Ranvir Rana
@0xranvir
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Build what outlasts narratives PhD @ UIUC, Princeton @witnesschain
Princeton, NJ
Joined October 2018
now that eigencloud is in mainnet alpha, it’s exciting to explore what crypto developers can build at the intersection of eigencompute, eigenai, proof-of-personhood (PoP) and proof-of-location (PoL). quick recap: > eigencompute: unstoppable + verifiable offchain runtime >
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With @witnesschain, Proof of Location becomes verifiable. A sovereign agent can now verifiably prove where it exists in the physical world, or even become self-aware of its own location. Learn more ↓
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Redistribution enables the capture of crypto’s upside while insulating against its structural risks. By enabling structured indemnification, when infrastructure or financial intermediaries breach SLAs, staked collateral is programmatically redirected to affected parties, making
🌐 It’s here. Redistribution is LIVE on mainnet. Slashed funds may now be redirected instead of being burned. Rewards, slashing, and now redistribution, all working together to let AVSs build custom incentives, protect users, and grow resilient ecosystems. @capmoney_, the
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This is powerful: the idea that programmable intelligence requires programmable institutions deeply resonates with what we have been building at @witnesschain One key piece in programmable institutions is location intelligence; not just knowing where something is, but being able
Programmable intelligence requires Programmable institutions. Human intelligence required the right human institutions to flourish: money, finance, property rights, civil and criminal law, contracts and companies, democracy. Intelligence will not flourish without the right
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A controlled perimeter is a necessary evil for tradFi tokenization; we just need to ensure the perimeter operators are provably trustworthy. Recent debate over Robinhood’s walled garden illustrates the point: access controls are not mere obstacles but mechanisms for KYC and
Just decompiled Robinhood's tokenized stock contracts. It's a walled garden, every transfer checks a registry of approved wallets (kyc/aml) It's unlikely these tokens can interact with defi It's very possible cefi with distribution just outcompetes existing defi protocols
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Classic tyranny of majority or perception of such. Either way, bad for trust in the markets Can be solved by committing to an AI adjucator at the time of creating the bet Verifiable AI like this would be trivial to build on platforms such as @eigenlayer
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This article highlights the fundamental bottleneck of the crypto utopia: DYOR We cannot expect a typical casino-going user to parse code and documentation to realize that posting multisigs of off-chain compute on-chain and calling them "VRF" does not constitute true randomness.
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Crypto trust composed with regulatory trust is a huge liquidity unlock Congrats to the @0xPredicate team
The future is linking blockchains to global capital markets. Today, we’re pulling back the curtain on our latest work. We've co-authored a new whitepaper with @Paxos on “A Risk Management Framework for Institutional Liquidity On Uniswap v4”. Follow along for an overview ⬇️
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A lot of apps can’t be built in crypto - limited by scalability and programmability A lot of apps outside crypto can’t move to the traditional cloud - think core banking, trading, etc. - blocked by a lack of verifiability, security, and insured guarantees EigenCloud solves both
EigenCloud: The Cloud Thesis of Crypto. Bitcoin established verifiable money and Ethereum established verifiable finance. EigenCloud's goal is to make every digital interaction verifiable. The core promise of EigenCloud: cloud-scale programmability with crypto-grade
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EigenCloud is a leap — For cloud infra: unlocks verifiability For crypto: unlocks new class of apps Proof of Location is the core primitive for EigenCloud — powering compliance, low-latency access, and trust-minimized edge coordination @witnesschain x @eigenlayer
The evolution is here. The age of verifiable apps has begun. Introducing EigenCloud, a platform for verifiable apps, services, and AI, built on EigenLayer, secured by the EIGEN token. ☁️ Crypto has spent a decade building trustless infrastructure. Now it's time to build on it.
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Inside the Watchtower - Each node double-hats as detective (challenging others) and witness (proving itself). Backed by EigenLayer security makes falsifying coordinates more expensive than telling the truth. #EigenLayer #Web3 #Web3AI #Watchtower
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The best infra is the kind you forget is running. @eigenlayer is the economic security under the radar that makes AVS-es like Witness Chain function with trust. #EigenLayer #Crypto #DePIN #AI
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Great article on the utility of stablecoins in optimizing existing cross-border systems. Money transmitters need to maintain a buffer of local currency. The size of the buffer is proportional to the latency of SWIFT-based international transfers. Stablecoins reduce this
Read the full post here:
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Terms and conditions bound by code are the only way to guarantee privacy. Easier said than done. It can't be all on-chain. You need the entire stack to comply with privacy and verification rules — including compute (inference), storage (model and context), browsing (TLS), and
OpenAI is now required by court order to preserve all ChatGPT logs including "temporary chats" and API requests that would have been deleted if I understand this correctly, it means data retention policies for apps that use OpenAI API simply cannot be honored
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The dollar was once backed by gold in Fort Knox—now, it’s backed by trust in U.S. state machinery: contracts, courts, aircraft carriers. DeFi is bound to make a similar leap: From inefficient overcollateralization → to trust in a unified pool of slashable, redistributable
EigenLayer Redistribution: A New Frontier. EigenLayer is soon turning on the ability for the slashed funds to be distributed to the AVS building on top, as opposed to burning the slashed funds (which is what L1s that have slashing do today). This enables whole new categories
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"a decentralized oracle for location which can be used to differentially incentivize nodes in geo-diverse regions."
Build the world’s first geo decentralized chain! Blockchains today have no way of knowing whether nodes are geo decentralized or not. Therefore they cannot guarantee that nodes will be geo decentralized. @witnesschain provides a decentralized oracle for location which can be
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The cost of deploying a globally distributed node network is significantly higher for centralized actors than for decentralized communities. @witnesschain PoL enables arbitrary incentive mechanisms that can ensure geographically diverse node distribution, leading to a diverse CR
@sreeramkannan @witnesschain They could, but it would be challenging, and depending how distributed borderline impossible. Like for example let’s say we draw a mesh across all the landmass of the world and shape rewards based on clustering. The perfectly distributed network would be say one node per, say
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Build the world’s first geo decentralized chain! Blockchains today have no way of knowing whether nodes are geo decentralized or not. Therefore they cannot guarantee that nodes will be geo decentralized. @witnesschain provides a decentralized oracle for location which can be
@sreeramkannan @witnesschain They could, but it would be challenging, and depending how distributed borderline impossible. Like for example let’s say we draw a mesh across all the landmass of the world and shape rewards based on clustering. The perfectly distributed network would be say one node per, say
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