small but impactful update for Porto devs at the bleeding edge we now ship a tiny chrome extension which let's you try out Porto on any app, see a swap on Base Mainnet below @_jxom cooked with this one 🐐

small but impactful update for Porto devs at the bleeding edge we now ship a tiny chrome extension which let's you try out Porto on any app, see a swap on Base Mainnet below @_jxom cooked with this one 🐐

two weeks off starting tomorrow, turbo recharge and then back in the lab for frontiers, reth terra gas & porto sprinting, epic year so far, let's make the 2nd half count; ping @mattsse_ & @jenpaff for OSS related matters, for everything else @loomdart

See you at Frontiers in August.

We are thrilled to announce that Agora has raised a $50 million Series A round, led by @paradigm and with additional participation from @dragonfly_xyz. This milestone enables us to accelerate the development of Agora’s full-stack platform for stablecoin infrastructure, purpose-built to support the next generation of digital finance applications. At Agora, our mission is to transform how money moves. We believe stablecoins will underpin a new financial fabric, one that is faster, more global, and more efficient than today’s siloed systems. That is why we are building AUSD and the Agora stack, a full service platform that makes issuing, managing, and integrating stablecoins seamless – whether you’re a developer, fintech, or institution. With AUSD, stablecoins become programmable, composable, and ubiquitous by default. Over the past year, we’ve shipped the foundational elements for AUSD, including: - Deep and robust onchain liquidity across 13 networks - Native deployments across @arbitrum, @avax, @BNBCHAIN, @Coredao_Org, @ethereum, @Immutable, @injective, @katana, @Mantle_Official, @0xPolygon, @solana, and @SuiNetwork. - Comprehensive integrations with exchanges and onramps - Secure, scalable minting and redemption flows. - Tens of billions in cumulative volume - 50,000+ monthly active addresses Dozens of customers like @nonco_otc, @flowdesk_co, @vaneck_us, @conduitxyz, @katana, @fslweb3, @plumenetwork already rely on Agora to power their stablecoin flows and infrastructure. Announcing White-Labeled Stablecoins for All Alongside our new partnership with Paradigm, we are entering the next chapter of Agora: deepening our connective tissue between both the onchain and fiat infrastructure layers. Today, we are excited to formally announce the launch of our white-labeled stablecoin product – a turnkey solution that enables enterprises and teams to instantly issue their own branded stablecoin in days, not months. No need to manage complex infrastructure, secure banking relationships, liquidity, or build from scratch – Agora handles it all. We were long believers that to truly build a platform you needed to start with building the network. Out of the box, partners get: - Institutional-grade custodians and asset management - Deep onchain liquidity - A robust stablecoin dashboard, analytics, and control - Forward thinking compliance architecture - CEX and DEX integrations - Local FX on and off ramps - Zero fees when minting with USDC/T - You control the rewards Agora’s white-label product empowers businesses to rapidly innovate, bypass traditional product constraints, and deliver customized financial services to their users efficiently and transparently. This significant step not only demonstrates Agora’s ongoing commitment to pioneering programmable digital finance but also positions us at the heart of the future digital economy. Learn more here: Why Now Stablecoins are no longer niche. They’ve become a foundational primitive for the future of finance and capital markets. But most companies still struggle to adopt them due to regulatory hurdles, technical gaps, and fragmented liquidity. Agora exists to change that. With the addition of Paradigm and Dragonfly’s continued support, Agora is building the infrastructure layer that abstracts away the complexity. We aim to foster an ecosystem where creating, managing, and integrating stablecoins becomes seamless so that every fintech, exchange, and enterprise can benefit from having its own stablecoin whether it be AUSD or newUSD – as a product feature, revenue growth lever, and strategic differentiator. Reach out to learn more here:

Why should Ethereum upgrades happen in big bundled 'hardforks' where node operators are forced to upgrade their nodes by a date? Why shouldn't nodes gate new features & only activate them after X% of stake signals activaton? Would allow us to move much faster.

Solidity + EVM has the best dev tooling to do static analysis, robust testing, formal verification. `vm.etch` is heaven.

SNARK PoW is more efficient than PoS. - higher gas limit bc no re-execution - faster blocks bc way less networking on the fork choice rule bc PoW doesn't have voting - zero amortised wasted energy/work by IVCing bundles of proven transactions instead of grinding nonces. - thinner and permissionsless MEV pipeline without relays Non trivial to build, but Ethereum has the best chance of harnessing its strengths because of its strong existing liquidity and mature DeFi ecosystem. Unstoppable because PoW with adaptive difficulty / throughput / gas to amount of ZK compute in the system. The moment you add PoW incentives to a system the function gets turbo optimized. In this case, proving EVM activity. Like SHA256 in Bitcoin this is how we will get ZKEVM ASICs. The cryptographic supercomputer will aggregate idle compute from everywhere in the world and translate it into decentralized trust. Ethereum.

I'm thrilled to share that I've joined @paradigm as an Investment and Research Partner! Over the past 2 years, I've helped protocols analyze their user activity to distribute over $5 billion in airdrops, and learned a few tricks along the way…

We’re excited to announce that @SoraSue77 will present a talk about Diamond iO on Tuesday, June 24, from 4:30 pm to 5:00 at the Obfuscation Workshop in Berkeley hosted by Simons Institute(@SimonsInstitute). (link below)