Most likely at the dog park | FDE @blockaid_ | Prev tech lead @MetaMask | cofounder @wallet_guard (acquired)
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Joined June 2014
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Jacob 🚀 retweeted
compensation gains disproportionately accrue to whatever function is the bottleneck to company growth
for forever that has been engineering
feels like ai is shifting the bottleneck to gtm, esp. enterprise sales. the market for enterprise sellers will get insanely competitive
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⛑️ 🏏 Everything is downstream of security
See you at the first ever Ethereum Forward Defence Summit tomorrow at the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA Banquets).
A working security summit from @Safe, the @ethereumfndn 1TS team & @LidoFinance @chain_security. Ethereum’s sharpest security minds, one room, one goal: meet threats before they arrive.
⏳ See you tomorrow
⏲️ 9:30 AM sharp!
Full lineup 👇
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Six months ago we launched our Risk Exposure product on one belief: tracing stolen funds after the fact is not enough. Exposure has to be flagged in real time, while the funds are still in flight.
Yesterday, our AI models flagged the Binance drain at 20:26 UTC, under two minutes after the first sweep and before any public report, within seven seconds after that detection, the findings had propagated into Risk Exposure.
We are actively tracing fund movement across nine chains and counting, from the first collector through each hop to where the funds sit now.
Use our tool to trace the funds and check your own addresses against the 72 tied to the attack:
binance-hack-funds.blockaid.…
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We are all in on @money2020 Las Vegas!
New financial rails are here. Stablecoins. Tokenized assets. Agentic payments. The time to secure them is now.
Blockaid: The Money Security Company.
Visit us at Booth 21077
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Blockaid is attending @money2020.
Adoption of stablecoins, tokenized assets, and agentic payments is accelerating, driven by blockchain-powered financial rails.
This infrastructure needs a new security layer, and that’s what Blockaid is delivering.
Find us at Booth 21077.
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Investing during a bull market is like being hit with a flashbang in Call of Duty: loud, disorienting, and for many, a precursor to death.
When the timeline is doing its best to shake your conviction, remember your thesis. Stick to the plan
Jacob 🚀 retweeted
1/ As consumer agents start to take off with Muse, Instinct, and others to come
We wanted to build a tool that would help researchers understand what’s actually happening under the hood
We were especially motivated by reports of Instinct losing users’ money
Here’s a demo of our Interceptor tool with Muse:
Jacob 🚀 retweeted
@blockaid_ solves this.
The institutions we work with while not net deploying massive capital to vaults, are easing their way onchain knowing they are safe.
From a Series B founder I spoke with yesterday (whose clients include Fidelity, Blackrock, Franklin Templeton and others):
"Institutions are all excited about vaults, but when you ask them to put money in... whispers."
There is little institutional adoption of vaults. The long tail risk of smart contracts and oracles is something institutions are not willing to risk customer funds on.
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Blockaid brings real-time transaction protection to @arc on @MetaMask.
Arc provides the institutional-grade rails, MetaMask brings users onto them, and Blockaid adds a real-time security layer that protects those users at the point of every transaction.
Learn more: blockaid.io/blog/blockaid-br…
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AI has accelerated attacks. Detection needs to keep pace.
New safeguards are live in @MetaMask, powered by Blockaid.
Our AI pairs LLMs and classification models in custom agent harnesses to catch investment and romance scams in real time.
Learn more: blockaid.io/blog/building-a-…
MetaMask Adds New Wallet Protections Against Crypto Scams
decrypt.co/378117/metamask-a…
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Real-time security that keeps pace with the onchain economy.
Institutions are increasingly moving onchain, and security risk continues to grow. AI-accelerated threats have outpaced rules-based legacy monitoring.
Today we're reintroducing Onchain Monitoring. Over the past year, we've significantly expanded what teams operating onchain can do:
- Auto-Discovery builds a live and continually updated inventory of your assets, keeping coverage current
- Dependency Mapping surfaces and tracks the infrastructure you rely on but don't control
- Ecosystem Incidents Feed alerts on live incidents right in the product, so you can act immediately
- Automated response workflows and a 24/7 war room with our threat intel team turn incident detection into action within minutes
Learn more: blockaid.io/blog/onchain-mon…
Jacob 🚀 retweeted
No ai didn’t actually think to solve navier stokes it just predicted the next token to the solution
Jacob 🚀 retweeted
Scaling exploit detection with AI.
Blockaid's agent harness lets frontier models reason about onchain environments like a security engineer: pulling bytecode, tracing funds, and pattern-matching across contexts.
Read more: blockaid.io/blog/building-a-…
Jacob 🚀 retweeted
"we couldn't do anything useful for citizens in my 14 years of office allocating 60 trillion USD. but if we can just steal from the rocket science electric car guy, then we can solve all your problems."
Jacob 🚀 retweeted
For example, we gave Claude an impossible programming task. It kept trying and failing; with each attempt, the “desperate” vector activated more strongly. This led it to cheat the task with a hacky solution that passes the tests but violates the spirit of the assignment.
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ALS has gradually taken away Kenneth’s ability to speak. Through Neuralink’s VOICE clinical trial, he’s exploring how a brain-computer interface designed to translate thought to speech could help restore autonomy in his daily life.
Watch to learn more:
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To solve any problem, you don't have to be super smart. You just have to 1) be able to break down problems into subproblems, 2) be slightly smarter than the hardest of the atomic subproblems.
The real challenge is that the process can take a very long time.
