Olli Tiainen
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Expressive, verifiable compute everywhere | CEO at @the_eqg @equilibrium_co
Helsinki
Joined April 2009
ANNOUNCING: EQUILIBRIUM VENTURES (EQV) - An Engineering-first Venture Firm 🎉 We've launched our first dedicated venture fund, Equilibrium Ventures (EQV), supported by 70+ sr engineers from @eiger_co & @equilibrium_co who have helped build core infrastructure for major
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Congratulations to @liameagen and @therealyingtong for dropping another 1,000x (literally) to garbled circuits. Significant breakthrough for ZK verification on Bitcoin. Any other team claiming 1,000x is just using their work 🙃. True chads. https://t.co/xnmrCQhO6v
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Off-chain cryptography enables more expressive smart contracts for Bitcoin. Recent work, including BitVM, use SNARKs to prove arbitrary computation, and garbled circuits to verifiably move proof...
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Well this was fun.
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RIP Scott Adams.
Coffee with Scott Adams moves to The Scott Adams School 01/13/24
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@neelsomani terence tao being the human linter for gpt 5.2 is the ultimate 2026 timeline
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interesting note -> nearly every venture dollar in the world is going into ai right now, while arguably the most important vc firm in the world is saying that crypto is a fundamentally crucial technology architecture on par with ai crypto will be contrarian and massively right
a16z: "Our mission is ensuring that America wins the next 100 years of technology. That starts with winning the key architectures of the future – AI and crypto." https://t.co/T2axwmIjrq
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Zm. Ok, we did it. Zoro (Zcash ZK client) hits a major milestone: we can prove the header chain and generate self-sufficient SPV proofs. Why is this a big deal? We’re compressing Zcash history with STARKs, so you can verify the entire Zcash header chain in milliseconds instead
Zm, we did it for Bitcoin, let's do the same for @Zcash! Announcing Zoro, @StarkWareLtd new exploration project of a STARK proven Zcash light client. The goal is to compress Zcash validation into succinct, verifiable proofs. Details and link to proposal and repo 👇
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The math on this image is insane. New Horizons transmitted at 2,000 bits per second from 3 billion miles away. Slower than a 1990s dial-up modem. It took 16 months to download all the flyby data. The spacecraft had to hit a target box 100km wide, arriving within 150 seconds
It took 9 years and 3 billion miles to get this shot. Pluto’s icy Mountains. https://t.co/jpj3kSYQoz
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Crypto folks still haven’t jumped on the @CantonNetwork Bandwagon, but that will soon change. @zenithfdn is bringing EVM and SVM environments to Canton so if you’re an application developer in one of those ecos and want to get involved - come chat!
DTCC teams up with Digital Asset Holdings and Canton Network to tokenize DTC-custodied securities on-chain. This marks the first step toward real-world assets on DLT—driving efficiency and market transparency. Read the press release: https://t.co/ca2yaUXZ2I
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Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison writes: 20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple Summary: A major brick-and-mortar store sold an Apple Gift Card that Apple seemingly took offence to, and locked out my entire Apple ID, effectively bricking my devices and my
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Projects worth multiples more than @CantonNetwork itself are looking to migrate to Canton, but they need EVM. Enter @zenithfdn 🫡
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THIS is why crypto will win. THIS is how crypto beats legacy systems: open composability. you can literally just build things and tap into billions of dollars and users from your moms basement. the potential that unlocks is limitless. we need more builders like naruto.
Been building something using both @Polymarket + @aave == PolyAave still need to work on some more details but highlevel idea is: -- PolyAave lets Polymarket outcome tokens earn Aave yield - Deposit a complete set (Yes + No), we redeem to USDC, deposit into Aave v3, and remint
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"Why is crypto still not popular?" Unfortunately it's worse than that, @binji_x. Crypto is not just not popular. It's hated by anyone who doesn't already own it / hasn't already experienced it. It's viewed as a drain on society, enabling scammers, grifters, and terrorists.
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The new @eth_proofs dashboard is pretty cool showing proving happening in real-time. @thezkcloud ofc fastest of the bunch alongside Zisk :)
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Equilibrium Ventures among the 20 best emerging managers in Europe.
Slush x RAISE is a competition we host together with RAISE Global to spot the best emerging managers in venture across Europe. This year's edition culminated in us inviting the top 20 selected from hundreds of applications to pitch on stage during Slush, followed by a dinner
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It was a pleasure working with Quantus and contributing to the post-quantum future.
We're building the most secure L1 for the quantum future. So we engaged Michael Nielsen of @equilibrium_co to conduct a deep-dive security audit of our qPoW algorithm and Poseidon hash function. We’re happy to share that all findings have been remediated.
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dear noobs the point of blockchains is not transparency, and it never has been this is a psyop that early crypto people told the feds when they kept being accused of doing crime the point is quite literally consensus without central trust e.g., a bunch of computers agreeing
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Signal says it will leave Europe before breaking encryption. The EU is pushing a law that would force every messenger, including Signal, WhatsApp, and Telegram, to scan messages before encryption. Germany’s position is now pivotal. If it wavers, Europe could lose secure
Signal Threatens to Exit Europe Over EU Push for Messaging App Scanning Law https://t.co/par0SydZaO
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TEE trust assumptions collapse to that of the cloud provider.
The recent attack on SGX effectively marks the end of distributed confidential computing using TEEs. While the attack itself isn’t particularly surprising, Intel’s response - that the threat model lies outside its scope - essentially removes any future assurance of improvement.
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Järjestin kryptovaroja koskevan pyöreän pöydän keskustelun! Paikalla valtiovarainministeriö sekä TEM, viranomaisia ja ennen kaikkea hyvä määrä alan yrityksiä. Mitä mielenkiintoisin tilaisuus ajankohtaisesta aiheesta! https://t.co/9iv4ZJpdLg
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Corollary: For every finite amount of RAM, there exists a sufficiently distracted human who can saturate it with browser tabs.
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