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Aztec Labs just concluded an offsite last week where we were dogfooding on the
@aztecnetwork
to be
We pushed the boundaries of cutting-edge public<>private applications to see what is possible on Aztec.
We split up in 5 teams and built a mini ecosystem amongst us 🧵
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Exciting personal news:
I am joining
@ethereum
foundation as an intern this summer!
Working alongside $ETH core devs is a dream come true !!🦄🔥
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Over the weekend I did an initial dive into the zk-zk rollup that is
@aztecnetwork
.
Here is a 🧵 with 10 facts on Aztec that I learnt:
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@gluk64
Hey is there a list of folks that are affected? We'd love to consider hiring them at
@aztecnetwork
:)
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I did a thing 👀
Can you build private batch swaps on SUAVE and increase privacy by settling on
@aztecnetwork
? Yes you can! ⚡️🤖
BTW you get to see my super neat diagram (yes, I tried very hard)
❗️Oh and builders, there is some alpha in the post ❗️
🧵
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🚨Hot take incoming:
Following blog post presents an interesting idea of using Cosmos inter chain security to decentralise Rollups with no tokens.
👉🏽Imo
@eigenlayer
makes way more sense.
Some thoughts on why 🧵
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👋Hellooo CT! Got an announcement or two -
I have unfortunately left Reddit's awesome crypto team.
Earlier this week I joined
@aztecnetwork
to work on their L2 dubbed "Aztec 3". As of now i will be working on their contracts and some of the circuits!
A 2-part 🧵
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Holy shit!
@christian_stlou
and I won the
@element_fi
award in
@ETHGlobal
’s Hack Money for Yeild Token Compounding!
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In
@aztecnetwork
, the private state will work in a UTXO fashion (while public state will be like EVM).
But UTXOs are prone to concurrency issues. Just posted a draft covering the entire problem space, solutions used elsewhere and open questions!
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So
@StargateFinance
would take 15$ in fee for 40 seconds while
@AcrossProtocol
takes 8.5$ in 11 seconds?
I know which I am taking
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Today in
#DeFi
, read up a brilliant article from
@element_fi
on "De-collateralization".
A 🧵on what I understood:
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1/ Celebrating
@element_fi
’s sweet announcement of raising 32M to achieve 320M valuation.
Everytime I met them, I realise even more how it is a huge mistake to think of element as “just” a fixed rate protocol.
The vision they have is genuinely exciting and beautiful
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Today I was announced as an advisor to
@CalaxyApp
working alongside
@cooper_kunz
and
@SDinwiddie_25
(amongst other legends). A thread of why I am super interested in this and where I see this going... 🧵
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Just finished a 4 day long offsite at
@aztecnetwork
!
Am seriously lucky that there was an offsite just after I joined - great way to force yourself to ramp up quickly.
A really high level overview of some of the things I learnt during the offsite and what we are building!
🧵
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SUAVE is the most misunderstood project in all of crypto rn
If you, like me, thought SUAVE is just about block building across chains, you were so wrong.
Their chain lets you deploy solidity contracts, execute HTTP calls from the contract and execute everything in SGX 🤯🤖⚡️
Interested in building with SUAVE?
Check our new blog post that dives into the intricacies of building on SUAVE Rigil 👨💻
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🔎 Do you want to be the first privacy focussed “Etherscan” of the crypto ecosystem
💰 Because I am thrilled to announce we (
@aztecnetwork
) are allocating up to $100,000 to help build an explorer for the upcoming Aztec Testnet.
Find more details 👇
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🚨 Hot take: A fully private AMM would suck!
Okay not really, but DeFi is powerful because of its transparency. Can we retain its power while having privacy?
Here is some of my thinking on privacy focussed DEXs:
🧵
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You can never be too good at optimising solidity code. And gas optimisations have been trickier with rollups since call data that was cheap on L1 is now expensive on L2.
So how do you use lesser call data - but specifically on
@arbitrum
?
Inspired by
@The3D_
and
@0x66726564
🧵
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Think programmable cryptography is just FHE, MPC, TEE and ZK?
Think again
PS: I think predicates (like in Bitcoin or
@fuel_network
are uniquely suited for witness encryption.
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Many privacy projects shutting down,
@nocturne_xyz
being the latest.
Building them is very complex - Technical, Legal and UX challenges At a whole another level
So here is a shoutout to
@aztecnetwork
for being so deliberate at each step and thinking things through. 🧑🍳👀
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Currently in a rabbit hole involving
@MIM_Spell
,
@CreamdotFinance
's Iron Bank and Fixed Forex (
@iearnfinance
) and am loving it!
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Hey
@CoinbaseWallet
why can't I connect my mobile app to my laptop's chrome extension
When I click on "I already have a wallet" on a chrome extension, it just lets me connect to ledger
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Super excited to announce I will be hosting my first ever panel
@EFDevcon
!
Excited to be joined by:
@jaosef
- Co-Founder of
@aztecnetwork
@IAmNickDodson
- Co-Founder of
@fuellabs_
@ukolodny
(or a worthy representative TBD) from
@StarkWareLtd
Labs
What are we talking about? 🧵
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Sure
@aztecnetwork
is building a privacy blockchain but the complexities of privacy don't stop us from shipping high-quality ideas
We are excited to announce a super-fast testing framework, analogous to Foundry. This may be a first in the privacy space,
👉 pronounced "trixie"
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🎉Update
The final panellists at
@EFDevcon
will be:
@jaosef
from
@aztecnetwork
@IAmNickDodson
from
@fuellabs_
@GuthL
from
@StarkWareLtd
Labs
I will write detailed threads here on all 3.
Here is one on Aztec with another one coming tomorrow!
Super excited to announce I will be hosting my first ever panel
@EFDevcon
!
Excited to be joined by:
@jaosef
- Co-Founder of
@aztecnetwork
@IAmNickDodson
- Co-Founder of
@fuellabs_
@ukolodny
(or a worthy representative TBD) from
@StarkWareLtd
Labs
What are we talking about? 🧵
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Congrats to Aave but let's not mislead:
"unprecedented scalability" - 1.3 TPS currently per
"security" - single sequencer and a multisig with a 24 hour withdrawal delay
"privacy" - 0 privacy.
🤡
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When you find out that Tina Is Not Aligned is short for TINA herself!!!
Also flashbots has cool swag.
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Just did a super quick talk on Arbitrum Nova and my most favourite feature of Nova at the amazing
@arbitrum
Hacakthon!
Thank you for having me!
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Aztec would be the first-ever L2 network that enables information asymmetry! You can write contracts in Noir and you wouldn't even know that you are writing ZK Circuits!
Also we are hiriiiing!
Today we're proud to announce the next generation of our encrypted zkRollup with the same name that started it all:
Aztec.
Aztec is the first ever hybrid zkRollup, enabling both public and private smart contract execution in one environment.
It's Ethereum, encrypted.
👇
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I'm taking part in
@ethglobal
Paris as a judge! Can't wait to see what the community of developers, designers and creators is building this time for the decentralized future:
PS - If you work on ZK projects there, would love to talk about Noir 👀
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Best talks from
@0xliscon
1/
Why are the Bridges Burning -
@_prestwich
Development of The Merge -
@protolambda
,
@ralexstokes
History and Future of EVM -
@alexberegszaszi
@chfast
The Interoperability Trilemma: Why bridging is so damn difficult -
@LayneHaber
(
@ConnextNetwork
)
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So you think Aztec is "just" a privacy L2 anon? Fake news!
In Aztec, the same contract could have public state, private state & public methods, private methods!
To make things simple, you'd think private can't really read public and public can't really read private. 🧵
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At Aztec, we have been working on
🔑 KEYS 🔑
We are excited to release some of our work into the sandbox.
Keys for privacy networks are incredibly complex! A user will have *at least*:
1️⃣ Signing Keys
2️⃣ Nullifier Keys
3️⃣ Incoming Viewing Keys
4️⃣ Outgoing Viewing Keys
Why? 🧵
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Excited by
@Reddit
’s work with Collectible Avatars or seeing our Wallet cross 4M users?
My team is hiring a senior security engineer who knows Solidity to help us scale securely to a much larger audience! What we have done so far is just a start ;)
DM me if interested!
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Shameless
@hedera
shill here:
Hedera’s consensus service is literally the easiest way to go from app to dapp.
Just have every database mutation go through HCS first.
This isn’t 100% decentralisation but it is a GREAT starting point!
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Very very excited to have found that one of
@LiquityProtocol
’s frontend is hosted on
@dfinity
-
@waterslide_app
The sexy feature of IC is truly decentralized front end that can talk to different networks unlike traditional blockchains!
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This slide may be the most important one in
@tarunchitra
’s talk on modular privacy in DeFi at MEV-SBC24 🤖
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When I started at
@aztecnetwork
, I was naive to think that building a private dapp is just a normal dapp and make everything private
For eg if you have a fully private DEX, how does price discovery happen? How do you know volume? How do you track metrics like TVL.
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1/14 Just wrapped up a fascinating 1-hour twitter space between
@aztecnetwork
and
@EspressoSys
on how we are approaching decentralised sequencing, Espresso's proposals and more.
Here are my key takeaways 🧵👇
ICYMI,
@aztecnetwork
is selecting a decentralized sequencer for the next version of Aztec
And
@EspressoSys
submitted two proposals for consideration
Join us for a spaces on Aztec's plans, Espresso's proposals, and the decentralized future of L2s 🤝
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After Lisbon, usernames on Discord/twitter are now real humans
@ethereum
foundation crew right here 🔥💪🏽
(CC:
@WeaverSkylar
@wackerow
@corwintines
)
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I will be in the Devcon team under
@WeaverSkylar
bringing L2 payments to
#Devcon6
(see you all hopefully at Bagotá)!
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Have two fun posts coming up on the Flashbots forum this week and an exciting announcement from
@aztecnetwork
coming up
Gonna be a great week
Privacy fans and MEV bros may be interested 👀👀👀
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I have some spare time and am considering building on
@fuellabs_
with
@SwayLang
.
Are there any ideas/grants people are working towards? Would love to help!
DMs are open!
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Been taking a deep dive into KPI Options after I heard about range tokens through the $SUSHI VC drama! UMA literally gamified and tokenized management.
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Can't wait to keep working with
@bluesky
@CalaxyApp
(
@arcalinea
@cooper_kunz
) and make decentralised social media EVEN more mainstream.
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Adoption. Is. Coming.
🎉THE NEW ARBITRUM NOVA BLOCK EXPLORER IS NOW LIVE, COURTESY OF
@etherscan
!🎉
Combing through your tx history after gaming or after socializing in your favorite Reddit community just got a whole lot easier! 🎮🫂
🧡🧡
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🚨 As promised, my part 2 on
@aztecnetwork
, in preparation for my panel at
@EFDevcon
with
@jaosef
on what new paradigms unique L2s bring!
Here is Part 1, which I recommend you read before going through this one.
🧵 10 more things on Aztec:
(the last point is the best!)
Over the weekend I did an initial dive into the zk-zk rollup that is
@aztecnetwork
.
Here is a 🧵 with 10 facts on Aztec that I learnt:
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The
@tferriss
x
@SamCorcos
podcast episode is one of those rare episodes that make you rethink a lot about your daily work structure and processes.
Levels using Loom daily for everything is such a life hack.
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For people looking to break into crypto:
Don't FOMO in. Don't ape. Find one that fits your ideals. I worked in crypto for 4 years on the side. Most projects are in it for FOMO or $$$.
Crypto can be toxic and tiring. So make your choice after considering everything!
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If I understand correctly
@Bancor
3 will auto auto-compounding of your yield by auto-staking the gains back in the pool?
This is crazy! Must needed UX for DeFi. Gotta read up on how they make it a thing!
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People are very quickly realising that the 2017 meme of put everything on the blockchain is pretty much infeasible or useless.
Good to see
@LensProtocol
moving away from every post as NFTs into something else too (this is my read purely based on what I have read).
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TLDR rollups don’t actually solve the inverse network effects experienced by any L1
You see it as soon as usage reaches any amount of meaningful usage 🙁
Execution continues to be a bottleneck…
Heads up, Optimists: there’s increased activity on OP Mainnet, which we expect to last over the next few days. As a result, users may experience intermittent congestion pricing and pay more than usual for transactions. Thanks to Bedrock, fees will still be relatively low.
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Some personal news:
I quit Big Tech
#MANGA
(Amazon) to work in crypto full time
For months it has been a dream for me to type this. Now that I just got the new visa approved, I can't hold it back anymore.
Follow me for my next set of tweets on it!
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Woaaw thanks for that
@hedera
Shout-out to
@BlockchainRahul
, Hedera MVP &
@tunefmofficial
developer, for helping
#decentralize
the future with
@bluesky
, who are building an open standard for social media such as
@Twitter
. Read more from
@jbensonwrites
at
@decryptmedia
:
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Very exciting!
PSE is an inspirational org. Am very excited for the transition to building products with a clearer value prop!
Best of luck to
@samonchain
for the future and to
@barrywhitehat
for what he will do next!
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.
@gitcoin
a good UX feedback - change "passport" to "Gitcoin Passport" since users might be confused otherwise
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🔥👷♂️Super HYPED to announce I will be a judge at ETHBogotá—
@ETHGlobal
’s next IRL event on October 7th-9th just before
@EFDevcon
.
If you want to experiment with the possibilities of Web3 in one of the most vibrant cities in LatAm, now is your chance! 🔥
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5/ On the tech side, a lot of cool innovations happening.
A
@hedera
HIP by
@cooper_kunz
and me. This would create a custom fee relationship that can be charged by anyone natively on Hedera Token Service with minimal code for the developers!
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Hot take 🚨
Crypto companies shouldn’t start fully decentralized.
That is the equivalent of going public on the day 1 of your startup.
I see so many DAOs launching before they created a product in the current hype cycle.
Some close experimentation is crucial first!
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Can every problem related to blockchains be reframed into a trilemma?
RPCs definitely can be!
@olshansky
(& his
@POKTnetwork
puns) do quite a good job elaborating on this and how to decentralise the RPC layer!
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Wanted to get a quick understanding of how most core applications work in Ethereum but vieweing their github is too complex?
@m1guelpf
's lil-web3 is actually so easy to read - has a simplified version of gnosis, fractional and more
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So 2 days back something very crazy happened!
A personal story on how most of the 250
#LisCon
tickets that were sold in under 5-10 minutes - 🧵
Bd friends! 👋
Next 🌊 of tickets will be LIVE today at 5PM Lisbon time ⏰ (in ONE HOUR)
✅ Things to note:
- 5 tickets max/order
- tokens accepted:
L1: ETH & DAI
Optimism: ETH & DAI
Arbitrum: ETH
▶️
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🚨📢 Solidity Auditors 👀
Tired of auditing soulless DeFi projects?
@Reddit
is looking for Solidity Security Engineers!
DM if you know Solidity (& EVM) and have AppSec knowledge
Other than auditing our contracts, you will also evaluate our overall security stance (DevSecOps)!
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Soo who is participating at
@ETHGlobal
’s Hack Money?
I will be building on
@element_fi
and
@BalancerLabs
👀
Wbu?
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Are any frontend engineers looking for a web3 gig? No web3 experience necessary
cc
@developer_dao
@wslyvh
@austingriffith
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I definitely concur. I started building on
@hedera
in my 2nd year of uni. Just interacting with
@HederaKid
,
@cooper_kunz
@paulmadsen
etc. and even watching their protobuf and java sdk repos taught me so much about Comp Sci and industry standards
The one thing you will be grateful for when you build on
@Hedera
is the extreme depth of knowledge within the team. One member who I have learnt from is technical lead
@paulmadsen
.
#Read
this blog post on
#POS
security, sheer brilliance!!
#HBARbarians
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The Shanghai/Chapella hard fork presents an interesting case study of EVM Equivalency for L2s
L2s forked geth a while back. But I would think true EVM Equivalency would mean I can still use my L2 forked geth also as L1 geth.
This hard fork adds 2 new fields in the block header
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Why does the zkNation forum not let me sign in with Coinbase wallet?
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I have been coding in
@SwayLang
on
@fuellabs_
for a few months now. Over the coming week, I will be tweeting out some fun things I have observed (and perhaps even some feedback for the awesome team at Fuel)
But first if you don't know much about fuel ->
Less than 1 month to the panel at
@EFDevcon
.
After 2 threads on Aztec, it is now time for part 1 of ten things I learnt about
@fuellabs_
!
🧵
As always, the best points are towards the bottom of the thread!
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Always fun to speak on the most enterprise facing DLT that there is!
How do we address online
#privacy
concerns? Rahul Kothari,
#hashgraph
and blockchain
#software
developer, explains how to best weigh
#decentralization
to protect data and hold bad actors accountable. Listen to the full interview here:
#HelloFuture
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I will definitely NOT be leaking any alpha on what we are building at Aztec!! ;)
Also I have some good memes in my slides!
Aztec Software Engineer
@omw_to_the_moon
is an alum of Reddit Crypto and the Ethereum Foundation.
On August 30th at
#StanfordBlockchainWeek
, he's speaking
@1kxnetwork
Hacker House about Aztec's hybrid zkRollup and what to build with it.
Register here:
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First time I heard about CowSwap (
@MEVprotection
), I thought it is another one of those stupid
#BinanceSmartChain
forks because of the name. Boy was I wrong.
Shout out to
@hasufl
for releasing his conversation with them!
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Does anyone know folks working on
@instagram
's crypto team?
I work for Reddit's crypto team and it is always fun to connect with other big companies working on the creator economy.
Appreciate the RTs!
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Spending too much time on chain anon?
I have a life hack for you
Create an
@epnsproject
channel with your name
-> link your calendar to it
-> opt-in thru your wallet address
Now you will receive web3 notifications of birthdays and meetings
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Periodic reminder:
👉 ZK doesn't need to be SNARK/STARK based.
👉 SNARKS/STARKS aren't ZK. In fact, almost all usage today don't use ZK. They are simply validity proofs
👉 SNARKS/STARKS can be made ZK by adding randomness across the protocol. But few use cases require it
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If you think POKT was just decentralized RPC... follow this man and watch this space!
And what most don’t see is just how much momentum the team’s execution has been picking up this past year. We’ll highlight a lot more of it next year. 🚀
Im thankful to be working with such a great group of people. 🙏
$POKT
#LetsFuckingGrove
🎄
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in time!
Someone needs to grab
@jack
's
@bluesky
project by the collar & shout
#hederahashgraph
Token Service in its face!
@BlockchainRahul
can't you tell him to take his focus off
#Bitcoin
& start looking at the only option that makes sense? 😁
$HBAR saves Twitter!
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I have been diving deep into privacy wallets.
Done with Aleo's!
Which ones I should try in
@zcash
world?
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🚨Account Abstraction buildoooooors (wallet builders or ERC 4337 champions)
Not being an EVM means we can tackle some of its problems such as enabling smart contract wallets, arbitrary scripts etc!
Aztec is discussing its approach to AA & we need your thoughts
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Want to do some research in those protocols where governance tokens actually get a portion of revenue directly.
I know
@MakerDAO
is one. Any others?
cc
@gakonst
@krzKaczor
@wjvill
@PVienhage
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On
@aztecnetwork
, Portals allow every L2 app to have their own counterpart on L1. So you could supply on L1 and borrow on L2 etc.
What if we use it for the recovery of assets while L2 is under upgrade?
For the curious and the hackers of Aztec Sandbox -
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This is incredible!
If you are looking to hack on something that combines ZK with SUAVE, I am happy to help! There a lot of cool synergies with TEEs that are underexplored atm
One idea was private batch auctions using both TEEs and Aztec!
⚡️ Excited to announce our first public SUAVE Testnet: Toliman!⚡️
With Toliman you can build entirely new intent systems, auctions, AI agents, and more as a coprocessor to the Etheruem block production process!
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