Dev 🧪
@valardragon
Followers
8K
Following
70K
Media
97
Statuses
6K
Building @OsmosisZone @Polaris_app @Cosmos @arkworks_rs Building for a private, end-user verifiable world
Joined August 2018
All of crypto today has a massive liability that needs urgent resolution. Tick Tock
"I've been warning Bitcoin developers for ten years that privacy needs to be provided for at the protocol level. This is the final warning. The clock is ticking." - @Snowden Tick tock
4
6
43
New Professionally Curious w/ @justsayuluvjo + @valardragon Co-Founder of @osmosiszone From cryptography to Cosmos, Dev shares how Osmosis is tackling MEV, privacy, and cross-chain UX to shape the next era of DeFi. A deep dive into decentralization, performance, and why
15
47
228
Impressive at how the @echodotxyz acquisition fully dominated the airwaves that the biggest L2 fully went down with AWS East downtime
13
1
44
On first-read, today's Google quantum computing announcement is way more exciting than the random circuit sampling announcement! Interested in learning more over the coming days about how much of an improvement theres been in quantum ECC. (And therefore PQ cryptography roadmaps)
3
0
6
@valardragon The fact that you can succinctly distinct (with small error) between a non trivial low degree polynomial and the zero polynomial.
decentralizedthoughts.github.io
There is a popular belief that succinct proofs and zero-knowledge proofs are a type of moon math. In this post, our goal is to present a simple proof system that can provide an introduction and...
1
1
4
I know what to point people to for a primer on why zero-knowledge is possible. Can give fairly technical explanations on erasure codes / error correction for _demonstrating_ that succinct verification is possible. But its pretty involved. High level TL;DR: 1) Represent
2
0
7
Whats your favorite intuitive explanation for why succinct verifier proof systems are possible?
13
2
19
@valardragon @ssaintleger @maxdesalle @crymeaCOIN @blknoiz06 @0xMert_ @chainalysis Let’s see, according to https://t.co/fAZwVtQQUr, the Zcash Foundation holds 133,148.57 ZEC. The currently supply of ZEC is 16,343,781, so they hold 0.8% of the supply.
2
2
15
Hi!✌️Personally, I’m not a fan of vibes-based trust. First VERIFY, then trust, is my motto. Which is why Signal is open source. We want everyone to be able to inspect our code, and our encryption protocol, and see for themselves the lengths we go to to protect your comms and
github.com
Signal has 126 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
I don’t trust Signal anymore
121
295
2K
Its so exciting to be building the future where every single payment is backed by a zero knowledge proof to provide privacy Explaining finance will involve explaining the magic of proof systems!
8
5
57
Signal is great. The second it’s not great I’m going to be the first person telling you that.
21
56
481
Why is the AWS outage affecting you? I thought you were decentralized?
506
2K
22K
I like zcash
@0xMert_ @blknoiz06 Everyone hates ZEC: - maxis - technocrats who think all chains should be high throughput L1s - anyone who bought ZEC in 2017 (which is tons of altcoiners) & sold during the 8yr bear - monero folks - soulless traders who think it's just a dinocoin Great recipe for anger
3
5
104
If one cloud provider outage prevents you from accessing your funds, even with alternate frontends, maybe your funds weren't really that self-custodied...
0
2
10