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Introducing Alpharc.app A trading terminal and market for time-stamped alpha, built for traders, publishers and AI agents. Publish alpha. Discover it early. Build a track record. Trade from the same terminal ↓

ERC-8004 has officially crossed half a million registered agents ⚡️ 506K+ agents (+9%) 576K+ feedback records (+3.5%) 460K+ active users (+6%) At this scale, discovering the right agents and understanding their track record matter more than ever. Explore the ecosystem → 8004scan.io

Rumour started with a simple idea: move from market chatter to action. We’ve been quietly building what comes next. Coming soon.

We’re joining @BNBCHAIN's Agent Survival Pack ⚡️ A campaign bringing together AI infra projects that help agents access services with payments settled on BNB Chain. 📅 May 25 - June 8, 2026 To participate in the campaign, use discount code BNB25 to get 25% off* when paying with $BNB for AltLLM credits altllm.ai 👇 youtu.be/mcbCHQJyzgU

We're teaming up with @solana to bring crypto-native AI to the Solana ecosystem. Query live DeFi data with AltLLM Chat. Act on it 24/7 with an AltClaw agent that holds a real Solana wallet.

We started with rollups. 45+ chains later, we're going further. Introducing @usealtai, the AI built natively for crypto. Today, we're sharing two new products with you: AltLLM Chat and AltClaw teapaw.org/usealtai/status/204947…

Security has always been a priority for AltLayer. Our continuous efforts to strengthen infrastructure and operational standards are reflected in two major milestones: 🔒 ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification 📋 SOC 2 Type II compliance These frameworks validate the security practices, risk management processes and operational controls supporting AltLayer infrastructure.

Introducing ERC-8004 Skills - an agent-native stack that turns @8004_scan into a programmable system for AI.

Ever wished you could browse ERC-8004 AI agents natively on your phone? 🤯 8004scan is now available on mobile! Explore, track, and interact with thousands of ERC‑8004 AI agents across 18+ chains, check leaderboards, and more - all from your phone. 🌐 Apple App Store: apps.apple.com/us/app/8004sc… Google Play Store: play.google.com/store/apps/d…

🔊 URGENT: BIG NEWS FOR $ALT STAKERS Our close partner @EspressoSys will be airdropping $ESP tokens to eligible $ALT stakers. If you have been staking $ALT on our official staking site, please check your eligibility and complete your registration via the Espresso registration and claim page at - claim.espresso.foundation/ Failure to register will result in forfeiting your airdrop allocation. ⚠️ Registration closes this weekend. Please complete the process before Monday, Feb 9th 00:00 UTC to avoid missing your allocation. 🚨 We remind the community to be extra cautious about scams/phishing around the airdrop claim. All official links and announcements will come from @espressoFNDN page. Follow them for announcement on when the token claim will be open.

There have recently been some discussions on the ongoing role of L2s in the Ethereum ecosystem, especially in the face of two facts: * L2s' progress to stage 2 (and, secondarily, on interop) has been far slower and more difficult than originally expected * L1 itself is scaling, fees are very low, and gaslimits are projected to increase greatly in 2026 Both of these facts, for their own separate reasons, mean that the original vision of L2s and their role in Ethereum no longer makes sense, and we need a new path. First, let us recap the original vision. Ethereum needs to scale. The definition of "Ethereum scaling" is the existence of large quantities of block space that is backed by the full faith and credit of Ethereum - that is, block space where, if you do things (including with ETH) inside that block space, your activities are guaranteed to be valid, uncensored, unreverted, untouched, as long as Ethereum itself functions. If you create a 10000 TPS EVM where its connection to L1 is mediated by a multisig bridge, then you are not scaling Ethereum. This vision no longer makes sense. L1 does not need L2s to be "branded shards", because L1 is itself scaling. And L2s are not able or willing to satisfy the properties that a true "branded shard" would require. I've even seen at least one explicitly saying that they may never want to go beyond stage 1, not just for technical reasons around ZK-EVM safety, but also because their customers' regulatory needs require them to have ultimate control. This may be doing the right thing for your customers. But it should be obvious that if you are doing this, then you are not "scaling Ethereum" in the sense meant by the rollup-centric roadmap. But that's fine! it's fine because Ethereum itself is now scaling directly on L1, with large planned increases to its gas limit this year and the years ahead. We should stop thinking about L2s as literally being "branded shards" of Ethereum, with the social status and responsibilities that this entails. Instead, we can think of L2s as being a full spectrum, which includes both chains backed by the full faith and credit of Ethereum with various unique properties (eg. not just EVM), as well as a whole array of options at different levels of connection to Ethereum, that each person (or bot) is free to care about or not care about depending on their needs. What would I do today if I were an L2? * Identify a value add other than "scaling". Examples: (i) non-EVM specialized features/VMs around privacy, (ii) efficiency specialized around a particular application, (iii) truly extreme levels of scaling that even a greatly expanded L1 will not do, (iv) a totally different design for non-financial applications, eg. social, identity, AI, (v) ultra-low-latency and other sequencing properties, (vi) maybe built-in oracles or decentralized dispute resolution or other "non-computationally-verifiable" features * Be stage 1 at the minimum (otherwise you really are just a separate L1 with a bridge, and you should just call yourself that) if you're doing things with ETH or other ethereum-issued assets * Support maximum interoperability with Ethereum, though this will differ for each one (eg. what if you're not EVM, or even not financial?) From Ethereum's side, over the past few months I've become more convinced of the value of the native rollup precompile, particuarly once we have enshrined ZK-EVM proofs that we need anyway to scale L1. This is a precompile that verifies a ZK-EVM proof, and it's "part of Ethereum", so (i) it auto-upgrades along with Ethereum, and (ii) if the precompile has a bug, Ethereum will hard-fork to fix the bug. The native rollup precompile would make full, security-council-free, EVM verification accessible. We should spend much more time working out how to design it in such a way that if your L2 is "EVM plus other stuff", then the native rollup precompile would verify the EVM, and you only have to bring your own prover for the "other stuff" (eg. Stylus). This might involve a canonical way of exposing a lookup table between contract call inputs and outputs, and letting you provide your own values to the lookup table (that you would prove separately). This would make it easy to have safe, strong, trustless interoperability with Ethereum. It also enables synchronous composability (see: ethresear.ch/t/combining-pre… and ethresear.ch/t/synchronous-c… ). And from there, it's each L2's choice exactly what they want to build. Don't just "extend L1", figure out something new to add. This of course means that some will add things that are trust-dependent, or backdoored, or otherwise insecure; this is unavoidable in a permissionless ecosystem where developers have freedom. Our job should make to make it clear to users what guarantees they have, and to build up the strongest Ethereum that we can.

If you can imagine it - you can build it. We are ready for any Web3 vision, providing the set of tools to move from concept → live system, regardless of tech complexity, even with no-code 🤓 • RaaS - instant custom rollup deployments • x402aaS - execution-level, pay-per-request onchain monetization, AI with @8004_scan @0xautonome • AVSaaS - deploying Actively Validated Services without infra overhead • Restaked Rollups - for shared economic security and faster finality From no-code launches to institutional-grade systems. Build with AltLayer and ship without limits 💜

🎉 8004scan is live on mainnet. The agent economy starts now! Browse thousands of autonomous agents with verifiable identities, on-chain reputations, and cryptographic validation. Available now: 8004scan.io The future of AI agents is here-and it's decentralised. Here's the full feature set available now: 🧵 @DavideCrapis @VittoStack @ethereum @marco_derossi @programmer @binji_x @abbaskhan @13yearoldvci

ERC-8004 doesn’t just add a new standard - it changes how trust is structured in Web3. ERC-8004 acts as a trust layer for autonomous agents by formalizing: ∘ Identity registries for portable, blockchain-registered agent identities ∘ Reputation registries with structured, verifiable feedback tied to real interactions ∘ Validation registries that provide independent proof that tasks were executed correctly