This year, every team except MB is hitting the field with their A-game. Last year's champs are out, proving East Bengal's win was nothing short of a miracle, aided by others playing with their reserves.

Authorities at Kempegowda Airport in Bengaluru have discovered a 15th-century bronze sculpture of Lord Mahavishnu, thanks to the Customs Intelligence Unit and the air cargo wing. A historical find!

Forget BookTok, I find my next read by browsing the aisles of second-hand bookstores.

Around 60,000 federal employees have stepped down, while over 10,000 USAID staff worldwide incurred a hefty $220M bill to return home after Musk placed them on administrative leave. Market disruptions and tariff concerns post-election have triggered significant layoffs in tech and other sectors, prompting them to exit the USA.

POV ur dating me, it’s almost valentine’s day, i’m obsessed with u

I’m in the warpcast wallet beta and it feels like a new era.

Payments are finally built into the internet browser.

this is why we need crypto

github sponsors / stripe crypto require a 90 day probation period before any funds are released to you

Mark Carney advises against simply divesting from issues, yet proceeds to sell farms tied to deforestation, seemingly without addressing the root problems.

A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.

shazow.net

Currently: WhatsABI

I actually like the storage model where everything is an account. Makes it pretty easy to pick up. Haven't written any programs yet though. 

The RPCs don't feel as robust. Using Helius, but calls are slower than on an EVM and have random failures from time to time so have to account for that.

Indexing is a huge pain because of the insane amount of transactions (good problem for the network). Took me about a week to build a token indexer that can even stay at head. Storage, and in turn costs, grow pretty quickly though.

Need to index myself because no good APIs available for consumer-oriented general-purpose token data. 

Before I even started the exploration, had so many EVM people telling me how much it sucks. And overall, it's honestly not bad at all. Most of the people talking negatively about Solana dev either (1) have never actually built anything there or (2) weren't around for EVM dev when it was the same age as Solana.

Posted some thoughts about building around Solana the other day. Only been a week, so I still have a lot to learn about the ecosystem

Check out what they've achieved:

1. Slashed employment opportunities
2. Driven up inflation
3. Diminished government service quality
4. Breached millions of Americans' privacy
5. Faced legal battles in multiple States
6. Weakened consumer safeguards
And...
7. Flouted the Constitution

WLFI successfully purchases Ondo utilizing blockchain innovation!

For all the NONSTOP WHINING about SHIPPING and WHAT DID YOU BUILD THIS WEEK the MERKLE TEAM in THE ULTIMATE ACT AGAINST THEIR OWN INTEREST GETTING FRAMES BUILT put that STUPID DEBUGGER IN A PLACE WHERE *ALL* YOUR NOTIFICATIONS ARE ALSO VISIBLE AND YOU HAVE TO ACTIVELY RESIST THEM WHILE YOU WORK, WHICH IS IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!

Consumer Crypto

Farcaster

announcement time: super is joining warpcast

we are joining forces with @dwr.eth and @v to build farcaster into the most important social network on the planet, together

farcaster has never been stronger and i’m grateful for everyone who helped us get here

below is the story and what is happening next

are the people who compete here for the little warpcast rewards payouts aware that X pays out multitudes .. like thousands of dollars? i guess its for the culture right? dont get me wrong i love farcaster but its interesting to see cause its definitely below minimum wage for the amount of work so its fascinating

good luck getting 5M impressions in 3 months as a smaller account

you can earn a reward on the warpcast leaderboard in the first week here with <1,000 followers

French cybersecurity company Riot, led by founder Benjamin Netter, has secured $30M in Series B funding, pushing its valuation past $170M. They're focused on educating organizations about cyber threats.

1/ I have a nuanced take on tariffs, as someone who actually imports/exports and has manufacturers in the U.S. and Canada for /humankind.

Originally when Trump was elected a lot of my manufacturing friends thought that he would get rid of the “de minimis” (which the media is referring to a loophole or subsidy). The de minimis rule outlined in the USMCA dictates that goods imported under $800 are not subject to tariffs. That means that Americans buying almost anywhere outside of the U.S. for goods under $800 are not subject to paying state taxes, because they’re paying for goods (incl. tax) to other countries. This gave a lot of room for Chinese manufacturers like SHEIN and Temu to dominate the market for fast fashion and home goods. 

However, me and my friends thought that he would get rid of the de minimis for *just China. It is unusual that he started with Canada and Mexico.

candid POV on US/Canada tariffs from a (great) founder of a consumer packaged goods company that imports/exports. recommended read.

Rawdogging Farcaster by posting no links, images, or quotes. No frames. No tickers. No channel. Just a raw dog.

Bridging the realms of cybersecurity and bug bounty hunting. Decoding digital defenses and uncovering vulnerabilities, one byte at a time.

CyberMerc

@crayon8f