Sarah

Also adding: 🟣saz on @farcaster_xyz 🦋saz.bsky.social on @bluesky

@zooko 👋

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Last week, I explored how intelligence is becoming a commodity and its impact on money. This week, I dive into @karpathy’s autoresearch project and what it reveals about the future of autonomous AI agents. This one even features @SarahAzouvi, my partner in crime on the idea of bringing "dark compute" to light, and the amazing work that @varun_mathur is doing with his swarm of agents (the real pre-AGI architecture) :) Here are the high-level ideas from this post: * How autoresearch validates the near-term use of autonomous agents through simple, 5-minute evaluation loops that beat highly optimized baselines. * The shift from execution to "research taste" and why designing the reward function and optimization surface will become the critical task for research and progress in other fields (once the barriers to execution are completely removed). * The massive potential of "dark compute": how a decentralized swarm of agents can turn idle, everyday GPUs into a global, collaborative research lab. Link to my post below 👇

@alranpe @SeiNetwork Congrats!! They’re lucky to have you!

In 2 weeks, I'll be joining @SeiNetwork as a Protocol Researcher! Giga excited to dive deep into consensus, MEV, and help build the future of on-chain performance. 🚀 #SEI #L1 #Blockchain #DeFi #Crypto

@whereisjorge @claudeai @BaselightDB Super cool!

MCP is a game changer. You no longer need to find the needle in the 280,000 table haystack. You no longer need to know SQL. Just connect @claudeai (or your favourite tool) to @BaselightDB and ask a question. Answers grounded on real data, with receipts. Hit me up for access!

I'm hiring at the EF: jobs.lever.co/ethereumfounda… If you're into Ethereum, cryptography, and formal verification, please get in touch! 🙂

@PulpSpy @msv_mahsa Congrats Mahsa ❤️

Congrats to @msv_mahsa for becoming a PhD doctor today! She was doing research on Arbitrum when it was still on testnet, front running before we had the term “MEV”, and stablecoins almost 5 years ago. Well deserved!

@raulvk @ethereum Nice!! Congrats 👏👏

hey, i'm super enthusiastic about p2p, distsys, and networking. that's why i joined the Ethereum Foundation last week—to help accelerate @ethereum's p2p efforts 🚀 things like DAS, privacy-preserving protocols, peer anonymity, censorship resistance, light clients, decentralised rpcs, L2 interop, beam, etc. are hot topics 🔥 if you wanna bounce ideas around, reach out! ah, we'll probably be scaling this new team soon, so also hit me up if you wanna work on this stuff 🤝

@BaselightDB 🎉🎉🎉

The wait is over. Baselight officially opens to the public on April 15th. Data you can trust. Tools that don’t suck. Distribution baked in. Let’s give structured data the home it deserves. 📡 April 15. Be ready.

@brian_armstrong Pregnancy is actually extremely important for mother-baby attachment and the baby’s emotional development, this can’t be replicated with an artificial womb

The IVF clinic of the future will combine a handful of technologies (the Gattaca stack): 1. In vitro gametogenesis (IvG) - make eggs from skin or blood cells (much less invasive) 2. Preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) - choose the embryo that best matches what you want, ideally from thousands or more (see #1) 3. Embryo editing - make further edits for disease prevention, or enhancement 4. Artificial Wombs - removes the risk/burden of pregnancy Lots of work to get there, but this may help with the decline in birth rates. And it would start to accelerate evolution (which, by natural selection, is a very slow process, and only optimizes for survival and replication).

Super grateful for how welcoming everyone at @zkproof was to our baby SNARK last week for ZKProof7 🦈 And special thanks to the organisers for the adorable bodysuit 😍❤️

@whereisjorge @BaselightDB @visitbrussels 🫣🫠

@BaselightDB @visitbrussels @SarahAzouvi I feel like you'll appreciate this one 😇

How do you choose where to live? Is safety a top concern? Do you like the sun? As I reflected on recent events, I logged on to @BaselightDB and created the Safe n' Sunny Index for the most liveable cities. Not sure about that top 10, but @visitbrussels ranking 127/140 checks out.

🧵Mesh vs Hub: Approaches to Rollup Interoperability Ethereum’s rollup-centric future is fast and cheap—but fragmented. Liquidity, UX, and composability are broken across rollups. How do we fix this? Let’s explore Mesh vs Hub models for rollup interop. 👇 1/ The problem: Fragmentation Rollups scale Ethereum but at a cost: 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 UX: Users juggle wallets, bridges, & networks. 🌊 Liquidity: Capital is spread thin, leading to slippage & inefficiencies. 🔗 Composability: No atomic transactions across rollups. Seamless interop is the missing piece.

Meet @SarahAzouvi - Scroll's Protocol Researcher! 🌟 What does building the open economy mean to you? "To me, this means creating a more accessible and permissionless financial system where innovation isn't constrained by centralized gatekeepers. I'm particularly passionate about how this can advance financial inclusion for women, who are disproportionately affected by financial exclusion. Creating an open economy means breaking down these systemic barriers and ensuring that technological advancement benefits those who have been historically left out of traditional financial systems". Favourite xmas movie? "My favorite xmas movie is The Nightmare before Christmas, which I’d say is both a Halloween and xmas movie (which is amazing since I absolutely love both celebrations)". 💃 If you were a type of pasta, what shape would you be and why? "I’d be a spaghetti! As a dancer I’ve trained my flexibility a lot and in my professional life I’ve also learned to adapt and remain resilient in the face of changing circumstances - bending without breaking, both literally and figuratively, just like a perfect al dente spaghetti 🍝". Most overused emoji: 🙈 What’s your favourite thing about Scroll? "My favourite thing about Scroll is 100% the people, I feel super grateful to work with my amazing colleagues!" 💛

Video: youtu.be/bN2s8sZhKpM?t=… Slides: docs.google.com/presentation/d… Blogpost with more details coming soon!

It was such a pleasure to present our research team's work at the Columbia CryptoEconomics Workshop earlier this month! Many thanks to the organisers 🥰 We discussed key challenges in x-rollup communication and shared Scroll's Interop Gadget design. Video and slides 👇

@MMJahanara @SarinaAZSari Congrats 😍😍

my life’s all-time high 🥹💍❤️

How can industry and academia work together to advance crypto and blockchain development? We’re excited to introduce the IC3-Cornell Blockchain Accelerator: A groundbreaking initiative, led by students and alumni, to transform research and bold ideas into real-world applications.

@josephbonneau Congrats Joe 👏👏👏

Assistant Professor -> Associate Professor at NYU. It is a tremendous honor. My deepest thanks to the many, many people who helped me along the way.

All-hands checkpointing to Bitcoin can cost only 1 tx via large scale DKG, and the @Filecoin's Pikachu blueprint @marko_vukolic @SarahAzouvi can finally become practically reachable; check out my student Michael's talk tmr @acm_ccs eprint.iacr.org/2023/1773

@alexanderlhicks 🚀🚀

Let's work together to formally verify zkEVMs! verified-zkevm.org Grant applications for Stage 1 will be opening asap.