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ZTARKNEAR is back.
Join @zkdragon, @ilblackdragon, and @elibensasson to discuss the quantum threat and how Zcash, NEAR, and Starknet are preparing for it.
Tomorrow at 6 PM CET.
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DROPS 47: @Starknet: Agents Will Adopt Blockchain Before Banks Do
@EliBenSasson, co-founder of @Zcash and Starknet, explains why he believes crypto will become the way people and AI agents handle money, and why most people haven't realized the world's financial infrastructure is being rebuilt.
He also covers what Bitcoin is missing, from privacy to its resistance to change, how quantum computers and superintelligent AI could threaten it, and the technology he's building to fix it.
This is a sponsored Episode.
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
1:16 The Future Most People Can't See
2:32 Why Money Takes Centuries To Change
5:55 The Day Bitcoin Found Eli
9:40 What Happens When Every Purchase Is Public
10:53 Building Private Bitcoin
13:44 Why Privacy Took 10 Years To Matter
18:34 Is Your Bitcoin Safe For 20 Years?
20:29 The Darth Vader Test For Trust
26:11 Do We Really Need Another Chain?
27:15 Why Big Investors Are Hesitating
28:45 How Starknet Plugs Into Other Blockchains
32:44 Why Starknet Has A Token
33:48 An Application That Was Built On Starknet
35:41 Private Payroll and the Agent Economy
38:21 What Starknet Changes For The Average Person
41:04 The Biggest Risk He's Wrong
42:42 One Takeaway
StarkWare retweeted
Knowing your Polymarket activity is public is one thing.
Seeing exactly what it reveals is another.
Check how exposed you really are on checker.offmarket.cx
xitter.gq/OffMarketcx/status/211…
Literally all of your Polymarket bets are public.
What you traded. How much. When. Your P&L. Your connected accounts.
Today, we’re launching the OffMarket Checker. See what your public account reveals:
checker.offmarket.cx
Block-sized proofs are now live on Starknet Mainnet.
Applications can now prove up to 1.1B L2 gas of computation in a single transaction.
The unlock: developers can run logic that exceeds regular transaction limits offchain, then verify it on Starknet, paying for the proof rather than the full execution.
Starknet v0.14.4 is now live on Mainnet.
The upgrade introduces the infrastructure for block-sized proofs, enabling single proven transactions of up to 1.1B L2 gas once activated.
A new ceiling for what can be built on Starknet.
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STARKs encapsulate everything blockchains need: scalability, privacy, and quantum resistance.
Listen to @EliBenSasson & @KevinWSHPod discuss how these capabilities will shape the agent economy and the future Starknet is building toward.
xitter.gq/KevinWSHPod/status/212…
DROPS 47: @Starknet: Agents Will Adopt Blockchain Before Banks Do
@EliBenSasson, co-founder of @Zcash and Starknet, explains why he believes crypto will become the way people and AI agents handle money, and why most people haven't realized the world's financial infrastructure is being rebuilt.
He also covers what Bitcoin is missing, from privacy to its resistance to change, how quantum computers and superintelligent AI could threaten it, and the technology he's building to fix it.
This is a sponsored Episode.
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
1:16 The Future Most People Can't See
2:32 Why Money Takes Centuries To Change
5:55 The Day Bitcoin Found Eli
9:40 What Happens When Every Purchase Is Public
10:53 Building Private Bitcoin
13:44 Why Privacy Took 10 Years To Matter
18:34 Is Your Bitcoin Safe For 20 Years?
20:29 The Darth Vader Test For Trust
26:11 Do We Really Need Another Chain?
27:15 Why Big Investors Are Hesitating
28:45 How Starknet Plugs Into Other Blockchains
32:44 Why Starknet Has A Token
33:48 An Application That Was Built On Starknet
35:41 Private Payroll and the Agent Economy
38:21 What Starknet Changes For The Average Person
41:04 The Biggest Risk He's Wrong
42:42 One Takeaway
New Anthropic research: progress on provable inference for large language models.
Here, we introduce FlashProve. Building on established cryptographic techniques, FlashProve allows developers to verify whether a given response came from a given AI model. It’s substantially more efficient than prior open-source methods for doing so.
These proofs have a range of applications. They can, for instance, make it harder for attackers to hijack a chat, or enable safety evaluators to verify that the model they’re testing is the same one being served to customers.
For our full write-up, see here: anthropic.com/research/prova…
Further progress in provable inference will likely be an important part of improving trust in AI deployment. To that end, we're open-sourcing FlashProve’s code, here: github.com/anthropics/FlashP…
We’re grateful to our collaborators: Alessandro Chiesa, @GiacomoFenzi, @gwberg95, @miranda__christ, Rahul Dalal (rdalal.github.io) and Ben Mayer (@transmissions11).
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Everything you do on Polymarket is public, and it leaks more than just your activity.
Your interests, position sizes, PnL, timing, wallet connections, and more.
See for yourself, then switch to OffMarket, the only place to trade prediction markets privately.
Literally all of your Polymarket bets are public.
What you traded. How much. When. Your P&L. Your connected accounts.
Today, we’re launching the OffMarket Checker. See what your public account reveals:
checker.offmarket.cx
6/ Loot Survivor launched MOB, bringing 7,068 Musical Onchain Beasts to life.
Players can now collect exclusive new Beasts by playing Loot Survivor, adding a new collectible dimension to the onchain gaming experience.
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The MOB is LIVE! ⚔️
7,068 Musical Onchain Beasts await a worthy Adventurer. 👑
🎮 Game by @ProvableGames
🎼 Music by @CaseyWescott
🎨 Art by @1337skulls
🔋 Powered by @Starknet
Play to Collect 👇
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7/ Note: this is NFA and is provided for informational purposes only.
Stay SAFU and always DYOR.
For a complete recap of last week’s news, check it out here:
starknetresearch.substack.co…
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StarkWare retweeted
This Tuesday, I’m releasing a 45-minute DROPS with @EliBenSasson - Co-founder of @Starknet.
After co-inventing Zcash, Eli is now building towards a broader vision with Starknet: programmable, private money with a good user experience and the ability to adapt to new cryptographic threats.
His thesis: the rails for the global economy are being rebuilt and Starknet is being built for that future.
We talk about:
- Why money rails take decades, from paper cash to ATMs, to get adopted
- How ZK Starks let you trust a computation even if Darth Vader ran it
- How Starknet brings programmability to the privacy vision behind Zcash
- Why sovereign wealth funds and asset allocators are calling his team about quantum risk
- How AI agents will drag humans onto blockchains
- How Starknet’s account abstraction helps accounts adopt quantum-resistant signatures
And much more...
DROPS out this Tuesday!
Hear it from one of Starknet's top builders:
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One of the biggest barriers to @Starknet adoption was the difficulty of Cairo.
The latest models like Opus 5.5 entirely crush it.
And for those that don’t know, Cairo is an absolute monster for the most complex of smart contracts.
Larger contract size, greater provable compute. Go nuts. Literally go nuts. Build the most complex distributed system you can think of!