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I agree with maybe 60% of this, but one bit that is particularly important to highlight is the explicit separation between what the poster calls "the open web" (really, the corposlop web), and "the sovereign web".
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This is a distinction I did not realize until recently, and I must admit the bitcoin maximalists were far ahead: a big part of their resistance to ICOs, tokens other than bitcoin, arbitrary financial applications, etc was precisely about keeping bitcoin "sovereign" and not "corposlop". The big error that many of them made was trying to achieve this goal with either government crackdowns or user disempowerment (keeping bitcoin script limited, and rejecting many categories of applications entirely), but their fear was real.
So what is corposlop? In essence, it is the combination of three things:
* Corporate optimization power
* An aura of respectableness of being a company with sleek polished branding
* Behavior that the exact opposite of respectable, because that's what's needed to maximize profit
Corposlop includes things like:
* Social media that maximizes dopamine, outrage, other methods of short-term engagement, at the expense of long-term value and fulfillment
* Needless mass data collection from users, often followed by managing it carelessly or even casually selling it to third parties
* Walled gardens charging monopolistic high fees and actively preventing people from even linking to other platforms
* Hollywood releasing the 7th sequel to some tired franchise, because that's the most risk-averse thing to do
* Every corporation that rallied around slogans of diversity and equity and the need to overturn society to fight racism in 2020, and then publicly mocked those causes for engagement in 2025
This is all digital corposlop; there are big and important analogues to this in the physical world too.
Corposlop is soulless: trend-following homogeneity that is both evil and lame vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/1…
These are things that appear to serve the user, but actually disempower the user.
I have many qualms with Apple, but aside from their monopolistic practices, they actually have many non-corposlop traits. They serve users not by constantly asking "what do users want this quarter", but by having an opinionated long-term vision. They have a strong emphasis on privacy. They resist and create trends rather than following them. I just wish they could take the brave step of ending their monopolistic practices and switch to an open source first strategy. It may damage their market cap, but man must live for something higher than market caps.
Zac from Aztec was also early to recognize the importance of this, with a post that is on the whole very pro-freedom, but at the same time does not shrink back from labeling what is essentially corposlop a primary enemy, even when it does not violate the libertarian non-aggression principle.
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In 2000, the understanding of "sovereignty" largely focused on avoiding the iron fist of government. Today, "sovereignty" also means securing your digital privacy through cryptography, and securing your own mind from corporate mind warfare trying to extract your attention and your dollars. It also means doing things because you believe in them, and declaring independence from the homogenizing and soul-sucking concept of "the meta".
These are the kinds of tools that we should build more of. Build tools like:
* Privacy-preserving local-first applications that minimize dependence on and data leaks to third parties
* Social media platforms and tools that let the user take control of what content they see. Appeal to people's long-term goals, not short-term impulses
* Financial tools that help users grow their wealth, and do not encourage 50x leverage or sports betting or taking out a loan to pay for a burrito
* AI tools that are maximally open and privacy and local-friendly, and that maximize productivity from merging the power of human and bot, rather than encouraging the user to sit back and let the bot do all the work, so they learn nothing
* Applications, companies, and physical environments that take an opinionated view on the kind of world they want to see, and have an opinionated culture
* DAOs that can support organizations and communities that steadfastly pursue a unique objective, and do not all get captured by the same groups. Privacy-preserving and non-tokenholder-driven voting can help here
Be sovereign. Reject corposlop. Believe in somETHing.
2026-30 predictions
-globalism is dead. resilience is the new god. countries and individuals are racing for sovereign compute and mineral sovereignty. if you can't produce your own energy, food, and intelligence locally, you're a vassal
-the winner in robotics is the company
Wow, Ethereum is growing up.
It’s turning from a “cool but slow multiplayer game server” into a super-fast, super-fair, global computer that still doesn’t belong to anyone.
Since DeFi’s whole point is: No one can stop me, censor me, or change the rules.
This changes everything.
Now that ZKEVMs are at alpha stage (production-quality performance, remaining work is safety) and PeerDAS is live on mainnet, it's time to talk more about what this combination means for Ethereum.
These are not minor improvements; they are shifting Ethereum into being a
The killer use case for LLMs is giving people their time back.
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Yeah, make gold rise..and BTC sink. Then switch gears, wenn BTC is again below 100k...and buy BTC as if there wouldn't be a tomorrow... bcs there isn't. That's coming and it's just another successful heist!
I don’t understand how so many people can’t see it.
GOLD added over $300bn to its market cap today.
Just today.
It’s been adding an entire Bitcoin market cap in ONE WEEK!
And people keep saying “wHeRe Is ThE MoNeY GoNna CoMe FroM bRo” ?
I don’t understand how most cannot
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Joe Lubin backs #SharpLink
SharpLink ($SBET) just made ETH its primary treasury reserve — giving investors direct economic exposure to Ethereum.
A Nasdaq-listed iGaming giant choosing to hodl $ETH?
That’s real-world ETH adoption.
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ethereum added 16,181 developers in 9 months. more than cardano polkadot near combined have total. last time we saw this rate of builder growth was 2019-2020 before defi summer launched uniswap aave curve to billions in tvl. 31,869 devs shipping on eth right now. position
Base is beginning to explore a network token
We’re in the early phases of exploration, and don’t have any specifics to share around timing, design, or governance. We’re committed to bringing the community along with us, and building in the open.
All the $BASE activity from my Farcaster wallet so far this year. It's all meaningful txs: swaps, tips, mini apps, collectibles and more. I didn't even try that hard.
The best and fastest way to do stuff on Base is on @farcaster_xyz. (And there's no waitlist to sign up)
It was 2020, I needed to buy a house.
Most of my liquid assets were in Bitcoin.
I showed my mortgage broker my wallet with Bitcoin value, hoping he would include as part of my net worth…. He laughed.
So I used DeFi.
I deposited Bitcoin into @aave and borrowed USDC,
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ETH is the High Quality Liquid Asset (HQLA) of crypto
Significant. Global Gross Merchandise Volume (GMV)
of all Shopify merchants? They collectively sold over $300 billion worth of goods through the platform, as of early 2025. Make it a growing 20% per year using $USDC will move the needle!
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