Brendan Farmer
@_bfarmer
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works on ZK @0xPolygon, previously mir
Joined October 2018
Strong support for the L2 / differentiated blockspace thesis. Building apps on Solana -> building app-specific blockspace w/ centralized sequencers. Because it's a better experience. IMO this is why the REV argument for Solana is wrong. L2s do divert fees and MEV from the L1.
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RT @CPerezz19: This is why Im more bullish on the @ziskvm team than any other. Its not benchmarks or marketing. It's the people. Their conv….
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This looks like a cool project, built on the Mersenne-31 work from Polygon Zero and Circle-STARKs from Polygon Zero and Starkware. zkVM acceleration benefits everyone in the space, and I'm excited to see this develop. Congrats to the team!.
Ready to prove Ethereum in seconds on a single GPU?. Introducing ZKsync Airbender:. The world’s fastest open-source RISC-V zkVM ⚡️
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Really impressive work from @jbaylina and team - relentless focus on identifying bottlenecks and removing them. Real-time proving for Ethereum doesn't really exist yet. If we're going to increase the gas limit by 100x and decrease slot times, the performance requirements for.
Major RISC-V zkVM breakthrough!. The ZisK team hit 1.5GHz trace generation—10x faster than other RISC-V zkVMs. A huge unlock for the space, and it's fully open source. With zkVMs almost all proving can be parallelised, e.g. farmed across a cluster of GPUs. The exception is the
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Finally, this is great news. The best person to run a startup is its founder. Over the past few years, Polygon has led the industry in ZK R&D with plonky2 and plonky3 (I'm biased as this is my and @dlubarov 's team 😁). But Polygon's real strength, its DNA, is in taking products.
BIG update - As the largest holder of POL and someone who dedicated his life to development and success of @0xPolygon from the very beginning, I have decided to take full control of Polygon Foundation and will be its CEO going forward. Polygon Foundation owns and oversees.
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RT @dlubarov: Two bugs were discovered in Plonky3's FRI verifier, thanks to @zlangley and @AngusGruen.
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RT @BrianSeong99: 🧵 Introducing Chainless Apps:. A New Paradigm for Verifiable Applications at Internet Scale, built with Web2 Capability a….
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Not sure I disagree, but a critical difference between tokens and public equities is that there are transparency rules for equities. Eliminate vesting - but only if all insiders must give advance notice if they sell more than $50k in a 3 month period (Rule 144, Rule 4), adopt.
It’s funny how most people hate high insider ownership and unlocks, when in reality it would be great if more tokens had 100% team/investor ownership at TGE then minimal/no vesting. Would eliminate so many market distortions and conflicts.
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A core part of the Agglayer thesis is that general-purpose chains don't make sense. Without the Agglayer, chains need to build their own network effects (users, devs, liquidity). They need to be neutral and unopinionated to attract devs. This is bad! Bootstrapping liquidity is.
wake the fk up samurai. this is katana. not just another general purpose chain. a defi chain forged to kill idle assets via deep liquidity & high yield. public mainnet coming late june. incubated by @0xpolygon x @gsr_io. pre-deposits live ⚔️ stop sleeping on your bags
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I realized that I don't know what "global price discovery at the speed of light" actually means. As I understand it, the thesis is that if there's a trading venue operated by a globally decentralized validator set, then anytime there's an event anywhere in the world, a trade can.
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The progress made by @SuccinctLabs and @RiscZero toward real-time proving has been super impressive. QT-ing not to be critical but because I think these questions are really interesting (and I would like to see RTP hit Ethereum!). 1. Proving all historical Ethereum blocks.
Yesterday's real-time proving announcement is a huge milestone, and @VitalikButerin brings up some good points about further work that will be required. BUT I think we're closer on all these points than people might realize. 1. Worst case real-time proving can be solved with.
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Maybe controversial, but there's an argument that "Ultrasound Money" has really hurt Ethereum. BTC's strengths as an asset are adoption, liquidity, market infrastructure, etc. Decreased issuance (the UM story) is only a marginal advantage vs BTC. At the same time,.
Theory crafting: SoV assets need *stability* of cashflow/REV, rather than the lack of it. ===========.If BTC (or Gold) started to generate cashflow, it won't stop being a SoV asset, at least right away. But, if this cashflow ever decrease, the valuation would drop in response.
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RT @phildaian: @_bfarmer ya this and similar takes is the closest to right. measure a real demand stat, then see how the mev stats (includi….
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RT @hudsonjameson: Shiny!. Fresh!. These words and more have been used to describe the Agglayer Visualizer - the easiest way to visually wr….
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The argument that REV doesn't matter because Bitcoin has no REV is a bad one. But there's a good argument that current REV is a bad proxy for expected future REV (and future aggregate economic value on a chain). Objectively, we can see this has been true for Ethereum and.
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The real masterminds behind this work are @jimpo_potamus @RobinSalen @benediamond and a hugely talented team.
Polygon Labs is proud to build in public and contribute to development of ZK tools. The Petra Prover is the latest public good developed from the research led by @RobinSalen, @_bfarmer, and @dlubarov. Other zk R&D incubated at Polygon Labs include a Type 1 ZK-EVM prover,.
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Very excited to see this coming together! @0xPolygon and @IrreducibleHW are working on a next-gen zkVM. Polygon has been at the ZK frontier for the past three years - most zkVMs are now built with Plonky2/3. Job's not finished. Irreducible is doing amazing work with Binius.
Can't keep up with all the new zkVM announcements? Here's one you don't wont to miss. Today we are introducing a preview of PetraVM, a Binius-based verifiable VM built in collaboration with @0xPolygon!.
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Global price discovery at the speed of light*. *except for the speed bump. More seriously, I'm curious why this post sees cancel prioritization as unequivocally good. NASDAQ doesn't have an asymmetric speed bump. Why do we think it's necessary for Decentralized NASDAQ?.
Check out the new blog post by our very own @MaxResnick1 and guest blogger @aeyakovenko! It explains how multiple concurrent leaders will make decentralized NASDAQ a reality on Solana. Link below 👇
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