Passkeys were invented by security engineers with zero understanding of the consumer brain. We had no way to argue its merits since no one understood what they are. As a result, we are now all asked to produce the magic fairy dust to login to apps. It may be on your phone, in your browser, in your operating system, in your body, who knows. But now you’re safe.

I will speak freely here, because Tim - who is both someone with standing within the Ethereum Foundation and someone I consider a good friend - is doing so too. It is puritanism taken too far to call me a coward on main for leading a team that built and coordinated the deployment of code on Ethereum mainnet that is under a license rather than being FOSS (even though the spark of initial wave of complaint was that Wildcat has agreed to deploy on a chain that will not inherit all of Ethereum's security). It is, unironically, just business. The reason that Wildcat code is source-available is as the mildest preventative bulwark against a rogue entity spinning up a copy and facilitating hypercrime given the unsecured nature of contracts produced by the Wildcat market factory. Its codebase is something that I would like to ultimately see converted into FOSS once the appropriate network effects are in place: I am aligned with the Ethereum Foundation's mission of supporting defipunk, but bluntly find it gross that I must smile through attacks on this front from on high, despite being told that the EF wishes to support the app layer. I will not apologise for making such decisions in the early development of a protocol that the financial markets surrounding Ethereum benefit from. I think most people interested in capital leverage effects and the mission of creating a parallel financial system would agree that it is better that Wildcat exists than it doesn't, whatever form the underlying code takes or where it is deployed. I have spent eight years working on both open-source libraries and protocols for Ethereum, and I will not sit here and smile through strays on my character by leading figures in the ecosystem - who people respect and listen to - for design choices made on code for the would-be World Computer. I am tired, boss.