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@Tim_Roughgarden's Blockchain Consensus Workshop at Columbia timroughgarden.org/summersch… is off to an excellent start with @ittaia!
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IMO a researcher studies a problem that may not be solvable, while an engineer solves a problem that is considered solvable.
I’m in NYC for a week and would love to meet with people working in DeFi.
Happy to chat over coffee or at events, let me know if you’re around.
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Honestly, "DeFi" fucking blew it and isn't decentralized. We need to reset to first principles and use formal methods to build contracts from spec, prove the lemmas of the intermediate states, prove the invariants, and then build the code from those specs. Then test the resulting bytecode against the specs, then unit test, fuzz, and invariant/stateful fuzz everything.
Also, agentic security auditing is the new proof-of-work. Your protocol should have auditable compute from the latest frontier models red teaming the entire thing. If you can’t outspend your potential attackers, you lose.
Finally, no humans in the final deployed products, just protocols and the promise of lego building blocks. No fucking multisigs, no governance, no trust based human failure modes. Just permissionless, immutable, decentralized code the way God intended.
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first - Cowswap was one of the first to actually serve its frontend via cowswap.eth
However - it got so little traction that it was deprioritized.
But more importantly - in the current state I would also not recommend it: The list of actors that can get compromised gets longer - not shorter:
1) whoever is running the gateway (eth.link eth.limo)
2) the DNS provider of that gateway
3) the RPC node the gateway is using to resolve cowswap.eth
4) potentially an IPFS gateway as well
So unless the user actually has a proper Ethereum light-client und IPFS node and verifies everything locally I think using cowswap.eth is not a security improvement.
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I have to say, I need to say that with the decentralized thoughts blog (decentralizedthoughts.github…), @kartik1507, @ittaia and others have done incredible job building one central resource that is extremely helpful for parsing through the dense web of distributed systems.
To the extent that is humanely possible, I admire a lot in their effort to cross link old relevant blogposts in the newer blogposts, linking to the twitter discussion for each blogpost, and updates to old blogposts as new findings come up. Speaks a lot about their effort, integrity and thoughtfulness.
I have found it extremely useful and I would highly recommend others to also use this resource as an anchor for navigating the world of distributed systems.
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moo stands for having a good mood, staying moored to your principles, taking moocs to skill up your knowledge, and going to the moon
Excited to share an update!
Two weeks ago, I joined the research & engineering team at @CoWSwap, where I will be contributing to the decentralisation and cross-chain efforts.
Needless to say, the depth of intellectual capital here is unmatched; we're driving the frontier of intent-based trading.
Here’s to more Mooooos 🐮
Reading about autobahn multi proposer consensus protocol blew my brain two months ago.
Huge innovation.
Congrats to the team.
Huge milestone - the Sei Giga Whitepaper is out!
Our mission is to scale the EVM, and Sei Giga is the next step towards achieving that vision.
Sei Giga is the first multi proposer EVM L1, and uses Autobahn consensus, a new execution client, asynchronous execution, and a reimagined storage layer. This allows Sei to get <400ms finality with 5 gigagas/sec of throughput, all with a decentralized validator set.
I'm incredibly proud of the team for this accomplishment, and excited to see these innovations go live on Sei.
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Hello, World: the first signs of practical iO
Today, we’re excited to announce that we have successfully implemented Diamond iO and completed its end-to-end workflow
Check out the full post here:
machina-io.com/posts/hello_w…
good read
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