
DeFi + web3 + financial engineering. Cofounder @AcrossProtocol @UMAprotocol; prev @GoldmanSachs, CS @Columbia, 🇨🇦
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hal2001.hl retweeted
Same stage, one year later.
@hal2001 and @chameleon_jeff on:
- Equity perps going from prediction to reality
- Hyperliquid as infrastructure, not competition
- HIP-4 as a building block for options
Watch the full talk ↓
youtu.be/t5s7LICMJKE
hal2001.hl retweeted
That’s right:
“Economic sovereignty is built long before a trade negotiation begins. It happens when someone starts a company in Toronto rather than moving it to Silicon Valley. When that company can raise enough capital to remain Canadian. When it scales from 100 employees to 10,000. When its founders become investors and finance the next generation. When Canadian companies own technology, brands, intellectual property, manufacturing capacity and supply chains that the rest of the world actually needs.”
financialpost.com/opinion/ca…
hal2001.hl retweeted
How fast can you get AI to build itself?
@justinwangx and I built a web game about that, based on real research into recursive self-improvement (RSI)
You play a frontier lab investing in R&D, trying to build superintelligence
Play RSI Simulator: paradigm.xyz/research/rsi/ga…
hal2001.hl retweeted
Announcing Centaur 2.0!
Centaur is frontier, agentic infrastructure that you own. Centaur is like Claude Tag, but open source and on steroids.
Centaur 2.0 can connect to everything you have access to, and can reason over it next to where you work, either in Slack, Discord, Teams or in your local Codex or Claude Code via an MCP.
But context isn't useful if it can be accessed by anyone, so we rebuilt Centaur from the ground up for security. Centaur obviously doesn't have access to secrets because we're leveraging egress proxies.
Centaur 2.0 takes that a step further enabling administrators to configure who can access what from where. This means that Centaur can have access to private information that you normally wouldn't feel comfortable giving it access to (e.g. DMs or sensitive channels and docs) but only expose it to authorized principals.
It also means you can add Centaur to external channels and leverage it as a virtual colleague that doesn't live only in your Slack, for example, but also your Slack Connect channels! This is extremely powerful as we start moving to a world where agents cross organizational boundaries.
Also in case anyone's wondering, yes we rewrote it in Rust! Centaur is now way way more stable at durably executing threads, and its workflow engine is now based on Absurd.
We have been operating Centaur since January, officially launched and Open Sourced it in May, and now we're full speed towards making it the #1 open source agentic infrastructure.
To succeed at that, I'm thrilled to welcome @mslipper to the @paradigm team who will be leading all our Applied AI work, while continuing to maintain and extend Iron Proxy as the leading secure secret access for agents. Welcome Matt, it's an honor after all these years of knowing you!
Read the full blogpost below, and apply to join our team!
hal2001.hl retweeted
Live with @PaxosLabs Transit from day 0.
Transit powers stablecoin conversion under the hood of Across routes into and out of Robinhood Chain. USDC ↔️ USDG, at a locked rate. no slippage.
Fast. Cheap. Reliable. 🩵
Introducing Amplify Transit.
Stablecoin movement, on your terms.
Every platform is adding stablecoins. But moving between them at scale, 24/7, at a predictable price is still difficult.
Transit.
Stablecoin conversion infrastructure that moves between major stablecoins across chains at a fixed rate, at any size, whether $5 or $50M.
Live on @RobinhoodCrypto with our partners, @Morpho, @jumperapp, @AcrossProtocol and @arcus_xyz from day zero, with more than $30M moved since July 1.
Predictable fees. Locked rates.
More platforms and ecosystems to be announced soon.
hal2001.hl retweeted
2026: All rollups will be ZK
2027: All bridges will be ZK
Succinct has secured >$3B in bridge volume with @AcrossProtocol and @Agglayer.
... And we're just getting started.
hal2001.hl retweeted
Pleased to announce that @AcrossProtocol is now the presenting sponsor of Malware, our weekly tech & biz newsletter
hal2001.hl retweeted
Move stables in and out of Robinhood Chain from day one.
Across is a day-1 bridge partner for Robinhood Chain, the open Layer-2 bringing Stock Tokens, crypto, and real-world assets together onchain.
hal2001.hl retweeted
If you are on the verge of AGI or ASI, why isn’t your model smart enough to recognize espionage distillation in real time? You say “cure cancer in a few years.” Isn’t sniffing illicit distillation quite a bit easier than curing cancer? Why write letters to DC? Just use AGI.
hal2001.hl retweeted
TRON
🔺8 years of Mainnet growth.
🔺390M+ users.
🔺14.5B+ transactions.
Moving Trillions, Empowering Billions.
Now available on Across.
Fast. Cheap. Secure.
Across is live on TRON
Bridge to and from @trondao USDT in seconds
Fast, cheap, secure.
hal2001.hl retweeted
One curious puzzle: given how much engineering has been automated by AI, where's all the new software?
My favorite recent paper on the economics of AI, by @ChadJonesEcon (who just joined Anthropic) and @ChrisTonetti, includes some fascinating and counterintuitive explanations đź§µ
hal2001.hl retweeted
To support the USDH sunset process, users may now redeem USDH on HyperEVM 1:1 to USDC on HyperCore with no fees via @AcrossProtocol
Please convert any remaining USDH you may have.
hal2001.hl retweeted
No polymarket or UMA contracts have been exploited. All user funds are safe, and using Polymarket.com is safe, so business as usual.
We had a 6-year-old private key that was compromised. This was in the internal top-up config, which is why funds were being sent to it. We have rotated this key, revoked all prod permissions and are moving all PKs to KMS keys from now on.
hal2001.hl retweeted
Need to convert USDH to USDC?
Feeless transfers are available from HyperEVM to HyperCore on Across.
hal2001.hl retweeted
We're happy to present our 2026 outlook.
This year is already taking shape, and the opportunity space for founders is even wider than anticipated.
If you're building in any of these areas, we would love to talk to you.
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