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I like math. Ethereum maxi. Intern @zksync @the_matter_labs
Joined September 2014
Announcement: I will teach you Zero Knowledge Proofs. Eight Zoom classes over the next 4 weeks. 100% free (I'm doing this for fun in my free time). Reply or dm if interested.
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@GothamChess "This is completely insane!" I say as I get attacked by two rooks (the cops). My favorite streamer had just reached 1700 elo and I decided to celebrate by running it down mid (the US Capitol Building). Now I'm hardstuck in jail for life, but at least I have time to watch tyler1!.
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One month ago, @armaniferrante challenged me to become a Solana dev in one month. I don't know why I was worried. There are actually so many good resources. Here are my favorites 👇
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This is insane. One Solana operator earns $2 million per day by sandwiching memecoin users. Here's a 12 part plan to stop them:.
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"Ethereum is SOOOOO complicated"."You can't possibly understand everything". Meanwhile:.10 hours to learn every EIP.12 hours to learn every line of code in Reth. -> You can learn everything about Ethereum in ~22 hours of studying. Ethereum isn't hard to learn. Open offer to.
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BEAM CHAIN. Here's an explanation in one tweet:. Beam chain is a complete redesign of Ethereum's consensus layer. Why propose a massive redesign now?. The Beacon Chain (Ethereum's consensus chain) is now five years old. There has been a lot of new research that we can include in
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In the last 4 years:. Solana is 40% faster. Ethereum is 1500% faster. Which one do you think is 95% roadmap marketing?.
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April 25th is an important day in zkVM history. Top zkVM teams will gather at the first @eth_proofs call to scale Ethereum🤩. I'm excited to see everyone together ❤️
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Things "they" don't want you to know:. Ethereum L1 is 40x more efficient than Solana's consensus layer. Solana processes 2800 votes per second. Ethereum L1 processes 2800 votes per second with 40 times lower bandwidth. Understand this before commenting on Justin's proposal 😁
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ZK will be bigger than blockchain.
@tarunchitra I expect ZK-SNARKs to be a significant revolution as they permeate the mainstream world over the next 10-20 years.
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What a disgusting tweet from Max.
the real reason I was pissed off at @paradigm was bc when my cofounder Nikolai (@delete_shitcoin) died they refused to even call his parents and offer their support.
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Actually I don't want to limit anyone from learning. Making a discord. We'll figure the rest out as we go.
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I found a SHA256 collision 🤯 These two hashes are the same!!
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I saved a hackathon participant from malware today. When they copied an address from Metamask (0x06A1a), it pastes a completely different address (0xE140E). More details below 🧵
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Solana v Ethereum v BeamChain.How do you process votes for consensus?. Solana sends all votes directly to the leader. This is the worst use of bandwidth because user transactions are forced to compete directly with votes. Ethereum aggregates votes in randomly chosen committees,
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This weekend, I spent 12 hours straight reading the EVM. Full video is now posted 😁.
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I am returning to being a cryptography influencer. There is 30 days until ETHDenver. My goal is to understand every line of code in every zkVM. If you have specific things you want to learn about RiscZero, Sp1, Jolt, Nexus, etc, let me know!.
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2025 will be a big year for @zksync 😁.
🇩🇪 NEW: German financial giant Deutsche Bank is launching its own Layer 2 network based on ZKsync technology.
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Fun fact I learned yesterday: if you carry this book around, Vitalik will appear and start asking you questions
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Someone who took my ZK class just got funding for their own ZK project. My reaction: 1) This is amazing and I'm so happy for this person 2) If I can make a difference like this, maybe I should spend more time teaching people ZK 😂.
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I don't even want to make fun of Toly because I just feel bad at this point. I can't imagine being this negative on crypto:. 1. Toly is bearish on new apps: "There are like only 6 major smart contracts that matter.". 2. Toly is bearish on new blockchain architecture: "There are
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My favorite ZK books:.1. The MoonMath Manual by @LeastAuthority .2. Proofs, Args, and ZK by @SuccinctJT .3. The Halo2 book by @zcash.
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I'm starting my fourth year on crypto twitter. It's a really cool community. I got a little burnt out at the end of last year (Nov-Dec), but I'm feeling good again, so I wanted to write about my CT journey:. In 2022, I was new to the industry. I was new and scared I would say.
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"Using the greater Ethereum-verse should not feel like you're jumping between 34 blockchains. It should feel like you're using Ethereum"
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Your tweets ≠ real cypherpunk ideology. I read every Cypherpunk email from 1992 to 1999. Come to my talk at @EFDevcon to learn the real crypto history.
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Quick update on @zksync's multiprover:.⚡️ TEEs are now proving all mainnet transactions! ⚡️
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Summary of the EthProofs call:. - Every zkVM is the fastest . - Every team has something big "coming soon™️". - Only ~50% of teams are fully open sourced today. - Cryptographers are pretty chill people, unless you insult their codebase 🤣. - Zoom chat is terrible.
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What's the current state of @zksync? (Porter's opinion):. PART 1: ELASTIC CHAIN. Everyone knows zksync has great tech. This is still our biggest strength, and the reason many teams are choosing to build on the Elastic Chain. The Elastic Chain currently has three teams on.
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Is Ethereum L1 like Mike Tyson?. Is it too old and slow to fight any more?. This is what the CT hivemind seems to believe. Here's why they're wrong. Most of Ethereum's history was focused on switching to Proof of Stake. This was a massive upgrade, but what did it do for users or
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Two years ago. One tweet changed my life. Forever grateful to everyone who supported me back then ❤️.
Announcement: I will teach you Zero Knowledge Proofs. Eight Zoom classes over the next 4 weeks. 100% free (I'm doing this for fun in my free time). Reply or dm if interested.
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I made a list
you’re only about twenty textbooks behind the most cracked person you know.
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Ethereum is winning in the real world. ZKsync is winning in the real world. Privacy and zkTLS apps are winning in the real world. All of my dreams are coming true. Meanwhile, crypto twitter seems increasingly irrelevant. Is it worthwhile for me to keep spending time on.
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ZKsync is now fully EVM Equivalent ❤️.
1/ Today we celebrate a big milestone: ZKsync is now fully EVM Equivalent! 🎉🧵👇
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Here is an explainer thread on Vitalik's RISC-V proposal. ⬇️.
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Last ZK class will be on Thursday. Free NFTs will be given out to everyone who attends. Here are some of the lessons I've learned from this experience: (1/4).
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Look what will happen if we increase the batch size @zksync 👀.
7/ c. Most importantly! We don't take into account bytes/tx amortization as batch sizes grow and transaction compression mechanisms are implemented!. As you can see this has a HUGE effect on bytes per tx on BOTH TDRs and SDRs.
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🎉 I've now read EVERY finalized Ethereum EIP+ERC 🎉. Ten hours. Three streams. Every Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) that's ever been included in Ethereum, and every ERC that's been finalized. I've felt for a while that it would be good to have more technical voices.
Reading Every Ethereum EIP (part 3). Starting at EIP 4345
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I take ONE weekend off and Vitalik decides to replace the EVM 🤣. ZKsync's Boojum2 uses RISC-V so we're ready for this. I'll write more thoughts tomorrow 😁.
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I'm surprised how many builders are losing faith because they don't like degens. I care about privacy, security, & censorship-resistance so I'm going to keep building on those things. Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing.
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ZK is the endgame. Don't listen to any FUD about ZK. Everyone is building it. And everyone will promote it once they realize how much this technology helps them.
Solana's zk and verifiability sector is the dark horse you probably didn’t know about. Here’s a quick roundup of zk, verifiability, and privacy projects on Solana 🧵
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Ethereum rollups will be faster and cheaper. @zksync is aiming for $0.0001 proving costs by the end of 2025.
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It's been kept secret, but now it's out!. 🎉🎉🎉ZKsync SSO 🎉🎉🎉. ✅users get the best sign-on experience.✅add it to your apps in just a few lines of code.✅ combines all the best features of @zksync.
Introducing ZKsync Smart Sign-On (SSO) a simplified way for developers to manage user authentication, session management, and transaction processing by leveraging the best features of ZKsync.
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ETHDenver Pro Tip:. You can get into any event by saying you are Hayden Adams, co-founder of Uniswap. He's always on the VIP list but no one knows what he looks like. Have a little confidence and you'll be fine. Don't ask me how many times I've done this.
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I don't really like writing posts like this. But the psyops need to stop. Be straightforward and honest if you don't want threads like this.
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Extremely bullish for all of Ethereum:. ⚡️Introducing solx ⚡️. A new Solidity compiler that works on any EVM chain 😁.
EVM Equivalence on @ZKsync was just the beginning. For years, we’ve been quietly building toward a better future for all of @Ethereum. Introducing ⚡️ solx — a powerful new Solidity-to-EVM compiler 🧵
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tl;dr. Ethereum L1 will do 10,000 tps with zkVMs. and L2s will do 10,000,000 tps with zkVMs.
@TrustlessState @BanklessHQ Here's my stance :). We can scale the canonical L1 EVM by 1,000x—from 10 TPS to 10K TPS—using zkVMs. The core idea: validators verify a SNARK for every EVM block, instead of re-executing it. I'll discuss this on @eth_proofs call #1, Fri Apr 25 at 2pm UTC. The founders of 17.
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ZKsync is awesome and it's going to change the world.
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All of world’s finance will be powered by ZK within a decade.
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Ethereum will win Real-World Assets 🤝🤝🤝.
ZKSYNC ERA BECOMES THE SECOND LARGEST BLOCKCHAIN FOR TOKENIZED REAL-WORLD ASSETS. - @zkSync has secured its place as the second-largest blockchain for tokenized Real-World Assets (RWAs). With a 26% market share and over $1.78 billion in tokenized assets across 27 projects, it now
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🎉 Formal verification for @zksync's zk-verifier 🎉. It started with this paper back in April Now the work is complete! This adds a lot of confidence in the security of our zk-verifier. Blog post soon!.
.@NethermindEth and @the_matter_labs just completed the first formal verification of ZKsync's on-chain zk-verifier. This is a major milestone for ZKsync and blockchain security. So, what does this mean? 🧵👇.
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Disclaimers: 1) I've never given this class before, so expect a bit of a mess 2) I want people to be able to ask questions, so if the class size gets too big I’ll probably set a limit.
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2023 is the year to build zk! Excited to see so many people interested!! (It's not too late to sign up).
✅ 2,000 builders have already signed up for Cohort 1, have you?. 🏆 There’s 500,000 USDC and 500,000 MINA up for grabs for top projects! . It’s not too late to register:
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Math background: if you know what a polynomial is, you'll be fine.
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Why learn Zero Knowledge Proofs? It's fun, and Vitalik says it's the future (we are so early)
@tarunchitra I expect ZK-SNARKs to be a significant revolution as they permeate the mainstream world over the next 10-20 years.
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✅7 hours 35 minutes.✅Every line of code in SP1.😁Mission Complete. Stay tuned for a summary of everything I learned 👍.
Every line of code (zkVMs): @SuccinctLabs SP1
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@zeta_globin There is only one surviving drawing of French mathematician Adrien-Marie Legendre and it's this
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Study season is almost over. I have read every line of Reth. I have read the Eth2 book. I am currently reading every EIP. Next I will be extremely focused on [fill in the blank].
This weekend, I spent 12 hours straight reading the EVM. Full video is now posted 😁.
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@ayyyeandy Posts like these always say one or two reasonable things and then sneak in "stop the decentralization" 🤣. If you want centralized things that's fine. That's not what Ethereum is or ever should be.
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✅ I moved from Seattle to Austin, Texas.✅ Wifi is setup.✅ I have my own room so I can stream+record more easily. My plan is:.- Keep sharing ZKsync technical updates.- Share more of my own thoughts on crypto.- Learn everything I can about Ethereum.
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Backstory on why today's announcement is HUGE for ZKsync:. When our zkEVM was originally built, it was a big priority to support Solidity smart contracts, but the support was only at the "language" level. Underneath, ZKsync used it's own bytecode that has been different from.
ZKsync Era v27 supports unmodified EVM bytecode. ✅ No custom compilers.✅ Native tooling support. EVM Emulator is live on testnet. Coming soon to all ZK chains. How it works 👉.
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Please stop pretending Palantir or Worldcoin is cypherpunk 😭. The Technological Replublic by Alex Karp.>"Our central argument is that we should return to the tradition of close collaboration between the technology industry and the government".
If there's anything worth dying for, it’s the ideals, liberties and values of western civilization. The Technological Republic by Alex Karp has given me as much motivation in life as the original Ethereum and Bitcoin cypherpunk visions that made me join this industry.
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Fun fact: Six months ago I legally changed my name to Porter because that's just how important zkPorter is to the future of scaling.
Breaking news; . Ladies and gentlemen introducing zkPorter . That’s what yall waiting for 🚀
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The year is almost over, but @zksync is still shipping. - @sophon mainnet Wednesday.- @grvt_io mainnet Friday. and then @AbstractChain mainnet in January!.
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Security is an area very close to my heart. My first job was web2 cybersecurity. My second job was smart contract security. My third job is here at Matter Labs where I've been on the security team for 1+ year. Web3 security is extremely high pressure. It's not easy to sleep.
We are excited to share the members of the ZKsync Security Council, a core component of the ZKsync governance system, responsible for reviewing technical upgrades to the ZKsync protocol. Read the full post here:. 🧵👇
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📢 If you want to learn cryptography:. I'm helping a new account called @zkillustrated that will be posting daily cryptography topics. The goal is to be fun, simple, and easy to learn. They made their first post today. ❤️ It'd mean A LOT to me if you could follow them ❤️
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Oversimplified summary: we're going to rebuild the consensus layer with ZK proofs everywhere 🤩.
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Since teaching the zk class, my chess puzzle rating has gone up 300 points
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Evolution of Ethereum Consensus.1. Proof of Work.2. Proof of Stake.3. ZK Era of Ethereum Consensus 🤩.
BEAM CHAIN. Here's an explanation in one tweet:. Beam chain is a complete redesign of Ethereum's consensus layer. Why propose a massive redesign now?. The Beacon Chain (Ethereum's consensus chain) is now five years old. There has been a lot of new research that we can include in
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You heard @zksync is offering a $1.1M @code4rena contest, and now you want to learn ZK? I'm here to help:.
@nullity00 help 😭. How to learn zk circuit programming in 7 days.
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