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co-founder @anoma & @namada

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Joined February 2015
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this is what peak performance looks like
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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
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i wrote this deep dive into –why– privacy sucks today even if we use zkps it also shares my chain analyst POV which helped me a lot in designing protocols ty Mary @ceterispar1bus @zooko @badcryptobitch @CannnGurel @joeintheory @cwgoes & D for the help!
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4 years
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.
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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
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5 years
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.
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2 years
what do zk cryptographers do to stay fit? they do plonks
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11 months
i thought @cosmos was dead?
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ethcc this year is gonna be intents
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4 months
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
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bitcoin: no shielding zcash: shield with zec namada: shield with anything
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1 year
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!
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if this thread gets +250 likes in less than 24h @cwgoes will get his hair bleached + toned before his talk at dba's research day :3
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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
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4 years
Getting into #staking ? This book is for you.
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5 years
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.
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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
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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
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2 years
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:
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bitcoin: no privacy zcash: privacy with zec namada: privacy with anything
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1 year
Wrote this piece explaining how @namada impacts privacy in the multichain ecosystem Ty anons, @valardragon , folks at @vKnowable @Figment_io @unit_410 @Delphi_Digital @MessariCrypto @wicklowcapital @heliaxdev & many others for their help! 1/10 Summary🧵
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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!
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Anoma
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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 ⤵️
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1 year
privacy is not about hiding information privacy is about the choice of what, when, and whom to share your data with at all times
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5 years
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!
@CryptiumLabs
Cryptium Labs
5 years
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
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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
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Hope this works 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 @cosmos 🕯 🕯 upgrading   🕯 🕯 for real 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 Good luck, fellow validators
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thrilled to see the @namada RPGF drop live – i hope you like it! massive shoutout to - @CosmostationVD @NumiaData @gitcoin for the help - @CelestiaOrg for inspiring the design and structure ...and the awesome team @heliaxdev who made it possible in such a short time frame!
@namada
Namada
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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
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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!
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vcs: anoma founders look too swiss me: hold my aperol
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6 years
I just published “How to Delegate Tezzies (Tezos’ XTZ) with Your Ledger Nano S — With Initial Setup & Screenshots”
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I just published “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Tezos”
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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
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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
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2 years
did you know? you could store almost 4 network instances of the @MinaProtocol in a single 8” floppy disk
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privacy is paramount for crypto to replace the financial system
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I just published Dissecting the First Tezos Amendment Proposals
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vcs: anoma needs more visibility at crypto events me: say no more
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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:
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@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.
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we don't need to make privacy tech more compliant we need to quit making everyone's financial history readable to anyone with internet
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1 year
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:
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1 year
Remember, remember... Tomorrow we will be chatting with @namada and @osmosiszone about Interchain Privacy.
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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!
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build privacy tech for everyone not just for cypherpunks
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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'
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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
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here’s your @eigenlayer alpha @sreeramkannan will angel it @DeanEigenmann will shill it @paradigm will lead the round
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this week i'm co-hosting intenthouse berlin with @DeanEigenmann dm me if you have good intentions and want to join
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7 years
for all the @CryptoKitties guardians out there: we should stop judging kitties by their appearance, abilities, generation and virginity, regardless of how society and the system is! #allkittiesmatter #kittiesshouldbelovednomatterwhatcolor
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@adrian_brink @cwgoes & myself will be at @anomanetwork 's @TwitterSpaces We started Anoma in Feb 2021 & we've been improving its architecture & building non-stop, while growing @heliaxdev a ~50 ppl team Lots of updates to share, join the conversation:
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Anoma
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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
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the crazy thing about @namada is that we designed the protocol in 2022 and two years later there's still nothing like namada out there
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3 years
[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! 🧵
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Summoning circle @cosmos @cosmoslaunch 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 COSMOS 🕯 🕯 LAUNCHING 🕯 🕯 FOR REAL 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯
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making privacy practical for anyone in crypto is no longer rocket science it's a matter of prioritization
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6 years
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
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here's a @namada tl;dr 1. the shielded asset hub 2. custom protocol in rust, uses wasm as a vm 3. uses zkps: masp + convert circuit (upgraded from zcash's sapling) 4. sybil resistance and consensus mechanisms: proof-of-stake + cometbft 5. on-chain governance 6. on-chain pgf
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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:
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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:
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6 years
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
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11 months
shielded swaps on @osmosiszone sticker edition
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6 years
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!
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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:
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intenthouse in berlin is gonna be sick
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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 🧵:
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Zero Knowledge Podcast
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🎙️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
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arresting software developers for building privacy tech is like arresting engineers for making clean air accessible for more people
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2 years
rare footage of the @zeroknowledgefm @ZKValidator teams mixed with the @anomanetwork team ca. 2022 ps: ty for making the zk and cryptography community awesome and for one of the best conferences in the entire space #zksummit
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privacy is not about concealing privacy is the freedom to reveal
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5 years
I just published From Bakers to Makers
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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
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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
@IMDEA_Software
IMDEA Software
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Awa Sun Yin ( @awasunyin ), founder at @CryptiumLabs , has talked about the status of consensus and the challenges within the Nakamoto Consesus-based, Tendermint-based and Hybrid chains. #TezosWorkshop at #IMDEA #Software Institute
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@awasunyin
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the lack of privacy in crypto is becoming a massive centralization risk you probably know why
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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 🧵
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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
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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 👇
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it's dangerous out there take these shields with you
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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
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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!
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Congratulations community! Your @tezos Athens has evolved into Babylon!
@breitwoman
Kaꜩleen 🚂
5 years
Tezos, the blockchain that can Pokévolve™
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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
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should i do intenthouse berlin next week during zuberlin?
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2 years
it’s not that all roads lead to ibc all roads will be build with ibc
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2 years
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
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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
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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!
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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!
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the modular summit is gonna be in tents
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4 years
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:
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Cryptium Labs
4 years
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. 👨‍🍳👩‍🍳👨‍🍳
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I just published Meanwhile at Cryptium Labs #2 Part 2: Adding the Pairing-Equipped Elliptic Curve BLS12–381 to Tezos
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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
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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
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