The greatest challenges in life are the ones we face within ourselves. Overcome them and grow stronger.

Dreams don’t work unless you do. Start small, stay focused, and success will follow.

Sometimes the hardest battles are within yourself. Facing them is the key to true personal growth and peace.

A well-timed joke can brighten the darkest day. Laughter truly is the best medicine for the soul.

Reading books opens new worlds. You can travel anywhere, live countless lives, and escape reality.

If you can’t find the sunshine, be the sunshine. Light up the world with positivity and kindness.

Ethereum

Farcaster

What gets Farcaster DAUs back on track?

Rain 100000 $DEGEN

thank you, ∟ 

https://github.com/djrtwo/writing/blob/main/docs/2024-09-13_goodbye-for-now.md

i am legit impressed they managed to make a spacesuit which looks like a pair of pajamas

Zora

Big little detail: 

We made it easy to save posts to your camera roll. 

Just tap the menu in the top right of a post.

Indexing is key to great Ethereum apps. But it's harder than it should be! 

Here's how we made ours work & what we'd like to see in the future

Indexing is key to great Ethereum apps. But it's harder than it should be! 

Here's how we made ours work & what we'd like to see in the future

https://daimo.com/blog/posts/less-terrible-ethereum-indexing

Music

Every time I listen to Melodrama it's even better than I remembered. Unbelievable stuff.

IMHO, L2Beat's/Vitalik's Stages are incomplete. For Stage 2, in addition, 

- Alternate sequencing triggered within 1 epoch (i.e. 6.4 minutes). Currently, Optimism is 12 hours, which is not acceptable (preferably, there's real-time distributed sequencing) 
- Security council has pause rights only; upgrades even for onchain provable bugs must go through governance, emergency path with >X% approval

Then, there should be an optional Stage 3, or Stage X, where:

- Based or based-like sequencing is mandated
- Security council is dissolved
- Smart contracts upgrades require >Y% (80%?) approval from the protocol's full governance, in addition to >30d delay

For big-tent high-value L2s like Arbitrum One, Stage 3 should be the target. For most, Stage 2 should be perfectly fine, and even Stage 1 enough for many lower-value app-specific L2s.

In the past, I've mentioned many times that upgrade rights to Security Council are not good enough for Stage 1, and that they should only come with freeze or pause rights. That's why I cannot recommend anyone use Arbitrum One or OP Mainnet despite being Stage 1 according to L2Beat. Glad to see that is the case for ZKSync. In addition, I'd like to see an elected Security Council for Stage 1, a unilaterally selected Security Council is also not good enough. (E.g. OP just held its first elections, hope ZKSync will do so soon) 

I have also expressed my opinion on some aspects of Stage 2 being not good enough, you can see that here: https://warpcast.com/polynya/0x6131e8f0

(Disclaimer: I hold some $ZK tokens and am a delegate for both ZK Nation and OP Collective)

In the past, I've mentioned many times that upgrade rights to Security Council are not good enough for Stage 1, and that they should only come with freeze or pause rights. That's why I cannot recommend anyone use Arbitrum One or OP Mainnet despite being Stage 1 according to L2Beat. Glad to see that is the case for ZKSync. In addition, I'd like to see an elected Security Council for Stage 1, a unilaterally selected Security Council is also not good enough. (E.g. OP just held its first elections, hope ZKSync will do so soon) 

I have also expressed my opinion on some aspects of Stage 2 being not good enough, you can see that here: https://warpcast.com/polynya/0x6131e8f0

(Disclaimer: I hold some $ZK tokens and am a delegate for both ZK Nation and OP Collective) 

https://x.com/TheZKNation/status/1834256567316705674

EclipseDreamer

@eclipsedreamer