Andrew Ferrone
@andrewferrone
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Applying zero-knowledge proofs to create a more safe, trustworthy internet
Joined December 2008
Felt like church on a Saturday night at the Greek with Hermanos Gutierrez. Such a great show and engaged audience.
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This introduction to Circle STARKs and Stwo by @EliBenSasson is so good. From finite fields to algebraic cyclic groups to Stwo to practical applications in Ethereum. “If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for.
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I’m still a little surprised every time I learn about a new L1 - e.g. @plumenetwork, @NexusLabs, @Arda_Global - but then it only strengthens my conviction in the idea of the internet of blockchains.
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Running a testnet sequencer on @aztecnetwork and forked @stealthnote_ to start diving more deeply into @NoirLang. So far impressed with how enjoyable the experience is. Shout out to @critesjosh_ for what seems like 24/7 dev support.
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Deeply fascinating if true. Guns, germs, and steel.
I found spoken English to be very ineffective in propagation through Singapore’s humid air. Often, I have to shout, bordering on sounding rude. Thai and Vietnamese evolved to be higher pitched to propagate efficiently through the humid air in Southeast Asia.
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Is anyone an economist who can help me understand the suggestion in the first few minutes that links a crypto reserve to reducing the value of the dollar? I was confused about the role of stablecoins - if non-dollars buy them up. (asking for a friend).
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We may take one step back, but always two steps forward. Mina is the future, just ask Vitalik Getting to where we are today has taken the work of more than I can mention here. Give a shout to projects not mentioned below. And let's keep building.
. @VitalikButerin mentioned Mina while discussing the future of Ethereum!.Proud to see him highlight the vision of a ZK-friendly, minimal, and elegant blockchain from scratch. Mina is exactly where it needs to be! .Watch it here 👇👇
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Now we must build a DeFi ecosystem to support these projects (thanks @dfst_io @SotaTek @LuminaDEX @realDinoDex), make it easier to build performant zkApps (thanks @ZekoProtocol @proto_kit), and continue to improve the settlement layer (thanks @o1_labs .
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@nori_zk is settling Ethereum state proofs for trust-minimized interop, @zkonnetwork zkTLS proofs to break down walled gardens of private data, @proto_kit app chains for private verifiable apps, @zkVot_io zkApp for anonymous, verifiable votes.
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How far we've come since I joined @MinaProtocol. Mina is without a doubt the best settlement layer for ZK proofs (and ZK will eat the world). ZK for security, succinctness for censorship resistance, and off-chain verification for infinite scalability. 🧵👇.
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I've seen a few takes on this today. Makes me think about where @ZekoProtocol fits with respect to @MinaProtocol. MINA gas token but alt DA.
It's interesting to see the OP Stack and Arbitrum Orbit Stack diverge further and further. When they started, both teams were building a type-1 EVM rollup, but today their direction's are quite different. The OP vision: a cluster of chains, with shared standards (Ethereum DA,.
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I was a kid who ran a web server from my dorm room back when that was cypherpunk. I love the idea of the people's internet, an open network of p2p protocols through which people (and their authorized agents!) can organize and take action. Mina's web node is the new web server.
Its very cool to be part of the Mina Web Node testing group. This can be a gamer changer for @MinaProtocol Not produced a block yet, but its in the diary!
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I particularly excited about the protocol feature development, especially access to the protocol state. One foot in front of the other towards proof singularity.
From smoother hard forks to protocol performance and features improvements to application-layer redesigns, o1Labs is hard at work on Mina Protocol -- let's do a deep dive into what we've been busy building. We published our team roadmaps late last year, I'll go deep into what.
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I've been super impressed with the team developing the Rust node at @MinaFoundation. It's no small feat to reverse engineer a recursive ZK proof system written in OCaml. Once ready it'll be way easier to optimize MSM and make other improvements. . .
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Come meet up at the ZK Hub at @EthereumDenver! DMs open.
We are pleased to welcome Evan Shapiro, Co-founder of @MinaProtocol as a speaker of @HouseofZK’s ZK Hub at @EthereumDenver 🦄. @evanashapiro currently serves as Chief Product and Strategy Officer of @MinaFoundation, the non-profit organization supporting Mina Protocol. Evan
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Execution limits are about to be blown past. L1s, L2s, L3s are soon to be blurred into pieces of blockchain state connected via ZK proofs. The concept of settlement as we know it will be erased. Abundant throughput is coming. It’s all light nodes and ZK proofs. /end.
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Bullish zkTLS. Great write up. Got an idea for an app that builds on zkTLS? @MinaProtocol is giving Navigators grants.
When we started @ev3ventures in 2022, we had only one non-consensus insight: that new physical infrastructure networks could be bootstrapped to a global scale, powered by onchain incentives & coordination. In 2023, we were lucky to meet @eulerlagrange who gave us our second.
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In a future where AI diagnoses your health and plans your financial future, zkML will keep your blood pressure and bank account balance private. Been super fun working on this. More to come.
A new devnet release of Mina’s zkML library is here!. Developers can now generate and validate zero knowledge proofs for AI inference directly on Mina’s blockchain. Why this matters 🧵 (1/4).
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I've long appreciated how the zkSync team balances product and technology. Appreciate how they're using ZK, precommits, and TEEs to offers devs tradeoffs between security and speed.
Wrote a high level update on some of what the @the_matter_labs technical team is working on in Q1: .
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Excited about this project. Blockchain interop is the final frontier. Fast, cheap verification of ZK state proofs is the way. Nori is leading the charge.
🚀 Introducing Nori: Ethereum State Verification on Mina 🚀. Nori is pioneering blockchain interoperability by seamlessly connecting @ethereum and @MinaProtocol . Our mission? To enable trust-minimised and zero-knowledge (ZK) verification of Ethereum’s state on Mina, unlocking.
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