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We design, build and fund foundational decentralised technologies. Core dev for Aleo & Starknet among others.
Joined September 2019
1/ Verifiable inference enables proving the correct model was used and that inputs/outputs were not tampered with. Why is this useful, who's working on it, and what does the future hold? Summary below 🧵. ✍️ Written by @hammyx_.
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Pathfinder is a full node for @StarkWareLtd #Starknet written in Rust and we are making the codebase public as we near our milestone 1 release. Check it out:
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🥷 Some of the researcher team at Equilibrium has been hard at work delving into @MinaProtocol. We believe it is one of the few privacy-focused L1s that can actually enable zkApps today - not tomorrow. Stay tuned for more updates on our contributions! 🤖.
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1/.Will ZK Eat The Modular stack? 🥞. Late last year, we started asking ourselves this very question. We've summarised our findings in this report and also explained why we think it's a relevant question. ✍️Written by @hammyx_. Highlights in the thread 👇.
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We are excited to announce our strategic partnership with @StarkWareLtd to continue building out core infrastructure and tooling for #StarkNet long-term! 🔥.
We are happy to announce our strategic partnership with @equilibrium_co 🎉. With the Pathfinder full node already operating, and more dev tools in the pipeline, our teams are committed to growing the #StarkNet ecosystem🚀
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Announcing Starknet Pathfinder v0.8.1 🔥. Now powered by the Blockifier for even more Rust and a 10-40x performance boost to execution-related queries! 🚀.
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Today we are very excited announce a new project and associated grant from @protocollabs: A #Rust implementation of #IPFS. Read about our development roadmap here:.
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@XRPLLabs Hooks Builder - We built the coolest IDE on the planet for building Hooks smart contracts. More to come.
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Phase 1 of our #Rust #IPFS project is complete. Thank you to @protocollabs for helping get things kicked off. Here's what we did and what we're doing next:.
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Today, we are very excited to launch the Sprawl Network into alpha. Sprawl is a peer-to-peer protocol and network for creating distributed marketplaces for absolutely anything. Check out
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1/.The latest update for Pathfinder - our @Starknet full node implementation in Rust - targets state bloat. Through a combination of different optimisation techniques, we've managed to achieve an 80% reduction in storage requirement for Pathfinder nodes (from 770 GB to 170 GB)!
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1/.What do actually mean when we talk about privacy in blockchains and why is it difficult to achieve? 🔐. We spent the last couple of months diving into this topic and part 1 of our privacy series covers these questions and more. ✍️ Written by @hammyx_ .
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We’re excited to share our Equilibrium Year In Review post for 2021. So many exciting projects and so many more underway. We’ll highlight a few with important milestones coming up soon here:.
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Our 2022 Year In Review post is out! . Never a dull day in crypto, but if you find yourself in one and would like to learn about all the cool things we built last year, check it out!.
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#IPFS on #Substrate has some new goodies. Now including ipfs::add, ipfs::cat and improvements to the DHT and build time. Check it out:.
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Want to learn how Ziggurat is ensuring our favorite blockchain networks are secure and stable? . Listen to this presentation by @aphelionz at the APEX Summit in Las Vegas! . #XRPLedger #XRP #XRPL.
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We are hiring:. 1. Senior Rust Engineers.2. Site Reliability Engineers. Come build the blockchains of the future with us. Open positions:
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1/ An incident occurred on Sat, 17 June 2023, 18h05 UTC, causing @Starknet Pathfinder nodes to stop syncing on mainnet, leading to an ecosystem-wide outage. The issue was fixed the next morning. This thread is a summary of our postmortem �🧵.
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The next instalment in our #Rust #IPFS journey and another grant from @protocollabs. This one is all about UnixFS. Here's a deep dive from @koivunej:.
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We’re happy to unveil our integration of #IPFS into @ParityTech Substrate funded by @web3foundation. Learn more:.
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We believe no individual or organisation should dictate what can and can't be discussed online. We also think the only way to create resilient spaces for discourse is with p2p technology, so we are donating to development. 🔥.
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We are thrilled to invest in Starkware’s Series D alongside such an awesome lineup of investors. It’s time to scale ethereum 💪.
We are thrilled to announce our $100M Series D at an $8B valuation. We would like to thank Greenoaks and Coatue - our lead investors, Tiger Global, and many of our existing investors, for their vote of confidence in the technology, products, and ecosystem that we’re building.
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In case you missed our Year in Review post, here are the main points in a convenient form. Curated just for you. 🧵👇.
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We Are Equilibrium 2.0. We've upgraded as an organisation. Learn about what we do now and how we go about doing it here.
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🪐 🪐 We're thrilled to be a part of Celestia's invite-only Blockspace Race, running a DA Bridge Node and a Consensus Full Node in tandem! . Looking forward for this being a starting point for us to contribute more in the @CelestiaOrg ecosystem. Stay tuned for more updates!
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Equilibrium is proud to announce that we're taking our p2p network hardening experience to the @zcash community. Introducing Ziggurat: The Zcash Network Stability framework. Read on to learn more, or participate in the discussion yourself!.
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1/.Infra Bulletin #9 comes packed with content that we've explored internally, a few 🔥news from us and our partners + personal recommendations from the team!. Let's break it down 🧵.
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We are still hiring more #rustlang engineers to work remotely on open source protocols like #ipfs, #orbitdb, #interledger and related client projects. Learn more and apply here:
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At-Home Validators and Client Diversity - two incredibly important parts of decentralisation for @StarkWareLtd . Congrats @kasarLabs on the achievement and thanks for the shoutout!.
You can choose between the different clients on @Starknet. Among Pathfinder from @equilibrium_co, Papyrus from @StarkWareLtd and Juno from @nethermindeth. 🌐.
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We are excited to support our friends at @API3DAO by participating in this round. That’s quite a lineup of investors! 🔥.
Announcing our $3M seed round, led by @placeholdervc and accompanied by @PanteraCapital , @Accomplices , @coinfund_io , @DCGco and @hashed_official .
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8/.Finally, @elusivprivacy which is a privacy layer that currently operates on top of @solana, introduced private swaps. This allows for swapping between a number of assets without revealing any identifying information about yourself - a first for Solana!.
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Our sister company @eiger_co has created Lumina, a Rust implementation of @CelestiaOrg’s light node optimized for sampling in the browser.
1/ Announcing our Rust RPC client for @CelestiaOrg!. Early adopters like @sovereign_labs, @EclipseFND, and @AstriaOrg are already building on Celestia with the data structures we’ve ported to Rust. 🔧
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Last week we released Sprawl: a protocol and network for creating distributed marketplaces for anything. If you missed it, here’s the details:.
Today, we are very excited to launch the Sprawl Network into alpha. Sprawl is a peer-to-peer protocol and network for creating distributed marketplaces for absolutely anything. Check out
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We are super excited to announce that Starknet is now live on #Infura - running Pathfinder nodes, built by Equilibrium. Let’s go! 🔥🔥🔥.
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Even though we aren't present at #ETHDenver this time around - here's one from the archives:. The winning presentation from last years BUIDLathon for a Document Recovery solution powered by @TheTNetwork . Catch us next year!.
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1/.🚄 Infra Bulletin #19 features:. ✍️ Sign Everything by @andrewlu_.🚥 Horizontal and trust-minimized scaling by @_weidai.⛓️ Proof supply chain by @tracecrypto1. Let's dive in! 🤿
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We just published "We Are Equilibrium", where we explain what we do every day and why. This post also doubles as a vision for how #opensource might be funded sustainably. Let us know what you think!.
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6/.@0xMert_ gives an excellent overview of state and NFT compression on @solana, which enables much cheaper minting costs for NFTs. The key innovation comes from using concurrent Merkle trees and Solana's ledger to significantly cut down storage costs 💪.
Compression is the most interesting and impressive primitive in crypto. It allows you to do some truly insane stuff — like minting millions of NFTs for a few dollars on an L1. But it's pretty complex — lucky for you, we wrote *the* guide on it. Read:.
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1/ 🚄 Infra Bulletin #28 features:. 🔍 Highlight of the Week: @usv thesis on "deep reals". 💡 Research and Other Things of Interest: MEV on L2s, Blended execution, Starkware x Bitcoin and more. 🔥 Partner news: @UnalignedHouse during ETH CC. And of course our personal
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Permissionlessly activated data feeds from our portfolio company/DAO @API3DAO.
We are happy to announce Phase 1 of API3’s data feed rollout - introducing the API3 Market and 100+ self-funded dAPIs. You can now access crypto and forex data on multiple blockchain networks. Thread 🧵.
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Major new pathfinder release!. Includes:.- revamped JSON-RPC v0.1.0 including `starknet_getStateUpdate`.- local `pending` support. Release notes: #starknet #starkware @StarkWareLtd.
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Investing:. We invested in a bunch of exciting projects in 2022 including:. @StarkWareLtd (Series D).@elusivprivacy (Seed).@kleoverse (Seed).Empiric (Seed).Flowstate Games (Seed).Ray Systems (Seed). We look forward to ramping up our early stage investing in 2023 and beyond.
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Start using #Starknet via Infura right now!.
Check out this blog to get started using Infura on StarkNet today: . 4/4.
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We are once again hiring #Rust engineers to work on open source protocols and related projects. Read more and apply:.
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There’s seems to be some confusion as to the relationship between Equilibrium and @VanillaDeFi so lets clear it up. We designed & built Vanilla and open sourced the contract code on github. An anonymous community member deployed the smart contracts to Ethereum.
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9/ News from our partners:. @gevulot_network announced their seed funding led by @variantfund earlier this week. Gevulot is a decentralized prover network that was spun out from Equilibrium Labs - the first of many to come as we ramp up our R&D efforts!.
We are excited to announce our $6M seed round led by @variantfund with participation from @Rockaway_X @VoltCapital @StakingFac & more. We are also launching the Gevulot devnet March 25th in collaboration w/ @_Supranational & @P2Pvalidator . Sign up: 🧵👇
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16/.Lastly, we want to thank:.@apruden08 from @AleoHQ.@cwgoes from @anoma & @namada.@cryptopapi997 from @elusivprivacy.@TauLepton_ from @0xPolygonMiden.@dylankugler from @MinaProtocol.@hdevalence from @penumbrazone. This post wouldn't be the same without your insights and review!.
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Its very exciting to help bring finnish gamedev talent to the web3 market and we are sure this is just the beginning! 🔥.
The Helsinki-based company Flowstate Games behind the Smash Stars has closed a $2 million pre-seed round led by @PlayFutureFund with the participation of @joakim_a and his angel syndicate and @equilibrium_co.
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1/.🚄 Infra Bulletin #18 features:. 🤗 @eigenlayer x @cosmos - bringing the two ecosystems closer.💽 @nubit_org DA layer on Bitcoin.🤔 @zeroknowledgefm ZK predictions for 2024. Let's dive in! 🤿
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1/ 🚄 Infra Bulletin #25 features:. 🔍 Highlight of the week: @penumbrazone recent improvements to client-side proving, and why it matters. 💡 Research and Other Things of Interest: @Gatling_X GPU-EVM, State of Light Clients, 5 areas of improvement for FHE, and more. And of
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We are yet again hiring more people:. 1. Senior Rust Engineers.2. Cryptographic Engineers. Join us in building future of blockchains and zero knowledge systems. Open Positions:.
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1/.The topics of Infra Bulletin #13 center around P2P networking and Intents🙌. In addition, we've partnered with @tokenterminal to give away 5x three-month PRO subscriptions to their data analysis platform to the top 5 referrers. Winners announced 21/12🤝.
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1/.🚄 Infra Bulletin #21 features:. ☘️ @AvailProject Trinity and future roadmap.💾 @aoTheComputer initial protocol specification.🕵️ @inconetwork "Confidentiality as a Service". Let's dive in! 🤿
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Join us. Do it.
Further your #career: Senior #Go Engineer at Equilibrium [@equilibrium_co] #RemoteWork 🇪🇺 #remote #golang #job
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4/.We still lack formal definitions around different types of light nodes, but @0xDinoEggs from @modularmedia_ proposes the following:. 1) Consensus Verifiers.2) State Verifiers.3) Data Availability Verifiers.4) Full Verifiers (all of the above). Full explainer in the newsletter!.
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6/.What did we find?. Firstly, lots of cool things have already been built ⚡️. Secondly, some of the open problems suggested here are more tangible (already under development), while others are much less explored. If you feel we missed something - feel free to DM us!
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11/ 🔥 Partner news. @gevulot_network launched their devnet earlier this week ⛴️. 16,000+ whitelisted users that can now start deploying arbitrary provers & verifiers and run workloads to generate & verify proofs!.
🔥🔥🔥GEVULOT DEVNET IS LIVE🔥🔥🔥. - Deploy arbitrary provers and verifiers. - Run workloads to generate and verify proofs. - Free for registered users. It's there. You can start using it. Get started:.
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1/.🚄 Infra Bulletin #15 features:. 💨 An overview of @SeiNetwork v2 upgrade.🔦 VectorX: @AvailProject's ZK Light Client.🤫 Research on the privacy stack by @greenfield_cap. Let's dive in! 🤿
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A fantastic data visualisation built by @roinevirta from EQ incubated @EUROemoney is trending as one of the most visited dashboards on @DuneAnalytics this week!. Check it out and give it a star - or save it for later to keep up with the @EUROemoney project!.
5/ $EUROe . 🧙♂️ roinevirta .
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1/ 🚄 Infra Bulletin #26 features:. 🔍 Highlight of the week: @EspressoSys sequencing marketplace design. 💡 Research and Other Things of Interest: Verifiable FHE, vertical vs horizontal scaling, analysis of EIP 4844 and more. 🔥 Partner news: @ArciumHQ (former Elusiv)
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2/ Why are we interested in ZK x Modularity? 🤔. To put it briefly - we believe both are trends that will continue to accelerate 💨. Modularity enables faster experimentation along the tradeoff frontier, meanwhile ZK expands the frontier by providing stronger guarantees.
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1/.The Infra Bulletin turns 10 🎉. To celebrate that, we have another set of interesting content for you, including multi-prover designs from @taikoxyz and @OPLabsPBC, @powdr_labs zkVM toolkit, and an overview of different proof systems. Let's dig in 🤝.
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@MinaProtocol 🛕 The Ziggurat team has started researching ways to integrate @MinaProtocol to their testing suite. This would allow Mina to identify and fix critical bugs and vulnerabilities before they they happen. Check out the proposal for #zkIngite here:
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We operate the interface, but have no control over the smart contracts and neither does anyone else, because they are non-upgradable.
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11/.Big thanks to @0xDinoEggs ( @fluentxyz and @modularmedia_ ), @cryptobuilder_ ( @aztecnetwork) and the team at @celestia for review and feedback 🙏. If you feel we missed something or want to discuss this further - feel free to comment below or DM. Thanks for reading!.
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Sprawl handles peer discovery, networking and storage for you, so you can focus on designing the things that make your marketplace unique. It's not a blockchain and thus doesn't force consensus on participants, which makes Sprawl blazing fast 🔥.
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If you're interested in setting up a pathfinder instance or just want to chat, you can find our engineers in the "pathfinder-full-node" channel on discord:.
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Sprawl is generic, which means you can combine it with the delivery, settlement and security mechanisms of your choice. This also means it can be used for trading digital and physical goods. In fact, you can use it for trading *anything*.
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Equilibrium is proud to support @AleoHQ as they approach mainnet launch. Stay tuned!.
Phase 2 was a huge success, big thanks to everyone who contributed! 🎉.
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If you're working on something ambitious and are looking for funding or additional engineering resources don't hesitate to get in touch. The market can do what it wants, we will continue to build.
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1/.🚄 Infra Bulletin #16 features:. 🔦 @LumioFDN: Move L2 on Ethereum built by @PontemNetwork.⛓️ Off-chain compute is all you need by @0x_emperor and @0xkrane.🔭 Exploring Virtual Blockchain Design by @Polymer_Labs. Let's dive in! 🤿
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Sprawl also does not force you into a trust model and will include granular access controls. - Marketplaces built on Sprawl can be permissionless or permissioned. - Settlement mechanisms can be trustless or trustful.
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1/ 🚄 Infra Bulletin #27 features:. 🔍 Highlight of the week: The new @LensProtocol network. 💡Research and Other Things of Interest: The ZK Endgame, private UTXO discovery, multi-prover frameworks and more. And of course our personal recommendations 🤌. Let's dive in! 🤿
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Starknet-multisig. Multi-signature functionality for #StarkNet - this is a work in progress. 👉 @equilibrium_co.
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For Mozilla folks that are looking to work on open source in Rust, we are hiring!. #MozillaLifeboat.
We are once again hiring #Rust engineers to work on open source protocols and related projects. Read more and apply:.
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14/ .The road to get there is long, but will be worth it in the end. In part 2 of our privacy series, we'll take a closer look at the different technologies enabling this and the tradeoffs between them. Stay tuned. Until then, thanks for reading ✨.
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@TimBeiko We’re always hiring traditional devs to work on crypto infrastructure and protocols.
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1/.🚄 Infra Bulletin #17 features:. 🤫 Managing private state (and why privacy remains an overlooked theme).🔀 Parallel execution on @Aptos_Network and extending Aggregators-feature to NFTs.📆 State of zkEVMs in 2023. Let's dive in! 🤿
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We couldnt be more excited!. Starknet full node written in Rust coming right up.
What's better than one full node implementation for #StarkNet? Well, two full nodes. The @equilibrium_co team are starting to build another #StarkNet full node - in addition to the #Fermion full node being built by the @ErigonEth powerhouse!.
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@Starknet 2/ The issue was 1st reported by @ceccon_me 1 hour after it had occurred. The root cause proved challenging to diagnose due to the issue's hash-related nature. The timing (late Sat night) and the lack of an established protocol for such incidents also hindered the response time.
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Our office book order has arrived. Essential reading for any respectable cryptocompany!
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We are incredibly excited to be working on the Rethnet side of this effort. #Ethereum deserves an amazing developer experience!.
Slang + Rethnet: Our long-term plan to unleash Ethereum's developer experience potential.
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6/.Using this framework - how do the different players compare to each other?. As seen in the table below, there are some differences in approaches. Expected timelines/maturity of protocols also vary widely, which makes it difficult to compare (soon-mainnet vs pre-testnet)🤷♂️
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1/.🚄 Infra Bulletin #22 features:. ⚔️ State growth as the final boss of blockchain scaling from @fuel_network.💰 Market structure for cryptoeconomic vs ZK coprocessors by @rphmeier.🚫The anti-superchain thesis by @cooper_kunz. Let's dive in! 🤿
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Interested in hearing more about Pathfinder?.Tune in today to @Starknet 's Twitter spaces where Mirko and Krisztian from the Equilibrium Labs Starknet team share some alpha.
Meet the full nodes on Starknet! . Hear from @joshklop at @NethermindEth plus @kkovaacs, and @iamirko from @equilibrium_co as they discuss full nodes on Starknet. When? October 4th.Time: 14:00 UTC. Set your reminder 👇
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3/ Nine hours post-incident, @xJonathanLEI (starknet-rs) identified the cause. A fix was submitted, merged, and released a few hours later. Two hours after that, most of the ecosystem was back in sync.
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5/ Anoma's P2P architecture:. Following on from the theme above, @naqib_zarin explains how @anoma P2P architecture differs from existing solutions and why segmenting the overlay into smaller sovereign domains can lead to better performance.
Excited to announce my blog post on Anoma’s P2P architecture! . This blog is mainly inspired by my recent talk at KademliaCon at Stanford (shout out @lightclients) and can be found here: Many thanks to @apriori0x and @IsaacSheff for their feedback!.
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10/🔥 Partner news. @gevulot_network announced custom prover sets, which offers a more flexible and modular approach to outsourced, decentralized proof computation.
1/ 🚀Today we are announcing a new thing: Custom Prover Sets!. These specialized sets tackle extensive hardware requirements by enabling a more adaptive approach to data management. Let's explore how this works!.
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1/.In Infra Bulletin #14, we cover the zkWASM collaboration between @0xPolygonLabs and @NEARProtocol, Binius - the hardware-optimized SNARK from @UlvetannaHQ, and what the Redstone announcement from @latticexyz entails. Let's dig in 🔍.
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Infra Bulletin #6 is out!.
1/.What does running Linux on a Rollup, Fully Homomorphic Encryption and Espresso's HotShot have in common? 🤔. Hint: They are all part of this week's Infra Bulletin🫣.
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8/ End-game:. If generating ZKPs becomes incredibly fast and cheap - When has ZK eaten the modular stack? In our view, when:. 1. All unnecessary re-execution is eliminated. 2. Most applications rely on cryptographic guarantees (ZKPs) rather than economic security. A third.
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15/.Teams behind the light clients mentioned in the table:. @eiger_co, @a16zcrypto, @ChainSafeth, @SuccinctLabs, @tinydancerio, @nil_foundation, @cloudhead, @lightning, @ZeroSync_, @ComposableFin @snowfork_inc , @cosmos, @labs_electron and @PolyhedraZK.
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10/.@Ingo_zk closed their seed round, in which @the_eqg (parent co of EQ Labs) invested. The team at Ingonyama are working hard to make ZK more accessible, bring down costs, and reduce proving/verification times through hardware acceleration 💪.
We have successfully closed $21M in seed funding 🥳. The round was led by @IOSGVC, @walden_catalyst and @__geometry__ . This is an important step on our mission to democratize #ZKPs by enhancing their speed, scalability, and cost-effectiveness, making them accessible to all. 1/3
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13/.Ultimately, it comes down to who should have control over what data to share - users or the intermediaries. In an ideal world, users have full expressivity of what is private and to whom, in addition to strong guarantees that what is programmed to be private stays so.
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