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Rob Viglione

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Founded @zkvprotocol , @horizenglobal & CEO of @horizenlabs . PhD in Finance, former physicist & mercenary mathematician. #GirlDad

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2 months
This is why I’m so excited for @horizenglobal $ZEN OG coin, new tech, important ZK mission, and top markets access (incl a @Grayscale trust)
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Horizen
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💥 Horizen 2.0 Whitepaper is Here💥 📄Authored by @HorizenLabs Research team, this whitepaper outlines significant advancements and strategic upgrades to the Horizen ecosystem, designed to enhance its capabilities, scalability, security, and interoperability. The paper reveals
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Equations of lines, 2D graphs, way too boring for this #zenbaby , she’s already at the next level
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3 years
#zendoo is live on mainnet. @horizenglobal is now a new project $ZEN
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Hey @IOHK_Charles my students are talking about you!
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My grandma told me the story of how she was blown away first learning about bank accounts. Today I told her about cryptocurrency #bitcoin #ZenCash @zencashofficial
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We have a full stack team @horizenglobal and while the engineers are powering forward on #Zendoo , we have a BD team lining up incredible use cases and partners who will be using the tech as soon as it goes into production
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1047624 #zendoo $ZEN
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Today is an exciting day for @HorizenLabs , as we officially announce the launch of @ZKVProtocol ! #zkVerify is the most efficient modular blockchain optimized for ZK proof verification, reducing proof verification costs by over 90%. It's also the foundation for many other
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From the Zendoo trenches around the world
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This is going to be such a fun and important role within @HorizenLabs and the broader @horizenglobal ecosystem. Come join the heart of our org as we role into an explosive 2022! $ZEN
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3 years
We’re hiring a Blockchain Research Strategist! Join us 🚀
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Look who greeted me in the @HorizenLabs @horizenglobal office in Milan today $ZEN
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@Ken52976005 @horizenglobal Our Korean community is amazing
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Such an awesome week geeking out on $ZEN with new team members! @horizenglobal is about to storm into #crypto “sooner than you think”
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Let's clarify some things about 51% attacks: 1) Coins aren't created out of thin air so there's no supply dilution, 2) these events are fraud against a specific victim (usually exchanges), and 3) your private keys you hold off exchange are perfectly safe #bitcoin #ZenCash
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2 years
I just saw $ZEN in @MetaMask . EVM in @horizenglobal here we come (to Testnet) :)
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Is it bad that I feel excited about this #crypto downturn? I can smell the opportunities $ZEN
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New @HorizenLabs office in Milan... $ZEN @horizenglobal
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@horizenglobal That's one small step for crypto, one giant leap for Horizen $ZEN
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Huge congratulations to @agaroffolo and the entire team and community for making this possible
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3 years
Who else gets cryptography lectures at work? @horizenglobal $ZEN
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Nice Friday surprise: @horizenglobal 's proof verification layer is coming to life! Little snippet of @0xPolygon CDK proofs being verified on our substrate layer. The @HorizenLabs team is rocking it, getting this software to testnet in a few months! $ZEN
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Some awesome discussions about @apecoin and the ecosystem yesterday with @Waabam_eth @CapetainTrippy and @hervelarren_ in Korea. Amazing the creativity when you get together in person!
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2 years
I loved hanging with some of the @horizenglobal marketing crew in Austin. People like this make me even more bullish on $ZEN
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Horizen 2.0 is coming and it’s going to be a cool contribution to the ZK space @horizenglobal $ZEN
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5 years
Someone is helping ⁦ @horizenglobal ⁩ today #zenbaby
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3 years
Parenting moment of pride #1 : 2.5 year old daughter spontaneously picks up a #DeFi book to read #zenbaby #crypto @horizenglobal
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What Team @horizenglobal is up to these holidays $ZEN
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great reminder before bed @horizenglobal $ZEN
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Crypto market crash? #zenbaby to the rescue! $ZEN @horizenglobal
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Very proud of the @horizenglobal team in going from an F to an A project quality ranking with our Fundamental Crypto Asset Score (FCAS) via @flipsidecrypto $ZEN #bitcoin
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2 years
Some thoughts on the soul of a #crypto project. @horizenglobal $ZEN with special shout outs to #Ethereum and #bitcoin
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6 years
Bears aren't so scary, we'll get through this! #bitcoin $ZEN @horizenglobal
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How to encrypt your entire life in less than an hour #privacy #security
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3 years
From Milano #NoWar
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3 years
I'm launching a new blog: Design still needs an update, but you can get a flavor for what's to come with the handful of seed posts. Let me know what you think!
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@rosariopabst and I heading into the new @HorizenLabs @horizenglobal office in #NYC the other day. Super pumped for the team we’re building here! #ZEN
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@STELLARBULL I'm super bullish $ZEN
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6 years
Zen is economic freedom. Made me smile just now while doing some work... #econ #freedom $ZEN @horizenglobal
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@defiprime I'm a bit biased towards @horizenglobal 's EON. Just hit Gobi Testnet a few weeks ago and prepping for Mainnet in the coming months. It'll be a nice EVM addition to an emerging ZKP-enabled ecosystem $ZEN
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Rethinking on-chain privacy in an age of regulatory uncertainty "One day I predict that all cryptocurrencies will have full privacy by default." That day is not today and this article gives the back story and some context to ZenIP-42207 that removes all
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@horizenglobal I'm super proud of the team for this one. It may seem like a small thing for crypto, but it's a big shift in @horizenglobal as a project and how the team thinks and works as a product delivery machine
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We had a special guest in the @horizenglobal office yesterday. She’s pumped for $ZEN sidechains!
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Just had our biggest engineering delivery of ⁦ @horizenglobal ⁩ history: #Zendoo crypto’s first decentralized sidechain system #bitcoin $ZEN
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I had fun speaking about ZK last night at a @prblockchain1 meetup. We went through some math (Sigma protocol w/discrete log), use cases, and a walk-through of the evolving ZK ecosystem. It was fun onboarding people to @zcash with the @zashi_app wallet to teach them about
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The transition of $ZEN into the next phase of its evolution with EON 2.0 on top of #zkVerify is one of the things @HorizenLabs is working on that I'm most excited about. It's cool to see one of the earliest ZK tokens rediscover its niche in promoting a robust ZK ecosystem
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Horizen
4 months
The Horizen community tasked Horizen Labs with developing a strategic plan for transitioning the EON blockchain and $ZEN cryptocurrency from the current Horizen Mainchain to an advanced blockchain architecture, EON 2.0. Horizen Labs will construct this plan and put it forth in a
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6 years
Was great seeing @IOHK_Charles in Seoul and doing some old fashioned strategerizing @horizenglobal $ZEN #IOHK
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3 years
Parenting moment of pride #2 : Cinderella dress wearing 2.5 year old grabs pads to go out and train #zenbaby
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10 months
@DanSpuller @SenWarren @BlockchainAssn @ewarren The letter was also disrespectful to former national security professionals who happen to work in and support Web3…bc we see it as a promising tech for the future, not bc we were bribed to support it
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4 years
Super excited that $ZEN will start trading on @BinanceUS . This is so important to expand access to the US market @horizenglobal
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BinanceUS Will List @horizenglobal $ZEN
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2 years
Great article by @jcalinoff from the @HorizenLabs team: "2023: The Year of #Web3 for Enterprise"
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3 months
Next up: Horizen 2.0 white paper that shows exactly why @horizenglobal is going to play an increasingly important role in the evolution of ZK in #Web3 by leveraging @ZKVProtocol $ZEN
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tlogs.eth
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@horizenglobal ⁩ is migrating the $ZEN ecosystem to a new EVM-compatible parachain built on ⁦ @ZKVProtocol . By deprecating the PoW mainchain, 60% of future ZEN block rewards allocated to PoW miners can be repurposed to incentivize other activities.
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2 years
Now this is cool! “Crypto1 could be used for zero-knowledge proof protocols”
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3 years
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell: U.S. Has No Plans To Ban Bitcoin and Crypto
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2 years
Amazing seeing @robin_guyard years after he was a @horizenglobal dev and is now a #DeFi builder
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@TXITJOBS those @horizenglobal guys are jumping out at me in this pic $ZEN
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2 years
Sleeping giant starting to rustle. If nothing else, check out the team growth section @horizenglobal $ZEN
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6 years
I recently got it wrong about @bitcoingold 's response to their own 51% attack. Many apologies, just posted this for clarification: #bitcoin #ZenCash @zencashofficial
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Rob Viglione
6 years
@Bitcoin True, but secure nodes aren’t meant to protect against 51% mining attack, they add diff stakeholder group to new coin emission which reduces 51% attack on our stake voting system. Also building sidechains running on nodes, and layered TLS into them for added #privacy
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6 years
Consider this tweet my intent to participate in the @ZcashFoundation community governance panel; my name and this link will be reflected on a list to be assembled here: … I will tweet after I vote in June.
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@BarrySilbert @balajis We’re working on it! The first major step being our sidechain rollout over this last year. Next comes an EVM, then provable chains and bridges $ZEN
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I’m not going to spoil the official @HorizenLabs update, but seeing what the team just delivered today for @ZKVProtocol blew me away. Two week sprint and we integrated two of the most important proof verifiers, improved functionality of others, had a seamless upgrade in place,
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This is a critical and exciting upgrade for @horizenglobal and I fully support it. Leveraging @ZKVProtocol for native ZK proof verification will give Horizen an advantage over other EVMs when it comes to ZK dApps. $ZEN
@horizenglobal
Horizen
3 months
The vote for ZenIP 42406: Technical Roadmap of the Migration of $ZEN and EON is now open! 🗳️Voting will remain open until June 21st, 12pm EST. Be sure to head on over to Snapshot to cast your vote: 👇
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U.S. May Outlaw Messaging Encryption Used By WhatsApp, iMessage And Others, Report #privacy #freedom
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4 years
Privacy Q&A Series: Horizen by @ContrastCrypto I enjoyed this interview quite a bit. Gave me a chance to think deeply about where we've come and where we're going with $ZEN @horizenglobal #privacy #blockchain
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@KEOC_Chairman @HRZ10000 @NotFinAdv @horizenglobal @NOWPayments_io @HorizenLabs @EricaPaperHands We were originally going to do a quick and dirty Zenny token launch just as a demo of capabilities on TokenMint, but then realized we can do something way more impactful with a legit utility token for the ecosystem. We learned a lot in launching $APE and want to apply that here
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@sandeepnailwal @0xPolygon The zero-knowledge (zk) field of cryptography is based on open-source principles. @zcash first brought zk to blockchain, and since then many other public projects have built upon that foundation. Just as no single company can ever control zero-knowledge cryptography as a
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@horizenglobal I'm so proud of @horizenglobal getting to this point. Now let's make the #HorizenDAO one of the most productive in the industry $ZEN
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The roadmap for @horizenglobal is coming together nicely. I can’t wait to see a new roadmap showing what comes next with @ZKVProtocol $ZEN
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Horizen Labs
3 months
We’re thrilled to see @binance recognize the strength and stability of $ZEN by removing the monitoring tag! 💪 This is a testament to the robust development of the @HorizenGlobal ecosystem. With the upcoming upgrade to Horizen 2.0, we're excited about the enhanced utility and
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5 years
Good #security lessons How to Secure Your Wi-Fi Router and Protect Your Home Network | WIRED
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It’s nice to see the birth of a #DeFi ecosystem on @horizenglobal $ZEN
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zens.zen
2 years
Our development team has just added a ZENSswap farm on #YumaTestnet , allowing you to stake Zens + Zen LP to earn extra Zens rewards. 👉 @horizenglobal @robviglione #ZENArmy $ZEN #ZEN #HorizenEON
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Zenners in Raleigh @horizenglobal $ZEN
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It’s so much fun building out a Web3 community in ⁦ @horizenglobal ⁩. Loved this podcast episode with some of our ⁦ @HorizenLabs ⁩ team focusing on dev tools, grants, bug bounties, and other new programs to kickstart #HorizenEON $ZEN
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@KEOC_Chairman That's true though it's based on MetaMask and the goal is to integrate with MetaMask when we get our EVM chain up @horizenglobal
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"Worldwide Adoption Jumps Over 880% With P2P Platforms Driving Cryptocurrency Usage in Emerging Markets" <--we def chose the right industry to be in @horizenglobal @HorizenLabs
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Making life significantly easier for devs who want to work with ZK proofs in Web3 #zkVerify
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zk V e r i f y
4 months
zk tech in action 🤍 integrating #zkVerify into zk-based rollups and dApps significantly reduces proof verification costs by over 90% 💫 see this in action 👇
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Web3 curious? Here's a solid starting point for how to dive into #HorizenEON @horizenglobal $ZEN
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A snippet from the @horizenglobal community chat on about the #Zendoo protocol $ZEN
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@hans0480 @Ken52976005 @dhkimzen @horizenglobal @zutenbe11 @ZNturio @HorizenKR @HorizenFR @CryptoManion @xgarreau @TechnoHorizen that's the vision! And we're getting close. Just had a demo of an EVM integrated into a @horizenglobal sidechain. POC quality but we're racing to get it into beta and then production
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"I don't like ass kissers, flag waivers, or team players. I like people who buck the system. Individualists." Carlin http://t.co/m9cizJ3pVK
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