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@reldev
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Working on a thing. Formerly Head of Protocol and Research @worldcoin, Head of Engineering and Product @ElectricCoinCo/@zcash. @Salesforce and @Cisco alum.
Austin
Joined January 2016
If itโs not strategic itโs a distraction
Whatโs my main job as CEO? Listen to the team and help us all converge on ONE THING thatโs important. Then, itโs about reminding everyone of this ONE THING, and saying NO to everything thatโs not advancing it. ONE THING for Starknet, now? Expand Bitcoinโs GDP.
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Thanks @ForbesTechCncl! Appreciate the opportunity.
Is There A Human Behind That AI Agent? https://t.co/nvHS1PF43T Written by @reldev of @tfh_technology
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Thanks @zmanian. Definitely worth a read. "We've spent a decade building increasingly complex financial instruments atop infrastructure that can't handle basic stress scenarios."
Best explanation Iโve seen for what broke in the crypto market
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"Dรฉjร vu all over again" ๐ https://t.co/bXK8ngrlIe
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I've presented the ideas here online and at multiple events including most recently CRYPTO 2018 today, and I got a positive reception from some Zcash community members and it was suggested that...
As adoption accelerates and transaction volume increases, Zcash needs a better way to handle demand. @ShieldedLabs is proposing an EIP-1559-style dynamic fee mechanism to keep the network stable and usable. Read more here: https://t.co/yKRWcEeeuU
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100% agree with this thread. I first met @karl_dot_tech and @jinglejamOP in early 2020 along with @VitalikButerin in the @ElectricCoinCo (@Zcash) offices in Denver. @zooko, @nate_zec, @ebfull, @feministPLT, and @str4d all in attendance. Optimism had just been founded. This
Seeing a lot of FUD about Optimism lately. Here's where I'm at:
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The term nullifier originated in the Zcash github repo AFAIK, specifically here: https://t.co/gVxQxTs7Ts
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I suggest renaming some of the basic entities in protocol, to more accurately reflect what they really are: owner - the tuple (a_{sk}) and all other keys derived from it title - currently called &q...
This video made me search for Satoshi's post on zk proofs from 2010. It's interesting to see the historical development of thought. When the idea of zk proofs comes ups Satoshi says it's hard to think how a zk proof could show that a spend *doesn't* exist. I.e., beyond the lack
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Impressive work from @reilabs_io, a long-time partner of @tfh_technology and the @worldcoin project. One of the most capable groups of applied cryptographers and engineers I've had the pleasure of working with. Congrats!!
๐งตย Keccacheck: towards a SNARK friendly Keccak Reilabs publishes a method to batch-verify Keccak hashes with <4000 R1CS constraints, enabling new levels of efficiency for the ZK ecosystem. [1/1]
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Great work @schaliasosvons and team. Thanks for the opportunity to work with you all. This is a great example of the broader ecosystem working together to harden rollup infra across the board.
New Paper w/ @YourBuddyConner, @spilehchiha, @nico_mnbl, @convoluted_code, Akis Kattis. Mispricing issues in major rollups enable practical DoS and finality attacks. All major rollups have made adjustments in production and we were awarded multiple bug bounties. 1/๐งต
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Impressive!
Developers โ Introducing ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ก๐ผ๐ถ๐ฟ โก A library extending @aztecnetworkโs Noir with collaborative SNARKs. Now you can add ๐บ๐๐น๐๐ถ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐๐ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐ฝ๐๐๐ฒ in just a few lines of code. ๐ก Weโre looking to support builders. Reach out if you want to
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Introducing Flashblocks, the mechanism that super charges confirmations on World Chain to 200 milliseconds Find out how weโre engineering a better blockchain for real humans
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If you're not paying attention to this one, you really should be. It's incredible that it got to this point. Wishing you the best possible outcome @rstormsf.
Roman picked up the weight for a fun photo, but as I was thinking of a caption I realized he literally has a heavy weight on his shoulders. He's not the only one that has a lot riding on Mondays judgement - we all do. Privacy is normal. Developers aren't criminals. Free @rstormsf
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I'd add @BainCapCrypto, @a16z, and @coinfund_io to the list. They've been outstanding partners for us.
I was talking to a founder today who asked my opinion on the best "crypto VC" firms to raise from and imo there is no one better than Multicoin right now They are unwavering in their belief of the companies they invest in and I think that is dope
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We're gearing up for our Dev Summer tour ๐ Join us in Taiwan and Thailand to learn about the momentum of Mini Apps! Registration below ๐
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The new social superapp: - AI for intelligence (grok, chatgpt) - Money for commerce (stablecoins, crypto) - Prediction markets for truth (polymarket) - Identity for proof of humanity (worldcoin) Plus all the old stuff.
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After more than 2.5 years of being around, Baloo found a home at the Vol 2, issue 2 of the Communications in Cryptology. You either win or learn ๐
Baloo's prover performs only m group operations for m lookups! New work with Mary Maller, @rel_Aztec, @Khovr, and @CarlaRafols. ๐๐พ
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Thanks @gluk64!
This is the coolest use of proof-of-humanity Iโve seen so far. Respect @alexblania! World is one of the most mission-driven teams in the space.
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Priority Blockspace for Humans is an epic feature by World. PBH is built on Reth SDK, and it's among the most interesting things I've seen built on it. See below for some code segments to understand how it works. It's pretty advanced, but it's real alpha for node builders.
Priority Blockspace for Humans is live on World Chain. Introducing a new dimension of transaction ordering: humanness. Only possible on World, the real human network.
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Read the full blog here: https://t.co/vYlscJd6UD The World Chain Builder and PBH Contracts source can be found in our monorepo for World Chain: https://t.co/3IpvdR3Iqw Join us in building for the real human network.
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World Chain monorepo. Contribute to worldcoin/world-chain development by creating an account on GitHub.
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