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@seunlanlege

1 year

Stage 1 complete: new maps unlocked Stage 2: Total world domination 😈

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@seunlanlege

3 months

@skdh Surprised no one has said it yet.

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1 month

DOT is about to become a multi-chain token, I don't think any of you are prepared for what this means.

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@seunlanlege

1 year

In this research article, I define the neccessary, types & algorithms needed to run the ethereum beacon chain light client as an 02-client IBC module. This will allow IBC enabled chains to communicate trustlessly with the ethereum beacon chain.

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@seunlanlege

2 years

The fact that vitalik has never mentioned polkadot, imo tells you which chain is the real ethereum-killer.

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@seunlanlege

3 months

You're witnessing Hyperbridge broadcast zk consensus proofs to 6 different chains all at once. Unifying them for cryptographically secure, cross-chain interoperability. This has never been done before, Hyperbridge is history in the making.

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2 months

You will use Polkadot without knowing it and you will be happy.

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@seunlanlege

1 year

In this research article I present a SNARK based scheme for verifying the Ethereum's Casper FFG consensus proofs. With this scheme on/offchain light clients can benefit from the crypto economic security provided by the ETH 17m ($34b) at stake.

zkCasper

In this research article, I present a protocol for efficiently verifying the Ethereum Beacon chain's Casper FFG consensus proofs using a SNARK based scheme.

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@seunlanlege

4 months

Blockchains like Solana and Tron cannot be bridged using light clients, because they lack a state commitment (or root hash) in their block headers Therefore, these blockchains are not state machines but simply databases. (Eth bois were right on the money with sqlana)

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@seunlanlege

2 months

Hyperbridge polkadot crowdloan soon™

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@seunlanlege

5 months

Polkadot currently provides over $5bn of crypto-economic security, which is 7 times the security budget of the largest bridge axelar. Once Hyperbridge launches on Polkadot, it will have the highest security of any bridge period. Goodluck to our competitors.

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@seunlanlege

16 days

It's insane to me how much money the Polkadot treasury is wasting on misplaced marketing. Did we learn nothing from FTX and ? Blockchains like optimism, arbitrum are giving hundreds of millions of dollars to developers and builders. Bearish.

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@seunlanlege

6 months

After a year of research & development in stealth. It's with great joy I share the product of the blood, sweat & tears of the @PolytopeLabs team. Hyperbridge is the most secure & scalable solution to the Interoperability problem. Powered by @Polkadot

Polytope Labs

@PolytopeLabs

6 months

Today we're excited to introduce Hyperbridge an interoperability coprocessor capable of scaling cryptographically secure, consensus & state-proof based interoperability to all blockchains.

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@seunlanlege

6 months

My favourite thing about web3 is the ruthless meritocracy. You can be anyone from anywhere, literally no one cares. As long as you have the right ideas, and you do the work. People are willing to give you a chance. You all are amazing and thanks so much for all the support.

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@seunlanlege

24 days

The JAM chain will morph Polkadot into a highly parallelized, yet highly composable execution environment for arbitrary computation that can cater to both smart contracts and blockchain state transition functions.

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Happy to release the initial Jam spec in the Gray Paper (10 years after my release of the Yellow Paper): A proposal for the future of @Polkadot .

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@seunlanlege

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Hyperbridge take over at the Polkadot booth, Web3 Festival.

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@seunlanlege

2 months

Honestly still in awe of just how much the community showed up for the Hyperbridge crowdloan. We had most of the contributions even before we announced the crowdloan rewards. Which is even crazier. Remember anon? We're here to disintermediate and decentralize.

Polytope Labs

@PolytopeLabs

2 months

We're excited to share that Hyperbridge has won the Parachain Slot Auction #65 with over 273k $DOT contributed! Making it one of the most successful crowdloans in 2 years! We want to thank our community for the overwhelming support.

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@seunlanlege

3 months

Get your ksm/dot ready, we're going multichain

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@seunlanlege

1 year

"We're working on a ZK AI Blockchain Game with ownable NFT assets and play to earn mechanics"

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@seunlanlege

3 months

We're seeing a lot of existing @cosmos relayers sign up to be a part of Hyperbridge's relayer incentivization programme. @Polkadot and @cosmos both want the same thing and it's an interconnected network of blockchains. Interoperability not maximalism 🫡

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@seunlanlege

2 months

It's been a grind the past few months, but super proud of the team and everything we're unveiling today. Hyperbridge is now mainnet ready. The decentralized future is now.

Polytope Labs

@PolytopeLabs

2 months

Today we take a step closer towards cryptographically secure interoperability. We're unveiling Gargantua v2, our mainnet release-candidate for Hyperbridge. This update brings zk proofs of consensus, permissionless relayers, support for @BNBCHAIN and more.…

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@seunlanlege

3 months

Just upgraded hyperbridge to async backing. 2s block execution time and 6-second block times, means we can process 8 times the cross-chain messages in a slot. Mind blowing.

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@seunlanlege

2 months

Hyperbridge will be deployed to Kusama after Polkadot launch. We already have a Kusama slot. Hyperbridge is designed to have multiple "cores", potentially across multiple consensus layers. All governed by a single token.

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@seunlanlege

2 years

Talking state tries and IBC with @ilblackdragon Near <> Polkadot bridge soon™

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@seunlanlege

3 months

Wen BEEFY all started with this interview with @TheKusamarian . It's been 7 months since and we finally did it!. We wen-ed the devs into deploying BEEFY on Kusama. Proud of you all, this is a monumental achievement that unlocks the next generation of applications on Polkadot.

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@seunlanlege

10 months

Wen beefy?

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@seunlanlege

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The next time a VC asks me "why Polkadot", I'm just going to say that's how you know I'm not a scammer.

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@seunlanlege

1 month

It is with a heavy heart that I must share today that we’ve sold Hyperbridge to Wormhole. I’m sorry, but it was for a lot of money. Wormhole will be removing permissionless relayers so they can fully extract all value from Hyperbridge. So long, and thanks for all the fish.

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@seunlanlege

4 months

And you're still fading anon?

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@seunlanlege

2 months

You're not bullish enough anon

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@seunlanlege

27 days

Polkadot is now producing BEEFY proofs

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@seunlanlege

6 months

L2 Interoperability is going to be the biggest problem on Ethereum. Literally no one is talking about this.

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@seunlanlege

1 month

"We're building an intent-based, crypto gaming platform that integrates AI agents leveraging dePIN, on an FHE-zk-L2 on Bitcoin"

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@seunlanlege

5 months

Thinking of opening up the Polytope Labs office in ikoyi, Lagos to web3 devs who work remotely to come co-work with us. We have: - Floor to ceiling whiteboards for ideating. - Onsite chefs. - Gigabit internet. - A table tennis board 🫡 Let me know if you're interested below.

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@seunlanlege

4 months

Happy new year everyone. It's also my birthday today 🥰 I have a few things I'm thankful for today. I'm really thankful for the community that's slowly forming around the work that we're doing at @PolytopeLabs . I'm really thankful for my co-founder and brother @david_of_earth .…

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@seunlanlege

18 days

Wen Hyperbridge? A few things left. Now that things are becoming permanent, we're rethinking some tech debts and performing various refractors. The team is also working on setting up indexing using @SubQueryNetwork . They provide an amazing, cost-effective service compared to…

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@seunlanlege

3 months

Oh yeah, we'll totally hand over our zk circuits to you @wormholecrypto . Not like we're using it for anything. Yeah I mean, with your whole "wormhole zk" announcement with no zk, seems like you need it more than us.

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@seunlanlege

6 months

Hyperbridge delivers Gavin Wood's vision of Polkadot as a "meta-consensus" layer. By using Polkadot to achieve consensus on the state of all consensus systems, we unlock secure & scalable interoperability.

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@seunlanlege

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People who say that Proof of stake protocols are vulnerable to 51% attacks reveal a fundamental lack of understanding of the concept of safety in consensus systems. 51% attacking a Proof of work chain is much cheaper and more viable than a proof of stake chain. See below

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@seunlanlege

1 year

Polynomial commitments are the foundational primitive for (ZK-)SNARKs. In this research article, I review their technical definition as well as their various applications in the blockchain stack.

Polynomial Commitments

Polynomial commitment schemes are the foundational cryptographic primitive for things like computational integrity proofs (aka (ZK-)SNARKs) and verkle tries (a more efficient alternative to merkle-...

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@seunlanlege

6 years

hi @rustlang twitter, did you know you could do this 😍

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@seunlanlege

3 months

How come @Starknet didn't airdrop their tokens to polkadot core devs and yet their sequencer @MadaraStarknet is literally built on polkadot-sdk? Just know that we'll be closing any support issues you guys raise on the polkadot-sdk github.

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@seunlanlege

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Yeah sex is great but have you ever completed a project that took 2 years to build?

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@seunlanlege

2 months

Every cosmos chain (with cosmwasm) is compatible with Hyperbridge

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@seunlanlege

4 months

Day 1 of joining @paritytech as a core developer

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@seunlanlege

15 days

Mfs will really invent new words just to avoid calling their project a bridge. - Interoperability Coprocessor - Intents - Shared Sequencer - Interoperability Hub - Relay chain - Interoperability protocol - Chain abstraction protocol

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@seunlanlege

3 months

Man, Hyperbridge competitors are literally circling Polytope Labs' tech. First axelar, now wormhole. These companies are backed by Hundred of millions of dollars in funding but you know what?

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@seunlanlege

5 months

Alpha Leak:

Design: Horizontally Scaling Data Availability Across Cores · Issue #4 · thrumdev/blobs

Problem Statement: A single Polkadot core provides 5MB of data per parachain block at a frequency of 6s, for a total of 0.83MB/s data throughput per core. To be truly competitive as a data availabi...

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If we regard blockchains as computers. Then we should also observe an equivalent of Moore's law in blockchain scaling, I.e the doubling of computational capacity at most every 2 years. So what do we see? Ethereum has all but maintained the same block gas limit since it's…

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@seunlanlege

1 year

Happy birthday to me 🥰

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@seunlanlege

9 months

After months of mind numbing work, we give you ISMP v1.0

Polytope Labs

@PolytopeLabs

9 months

We are glad to announce the implementation of ISMP in collaboration with @Web3foundation

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@seunlanlege

2 months

It appears that there are two paths in blockchain scaling. 1. Building a cryptoeconomic floppy disk. 2. Building a cryptoeconomic super computer. After watching Gav's talk on core jam, I've never been more bullish on Polkadot as the trustless compute layer of the internet.

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@seunlanlege

2 years

XCMP: chain-level messaging IBC: Dapp level messaging That's it, that's the tweet.

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@seunlanlege

3 months

Into the hyperbridge was nothing but vibes, much love to everyone who attended ♥️. The revolution will not be televised

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@seunlanlege

6 months

One of the reasons I was nerdsniped by blockchains was fundamentally because of all the good it could do in Nigeria and Africa at large. Africa has emerged as one of the leading use cases for crypto and I'm proud the @PolytopeLabs team is at the forefronts of this revolution.

Techpoint Africa

@TechpointAfrica

6 months

Seun Lanlege and David Salami used to be on the team that built the Ethereum and Polkadot networks; now they've launched Hyperbridge through Polytope Labs to make Africans blockchain infrastructure builders and not just consumers.

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@seunlanlege

5 months

ahhhhhhhh i'm bridginggggggggg

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@seunlanlege

11 months

Ok I'm giving away 30 free tickets to @oscafest To be eligble you must be following @PolytopeLabs plus like and retweet this tweet. I'll select the winners using an onchain VRF as usual, let's go #oscafest23 .

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@seunlanlege

2 months

Uber has no cars. Airbnb has no real estate. Hyperbridge runs no relayers. This is the new economy.

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@seunlanlege

3 months

Wait till uniswap realises how much revenue they're leaving on the table by not being a parachain once hyperbridge fixes interoperability.

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@seunlanlege

2 months

Ahh yes, recruiters are back to sending me the $800k base comp offers. Bull market confirmed.

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@seunlanlege

8 months

Excited to share that I'll be presenting my research into zkCasper, the first succint protocol for efficiently verifying Casper FFG consensus proofs and it's applications at zkSummit10. See you guys there!

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@seunlanlege

2 years

An article on some of the work we're doing at @ComposableFin to bring about the multi chain future

Trustless Bridging

A common belief is that a multi-chain future is destined to be a multisig future, where the relayer is controlled by multiple insiders to…

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@seunlanlege

10 months

The more people I talk to at crypto conferences, the more I internalise the idea that 98% of people in crypto have zero fucking clue.

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@seunlanlege

1 year

My thoughts on Ethereum's loss of finality. This is exactly how GHOST based consensus systems are supposed to behave. By decoupling liveness from safety, you have a network that continues to produce blocks while finalisation catches up. This is also why single slot finality is…

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@seunlanlege

8 months

I asked a protocol engineer what it would cost to build this today. I will never forget his answer... "We can't, we don't know how to do it"

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@seunlanlege

3 months

Shout out to @Starknet for recognising the work done by polkadot-sdk contributors. You guys are so real for this ♥️

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@seunlanlege

10 days

We've just published the ISMP SDK for parachains, solochains comes next. It took an insane amount of work to get here, but excited for what comes next now that hyperbridge has stabilized it's APIs.

Polytope Labs

@PolytopeLabs

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As we continue to make preparations for Hyperbridge's imminent mainnet release. We've excited to share that we've now published the ISMP SDK crates to 🎉. These crates will lay the foundations for secure interoperability between parachains and all of the…

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@seunlanlege

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Blockchains are temporary, Drip is eternal. On a serious note, i had fun speaking on this panel! Much love to the @festival_web3 organizers for the opportunity!

Polytope Labs

@PolytopeLabs

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Earlier this month, Our founder @seunlanlege had the opportunity of speaking on a panel on building Global developer ecosystems, alongside other industry leaders from @BNBCHAIN , @AstarNetwork , @MantaNetwork and @Ripple .

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5 months

Taking a break from math poasting to explore a new class of blockchains that provide verifiable onchain computation to other blockchains secured by high cryptoeconomic security. Cryptoeconomic Coprocessors and their applications:

Cryptoeconomic Coprocessors and their applications

Hyperbridge introduced a new class of coprocessors that are secured by crypto-economic security. This is an attempt at formalising this novel architecture and its potential applications.

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@seunlanlege

4 months

While you're out partying we just merged zk-beefy, our zk light client for BEEFY consensus. Built using the barretenberg backend, it costs 400k gas for verification and 30 mins of proving time.

introduce zk-beefy by seunlanlege · Pull Request #67 · polytope-labs/hyperbridge

Introduces a PLONK verifier for BEEFY consensus using the barretenberg backend.

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@seunlanlege

10 months

@MultichainOrg I like how they admitted that this whole time, it was just people in control of user funds.

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@seunlanlege

8 months

Stop by builder space B to see me present ISMP and demo our Polkadot <> Ethereum bridge!

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@seunlanlege

1 year

We just open-sourced a project we've been working on at @PolytopeLabs for the past few months. A short thread on what this means for parachains & substrate-based chains. 🧵

Polytope Labs

@PolytopeLabs

1 year

Today, we're announcing the alpha release of substrate-ismp. ISMP stands for Interoperable State Machine Protocol and it takes inspiration from the most popular interoperability protocol in web2, HTTP.

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@seunlanlege

11 months

Excited to share that I'll be speaking at @oscafest #oscafest23 . The title of my talk will be "Breaking into Blockchain Protocol Development" and I'll be sharing my journey into blockchain and how devs who are interested can join us in the dark side. See you guys there!

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@seunlanlege

2 months

Never met a more cracked engineer than @david_of_earth . Man has absolute godlike command of protocols. He alone is responsible for the implementation of our ethereum, bsc, optimism, arbitrum and base light clients, plus he's too humble for his own good.

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@seunlanlege

2 months

Hyperbridge is interoperability for the people, by the people.

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@seunlanlege

2 months

Actually feeling the fomo of sub0, but i have to be strong. The degens, they need me to ship.

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@seunlanlege

5 months

Excited to share one of the first applications on hyperbridge. Good bye locking up liquidity for bridges, hello native tokens everywhere.

Polytope Labs

@PolytopeLabs

5 months

Today we're unveiling the first application built on Hyperbridge: Gateway. Gateway is a highly capital efficient cross-chain ERC-x token bridge.

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@seunlanlege

4 months

Game start.

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@seunlanlege

1 month

The best language to write blockchain runtime logic is still rust.

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@seunlanlege

6 months

Born too early for zk Born too late for DeFi Born just in time for Interoperability

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1 month

Up only.

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@seunlanlege

4 months

At the temple of Satoshi asking for forgiveness for the degens who keep asking wen token and not wen the separation of money and state.

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@seunlanlege

30 days

EIP-3074 is immensely bullish for hyperbridge. Relayers will be able to perform cross-chain contract calls with your account as msg.sender as if you signed the transaction 🤯. The volume of cross-chain interactions are going to explode with this simple improvement.

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5 months

@VitalikButerin Boy did I call it or what?

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@seunlanlege

6 months

Ethereum researchers realising that faster finality can only be achieved with a smaller validator set size is the most poetic thing this year.

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@seunlanlege

7 months

Completed my PC build

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@seunlanlege

2 months

Audits, then up only.

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@seunlanlege

2 years

The thesis is simple. With xcvm, an IBC-connected contract environment and trustless bridges to other L1s we will unlock a new level of interoperability that will eventually be called composability.

Composable Foundation

@ComposableFin

2 years

Composable Finance is pleased to announce that it has raised over $32 million in Series A funding. This latest round of funding marks another step in Composable’s journey to achieve blockchain agnosticism in DeFi and the broader Web3 space.

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@seunlanlege

1 month

Fake it till you make it works great until you get disrupted by people who actually made the thing you're faking

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@seunlanlege

2 months

Don't mind me, I'm just making a thread of all the things i've called successfully in Polkadot so far.

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@seunlanlege

3 months

Without warning, @Wise just blocked my account. I've lost access to all my funds and you still think crypto has no pmf?

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@seunlanlege

3 months

They calling it an "aggregated blockchain". But you and I already know it's called Polkadot.

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@seunlanlege

2 months

Literally no one is ready for the decentralization thats about to happen

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@seunlanlege

5 months

Merry Grindmas to all the Sigma's on their grindset.

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@seunlanlege

10 months

Modular rizz

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@seunlanlege

2 years

In this article i explore the vulnerabilities of light client based bridges, their mitigations and the philosophical definition of a truly trustless bridge: A thread 🧵:

Trustless Bridging II: Byzantine Fault Tolerance

Securing light client-based bridges in the event of byzantine attacks.

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@seunlanlege

11 months

My only thoughts on Kusama was that I bought a 1000 $ksm for less than $2 each and I paper handed it at $16. Shortly after, $ksm would go on to hit $350. I still haven't recovered from this.

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@seunlanlege

2 years

With this pull request finally merged, @ComposableFin now implements the IBC protocol and can communicate with other IBC enabled blockchains. We're in the endgame of our cross-chain vision now. Hold steady lads.

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@david_of_earth

2 years

Another milestone towards the cross chain future and composability.

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@seunlanlege

1 year

One of my major problems with the Nigerian tech ecosystem is the lack of collaboration. We don't yet understand that there's strength in numbers, everyone is still playing zero sum games.

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@seunlanlege

20 days

You still suck at coding because you don't read other people's code

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@seunlanlege

11 months

Everyone's talking about modular blockchain architectures as if they are some kind of recent innovation and was not first described in the Polkadot whitepaper as far back as 2016.

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