✨🔴_🔴✨ Ben Jones @ben_chain Twitter profile

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@ben_chain

2 years

a reminder in light of recent news: Don't start an algo stable, It'll start off workin' 'Till the market worsens

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@ben_chain

3 years

I know rugpulls are so Defi 1.0 but I just had to bang this one out

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@ben_chain

3 years

We've been getting tons of requests to explain how @optimismPBC 's next-gen fault proofs work. The repo fits a bunch into a tiny package. Well, I have a lot of practice selling the benefits of a small package, so I thought I'd write an oversized thread to compensate. 🧵

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@ben_chain

3 years

Everything before EIP 1559 was just the tip.

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@ben_chain

3 years

@VitalikButerin Would you rather fight a horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses?

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@ben_chain

2 years

(T)WAP

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✨🔴_🔴✨ Ben Jones

@ben_chain

6 years

A very important research question for plasma variants:

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@ben_chain

1 year

@smsunarto To be explicit -- the OP Stack is a proud public good, MIT licensed to the core, from day 0. The Collective will defend your right to do whatever you want with it to the very end. The Law of Chains is an opt-in value proposition for those who want to play the positive sum game.

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@ben_chain

3 years

@VitalikButerin Let’s say their speed increases by 1 km/h/h, so running will only delay the inevitable.

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@ben_chain

2 years

If the merge has been so tough for devs to do then why is the difficulty 0?

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@ben_chain

3 years

Cannon (CANNON CANNON CANNON ) is the world's first EVM-equivalent fault proof implementation. But it's also: - a way to run any golang in a rollup - a mindblowing new FP design enabling optimal data costs - a new stateless Ethereum implementation 👀👇👀

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@ben_chain

2 years

Should I record this?

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@VirtualElena

2 years

L2 Summer to the tune of “Summer Nights” from Grease (your move, @ben_chain )

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@ben_chain

3 years

If you haven’t seen the absolute masterpiece this is based on, you’re missing out:

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@ben_chain

3 years

Oh, last but far from least -- I want to give a huge shoutout to @realGeorgeHotz for many of these insights, and for pioneering the initial codebase. I've met VERY few people who can distill apparent complexity into just a few lines of code like he does. Truly inspiring.

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@ben_chain

3 years

this joke will never get old to me, even when @transmissions11 finally turns 12

Optimism

@Optimism

3 years

We keep making transactions cheaper and you keep complaining that transactions aren’t cheap enough. We hate all of you, we’re building Pessimistic Rollups now.

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@ben_chain

1 year

BEDROCK

proto.eth

@protolambda

1 year

BEDROCK

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@ben_chain

3 years

Speaking of--everything we make is public, MIT licensed, and maintained in real time on our github. We do this not to yell "first!", but to maximize our impact, share our progress, and collaborate with our community. Come join us--or fork us! 3/3

GitHub - ethereum-optimism/optimistic-specs: Optimistic: Bedrock, is a protocol that strives to be...

Optimistic: Bedrock, is a protocol that strives to be an extremely simple optimistic rollup that maintains 1:1 compatibility with Ethereum - ethereum-optimism/optimistic-specs

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✨🔴_🔴✨ Ben Jones

@ben_chain

5 years

Key axiom of layer 2: "Processing disputes for all unsuccessful transactions is cheaper than processing all successful transactions." You don't go to court to cash a check. You go to court when the check bounces.

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@ben_chain

2 years

In exactly 2 hours I’m giving the most ridiculous talk I’ve ever given, by far Main stage. 2pm. Let’s have some fun.

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✨🔴_🔴✨ Ben Jones

@ben_chain

1 year

read: @Gigamesh took my shitpost and turned it into a masterpiece

GIGAMΞSH

@Gigamesh

1 year

Congrats to @soundxyz_ for launching on my favorite L2! I was honored @ben_chain asked if I would help spice up his latest masterpiece to celebrate the occasion, which is an ode to the very first Etherean, @VitalikButerin Enjoy❤️

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@ben_chain

3 years

I'm glad everyone liked this thread! A quick reminder: Optimism did not invent this alone. Nor did anyone else--we stand on the shoulders of giants. I'm incredibly thankful for the MANY folks outside Optimism who played a part. We just wouldn't be here without each other. 1/3

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@ben_chain

3 years

We've been getting tons of requests to explain how @optimismPBC 's next-gen fault proofs work. The repo fits a bunch into a tiny package. Well, I have a lot of practice selling the benefits of a small package, so I thought I'd write an oversized thread to compensate. 🧵

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@ben_chain

3 years

Hard to describe how amazing this feels--not just as a milestone for OE, but as a milestone for our team. Out of all the launches so far, the sheer number of people who were CRITICAL to this launch, working productively together, is my favorite ATH yet.

Optimism

@Optimism

3 years

🌹 Roses are red 💎 Violets are blue ⏰ You've all been waiting 🦄 @Uniswap on L2

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@ben_chain

3 years

Not only is this intuitive--a new L1 block is EXACTLY what progresses L2 state--it ALSO allows theoretical minimum data cost. You literally don't even submit calldata to a smart contract, because it comes directly from the L1 block. ZERO gas aside from raw L1 data is needed.

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✨🔴_🔴✨ Ben Jones

@ben_chain

5 years

After a year of tireless R&D, it's time to bring FULL STOP EVM into production L2--and bootstrap a public goods ecosystem to boot. Couldn't be more excited to be working on this with such a rockstar team @jinglanW @karl_dot_tech @will_meister @kevinjho_

Optimism

@Optimism

5 years

Hello again world! Plasma Group is now Optimism. Today, we are announcing our transition from research to something more:

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@ben_chain

1 year

Kanye's d̶i̶s̶c̶o̶cryptography h/t @VirtualElena - The Mempool Dropout - Late Validation - Verification - 8-of-8s and smart SAFEs - Watch the Zone (with Jae-Z) - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Custody - Feezus - The Life of Lido - Pay - Nodes see GHOSTs - Feeswitch is King - Bonda

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@ben_chain

3 years

At a practical level, this is what Cannon does. It has a way to run arbitrary golang code on L2, and it uses that to run geth. (minigeth!) It’s like a VM sandwich. You take the minigeth EVM, run it on VM implemented in solidity, and FP that in L1’s EVM.

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@ben_chain

1 year

See y'all in Istanbul fam -- music plans TBD

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@ben_chain

2 years

can't believe this is the headshot that stuck

Blockworks

@Blockworks_

2 years

Announcing the first wave of @Permissionless speakers! The '23 lineup features industry experts including: - @hosseeb , @dragonfly_xyz - @ben_chain , @optimismFND - @Melt_Dem , @CoinSharesCo - @MihailoBjelic , @0xPolygon Register:

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@ben_chain

5 years

@Stan_Kladko Even ignoring the ridiculous "plasma is dead" claim, this is...dubious. Sidechains scale *at the cost of security.* That's completely unacceptable for high-value dapps (AKA all of DeFi). Plasma is *literally* a solution to the overwhelming security problems of sidechains.

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@ben_chain

2 years

With the dust settled and a moment to breathe, I want to quickly reflect on this milestone.

Optimism

@Optimism

2 years

Introducing the Optimism Collective:

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@ben_chain

3 years

peanut butter and jelly beacon chain and ETH execution engine tomato soup and grilled cheese L1 chain and OE execution engine @protolambda and @optimismPBC

proto.eth

@protolambda

3 years

I'm joining Optimism! @optimismPBC 🧵👀

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@ben_chain

5 years

@jinglanW @karl_dot_tech my IRL demonstration of DEX frontrunning

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@ben_chain

2 years

@ObadiaAlex Finders Fund

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@ben_chain

3 years

CANNON CANNON CANNON Hypeness of this repo cannot be understated. The "preimage oracle" is one of the most powerful abstractions that we've ever realized in L2 and its usefulness even extends beyond fault proofs.

Optimism

@Optimism

3 years

New repo, who dis?

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@ben_chain

3 years

And that's all for now folks! As always--if you want to work on solving deep challenges with the most diverse, exciting team in crypto -- you know where to find us 😉❤️

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@ben_chain

3 years

Working with this team is such a fucking honor and privilege. With a fresh new $150m in the bank, it's far from over, but already feels like the journey of a lifetime. Time to take this to the next level.

Optimism

@Optimism

3 years

After over a year on mainnet, our milestones keep adding up: $1B in gas fees saved for users, thousands of smart contracts deployed, three separate forks... And now: funds raised to the tune of $150M, giving us runway to keep shipping rain or shine.

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@ben_chain

3 years

this was an absolute blast, @karl_dot_tech is infinite humanity-level hype

DavidHoffman.eth 🦇🔊

@TrustlessState

3 years

We just finished recording with @ben_chain and @karl_dot_tech from @optimismPBC on @BanklessHQ ! Optimism is one of the most hyped #Ethereum scaling solutions for cheap, fast transactions! But is it also a path towards universal human values alignment? Episode out tomorrow!

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@ben_chain

6 years

BREAKING: Alex Jones confirmed part of the Bitcoin Illuminati

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@ben_chain

3 years

Cannon solves things VERY differently. Instead of removing the database, it offers an entirely new way to think about the state DB. At the core of the solution is a brand new VM primitive called the: 🔳 🔲 🔳 🔲 🔳 🔲 🔲 Preimage 🔳 🔳 Oracle 🔲 🔲🔳🔲🔳🔲🔳

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@ben_chain

3 years

It just clicked for me that EIP1559's impact on supply/demand is similar to the hysteresis curves that they taught us about in E&M. Can anyone point me to research on this? At equilibrium should we expect a cyclic loop which fluctuates around the target blocksize?

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@ben_chain

3 years

Cannon does have a shiny new RISC VM (only 400 lines of solidity!), but–on its own, this would be nothing new. Truebit pioneered this whole idea, using WASM as the “meat.” And geth compiles to WASM. So why hadn’t a weekend hacker put geth on Truebit yet?

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@ben_chain

3 years

Cannon was born of our search for an EVM-equivalent rollup. If you want to read more about that, check out this post: In short, we became convinced that the only path to equivalence would involve running an existing implementation (e.g. geth) “on-chain.”

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@ben_chain

3 years

Vitalik actually investigated this, () but there’s a core issue: state and the EVM trie. Truebit programs don’t have persistent DBs. V’s propsal was to modify geth and remove the database, instead using stateless block witnesses. This is a hefty change.

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@ben_chain

1 year

ACI: Artificial Collective Intelligence

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@ben_chain

3 years

This a major breakthrough in how we think about fault proofs. What's absolutely bananas is that by leveraging the preimage oracle, the input to *the entire damn rollup* is reduced to a single hash: the L1 blockhash. Cannon just "unrolls" everything else it needs from there.

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✨🔴_🔴✨ Ben Jones

@ben_chain

3 years

While minigeth compiles to our L2 MIPS VM, that isn't fundamental--you can also compile to x86--and we think this design could open big new doors for stateless Ethereum as a whole. Stay tuned. 📈

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@ben_chain

3 years

The preimage oracle is a new type of state transition with no equivalent in other ISAs like WASM, RISC, etc. The transition rule is dead simple, but powerful: given a 32-byte hash as the input, the preimage to that hash is placed into the VM’s memory.

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@ben_chain

3 years

Another way to say it is: the preimage to an L1 blockhash *can always* be found! This makes it a *perfect* input to the Preimage Oracle. So long as you only put "real, blockchain-generated" hashes into it, you'll always progress the VM state.

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@ben_chain

2 years

sad to announce that I will be stepping down as the CEO of Kraken

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@ben_chain

2 years

Building new a coordination layer for the internet is what took me down the rabbithole all those years ago. The ETH whitepaper converted me from follower to believer, and I never looked back. The Optimism Collective is a chance to do just that, and do it right. Let's do this.

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@ben_chain

2 years

LMFAO I go to burning man for a week and when I get back the world has done this...

Rare OPepes

@RareOPepes

2 years

Hey @ben_chain , we made you this honorary as part of our upcoming Rare OPepes NFT collection with @xtokenterminal - hope you like it! Let us know your ENS or ETH address and we'll send it over 🥳

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@ben_chain

3 years

turns out the real transaction chain was the friends we made along the way

✨🔴_🔴✨ Ben Jones

@ben_chain

3 years

Not only is this intuitive--a new L1 block is EXACTLY what progresses L2 state--it ALSO allows theoretical minimum data cost. You literally don't even submit calldata to a smart contract, because it comes directly from the L1 block. ZERO gas aside from raw L1 data is needed.

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@ben_chain

3 years

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Optimism

@Optimism

3 years

🎊🎉🌈 Network upgrade complete: EVM Equivalence is LIVE on Optimistic Ethereum! EVM Equivalence means that means that deployment is a breeze, network stability is at an ATH, and tooling. just. works. Here's what to keep in mind as the upgrade is now live 👇

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@ben_chain

3 years

EVM "compatibility"? 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 This has been one of if not THE most important realization for us since moving from plasma to rollups. After 10 months on an EVM compatible mainnet, I just can't tell you how right it feels. Giddy.

Optimism

@Optimism

3 years

A new gold standard for L2s is about to emerge. It's time to talk about EVM Equivalence.

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3 years

Yet another efficiency: each step goes just 1 level down the state trie, so the final on-chain step of the fault proof will be constant in the state size. No merkle branches required. We achieve this with a simple abstraction that can be easily ported to other ISAs.

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@ben_chain

3 years

I will be at Devconnect! Who else will be there? Come to this talk, or HMU if you wanna - Make some music - Jam on scalability endgame - Help solve L2 resource pricing

L2BEAT 💗

@l2beat

3 years

Ben "Weird ETH Yankovic" Jones, a co-founder and Chief Scientist at @optimismPBC , will give an overview of Optimism's new fault proof, Cannon. If you want to learn something about fault proofs or just to have a chat on Ben's secret hobby, crypto music, come!

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@ben_chain

2 years

the UX of dual-flush toilets always confuses me am i supposed to press the big button when I go #1 because it is the #1 sized button? or did they make it bigger because it uses more water, so I should press the small button?

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@ben_chain

3 years

Geth's StateDB already uses a mapping from b32 hash to value. This means that the preimage oracle integrates effortlessly--armed with the right preimages, it can fully validate a block, completely statelessly, with an insanely small code footprint vs. vanilla geth.

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@ben_chain

3 years

Idea: "crack open" (burn) your EtherRock for a small chance of finding an EtherGeode

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@ben_chain

3 years

really didn't think an opossum would become an unofficial mascot but I'm here for it

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@pawsuhm

3 years

Another big week for @optimismPBC . I just published the second edition of Opossum's Week in Optimism, a weekly roundup of what's going on in the Optimism ecosystem!

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@ben_chain

2 years

sandwich attacks should’ve been called squash trading

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@ben_chain

2 years

Simultaneously HYPED to be transitioning to the Optimism Foundation and begin the next chapter of our journey alongside my co-founder @jinglejamOP as our Executive Director. And with old friends and legends @evabeylin @abbey_titcomb joining the mix? It's just tooooo OP 🔴_🔴

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@ben_chain

3 years

The same principle applies to the state trie itself--you basically can "unzip" any piece of state from the previous block's stateroot. It's like merklization in reverse, and so long as the blockchain was the thing which did the merklizing, it's perfectly safe to do.

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@ben_chain

5 years

@Stan_Kladko I'm not sure about tx count--but in 5 years, 90% of tx VALUE will accrue in scaling solutions which are both secure and economically efficient. Plasma with state channels on top is bar none the best candidate for that today. (ZKPs will also take on a big role within 5 years)

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@ben_chain

2 years

@jinglejamOP @karl_dot_tech soon to be the ultimate 51% attack

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@ben_chain

2 years

zombie chains attempting user acquisition in the bear market

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@ben_chain

5 years

༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Hey @UnipigExchange it's 0x6B8f64f889cB632218a1d2FD945a1769C853c9D7, give me some 🦄UNI and 🐷PIGI tokens on Layer 2! #teamPIGI

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@ben_chain

3 years

So: that's what's awesome about the design from an L2 perspective. But what's equally awesome is how cleanly it fits into geth. Minigeth is independently interesting as a brand new, stateless implementation of geth, because it introduces NO new witness validation code.

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@ben_chain

3 years

Speaking at #ethdenver in exactly 1 hour. Come for my melodica performance, stay to learn about the future of scaling.

Optimism

@Optimism

3 years

Tomorrow morning @ben_chain will be giving a talk at #ETHDenver on key lessons learned from running an optimistic rollup for the last two years. Hope to see you there! Time/Date: Friday Feb 18th - 11:40 AM Place: Sports Castle Laser Stage

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@ben_chain

6 years

More Viable Plasma with @kelvinfichter and awesome friends ✨

More Viable Plasma

Authors: Ben Jones, Kelvin Fichter And a very special thank you to vi, Li Xuanji, David Knott, Eva Beylin, Vitalik Buterin, and Kasima Tharnpipitchai for invaluable contributions to putting this...

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@ben_chain

5 years

@PhABCD This depends on how ETH2 is used—for example, optimistic execution schemes do allow for atomic cross-shard transactions!

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@ben_chain

3 years

get you an L2 that develops at these levels of openness

Optimism

@Optimism

3 years

ICYMI: Last week we discussed a lot of exciting developments during our monthly developer call! Hear directly from the nerds hard at work making Optimism the most elegant and developer friendly scaling solution for Ethereum. 🔴 🧵

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@ben_chain

2 years

They just ain’t ready for it @gakonst

There.Is.No.Alternative⚡🤖

@tzhen

2 years

#darkmode "Keynote" BoMEVian RhapsodETH (lyrics coming soonTM) - Piano + vocal @ben_chain - Guitar @gakonst

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@ben_chain

2 years

@crypt0glitter @marcrebillet omg Marc is my IDOL and this is actually using the same loop machine he does

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@ben_chain

2 years

@VirtualElena gotta shout out @kelvinfichter 's classic from back in the day

GitHub - smartcontracts/mind-breed: A CryptoKitties powered Brainfuck interpreter on Ethereum

A CryptoKitties powered Brainfuck interpreter on Ethereum - smartcontracts/mind-breed

github.com

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@ben_chain

3 years

Great post--very glad to have folks like @barnabemonnot getting more into L2 economics. The "operator budget" is something we had to think through carefully in the early days and it never got love publicly. This field will keep evolving, we have some fun stuff in the works.

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@barnabemonnot

3 years

I wrote a new post about rollup economics. This framework hopefully provides more clarity on the various parties co-existing in a rollup system, and helps guide discussions on fees and economic designs

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@ben_chain

3 years

#L222

Optimism

@Optimism

3 years

Big news for all the optimistic L2 devs out there: the whitelist is going away, and it's going away very soon! That's right. Buckle up, because we're about to open the developer floodgates.

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@ben_chain

6 years

@gakonst @fubuloubu @hrdwrknvrstps @jinglanW @josephdelong @CryptoParent @ameensol @EtherealSummit @TusharJain_ @jackoholleran Let's also not forget that "exploding" history size--aka downloads linear in block count--is the case for pretty much all blockchains today generally.

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✨🔴_🔴✨ Ben Jones

@ben_chain

3 years

This sounds a bit crazy on its own–after all, the whole point of hashes is preimage resistance, right? You can’t know them! How is this at all reasonable? Well–some preimages, yes–but others are decidedly known. In fact, the *entire rollup model* relies on L1 being available.

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✨🔴_🔴✨ Ben Jones

@ben_chain

4 years

Talking in an hour! Come for the rollup breakdown, stay for the memes.

ETHGlobal

@ETHGlobal

4 years

Our next Summit🔮 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐮𝐦 📅 12 PM ET Oct 23 - this Friday ➡️ How Eth2 complement Eth1, how Eth2's launch will enable near-term scaling, how you can participate in staking, and much more! Register Now:

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✨🔴_🔴✨ Ben Jones

@ben_chain

2 years

@mdudas FWIW this was a perfect storm of errors and was only possible because the L1 addy was created by WM *3 years ago* on an older version of the factory. Any retail user using since its launch on Optimism would not be at risk.

smartcontracts.eth (✨🔴_🔴✨)

@kelvinfichter

2 years

Last weekend an attacker was able to gain control of the Optimism addresses that correspond to various Gnosis Safe multisigs on Ethereum that had not yet been deployed to Optimism. A quick thread on security in the multi-chain world ~~

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✨🔴_🔴✨ Ben Jones

@ben_chain

3 years

Innovation is always about placing old ideas in a new light. And that has value on its own. It might not always get the "original citation," but it helps you coordinate your team and communicate to the world. And it definitely helps you write clean, effective code. 2/3

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@ben_chain

3 years

Optimism

@Optimism

3 years

Scaling Ethereum as a public good isn’t just a code problem, it’s an incentive problem. Our first experiment? 😍💵 Make it profitable to build public goods.

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✨🔴_🔴✨ Ben Jones

@ben_chain

6 years

@_prestwich @AFDudley0 @DZack23 @gakonst @fubuloubu @hrdwrknvrstps @jinglanW @josephdelong @CryptoParent @ameensol @EtherealSummit @TusharJain_ @jackoholleran We have formal specifications for particular implementations, but not for the general design space (very large! see: NOCUST). I think a good sorting heuristic is "layer 2 solutions where off-chain data about on-chain commitments is used to provide custody guarantees."

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✨🔴_🔴✨ Ben Jones

@ben_chain

6 years

@paddykcl @gakonst @AFDudley0 @DZack23 @fubuloubu @hrdwrknvrstps @jinglanW @josephdelong @CryptoParent @ameensol @EtherealSummit @TusharJain_ @jackoholleran @danrobinson The way it will work is if you've opened a channel on plasma, and censorship happens, plasma's dispute process resolves to an equivalent channel contract on the main chain. So the channel "remains a channel"

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✨🔴_🔴✨ Ben Jones

@ben_chain

6 years

@AFDudley0 @gakonst @DZack23 @fubuloubu @hrdwrknvrstps @jinglanW @josephdelong @CryptoParent @ameensol @EtherealSummit @TusharJain_ @jackoholleran @danrobinson FWIW at @plasma_group we have "I will include this" receipt signatures from the operator--could be used for a slashing condition in the future and also allows for a nicer confirmation UX for low-value transactions

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✨🔴_🔴✨ Ben Jones

@ben_chain

4 years

Hey @synthetixl2demo it's 0x07E9caDF6AF7A1e21C6E34F238FBf865cBECCC3f, let me in to the L2 testnet trading competition! @optimismPBC @synthetix_io

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✨🔴_🔴✨ Ben Jones

@ben_chain

3 years

time for the cannon to start firing on all cylinders That's how cannons work, right?

Optimism

@Optimism

3 years

Cannon (CANNON CANNON CANNON) is our next-gen fault proof architecture, and it’s coming soon. It enables optimal data costs. It effortlessly preserves EVM equivalence. Its very first bug bounty goes live today. 💥

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✨🔴_🔴✨ Ben Jones

@ben_chain

3 years

It's crazy but I know that number is only going up from here, too--and it could be you!

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✨🔴_🔴✨ Ben Jones

@ben_chain

2 years

But I know OP Labs remains in more than capable hands with my co-founder @karl_dot_tech , beacon-of-organization @liamihorne + @kelvinfichter @optimisticjosh @b0bby @boedec @kevinjho_ @tyneslol @mslipper and the rest of what's become a truly legendary squad.

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✨🔴_🔴✨ Ben Jones

@ben_chain

3 years

@kelvinfichter @trent_vanepps @nicksdjohnson @epolynya @karl_dot_tech There's another path forward in the form of stateless block verification. You don't need L1 to preserve a separate state space if you have that--just takes being able to statelessly apply a block to an arbitrary *L2* blockhash from within the VM. This is hopefully easier.

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✨🔴_🔴✨ Ben Jones

@ben_chain

3 years

@haydenzadams @alyankovic just wait for the next drop its a BOP 👀👀👀

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✨🔴_🔴✨ Ben Jones

@ben_chain

2 years

@ianlapham I have been advocating for OP branded heelys swag for over a year now

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✨🔴_🔴✨ Ben Jones

@ben_chain

3 years

@krzKaczor @fubuloubu @optimismPBC Yeah, Kris is basically right here. Since LOG* has no effect on state root we didn't virtualize it into ovmLOG*. One thing we could do is suppress the outputs in l2geth, although it still wouldn't throw an exception--do you folks think that's better behavior?

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✨🔴_🔴✨ Ben Jones

@ben_chain

3 years

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Optimism

@Optimism

3 years

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✨🔴_🔴✨ Ben Jones

@ben_chain

2 years

Leaving @OPLabsPBC is bittersweet. Watching the team grow over the past few years into a 40-strong band of empathetic, brilliant engineers and operators has been the most humbling experience of my life. Finding people who can do it better than you? Over and over again? ❤️ 🤯 ❤️

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✨🔴_🔴✨ Ben Jones

@ben_chain

6 years

Yes, always share! :) Thankfully many others do too— @oceanprotocol @EnigmaMPC @openminedorg @....—will be a race though; google has a head start of YEARS

Maverick

@mav_eth

6 years

@ben_chain Anonymous and open Data. Still have personal ledgers but it’s not revealing and data is buyable by all research groups (from users), not just a central power. There needs to still be someone creating people’s ledgers but that can be done. I have some ideas if you’re interested

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✨🔴_🔴✨ Ben Jones

@ben_chain

2 years

No Twitter handle but addition of Brian Avello more than deserving of callout too—did not take long getting to know Brian that he is absolutely fantastic.

✨🔴_🔴✨ Ben Jones

@ben_chain

2 years

Simultaneously HYPED to be transitioning to the Optimism Foundation and begin the next chapter of our journey alongside my co-founder @jinglejamOP as our Executive Director. And with old friends and legends @evabeylin @abbey_titcomb joining the mix? It's just tooooo OP 🔴_🔴

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✨🔴_🔴✨ Ben Jones

@ben_chain

3 years

S U S P E N S E

Optimism

@Optimism

3 years

like this, but we got the good guy instead of the bad guy

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