ClankPan ∞
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ClankPan ∞
@ClankPan
Rust🦀, contributor to KinicDAO, VectorDB, zkVM, 発言は個人の見解です。 面白かったゼロ知識証明の記事や出来事について取り上げていきます。






AI agents will compete for economic efficiencies. They are also quite rational: no brand loyalty, don't get turned off by technical friction, want to optimize costs dispassionately. At scale and in the long run, this means agents are transacting on digital payments, open networks, and decentralized identity. All web3 primitives.


In Denver.. atm. If you are a VC and just want to chat about current Sota of any technical area in web3. I or anyone of my PhD team mates will give you time.. PhD meet MBA type mini sessions ;) It’s amazing how much nonsense floats around, from things people thought two years ago.. Let’s update our brains to understand SoTa and then see where it is finding pmf.

Hiring ZK engineers & researchers to build next-generation provers and real-world applications! We’re looking across the ZK stack: prover design & implementation, circuits, and smart contracts. DM if you have questions! Links to apply 👇

1/ Quantum computing predictions lately range from "public key cryptography will be broken in 2 years" to "it's a century away." Both are wrong. My latest post explains what publicly known progress actually supports — and what blockchains should do about it. Thread below 🧵

NFS experts: Was the tower number field sieve in hindsight a false alarm causing many to move to larger curves because of over-optimistic estimates to its practical performance? #issuecomment-3621947864" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/zcash/zcash/is…

Privacy cannot be solved at the technological layer alone; The appropriate level of privacy in shared systems is ultimately a social choice, mediated by legal norms and political legitimacy, with technology merely expressing the boundaries we collectively decide.

My rough math based on average difficulty stats suggests that Bitcoin mining crossed the total 2**96 hashes milestone very recently? Seems like a good reason to insist on (close to) 128 bit security (ie. @drakefjustin was right)

New work with @asanso! We present an attack against hash based SNARGs using small fields that reduces conjectured security by around 10 bits. Most hash-based systems using 31-bit (or smaller) base fields are affected. ia.cr/2025/2197

A shoutout to @jedodinh from the @ligero_inc team. Our goal is to scale ZK so you can prove anything from a device in your pocket, which crucially requires memory efficiency for the prover. Jérémi from our team pushed an update to plonky3 that helps exactly with that. Hash-based ZK needs to run parallel FFTs, which typically require pre-computed twiddle factors. With this update, plonky3-based programs can share the same DFT instance across multiple threads and reuse the same precomputed twiddles, eliminating redundant computation and unnecessary memory usage.


