Mad G @madGstack

@mowsenia @sabrinaliuuuu @evarodriguez_m @IOHK_Charles @MidnightNtwrk @Midnight_City Interesting perspective Most discussions focus on scalability and payments, but agent-to-agent interactions will require much deeper infrastructure. Privacy, identity, and trust layers could end up being the real moat.

Midnight definitely has a compelling case. AI agents will need more than payments they'll need privacy, identity, selective disclosure, and secure coordination. Those are exactly the kinds of challenges Midnight is designed to address.

Bro the head of the hood science dept

@mowsenia @WeThemMediaHQ @Pizza_DAO People focus on “imagine holding 10,000 BTC.” I think the bigger story is this: Someone was willing to spend it. That’s what turned Bitcoin from an experiment into something real 🍕😅😅

1. 16 years ago, someone spent 10,000 BTC on 2 pizzas. At the time? Probably just internet money + pizza. Today? It’s remembered as the moment money started getting… strange 🍕 A thread on why Bitcoin Pizza Day still matters ↓

@NikosKatsikanis @oprydai we won't use paint, see tesla robotaxi

Master Piece project, this is what AI orchestation should look like

cyborg @wuod__odhis

2 months ago

Powered by @nosana_ai, running on decentralized infra, with a persistent memory graph that learns my baselines. 🔗 GitHub: github.com/WuodOdhis/foun… 🔗 Nosana deployment: …igmgkxhiawomdki3d.node.k8s.prd.nos.ci #NosanaAgentChallenge @nosana_ai

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Conor Deegan @conordeegan

2 months ago

What quantum actually breaks 🧵 On March 31st @GoogleQuantumAI published updated resource estimates showing that breaking 256-bit elliptic curve cryptography requires roughly 20 times fewer physical qubits than previously thought, and hours later a team from @TeamOratomic and

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1/ Ream Weekly Sync #66 is a wrap! 🧵 A lighter week post-EthCC & travel, but solid progress across testing infra, network stability, and community outreach. Here's what went down 👇

.@drakefjustin: “Client diversity has saved Ethereum multiple times.” But what really stuck was: “There is a potential outcome here where it’s not quite quantum computers that break ECDSA, it’s actually AI.” “And so part of the rush… is not just to make Ethereum post-quantum secure, but it’s also to make it post-AI secure.”

Africa's digital asset moment is here, and regulation is leading the way → on.ripple.com/3NN6YdR $205B+ in onchain value. 52% YoY growth. South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, and Mauritius are all moving towards comprehensive crypto frameworks. Clear regulation enables innovation. 🌍

Ethereum is used to upgrading with 100% uptime and has been doing it for 10 years straight. The quantum threat is not just a Bitcoin or Ethereum threat, it’s a threat for everything online. And the @ethereumfndn looks forward to working with the entire technical world to survive it together. All led by the incredible @tcoratger, @corcoranwill & @drakefjustin.

Bankless @Bankless

2 months ago

LIVE NOW - Nic Carter: Bitcoin Has 3 Years to Survive the Quantum Threat Bitcoin may be heading into its first true existential governance test. @nic_carter is back on Bankless to talk through: - Why the latest Google quantum paper changes the threat model for Bitcoin, - why

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@Etherealize_io Building a Quantum Readiness Platform, check it out, more in v2: pqbeat.vercel.app

Ethereum Researcher Justin Drake, who co-authored Google's recent quantum paper: "I've stopped thinking about post-quantum as a hurdle that we have to overcome, and I think of it more as an opportunity. It's an opportunity for Ethereum to stand out as the very first global financial system that is post-quantum secure — not just relative to its competitors, but also relative to fiat and tradfi." Justin also believes quantum presents an opportunity for Ethereum to become the best version of itself: “The move to post-quantum is essentially a rewrite, and that’s a massive opportunity to start with a clean slate and wipe our technical debt.” The rewrite bundles post-quantum security with a new ZK virtual machine (LeanVM) that can snarkify the entire consensus layer in real time. The result is that the Ethereum L1 can scale to 10,000 TPS at 1 gigagas/second — while simultaneously becoming quantum-secure. Source: @Bankless (Mar 2026)

Etherealize @Etherealize_io

2 months ago

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@Taryl_Ogle AFC

Africa is the epicenter of mobile money globally. Over $1.4 trillion was processed across the continent last year — ⅔ of the worldwide total. But ~92% of that was in just two regions: East & West Africa. While Africa is indeed the mobile money continent, its sub-regions have fundamentally different profiles — in scale, structure, and use case. Here's an overview: • East Africa is the continent's volume king: $800B+ processed, 61 billion transactions, but just $13 sent on average → mobile money as everyday infrastructure • West Africa is the services leader: 76 live services, ~$500B processed → the most competitive market on the continent • North Africa moves money differently: only $15B processed in total, but the continent's highest average value per transaction → mobile money as niche product for high-value, less-frequent transfers • Central Africa is the emerging market's emerging market: strong growth rates, infrastructure being laid, white space opportunity • Southern Africa is the paradox: Africa's most developed banking sector — particularly in South Africa — keeps mobile money adoption low despite relative wealth But even within regions there's significant diversity. Ghana 🇬🇭, for example, is often cited as West Africa's leading mobile money market — with high per capita usage, a deep telco-led ecosystem, plus the #1 ranked mobile money regulatory environment in the world per the GSMA. Nigeria 🇳🇬, on the other hand, has historically been a mobile money laggard, but is now catching up fast — mobile money transaction volumes are up over 1,500% since 2021, driven by non-telco platforms like @OPay_NG, @PalmPay_NG, and @Paga. The lesson: there's no such thing as an 'Africa mobile money strategy.' Market characteristics matter, and a ground-level understanding can mean the difference between significant ROI and wasted effort. Socrates advised: 'know thyself.' But on the continent, as elsewhere: know thy market — and thy customer. Everything else follows. --- Afridigest Intelligence — real intelligence to win in Africa's growth markets: afridigest.com/intelligence

Saw some people panicking or asking about quantum computing's impact on crypto. At a high level, all crypto has to do is to upgrade to Quantum-Resistant (Post-Quantum) Algorithms. So, no need to panic. 😂 In practice, there are some execution considerations. It's hard to organize upgrades in a decentralized world. There will likely be many debates on which algorithm(s) to use, resulting in some forks. And some dead project may not upgrade at all. Might be a good to cleanse out those projects anyway. New code may introduce other bugs or security issues in the short term. People who self custody will have to migrate their coins to new wallets. This brings to the question of Satoshi's bitcoins. If those coins move, then it means he/she is still around, which is interesting to know. If they don't move (in a certain period of time), it might be better to lock (or effectively burn) those addresses so that they don't go to the first hacker who cracks it. There is also the difficulty of identifying all his addresses, and not confuse with some old hodlers. Anyway, it's a different topic for later. Fundamentally: It's always easier to encrypt than decrypt. More computing power is always good. Crypto will stay, post quantum.

Crypto firms in Kenya want lower capital requirements and simpler licensing rules, saying current rules could slow growth and push startups away. The current rules require up to Sh500 million in capital for stablecoin issuers.

@defyneric @raagulanpathy I see a situation where b2b offering dies as the cost of software has gone down, only liquidity becomes a barrier in some cases. Consumer might eat some b2b. Your thoughts?