Lyron Co Ting Keh @lyronctk Twitter profile

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

6 days

> Crypto is for payments and defi > Crypto is for making markets Accurate when we were small. Now similar vibe to “internet is for communication” Crypto's already delivered a handful of differentiated user experiences. Many more to come WOOO

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

1 year

We snarked a 512-layer neural network with Nova It's a 2.5B constraint computation that we proved in 50s per layer on a macbook Wow. Excitement around Nova / SuperNova / HyperNova is very much justified 1/6

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

2 years

Running an experiment. My private key: 8b4ef4f108d63b314bc1aa63002e733b0bf56bf7199b9319fc6fca3807fcda63

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@lyronctk

1 year

Threshold signatures today have stagnant secret shares. It's a problem. Attackers can simply compromise shares one by one over the course of months. Proactive refresh is a way to renew these shares. Rather than having months, attackers now only have seconds. 1/8

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@lyronctk

6 months

Accepting that technical moat is not a moat is a crazy feeling I simultaneously feel vulnerable bc my fancy math shield is gone and locked in bc of clarity that only a killer product + mindshare can save me A vulnerable, kinda shaken, locked in, killer mindset

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

4 months

Partially homomorphic encryption is ridiculously under-utilized. It opens up a massive swath of use cases via strong concurrency and minimal data leakage. And you can get it with just 256 lines of circom. ...

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@lyronctk

1 month

"Wtf, we already scrapped TEEs in 2019, how can people forget" - common complaint floating around now Isn't accurate. Current discourse isn't "forgetting" and pushing the same approach again. The landscape has completely changed since 2019 - [1] Alternative risks to not

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@lyronctk

5 months

👀

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@lyronctk

5 months

Am on a patriotic streak: 1) Had to use my blue passport for the first time since citizenship, 14 yr immigration process for the family 2) Had a friend take us around the Oval Office, used the toilet in the same building as the leader of the free world U•S•A 🦅U•S•A 🇺🇸!!

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

5 months

1 team hack week >> 100 team hackathon Did @hack_lodge in college. Changed the game for me. So much so that we ( @SeismicSys & @ArgusLabs_ ) replicated the lodge's core tenets w/ a group of UPenn builders last week. Was insanely productive for both of our product roadmaps. Why?

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

3 months

Main driver of everyday crypto adoption in the US won't be payments, it'll be payouts Crypto has a clear pitch for non US citizens: access to USD What about for US citizens? They already have native USD and the rails to spend it So, not spending. What about earning? USER ->

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@lyronctk

1 month

TEEs are picking up steam! Tricks we use in our system to get the "best" security model we can: [1] Scary to depend on a small set of unstaked nodes to verify a computation. Alleviate via multiple confirmation rules like TEE attest -> TEE attest and ZKP -> TEE attest and ZKP and

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

6 months

Considering bringing on a person as cofounder right now. The single biggest decision I'll make for the company. Sharing eight thinking prompts I've synthesized via veteran founder friends:

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

2 months

de-evolution of chain summoners w/ seed funding: satoshi w/ $0 ==> shipped bitcoin vitalik w/ $100k ==> shipped ethereum toly w/ $3M ==> shipped solana our gen w/ $150M ==> shipped a milly followers on @X

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

3 months

Have been using this framework when thinking about consumer: Hit crypto native dapps let users buy something that goes up Breakout apps that we've seen have either innovated along 1) how to buy, or 2) what to buy Has helped me get in the greenfield mindset for both:

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@lyronctk

3 months

Run the EVM in an MPC. Would be a significant contribution if someone pulled this off. Why? We're increasingly seeing a reliance on TEEs for shielding smart contract info. Uncomfortable security model. EVM in an MPC alleviates these concerns. ...

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

5 months

A cryptographic "discipline" ladder. We drew this after losing two pilot partners by being overzealous researchers. (1 / N)

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@lyronctk

5 months

Have met VCs before whose DD consists of looking me in the eye and asking me if I'm going to be big. And honestly, their funds rip.

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

1 year

KZGChip, an optimized KZG multi-open verifier, is now available in Halo2 circuits 🫡. Useful for any cryptosystem built on the KZG commitment scheme. Notable examples include Proto-Danksharding (scaling etherum DA, @protolambda ) and Summa (proof-of-solvency, @backaes ).

Axiom

@axiom_xyz

1 year

Axiom Open Source Project Spotlight! @lyronctk and @punwaiw wrote ZK circuits for multi-opens for KZG commitments on BN254. Their work was inspired by reading proto-danksharding blobs in ZK. These are coming in EIP-4844 (over BLS12-381) to reduce data availability costs.

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

1 year

Want to fundraise on-chain while keeping your balance private? There's a quick way to do this on ETH L1 using diffie-hellman key exchange + a ZKP. Create an anonymity set with minimal cryptography involved.

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

15 days

Crazy question raised by traitor tracing: How much money would it take to betray your friend? Traitor tracing is the best mitigation we have for server side privacy breaches (the core of the MPC v TEE discussion) MPC == "server that stores your data" is split between 10

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@lyronctk

6 months

The no-name company phase is epic I know that today's inbound @SeismicSys (hires & partners) actually care about the mission. They don't care about some upcoming tge. And they definitely don't care about our 600 twitter followers lol

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@lyronctk

3 months

Favorite two liner from Research Day yesterday: @cwgoes : “The world gave crypto a finite amount of goodwill. We’re consuming it at an alarming rate.” Shoutout to all the goodwill production factories (RWAs). You’ll have reinforcements soon WOO!

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

2 years

Front-running to protect against private key theft. A fun POC

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

8 months

It’s exciting to see other projects start focusing on high-throughput ZK. Means more people are swinging product-first Seasoned ZK devs are always surprised / refreshed whenever we make a big deal out of +/- 200ms proving time Yeah, we want apps that are smooth as butter

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

6 months

More cryptography teams should focus on generating proof order flow (vs ingesting it) Sitting closest to end user gets you all the power in the end Look @ present day MEV. Best algos don't win anymore. Now, winner is whoever can woo the biggest exchanges for their order flow

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

7 months

It’s easier to say a nascent thesis is wrong Than to put in the work to figure out how it might actually be right :)

venture apologist

@0xBalloonLover

7 months

does improving zk development by 100x mean we'll realize there are no use cases 100x faster? zk/acc

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

23 days

Young guns will never know the pain of deciding whether your table should be wide or tall

Succinct

@SuccinctLabs

23 days

SP1 is live and ready for production use. Our blazing fast zkVM enables any developer to create real-world ZKP applications by simply writing Rust. Let's make ZKPs MAINSTREAM.

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

8 months

the "running a company is a LOT more than just product" pit of doom sucked committing compute cycles every day to legal / ops / admin, incredibly unproductive can't adequately express how good it is to have teammates to share the burden. should've gotten to this point sooner

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

3 months

Crypto gets bigger when 1. Traditional data is brought on-chain 2. New data is created on-chain #1 can't happen without web proofs. It's why I've been so excited for this line of work!

devloper

@devloper_xyz

3 months

I had an great convo with Anna, check it out!

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

3 months

Classic case of progress: zkVMs 2022 -> We all thought proving general instruction set would never get close to hand rolled 2024 -> Chumps like me who learned to draw a polynomial with R1CS have 0 edge Never fade 50 nerds w/ interesting problem + piggy bank of small country

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

3 months

working on a startup is so fun it’s like a hackathon but it never ends

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

8 months

proposition: have testnets regularly do fire drills with reorgs of >5 blocks bet it would break a lot of infra working on accommodating reorgs @SeismicSys w @0xameya rn. surprisingly difficult to test properly given foundry / hardhat don't have simulated reorgs yet

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

3 months

How to avoid accidentally laundering money Sounds silly, but surprisingly easy to do if you're not vigilant. One small tweak in a seemingly unrelated module and suddenly kim jong is salivating. To prevent this, we now ask two questions prior to shipping:

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

1 year

Collaborated with @verumlotus and @varunshenoy_ ! These two are elite Code at 2/6

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

8 months

merry christmas everyone :) remember to spread some cheer to all the amazing people in your life oh, and call your mother

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

7 months

we were pushed hard early on to make @SeismicSys an L2 so we could have a clear path to >$2B FDV staying firm on not doing this was one of the best decisions we've made for our product experience still high conviction that this path will yield 10x higher ARR in the long run

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@lyronctk

7 months

please put more emphasis on your incredible cryptography + blockchain professors @StanfordEng steering students there will do wonders for your dying hacker culture airdrop grad requirements if you have to

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

1 year

Worked w/ some cracked engineers on this one @kayrgeorge @straightupjac @nathanhleung . All credits for the theoretical construction go to this () paper from the Boneh lab. Check out our repo at for additional details. 8/8

GitHub - lyronctk/proactive-refresh: Proactive refresh for accountable threshold signatures

Proactive refresh for accountable threshold signatures - lyronctk/proactive-refresh

github.com

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

5 months

Who's currently logged in to this big computer we all share? This is the question digital signatures answer in the blockchain context. Our space wouldn't exist w/o them. What's next? If there's any team who's going to find the next groundbreaking technology on signatures, it's

Cursive

@cursive_team

5 months

We're excited to introduce Cursive, a cryptography and design lab building applications of signed data ✍️

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@lyronctk

5 months

Well deserved!

Succinct

@SuccinctLabs

5 months

1/ We're excited to announce we've raised $55M led by @Paradigm to make zero knowledge proofs accessible to any developer. Succinct’s Prover Network & SP1 make general-purpose ZK performant and easily deployable w/o complex infra. Let’s build towards an era of truth, not trust.

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@lyronctk

5 months

It's a hell of a feeling to see a high performing group of people push a vision that was on a proverbial napkin a year ago.

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

2 months

Congrats @storysylee @jasonjzhao and team! PIP lfg

Story (꧁IP꧂)

@StoryProtocol

2 months

Introducing Story Network, the World's IP Blockchain. Story L1 enshrines the Proof of Creativity protocol, tokenizing a multi-trillion dollar asset class into Programmable IP legos In the era of AI-powered creativity, Story is powering an IP legoland👇

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

7 months

the mutex in zk systems is going to be a problem, esp as we increase throughput context: only one person can modify a piece of shielded state per block. a hundred can try, but all will fail except one

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

5 months

First reaction: This peak nihilism. Second reaction: This is actually the opposite if one thing changes. Then the whole "token is the product" mindset may speed up the process of making crypto a real space. How? It front-loads the introduction of entropy. High FDV comes from

jonathan(love)wu

@jonwu_

5 months

There is no such thing as consumer crypto. All crypto is consumer. To support the assertion, here are some universal attributes of successful consumer products: 1. It is sold to consumers This one is so obvious I feel stupid even typing it out, but crypto is sold to

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

8 months

Am now pilled on crypto social by @alive_eth Big turning point for me was thinking through all the interesting experiments that could be run if specific web2 social graphs acted as base layers (censorship resistant + permissionless) Cooking something up w one of our partners

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

4 months

Not a believer of "too much money is a bad thing" for startups. P(squandering | team) isn't affected by raise amount when founder discipline + advisors remain constant. I know a team with a $50mm chest w/ $250k monthly burn. As disciplined and focused as ever.

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

22 days

The only valid reason to make a new L1: a) You want the influence that only an L1 has b) You want to use this influence to create a new asset category A GREAT reason Should be used instead of technical reasons that are closer to sleight of hand than anything: 1. Doing

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

8 months

Played TCM by @movingcastles_ over lunch Rookie move Used to like crunch in my poke bowl. Not anymore

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@lyronctk

2 months

If an app ever produces fast 100x gains for users, it's cooked Dead within three months BUT if we lean into this fact, we could sustain a business for years What if Ephemeral Meme Studio, a company whose only goal is to churn short-lived viral crypto social apps ...

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

7 months

if you're blocked by a bug, you need to call an engineer if you're blocked by a release, you need to call a pm if you're blocked by an EIP, you need to call god

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

1 year

correct & the unit isn't new. @lukejdpearson 's work is already everywhere. people would do well to tune in

Seraphim

@MacroMate8

1 year

Found out today that @polychain has a unit doing crazy privacy research Not all heroes are wearing capes

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

4 months

The acacia plant is diabolical. 1. Needs ants for defense. 2. Produces nectar to incentivize ants to come. 3. An enzyme in the nectar changes the ant's digestive system so it can no longer eat other food. Now that's real vendor lock-in. Who built this? They open for roles?

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

3 months

Not all meme coins are ponzis DOGE / WIF / DEGEN aren't Diff? They aren't zero sum. They meaningfully expand the market for cultural artifacts Lot of launchpads today optimized for PnD Genuine opportunity in creating a launchpad that's optimized for making the next DOGE

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

2 months

GREAT article by @nathanlallman Centered around a useful observation re how people use tokenized RWAs in the real world (lizard brain explanation below)

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

7 months

working off the zk of zkSNARKs is so fun zk == applications that can do new things succinctness == make existing things cost-viable !! both essential for crypto !! enjoying the former more is my personal preference

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

8 months

the #1 sentence you can say when on a customer call as a ZK company is "don't use ZK" you don't need to shoe horn it in when a clever application of a cryptographic hash func is just as effective trust & value first. then when they need ZK (which they will) they'll come to you

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

7 months

A while back, I worked on implementing @danboneh 's threshold scheme for security-conscious companies Tried convincing companies back then this was important. No dice Just realized *we* are now one of these companies. Cool full circle moment to take this to prod ourselves

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@lyronctk

1 year

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@lyronctk

1 year

Huge s/o to @nibnalin for guiding us through the entire project Special thanks to @srinathtv for his work on Nova, @hack_lodge for the friends, and @drCathieSo_eth for her great circom ML library

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

8 months

high odds the market will begin to heavily reward infra projects that take on product risk on par with applications i.e. mainnet deployments early and often -> opportunities for hypotheses to actually be proven wrong will hopefully start chipping away at vaporware cash-outs

nader dabit

@dabit3

8 months

You’re a founder. You can raise: $100M building an L1/L2/infrastructure protocol, can launch a glorified testnet and personally cash out $100M - $1B with zero production users. $2.5M building an app that will struggle to gain users, chance of exiting close to zero. Choose 1.

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

3 months

kill privacy

DBA

@dba_crypto

3 months

KILL PRIVACY @lyronctk | @SeismicSys

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

1 year

@varunshenoy_ Volunteering as subject. Will follow HealthGPTs marathon plan for me and run one next month

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@lyronctk

1 year

There's been tremendous progress in the past year toward verifying neural network inference using SNARKs. Notable projects (eg EZKL & work by D. Kang) have verified models as complex as a 50-layer MobileNetv2 in Halo2 3/6

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

6 months

This is a way better skin for the orb Less “ball sent over from alien overlords” and more “interesting forward looking tech”

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

10 months

Excited to share some thoughts about an important problem we've been working on over the past few months 🫡

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

1 year

This makes sense.

Nocturne

@nocturne_xyz

1 year

1/ For crypto to reach its next stage of growth, it must be used less for speculation and become more like money. We believe privacy is a necessary condition for this to occur. @nocturne_xyz we’re excited to introduce a new primitive to the Ethereum ecosystem—private accounts 🧵

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

7 months

Don't let the Fog swallow your game

Cartridge

@cartridge_gg

7 months

Announcing our next speaker at AW Denver!! @lyronctk of @SeismicSys will present “Don't let the Fog swallow your game” Join us to learn more about Fog of War mechanics in AW design. Register here (2/27):

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@lyronctk

9 months

excellent discussion between @MohamedFFouda / @Blulinski the heavy lifting for FHE having shared private state is done by the validator trust assump, *not* by FHE itself can alternatively do validator trust + ZK and take advantage of toolchain maturity & computational

brunny.eth

@zkbrunny

9 months

Good thread from Mohamed on FHE — but this important point about decryption keys / MPC has been buried in the thread. @MohamedFFouda can you comment on the trust assumptions here?

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

5 months

Crypto affordances that end users can feel, the dependency graph: [3] Ownership. What you buy / build can never be taken away from you && can move freely between ecosystems. Then users can really feel compounding w/ network effects. depends on [2] Composability +

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@lyronctk

3 months

Privacy is all or nothing (at the technical level). You can't have one component here or there be private. The entire value chain needs to be. Any kink in the chain demolishes privacy guarantees. Why? Quick example. Suppose you had a DEGEN position on Base worth $1M. ...

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@lyronctk

1 year

Nova is our proof system of choice. It uses a folding scheme to reduce N instances -> 1 instance that can be verified at the cost of a single step. Folding is fast. No FFTs. Only 6 parallelizable MSMs. Recursive overhead in the circuit is also tiny (10k constraints) 5/6

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@lyronctk

7 months

heavy round of layoffs at google X. really rooting for the org this week it really is one of the only places in tech where you can wake up every day and genuinely point to indisputable good you're doing for the world

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@lyronctk

1 year

Zator goes deeper than many prod AI models today. Our toy layers lack numerical precision, but those problems are already solved elsewhere. It's looking like ZKML is bottlenecked by product, not tech. Excited to see inventive applications in the near future! 6/6

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@lyronctk

1 year

The primary constraint w/ these efforts: they fit the entire trace into a single circuit. Makes it hard to go deeper We explore verifying one layer at a time using recursive SNARKs, a class of SNARKs for incrementally verifying an N-step repeated computation 4/6

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@lyronctk

2 months

Working in crypto made all of us undisciplined crypto: 95% correct with a good story == success trad: anything less than 100% == failure Nothing makes this clearer than working with web2 businesses. They're painfully familiar with missing by a bit and call you on it every time

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@lyronctk

8 months

real world assets in AWs are just assets a DEX carrying those assets is as real as your local corner store. defi will finally have something to trade that has extrinsic value ^ @tomwalpo ’s thesis that he shared months ago. still a bull case for AWs today

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@lyronctk

3 months

Underrated reason for lack of consumer builders: Embarrassing to tell your mom / girlfriend / mentor / deli guy what you do I milk the fact that "cryptography" sounds fancy to regular people Can't spin @friendtech , even though it was the most interesting experiment of 2023

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@lyronctk

3 months

*L2s == rapidly shrinking pie* Playbook used to be: launch L2 w/ centralized sequencer, don't launch token, upgrade multiple times in search of PMF Now will likely see: launch L1 w/ Proof of Authority, don't launch token, upgrade multiple times in search of PMF Same thing

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@lyronctk

10 months

👀

Small Brain

@0xsmallbrain

10 months

New network states figma mock just dropped

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@lyronctk

4 months

Revisiting the Proof of Solvency work from 2022 right now- doesn't seem correct to spend more time there. Instead of starting with a CEX and giving it DEX-like guarantees here and there, likely better to start from a DEX and figure out how to make it compete with a CEX. ...

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@lyronctk

7 months

bullish eigenDA on Twitter is like being politically incorrect on a college campus

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@lyronctk

8 months

The prevailing pattern in Circom is to do the computation once outside the circuit, then again while constraining. Why is this the case? Seems bad because 1) need to implement same logic twice, 2) double witgen time unnecessarily, and 3) many apps don’t need non-determinisms

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@lyronctk

5 months

Massive add by @griffintier : community infra @solidity_lang has forge / anvil / viem. Good luck building the equivalent toolchain on your competing language. @farcaster_xyz has 5 clients built on top of it. Good luck convincing them to use your competing social network.

Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

5 months

What are people's rankings for [today's] strongest crypto network effects? Mine: 1) brand, 2) capital, 3) interoperability With #1 mattering a lot more than #2 . Likewise with #3

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@lyronctk

2 months

damn the only way to come back is if dems stage Biden running out of a burning building with a baby in one arm, an immigrant grandmother over his shoulder, and a bald eagle flying high above him

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

8 months

do trad banks not have public key crypto? just found out that it only takes a routing + account number to authorize an ACH transfer out of my checking i.e. if I give someone some numbers to give me money (a wire), they can use the SAME numbers to take money? no way right?

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@lyronctk

3 months

why do we call them "intents" lol just say cross-chain swaps

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

7 months

defi's going to remain the biggest contribution crypto makes to the world. so why are the first 5 pilot partners of @SeismicSys not finance related? well, we asked: how do we help defi? our conclusion: if you're a technologist, you should work on *anything but defi*. (1/3)

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

8 months

**esp on retroPGF day** remember to thank your node engineers that eat distributed systems pain so you don't have to my favorite bull case: every dev worldwide favors dapps since they're so much easier to deploy than apps the next evolution of serverless computing

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

7 months

why? innovating in defi rn is building the best points program. not helpful. what's helpful is building a hit game ( @primodiumgame ) or social platform ( @farcaster_xyz ). bring real volume on-chain. mint native assets w/ intrinsic value. give defi something to do. (2/3)

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

7 months

SNARK recursion should still be last resort for consumer crypto today Batching or posting multiple proofs still much easier than getting an IVC proof on chain If your computation’s too big, try doing everything you can to rm non-native arithmetic & hashing first

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

1 year

How? Recall that accountable threshold signatures are formed by interpolating the lowest degree polynomial passing through the points that represent each party's signature. The collective signature is the y-intercept of this polynomial. 4/8

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

8 months

damn, I just did the classic transf from binance -> bridge to L2 -> wait 20 minutes -> need more game token -> not enough gas left on L1 -> transfer / bridge / wait again -> damn, game needs ETH too? -> back to binance thought we fixed this boys and girls

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

1 year

@emguoz about to start gating hacker house access w/ that

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

7 months

superpower: advisors who are bearish on your product have been speaking to someone who's genuinely opposed to the direction we're taking @SeismicSys . just formally added them as an advisor can already tell they're going to be top 3 highest value opinions we have access to

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@lyronctk

4 months

The simplest way to tap into this is via Pedersen Commitments. Calling the Pedersen func PD() here. They're hiding + additively homomorphic. Means that the following two properties hold. [1] Hard to recover 5 given PD(5) [2] PD(2) + PD(5) = PD(7)

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

5 months

crypto TAM > ai TAM

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

4 months

Any compiler gods looking for a significant project right now?

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

8 months

can attest searching random primes on GitHub has led to many friendships

nicola 💾

@iamnotnicola

8 months

What I love about open source: * you need some esoteric script * you find someone who happens to have written that a week ago on github * you message them on telegram * you are now friends

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

7 months

was wondering the other day why it's so difficult to find good trad infra engineers (kub, terraform, etc) in crypto now obvious that it's bc so many teams don't think past testnet "the foundation will handle mainnet trouble". man, you *are* the foundation

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Lyron Co Ting Keh

@lyronctk

3 months

directly inspired by how @QwQiao and @lmrankhan think

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