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I love Ethereum.
But it’s time to follow the EF’s guiding philosophy of long term thinking, subtraction, and stewardship of values.
Should the Ethereum Foundation dissolve?
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Some of my friends have started spending more time learning about Ethereum, and many have asked me similar questions - What's a node? Why are gas fees high? How does Uniswap work?
These questions inspired me to write "A Simpler Guide to Ethereum."
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@FutbolBible
Higuain (or Palacios) finishes vs Neuer, Argentina wins the 2014 WCF, Messi rides off into the sunset as the greatest soccer player ever
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Gm — starting Monday, I’m joining
@aztecnetwork
full-time to work on ecosystem/partnerships
Aztec’s vision of privacy on public blockchains is already in motion (check out !), and I’m excited to be working on one of cryptos most important problems
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Personal update:
As of today, I have transitioned out of my role at
@aztecnetwork
.
I deeply admire and respect
@Zac_Aztec
,
@jaosef
, and the entire Aztec team.
I'll share more about my next steps soon, but today, I am just grateful for my time at Aztec🙏
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What's the total market cap. of all assets on Ethereum?
I wrote a quick blog post explaining why it's a hard number to calculate and the difficulties associated with getting to a final number:
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When I joined
@aztecnetwork
1 year ago, my first project was to build out our grants program.
Today, we announce Wave 3 of Aztec Grants.
I want to take this opportunity to honor many of the independent developers in our community and the projects they've been working on:
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We've closed our Series B led by
@a16zcrypto
!
Led by
@jaosef
and
@Zac_Aztec
, our team is pushing zero-knowledge cryptography forward and creating the first end-to-end encrypted, programmable rollup on Ethereum.
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Recently, I've felt disillusioned with crypto, so I wrote this piece to remind myself what it is that I love about crypto.
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What are the best ‘intro to Zk’ resources out there?
I mean reaaaally introductory.
‘my mother wants to try to understand ZK’, NOT finite fields, elliptic curves, random oracles, etc.
There may just not be a great resource out there… might have to write it myself
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Ethereum / Eigenlayer discourse is embarrassing
As if we should be super grateful that the conflicts of interest that have built up in the EF are now “disclosed”
What happened to credible neutrality?
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Several years ago, I decided that being at an early-stage startup made much more sense for me than working at a big enterprise or becoming a VC.
I wrote a blog post to explain my decision-making framework, and I included some words of advice for others considering startup life:
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😎
@aztecnetwork
has consistently had one of the fastest growing developer ecosystems over the last ~18 months.
This is just the beginning for this ecosystem!
23/ 9,357 monthly active developers work on Top 200 ecosystems outside of Bitcoin and Ethereum, down -31% year-over-year
But some ecosystems managed to grow very quickly in 2023 including
@Scroll_ZKP
,
@aztecnetwork
,
@CelestiaOrg
,
@aleohq
, and
@ton_blockchain
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🙏🏽
At Aztec, we care about developers.
There’s plenty of interesting nerdsnipes in crypto — we’re grateful for the time developers spend in our ecosystem.
My DMs are open for anyone curious to dive deeper into
@NoirLang
and
@aztecnetwork
!
s/o to
@Blulinski
, always takes out time and gets back whenever I ping him about/brainstorm ideas with him. Aztec is lucky to have him ngl
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🚨 I am looking for someone to maintain a couple of Aztec-related Dune dashboards 🚨
If you are experienced with Dune, want to get paid for your work, and are hyped about privacy on public blockchains -- DM me your Dune profile 🙃
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The second wave of Aztec grants is now live!
The focus for this wave is funding developers within the Noir ecosystem.
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@TrustlessState
We are working on it
@aztecnetwork
.
It has to be credibly neutral, censorship resistant, and usable for a wide set of use cases with minimal UX compromise for end users.
It will take time to do it correctly, but we are going to do it.
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In 2023,
@aztecnetwork
established an early ecosystem of independent developers around our community
In 2024, we'll be partnering with startups, established companies, and infra providers to power the network for mainnet
Come join my Ecosystem team to lead these partnerships👇
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@punk6529
with the crypto version of the Warren Buffett “Intelligent Investor” playbook
46/ Trading is exhausting for most people, including me, and I have more crypto exposure than 99.9999% of you.
Like I am pretty comfortable with the bet that crypto will go up as a % of total world market cap.
But if the price is going up or down today, I have NO IDEA, none.
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if you'll be in Denver and want to meet up with the Aztec Labs team, hmu
cc:
@merfymerf
@cooper_kunz
@critesjosh_
@Zac_Aztec
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Aztec is crypto's best chance to build a privacy-first, censorship-resistant network
kudos to Zac and team for the ongoing commitment to the mission
gm gang, we've been hard at work building the Aztec L2 and I want to give an update!
We're building a full end-to-end testnet and we're close to completing this breakthrough technology
It will be the world's 1st decentralized, privacy-first programmable L2. Kind of a big deal.
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I regret to inform everyone that after the first round of voting, I have not been elected CEO of
@aztecnetwork
. Deep state very likely involved in
@Zac_Aztec
’s re-election.
I regret to inform everyone that after the first round of voting, I have not been elected speaker. Deep state very likely involved.
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Inspired by the
@lexfridman
podcast with
@david_kipping
, I wrote up some thoughts on aliens, the Fermi Paradox, and artificial intelligence:
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Decentralizing Aztecs sequencer set is *especially* important, relative to other L2s.
If Aztec users are forced to exit to L1 because of a centralized / censoring sequencer, users lose the main value props of the network — privacy.
Therefore, we can’t just rely on a forced
Aztec will have decentralized sequencers.
Today we're excited to announce that after significant debate we have selected a final design from Aztec’s Sequencer Selection Request for Proposals (RFP).
"Fernet”: a fully permissionless random leader election protocol.
Read on:
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We're hiring for a Developer Advocate to work with me,
@joshcrites
, and the rest of our Commercial and DevRel teams at
@aztecnetwork
The Developer Advocate will create and foster a community amongst the developers that develop zero-knowledge applications using our tools
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It has long been the consensus that additional throughput (‘scalability’) would be *the* unlock for new blockchain use cases.
Some use cases have emerged… BUT the true unlock for blockchains will be programmable private state variables on an L2 that settles to Ethereum
People have thought new use cases would emerge on high throughput l1/l2, but actually the dapps that get meaningful usage are the exact same as on ETH L1 (borrow/lend and exchange functions)
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ZK =\= privacy
In fact, many (most?) zk projects do not touch the privacy topic at all. They’re using zk for compression, not for privacy
Still cool! Still ZK! It’s just not privacy.
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My call-to-action here:
-For the EF to commit to a multi-year timeline to ossify the protocol and dissolve the Foundation, or
-If the EF continues to exist, for the EF to develop a Constitution that holds the organization to certain principles that it cannot break.
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Finally got around to re-recording
@jaosef
and
@Maddiaa0
's presentation from
@class_lambda
ZK week:
Ethereum Storage Proofs....
in a zk-snark....
in the browser.
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👀
independent developers in the Aztec ecosystem working on a project to privately verify that the NFC chip in new passports are valid
cc:
@michaelelliot
+
@DeryaKarl
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I’ll be in Paris next week for ETHCC — DMs open if you want to meet up to talk about Noir/Aztec/French cuisine 🥖🇫🇷🧀
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@jessewldn
@OrcaProtocol
- atomic units of governance
@rabbithole_gg
- metagovernance/DAOs influencing governance of other DAOs
@goldfinch_fi
- incentive alignments for decentralized "governance" of lending pool
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Thank you
@RebeccaDanta
for responding to my cold email and giving me the opportunity to kickstart my venture career. Looking forward to the next few months with
@alpacavc
!
(2/3) dedicating her time to helping us find and invest in the best companies. Welcome Elle! She will be replacing
@BLulinski
who will be pursuing his MBA at Wharton in the fall. Before he begins, he will work with
@alpacavc
as a Venture Fellow. We're
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You inspired us!
TL;DR -- $25k in bounties for Farcaster applications built using Noir
hmu on Farcaster if you're building something
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Great news for so many reasons. Argentinian founders + Miami-based +
@MiamiAngelsVC
portfolio company. Congrats to the
@nearpod
team for believing in Miami before it was cool!
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Very cool attested hardware project from ETHCC, showcasing some interesting potential use cases of ZK
…and the circuits are written in
@NoirLang
🫡
The grand reveal 😲
In 2 days we built, from scratch, an anti-deepfake microphone and won
@ETHGlobal
Paris!
This product can prove that audio was recorded on real mics and legitimately edited. No deepfakes. No disinformation.
Read more in the post below!
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We’ve had the privilege of working with
@jp4g_
and
@Brightir2025
over the past few months.
They are smart, thoughtful, and produce high-quality work. The BattleZips video series + repo are a great place to learn how to get started with Noir!
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thanks to
@FrancisSuarez
for spending time with some of the members of the young Miami tech community last night. Greatly appreciate your offer to help us with our local collegiate pitch competition (coming in early 2021) - will definitely take you up on that!
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compiler engineer Jake Fecher on the
@NoirLang
team wrote this excellent piece on algebraic effects and the ownership model of his own programming language, Ante
i am left-curve and even I felt like I took some valuable learnings from this blog
sharing the link in next tweet
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the Farcaster zk channel will be doing an AMA with
@Zac_Aztec
on Thursday at 17:00 GMT
head over there if you've got questions for Zac
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it does not make sense that my first interaction with any SaaS provider after signing up for their service is to get absolutely spammed with marketing e-mails
i'm already signed up and paying for your product
why am i getting spammed with 3+ emails a day from your team
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The cat is out of the bag. We are starting a cult.
I am taking note of every
@aztecnetwork
employee that has yet to commit to the cult ✍️
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👀 good or bad sign to see your boss asking this question?
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Technically the
@aztecnetwork
bounties are for any Farcaster app built with
@NoirLang
(frames or otherwise)
Happy to be supporting Farcaster here
If you're interested in exploring Farcaster Frames, there are a ton of frames bounties up for grabs so you can earn while you're learning to build :)
Here is the list of frames bounties sorted by bounty size. Any Farcaster user can respond to them
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Took the afternoon off work to catch up on last weeks travel jet lag
Ended up playing twilight golf with a golf Twitter legend
@acaseofthegolf1
is a great dude
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The cat is out of the bag. We are starting a cult.
I am taking note of every
@aztecnetwork
employee that has yet to commit to the cult ✍️
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@mrlubos
@irrvrntVC
@jasonlk
Carry is traditionally 20% of profits after giving their initial investment back to the investors in the fund. RBLX is worth ~$40B, Altos stake ~$10B, Altos fund ~$70M, which leaves ~$9.9B. They give 80% of profits to investors and keep ~$2B for their 2 partners
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@paulvigna
Disingenuous to use “number of sales” rather than “$ traded” - good on you to find the data point that fits the story though!
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Lots of recent posts, from Polynya and others, about feeling disillusioned with crypto and what it has to offer
I wrote this piece 9+ months ago trying to shine a light on the best projects and people that keep me grounded day-to-day while working in this godforsaken industry
Recently, I've felt disillusioned with crypto, so I wrote this piece to remind myself what it is that I love about crypto.
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Alongside
@David_M_Kerr
, I wrote a piece for
@DAOResearchCo
and
@DefiantNews
that explores the concept of decentralization and provides a view of the (very very very) expansive landscape of related research on the topic
Decentralization supposedly lies at the heart of DAOs and crypto but what does it mean?
@BLulinski
&
@david_m_kerr
explore why the crypto community values and organizes around the concept of decentralization in a paper for the
@daoresearchco
.
TL;DR 🧵
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It took Cat a grand total of 4 minutes to start running full-speed in her role.
She's a great addition to our team!
Oh in case you haven't heard I'm a devrel at
@aztecnetwork
now 🫶
Privacy is normal, so let's make it easy
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Even getting the British to admit this in the
@aztecnetwork
represents a complete, unconditional surrender by the British.
America wins, again.
2-0.
See you in the 24th century for round 3.
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🙂 Incredibly happy to have Santiago joining the Aztec team. Onwards and upwards!
After a 6-month break, I'm excited to be joining a team and getting back to building.
Today's my first day as part of the
@aztecnetwork
awesome engineering team, where I'll be working on a decentralized privacy-preserving programmable rollup.
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Noir smart contracts on Aztec are getting closer 🤫
🤫 Noir alpha:
@aztecnetwork
new L2 already works 👀👀👀
@Maddiaa0
showed me some code and the fact that he can run it locally, write and deploy contracts 🤯
Future of smart contracts is here ⛳️
Just need to wait for some docs so that we can go ham on it ourselves 😁
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@ChrisBlec
@jonwu_
sure, but its basically semantics, especially given the *wink wink airdrop coming* nature of ~every project in crypto
'speculation' when the users do it, but its 'growing an ecosystem' when the companies do it (and raise $$$$$$$$$$$$ on the backs of the user's speculation)
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Coming off of our Series B announcement, we want to keep funding projects that are building on Aztec Connect and/or Noir.
Lots of good ideas here for potential
@aztecnetwork
grants!
A new grants season means new requests for proposal.
Here are a few Aztec Connect use-cases Aztec Grants is funding this year:
- Wallets
- Tooling
- Front-ends
- Aztec Connect Bridges
- and full-fledged Aztec-native applications
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👀👀👀 Colin was probably the first external dev to seriously tinker with Noir (@ ETH Bogota!).
Now, he’s building some cool stuff with Noir and sharing some interesting thoughts as he goes 👇🏼
I cannot convey how significant
@NoirLang
's inter-circuit ECDSA verification will be for privacy-based apps, and Ethereum UX.
It will allow you to prove secp256k1 private-key ownership in zero knowledge.
Idea 🧵
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One way for Gitcoin to regain some trust is to lean heavily into initiatives that demonstrate an ethos of credible neutrality.
Privacy-preserving donations, or tools for financial freedom for people living in authoritarian regimes…
🤔🤔
LMK if you want to brainstorm
@gitcoin
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I’ll be in NYC next week and on-and-off for the near future — DM me if you’re around and want to meet up
I’m looking forward to working with
@lisacuesta
,
@jonwu_
,
@jaosef
, and the rest of the Aztec team to ensure privacy on Ethereum! 🫡
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We’re tackling the “decentralized sequencer” problem in public — join the discussion and/or submit your own proposal!
🚨
@aztecnetwork
request for proposals
topic: decentralized sequencer selection
check it out & join the discussion
👉
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'A crypto anon known as Brunny'
15 mins of fame for this anon.
Crypto Twitter is paying a man to buy goats and name them after crypto things
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I started writing this around this time last year — now I’m thinking about doing a “Simpler Guide to Aztec” for this year 🤔🤔
cc:
@aztecnetwork
@NoirLang
Some of my friends have started spending more time learning about Ethereum, and many have asked me similar questions - What's a node? Why are gas fees high? How does Uniswap work?
These questions inspired me to write "A Simpler Guide to Ethereum."
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Private state is more than just 'privacy' for the sake of privacy -- it's a completely new design space for useful, blockchain-based applications.
The release of the Aztec Sandbox is the first step towards showcasing the novel apps that can be built on the network!
Today we're announcing Aztec Sandbox, a local developer testnet for smart contract privacy.
Aztec Sandbox is the most ambitious software release in Aztec Labs history and the first major step toward Aztec's endgame:
A fully decentralized, privacy-preserving Layer 2.
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“The Ethereum Foundation’s credible neutrality is critical for us to perform our role in the ecosystem.”
The Ethereum Foundation’s credible neutrality is critical for us to perform our role in the ecosystem. We are aware of the current conversation about potential conflicts of interest, and share the community’s concerns.
It is clear that relying on culture and individual judgment
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I’m giving a talk at 2pm et on the privacy landscape in crypto and how Ethereum enables it all 🙃
✨ 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐮𝐦 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭 ✨
🎤 We are excited to hear from
@notscottmoore
,
@Blulinski
,
@BenWest
,
@fkpxls
,
@wycdd
&
@CamiRusso
on how Ethereum will impact us in the future!
🕰 starting 1.30pm ET
📺 on
👇 full agenda
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Good thread from Mohamed on FHE — but this important point about decryption keys / MPC has been buried in the thread.
@MohamedFFouda
can you comment on the trust assumptions here?
12/ With this progress, there is still a lot of work to do
For full EVM compatibility, the fhEVM needs to support larger encrypted variables (up to 256 bits), support more mathematical operations, and incorporate MPC for cooperative encryption/decryption of private state
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@colludingnode
@0xMawuko
yeah i think people don't ask themselves enough -- 'why does this need to be onchain?'
if it requires KYC to interact with, it almost certainly does not need to be onchain
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25+ bookmarks
all of them waiting for me to announce my newest role as a PM in Big Tech
....
Several years ago, I decided that being at an early-stage startup made much more sense for me than working at a big enterprise or becoming a VC.
I wrote a blog post to explain my decision-making framework, and I included some words of advice for others considering startup life:
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It is very very easy to tell when no employee at a company has actually used the product that they sell
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The Mach34 team, comprised of
@jp4g_
and
@Brightir2025
started off by building Noir-BattleZips.
Since then, they have moved on to develop a Halo2 proving backend for Noir (along with the excellent work of
@Ethann_000
)
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I’ll be on a bunch of long flights / train rides over the next few months…
What’s the
#1
book that you recommend to others? Bonus points for unique recs.
@sinahab
@DMSchlabach
@Zac_Aztec
@lisacuesta
@elle_leemay
@maximvezenov
@bethanymarz
@critesjosh_
@Savio_Sou_
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@pseudotheos
Public goods funding just matters for the next decade of Ethereum core development. Everything else should figure out a sustainable business model or we’re just delaying the inevitable
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smh, reading a nice little tweet thread and catching strays
They asked me for a name, and without thinking, I said Bruno. Yes, it is a stupid name for anything, let alone a dog. In my defence, he wasn't expected to live long enough to hold it against me. His body temperature was 106°C. Any higher, his organs fail. I expected the worst.
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It’s incredible to see this kind of news happening in MiamiTech on an almost daily basis at this point 🥳
Big exit news: MDLive, South Florida’s homegrown telehealth unicorn, to be acquired by Cigna via
@refreshmiami
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Someone translated the “Simpler Guide to Ethereum” I wrote earlier this year into Mandarin! 🙂
【请收好这份「以太坊简易指南」攻略：近 2 万字助你全面掌握以太坊 】
以太坊发展至今其技术创新及生态已十分复杂，想要系统性的掌握以太坊需要花费很多精力，
@EthereumCN
编译，
@BLulinski
撰写的这份以太坊指南，能够更全面而轻松的帮助你了解其运作方式、应用和未来发展。
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Good thread! But its missing
@aztecnetwork
grants :)
hmu if you're building something in our ecosystem
i made a list of all the developer grants from
@ethglobal
partners i could find so you don't have to
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c84e13372cf6eed97e53fef6e0ace931cb6a1ae827ceadcb7b7839d786a75189
🫡
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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Great thread from Jon.
TL;DR —
Noir = gud
@kevaundray
= gud
Noir team = gud
Aztec Labs's ZK language Noir is now in beta.
Some personal observations and lessons watching the
@NoirLang
team just execute the balls off Noir and make a real step-function improvement to programming in ZK:
1) incumbency effects
2) power of open source
3) emotional courage
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Now more than ever, it’s crucial to have research orgs simplifying complex topics in crypto for consumption by the general public.
@c_spelliscy
and the DRC are doing important work here 🤝
We are thrilled to officially announce the launch of our new non-profit DAO Library 🍾🍾🍾
This library aggregates and curates DAO research on a single platform. It is a public good that will always be accessible to the community at no cost.
How the DAO Library works:
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I was struggling to get into a focused, creative mode over the last few months.
I've found something recently that works for me:
-Leave my phone in another room
-Lane 8 Radio playlist on Spotify
-Email tabs closed
-Big glass of water before starting
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The last few minutes of
@jbaylina
's appearance on
@AnnaRRose
this week were inspirational.
Thank you for reminding me why I work in this industry 👏👏
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@PhiMarHal
Yeah i recognize it’s a hard problem.
But we have mechanisms for incentivizing core protocol devs (see:
@ProtocolGuild
)
And it’s frustrating to see that it requires a
@cobie
tweet to get the disclosure!
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