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What happens when AI Agents start trading against each other?
We’re about to find out.
A new agent trading competition is coming soon, with $VFY in the mix.
Stay close.
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1/ Been building cryptographic compliance infrastructure for about a decade now. The Clarity Act vote is meaningful. But the part I can't stop thinking about isn't the legislation. It's what comes after it. 📷
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The Senate Banking Committee advanced the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act to the full Senate floor. After years of regulatory ambiguity, that's a meaningful development for the industry.
The bill establishes what compliance looks like for digital asset intermediaries, AML obligations under the Bank Secrecy Act, defined SEC and CFTC jurisdictional boundaries, and a regulatory sandbox framework for AI tools operating in financial contexts. That clarity has been missing, and its absence has been a genuine friction point for institutional adoption.
What the legislation opens up, though, is a harder question: how does the industry actually operationalize these requirements at scale?
Compliance tooling built for traditional financial infrastructure carries assumptions that don't survive contact with crypto rails: private ledgers, identifiable intermediaries, centralized custody. Working around those assumptions isn't a workaround problem. The infrastructure has to be rethought from the ground up.
The gap between a compliance mandate and the infrastructure to meet it is where the real work begins. That's true in every regulated industry that has gone through a framework shift, and digital assets won't be different.
The Clarity Act marks progress on the regulatory side. The operational build is just getting started.
Bitcoin Magazine@BitcoinMagazine
BREAKING: 🇺🇸 Senate Banking Committee PASSES the Clarity Act in 15-9 vote. The bill now goes to the full Senate.
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See the full breakdown of why we should end the wait-and-see approach to quantum security👇
bit.ly/4ttnaPX
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The industry's quantum security planning is built on a number that no longer holds.
Most organizations have anchored their cryptographic migration to NIST's 2035 deadline. That was a reasonable starting point in 2022. It isn't anymore.
This spring, four separate signals converged in the span of five weeks, and read together, they describe an industry that has run out of reasons to wait.
On March 25, Google moved its own internal post-quantum cryptography deadline to 2029, citing faster-than-expected progress in quantum hardware and error correction. When Google sets an internal deadline, that is an operational decision made by people with direct visibility into where the hardware is heading.
Just days later, Oratomic published research showing a fault-tolerant quantum computer capable of running Shor's algorithm could be built with as few as 10,000 qubits. Prior estimates ran north of a million. That reduction in resource requirements compresses timelines that 2035-based planning assumed were fixed.
Then Scott Aaronson, a co-author of the @Coinbase advisory board's quantum security paper, and the researcher who spent two decades as the field's most prominent skeptic, wrote publicly that the most reputable people in quantum hardware are now telling him a cryptographically relevant machine ought to be possible by around 2029. When that particular person stops hedging, it is worth noting.
The threat is not abstract. It sits on-chain today.
Roughly 6.9 million $BTC are held in UTXOs with public keys visible in clear text. @Ethereum's entire validator layer runs on BLS signatures - a primitive with no quantum-resistant equivalent at current production performance. Every major proof-of-stake chain is at a different stage of acknowledging this. None has finished.
And these aren't migration problems in the conventional sense. They're redesign problems. Validator key migration requires consensus-protocol changes, not just primitive swaps. Every chain will eventually face a binary choice on dormant assets, flag day, or permanent honeypot. Wallets, custodians, and key management systems can't wait for chains to decide which post-quantum scheme they're adopting.
Planning against 2029 means none of this can be deferred.
The work is more than research. It's engineering, governance, and honest accounting of where the risk actually lives. The organizations that start that work now are the ones that won't be making decisions under pressure in three years.
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We're at #Eurocrypt2026 in Rome - one of the most important academic cryptography conferences on the planet by @IACR_News
This Sunday, our Head of Cryptography & Quantum Security Tommaso Gagliardoni will be presenting his latest research on Shufflecake alongside hundreds of researchers, academics, and industry engineers.
What's trending at the conference so far:
🔥Quantum urgency is very real
🔥EUDI privacy regulation is coming fast
🔥ZK proofs are everywhere.
Full recap coming soon.
Horizen Labs@HorizenLabs
Horizen Labs is a proud Silver Sponsor of Eurocrypt 2026, the 45th flagship conference of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) @IACR_News - the academic gold standard in cryptography. We’re proud to be among the sponsors supporting the researchers and engineers doing the foundational work that underpins applied cryptography.
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@Cointelegraph Before the hype, before the funding rounds, Hal was in the math. Rest well, legend🩶
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Today would have been Hal Finney’s 70th birthday.
Remembering one of the industry’s OGs.
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1/ Today we’re launching the HOL Partner Program.
Cohort One brings together 30+ signed partners, including XMTP, GoDaddy, and DSR, to help shape open infrastructure for AI agents.
Registries. Payments. Privacy. Security. Communication. Standards.
The agent stack is forming now.
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Builders shouldn’t start from scratch.
Now they don’t.
Shoutout to @HorizenLabs for open-sourcing zkverify-focused @claudeai skills to help teams build faster and verify smarter.
Proof infrastructure needs great tooling. This is a step in the right direction.
Horizen Labs@HorizenLabs
Builders using Claude Code and beyond. We just made our internal @ZKVProtocol-focused @claudeai skills public. These skills can help power: 🏗️ zk app development ✅ verifier assessment 🤝 workflow/design support And if they meet emerging open standards, they may be usable across other AI agents too. Build faster. Verify smarter. 🔗 github.com/HorizenLabs/hl…
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This is the most comprehensive synthesis of what we’re doing at @HorizenLabs that I’ve seen.
Super impressive deduction @359990902
Guan Yin|ZEN|VFY@359990902
好久没冒泡了： 看到昨天晚上@Horizenlabs发布了这么一个公告。除去币价不谈，单从中长线宏观面来看， 我认为这代表 Horizen Labs 的规划更雄伟了。Horizen Labs 正在从单一 crypto 项目开发方，转成 密码学基础设施公司。 你们看它官网导航里并列放了几个东西： Confidential Verification for Defense； Quantum Resistance； Horizen 隐私层； zkVerify； Kurier； Vela confidential compute。 这个组合很有意思。它不是只讲币价，也不是只讲 ZK。它在拼一个更大的故事： AI agent 需要可验证执行； 企业数据需要隐私计算； ZK proof 需要低成本验证； 政府/金融需要合规隐私； 长期安全需要后量子迁移。 这套东西合起来，就是“未来可信数字基础设施”。 1. 品牌层面：利好 Horizen Labs 如果能在企业、金融、政府、国防领域建立密码学安全顾问身份，那它做 zkVerify 的可信度会更高。 市场以后看 zkVerify，不只是一个小市值 ZK 验证链，而可能会重新理解为： Horizen Labs 密码学基础设施矩阵里的一个核心组件。 这对 VFY 的长期叙事有帮助。 2. 客户入口层面：潜在利好 后量子迁移的客户，和 zkVerify 的潜在客户有重叠：金融、政府、医疗、AI、安全、合规、基础设施公司。 如果 Horizen Labs 通过 Quantum Threat Assessment 拿到企业客户，再向这些客户推荐 zkVerify、Kurier、Vela、隐私验证方案，那 zkVerify 可能受益。 3. 叙事层面：很适合 zkVerify 你之前一直关注 zkVerify 的定位：不是生成证明，而是低成本验证证明。现在 Horizen Labs 连续发 AI agent trust、Multipass sandbox、federated learning、quantum resistance，这些主题都有一个共同点： 未来系统不能只靠信任，要靠密码学证明、可验证执行、可验证计算和抗长期攻击。 zkVerify 正好可以被包装进这个大叙事里： proof verification layer for AI, privacy, compliance, and cryptographic infrastructure. 这个比单纯“ZK 项目”更大。 @robviglione @horizenglobal @ZKVProtocol
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What we’re building is bigger than any one product.
A future powered by verifiable AI, private computation, scalable verification, and long-term security.
And we’re only getting started.
Guan Yin|ZEN|VFY@359990902
好久没冒泡了： 看到昨天晚上@Horizenlabs发布了这么一个公告。除去币价不谈，单从中长线宏观面来看， 我认为这代表 Horizen Labs 的规划更雄伟了。Horizen Labs 正在从单一 crypto 项目开发方，转成 密码学基础设施公司。 你们看它官网导航里并列放了几个东西： Confidential Verification for Defense； Quantum Resistance； Horizen 隐私层； zkVerify； Kurier； Vela confidential compute。 这个组合很有意思。它不是只讲币价，也不是只讲 ZK。它在拼一个更大的故事： AI agent 需要可验证执行； 企业数据需要隐私计算； ZK proof 需要低成本验证； 政府/金融需要合规隐私； 长期安全需要后量子迁移。 这套东西合起来，就是“未来可信数字基础设施”。 1. 品牌层面：利好 Horizen Labs 如果能在企业、金融、政府、国防领域建立密码学安全顾问身份，那它做 zkVerify 的可信度会更高。 市场以后看 zkVerify，不只是一个小市值 ZK 验证链，而可能会重新理解为： Horizen Labs 密码学基础设施矩阵里的一个核心组件。 这对 VFY 的长期叙事有帮助。 2. 客户入口层面：潜在利好 后量子迁移的客户，和 zkVerify 的潜在客户有重叠：金融、政府、医疗、AI、安全、合规、基础设施公司。 如果 Horizen Labs 通过 Quantum Threat Assessment 拿到企业客户，再向这些客户推荐 zkVerify、Kurier、Vela、隐私验证方案，那 zkVerify 可能受益。 3. 叙事层面：很适合 zkVerify 你之前一直关注 zkVerify 的定位：不是生成证明，而是低成本验证证明。现在 Horizen Labs 连续发 AI agent trust、Multipass sandbox、federated learning、quantum resistance，这些主题都有一个共同点： 未来系统不能只靠信任，要靠密码学证明、可验证执行、可验证计算和抗长期攻击。 zkVerify 正好可以被包装进这个大叙事里： proof verification layer for AI, privacy, compliance, and cryptographic infrastructure. 这个比单纯“ZK 项目”更大。 @robviglione @horizenglobal @ZKVProtocol
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Builders using Claude Code and beyond.
We just made our internal @ZKVProtocol-focused @claudeai skills public.
These skills can help power:
🏗️ zk app development
✅ verifier assessment
🤝 workflow/design support
And if they meet emerging open standards, they may be usable across other AI agents too.
Build faster. Verify smarter.
🔗 github.com/HorizenLabs/hl…
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The compliance question is already settled.
Migration is mandatory.
The timeline is fixed.
The only variable still in your control is when you begin.
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1/ Most organizations think quantum security is a 2030 problem.
Adversaries are not waiting until 2030.
Here's what's actually happening right now, and the calculation that shows whether your organization is already exposed. 👇🧵
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