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c-node

3 months

Crypto isn’t a reactionary movement seeking to return to a time before banks and trust It’s a preservative movement, seeking to protect us from the negative aspects of increasing monetary digitization due to pursuit of convenience

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c-node

@colludingnode

11 months

Nikita Bier

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11 months

There will never be a consumer product that takes off purely for political reasons—like “being censorship resistant” or “decentralizing banking” Think of consumers as lizard brains: they mindlessly tap on rectangles on a screen for basic needs—like making money or finding a date

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> VCs say there's a cool new cross-chain bridge > ask if it's trustless or a committee > they don't understand > pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is trustless, and what is a committee > they laugh and says "it's trustless" > it's a committee

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5 months

gm @solanamobile @CelestiaOrg

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@colludingnode

2 years

New article about @MinaProtocol 🪶 How should the world’s lightest settlement layer solve its DA problem? Find out on c-node’s Medium, the blog everyone is raving about!

Mina — Beyond “Single-Player” Contracts

(Note: the author does not hold any crypto investments- this article is purely a technical investigation).

medium.com

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@colludingnode

2 months

SF crew meeting NY crew at Eth Denver

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1 year

One of my older relatives is an expert on financial regulations, with a strong bias against crypto. A lot of his criticisms come down to complete disbelief that these protocols are actually decentralized and autonomous- he says “surely there MUST be be someone in charge”

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@colludingnode

2 years

Just got off the phone with Do Kwon he’s adding Miladys to the Terra reserves

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@colludingnode

10 months

The smartest people in crypto are wasting their time on rollups, DA, scaling, privacy, intents, account abstractions when they should be developing GOOD PRODUCTS THAT PEOPLE WANT! (except that every single one of those things is in service of enhancing UX)

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@colludingnode

24 days

approximately 99% of participants in crypto lie that they stand for something other than launching, pumping, and dumping tokens. The 1% who don’t are what justifies the existence of the space. If you’re in the 99%, understand that it’s suicidal for you to discourage the 1%

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@colludingnode

5 months

If Mina’s technology becomes widespread, you’ll do it multiple times per day

🗜️ uncle G 'latency guy' | ☁️🎮 Shaga.xyz

@photons_enjoyor

5 months

imagine thinking someone in 1000 years will sync from genesis block 💀

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@colludingnode

4 months

Chain I dislike: EOS Chain I think is underrated: Penumbra Chains I like: Ethereum, Solana, Monero, Zcash, Mina Chain I love: Celestia Chain I feel most myself in: Celestia Chain I dream of building on: Celestia (I’m living the dream) Chain I still need to try: Aztec

Anders◼️🇺🇸

@aajxbt

4 months

Chain I dislike: Zksync Chain I think is underrated: Solana with Firedancer Chain I like: Ethereum, Bitcoin Chain I love: Solana Chain I feel most myself in: Solana Chain I dream of building on: Monad, Berachain Chain I still need to try: Sei

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@colludingnode

6 months

the L2 design space is extremely underexplored; almost all the existing L2s are running barely-modified EVMs. and you’re already writing off the entire concept?

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@colludingnode

1 year

UTXOs are underrated

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@colludingnode

11 months

thinking about native tokens as productive assets, and fully L1-aligned protocols as a contrarian path forward for blockchain ecosystems

Fully L1-Aligned Protocols

In recent months, DeFi on alt L1s has dried up. The community believes the reason for this is a lack of tokens that people want to trade…

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@colludingnode

1 year

the EVM is a handicap. Why bring its limitations to L2? bullish alt-VM rollups

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@colludingnode

1 month

this morning i woke up from the bed layer, went downstairs to the kitchen layer, made myself some breakfast layer, got dressed with the clothes layer, went to work at the job layer

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@colludingnode

4 months

Every time you wrap a SNARK in another SNARK, you’re “leveraging up” on cryptography. You’re rehypothecating field elements. Each layer of your IVC increases the risk to the whole system (this shitpost sponsored by my actual fever dream)

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c-node

@colludingnode

3 months

There is only one way to scale a blockchain

hayden.eth 🦄

@haydenzadams

3 months

If you think there is only one way to scale blockchains you might have joined a religion

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@colludingnode

7 months

i tried to define sovereign rollups

Definition of Sovereign Rollup

Note: This refers to the rollup in between socially-coordinated hard-forks. Intro A blockchain’s finalized state, S, is a function of its finalized blocks, B_{1}, \ldots , B_{n}, where B_{1} is its...

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@colludingnode

2 months

It’s quite bullish that the main criticisms of L2s are the very temporary training wheels

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@colludingnode

1 year

blocked all the usual suspects and my timeline is so much more pleasant. Sol has a lot of genuine merits- there is no need to be dishonest. If ETH maxis fade solana and you need someone to defend it, @ me

buffalu

@buffalu__

1 year

gonna get hate for this but… non-technical solana community members trying to dunk on other chains in technical discussion and consistently get it wrong or fail to understand the nuance of the conversation is giving the community a terrible look.

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@colludingnode

2 years

What if we all took a break from building our DeFi protocols, dive into Solana’s open source code, and come up with a way to fix this fucking thing forever

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@colludingnode

1 year

Solve real problems and you won’t need a “narrative”

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1 year

The fact that Solana never saw its capacity fully saturated shows that we're at least an order of magnitude of adoption away from needing anything like fractal scaling chill with the L5s and L6s

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@colludingnode

1 year

It’s true that many tokens and their protocols are “DINO”, but many are truly freestanding and will run autonomously in perpetuity with nobody in control. This simply does not compute for boomers, it is a foreign concept. The noise created by scammers doesn’t help

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10 months

Was Oppenheimer building products or infra? 🤔

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1 month

My mindset regarding MEV:

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3 months

Chat, is this real?

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1 year

Ethereum is not - implementing "sharding" - bottle-knecked by, or locked into the single-threaded EVM - against raising hardware requirements for non-pragmatic reasons - limited by low DA throughput (eventually) enough with these outdated arguments!

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@colludingnode

4 months

Binance asked Monero to add an optional transparent transaction feature. Monero told them to go fuck themselves. Any chain that wouldn't do the same is worthless

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@colludingnode

6 months

I went to a comedy show at Breakpoint, and the comedian just started saying L3, L4, and increasingly higher numbers. the crowd was going crazy

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@colludingnode

9 months

Sampling in Chili’s

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6 months

Blockchains are really cool and I love them

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@colludingnode

2 years

A word on anonymity sets: One of the best arguments against 🌪 is that “users are knowingly mixing their currency with criminals”. This is misleading, because 🌪 users do not directly transact with any criminals, rather, they only transact with their intended shielded recipient

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@colludingnode

2 months

I’m rooting for solana to fix these problems without adding L2s “why aren’t you gloating? I thought you were Modular?” Individual rollups should scale to massive TPS without needing to bridge / shard. Rollup maxis do not need to concede fragmentation

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c-node

@colludingnode

2 years

Here is why Celestiums⚛️ might soon become one of the cheapest and most-secure ways to use Ethereum: 🧵

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@colludingnode

23 days

if you're a weirdo who understands DA sampling, but not ZK proofs... this vid might be for you! In this recorded talk, I attempt to demystify ZK proofs by comparing them to DA sampling

Celestia

@CelestiaOrg

23 days

ZK and DAS 🪄

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@colludingnode

2 months

when you hear "cryptoeconomic", become suspicious, start asking questions. someone is probably trying to sell you a committee-based solution

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@colludingnode

6 months

Another cycle, another year of pretending there’s a tradeoff between scalability and verification cost. As if ~2 years of new understanding and progress on this discussion was too inconvenient for twitter shills and marketers

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@colludingnode

21 days

it’s very dumb to argue that PoS has more-centralizing economics than PoW

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1 month

watching zkVMs fight while me, the user, ports my rust code to all of them to see who’s fastest / cheapest

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2 months

committee bridge

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4 months

“World computer” is not incompatible with the rollup-centric roadmap

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@colludingnode

1 year

L2 devs don’t understand product. That’s why using an L1 is an easy one-click user experience, whereas L2s require users to install Gentoo, rebuild the kernel, compute elliptic curve pairings using a Ti-84, and wait 21 days in between every button click

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@colludingnode

6 months

Tron is centralized. It’s not an example of solving a problem with crypto tech, it’s an example of solving a fintech legal problem with regulatory loopholes and shady corporate structuring USDT’s widespread adoption is not a crypto success story in any way

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@colludingnode

2 years

@kieran_eth I voted no because we shouldn’t need anything like this. Instead, apps should migrate to rollups.

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@colludingnode

4 months

imagine if each CPU thread had its own BD team

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@colludingnode

1 year

Research day was a banger Thanks @__geometry__ @dba_crypto @robotventures

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@colludingnode

2 months

If the state is against ethereum then I am against the state

toly 🇺🇸| bip-420

@aeyakovenko

2 months

If the state is against ethereum then I am against the state

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1 month

paid for something using zcash :)

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10 months

Wtf are these arbitrum gas prices. Kill the stupid single-threaded EVM with fire

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@colludingnode

2 months

Manlets arguing that L2s “have no incentive” to build a L1-aligned rollup violates their own narrative: Thesis states that users should prefer a fully decentralized scaling solution so you’re arguing that nobody will build the precise thing that users want, obviously wrong.

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@colludingnode

1 year

you want the devs to "please do something"? What, you don't mean to say that you invested in an asset with an expectation of profits derived from the efforts of others, do you?

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@colludingnode

7 months

on-chain governance is an absurd idea that must have been conceived by someone who thought "anything on-chain is more decentralized because it's on-chain"

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@colludingnode

9 months

“Modular vs monolithic” is an entirely meaningless distinction, no scaling tradeoffs exist between them.

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@colludingnode

11 months

“So your solution is… to give devs token grants?” No. My solution is to give devs HUGE token grants.

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@colludingnode

1 year

the problem with drinking water is that there isn't an incentive

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7 months

should i also make a cynical alt account to make fun of eth alignment / fee burning?

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@colludingnode

1 year

I'm sick 🤮 but let me try and write a thread about bridging with a shared DA layer, vs bridging without a shared DA layer. Without a shared DA layer e.g with IBC, it's often said that "the interchain is only as strong as the chain with the weakest security" what does this mean:

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@colludingnode

4 months

If you’re one of the people exhaustingly tweeting “users don’t care about decentralization”, then why haven’t you pivoted to BSC maximalism?

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@colludingnode

7 months

Solana’s LST ecosystem is ahead of Ethereum’s multiple competing pools that use the same pluggable standard (SPL stake pool contract)

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2 months

1 million dollars cash… or dinner with @chainyoda ? 🤔

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@colludingnode

4 months

the one problem I have with the ETH scaling roadmap is the attitude that L1 is premium security, and L2 is a cheaper, less-secure option for the plebs that's bs. make them fully secure as L1, then we can talk about booting people to L2s

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Ethereum execution layer has been in a weird middle ground imo, should prob either: - Commit to making it better, increasing gas, more client optimization work, statelessness, etc, or - Yeet everyone off the L1, low gas, extend 30 second block times, etc, Celestia-style

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8 months

You can’t “outrun” MEV by having fast finality

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1 month

Arbitrum has more liquidity than some of the alt L1s who broadly criticized L2s due to liquidity fragmentation concerns

Clouted

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this ones for all the "fragmented liquidity on L2s is a problem" bros there is: $18B of liquidity on Arbitrum $7B of liquidity on Optimism $4B of liquidity on BASE $2.5B of liquidity on Blast HOW MUCH LIQUIDITY DO YOU NEED BRO? if youre trying to move 9 or 10 figs around on…

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4 months

People on here are incentivized to create complexity and confusion learn how systems work, think about how they can break, try thinking of ways to improve them, you will learn terminology along the way

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2 years

i kinda wish the whale got liquidated so we could stress-test the Solana 1.10 stability improvements lmao

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20 days

Positioning DA against data storage, or ZK against FHE is profoundly stupid

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@QwQiao @goodgamepodxyz There is no purely pragmatic blockchain pitch. It’s fundamentally ideological tech. Solana should become more punk

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@colludingnode

1 month

Local coffee shop pivoting to semiconductor manufacturing because they’d be valued by the market an order of magnitude higher

qw

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I see no reason why leading l2s wouldn’t eventually become l1s. they’d be valued by the market an order of magnitude higher. and they’d realize what ive realized by being in the trenches: that dapp builders r pragmatic and couldn’t care less about eth-alignment

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7 months

oh no i forgot to get permission from governance to build a centralized bridge

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5 months

I wouldn’t wish state growth upon my worst enemy

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1 year

Has anyone ever thought of putting the EVM in a Zk rollup?

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@colludingnode

1 year

Not a bad precedent at all. If you put your funds into an upgradeable contract, then this could happen to you, period. If you’re worried about it, then simply avoid upgradeable contracts.

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1 year

So Oasis ( @MakerDAO ) upgraded a contract to steal the 120,000 ETH back from the Wormhole hacker and return it to Jump Horrendous precedent

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2 months

Don’t call yourself “Dick” if your name is Richard… choose Rich!

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@colludingnode

5 months

let's unpack why this common sentiment is so wrong: "less trust than centralized options" is one of the ONLY things we can actually offer anyone. It's one of the only pitches we can give that actually comes remotely close to justifying the existence of our scam-filled space.

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5 months

Is the scaling bottlekneck DA, or execution layer resource congestion?

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2 months

if you ask "where does value accrue in the modular stack", i assume you are an NPC programmed by podcasts

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1 year

L2s don’t make sense for any chains besides ethereum, who’s value-proposition largely comes from background compatibility, battle-testedness, and slow, careful improvement The best tech from the current temporary era of L2 experimentation will someday be enshrined

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@colludingnode

3 months

Wassup ladies ;)

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1 month

This is dumb. Rollups are not a cheaper tier of security for plebs to compromise on They’re gonna be just as secure as the L1, while being cheaper. No reason why we can’t make them that way. Modular is not a compromise.

Omid Malekan 🧙🏽‍♂️

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Solana is Cryptoeconomic Socialism Most people still don't understand that the fundamental question of scaling isn't technical, it's philosophical. Monolithic chains want to give the same amount of cryptoeconomic security to a $1 transaction as they do a $1 million…

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6 months

different L2s are *competitors*, not shards.

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@colludingnode

17 days

come listen to us yap

o1Labs (httpz)

@o1_labs

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This is one you don't want to miss! 👂🏻 Our Head of Product @zk_sjp will join a Space with @dferrersan and @colludingnode from Celestia and @AndrijaNovakov6 from Geometry to discuss the Celestia & Mina integration! Tune in tomorrow at 4PM GMT / 9AM PST.

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3 months

Ask “where does value accrue in the modular stack?” one more time

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Can’t help but feel like we’d be better off discussing things that users actually care about than trying to figure where abstract “value” accrual happens

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10 months

I don’t get why people say “intents are just another word for limit orders” A blockchain is not just an exchange. Intents generalize the concept of a limit order to request the desired state of any generic state machine, not just “placing orders” on exchanges

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@colludingnode

2 months

Y’all want to “on-board normies” without solving any of their problems

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2 years

Hello I just decided to take the plunge into web3 after a long career at Goldman Sachs and the NSA! In this thread I will explain why the market doesn’t want decentralization or privacy, and why we need KYC:

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@colludingnode

1 year

You can’t say “my chain scales and yours doesn’t” until it has working trust-minimized light clients. It’s like saying “my car goes faster than yours” when neither car can even start. A blockchain doesn’t serve its purpose if it’s users are trusting intermediaries to use it.

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1 year

backend developers: how will my system scale to 1 billion requests? blockchain developers: how will my system survive being banned by all nation states?

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3 months

putting TEEs in camera and microphones devices to disambiguate deepfakes:

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15 days

If you think ethereum is a dogmatic decel academic research circle-jerk disconnected from users… then you’ve clearly never met ethereum devs. That could not be further from the reality.

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5 months

If end-user verification takes off, it will be through trust-minimized light clients, not constrained full nodes. Raise the blocksize Blow up the gas limit Send the contract size to the moon Nobody runs nodes anyway, and that won’t change until it becomes effortless.

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@colludingnode

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TendermintX was a huge unlock for so many apps. We have not even begun to scratch the surface of its infra use-cases and my current ZK project is going shockingly smoothly thanks to SP1, the zkVM is the proving itself to be a huge unlock as well.

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@SuccinctLabs

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1/ We're excited to announce we've raised $55M led by @Paradigm to make zero knowledge proofs accessible to any developer. Succinct’s Prover Network & SP1 make general-purpose ZK performant and easily deployable w/o complex infra. Let’s build towards an era of truth, not trust.

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1 year

I bet you think you thought of a good protocol construction.. but you forgot one important thing... there could be bugs in the implementation!

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5 months

trustlessly scaling blockchains is a hard problem, but it's no match for the indomitable human spirit and our boundless ingenuity

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@colludingnode

6 months

“L2s create fragmentation” has got to be one of the top 3 most common lies on here

Sam Blackshear

@b1ackd0g

6 months

My strongest non-Move view in the crypto space is that The utility of a smart contract platform is proportional to the amount of interesting shared state a program running on that platform can access atomically. I don't think this is particularly deep or controversial.…

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9 months

I wish rollup builders never started with sequencers, and went straight to based. Now we are stuck with a mostly unproductive and confusing conversation around “sequencer decentralization”.

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