Yeah, cars are always hungry for money

Finance has been unnecessarily complicated for far too long. The Finance Computer changes that. Great to see ProMotors, an automotive reseller LIVE with @financecompute! Making finance simpler. One business at a time!

I am truly honored to take part in a first-of-its-kind public debate in Romania on one of the most profound questions of our time: The AI Era: Paradise or Apocalypse? Held on October 15, as part of the IQ Digital Summit in Bucharest, the debate will bring together two opposing teams in the classic Oxbridge format, presenting and challenging the strongest arguments on both sides. The progress we've witnessed over the past few years, the past few months, and even the past few days has been nothing short of extraordinary. From breakthroughs in coding, mathematics, and medicine to advances across an ever-expanding range of fields, the pace of progress is both exhilarating, sobering and difficult to fully comprehend. Yet, beyond the many nuances, at the heart of this debate lies a deceptively simple question: Should we accelerate the development of artificial intelligence toward its full potential, or should we slow down, perhaps even stop? Whatever our individual convictions may be today, I suspect our children and grandchildren will one day look back at this period as the years before a great transition. A moment when humanity stood at the threshold of something it could barely begin to imagine. And perhaps, more importantly, a moment when the choices we made helped shape what came next. This is precisely why I believe these are among the most fascinating, important, and consequential questions we can engage with in public dialogue. To me, the future has never been something we should expect to happens to us. It has always been something we have a responsibility to help shape. Looking forward to a remarkable exchange of ideas. See you in Bucharest!

Boom. Moving forward. It's great to announce that Tradeville, one of the largest brokers in Eastern Europe, Romania, is using the @FinanceCompute! Why? Simple. Faster movement of money, equals better conversion, more users, more profits. This is the finance computer.

Well, the finance computer has an update. Fresh, simple, punchy! Money, integrated into your business with one API. financecomputer.com

There are a lot of fast block times. But not all the technologies are the same. $EGLD #EGLD #MultiversX

$EGLD deposits and withdrawals on @BinanceUS have been reenabled. We are working with all outstanding exchanges to be fully operational as soon as possible.

A few quick notes (1) Network. Supernova is live, running with remarkable speed and precision. (2) Exchanges. Over the next 5–10 days, global exchanges and other independent partners will begin reopening deposits and withdrawals. The rollout is gradual by design. Each exchange follows its own rigorous internal process, built to protect users and keep the recovery smooth. (3) Security report. An in-depth security analysis is still underway. Several critical elements are already mapped and understood, from the bugs and their fixes to the technical implications and the path to recovery. A few discussions with independent parties remain open. The findings are preliminary, but one stands out above the rest. The tools, methods, preparation, and coordination behind this attack appear to go well beyond those typically associated with amateur attackers. The observed sophistication bears the hallmarks of advanced, experienced, repeated threat actors, including groups operating at the level historically associated with hacker organizations such as Lazarus. Attribution is not yet confirmed, but it is worth stating this out loud: to have successfully defended our users against Lazarus, or another group of that caliber, is a milestone we are proud of! Huge respect to all independent partners, including global exchanges, who have mobilized with extraordinary speed for the greater good of protecting users and the network! (4) Lessons. More importantly, the larger lesson goes beyond this incident. As an industry, we have entered an era of permanent, constant, unending war. Open-source financial infrastructure operates on a global battlefield, continuously exposed to increasingly sophisticated attackers, tools, and methods. Under these conditions, the traditional definition of security is no longer sufficient. Three capabilities are becoming non-negotiable: (a) a relentless defensive and offensive security tooling arms race; (b) continuous, 24/7 red-teaming and penetration testing; (c) blitz-speed detection, coordination, and response. We have been intensifying precisely these capabilities over the past 3–6 months. What happened over the last few days is one visible incident among several potential threats that have been identified, contained, or neutralized through increasingly proactive security work. This reality is not unique to MultiversX. Every major open-source stack, every blockchain (bitcoin and ethereum not excluded), and soon, every closed source software stack, will increasingly have to adapt to an environment where infrastructure is continuously and deeply probed, attacked, and tested. That requires a much more rugged approach to code. A more adversarial approach to architecture design. And ultimately, a fundamental rethinking of how safety-critical software is built and defended. The three measures above are critical today. But over time, we will need to go much further and rethink security from the ground up for the new world we are actually operating in. Verifiably correct-by-construction software is about to have its moment and become fashionable very quickly. Reality has a way of accelerating standards. Not so much by preference, but by necessity.

⚡️ @MultiversX just hit another TPS record Just 4 days after its previous peak, the network reached 21,952 TPS on September 28 👀 MultiversX keeps pushing its throughput higher 📊 chainspect.app/chain/multive…

6s —> 600ms

⚡️ @MultiversX just hit a new TPS record The network reached 21,798 TPS on September 24, setting a new peak for its throughput 👀 21K+ TPS is a serious benchmark for any blockchain 📊 chainspect.app/chain/multive…

MultiversX is back online. Thank you for your patience and belief through these hard days. To our validators and partners: thank you for the work that brought us here. We’re proud to be here with you. We continue to build different. Together.

Update: Mainnet will remain paused overnight as we prepare the next recovery window. Today’s restart did not complete because the allotted window was too short for enough Shard 1 validators to synchronize and transition into the new epoch alongside the rest of the network. An epoch change occurred during the attempt, so we are updating and testing the recovery software to account for that transition. We aim to make the updated release available tomorrow afternoon UTC, Thursday, September 24, followed by a longer activation window, tentatively 8–12 hours. This will give validators more time to upgrade and synchronize, with the next restart attempt expected within that window. These timings remain tentative, subject to successful testing and validator readiness. We will communicate confirmed timing and issue a separate all-clear once recovery is complete. Please continue to wait for the all-clear: do not submit or rebroadcast transactions, or use EGLD and ESDT deposit and withdrawal routes through exchanges or bridges. We know the continued wait is difficult for everyone affected. Thank you for your patience and support, and to our validators and partners for their sustained commitment throughout the recovery. We are working together to bring the network back online safely.

Solid progress made securing the situation. 1. The incident is contained. Fund are safe. In coordination with major global exchanges, the attacker’s accounts have been identified, seized and frozen. Specialized law enforcement is now engaged, and the attacker will face the consequences of his actions. 2. The fix is prepared. The team has defined the mission-critical path to recovery. It is now being rigorously tested and, once cleared, will be executed over the next 1–2 days. This is a moment to stand together. Supernova speed and experience return to full force soon. Forward.

A few notes, only for some crypto people. If you’re not in crypto, please keep scrolling. Nothing to see here. 1. Is Supernova live and delivered? YES. After years of work, it’s live. It works. It’s delivered. 2. Does this change your life? Yes and no. Yes, if you’re building something cool and know how to find users. No, if you're not looking to building anything. 3. Does the Finance Computer use MultiversX? YES. Does it use EGLD? Yes. 4. Is the Finance Computer a product for crypto people? Another thing for crypto people to generously bless with their omniscient wisdom? No. It’s not built for crypto people. Their omniscient wisdom, fortunately, doesn’t apply here. :) 5. Will the Finance Computer spend every day talking about crypto? No. Plain and simple. This is a distinct B2B distribution product. It targets businesses, not crypto users. It speaks their language, solves their problems, and focuses on delivering a service they actually want to use. Less explaining crypto. More of making money actually work better. 6. Now that Supernova is live, will there be new use cases? YES. That’s precisely the point. The Finance Computer is a new interface for bringing these capabilities into the real world. Different audience. Different language. Different distribution. Same underlying rails. 7. Will there be announcements and partnerships? YES. 8. When when when, sirs? Can we have everything today? No. Not everything today. During next week and September, we’ll start sharing the first business use cases. Something merchants and companies can use in a simple way. Beyond that, we’ll have some focused workshops around what the Finance Computer can actually unlock for businesses. Simple language. Clear benefits. Clear next steps. Use cases businesses can use today. 9. Do we have strategic use cases that validate the Finance Computer and meaningfully accelerate momentum? YES. Some very interesting ones. That is the entire point of the finance computer. Let those be cooked. We announce them when they are shipped, or just ready. 10. So when do we get all the information? At the right time. What I can say is this: this quarter will be defining for both the Finance Computer and MultiversX from a business adoption and real-world use case standpoint. We have shipped a massive infrastructure upgrade, with a completely new interface, that speaks a different language for the business world.  Taking that further is the focus now. Crawl, walk, run. 11. Isn't it unprofessional or impolite to block trolls who fill my posts and timeline with NPC rubbish? No. We worked for two years on Supernova. Actually, much longer. We set out to deliver an extremely difficult technical milestone, and we delivered it. Together with the entire team, I am very proud of that milestone. We now stand at the very frontier of performance, on the right ground, with a clear suite of money services ready for the business world. So yes, trolls will disappear from my timeline. Better for everyone that way. In computer science, we have a technical term for this. It’s called garbage collection. Works surprisingly well, highly recommended. :) 12. Are we here to solve all the world's problems? No. We’re here to build a great product and deliver it. Take what is useful. Build on it. Adapt it. Move forward. That’s it. 13. But but but, isn’t this supposed to be for everyone? No. Not everything needs to be for everyone. What we are building stands for something specific. A better way of accessing, moving and programming money. If it resonates with you, and you need it, great. Come build, use it, contribute, push it forward. If it doesn’t, also great. Life is short. Find something else that does. 14. One final thing. Crypto, generally, has gotten so toxic that it feels more and more like an autoimmune disease, the body eating itself from the inside. We are in the process of treating that toxicity. Changing the focus, applying more effort on money used in the real world, communicating to the right distribution target, and spending less time on things that are clearly misaligned. Simple steps can go a long way. That’s the direction. /end of professional rant :) —------ Ps. That said, for the rest of the cool people here, the Finance Computer makes things simple for real world money movement adoption. It abstracts rocket science technology, and makes things just work. Next week we are sharing some simple use cases that enable businesses to take this product and use it. It also enables you as an individual to find businesses you are close to, or love, deliver this to them, and potentially make some money as they adopt it. Anyway. With these milestones delivered, and the new Finance Computer unveiled, we have officially entered the adoption phase.

📈 Who's gaining momentum on Chainspect? 🥇 @MultiversX leads with 46% growth 🥈 @etherlink follows at 37% 🥉 @tezos ecosystem rounds out the top three at 36% Just 10 percentage points separated the entire podium 📊 chainspect.app/dashboard?gai…

So, what is the finance computer actually? A simplified picture worth 1000 words. For brands, businesses, and machines.

SUPERNOVA IS LIVE. under ~175ms live finality on mainnet.

In 2017, we set out to build an internet-scale blockchain: infrastructure capable of serving a global economy, with security and decentralization built into its foundations. Today, Supernova goes live on MultiversX, delivering the most significant architectural advance since our first mainnet block in July 2020. Six years of engineering connect those moments. Native sharding. Stronger account protection. Broader validator participation. Governance placed in the hands of the community. Each advance carried forward the same conviction: a network becomes more valuable when more people can use it, build on it, and help determine its future. Supernova brings 600-millisecond blocks to that network while keeping validator hardware requirements unchanged. Independent operators can continue securing it on the machines they already run. Existing accounts, contracts, and the history stretching back to genesis remain intact. That combination matters. Internet scale means building the capacity to serve the world while preserving the ability to participate. The purpose reaches far beyond the protocol. People should be able to hold their own money and move it across borders. Businesses should have access to global markets. Developers should be free to create financial services on infrastructure that is open, programmable, and always available. Years of research, public testing, and collective effort have brought us to this moment. The next chapter is turning these capabilities into products people rely on in everyday life. To the engineers, validators, builders, and community who brought us here: thank you. The promise that started MultiversX continues to guide us: a financial system whose capabilities grow, and whose doors remain open.

📣 MAINNET Upgrade v2.0.7.0 We are upgrading the MAINNET! Version v2.0.7.0 is out. ℹ️ This release brings additional hardening and improvements. 📅 No new activation flags. The activation epoch for Supernova is unchanged at 2233: Tomorrow, Thursday, September 10th, at ~17:45 UTC. Upgrade instructions 👇