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Head of Strategy at @StarkWareltd. My DM are open - More about Starknet projects: https://t.co/SOclSu6aW8
Paris, France
Joined June 2009
Here it goes:.ZKP is to computation what zipping is to a file. Someone has done the computation and compresses it for you to check it. Sometime this computation hides things sometimes it does not⦠When hides, it aims at privacy. When it does not, it aims at scaling.
In one tweet, explain ZK Proofs to someone new to web3. β.
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@Bornakang @CrackSandwich58 @BufTrading If you are extremely helpful as an Angel you definitely can be asked to join the board.
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@epolynya @cryptoMaxi420 @initnash @CCryptolio @sassal0x @VitalikButerin @Bitboy_Crypto @sandeepnailwal @_jdkanani @MihailoBjelic @sourcex44 @BanklessHQ @MayorOfMatic @morales_eth @HaymanLiron We are 100% focus on Ethereum. We have enough features and projects for at least over two years. I had to tell other L1s projects that regardless of the amount of money thrown at us, we wonβt be able to deploy there.
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Powered by @StarkWareLtd & @Immutable .I did not expect to see part of my work presented in the @nytimes.
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Please contribute to help our Turkish friends facing an absolute catastrophe.
π¨π¨π¨π¨. My friends of crypto. Now you can donate Turkey's most trusted charity, AHBAP, to help earthquake victims in Turkey. BINANCE SMART CHAIN ADDRESS:. 0xB67705398fEd380a1CE02e77095fed64f8aCe463. ANY HELP is appriciated β€οΈπβ€οΈπ.
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Someone launched an ERC20 contract on Ethereum called StarkWare/STARK. This is not a StarkWare token nor a StarkNet token. It is not affiliated to us. DO NOT BUY IT. IT IS A SCAM.
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Be reminded of one thing: WAGMI!.The next season of Crypto is L2s.
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StarkNet discord: "If you don't come for the STARKs, come for the MATHs"
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After 4.5y of my time at @StarkWareLtd, the time has come⦠.The last wall has fallen and everyone can now use and study our prover.
Stone Prover. Open Source.
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This will also happen to #StarkNet. All L2s still are in their infancy. Please be reminded. .
We are currently experiencing Sequencer downtime. Thank you for your patience as we work to restore it. All funds in the system are safe, and we will post updates here.
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Because this is how a weekend should look like, here a random thread on StarkNet architecture:. StarkNet is the result of our work on Cairo. Cairo is a language/VM optimized for ZKPs. Cairo as a VM has the structure of CPU (CPU-AIR --> Cairo). 1/8
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Another random thread on Scalability. Crypto keeps discussing Scalability but often seems to miss the point. One proof: People compare TPS between Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana. Please don't do it!!!. So, let try to define Scalability better:. Here is my definition: 1/11
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These allegations are very serious. Respecting licences and more importantly, honesty and clear attribution is the soul of Open Source. Without it, we lose the incentives that make all this possible.
Crypto runs on the open source ethos. When projects donβt follow it, the ecosystem suffers. We were disappointed to see that @zksync copied our code without attribution and made misleading claims about the original work, so we wrote this post.
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Today is a big day for #Starknet. Expect a lot of traffic and the network is likely to be congested. One measure we took for UX is to keep the queue low purposefully. If your wallets tell you to wait, just come back a few minutes later. This will not affect claims though.
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Glossary (with missing points):.BLS: Hubble.zkEVM: @0xPolygonHermez and potentially, @nethermindeth Warp by @0xGreg_.STARKs: @StarkWareLtd & @0xPolygon Miden.zkTranspiler: @0xGreg_ Warp.Commitment: @StarkWareLtd FRI & @dankrad Verkle Trees.Statelessness & Erigon: @realLedgerwatch.
instead of 2x-ing block size to reduce fees ethtards chose instead to work on bls, zkevm, eip1559, STARKs, 250k-validator pos, interactive proofs, erigon, snap sync, zk-transpilers, permissionless staking, commitment schemes, statelessness, public goods funding. ugh, fkn idiots.
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How not to be excited about #Starknet when you know there is a whole self funded coworking of Starknet projects in Paris?.#FutureofFrance
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That and not onlyβ¦.A op_STARK would enable post quantum secure signature in Bitcoin and hidden spending conditions in UTXOs.
Wait a minuteβ¦ a zkrollup on Bitcoinβ¦ would not just be a way to scale Bitcoinβ¦ it could possibly allow fully expressive Bitcoin-native *smart contracts*β¦ without the Bitcoin baselayer having to implement a VM/runtimeβ¦. Is this real life? @GuthL blowing my mind right now.
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Just a reminder for everyone:.Bitcoin was down twice (8h in 2010/6h in 2013: .Ethereum was down during the Shanghai attacks.Solana was down 2x this year.Arbitrum was down yesterday. Early software has bugs!.No need for more hardship on stressed-out devs. .
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Hot take: what if the lack of liquid market for options is due to the fact that Perps are a good enough gambling tool for all realistic crypto timeframes?.
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Repeat after me: hardware matters and cost matters. Scalability in a decentralised env is about hardware accessibilityβ¦.Happy this is finally discussed and understood.
SSDs are expensive and state bloat cripples monolithic chains. The greatest trick rollups ever pulled was to a) deconstruct this state & b) compress it. So now, instead of fast 40 TB SSDs, you just need a 4 TB HDD. Difference in cost: $5,000 vs. $70.
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Reminds me of the early days of DeFi Pulse.L2s will eat the world.
The Year in Ethereum 2021. by me & @evan_van_ness .
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Many cool projects to hack on.@EkuboProtocol, @MadaraStarknet, @HerodotusDev, @gizatechxyz, @PragmaOracle and finally, @Nimbora_ will open their docs and cool ideas for you to hack on #Starknet
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As promised, a thread on data availability, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Ethereum. Let start with a definition. We call the State, the current set of elements stored on the chain. It can be UTXO, ETH balance in an account, or active storage of a contract. 1/7
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I received quite significant questions about the advantages zkRollups bring compared to regular smart contracts writing. Here an attempt at exploring such differences. 1/9
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This is massive! The first collab between Starkware and Polygon to make the most advanced prover in the market.
Math-heads, youβre in for a treat. Introducing Circle STARK π΅. Over the past three months, weβve worked in collaboration with the Polygon Labs team on a new blazingly fast STARK protocol. Today, we are proud to announce a ground-breaking mathematical advancement:.β¨.A
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A difference that will soon be very important: only State Diff based rollup can do Volition.
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You would have heard here first #KeepStarknetStrange.Upcoming Hackathon Dec 1st-10th.Join and enjoy.
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Personal Tip using Stable Diffusion:.So I have been trying to make some nice images using it with the objective of decorating my apartment with some, but I somewhat kept failing with images with a lot of artifacts which would make it weird to print. Found a solution π§΅. .
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Finally, after months of back and forth, I am super excited to introduce a new scaling concept in the set of ZK-based scaling solution available in the industry. β¨β¨β¨ zkThreads β¨β¨β¨.For the meat: π§΅.
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Yes! Yes! Yes!.In my opinion, only two L1s have the right level of resilience: #Bitcoin and #Ethereum. Resilience due to proper token distribution and resilience due to proper hardware requirements calibration. For an L1, the tech matters less than the L0 trusting it.
why is it so difficult to scale L1 blockchains?. because the true value proposition of L1s should be RESILIENCY. resilience = decentralization (low cost to run a node). don't trust, verify = all nodes execute every tx. scalability = increasing throughput w/o increasing node load.
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An interesting fact, little known in the community:.Roughly, half of ERC20 in the market are implementing the standard called ERC-20 Snapshot (. 1/9.
Knock knock?.Whoβs there?.Itβs trustless voting on StarkNet.Trustless voting on StarkNet who??.Itβs StarkVote!. β‘οΈ@SnapshotLabs on #StarkNet, coming soonβ‘οΈ
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@0xismailemin @Starknet @StarknetFndn @StarkWareLtd You are missing the point. The drops are here to free you to do what you actually want to do⦠Be more ambitious.
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I definitely agree with this take. Eth should go lighter instead of heavierβ¦.Unpopular Opinion: L1 should not worry about L2s data. Projects like @CelestiaOrg are better equipped to bring it to the world. What I wish for is being able to sync Eth on my phone, this is important.
In #Ethereum's history, complexity never decreased. Every EIP is piling on top. Every major change (1559, merge, sharding, verkle, stateless, L2, etc) is one more nail. I'm extremely frustrated when a research proposal says "everything's figured out, it's just engineering now".
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Reminder!!!.#StarkNet is not immune to scams and the facts that StarkWare talked to them is no a proof of seriousness the public can use. Notably, receiving a grant from us is not validation from us. Be careful, reach out and ask me if needed. Best luck, and stay safe. .
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Starknet can now do 30k TPS.
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Disclose by @stanislasdrg and I, a small project for the @0xProject/@CoinList hackathon. We made a ZKP selective disclosure KYC system for blockchain. Feel free to upvote it and have a try: . Thanks to @jbaylina for making SnarkJS.
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Without further ado, let me introduce Argent X x Voyager compatibility
Our team working on the #StarkNet's #VoyagerBlockExplorer is happy to announce the Alpha v0.7 release on Goerli with the integrated ArgentX wallet. π. Great co-operation with the team @argentHQ. Check it out at π. 1/2.
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On this last day of 2023, @EliBenSasson just dropped some knowledge on EthResearch. To all nerds, enjoy.
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Following @PhABCD suggestion, I'm fairly positive we can push EIP 2028 further by a large factor.I have revisited EIP2028 analysis and the new data converged towards calldata having little impact on uncle rates. @peter_szilagyi @tkstanczak @TimBeiko .Let make rollups scale again
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For anyone interested in diving into #StarkNet, here is a few projects that are still unimplemented.- Bitcoin node in Cairo.- Bulletproof and integration in artworks.- BLS12-381 .- altBN256 .- a string lib .- advanced math lib (log, exp, integral, derivation,. ) .Please DM. .
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@HenriLieutaud presenting StarkNet to a packed crowd at #EthDenver.If you missed out today, we have another technical presentation on Thursday as well as multiple firechats on Thursday and Saturday .See you thereβ¦
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Donβt do that! We are building for your next generations too.
I'm so bullish on @Starknet that I sometimes need to punch myself in the balls to stop being excited.
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Very excited to lay out this new unifying vision. A single rollup to rule them allβ¦.The details of the design we are contemplating are gonna be layed out in the next weeks/months but in the mid time, we will do our best to push OP_CATβ¦
Bitcoin's biggest challenge is scalability. StarkWare has a vision to change that. The concept of STARK scaling for blockchains was first introduced by @EliBenSasson at a Bitcoin conference in early 2013. It's now time to scale Bitcoin with ZK-STARK, making it more accessible
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Great time in Boston for MIT Bitcoin Expo. Heading out to Austin! Hit me up at Consensus
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5 days ago, builders on #StarkNet joined @farcaster_xyz and I shared some alpha there. Here is some of it. In the upcoming weeks, Cairo 0.10.3 will gain 40% improvement in the performance of #StarkNet sequencer, bringing it to 2TPS. Why is that, and what will come next? Threadπ§΅.
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Actually this might be even crazier that I thought!.Using @MadaraStarknet to run @KakarotZkEvm and adapting the substrate SDK to communicate with the rest of the Eth network could make a fully fetched Eth full node and make it a type 1 zkEVM. #KeepStarknetStrange.
@fede_intern @ClassLambda You know @fede_intern maybe Kakarot written in Cairo 1 to MLIR wonβt require you to make a EVM MLIR.
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1/n We just publish the new extension of dAMM on which I have been working for some time with @Brechtpd from Loopring. I believe it could be a groundbreaking design in the upcoming multi L2s. A quick thread π§΅:.
Here comes dAMM. No more ponds of fragmented liquidity. Letβs unleash the reservoir. Weβre excited to work on this project with our friends at @loopringorg. Read More:.
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One Opcode away from 100% compatibility. I'm in shock. @CairoLang is a weapon of mass destruction.
Less than 3 months later this initial commit on @KakarotZkEvm we have only 1 opcode left before 100% EVM opcodes π€―.This is completely crazy. Ultimate showcase of the power of #Cairo language. High level proving language for the win!.#ZkEvm
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Let celebrate! Ethereum is scaling. Be part of historyβ¦.
Starknet's meteoric rise as a blockchain ecosystem is fueled by its passionate community of devs, users, and partners, who continually drive innovation and success. It's awesome that the community is organizing an NFT drop to celebrate Starknet Mainet Quantum Leap.
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#StarkNet ecosystem starting to feel like a family!.When hard questions come up, we should discuss them publicly. Today, @EliBenSasson opened up to Polaris, a very polarising issue. Please, come up and debateβ¦.
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A quick reminder about Starknet ECMP. It relates to people pushed Starknet related work/content in the last two years. Deadline is Nov 23th precisely.Please apply as yourself and/or team here: For more details:
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I understand why I never played Minecraft! But Briq on #StarkNet is dope. Looking forward to see where this leads
@wraitii and I built π§±briqπ§±during the @ETHLisbon hackathon. briqs are composable building blocks stored as NFTs on StarkNet. You can assemble briqs to create NFTs called sets. You can destroy a set to build smth new with its briqs. WIP Demo here:
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This Cairo verifier is such an unlock no one is truly ready! L3s are just the tip of the iceberg, Herodotus is enabling Starknet to become the Provable Chain, the chain where proofs can express themselves to the fullestβ¦.AW, Privacy, [Redacted] are about to blow you awayβ¦.
Time to unlock L3!. We are excited to announce that the launch of a Cairo Verifier on Starknet is coming soon!. Following a collaboration between @HerodotusDev and @StarkWareLtd, the Cairo verifier will enable the verification of Cairo proofs directly on Starknet. This means:
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I have been diving into a lot of Bitcoin lately. It is fascinating what could come soon. I will try to do a couple of write downs if it is interesting to people.
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The first wallet on StarkNet! May it be the first of a long listβ¦.
Congratulations to the @argentHQ team for releasing the very first StarkNet Wallet - Argent X! . @argentHQ has been a huge contributor to #StarkNet.js. Wouldn't be what it is today without them. #Ethereum #L2 #JavaScript #TypeScript #ZKRollups #zkRollup .
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I have no word for this! .#Warp stable release is outβ¦ #StarkNet is officially and for real EVM compatible. It wonβt replace Cairo but will definitely help dev start.
The first Warp stable release! We've added a bunch of features and we're excited to see it used out in the wild. Your turn now.
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I wish every builder in the space were to listen to this talk by @valkenburgh .Donβt forget what we are fighting for.
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As I am in NYC for the month, happy to host an event with @CelestiaOrg, @0xPolygon and @Hyperlane_xyz about the state of art of ZK tech on the 28th Nov in Manhattan.#Starknet.
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And this is how #Bitcoin relay is finally back on Ethβ¦.Starknet aligning everyone all at once.
@ZeroSync_ proof just verified with @HerodotusDev cairo verifier on SN. Program hash: 1ff70c9838765d61370402a62551f9c00518efbfa098f882b285f0db646943b.Program source: Tx hash:.
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Repeat after me:.Decentralisation is an objective measure of how easy it is to run a node (including accessible hardware requirements)
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There is actually surprisingly interesting about the UTXO model. Because rollups update state independently from the rest of network, it does not need composability. The UTXO model which offers immediate parallelisation, could be a great model for rollups to operate on.
ZK-proofs enable a massive range of bitcoin scaling solutions that preserve and even improve privacy. ZK-rollups, in particular, can work much better in the UTXO model than in the account model. Looking forward to this research π€©.
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Starknet has definitely the lead here. Starknet has anywhere between 50k to 150k daily active accounts and all of them are AA since that's the only thing we have.
Polygon is currently the leader in account abstraction. No one really even comes close. I assume this is because of services that gover gas costs for users and make UX unbeatable for the crypto space
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I have to admit: @l2beatcom gives me early 2020 DeFi Pulse vibes. Super proud to see all @StarkWareLtd deployments in prod and in the top 10 already.@SorareHQ @Immutable @deversifi @dydxprotocol
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I have only love for Bitcoin as a protocol. Beautiful, elegant, simple but the community (outside of some great core devs) is absolutely horrendous. Continuously discarding innovations (ZKPs, ZkRollups, PoS, AMMs,. ), I keep wondering how my friends can still work on it.
Bitcoin maximalism is limiting the growth of Bitcoin. Retweet for visibility if you agree. Tweet threadπ.
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Just had a blast in Ho Chi Min Cityβ¦ What I saw in Vietnam π»π³ is extremely reinsuring about the next phase of crypto. Great devs, a lot of good ideas (yet to be polished for the international market though) but overall very hopeful about the future of Crypto in South East Asia.
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People definitely underestimate the integration overhead of building an L3. Explorers, exchanges integrations, oracles,β¦ Soon we will present a solution to this fragmentation π.
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Last few hours before the Starknet Infra Hack. Join and build.
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And the first NFT marketplace on #StarkNet just announced. For those who don't know, Sean is a monster and the creator of StarkNet.js. I explain a lot of great things for Oasis as ZkRollups are the right place for NFTs.
Announcing Oasis: An NFT Marketplace powered by #StarkNet. Deploy your own ERC721 @CairoLang contract and trade your NFTs. Website: StarkNet is a #ZKRollup #L2 on #Ethereum. Low gas fees with ETH L1 security are here. Thread 𧡠1/5:.
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Probably nothing. .
Exploring circle STARKs. Thank you to @StarkwareLtd friends for the kind support in understanding these concepts!. See also my implementation at
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Recursive proofs enable scaling out! This is what will enable #StarkNet to reach Solana level of execution TPS without sacrificing decentralisation nor security.
vertical vs horizontal scaling of decentralized blockchains, or scaling up vs scaling out.
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Boom!.
Time to announce: Cairo 1.0 π¦
.This is Cairo's biggest advancement to date. Cairo 1.0 will enhance usability, safety, and convenience. It will support StarkNet's permissionless network requirements, and will simplify and secure the protocol.
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