
Building @frenglishAI & @Convoke_Games - Advisor @0xsequence 📝 Co-author of ERC-1155 and ERC-1271.
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Yesterday was my last day at the Ethereum Foundation.
Today we are launching EthSystems. We build confidential systems for institutional Ethereum.
I've spent close to a decade building privacy infrastructure in crypto: p2p messaging at @ethstatus, developing Waku protocols at Vac (both now part of @logos_network), mobile proving tooling with @zkmopro, teaching zero-knowledge proofs with my zkintro primer, and advising @ethereumfndn on privacy and access layer strategy. Most of that was aimed at individuals.
The past year at EF's Institutional Privacy Task Force (IPTF) we've been looking at privacy for institutions. On the surface this might seem different, but there are a lot of similarities. There's also a very strong market need for it, and the timing is right.
I've written in the past about the tension and overlap between cypherpunks and institutions. Twitter is not exactly the best medium for nuance, but right now we are at a sensitive point in time: the defaults for the next generation of financial infrastructure are being set, with or without us. I believe we need cypherpunks in the room when that happens.
Excited to start @eth_systems together with my co-founder @motypes and @_rymnc as part of the founding team. See quoted announcement thread for more details.
xitter.cf/eth_systems/status/207…
Today we're launching EthSystems.
We build confidential systems for institutional Ethereum.
Institutions want to use Ethereum, but one of the biggest problems is the lack of built-in, modular privacy tools.
We were the Ethereum Foundation's Institutional Privacy Task Force (IPTF) for the past year. We had hundreds of conversations with central banks, regulators, tier-one banks, and asset managers, shipping open source work the whole time.
Wall Street has found crypto as an asset class, but not yet as commercial infrastructure. Institutions want to run real flows on Ethereum: stablecoins, tokenized assets, settlement. These are businesses with billions of dollars on the line, and no bank will operate in full public view. On a public ledger, confidentiality is the hard part: each party to a transaction should see what it has a right to see, and nothing more.
We have a year of proof of work: private bonds, confidential stablecoin transfers, private settlement across chains, the Ethereum Privacy Map, and more. All with protocol specs and security properties, at our website.
We've spent a decade working on privacy in crypto. We know there's no silver bullet. Different use cases need different systems, each designed, specified, and hardened properly, and someone has to do that work. That's why EthSystems exists.
We're an independent, for-profit company, backed by long-term Ethereum-aligned investors. This is a decade-long transition, and we aren't going anywhere.
If you're an institution that wants to build on Ethereum, talk to us. We're hiring: BD in New York, protocol engineers, ops: [email protected]
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VoidZero, the team behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+, is joining Cloudflare. Vite stays open source, vendor-agnostic, and built for everyone. cfl.re/3Q1XYSX
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disappointing to see that there is not a single founder, startup CEO, tech entrepreneur, VC, or innovation-economy builder on this committee
this is an old-economy 🦕 list:
> 12 legacy-industry executives or industry association leaders (aluminum, auto parts, steel, rail, pipelines, mining, agri, dairy, forestry, manufacturing, chamber)
> 5 former politicians or current provincial premier
> 2 labour leaders
> 1 bank CEO
> 1 Indigenous business association CEO
> 1 cultural industry executive
> 1 academic / US-politics specialist
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new advisory committee on Canada-U.S. economic relations has been announced. To be chaired by Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc. #cdnpoli
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Thank you @TuckerCarlson for inviting me on.
A year ago, Genetic Optimization didn’t exist. Now, parents around the world are using it to have their best baby.
I deeply believe genetics is one of the greatest tools for preventative medicine and will help define the 21st century.
Kian Sadeghi, CEO of Nucleus Genomics, wants to help parents design their own babies, from height to IQ to personality traits. What happens to humanity when we have the power to tamper with life’s formula?
0:00 What Is IVF?
9:03 Is Forced Sterilization Ethically Different From Selective Breeding?
12:35 Is Schizophrenia Genetic?
16:51 The Ethics of Choosing Your Child’s Sex
22:11 What God Does Sadeghi Believe In?
30:16 Who Creates Life?
33:38 Do We Have the Right to Take Life?
37:44 How Would an Embryo Not Have a Soul?
49:21 The Nazi Eugenicists
54:57 The Effect of Giving Parents Genetic Choice for Their Child
59:24 Why Did India Ban Sex-Selective Abortions?
1:02:14 Is There a Downside to Playing God?
1:15:37 The Blessing of Having Children Naturally
1:21:51 Should There Be Consequences for Thoughtless Use of Technology?
1:29:16 Divine Rules and the Limits of Choice
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Why does it cost less to build a base on the moon than high speed rail from Toronto to Montreal
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The next three years will define how money moves over the next thirty years.
The Polygon Open Money Stack will change everything.
• one vertically integrated stack to move all money onchain
• seamless global money movement enabled for anyone, anywhere.
• open, interoperable, and invisible money for users
• bringing more institutions and enterprises onchain
PhABC retweeted
how to hack discord, vercel and more with one easy trick
kibty.town/blog/mintlify/
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From the Nucleus Scientific Team:
"All substantive technical claims about the Nucleus Origin preprint...are false."
Link: substack.com/@scordogan/p-17…
Everything levied unto Nucleus by @sichuan_mala is false.
Worse than false, it appears to be architected by a competitor that has repeatedly published misstatements and inaccuracies.
Sichuan is compromised. But it gets worse.
I have been informed that @cremieuxrecueil — race “scientist” in chief — has been paid off by the competitor to promote this nonsense against Nucleus.
For the independent scientists repeating this libel, I would encourage you to do more diligence on who you are aligning yourself with.
Our scientific team will issue a point by point response. Unfortunately, though, this isn’t about science. It’s a concerted attempt to cancel Nucleus on the backs of our successful campaign and efforts to build + advance the industry, which benefits the very people who are attacking us.
To the the mob trying to cancel Nucleus:
Keep tweeting. Stay mad. We’ll keep building and serving patients.
P.S. We won the injunction. Link below.
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🌀 Introducing Trails: the universal intents platform for 1-click crypto transactions.
Pay, fund, swap, earn, deposit, or accept payments in any token, on any chain, with any wallet.
Crypto transactions should feel internet-native.
Now they finally do.
trails.build/bltw
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BREAKING
Have your best baby.
Today, @nucleusgenomics announces the largest genetic optimization campaign ever.
> Full station-blitz of Broadway Lafayette
> 1,000+ street ads across NYC
> 1,000+ subway car ads
> Dozens of Urban panels throughout Soho
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Looking for 1 PM to join @tempo, working directly with me.
The ideal candidate is a full-stack engineer who's built products or devtools.
Will be responsible for juggling both external and internal buildouts of chain features, UIs & other APIs.
DMs open.
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i hate when i tell people what i do and they say that improving canada isn't possible because the culture is too complacent.
that is just not my experience. i only know canadians as hard-working people who want to build a better life for themselves and for their families.
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Client diversity is awesome!
A bug can happen to any client at anytime. Of course we do everything to avoid it, but the probability will be non-zero as long as the protocol continues to evolve.
We had a bug in Reth's state root computation today in Ethereum mainnet, which caused multiple nodes to stall.
Recover by running the following:
```
1. reth stage drop --datadir DATADIR merkle
2. reth stage unwind --datadir DATADIR to-block 23272426
3. reth node --datadir DATADIR --debug.tip 0x2eb1fcafd864aafe21f2cb66310a869b8945231330f0da80c9e9b77861b56fca
```
We are still investigating root cause, but the above gets you past the issue. This is safe to run on both pruned & archive nodes, won't lose you any RPC information, and will take ~45m to rebuild the trie before it continues syncing.
Brutal moment, but ultimately one we learn from and get stronger as we break through performance barriers.
github.com/paradigmxyz/reth/…
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Thousands of future parents reached out when we launched Nucleus Embryo. But we quickly realized that just creating genetic optimization wasn’t enough.
That’s why we’re launching Nucleus IVF+ — a new IVF option for parents who want to give their child the best possible start in life.
Longevity begins before birth. That vision is bigger than just genetics.
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We’re excited to announce a new strategic funding round for @loopcrypto_xyz led by @fabric_vc & @vaneck_us with additional first-time investment from @mert (Helius) & @maxwolfj (Plug and Play) and with continued support from @a16zcrypto, @archetypevc, a_capital, & others.
This brings Loop Crypto’s total funding to over $6M. 🚀
PhABC retweeted
With Succinct, Ethereum validators become $7 Raspberry Pis that can handle 10K TPS.
The computer in your drawer is going to be the backbone of global finance thanks to ZK.
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đź’Ą @circle just announced @arc chain. Sequence is a day 1 partner, and we are busy building.
Watch this space đź‘€...
Introducing Arc, an open Layer-1 blockchain purpose-built for stablecoin finance.
From payments to FX to capital markets, Arc is the home for builders innovating with digital money and tokenized value on the internet.
Stablecoins have shown us what’s possible.
They’ve powered trillions in onchain transactions and unlocked a faster, more open financial system.
Arc is designed to provide an enterprise-grade foundation with the performance, reliability, and liquidity needed to scale stablecoin use cases worldwide.
Featuring:
âś… USDC as native gas
âś… Built-in FX engine
âś… Deterministic sub-second finality
âś… Opt-in privacy
âś… Full Circle platform integration
At its core is Malachite, a high-performance consensus engine developed by @informalinc that powers Arc with safety, liveness, and resilience at scale.
Arc expands the design space for stablecoins by uniting speed with certainty and delivering the native tooling needed to meet real-world business obligations.
Open and composable, Arc is designed to interoperate seamlessly with the broader multichain ecosystem.
Fully EVM-compatible, developers will be able to build on Arc using the same frameworks and tooling they know and trust.
Together, we’re laying the foundation to move stablecoin finance from early adoption to globally trusted infrastructure.
Arc will enter private testnet in the coming weeks, with public testnet expected this fall.
Read the litepaper → arcnetwork.xyz/litepaper
Join us in building the new internet financial system → arcnetwork.xyz






























