1/34 here's the story of what drove us to build
not one, but two novel protocols at the same time
this thread talks about how the three of us got started
the origins, roots and vision of anoma,
why we decided to build namada regardless of the complexity
and where we're at today
While half of the world is still asleep, something magical✨has happened: Bye bye
@tezos
Babylon.
And welcome to
@tezos
Carthage.
#Tezos
has seamlessly upgraded to protocol 006 after a successful on-chain governance process.
1/11 here's a thread about
@namada
's
unified shielded set, a key in-protocol feature
includes:
- a bit of history
- what motivated us to build it
- how the feature works & why you should use it
- what crypto schemes make it possible
- how it's related to the shielded set rewards
Tbh I'm not surprised that
@binance
has 0% staking fees. It is very well aligned with what they do best: maximising outcomes in the short-term and not giving a f*** about the progress of the industry nor decentralisation of networks.
i went through a rollercoaster of emotions
while writing anoma's founding story
i dedicate this to anyone who joined this space
because of its initial ethos
i hope that this can cheer you up
when you feel like things are straying away from its path
Coffee tastes best when it’s paid with ZEC
@zcash
and you’re treated by
@zooko
Awesome hanging with you & ty
@ElectricCoinCo
again for pioneering zero knowledge proofs and privacy tech as a public good - you’re a big source of inspiration for
@adrian_brink
@cwgoes
and me!
1/34 here's the story of what drove us to build
not one, but two novel protocols at the same time
this thread talks about how the three of us got started
the origins, roots and vision of anoma,
why we decided to build namada regardless of the complexity
and where we're at today
One of the biggest enemies of governance systems is voter apathy.
Wanted to point out how high participation of bakers in
@tezos
on-chain governance is: 83.06% (quorum was 74.70%).
This is a 4-step on-chain process that lasts ~3 months, in which bakers have to vote 3 times.
i'm hiring
my intent is to find someone to work with me
and the awesome team at
@heliaxdev
on dev rels / builder rels
pls share with your frens – would like my intent to be gossiped broadly, solved, and settled asap
my dms are open
I've installed and ran full nodes of numerous networks by now and
#ZCash
's client's output on the command line while the node is synching is by far my favorite
I'm really excited to finally announce
@namadanetwork
: a sovereign chain for shielded transfers with any asset
Here's an overview of what Namada is, how it works, and how to participate:
looking to join an intents project?
i'm hiring for
@anoma
and
@namada
my intent is to find:
- community builders
- builder / dev rels
- & other roles
if you're interested, dm me your intent
and/or come meet me in brussels at intents discussions!
Intents Discussions is bringing together founders, builders, researchers, and decentralization maxis for a day of discussions on all things intents — July 7th in Brussels.
𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴: It's going to be intents.
Register your intent ⤵️
I am thrilled. Babylon, the 2nd ever protocol upgrade to be activated through
@tezos
on-chain binding governance. Our team &
@LabosNomades
have worked relentlessly through development cycles. Can’t be prouder of
@CryptiumLabs
& the core devs at Nomadic!
Have a great Sunday
@tezos
community, as Babylon2.0.1 will be activated soon! Promotion phase quorum has just been surpassed with a 91.59% of favourable votes. Babylon2.0.1 is a proposal we developed together with
@LabosNomades
. Our features described here
happy birthday
@zcash
!
thank you for all the work in research & open-source zkps
thank you for being the 1st one in deploying provable privacy to cryptocurrencies
thank you for showing to the world that pseudonymity is far from how privacy should be
privacy is normal
Namada is built on public goods that wouldn't exist without the communities across
@zcash
,
@rustlang
, ZKP, interchain,
@cosmos
, and PGF ecosystems
The
@anomafoundation
invites +200k PGs builders to the Namada RPGF Drop and join the community from genesis
1/13 2021’s been a crazy year. I’ve made this video to tell the story of how
@anomanetwork
&
@heliaxdev
started & where we’re at today.
So much has happened. I had no way of fitting it all in a 140s video. I hope you like it & that you stay tuned for the year in review article!
With the Namada RPGF Drop I'm reminded again that decentralized identity & sybil-resistance remains as one of the hardest unsolved problems in the space
With
@anoma
we can make different identity systems more composable or privacy-preserving
But we need more teams like
i really like how the 1st dapp article is about collaborative finance and not the usual defi apps
projects like
@informalinc
@CirclesUBI
entropy or
@RadxChange
's plural
money are great examples of novel dapps that can benefit from
@anoma
's architecture
New kids in the staking game might not remember.
@CryptiumLabs
started on
@tezos
with 1 roll / 10k XTZ Jul '19.
We're not VCs, nor investors, got 1 roll with our own savings, & did not take any funding. Being the smallest baker back then didn't stop us:
@CryptoIblees
@binance
Started
@CryptiumLabs
validator to contribute to the security of novel PoS networks. We happened to be large bakers on
@tezos
with 0 marketing & ads. We'll continue operating them with the most secure setup we can.
PS: Curious to see who's behind this recently created account.
1/10 just listened to the latest twitter spaces hosted by
@AnnaRRose
@ZKValidator
on shielded swaps on
@osmosiszone
@valardragon
and
@cwgoes
go pretty deep:
there's so much to unwrap
but here's a thread with my personal highlights from the conversation:
The web should be a good for the public, not an industry that turns the public into a good.
Sadly, the web today is the other way round.
This is how I would build
#Web3
.
---
Thanks to James,
@cwgoes
,
@KreuzUQuer
, &
@adrian_brink
for your help!
with namada's imminent launch and
anoma's upcoming testnets
i'm thrilled to announce that duke will be joining the anoma foundation board as the chief compliance woofficer
@adrianbrink
@cwgoes
& me will be working closely with duke to ensure that all agreements are at paws'
rebel against the shortening attention span derived from spending too much time on twitter
and watch this 30 min talk by
@valkenburgh
from
@coincenter
at
#zcon3
to learn about the recent events concerning OFAC
@USTreasury
&
@TornadoCash
& why it matters
Don’t miss the first Anoma
@TwitterSpaces
with co-founders
@adrian_brink
@awasunyin
@cwgoes
next week on WTF is Anoma?!
Join this conversation to catch up with the latest developments in the protocol & ask them anything that you want to know about Anoma
[1/10] What is Anoma?
Anoma is a multivariate multivariable bartering protocol.
This thread explains
@anomanetwork
on a high-level with a Twitter-compliant level of succinctness.
I hope it's helpful to all of you that just heard about Anoma and want to know more!
🧵
For the ones who noticed
@tezos
halting yesterday for about 90 minutes, I wrote a brief explanation of what happened as requested by some community members: merci
@ArthurB
for the corrections
the shielding summit's website is so cool
you can:
- shield / unshield
- choose between skins e.g.
@namada
and
@zcash
(and more to come!)
check it out:
my intent-ion was to bring a more general perspective to what intents are and share our motivations behind pursuing a generalized intent-completion mechanism
started this thread on the forum and would love to hear your thoughts:
Some
@tezos
nodes went down last night, users couldn't use hot wallets that relied on them. Might be handy to be able to run your own node. Here's a guide on "Run your own Tezos node and use the Tezos-Client to delegate"
@TezosFoundation
@TezosCommunity
One to one
@tezos
workshop going strong!
@cwgoes
and
@adrian_brink
teaching how to install tezos, basic commands with tezos-client and receive an XTZ for making a real delegation!
Many folks in the blockchain community were surprised about the R&D projects (protocol, PLT, cryptography) we're working on, besides
@CryptiumLabs
, the validator.
Excited to announce that we finally have a website that reflects more accurately what we do:
1/20 the
@zeroknowledgefm
episode 285 is a hidden gem
@AnnaRRose
@tarunchitra
&
@cwgoes
explore the origin of intents, challenges in designing intent-centric architectures, and explore novel use cases
i'm sharing my (really non-exhaustive) notes 🧵:
🎙️This week,
@annarrose
&
@tarunchitra
chat with
@cwgoes
about the concept of ‘intents’, exploring the origin and evolution of the idea, as well as the intent-based systems that exist today. They also cover the benefits and tradeoff space of intents
I see why some projects choose to integrate w/ bridges/cross-chain platforms like
@axelarcore
or
@nomadxyz_
But it's a bad idea in the long – even short term – to just accept the tradeoffs that these designs impose on end users
This is not it, we should keep improving
Great
@tezos
workshop at
@IMDEA_Software
. Met many researchers working on consensus, PLT/type theory, cryptography... all relevant to our work at
@CryptiumLabs
. Congrats to the Institute &
@LabosNomades
for the signature! Excited to see more R&D made in EU
1/10 Blockchains are NOT private.
Yes, crypto allows you to send and receive money from “anonymous” wallets, but the idea that blockchains are inherently private is, at best, a myth, and more aptly, a contradiction.
Here’s a thread to explain more 🧵
Not really into price talk, but hey, is this a sign of
#Crypto
market *finally* realising the immense value of a network capable of:
- Incremental upgrades
- Ability to integrate feedback as market/ecosystem grows
- Evolve Layer1 for current & yet unravel use cases?
#Tezos
@tezos
0/12 this new topic by
@cwgoes
on
introduces
@anoma
as a universal intent machine
& dives deep into what it can bring to
@ethereum
and the ethereum ecosystem
lots to unwrap but here's
a thread as a tldr; on the main takeaways 👇
yesterday i joined thomas from the
@urbitfoundation
and a bunch of weird people on a trip to the desert
there i learnt that urbit has been
building in tents since 2022
urbit is cool
Excited for the
@TezosSwiss
event. I'll be giving a presentation that recaps the basic concepts related to Proof-of-Stake and compare
@tezos
,
@cosmos
, &
@polkadotnetwork
consensus and economic models. Grab your spot here, still a few left!
i'll be hosting intenthouse berlin ii tomorrow!
come hang with the
@heliaxdev
team
@cwgoes
@adrianbrink
and frens
there will be snacks, drinks, mario kart, hygge and only the best intentions
dm if you're interested :3
ran in the copenhagen half marathon today, here are the stats:
distance: 21.09 km
duration: 02:27:40
number of cats sighted: 0
cats/km: 0
number of doggos sighted: 41
doggos/km: 1.9440493125
[bonus]
number of shiba inus sighted: 1 (white)
shiba inus/km: 0.04741583689
one of the best things about anoma's architecture
is that it brings an alternative design for scaling
anoma is scale-free
and scale-free means:
1. local sovereignty
2. global scalability
3. glocal interoperability
all the above,
while remaining end-to-end permissionless
1st time speaking @ a virtual conference & it was great!
- Not to having to fly to the conference location
- More inclusive for everyone through the chat, e.g. people who are more shy
- 100% Corona Virus proof
- Get to speak with my pyjamas on
We need more virtual conferences!
Yay! Excited to deliver a technical workshop at
@TQTezos
#TQuorum
. Ever since I started learning about
@tezos
, I enjoyed sharing my learnings to teach people about the protocol and LPoS. I'll continue making my presentations accessible, regardless of the audience's background!
Time flies. It's been 2 years since
@CryptiumLabs
was born. I feel nostalgic of the times I've spent in our Alpine datacenter wiring up servers w/
@adrian_brink
&
@cwgoes
. Glad that we launched it with
@tezos
–the 1st 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 PoS network going live:
Happy block 𝟷,000,000
@tezos
&
#tezos
community🎉
We're proud to have launched
@CryptiumLabs
two years ago with Tezos & to be baking ever since.
We're looking forward to see continuous evolution of this network, its ecosystem, and community.
👨🍳👩🍳👨🍳
really cool to see
@cyclesmoney
getting more attention
cycles,
@CirclesUBI
,
@RadxChange
's plural money..
are pioneering a new category of dapps:
> new age economics <
which are hard to build on existing systems,
but significantly easier to build with
@anoma
's
intent-centricity
i wonder how people are ok with 0 privacy in crypto
in 2023, 15 years after the bitcoin whitepaper
then i remembered that without privacy
crypto is not replacing the financial system anyways
that's prob why it's still ok