Kyle Thornton

1/ Been deep in the weeds this past year. Time to share a bit. We’re moving from “open source software” to “open source infrastructure” and I’ve been focused on the invisible stuff - analytics, coordination primitives, and protocol-level introspection to support that shift.

@mudgen @andrewhong5297 @herd_eco @andrewhong5297 also I ended up reading your 2024 web3 guide and it’s uncanny how well you nailed the exact sequence of events in my blockchain data analysis journey. I feel seen

@_kylethornton_ I just read your article on diamonds. Thanks for writing it! cowrie.io/articles/diamo… @andrewhong5297, Kyle is exactly the kind of person to help with better visualization of diamonds using @herd_eco. Checkout his article. And Kyle probably has some existing diamond tools and good ideas.

@mudgen @andrewhong5297 @herd_eco @andrewhong5297 @herd_eco looks super useful, and I’m stoked to see that you’re visualizing the relationships between contracts as a system diagram. I’ve also converged on that being the most useful view for trying to digest a new protocol.

@eek637 @ScopeLift @wildmolasses @eas_eth I wonder if there’s a better meatspace solution for disseminating _which_ document is being referred to by the content hash? Posting it up publicly is good enough for now, but I can imagine in 30 years there will be some docs that got attested to which nobody can find.

also under-appreciated - alongside the heavy lifting in meat space, @ScopeLift (cc @wildmolasses) forked the @eas_eth contracts to document these agreements and execute the various attestations onchain. Check it out here: github.com/ScopeLift/dao-…

ok that would explain the "169 critical severity vulnerabilities" that suddenly showed up this morning. I can see that the known-malicious packages have been taken down off of NPM, but a ton more still emitting warnings. What a pain for developers lol

It has to start somewhere. It has to start sometime. What better place than here? What better time than now?

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There’s still a lot to do, but the scaffolding is getting solid. Infra is maturing. Legal context is clearer. People are getting serious again. Feels good to be building in this moment.

For that to work, you need visibility. That’s been my focus: - Mapping how value flows through protocols - Understanding where control _actually_ sits - Giving these orgs tools to make informed decisions from day one

3/ But the landscape is shifting. We now have a viable path for groups—some anon, some not—to coordinate without centralized managers, without insider asymmetries, and without faking a corporate structure they don’t actually need.

2/ The industry’s had a broken incentive model for years: - Build something decentralized and durable? Risky. - Launch a pump-and-dump meme coin? No problem. That’s led to a lot of noise and a lot of justified skepticism.

1/ Been deep in the weeds this past year. Time to share a bit. We’re moving from “open source software” to “open source infrastructure” and I’ve been focused on the invisible stuff - analytics, coordination primitives, and protocol-level introspection to support that shift.

@513 Whoa these are awesome! Just fyi you can do some clever things in the metadata for the Stax to add these kinds of images to other NFTs developers.ledger.com/docs/nft-displ…

#LedgerStax #NFT on rarible.com/collection/0xe… #rarible #Ledger

I'm excited to be able to share my TEDx talk with the world! youtube.com/watch?v=5NZ4EY… #TEDxPortland Year 11 will be a tough year to beat. Amazing speakers, coaches, staff, production... truly a world-class event. #TEDxPDX #Confluence #ConfluencePDX

@0xQuit Note to #Ledger owners, you already have a 2fa dongle right in front of you! Just install the app and off you go -> ledger.com/fido-u2f

I got sim swapped in 2016 in an attempt to hijack my exchange logins. Thankfully, nothing of value was gated by sms based 2fa. It was still a stressful 6 hour battle (in the midst of a work day) to recover my phone number. Upgrade your 2fa now.

Sim swapping isn't new. If you're still using sms based 2fa in 2023, you're asking to get compromised. It doesn't matter if you add "sim lock" to your account, that's literally just a note on your profile. A sufficiently malicious or incompetent rep will still swap your sim.

1/ I’ve read several misconceptions about how a wallet works. It seems some people thought there is some magic, let me explain how it works. A thread 👇

We know that it is hard to remember exactly what you signed or did when you were scammed on a phishing website. That is why we created this flowchart to help you diagnose what happened – and what to do about it. This flowchart is now also available on revoke.cash/faq

@kevinrose I'd personally put my identity-linked assets (i.e. a PROOF pass or NFT that gives community membership) into the "warm" style wallet, that I'm careful signing things with but don't go full-abstinence. I would be extremely unlikely to ever set any approvals with this account.

@kevinrose Hypothetically, which account in this system would you place a PROOF pass to sign into discord with? On one hand you'd probably want it to be in your cold wallet, but you'll need to sign a message with that account to log in, which may or may not violate your "cold" rules.

GM 🌅. I've had a few questions about my updated approach to wallet security; for those curious, here is my new system: (feedback welcome)