Dan

Incredibly grateful to share Temple’s $5M fundraise and support from @Papervc, @yzilabs, @CMT_Digital, @Sfermion_, @GSR_io, @SeliniCapital, @halo__xyz, @ProtagonistXYZ. @Presto_Labs, @EternaCapital, 5N Canton, AMA, G20 and our angels. Thanks to @CantonNetwork, Temple is positioned to be one of the first privacy-focused technical stacks for capital markets, supporting both traditional financial instruments and emerging digital asset classes.

@Loosh_ai Let’s connect

Hey Bittensor, We have spent the last week deep in the validator codebase improving scoring, consensus, and subnet quality while incorporating a lot of community feedback. That work was necessary and it has already made things better. Yes we are ranked last but our broader mission has not changed. Earlier this month, we had a call with a board member of a publicly traded robotics company about a pilot program. The goal is to benchmark our cognition stack for integration into robotics systems that need to reason about behavior, context, and response in real world environments. That is what we focusing on now. Tightening the subnet. Complete the benchmark data. Move toward deployment. We are still building, still iterating, still moving toward something we believe matters and we still believe in TAO. If you believe robotics will need more than raw model output, if you believe judgment and behavioral reasoning are missing layers, pay attention to what we are building. Thank you to everyone who has given feedback, encouragement, and support. We have taken it seriously. Bittensor is competitive. Sentiment matters. Ranking matters. We know where we are. But if you understand asymmetric upside, you understand the setup. We are still here. We are still building. Now we push.

@luhelminger Congrats on launching a network :)

Two and a half years ago, we were three months from shutting down. Today, this is live. x.com/TACEO_IO/statu…

Too early to the Machine Economy Too late to the Attention Economy

@komargodski Hey ilan would love to connect.

Crypto is not just a ledger of transactions---it’s a ledger of truth and trust. That’s what makes Bitcoin valuable. For Bitcoin this requires burning energy on random number guessing. What if we could instead leverage massive, real-world computation to achieve the same level of security? This has been an outstanding open problem for more than 30 years in academia, and since the emergence of blockchains in industry. Last year, we proposed the first solution (eprint.iacr.org/2025/685). Our mathematical breakthrough suggests piggy-backing on matrix multiplications, the native operation of GPUs that power the AI revolution, from pre-training, post-training, to inference. The potential applications are endless: improving the unit-economics of LLMs, shifting AI-generated wealth back to users, and enabling new primitives such as settlement and even UBI systems for AI agents. Since then, we've worked hard turning the math into a fully operational system. From the algebra and CUDA kernels to a working L1 blockchain and a production LLM inference pipeline implementing this “2-for-1” technology. Today, we’re excited to share that the @prlnet is ready, and will soon enable serving SoTA LLMs while mining the blockchain at negligible additional cost. Along the way, we encountered many fascinating challenges. We’re now publishing them as a collaborative Polymath challenge, spanning open questions in math, systems and economics. If you’re interested, take a look and feel free to reach out: pearlpolymath.com. #PRL #AIMoney

@maxdesalle Love this but if u want it to be meaningfully adopted gotta change the name. “Cipher” too niche.

This deserves more recognition. You can now seamlessly (the UX is reallly good) accept ZEC anywhere on the internet as a payment method. Private money, at planetary scale.

Temple V2. @CantonNetwork trading at the speed of light.

@atlanticesque lol?

Remember: Introspection is a trap! You have no particular “interior” or anything, you are just how you are to the world. Obsessing over your inner life is just narcissism. There’s no “there” there. You are what you do. That’s all you are.

@naveennaidu_m Great story but 6 weeks is a slow burn now? 😅

I've been in the same office as Dan since January. Watched him work on Proof every single day, first a Mac app, then a web app, 6 weeks of just showing up and building. I still didn't get it for a long time. Two weeks ago it finally clicked. Now my whole workflow runs through it, brain dumping with agents, sharing docs with the team, using Codex to plan and Proof to review. I went from not understanding the vision to not being able to work without it. That kind of slow burn is usually the sign of something that actually sticks.

@WillManidis Having spent a lot of time using Sarno’s work - I no longer believe this is the only variable. Sarno + Gut + external chemicals

i have a very woo-woo view that a large percent of the population is suffering from sarno-described pain and that peptides are serving as a totemic fix to this because the most powerful placebo is one that requires physically injecting yourself and related power structure

Temple is now available in over 140 countries

@Credib1eGuy You shouldn’t conflate the SOV proposition vs a native network token that uses POS. Two completely different purposes.

Issue with $ZEC is that it ETH and SOL fully pivot to native privacy support Then Zcashs novel advancements can be stolen, its liquidity advantage could disappear if eth/sol see real privacy adoption Zcash undefeated for privacy now but it’s not hard to see dethrone

@mert Mert surprised we haven’t seen you at the ZKsummits - everything interesting is discussed there years before it hits the rest of industry.

payments are obviously useful, but they are boring and mostly BD driven the most interesting crypto fields that are viable alternatives to AI & robotics brain drain are: - permissionless trading, mev, and microstructure (spot, perps and predictions) - zk and privacy systems

@TechCrunch Completely shocking and totally unexpected

Cluely CEO Roy Lee admits to publicly lying about revenue numbers last year techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/clu…

@FinallyX What is dead may never die

RIP crypto twitter

@DefenseAnalyses Dune

THE ASSASSINATIVE CAPACITY; OR A THIRD WAY IN REGIME CHANGE Over the past century, regime change has traditionally required an aggressor to decide between two, unappealing scenarios: boots on the ground nation building, or strategic bombing. The former routinely produces military quagmires and the labyrinth of counterinsurgency, and the latter often fails to exert the coercive power necessary to bring about the desired results. This has deterred attempts at regime change and engendered worthy skepticism about its merits. We may find ourselves in a new era. The hypothesis offered by the Maduro raid and the killing of Khamenei is that a specific convergence of technological power, precision operations, and intelligence opens a third route, that of achieving the effective capacity to reach out and kill any key member of an adversary society, at any place, at any time. The effectiveness of this path may also be downstream of changes in the contours of power, as well. Technological, economic, and political power is increasingly concentrated in smaller and smaller groups of elites worldwide, making the impact of a killing blow against a single figure proportionally more crippling than an era of scaled, effective bureaucracies. This remains a hypothesis being tested in the laboratories of warfare. But, if proven, this third path offers the granular power of presence on the ground with all the at-a-distance advantages that come with strategic bombing. Regime change can be cheap again. The future this presages is a delicate one, a scenario where achieving assassinative capacity becomes a major component of the dominance of one country over another. This is a world not necessarily of mass warfare, but of killings in the dark, compressed hours of extreme violence, and aristocratic cohorts struggling to eliminate the generational players of their adversary.

@mvenkita @SoundnessLabs *compose

Every ZK teams strategy the last 7 years was to compose with all stacks and eventually replace them. Most never got to the replace part. Why do you think this won’t apply for private applications? Won’t all applications eventually become mini-private state machines that comport with one another and all base layers they choose to interact with?

Ongoing discussion on ZK-friendly primitives. We can prove any signature scheme, any hash. That’s how you get real UX. No new wallets. Use passkeys, biometrics, federated logins. Easy PQ migration (see work by @SoundnessLabs leveraging Ligero ZK). We’re a zkVM, just a one-line code change to migrate to any (PQ) primitive. Hard to arrive consensus on battle tested primitives before adequate investigation. It will be instantaneous to adopt them with Ligero!

@jbrukh 10 years later and we are full circle back to DAGs.

Blockchains were not designed with the agentic economy in mind. This seems to motivate more graph-like/concurrent architectures. 🤔

@edeldotfinance StockFi please no 😭😭😭

The StockFi economy needs a margin layer. A validator on the network that institutions settle on. Someone who's coordinated institutional capital at scale - already in the room. A testnet capturing 1 in 10 Robinhood users before anyone's watching. Edel. Watch this space. →