Prakash Neelakantan

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(1/29) @ethereum Fundamentals: Proof of Stake We are post-Merge; Ethereum is now secured by validators, 32 $ETH at a time. At first glance, PoS is simple, but under the hood things get complicated. The ultimate guide to the consensus mechanism at the core of the World Computer.

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@benjaminion_xyz And this thread has been published to @fountaindotink as an article on my blog! 21/20 fountain.ink/p/ethintern/a-…

Ethereum is the greatest network, securing billions of dollars in DeFi TVL every day. But how does it actually achieve consensus? A brief explanation of the Beacon Chain 1/20

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Key points from Chairman Paul Atkins’ remarks today at “DeFi and the American Spirit,” SEC’s Crypto Task Force Roundtable on Decentralized Finance – a 🧵

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1/ Seeing a lot of excitement on FHE recently. Here's my take in a thread: for trust-minimized applications, FHE is a game changer that enables application-level privacy. However, for it to truly shine, FHE needs to be used *alongside* other tools such as MPC and ZKP. 👇

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@RealTonyMao @BryanMcAnulty @davecraige Narrow research tasks. Pure web crawling and summarization, basically. Can create decent answers due to dynamic follow ups.

Embra was one of the first AI Agents startups. Today, we are renaming AI Agents to AI Commands, and narrowing our focus away from autonomous agents. While autonomous agents took off in popularity, we found they were often unreliable for work, inefficient, and unsafe. 🧵

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Users have a right to know what exactly is being verified and what team participated in a trusted setup. If projects don't support an independent VK generation, it is as if they ask you to blindly trust that their circuits are correct and Ethereum is not verifying sth else /15

So you have heard about zkProofs, how cool they are and how using them Ethereum can verify computational integrity of some off-chain programs (ranging from custom apps to full-blown Layer2 zkEVMs). But how do we know what is that program that is being verified ? 🧵👇

What a sad day for Bitcoin I created Drivechain (in part) to give both smallblockers and largeblockers what they wanted. It was supposed to make everyone happy. (Which it will.) Consent is the difference between employment and slavery. In Drivechain, you choose: run a largeblock node, or stay on the smallblock mainchain. Unfortunately, it is clear to me that a sizable number of Bitcoiners have some kind of mental illness that prevents them from grasping the idea that two people who want different things could both be happy.

@guil_lambert @pdfmaker grab this

Link to previous posts in the series: gamma, delta, and capital efficiency.

Here’s how to calculate the value of a delta-neutral Uni v3 LP position. Why create delta-neutral positions? In a nutshell, they’re one of the best way to manage risk: you get the same fees as a regular LP position but with ~half the exposure when the position is out-of-range.

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BabyAGI in a cool user interface! 10/

Autonomous AI is a new trend. 2 repos were highly talked about everywhere ▪️ Auto-GPT @SigGravitas ▪️ BabyAGI @yoheinakajima Original tweets, experiments, and opinions 🧵

@TheTuringPost @balconychy @SigGravitas @yoheinakajima @memdotai mem it

@balconychy @SigGravitas @yoheinakajima You're welcome! :)

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We have a right to know the ingredients in the food we purchase so we can make healthy diet choices. We should also have a right to know the ingredients in the chatbots we use so we can make healthy information diet choices. Concretely, this means two things:

There's growing calls for AI regulation, incl. from @elonmusk, @miramurati (lead @OpenAI behind ChatGPT), and Rep @tedlieu. But what? Broad AI reg is tricky, so in a new @SciAm piece I suggest measures we could take immediately to help navigate our new chatbot-infused world.🧵

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Join our server and let's plan this out and save you an expensive multi month negotiation with lawyers who think DAOs are just piggy banks for billables: discord.com/invite/UKCS9gh… twitter.com/_KaliDAO/statu…

Ok, so today the CFTC fined Ooki DAO and its members as an "unincorporated association" to tune of $250k — This is a very broad theory of liability ("joint and several") and confirms what crypto lawyers have suspected — cftc.gov/PressRoom/Pres… Let's untangle things: 🪡

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I should own this tweet @lensprotocol #digitalroots sig:0x6b2d954967f022621c48e7bc4fde195101cf7a7cdf9df0faa9cf831eab50fda639edc09b3e4cc9a5a86dae428cf54c56ff1d92824c36ef207c0807ad0637e9b71c twitter.com/i/status/14841…

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18. Many are inclined to dismiss this whole shape rotator and wordcel thing because it came from 4chan, and "everyone knows" 4chan is icky and hateful or whatever. But I take it seriously. It's a new internet-native culture trying to understand the human world on its own terms.

1. Thinking about this tweet lately. Here we have someone with a "tech people vs word people" dichotomy, but unlike @balajis and all the others who do this, crypto ends up on the side of... the word people. This is not my image of what crypto is! So what's going on?

@puddingviz @Leonardonclt @SahitiSarva Check out this thread

New project! @Leonardonclt & @SahitiSarva analyzed more than a decade of headlines from 4 countries to see how women are (mis)represented in news. (1/6) pudding.cool/2022/02/women-…

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The only trouble with this theory is that the image, while from the Shaivite centre of Phnom Kulen/Mahendrapura takes the form of Lord Vishnu, and Jayavarman was a passionate follower of Lord Shiva. So the case remains unproven, but it remains  a most intriguing possibility.

Khmer portraiture The Khmers raised their monarchs to the status of the the representatives of the Gods on earth and therefore found it easy to take the next step: depicting a God in the form of the monarch.

Happy Ganesha to all of you!! I wrote a program to draw this "geometric" Ganesha. Show him some love, will you :)

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22/22: The TL;DR: Conquering the “Impossible” is what great Founders and Startup teams do. It’s the “stuff that stories are made of” and every success story encourages future Founders to internalize that "Impossible" is actually just a negotiable concept.

1/22: Building a successful #startup requires getting to “yes” every day. Unity of purpose paired with the right team and right incentives is a recipe for greatness. But sometimes getting to “yes” requires a #startup to conquer the “Impossible”. A 🧵👇