Sam Kaufman

2025 was the year of Glock. Verify anything on Bitcoin—elegantly & efficiently. Paper → posted. Codebase → co-developed. Audits → initiated.

☄️Prague support is now live! We’ve released a new Prague-compatible testnet for Alpen. By aligning with Prague specs, we make it easier for EVM teams to bring financial apps to Bitcoin with minimal changes.

Wrote a high level update on some of what the @the_matter_labs technical team is working on in Q1: forum.zknation.io/t/matter-labs-…

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Who's ready to Ignite tomorrow🔥🔥? IYKYK

Pretty massive 2025 roadmap for @zksync: - Decentralized Sequencing - 10k TPS - Full EVM equivalence - LLVM tooling allowing for Rust smart contracts This is all ontop of being the most battle tested zk rollup framework Excited to see these go live on Abstract and Era

@portport255 Which has been your favorite?

Reading every Ethereum EIP twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

ZKsync is building Web3 without compromise. The 2025 technical roadmap for the elastic network is now live — let's get into it 🧵👇

@frogmonkee Congrats!

Just pulled off the biggest psyops of my life 💍

NEW EP: Can Elastic Chain Solve Crypto's Biggest Problem? With Alex Gluchowski Freedom, sovereignty, and verifiability in the digital age are crucial to crypto's success. In today's episode, @andyyy & @robbie_rollup interviewed @gluk64 of @zksync to discuss the pivotal role of ZK technology, the Elastic Chain story, trust automation, and the vision for trust-minimized Ethereum interoperability. Full episode links below. Timestamps: 00:56 Alex's Core Ethos 03:46 Freedom & Trust In Society 13:34 The Elastic Chain Story 24:31 ZK Architecture of Elastic Chain 30:48 Elastic Chain vs. Superchain vs. AggLayer 36:27 Alex's Endgame Vision

@portport255 @TrustlessState It’s Black Friday you should splurge on the hardcover ;)

@TrustlessState More math books 😁

Shill me your best Black Friday purchase consumer goods, not coins ty

When we first launched @zksync Era to mainnet, we added this measure for increased defensiveness. I thought I'd add a few thoughts on ZIP-002, which I definitely support! x.com/TheZKNation/st…

Be a Chad like @giovannidisiena & follow in his footsteps! But ofc how tf does one find 4k lines of Yul, right? Dw I gotchu! Head to the @zksync audit at @codehawks & dive into era-contracts/system-contracts/bootloader & find 4k lines of pristine Yul waiting to be audited :D

@saxenism Ah the Bangkok tuk tuks, how much you pay for the ride?

Me likey this vibey

@saxenism Good luck :)

@SampkaTech My only hope is to not retire for the night before you 🫠

everybody asking me to be at some talk, some tech event, some panel... nobody asking to come to their party 😭😭

My thoughts on Ethereum's North Star: Give users control of the internet Full video: youtu.be/NKBhsCmWik0

$500,000 for security of @zksync's system contracts! Auditors: be ready October 28!

@portport255 @ChainLight_io I don’t know about this. I remember you going pretty wild at defcon this year staying up all night …… doing math challenges for the quantum ctf

@ChainLight_io Chicken nuggets and gatorade. But I haven't drank that much since college 😂

I'll be hosting the space! What questions do you want answered?