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Founding Research & Growth @sorellalabs and doing public good research @fenbushi DM me if u buidl cool stuff and wanna chat about anime

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@ballsyalchemist
Life is short, so am I
4 months
Missed slots are often discussed from validators' views. But here is an analysis of missed slots from PBS relays' views, where I found observations that may lead to a path for sustainable relay incentivization. Missed slots = PBS Relays' Revenue?🧵👇
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@ballsyalchemist
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Relay has been servicing validators & builders for FREE. But ePBS is uncertain & relays are slowly exiting without proper incentives in place. For the pursuit of all relays' happyness, here is my attempt at exploring the relay incentivization mechanism.
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@ballsyalchemist
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I am excited to announce that I'm joining @SorellaLabs to lead the Research & Growth alongside @ksrini_ and @0xvanbeethoven !! 🧵👇
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@ballsyalchemist
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11 months
Seen many talking about trust-minimization this & that, some even calling it a useless term. Here is my piece on what trust-minimization ACTUALLY means and why it matters, FIRST on Consensus Verification & Bridging. Down the zk light client rabbit hole.
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@ballsyalchemist
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1 year
Looking back at 2022, here are major developments in the crypto infra space (MEV, L1, L2, and middleware) worth noting IMO👇
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@ballsyalchemist
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1 year
L2 peace talk today by @Scroll_ZKP @optimismFND @arbitrum @ClassLambda @zksync @0xPolygonLabs @ConsenSys @Starknet was great & peaceful!! But the overwhelming presence of ZK ppl in the call made it feel a bit... Anyway, was a great call. Thanks for organizing this!
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@ballsyalchemist
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7 months
This a great timely piece from @VitalikButerin on whether or not to enshrine an out-protocol feature. Let me go through some key points and discuss why this is an extremely important consideration NOW.
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@ballsyalchemist
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10 months
Astar is going down a very unorthordox, challenging, but potentially extremely fruitful route to bringing crypto to everyone. Quite cool stuff. We may see usage of crypto beyond just DeFi and all the usual stuff from @AstarNetwork
@WatanabeSota
Sota Watanabe
10 months
1/ I am very excited to announce that @StartaleHQ raised $3.5m at the seed round from Sony Network Communications, the operating company in Sony Group. We have already initiated a conversation to cooperate to bring web3 for billions.
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@ballsyalchemist
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1 year
On-chain privacy on Ethereum is more than just a transaction mixer now. Just checked @aztecnetwork and was surprised to see that it is ALREADY integrated with most of the major DeFi dapps, like @AaveAave @LidoFinance @CurveFinance @iearnfinance @eulerfinance and @element_fi .
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@ballsyalchemist
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6 months
[LONG POST ALERT] Prover coordination is a problem that most ZK L2s will face eventually, and @aztecnetwork has been hard at work with its community to devise a solution that provides both strong censorship-resistant and liveness properties. Today, I want to highlight and…
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@ballsyalchemist
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1 year
0. Block building is a major centralization factor of Ethereum. So I wrote a piece on WHY that is the case based on data, and WHAT are recent proposed solutions and challenges around them. Special thanks to @hasufl and @drakefjustin for the feedback!
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@ballsyalchemist
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1 year
TLDR: restaking is fine, but don't extend it to try to leverage Ethereum social consensus by "aligning" the project's incentive with eth validators, hoping that they can do bailout in case shit happens for the projects.
@VitalikButerin
vitalik.eth
1 year
Don't overload Ethereum's consensus:
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@ballsyalchemist
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1 year
0/26 To achieve single-slot finality for Ethereum, we need... 1) More secure fork-choice rule than LMD-GHOST 2) Accommodate the network load/latency of having millions of validators Let's dive into how we may achieve that! (RLMD-GHOST, Goldfish, Super-committee, Validator Cap)🧵
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@ballsyalchemist
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8 months
"TRUE recursion at zkVM layer is totally unexplored"?? "Embedded zkDSL>>External zkDSL"?? "FPGA & ASIC for witness generation"?? "Latency of zkCoprocessor isn't a big issue"? Here are the recordings from our Open Talk (+ comments) with many open research problems & hot takes😉🧵
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@ballsyalchemist
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3 months
For those who were wondering "wtf are PeerDAS and SubnetDAS", you are not alone. So here is a quick explainer on PeerDAS and SubnetDAS, and how exactly they are different from each other and why they matter within the ETH roadmap 🧵👇
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@ballsyalchemist
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1 year
Great post by @drakefjustin on MEV burn. The first thought I had with this model was the builder-proposer collusion where the base is suppressed as builders perform private bidding with guaranteed kickback.
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@ballsyalchemist
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11 months
WASM oracle in @arbitrum Nitro: Secure enclave for event proof generations + offchain frontend (WASM) triggering execution on-chain. Bridging web2 apps with Web3.
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@ballsyalchemist
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7 days
Ever wondered what it takes to build a DA on @Filecoin (the most widely used storage network)? A natural question that came up many times in the past. So @turanzv and I have done the exploratory work to showcase what it takes to build a DA on Filecoin (not ez)! 🧵👇
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@aeyakovenko
toly 🇺🇸| bip-420
2 years
Why couldn’t all the DA/execution split designs run on arweave or filecoin?
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@ballsyalchemist
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1 year
0/10 @arbitrum announced Stylus, the next-gen programming environment based on WASM for Arbitrum One/Nova. With Stylus, users can deploy contracts on Arbitrum with Rust, C, C++, Python, and more. And I feel ppl should be talking about this more👇👇
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@ballsyalchemist
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7 months
Nowadays, whenever I see trust/security risk around data sources for a protocol, whether on or off-chain data, I'm inclined to throw in SGX and call it a day. Is that SGX-alignment? Did I become SGX-aligned? Is that even a thing? Did @socrates1024 turn me into SGX shill??
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@ballsyalchemist
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11 months
An optimistic universal co-processor for Ethereum: Like an optimistic version of @RiscZero , which can be also seen as either a zk-coprocessor (with storage proof) or an universal zk rollup.
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@ballsyalchemist
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20 days
Make LP Great Again
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@ballsyalchemist
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19 days
When ur lending protocol desperately needs positions liquidated and have to drop a message in TG group to get more searcher attention. 👀 👀 👀
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@ballsyalchemist
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2 months
At MEV events: @MaxResnick1 edition
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@ballsyalchemist
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6 months
Cryptography Workshop is going private.
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@ballsyalchemist
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I'm hopeful for a future where the reason for LPing into an AMM pool is not JUST for added token incentive + future airdrop opportunity. WHAT IF....JUST WHAT IF LPing could be a fundamentally lucrative activity. Just imagine that...for now ;))
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@ballsyalchemist
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2 years
1/x @Sota_Web3 @AstarNetwork Great chatting at the Astar X VC event yesterday. Here some thoughts around Japanese web3 scene, some challenges, and what I am looking forward to...
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@ballsyalchemist
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7 months
TLDR: A validator was missing 3 % of the attestions. Turns out that the p2p comm was not broadcasting attestation efficiently. So it had to raise the peer count by double (100 to 200) on Teku. If some validators are already missing attestations due to inefficient p2p and have…
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@ballsyalchemist
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11 months
Yap
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@ballsyalchemist
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2 months
Blobs are live!!!
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@ballsyalchemist
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1 year
1/512 Went through @aztecnetwork 's RFP for its attempt at MEVA + "PBS", and it's truly fascinating. Great works by @jaosef Here is how it works and how I think about it, added with some problems/suggestions 🧵
@jaosef
jaosef.eth
1 year
Aztec is being created as a decentralised network. It's design, code, and operators are shaped by it's community. @aztecnetwork has launched an RFP for a key part of the network design - sequencer selection. Anon - will you answer the call?
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@ballsyalchemist
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5 months
All the research workshop videos are OUT!! Come and grab em if you missed it during @EFDevconnect Just putting all together here to the post with video links 🔽
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@ballsyalchemist
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2 months
Thanks to all who came to our Next Gen DEX day to jam on orderflow segregation ( @0xQuintus ), solver's barrier to entry (great discussion @hal2001 ), toxic flow ( @0xdoug ), optimistic clob ( @aori_io ), app specific sequencing ( @SemanticLayer ) and private solver DEX ( @aztecnetwork ),…
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@ballsyalchemist
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1/33 Many bridges suck, but there are ways that they can suck less. Some are attempting to do exactly that with..cough cough..zkbridge. So I wrote up a piece about how bridges suck in different ways from the lens of trust-minimization. 🎯Some brief takeaways from my article:
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@ballsyalchemist
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This is CoW Swap's off-chain component managing the order book, selecting the solver solutions, and batch settling the solutions on-chain. One question I had is if @CoWSwap has any plan to run the driver/order book on a more computationally verifiable or tamper-proof…
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@ballsyalchemist
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6 months
今回は日本のビルダーと研究者達に会えて楽しかったです! また次の機会にMEVのイベントがあれば会いましょう! リクエスト通り、僕の臨時に作ったpptをこちらでシェアします。
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@ballsyalchemist
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11 months
Primer to my recent piece on Trust-minimized Middleware! Where I discussed: 1. Meaning of 'trust-minimization' 2. Why zkBridge is NOT YET trust-minimized 2. How to get FULL consensus verification via ZK light client Let me take you down the trust-minimization rabbit hole 🧵👇
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@ballsyalchemist
Life is short, so am I
11 months
Seen many talking about trust-minimization this & that, some even calling it a useless term. Here is my piece on what trust-minimization ACTUALLY means and why it matters, FIRST on Consensus Verification & Bridging. Down the zk light client rabbit hole.
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@ballsyalchemist
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When I first saw @blairlmarshall 's OFA and private txs report, I was surprised to find how rigged private txs actually are, albeit unintentionally so; they often fail to fulfil many of their promises. For example,,,, 1. "Accidental" frontrunning on private txs, that supposedly…
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@blocknative
Blocknative | mempool.eth 🔮
8 months
🚨Frontrunning protection doesn't necessarily mean you won’t be frontrun. Looking at a 60-day sample of public and private txns revealed some users who sent their txs privately incurred more slippage than those who sent publicly. Why? 👇
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@ballsyalchemist
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10 months
Let's talk distributed block building , let's talk MEV👍
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@ballsyalchemist
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3 months
. @mikeneuder has been shipping articles crazy lately. Plz give my PC's RAM a bit more time to catch up so I can close the chrome tabs in time for the next piece.
@mikeneuder
mikeneuder.eth ⟠
3 months
happy wednesday :-) sharing a short doc™ – "Inclusion lists: execution, consensus, & engine spec overview." this doc tries to: (i) convey the relative simplicity of the changes, (ii) highlight the decision points of the design.
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@ballsyalchemist
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One step closer to verifiable Minecraft with ETH as the underlying in-game currency 😳
@RiscZero
RISC Zero 🟡
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The Future of Verifiable Computation Is Coming We're launching R0 zkVM 1.0, the world's first production-ready general purpose zkVM, to enable a future where you can prove anything and verify everywhere. A future where zero knowledge is universal.
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@ballsyalchemist
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Aztec's decision on the sequencer design is out! Leaving the prover market of B52 to be out-protocol & potentially enabling MEV-Boost type of implementation is fair. Def should read the report by block science. The most thorough report on sequencer analysis I have ever seen.
@aztecnetwork
Aztec
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Read the full @block_science report 👇
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@ballsyalchemist
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6 months
Just arrived in turkey. Will be staying until 24th. Looking forward to meeting u all at our workshops. And feel free to hit me up👍 (Pretending to be Aztecian for few days first)
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@ballsyalchemist
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A: Visualize the orderflow supply chain you think we have on-chain today. B: Okay, I am visualizing. A: Triple the complexity of that and you still don't get the full complexity of orderflow supply chain that we have today. B: ...
@0xangelfish
angelfish ⚡️🤖
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Excited to share a new Flashbots blog post and dashboard illuminating Ethereum’s order flow market. Links below!
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@ballsyalchemist
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Running a Lighthouse consensus client on a @CelestiaOrg light node. Geographical diversification of consensus client LFGGGG.
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@ballsyalchemist
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11 months
If you are a block-building and incentive-mechanism-connoisseur, you should check out 7+ block production scheme proposals on @aztecnetwork 's Discourse! Super interesting stuff. Other ZK rollups, perhaps even OP ones too, have much to learn from this. Here is a TLDR of them👇🧵
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@ballsyalchemist
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1 year
I cannot agree more. Shared Proposer is more accurate than Shared Sequencer. And I have been secretly calling it that. But hopefully we can align on this with more ppl.
@hasufl
Hasu⚡️🤖
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@jillrgunter Don't call yourselves a shared sequencer if you don't like the resulting acronym 🙈 For what it's worth, I am petitioning to change it to shared proposer (PS) anyway. Much more accurate!
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@ballsyalchemist
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Turning SNARK transparent via list polynomial commitments: Sth to munch on in case you are wondering what other ways to make transparent SNARK.
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@ballsyalchemist
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TEE is a tradeoff that makes sense. Plz don't take away my TEE 😤 Great post by @socrates1024 & @0xQuintus
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@hasufl
Hasu⚡️🤖
4 months
must read post from @0xQuintus and @socrates1024 , addressing many arguments/misinfo against TEEs.
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@ballsyalchemist
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Ethereum observability is improving thanks to the great work by @blocknative . For anyone monitoring on-chain data, should check out It's cool stuff
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@ballsyalchemist
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MEV workshop deciphering solver psyops
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@ballsyalchemist
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OH2: "Da Quintus of da Ordaflow will devise a panel to restore order for PBS 👀" cc. @0xQuintus
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Sorella alignment is real
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UniV4 will turn what it was a pure composable DEX into an Ecosystem (more customizability). Here is why it's beneficial to build projects on UniV4👇 TLDR: Projects maintain a large governance surface with its hook + ecosystem boost (e.g build on ETH vs SOL) -> real DeFi 2.0?!
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@Uniswap
Uniswap Labs 🦄
11 months
1/ Today, we’re announcing our vision for Uniswap v4 🦄 We see Uniswap as core financial infrastructure & think it should be built in public with space for community feedback and contribution. An early implementation of the code can be found here:
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So basically hackers deposited to Oasis. Jump asked Oasis to coordinate and stole the money back via proxy contract upgrade done by Oasis. Amazing. But also, scary stuff if you really think about it....
@Blockworks_
Blockworks
1 year
SCOOP: Jump Crypto $140M better off after turning tables on Wormhole hacker. Via @smyyguy and @JonRiceCrypto
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@ballsyalchemist
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10 months
Overview of major MPC protocols and their theories/ implementations: Quite good for anyone curious to learn about MPC and perhaps try implementing one. Bunch of bitwise operations ;))
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@ballsyalchemist
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Sony chain incoming 😲😲😲 Wonder all the MEV (Music Extractable Value) and MEV (Movie Extractable Value) on that chain 😲😳
@WatanabeSota
Sota Watanabe
8 months
Probably the biggest announcement we made so far. I am extremely excited to announce that Sony is going to make Sony's blockchain together with @StartaleHQ , a spin-off company from @AstarNetwork through the joint venture between us. This can be the game changer in web3, and here…
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So far, the biggest take imo from the is by @hasufl on the need for L2 PBS. It is true that the current sequencer is following the same old path of PoW miners having a global authority (validating + sequencing) on a particular block.
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@ballsyalchemist
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Biweekly chat again here! Today, I and @DanielVerilog will be talking with @awleckss from @fuellabs_ to discuss @sway_lang , the language powering the future of modular blockchain! Set a reminder for the upcoming Space! FUEL is coming!
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@ballsyalchemist
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Finally done with @EFDevconnect !! Fortunately our first Fenbushi Research House and the workshop series went very well thanks to all the amazing ppl who attended and shared their insights at our workshops. Looking forward to jamming with you all next time 👍
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Is liquidity fragmentation across rollups a problem or a feature, esp for major rollups already hoarding millions of liquidity in the space? Users may enjoy having seamless atomic composability across chain via shared sequencing. That's cool. But rollups who achieved sizable…
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@ballsyalchemist
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@JandX_ It's actually real wtf
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Amazing stuff. Now everyone can see where their blocks are flying to and from. This will be a game changer for anyone looking to start block delivery service via pigeons, especially useful for covering long-tail routes 👍
@0xvanbeethoven
Ludwig
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Quick sneak peek of our mev world map : )
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@ballsyalchemist
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11 months
Finally we are talking about cap raise for eth validators. Ppl might think this somehow has a centralizing effect, but the reality is far from it. Full nodes != validators, and there are only around 5k+ synced full nodes running 600k validators on Eth. Also...
@Timccopeland
Tim Copeland
11 months
Benefits: - allows for fewer validators - could let rewards more easily compound good move or bad move?
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@ballsyalchemist
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MEV and ETH accelerationism have been funded. We are only going faster. Looking forward to works coming out of PBS foundation 👍
@fenbushi
Fenbushi Capital
4 months
It's great to partner with @VitalikButerin , @Coinbase , @Consensys , @paradigm , @UniswapFND , and Flashbots to fund the PBS Foundation, dedicated to spearheading research on proposer-builder separation (PBS) and providing infrastructure support for those committed to PBS🔥🔥
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"The main result is that for higher system security guarantees, the cost of checking should be low, TVL should be high and the number of validators should be as low as possible." Honestly, didn't know the game theoretic analysis of rollup validator incentive was this fun. Def…
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MEV Week, , , PBS day,....
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This is coming from @sonynetworkcom 😲😲 This post is essentially asking the community how Blockchain could be a social infra in the future.. I'm shook Crypto adoption in Japan incoming ?!
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@sonynetworkcom
ソニーネットワークコミュニケーションズ
5 months
/ ブロックチェーンが社会インフラとなるには? \ インターネット以来の革新的な技術ともいわれるブロックチェーン技術⛓ 現状の課題もいろいろ見えてきています。 みなさんはどんな開発の進展を期待しますか? 詳しく分からないけど投票結果を見てみたい!という方もぜひご参加ください🙌
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0. Today @_prestwich published an article about issues he found on LayerZero, which became a heated discussion on whether such issues are even considered "vulnerabilities" as @PrimordialAA claimed. Here is why I think it's a vulnerability and why it's important for ALL LZ project
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@_prestwich
James Prestwich
1 year
Hello, today we are disclosing two critical trusted-party vulnerabilities in the LayerZero smart contracts. These issues allow the LayerZero team to completely bypass the Oracle and Relayer for most applications (including stargate).
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@ballsyalchemist
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What if private RFQ starts giving you "points" instead of MEV rebates? Would ppl like that better?
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7 months
Never presented a workshop in Japanese so...please forgive my ugly Japanese...
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12/x ETH restaking: EigenLayer @eigenlayer proposed ETH restaking extends the Ethereum security to many more middlewares who used to rely on their own token for crypto-economic security, which can be quite vulnerable.
@sreeramkannan
Sreeram Kannan
1 year
EigenLayer - What is it good for? This is a thread that explains the underlying elements of trust in the @eigenlayer network and how they can be put together to create powerful services with customized decentralized trust models.
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All proposals are explorations in itself. There is NO REASON to blame or bash anyone for exploring a possible path for ETH. EF researchers put forth many proposals. Most of them do not actualize, but each delivers a lesson on pitfalls we have to avoid. Same for ETH issuance...
@hasufl
Hasu⚡️🤖
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The burden of proof for why Ethereum shouldn't change is not on the community. The community doesn't need to "make a counter case". Like a defendant in court, it doesn't need to say anything. It's the researchers and devs who have to prove their case beyond any reasonable…
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Japanese MEV event anyone??? Will be in Japan next week. Looking forward to meeting up with Japanese protocol devs 👍
@keccak255
vita
7 months
MEVのイベントを開きます。 EthereumにおけるMEVについて @Ethereum_jp から私、エンジニアの @_ywzx @fenbushi から @ballsyalchemist が登壇し、概要や問題、解決策などをお話します。
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10 months
Txs forcing to L1 on @aztecnetwork by @HerskindLasse : 1. Emergency escape hatch approach has spamming issue that allows sequencer to exploit the hatch and compete with users 2. crList prevent such exploit but will require protocol level updates...
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@ballsyalchemist
Life is short, so am I
7 months
@0xgaut What happened with ppl in the basement apartments?!
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@ballsyalchemist
Life is short, so am I
4 months
Japanese Corporate Involvement in Crypto/Blockchain Development is next level insane. Can't fade Japanese crypto scene. Lots to look out for in the coming few years esp with all the regulatory changes.
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@ballsyalchemist
Life is short, so am I
5 months
🥂 to our comrades
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@ballsyalchemist
Life is short, so am I
5 months
Finally done with @EFDevconnect !! Fortunately our first Fenbushi Research House and the workshop series went very well thanks to all the amazing ppl who attended and shared their insights at our workshops. Looking forward to jamming with you all next time 👍
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@ballsyalchemist
Life is short, so am I
6 months
MEV workshop on PBSing rollups and prover coordination problem 😉
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@ballsyalchemist
Life is short, so am I
6 months
MEV workshop is monopolized by the Lord of Ordaflow
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@ballsyalchemist
Life is short, so am I
1 year
Japan, I am coming...back!
@WebX_Asia
WebX 2024 (Aug 28-29)
1 year
📢We’re happy to announce Yuki Yuminaga ( @ballsyalchemist ), Research & Investment (Investment Director) at Fenbushi Capital( @fenbushi ) as a speaker at WebX this July in Tokyo! #WebX2023 #web3 #japan Covered by @Coin_Post @CoinPost_Global Details👉 …
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@ballsyalchemist
Life is short, so am I
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Execution tickets may actually drastically reduce missed slots. Large % of the missed slots to date (40-60%) are caused by inactive proposer who truly missed the slots (not reorg). I am suspecting this is due to the surge in network load by becoming a proposer, whose network…
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@ballsyalchemist
Life is short, so am I
1 year
0/128 Have heard of somewhat critical views on Flashbots over a few months. And in light of this article that I stumbled upon, I wanted to share what I see is missing from many arguments around the bearish case for Flashbots and why I am looking forward to SUAVE.
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@dotcuriouscat
Catrina Wang
1 year
Finally pushed out this research piece on Business Models in MEV on @theBlockcrunch . Expect insights on 1. Why Flashbots is bad biz today 2. How it can be good biz tmrw 3. Emerging trends 4. Concluding predictions TLDR - a thread
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@ballsyalchemist
Life is short, so am I
9 months
Gonna be a fun and roasty discussion around the problems of integrated builder and implications of recent findings around ToB dominance 👍👍 Come join for some roasty roast 🔥🔥 🥵🥵
@fenbushi
Fenbushi Capital
9 months
Twitter Space 📄MEV Roast : The threat of integrated builders & ToB market 🔊We invited @malleshpai & @maxresnick1 from @specialmech @thegostep & @ankitchiplunkar from @FrontierDotTech ⏰ Aug.21st Monday 7-8am PST 10-11am EST ‼️ Set reminder now 👇🏼
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@ballsyalchemist
Life is short, so am I
2 months
OH: "Difference between @eigenlayer and @babylon_chain is that @sreeramkannan has rizzzz"
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@ballsyalchemist
Life is short, so am I
5 months
FHE should be a coprocessor. And I am pleasantly surprised to see someone trying that idea.
@Maddiaa0
Maddiaa
5 months
On Chain Auctions, but 🔒 P 🔒 R 🔒 I 🔒 V 🔒 A 🔒 T 🔒 E 🔒 New research x hack from myself and @Janmajaya_mall We set out to create a good model for shared private state; and we've built an FHE co-processor on Aztec. Everything remains PRIVATE
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@ballsyalchemist
Life is short, so am I
1 month
What if you can have app-specific sequencing for your dApps without building a whole rollup?
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@mr_dddt
Daniel.T 🏍️
1 month
🫡 Exactly I think shared sequencing is cool / generalized MEV solution or intent solution is cool But there is a missing piece in app-specific sequencing solution to make the entire supply chain more developer centric & ultra optimized! Stay tuned for @SemanticLayer
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@ballsyalchemist
Life is short, so am I
2 months
Just imagine @dankrad throwing out the rollup-centric roadmap of Ethereum out the window. That's gonna be fun
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@ballsyalchemist
Life is short, so am I
4 months
That's sophisticated. Gotta be careful stalling anything even for your job...
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@ballsyalchemist
Life is short, so am I
18 days
Congrats to @fede_intern and @thisisrj on getting everyone aligned 🎉🎉
@alignedlayer
Aligned Layer
19 days
1. We're excited to announce that we've raised $2.6M in our Seed Round, led by @Lemniscap , to enable developers to access affordable and fast proof verification for all proof systems. Aligned Layer helps Ethereum become a better, faster and cheaper settlement layer for validity…
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@ballsyalchemist
Life is short, so am I
1 year
Will be a super fun discussion around L2 bridging. Drop by and enjoy some spicy talk 😉
@fuel_network
Fuel
1 year
Layer 2 Day panel highlight Featuring @ballsyalchemist @0xPeterK @0xJim @Jskybowen @colludingnode The topic will be L2 bridging 🌉
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@ballsyalchemist
Life is short, so am I
8 months
This is a super exciting development from @RiscZero Full consensus verification, with the help of RiscZero zkVM, comes miles closer to reality than it was half a year ago. With the rollout of Zeth, we may see an OP stack type of iterative experiments down by projects on top…
@RiscZero
RISC Zero 🟡
8 months
Why is Zeth a Type 0 zkEVM? Zeth can prove all aspects of Ethereum, from every EVM opcode and EIPs to the block construction itself We're able to accomplish this because Zeth was built by reusing major parts of reth and revm on top of the RISC Zero zkVM 🧵 3/8
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@ballsyalchemist
Life is short, so am I
4 months
@Ethereum_JP
Ethereum Japan
4 months
ETHTokyoの日程が決定しました!コミュニティ主導のEthereumハッカソンです。 スケジュール確保を忘れずに✅ ハッカソン2024年8月23-25日 カンファレンス2024年8月26日
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@ballsyalchemist
Life is short, so am I
4 months
Let's remind ourselves that we do not live in a perfect economically-driven game-theoretic world. There are always many more things that could go wrong regardless of $ security on paper.
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@ballsyalchemist
Life is short, so am I
1 year
Also, don't think this article is any sort of refutation of restaking @eigenlayer . But it does make the point that restaking could lead to projects attempting to leverage eth social consensus in a long term.
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@ballsyalchemist
Life is short, so am I
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Finally in HK now 👍 The weather reminds me of London tho lol
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@ballsyalchemist
Life is short, so am I
11 months
Time Boost by @EdFelten for @arbitrum : While it does not provide txs atomicity (time boost for better ordering != txs bundling ), it enables MEV to be captured via dApps and vendors where the orderflow is generated. This can change the MEV game on arb.
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@ballsyalchemist
Life is short, so am I
1 month
I have been working with the Sorella team since its early days and had a growing conviction that Sorella will become the go-to solution for 1. Users constantly seeking better swap execution 2. LPs optimizing for better yield 3. Solvers aggregating more high-value flow AND
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@ballsyalchemist
Life is short, so am I
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I designed this LP pool in a way that it will make you bid for the opportunity to even buy the token. It's not PFOF, it's not OFA, it's an auction of the purchase right😉
@_JonahB_
Jonah B
1 month
1/ LP sniping punishes early LPs I designed a solution at Flashbots' "Next Gen DEX Day" with @ballsyalchemist & @dex_chen_V and wrote a quick piece. TL;DR: Auction off the right to arbitrage and distribute the bids pro rata to LPs to compensate them for their mispricing risk.
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@ballsyalchemist
Life is short, so am I
6 months
@toghrulmaharram Trustless bridge has been resolved internally by Ava Labs (by redefining trustless)
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@ballsyalchemist
Life is short, so am I
1 year
Finally, here are some thoughts on crypto-infra space for 2023 and beyond. Open to any questions and opinions👇😉
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