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PhD Student @Berkeley_EECS . Systems security & cryptography.

Berkeley, CA

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Joined June 2020

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@daryakaviani

darya

1 month

📢 We're kicking off the Berkeley security seminar for the Fall semester! 🔐 If you're a student/faculty/postdoc with a recent work in security (applied cryptography, AI security, systems security, etc.) & visiting the Bay, DM me! In-person preferred.

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darya

1 year

Excited to come back to @Berkeley_EECS to pursue my PhD in computer security & applied cryptography. Thank you Berkeley for everything you’ve taught me & everything you still have in store.

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2 years

For a space that prides itself on building censorship-resistant & borderless technology, cryptotwitter has been dead silent about the protests & ensuing censorship in Iran. Here’s what’s happening, why you should care, & how you can help Iranians communicate. 🇮🇷

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2 years

excited to be a part of the @paradigm fellowship & meet the other crypto smols 👶

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1 year

marrying the first man who translates all the C++ MPC libraries into Rust

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darya

3 years

@PolinaLishko as an educator, you have a responsibility to inform and enlighten. you are reducing the settler-colonialism, apartheid, & genocide to arabs just “hating” israelis. why is it that you question the palestinian’s response without questioning why the IDF is bombing a building?

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darya

2 years

me: i'm cold. east coast kids: really? lmao i could literally be naked rn like ur so weak? i literally bathed in the snow as a kid. i literally ate ice for breakfast daily. i used to play hide and seek in the freezer.

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darya

2 months

Introducing Ringtail, the most efficient 2-round lattice-based threshold signature from standard assumptions, with @cryptocecy , @russell_wf_lai , Giulio Malavolta, @akiratk0355 , & @mtibouchi . 👇

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Ringtail: Practical Two-Round Threshold Signatures from Learning with Errors

A threshold signature scheme splits the signing key among $\ell$ parties, such that any $t$-subset of parties can jointly generate signatures on a given message. Designing concretely efficient...

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darya

4 years

if you don’t organize your life on @NotionHQ , we can’t be friends.

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darya

2 years

so stoked to join the @opyn_ team that my start date was literally the day after grad 🎓 time to code some squeethy things 😎 in other (more significant) news, squeeth cat:

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@PolinaLishko why do palestinians have to go through this in the first place? why do you maintain that the IDF has the right to bomb a building where children reside in the first place? if the children are evacuated, the IDF has still left them ruins for a home. open your eyes.

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darya

3 months

Excited to share our @usenix OSDI '24 paper "Flock🪶: A Framework for Deploying On-Demand Distributed Trust" with @sijun_tan @praveingk @ralucaadapopa . We answer what multi-party cryptographic systems take for granted: Who are the non-colluding parties? 👇

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Flock: A Framework for Deploying On-Demand Distributed Trust

Recent years have exhibited an increase in applications that distribute trust across $n$ servers to protect user data from a central point of attack. However, these deployments remain limited due to...

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darya

1 year

@ralucaadapopa and I are excited to release the MPC Deployments dashboard at . In recent years, MPC (secure multi-party computation) has seen an increase in deployments and adoption in real-world applications. Learn about them and submit more. ⤵️

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darya

2 years

squeeth + auto router = squatoroutooor 🏋️‍♀️ has been revamped to perform trades via @uniswap 's auto router! here's why this changes the game for longs & LPs ⤵️

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darya

1 year

Thrilled to share our collab w/ @LindellYehuda ( @Coinbase ); David, @SIGTIM , @SarahGrrrrrrran ( @I_S_R_G ); Rolfe, @EhrenKret ( @SignalApp ); & @RalucaAdaPopa . Hear from teams at the forefront of MPC systems on the most significant challenges to deploying MPC:

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darya

2 years

My paper with @niloufar_s on Instagram infographics, ethnic movements, & the confluence of connective & collective action is published via @ACM_CSCW ! 1.5 years is a decade in undergrad years, ethereal to finally share my work with the world ❤️

Bridging Action Frames: Instagram Infographics in U.S. Ethnic Movements | Proceedings of the ACM on...

Instagram infographics are a digital activism tool that have redefined action frames for technology-facilitated social movements. From the 1960s through the 1980s, United States ethnic movements...

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2 years

caving. i'm learning rust.

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darya

2 years

the #1 upgrade in crab v2 is a brand new auction mechanism. here’s an overview of the new auction, followed by an example with your favorite market makers: lobster 🦞, shrimp 🦐, clam 🐚, squid 🦑, & octopus 🐙! ⤵️

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darya

4 months

Welcome to the MPC dashboard, @worldcoin ! Really exciting to see a deployment of MPC at this scale.

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Worldcoin Uniqueness Check

Verified World ID users can prove that they are a unique human being without revealing who they are. To achieve this, the system makes sure the user has not signed up before during sign up by...

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darya

2 years

(1) Signal Proxy @SignalApp is blocked in Iran. You can run a lightweight TLS proxy that masks connections as regular web traffic. Tweet #IRanASignalProxy to let Iranians DM you for a link (popular servers may be blocked).

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darya

2 years

(3) Talk. We should be less concerned about our Twitter brands and more concerned about human beings. These are the people we are building for: - People who need an open financial system - People who need distributed trust - People who need censorship-resistant technology

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darya

2 months

This Friday at @usenix #OSDI24 , @sijun_tan & I will be giving a talk about how to deploy multi-party cryptographic systems on-demand with Flock!🪶

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darya

3 months

Excited to share our @usenix OSDI '24 paper "Flock🪶: A Framework for Deploying On-Demand Distributed Trust" with @sijun_tan @praveingk @ralucaadapopa . We answer what multi-party cryptographic systems take for granted: Who are the non-colluding parties? 👇

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2 years

being fluent in laTeX is a superpower

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1 year

green cards are on the table

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darya

2 years

(2) Tor’s Snowflake Tor is blocked in Iran. It’s as simple as a web extension. You run a proxy. A broker gives your IP address to a client, who then makes a direct connection to your computer, which forwards traffic to the Tor network.

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darya

2 years

Speak. Activists on the ground have said international support is keeping them going. They need us. Be kind. It’s really hard to act normal, to do everyday things, to exist, when our people are dying. Especially when non-Iranians are very quiet.

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darya

3 years

no way i’m going out into the real world in 2 months bruh i’m still scared of the dark

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darya

2 years

Yesterday, I went to a protest for Iran, followed by the Cal vs. Stanford football game. I haven't written in so long, but this was the only way I could articulate the cognitive dissonance. Here are my raw, messy words.

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Cognitive Dissonance of an Iranian American Woman in 2022

Today, I went to a protest for Iran and the Cal vs. Stanford football game. I have never experienced more cognitive dissonance.

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darya

2 years

This is the largest women-led counter-revolution in global history. We will see a free Iran. #زن_زندگی_آزادی

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darya

2 years

status: squeething under unideal circumstances

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darya

3 months

Met a lot of cool people in this program; would recommend!

@gakonst

Georgios Konstantopoulos

3 months

Excited to announce the @Paradigm Fellowship, SF, Sep 25-29th 2024. Paradigm Fellowship is a program to gather crypto’s best young engs and researchers. During that time we'll work directly on the hardest problems in the industry. Excited to meet and collaborate with you all.

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darya

3 years

the fam is in denver ✈️💛 stop by & say hello!

@CalBlockchain

Blockchain at Berkeley

3 years

Join us @EthereumDenver to hear co-presidents @daryakaviani & @ratankaliani speak on the trifecta of cultivating student talent in crypto: Educate x Enable x Empower Better yet, intertwine the 3 for close-knit, student-driven powerhouses. Thurs, 12:40-1, Art Stage @ Art Hotel

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darya

2 years

Please share any other methods you are aware of. Happy to chat more, DMs are open. #MahsaAmini #ZanZindagiAzaadi #FreeIran2022

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darya

3 years

men here in the eecs department like to keep it impeccably steamy

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darya

2 years

signed a lease in northside! about to live my cottage in greenery dream 🌳🏡🪴

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2 years

🌝

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darya

2 years

On 9/16, 22 y/o #MahsaAmini was murdered by Iran’s “morality” police for “improper hijab.” Since, protests against the Islamic Republic have broken out across Iran (& globally). The regime’s forces have escalated from tear gas to bullets, killing & arresting hundreds.

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darya

3 years

rain in berkeley is a lil magical 🌧✨

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darya

2 years

@MaanavKhaitan *dies laughing imagining maanav on google images looking for a pic of sal khan to tweet*

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darya

2 years

Who's going to DevCon? If you're working on (1) MPC projects or (2) DeFi derivatives, let's meet up!

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darya

3 years

this is a uc berkeley professor reducing the occupation to arabs hating their own children and israelis. @UCBerkeley @berkeleyMCB take action immediately.

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darya

2 years

@smsunarto scott IS single

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darya

2 years

STOP 🛑 and look at this owl i saw on my walk

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darya

2 years

crab v2 is among us.

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@opyn_

opyn² - Now Hiring

2 years

Lfcrabbbbb! Crab v2 is now live!!!!! 🎉 The strategy makes money in crab markets - when ETH is moving sideways, like a crab! 🦀🦀 v2 aims to deliver better yield and larger caps due to a new hedging mechanism ⚙️🦔 👉

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darya

1 year

sidewalks in claremont

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darya

2 years

imagine a crab coming out of the sea pressuring you to hedge its delta in a jamaican accent

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bbqueen

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imagine a crab coming out of the sea pressuring you to kiss a girl you just met two days ago in a jamaican accent

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2 years

Iran has shut down the Internet, making it nearly impossible to share accurate data on death tolls & movement updates. We can help.

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2 years

slack messages like these 😩

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darya

2 years

northside, unfiltered

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darya

7 months

Huge congrats to the @SuccinctLabs team! Big step towards accessible & efficient verifiable compute.

@SuccinctLabs

Succinct

7 months

1/ We are excited to announce Succinct Processor 1 (SP1), our first generation, 100% open-source zkVM that proves arbitrary Rust programs. SP1 targets an order of magnitude performance improvement vs. existing zkVMs, and is already up to 28x faster for certain programs.

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2 years

fetus darya also booling in amsterdam

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2 months

Most importantly, here is a ringtail 🥹

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darya

3 years

here we go 🌝

@SatchelFinance

Satchel 💼

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3 years

😎💸🏫

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darya

2 years

@ratankaliani u shower?

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darya

3 years

we’d always love to have you @calblockchain if you’re interested 🥰✨

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darya

3 years

thank you for having us @cnbc @kr00ney @thenewsoncnbc ❤️ beyond proud of my family @calblockchain for helping cultivate this incredible ecosystem, sky’s the limit from here 💫

@LastCallCNBC

Last Call

3 years

Crypto is goin' to college. Schools like Berkeley, Harvard and MIT are adding blockchain courses amid the crypto boom, and are accepting #BTC and #ETH as tuition payments. @Kr00ney has the details.

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darya

4 years

@it_is_whati_tis this is disgusting. i am so sorry you experienced this.

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darya

2 years

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@smsunarto @jai_bhavnani scott ur cute

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darya

2 years

This is the most incredible video that exists on the internet. In an eerie way, knowing the most daunting elements of our universe are also finite is comforting.

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darya

3 years

so excited to finally to share this initiative with the world 🌍 student founders/researchers/builders/thinkers, reach out, we want to support you! ❤️

@CalBlockchain

Blockchain at Berkeley

3 years

1/ Introducing Blockchain at Berkeley Grants, designed to bridge the gap between students’ unbridled potential and the resources they need to manifest their vision. 🐻 Who better to enable the next generation of builders than their own peers? 🧵⤵️

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darya

3 years

if you have experienced transaction-blocking for grassroots fundraising or mutual aid efforts by centralized e-payment platforms ( @venmo , @paypal , etc.), please dm me! compiling a dataset (e.g. caption, location, platform) of these transactions. thread on why i care ⤵️ (1/n)

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darya

3 years

but integrating & assimilating oppressed groups into oppressive institutions (i.e. big tech) and leaving it at that won’t change shit other than diversity ratios & PR. we need women rethinking, revolutionizing, & radicalizing tech.

@khushbooverma_

Khushboo Verma

@khushbooverma_

3 years

We need more women in tech.

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darya

2 years

i sincerely apologize for causing a legitimate war between vegans & carnivores in this thread. i am not british nor do i give a shit about @burgerkinguk 's menu. i was just hungry. i will do better.

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darya

2 years

@BurgerKingUK vegan crispy chicken sandwich ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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@BurgerKingUK vegan crispy chicken sandwich ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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darya

2 months

@0xBalloonLover lmao yes but outside of blockchain applications, the “throw things in a SNARK” model is almost never efficient enough for anyone to use or deploy. so in practice it’s often either TEE or nothing

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darya

3 years

i hope @NotionHQ knows the universe would collapse without them

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darya

2 years

crab v2: spotted on a rock in cabo

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darya

2 years

squeeth cats assemble

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(Joe Clark)²

2 years

@daryakaviani @reegannotraygan @opyn_ Assemble!

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1 year

seattle 🌅

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darya

3 years

thanks for having us! always an honor to shill @calblockchain 🥰

@EthereumDenver

ETHDenver 🏔🦬🦄

@EthereumDenver

3 years

We are so thankful to have Darya Kaviani speak at #ETHDenver about Agency Through Crypto, Education, & Community! @daryakaviani from Satchel Watch it here:

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darya

3 years

unreal to hear someone who is not me giving the lil satchel spiel 🤯 great podcast & people, excited to see what’s next 🤞🏼

@VritiSaraf

Vriti Saraf 🌐 3.0

3 years

I listen to podcasts on 1.5x (unless @balajis is on). And TBH, my own podcast at 1.5x makes me sound smarter! 😅 This was a fun convo with @jdennehy_writes , the crypto OG - DeFi in edu, stories from El Salvador, & live questions. Check it out!

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darya

3 years

beyond excited to speak alongside these incredible women 💫 join us!

@CalBlockchain

Blockchain at Berkeley

3 years

✨ Berkeley Women in Tech Panel ✨ Come hear our panelists' unique experiences & stories about choosing classes, delving into research, & growing their careers, ft. women from Launchpad, Blockchain at Berkeley, Blueprint, Codebase, & ML @B . Learn more at

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darya

4 years

@guacacholey i’m sorry WHAT is wrong with this shirt? the hECK?

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darya

1 year

@SignalApp ’s new secure value recovery prototype uses MPC to distribute user backups. @Coinbase ’s Wallet as a Service uses MPC for signatures on digital transactions. @I_S_R_G uses MPC for private analytics, e.g. on COVID-19 exposure notifications for mobile devices.

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darya

3 years

deeeeep in the html/css last night

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darya

2 years

i need to stop saying bcal in the real world

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darya

3 years

incredibly impactful piece by @sonofalli 💫💕 “When traditionally underrepresented groups are forced–or choose–to hide their gender/sexuality/race/etc., skewed perceptions of who is in and contributing to said space can be strengthened.”

@sonofalli

alli

3 years

Excited to share what I've been working on with @0xstation ✨Fem3✨ Women and NB individuals need to be included, seen, and valued as we build the foundations Web3. This article unpacks where we are, what we can learn, and how we move forward.

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3 years

@smsunarto if u get a gf then what will u tweet about

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darya

2 years

Huge thanks to @18emilypedersen & @wes_deng for their mentorship & dedicated feedback, as well as @hcitonya @samanthaa_rr @xiao_sijia @liza_gak and everyone else at to3 who gave me love & support throughout this process!

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2 years

tldr; longs get cheaper swaps & LPs get thicc fees, issa win win 🤌

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darya

2 years

apparently the debate to crypto pipeline is a thing?? what

@youfoundanisha

Anisha Sunkerneni

@youfoundanisha

2 years

who was a real past speech and debater pls stand up 👀

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2 years

@discord sickkk dude, can you think to answer my customer support tickets?

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darya

2 years

loved chatting @caseykcaruso @arjunblj & stoked to meet the rest of the team!

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darya

4 years

PART 1! READ. DONATE. SIGN. SHARE. REPEAT. #endsanctionsagainstiran #endsanctionsoniran #iran 🇮🇷 #iran #coronavirus #covid #pandemic #covid19 #medicalaid

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pixie is the main character 🧚‍♀️🧚‍♂️🧚

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darya

3 years

in fourth grade my teacher did this and i said “eye-ran away from u”

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sepideh

3 years

if you pronounce it as “eye-ran” or “eye-raq” then your opinion on the two deserves to be “eye-gnored”

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flying w my persian parents and we’ve been at the airport since the crack of dawn 🇮🇷🫡

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darya

3 years

rush b @b

@a_kirillo

Andrew Kirillov 🎱_🎱

3 years

@smsunarto @sanlsrni @eKRENZKE

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darya

3 years

@0xtuba @smsunarto @jai_bhavnani yes.

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darya

4 years

i’ll be moderating this!!!!!!! pls attend!!!

@CalBlockchain

Blockchain at Berkeley

4 years

Interested in learning about the groundbreaking experiences of 6 women in the blockchain space? Looking to discover the diversity of thought, identity, and experiences in the blockchain industry at large? Join B @B on 09/04 6-7:30 PM PT! Visit to register!

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darya

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We offer a pure GoLang implementation of Ringtail, built on @tuneinsight ’s #Lattigo library. Check it out!

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A 2-round lattice-based threshold signature from standard assumptions - daryakaviani/ringtail

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darya

2 years

@gurnynarula @pearvc heard @emguoz is cooking up an earth-shattering defi blockchain ML cloud computing project🧑‍🍳

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darya

3 years

you’re her person i’m her proton we’re not the same

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darya

3 years

@ratankaliani soda hall

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darya

2 years

@amirbolous world record for longest way to spell "i'm rich"

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darya

1 year

@tarunchitra efficiency is trickier. even if you abstract advanced cryptography as [fancy math for privacy], profit-driven entities will try to maintain this equilibrium: $ gained from new privacy-conscious users = $ lost from cryptography compute needs to be cheap enough to be "worth it"

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darya

2 years

@alpinechicken tragic i wanted to collateralize my new stablecoin with SQUEETH

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darya

2 years

@smsunarto 😇😇

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