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Ethereum 2026: Moving Beyond Obsession with Mainstream Adoption—Vitalik Bets on Trustlessness
1+ hour, 37+ min ago (1284+ words) Renew the Spirit, Reveal the Worth Navigating Web3 tides with focused insights 2026 is the year we decide that mainstream adoption at the expense of core values is not worth it. "Good enough" decentralization is not good enough. Users deserve something better…...
2026 Consensus: The Silent Rise
18+ hour, 32+ min ago (226+ words) Renew the Spirit, Reveal the Worth Navigating Web3 tides with focused insights Background and Purpose: Cutting Through the Noise to Build Substance Yet builders are overwhelmed by a sea of conferences and face core pain points: resource misallocation, superficial hype, and…...
Privacy, Pitched: A Midnight Founders Night at Consensus HK
3+ day, 23+ hour ago (207+ words) Renew the Spirit, Reveal the Worth Navigating Web3 tides with focused insights This is NOT a hackathon or sprint camp'it's a carefully curated, "conversation-first" networking party, held on the eve of Consensus Hong Kong, offering founders an optimal opportunity for deep,…...
Doubao Phone Makes a Comeback: From “Being Surrounded and Suppressed” to “Counter-Surrounding and Counter-Suppressing”
1+ week, 1+ day ago (1312+ words) Renew the Spirit, Reveal the Worth Navigating Web3 tides with focused insights Doubao isn't aiming to build smartphones'it aims to become the entry point for all hardware. On January 26, at Tencent's annual meeting, Pony Ma made a rare public comment on…...
Zcash Founder on Privacy, Artificial Intelligence, and How ZEC Can Become the “Encrypted Bitcoin”
1+ week, 2+ day ago (1603+ words) Renew the Spirit, Reveal the Worth Navigating Web3 tides with focused insights The Second Half of Cryptocurrency: Returning from Techno-Worship to the Cypherpunk Vision Translated by: Baihua Blockchain Over a decade after cryptocurrency's inception, we stand at a delicate crossroads: on…...
The End of DeFi Legos: Vaults Left with Nothing but Deposits
1+ week, 2+ day ago (1557+ words) Renew the Spirit, Reveal the Worth Navigating Web3 tides with focused insights Products should serve the network, not roles. Binance has partnered with USD1. Exchanges no longer assess token listings solely by "trading volume." Instead, Binance monetizes its largest real-world user base…...
ClawdBot Founder Says “Will Never Launch a Token”; Meme Trench Goes into Panic
1+ week, 3+ day ago (880+ words) Renew the Spirit, Reveal the Worth Navigating Web3 tides with focused insights Meme coins have evolved from "deifying," "riding on the coattails of," to "tying themselves to" deities. On January 25, an open-source AI assistant named ClawdBot went viral. You've likely seen…...
Clawdbot—the “Greatest AI Application to Date”—May Not Be for You
1+ week, 3+ day ago (1585+ words) Renew the Spirit, Reveal the Worth Navigating Web3 tides with focused insights AI employees are wonderful, but they remain "dangerous" at this stage. Over the past weekend48 hoursyou may have inadvertently missed a viral AI Agent product: Clawdbot. If you were still…...
a16z: Behind the Palantir-ification of Everything, a Doomed Imitation
2+ week, 5+ day ago (1500+ words) Renew the Spirit, Reveal the Worth Navigating Web3 tides with focused insights TechFlow Editorial: Silicon Valley is caught in a "Palantir-ization" frenzy'AI startups are emulating Palantir by sending engineers to client sites, delivering highly customized services, and closing seven-figure deals. Marc…...
Nikita Bier's Profile: Why He Stood Up to InfoFi—Perhaps You Can Find the Answer Here
2+ week, 5+ day ago (1588+ words) Renew the Spirit, Reveal the Worth Navigating Web3 tides with focused insights Banning InfoFi is equivalent to Bier clearing the path for X's crypto ambitions. I've been following Nikita Bier since around 2023 when I started working on social product entrepreneurship. When…...