What newborns and new startups have in common: Sleepless nights, endless doubt, and sudden breakthroughs

Brandon Donnelly 🇨🇦 @donnelly_b Traffic is horrible in Toronto and it will only get better once we fully embrace a post-car future. Everyone driving around most of the time just isn't going to work for a city region of our scale. 132 11:29 AM • Apr 24, 2025 We talk a lot about mobility and traffic congestion on this blog — particularly in the context of Toronto — and that's because it remains a problem and we continue to avoid any sort of big and meaningful moves. Instead, we like to politi...

For the first time in history, visual art has a social layer. This post explores how NFTs and networked platforms have transformed art from something private and niche into something people can share, remix, and build community around. Drawing comparisons to music, gaming, books, and sports, it reflects on how distribution models drive cultural connection and why we are still early in art’s evolution.

MegaETH walks the talk with Crossy FluffleThese days, new blockchains highlight how fast they are with TPS (transactions per second) to show what they’re capable of. However, nothing beats showing vs. telling. Last week MegaETH launched Crossy Fluffle, inspired by the popular Crossy Road mobile game. Like Frogger, players have to get their Fluffle bunny character as far as possible in 1 minute. The way the MegaETH team showed it was also notable:Each move is a transaction, reflected in the lo...

This morning I had a surgical procedure to fix an inguinal hernia. This afternoon I am sitting at home writing this post. While not quite “waving a tricorder” this is a massive testament to medical progress. Also right up front: thanks to everyone at Weill Cornell Medical Center for being not just incredibly professional but also super friendly. And thanks to Gigi Danziger for being there from start to finish! As it turns out I can judge how much progress this represents from personal experie...

The proposal seeks to test raising the Ethereum mainnet gas limit to 150 million by the Fusaka hard fork.

A ZK protocol designed to scale zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) compute across chains.

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To build a global onchain economy, we need to scale to keep gas fees under one cent. Our goal for 2025 is to reach a gas target of 250 Mgas/s — a 100x increase from where we started. In Q1, we hit a major milestone: 25 Mgas/s, 10x from launch. We’re now on track to reach 50 Mgas/s by the end of Q2. This quarterly review provides a status update of critical scaling bottlenecks, and our progress towards eliminating them.

A month ago, I launched Tortoise, a music collective and product studio built on Farcaster. There were three main pieces of this launch:Deployed the Tortoise Token ($TORT) Launched the Tortoise Player, a Farcaster mini app for streaming, sharing, and collecting music Released a song called Vains on the Tortoise PlayerA ton of work went into this launch, and it was quite successful. The project took over the timeline on launch day, $TORT did over a million USD in volume, and most importantly, ...