS 32-bit STARKs ERC-4337 rollups and plasma back to [----] then yes we would be in nirvana by now"
X Link 2024-09-27T03:41Z 5.9M followers, 27.5K engagements
"Making Ethereum alignment legible https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/09/28/alignment.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/09/28/alignment.html"
X Link 2024-09-28T08:48Z 5.9M followers, 1.2M engagements
"@KhaokheowZoo Thanks for the warm welcome to the family and your work for wild animals I'm happy to be adoptive father to Moo Deng as she grows up over the next 2y and support her with my 10M THB donation maybe more as I set aside [--] ETH for🦛+ frens. May they live long and prosper🖖🏻"
X Link 2024-12-26T11:53Z 5.9M followers, 1.5M engagements
"We are indeed currently in the process of large changes to EF leadership structure which has been ongoing for close to a year. Some of this has already been executed on and made public and some is still in progress. What we're trying to achieve is primarily the following goals: * Improve level of technical expertise within EF leadership * Improve two-way communications and ties between EF leadership and the ecosystem actors old and new that it is our role to support: users (individual and institutional) app devs wallets L2s * Bring in fresh talent improve execution ability and speed * Become"
X Link 2025-01-18T15:16Z 5.9M followers, 7.4M engagements
"No. This is not how this game works. The person deciding the new EF leadership team is me. One of the goals of the ongoing reform is to give the EF a "proper board" but until that happens it's me. If you "keep the pressure on" then you are creating an environment that is actively toxic to top talent. Some of Ethereum's best devs have been messaging me recently expressing their disgust with the social media environment that people like you are creating. YOU ARE MAKING MY JOB HARDER. And you are decreasing the chance I have any interest whatsoever in doing "what you want". Milady."
X Link 2025-01-21T12:29Z 5.9M followers, 5.2M engagements
"@devanshmehta @Pericarus @binji_x @juanbenet @ethereumfndn @Filecoin @Grimezsz"
X Link 2025-02-10T18:55Z 5.9M followers, 35.2K engagements
"AI as the engine humans as the steering wheel: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/02/28/aihumans.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/02/28/aihumans.html"
X Link 2025-02-28T22:10Z 5.9M followers, 346.1K engagements
"Going to prison for the rest of your life over non-violent tax offenses is absurd. The case against Roger seems very politically motivated; like with @RealRossU there have been plenty of people and corporations who have been accused of far worse and yet faced sentences far milder than what Roger is facing. The argument that the flashlight on him is motivated by things he said (namely his advocacy of freedom and refusal to accept legitimacy of coercive state power) seems compelling. This is worth standing against because selective prosecution for unrelated offenses is a common way of"
X Link 2025-03-01T11:00Z 5.9M followers, 1.1M engagements
"What Ethereum needs is a lot of young blood who shared the cypherpunk vision. All OGs are jaded. Its on the next generation now. hearing so many eth ogs say they havent heard of me is sad but heres a short bio for them: Im a normal girl who likes having fun online with her internet friends yippie :) hearing so many eth ogs say they havent heard of me is sad but heres a short bio for them: Im a normal girl who likes having fun online with her internet friends yippie :)"
X Link 2025-03-01T11:42Z 5.9M followers, 2.6M engagements
"Welcome back @dannyryan Im thrilled to announce that Im joining as a cofounder of @etherealize_io to help onboard the world to Ethereum Ill be at the helm of the ship alongside @vivekventures and the incredible team he is building Im thrilled to announce that Im joining as a cofounder of @etherealize_io to help onboard the world to Ethereum Ill be at the helm of the ship alongside @vivekventures and the incredible team he is building"
X Link 2025-03-01T15:08Z 5.9M followers, 860.1K engagements
"Welcome to the full-EVM stage [--] gang @base We are not losing momentum this week - Base is now Stage [--] on L2BEAT 💗 [----] is truly the year of Stage [--] rollups What does it mean for Base 🤔👇 https://t.co/1pwKcQ1gFM We are not losing momentum this week - Base is now Stage [--] on L2BEAT 💗 [----] is truly the year of Stage [--] rollups What does it mean for Base 🤔👇 https://t.co/1pwKcQ1gFM"
X Link 2025-04-30T13:23Z 5.9M followers, 292.1K engagements
"On idea-driven ideas https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/08/12/ideas.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/08/12/ideas.html"
X Link 2025-08-12T11:29Z 5.9M followers, 163.3K engagements
"The fully-backwards-compatible (you can say apple Rosetta style) version is that we finally add real account abstraction (ie. EIP-7701 or similar) and then convert existing EOAs into smart contract accounts that have VM logic that supports all those tx types. So they get backwards compatibility and anyone with a newer tx type can act like all that stuff never existed"
X Link 2025-09-06T19:36Z 5.9M followers, 33K engagements
"Low-risk defi can be for Ethereum what search was for Google https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/09/21/low_risk_defi.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/09/21/low_risk_defi.html"
X Link 2025-09-20T22:02Z 5.9M followers, 1.9M engagements
"Fusaka will fix this. But also safety first is of the utmost importance for Fusaka. The core feature PeerDAS is trying to do something pretty unprecedented: have a live blockchain that does not require any single node to download the full data. The way PeerDAS works is that each node only asks for a small number of "chunks" as a way of probabilistically verifying that more than 50% of chunks are available. If more than 50% of chunks are available then the node theoretically can download those chunks and use erasure coding to recover the rest. In the first version there are two cases where the"
X Link 2025-09-24T22:46Z 5.9M followers, 444.7K engagements
"Regular reminder: A key property of a blockchain is that even a 51% attack cannot make an invalid block valid. This means even 51% of validators colluding (or hit by a software bug) cannot steal your assets. However this property does not carry over if you start trusting your validator set to do other things that the chain does not have control over - at that point 51% of validators can collude and give a wrong answer and you don't have any recourse"
X Link 2025-10-26T02:34Z 5.9M followers, 600.6K engagements
"ZKsync has been doing a lot of underrated and valuable work in the ethereum ecosystem. Excited to see this come from them https://t.co/mbanFBPMVe https://t.co/mbanFBPMVe"
X Link 2025-11-01T07:32Z 5.9M followers, 1.5M engagements
"Incorruptibility is Ethereum's most important property. Ethereum is incorruptible home Ethereum is incorruptible home"
X Link 2025-11-01T14:24Z 5.9M followers, 1.4M engagements
"Ethereum is scaling. 🚨🥧 We just recorded a new Ethereum Ecosystem TPS record: [----] TPS today at 14:37 UTC https://t.co/J9XFDXjs4y 🚨🥧 We just recorded a new Ethereum Ecosystem TPS record: [----] TPS today at 14:37 UTC https://t.co/J9XFDXjs4y"
X Link 2025-11-04T17:31Z 5.9M followers, 681.6K engagements
"For voting ZK does not offer coercion resistance you do need trusted party MPC FHE TEE for that. But what you can do is layer ZK and eg. FHE together so that even if the FHE breaks you still have every property except coercion resistance due to the ZK. I suspect a similar thing applies for almost every other usecase of crypto-other-than-ZK (you should stack it with ZK so that you get ZK-level guarantees for as many apps / as much data as possible)"
X Link 2025-11-10T19:35Z 5.9M followers, 63.4K engagements
"Encrypted messaging like @signalapp is critical for preserving our digital privacy. Two important next steps for the space are (i) permissionless account creation and (ii) metadata privacy. @session_app and @SimpleXChat are two messaging apps pushing these directions forward. For this reason I've donated [---] ETH to each. Addresses available on their websites if you wish to follow on: But also actually download and use them Neither of the two are perfect pieces of software they have a way to go to get to truly optimal user experience and security. Strong metadata privacy requires"
X Link 2025-11-26T22:06Z 5.9M followers, 931.2K engagements
"You can just build on L1. Ethereum transaction fees are dirt cheap and have been for all of [----] Due to client optimizations and hard drives becoming cheaper the gas limit ("block size") will continue to go up and keep tx fees cheap Return To Mainnet https://t.co/hu3PPJl3xK Ethereum transaction fees are dirt cheap and have been for all of [----] Due to client optimizations and hard drives becoming cheaper the gas limit ("block size") will continue to go up and keep tx fees cheap Return To Mainnet https://t.co/hu3PPJl3xK"
X Link 2025-11-30T19:14Z 5.9M followers, 1.4M engagements
"PeerDAS in Fusaka is significant because it literally is sharding. Ethereum is coming to consensus on blocks without requiring any single node to see more than a tiny fraction of the data. And this is robust to 51% attacks - it's client-side probabilistic verification not validator voting. Sharding has been a dream for Ethereum since [----] and data availability sampling since [----] ( ) and now we have it. That said there are three ways that the sharding in Fusaka is incomplete: * We can process O(c2) transactions (where c is the per-node compute) on L2s but not on the ethereum L1. If we want to"
X Link 2025-12-03T22:15Z 5.9M followers, 363.6K engagements
"We need a good trustless onchain gas futures market. (Like a prediction market on the BASEFEE) I've heard people ask: "today fees are low but what about in [--] years You say they'll stay low because of increasing gaslimit from BAL + ePBS + later ZK-EVM but do I believe you" An onchain gas futures market would help solve this: people would get a clear signal of people's expectations of future gas fees and would even be able to hedge against future gas prices effectively prepaying for any specific quantity of gas in a specific time interval"
X Link 2025-12-06T12:19Z 5.9M followers, 574.9K engagements
"An important and underrated form of trustlessness is increasing the number of people who can actually understand the whole protocol from top to bottom. Ethereum needs to get better at this (by making the protocol simpler). wow @VitalikButerin proposed to follow the lead of @tinygrad and establish goal of max lines of code for ethereum spec wow @VitalikButerin proposed to follow the lead of @tinygrad and establish goal of max lines of code for ethereum spec"
X Link 2025-12-17T16:47Z 5.9M followers, 235K engagements
"My latest views on popups network states coordi-nations zones and where all of these things could lead us. (Long poast) https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/12/17/societies.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/12/17/societies.html"
X Link 2025-12-17T19:06Z 5.9M followers, 485.7K engagements
"Wonderland is a great team and has been very helpful in the Ethereum ecosystem including to the EF on interop and Kohaku and to many Ethereum projects. My startup @Wonderland is hiring [--] Senior Solidity developers. We work at the cutting edge of crypto. Theres no better place to get exposure to the coolest shit being built in this space. DM me you won't regret it RTs appreciated for reach. My startup @Wonderland is hiring [--] Senior Solidity developers. We work at the cutting edge of crypto. Theres no better place to get exposure to the coolest shit being built in this space. DM me you won't"
X Link 2025-12-17T22:38Z 5.9M followers, 203.1K engagements
"Crypto is building toward human empowerment as it has been since the beginning "Empowerment" was the code of the philosophy of the Pirate Party before crypto even existed. Crypto is building towards human empowerment as it has been since the beginning. Never lose sight of the mission at hand. Crypto is building towards human empowerment as it has been since the beginning. Never lose sight of the mission at hand"
X Link 2025-12-20T10:42Z 5.9M followers, 302.1K engagements
"I have thought for a while that if anyone wants to spin up yet another "new AI lab because the existing ones are not good for humanity" they should have an explicit binding charter to focus on human-augmentation tools and not build anything with [--] min time horizon autonomy Even if all the arguments about safety end up wrong ASI companies pursuing Maximum Autonomy Now are a dime a dozen the human augmentation niche ("don't build skynet build mecha suits for the mind") is underserved. Also pls make it open source as much as possible."
X Link 2025-12-29T13:49Z 5.9M followers, 196.8K engagements
"Balance of power https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/12/30/balance_of_power.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/12/30/balance_of_power.html"
X Link 2025-12-31T01:54Z 5.9M followers, 440.5K engagements
"Welcome to [----] Milady is back. Ethereum did a lot in 2025: gas limits increased blob count increased node software quality improved zkEVMs blasted through their performance milestones and with zkEVMs and PeerDAS ethereum made its largest step toward being a fundamentally new and more powerful kind of blockchain (more on this later) But we have a challenge: Ethereum needs to do more to meet its own stated goals. Not the quest of "winning the next meta" regardless of whether it's tokenized dollars or political memecoins not arbitrarily convincing people to help us fill up blockspace to make"
X Link 2026-01-01T14:41Z 5.9M followers, 1.4M engagements
"Now that ZKEVMs are at alpha stage (production-quality performance remaining work is safety) and PeerDAS is live on mainnet it's time to talk more about what this combination means for Ethereum. These are not minor improvements; they are shifting Ethereum into being a fundamentally new and more powerful kind of decentralized network. To see why let's look at the two major types of p2p network so far: BitTorrent (2000): huge total bandwidth highly decentralized no consensus Bitcoin (2009): highly decentralized consensus but low bandwidth - because its not distributed in the sense of work being"
X Link 2026-01-03T21:07Z 5.9M followers, 1.3M engagements
"Ethereum was not created to make finance efficient or apps convenient. It was created to set people free This was an important - and controversial - line from the Trustless Manifesto ( ) and it is worth revisiting it and better understanding what it means. efficient and convenient have the connotation of improving the average case in situations where its already pretty good. Efficiency is about telling the world's best engineers to put their souls into reducing latency from [---] ms to 368ms or increasing yields from 4.5% APY to 5.3% APY. Convenience is about people making one click instead of"
X Link 2026-01-05T13:51Z 5.9M followers, 1.1M engagements
"I agree with maybe 60% of this but one bit that is particularly important to highlight is the explicit separation between what the poster calls "the open web" (really the corposlop web) and "the sovereign web". This is a distinction I did not realize until recently and I must admit the bitcoin maximalists were far ahead: a big part of their resistance to ICOs tokens other than bitcoin arbitrary financial applications etc was precisely about keeping bitcoin "sovereign" and not "corposlop". The big error that many of them made was trying to achieve this goal with either government crackdowns or"
X Link 2026-01-10T09:27Z 5.9M followers, 596.5K engagements
"We need better decentralized stablecoins. IMO three problems: [--]. Ideally figure out an index to track that's better than USD price [--]. Oracle design that's decentralized and is not capturable with a large pool of money [--]. Solve the problem that staking yield is competition Tracking USD is fine short term but imo part of the vision of nation state resilience should be independence even from that price ticker. On a [--] year timeline well what if it hyperinflates even moderately If you don't have (2) then you have to ensure cost of capture protocol token market cap which in turn implies protocol"
X Link 2026-01-11T07:33Z 5.9M followers, 190.2K engagements
"Ethereum itself must pass the walkaway test. Ethereum is meant to be a home for trustless and trust-minimized applications whether in finance governance or elsewhere. It must support applications that are more like tools - the hammer that once you buy it's yours - than like services that lose all functionality once the vendor loses interest in maintaining them (or worse gets hacked or becomes value-extractive). Even when applications do have functionality that depends on a vendor Ethereum can help reduce those dependencies as much as possible and protect the user as much as possible in those"
X Link 2026-01-12T07:56Z 5.9M followers, 900.5K engagements
"In [----] there was a vision: you can have permissionless decentralized applications that could support finance social media ride sharing governing organizations crowdfunding potentially create an entire alternative web all on the backs of a suite of technologies. Ethereum: the blockchain. The world computer that could give any application its shared memory. Whisper: the data layer. Messages too expensive for a blockchain that do no need consensus. Swarm: the storage layer. Store files for long-term access. Over the last five years this core vision has at times become obscured with various"
X Link 2026-01-14T06:32Z 5.9M followers, 498.4K engagements
"@aztecnetwork Privacy is freedom. Privacy is order. Privacy is progress. Milady"
X Link 2026-01-14T20:41Z 5.9M followers, 95.3K engagements
"Sounds a lil bit anti-islam but hey Fuck statements like this. Similarly fuck claiming that standing up for Gazans' West Bankers Lebanese Syrian people's right to live in peace and not get encroaching settlements constant drone strikes and bombs is antisemitic. And fuck claiming that standing up for Ukrainian people's right to live in peace and not be invaded is Russophobic. And fuck not even noticing the needless and extreme manmade suffering in Sudan Myanmar North Korea and elsewhere. And fuck the possibility that in the future statements like this will have to include a line for Greenland."
X Link 2026-01-15T20:56Z 5.9M followers, 212.2K engagements
"An important and perenially underrated aspect of "trustlessness" "passing the walkaway test" and "self-sovereignty" is protocol simplicity. Even if a protocol is super decentralized with hundreds of thousands of nodes and it has 49% byzantine fault tolerance and nodes fully verify everything with quantum-safe peerdas and starks if the protocol is an unwieldy mess of hundreds of thousands of lines of code and five forms of PhD-level cryptography ultimately that protocol fails all three tests: * It's not trustless because you have to trust a small class of high priests who tell you what"
X Link 2026-01-18T09:27Z 5.9M followers, 380.5K engagements
"We need more DAOs - but different and better DAOs. The original drive to build Ethereum was heavily inspired by decentralized autonomous organizations: systems of code and rules that lived on decentralized networks that could manage resources and direct activity more efficiently and more robustly than traditional governments and corporations could. Since then the concept of DAOs has migrated to essentially referring to a treasury controlled by token holder voting - a design which "works" hence why it got copied so much but a design which is inefficient vulnerable to capture and fails utterly"
X Link 2026-01-19T07:03Z 5.9M followers, 382.4K engagements
"2026 is the year we take back lost ground in computing self-sovereignty. But this applies far beyond the blockchain world. In [----] I made two major changes to the software I use: * Switched almost fully to (open source encrypted decentralized docs) * Switched decisively to Signal as primary messenger (away from Telegram). Also installed Simplex and Session. This year changes I've made are: * Google Maps - OpenStreetMap OrganicMaps is the best mobile app I've seen for it. Not just open source but also privacy-preserving because local which is important because it's good to reduce the number of"
X Link 2026-01-22T21:45Z 5.9M followers, 377.8K engagements
"The relationship between "institutions" and "cypherpunk" is complex and needs to be understood properly. In truth institutions (both governments and corporations) are neither guaranteed friend nor foe. Exhibit A: European Union seeking to aggressively support open source Exhibit B: European Union bureaucrats want Chat Control (mandatory encryption backdoors) Exhibit C: the Patriot Act (which we must note neither party now expresses much interest in repealing) Exhibit D: the US government is now famously a user of Signal Basically the game-theoretic optimum for an institution is to have"
X Link 2026-01-23T22:12Z 5.9M followers, 241.7K engagements
"I no longer agree with this previous tweet of mine - since [----] I have become a much more willing connoisseur of mountains. It's worth explaining why. First the original context. That tweet was in a debate with Ian Grigg who argued that blockchains should track the order of transactions but not the state (eg. user balances smart contract code and storage): The messages are logged but the state (e.g. UTXO) is implied which means it is constructed by the computer internally and then (can be) thrown away. I was heavily against this philosophy because it would imply that users have no way to get"
X Link 2026-01-26T01:35Z 5.9M followers, 402.4K engagements
"The scaling hierarchy in blockchains: Computation data state Computation is easier to scale than data. You can parallelize it require the block builder to provide all kinds of "hints" for it or just replace arbitrary amounts of it with a proof of it. Data is in the middle. If an availability guarantee on data is required then that guarantee is required no way around it. But you can split it up and erasure code it a la PeerDAS. You can do graceful degradation for it: if a node only has 1/10 the data capacity of the other nodes it can always produce blocks 1/10 the size. State is the hardest."
X Link 2026-01-27T01:51Z 5.9M followers, 182.3K engagements
"This morning I needed to check which addresses were signers on my multisig. I was on my phone and did not have the Safe app installed there. I realized that I could just look up my address on etherscan and use the "read contract" feature to get what I want directly. These are the kinds of additional UX benefits you get if your wallet or application is open source and passes the walkaway test. Giving users access to alternative options often helps in unexpected situations much more mundane than the Safe website "walking away" outright. (Of course this exact workflow will eventually have to"
X Link 2026-01-28T08:15Z 5.9M followers, 239.1K engagements
"I'll do the ill-advised thing and try to explain my own thought process and constraints (and possibly unadmitted cowardice) that guide when I do and don't speak on these kinds of political topics - and further down just say what some of my direct opinions are. It's [----] the careful route isn't getting us anywhere anymore might as well try being open. When it comes to hot political issues (not abstract questions like tax policy surveillance etc which it's actually easy to talk about I mean specific events that affect specific groups) I basically have three choices: [--]. Talk about none of them"
X Link 2026-01-28T10:56Z 5.9M followers, 261.1K engagements
"In these five years the Ethereum Foundation is entering a period of mild austerity in order to be able to simultaneously meet two goals: [--]. Deliver on an aggressive roadmap that ensures Ethereum's status as a performant and scalable world computer that does not compromise on robustness sustainability and decentralization. [--]. Ensures the Ethereum Foundation's own ability to sustain into the long term and protect Ethereum's core mission and goals including both the core blockchain layer as well as users' ability to access and use the chain with self-sovereignty security and privacy. To this end"
X Link 2026-01-30T07:59Z 5.9M followers, 637.8K engagements
"I actually don't think it's complicated. IMO the future of onchain mechanism design is mostly going to fit into one pattern: something that looks like a prediction market - something that looks like a capture-resistant non-financialized preference-setting gadget In other words: * One layer that is maximally open and maximizes accountability (it's a market anyone can buy and sell if you make good decisions you win money if you make bad decisions you lose money) * One layer that is decentralized and pluralistic and that maximizes space for intrinsic motivation. This cannot be token-based"
X Link 2026-02-02T06:21Z 5.9M followers, 319.9K engagements
"@satofishi Eurasia divisions (arguably even Eurasiafrica divisions) are arbitrary. You can make your own"
X Link 2026-02-02T08:41Z 5.9M followers, 88.4K engagements
"There have recently been some discussions on the ongoing role of L2s in the Ethereum ecosystem especially in the face of two facts: * L2s' progress to stage [--] (and secondarily on interop) has been far slower and more difficult than originally expected * L1 itself is scaling fees are very low and gaslimits are projected to increase greatly in [----] Both of these facts for their own separate reasons mean that the original vision of L2s and their role in Ethereum no longer makes sense and we need a new path. First let us recap the original vision. Ethereum needs to scale. The definition of"
X Link 2026-02-03T15:39Z 5.9M followers, 6.2M engagements
"Have been following reactions to what I said about L2s about [---] days ago. One important thing that I believe is: "make yet another EVM chain and add an optimistic bridge to Ethereum with a [--] week delay" is to infra what forking Compound is to governance - something we've done far too much for far too long because we got comfortable and which has sapped our imagination and put us in a dead end. If you make an EVM chain without an optimistic bridge to Ethereum (aka an alt L1) that's even worse. We don't friggin need more copypasta EVM chains and we definitely don't need even more L1s. L1 is"
X Link 2026-02-05T09:26Z 5.9M followers, 1M engagements
"Hyper-scaling Ethereum state by creating new forms of state: Summary: * We want 1000x scale on Ethereum L1. We roughly know how to do this for execution and data. But scaling state is fundamentally harder. * The most practical path for Ethereum may actually be to scale existing state only a medium amount and at the same time introduce newer forms of state that would be extremely cheap but also more restrictive in how you can use them. * In such a design the present-day state tree would over time become dominated by user accounts defi hub contracts code and other high-value objects while all"
X Link 2026-02-05T15:45Z 5.9M followers, 271.8K engagements
"If your goal is to reduce the extra overhead from the intermediate tree nodes then: * post ZK-EVM and BALs non-prover nodes will already be able to just hold the leaves no intermediate nodes * even provers can choose to not store the bottom k leaves of the tree at the cost of an extra 2**k re-hashing for each read/write (if k=log(log(n)) then you get 2x hashing overhead but reduce non-leaf storage needs by a factor of log(n)). Note that you need binary trees to really unlock maximum flexibility here"
X Link 2026-02-05T16:19Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"@ShieldedLabs Zcash good Zooko good Adding hybrid proof of stake good"
X Link 2026-02-06T16:35Z 5.9M followers, 186.3K engagements
"It's a good decision ENS names and records are a form of state that is central to the Ethereum ecosystem the state is limited in size and there is high value in it being as accessible as possible from anywhere. It's also a semi-financial application in the sense that buying and holding ENS names has a cost and ENS names can become very valuable objects. With the expanded scaling roadmap Ethereum L1 is the ideal place for these applications. More generally I expect that the optimal architecture for decentralized identity and social (the general space I see ENS being in) is to have this kind of"
X Link 2026-02-06T17:02Z 5.9M followers, 382.3K engagements
"I am capitulating I will call Twitter "X" from now on. "Tweet" becomes a generic term for messages on any platform that prioritizes short-form text content with X-like UX similar linguistically to "kleenex". Usage guide: * "Vitalik is only tweeting on Farcaster and Lens this year isn't it awful how much of an ivory tower elitist he is" * "Did you see Donald Trump's shocking new racist tweet on Truth Social" * "Back when I sent that in [----] it was a tweet and by this new definition it still is but now we can also refer to it ex-post as an X post" "Crypto Twitter" can remain as a set phrase"
X Link 2026-02-08T09:48Z 5.9M followers, 476.6K engagements
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