dom (bitvm/acc) 🇪🇺

I'm updating the Golden trio of onchain safety: 1) Own a hardware wallet, with the new clear signing framework, screen output will go from gibberish to human-readable. 2) Import your hw into @ambire, they cooked, I migrated to it and it's now the best wallet for the EVM experience, check their simulation. 3) create a @safe, even if 1/1 at first, use tenderly simulation. Bonus: generate a hotwallet without any funds, make it a proposer on your safe and give the private key to your agent to generate the transactions and batchs for you, no more clicking buttons, no more clunky UIs, just prompt then verify simulations at each layer and sign at the end. Voila, this setup makes you safe, 100x your crypto UX and makes unc Kim sad.

I think I haven't had this much fun building stuff. Claude with custom skills is finally allowing me to write a bunch of code quickly again. AI and BTC coming soon?

@dom60808 what does Paul look like?😂

What are people using for memory management for their AIs? I've build a little memory agent (called Paul) that I can use as a skill in claude. Under the hood, it uses a vector DB and a SQLite instance to have multiple levels of memory: - Permanent memory -> always true, highest prio - Quarterly goals -> changes over time - Weekly priorities -> what's important right now, very temporary, Paul knows not to give context from weeks that are in the past Then a few other specific DBs that handle other cases. I basically use a cheap model call to decide from which memories to load and then a mid-tier model to summarize and forward to the right query. So I'd do something like "Use /brainstorming with /paul as context to ..." To me, this works really nice compared to the memory.md approach since it works across projects and instances. But I'm curious, what are others doing?

@citrea_xyz Congratulations on the launch!

1/8 Today, Citrea Mainnet Goes Live 🍊🍋 We are officially live with the first Bitcoin application layer that enables institutions and individuals to lend, trade, and settle directly on the Bitcoin Network. Start your journey with Citrea Dashboard: app.citrea.xyz 🧵

Time for the last update before the Christmas break and quite excited about having this finally on mainnet. You can now swap USDT/USDC/ETH with BTC to Ethereum and Base via BOB. We'll be adding more routes as they become available. The cool bit is what is happening under the hood though: BOB Gateway is the tech that powers these swaps on the BTC route. There are two cross-chain swaps happening: 1. BTC on Bitcoin <> wBTC on BOB 2. wBTC on BOB <> USDT/USDC/ETH on Ethereum/Base BOB Gateway optimizes the BTC<>wBTC route. By having the Bitcoin light client on BOB, you can run it much more cheaply than on Ethereum mainnet but with very similar security (since BOB has a working proving system!). BOB Gateway can then plug into any existing bridge for the wBTC <> USDT/USDC/ETH routes. We already have a bunch of LayerZero routes live that support 10 chains (Base, Ethereum, Unichain, ...). But anyone can plug in their own bridge as well. So if you are a bridge provider, you can easily add BTC capabilities by adding Gateway.

@januszg_ very

@dom60808 quick q how accessible do you think this will be to retail users?

Lock BTC on Bitcoin and have the ability to withdraw these BTC yourself without bridge operators isn't possible with the "classical" wrappers (wBTC, cbBTC, etc) today. We are changing this with Bitcoin Vaults. But instead of building one version, we are building the OP Stack for Bitcoin Vaults. There are many different decisions that need to be made with Bitcoin Vaults that should be in the hands of everyone who wants to build on the base primitive of being able to unilaterally withdraw. The idea is to offer a base stack that anyone can expand according to their needs: - Launch with a multisig to handle disputed withdrawals or go with BitVM right away - Select custom operators that facilitate the Bitcoin Vault - Different strategies to execute liquidations like natively on Bitcoin or a via a wrapped asset And many more! Full technical specification and something to play with will follow soon. DM me if you want early access.

Bitcoin vaults will unlock the next big wave of builders who will use the Bitcoin chain directly to securely lock BTC that can then be used in DeFi on any chain. IMO the biggest differentiators are going to be well thse vaults integrate in DeFi (specifically liquidations in lending) and how they can move from the initial high trust assumptions/training wheels with multisigs to full Bitcoin verification via BitVM.

So many founders think like this - me included. It would be so nice though if we could finally switch to scaling companies in Europe because Europe is awesome to build rather than despite it. Europe is great since you have access to a large market, easy to recruit people since education is generally high and cheap. If we could figure out how to get better access to funding and simpler compliance/legal/accounting for small companies that want to operate in the entire EU market, rather than just individual countries, we'd make a huge leap forward.

The founder of @n8n_io is an absolute GOAT: > Rejected YC because they wanted him to headquarter the company in the US > Wants to IPO the business in Europe, and ideally in Germany > Had to politely reject one of his (american) investors' suggestion to relocate the company HQ to the US This guy clearly loves Europe and wants to see it succeed. It follows an interesting trend of European founders insisting on building businesses in Europe even if it's doing it on "hard mode". In Atomico's latest "State of European Tech" report 51% of European founders reported feeling a sense of mission to build and scale their company in Europe, even if it might be harder than elsewhere. It's something @vriparbelli at @synthesiaIO has spoken about, as well as @antonosika at @Lovable. European Tech Nationalism is on THE RISE. This is genuinely great to see as founders deciding to stay in Europe means more jobs here, more growth here, and more taxes paid here. LETS GO 🇪🇺

@karpathy This is surprisingly simple to adopt and works really well in exploration and creative tasks. Thanks!

Don't think of LLMs as entities but as simulators. For example, when exploring a topic, don't ask: "What do you think about xyz"? There is no "you". Next time try: "What would be a good group of people to explore xyz? What would they say?" The LLM can channel/simulate many perspectives but it hasn't "thought about" xyz for a while and over time and formed its own opinions in the way we're used to. If you force it via the use of "you", it will give you something by adopting a personality embedding vector implied by the statistics of its finetuning data and then simulate that. It's fine to do, but there is a lot less mystique to it than I find people naively attribute to "asking an AI".

I’m super excited that this is finally out. You have an app on @base @unichain or any of the other 9 connected apps? You want to onboard users directly from Bitcoin with a single BTC transaction? BOB Gateway has you covered. Reach out if you want to add a native BTC on and off-ramp you your app!

BitVM3 is hacky? Maybe, but at least it's finally cheap. At BOB, we got the onchain cost of the most expensive bit of BitVM3 down to just about $11 - with 4 sats/vbyte right now. Based on great work by the rest of the BitVM Alliance crew as well. gobob.xyz/blog/bob-lower…

BOB 🤝 Boundless

We mean it: the Gateway to Bitcoin DeFi. BOB is first and foremost a product team. Glad to be featured here!

@david_seroy @babylonlabs_io @citrea_xyz @build_on_bob @ZeroSync_ @FairGateLabs @liameagen @StarkWareLtd Yeah, you found the github ;)

An explosion of innovation happening in Garbled Circuits land for Bitcoin L2's. S/O specifically to: @babylonlabs_io @citrea_xyz @build_on_bob @ZeroSync_ in Alliance on Groth16 work. Also monitoring possible breakthrough research from: @FairGateLabs, @liameagen, @StarkWareLtd.

BitVM making big steps towards production readiness. Proud to be part of the BitVM alliance.

@andyyy I think much more important is to have accessible proving systems. Most proving systems today are not accessible as in massive ETH deposits for optimistic rollups or high cost for validity proofs.

PSA: Rollups should be aggressively prioritizing shipping to Stage 2 or else we are "progressively decentralizing" far too slow for institutional adoption.

@rookie_of_Ph Bitcoin directly connected to LayerZero via BOB as well

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