Gian Alarcon

Exciting news! Privacy-focused applications are launching on @horizenglobal , and @poly_pay is leading the charge 😎

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We're building a privacy-first multisig app👷 ▶️ Private signers that can't be tracked on-chain ▶️ Built-in payroll for teams & organizations ▶️ P2P payments between friends and team members. Learn more from the words of our founder @gianmalarcon!

This is why privacy has to move beyond ideology. Decentralization requires confidentiality that works within open, verifiable systems.

@brian_armstrong Crypto gives individuals custody of their money. The next step is making sure businesses can operate that way too, treasury, payroll, and payments running directly on open financial rails. Apps like @poly_pay is starting to emerge around this shift.

People in the U.S. don’t realize that in many countries, your money could just be taken out of your bank account or become worthless. Crypto matters because it gives people the opportunity to escape these situations and truly own their money.

@EricTrump The bigger shift with crypto isn’t just higher yields. It’s that dollars can now exist and move outside the traditional banking system entirely, through stablecoin rails and onchain financial infrastructure. That changes the competitive landscape for finance.

Let me make this very clear: Big Banks (think JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, etc.) are lobbying overtime to block Americans from getting higher yields on their savings—while trying to block any rewards or perks from being given to customers. These banks, and others, pay rock-bottom rates on standard savings (often 0.01%–0.05% APY), even as the Fed pays them 4% or more. This massive spread fuels record profits, with almost none passed back to their customers / everyday depositors. Today, the banks are desperately targeting crypto/stablecoins, where platforms plan to offer 4–5%+ yields or rewards. The ABA and other lobbyists are spending millions trying to ban or restrict those yields via bills like the Clarity Act, crying “fairness” and using words like "stability"—when it's really about protecting their low-rate monopoly and preventing deposit flight. This is anti-retail, anti-consumer, and straight-up anti-American. Next time you see a big bank dropping billions on a shiny new Midtown Manhattan HQ, you know exactly where that money comes from: the non-existent interest rate they “pay” you! Fortunately, the big banks are losing this fight as customers wake up to the games… @worldlibertyfi

Dominance == financial infrastructure, not price speculation lol

Launching on Base is a big step for us. Private payroll shouldn’t be limited, it should follow builders wherever they scale. With @horizenglobal and @Base live, teams now get real choice without compromising on privacy. Same guarantees. Bigger playground. See you on mainnet. 🟦

@Vivian_HHN @horizenglobal We need to follow up on the discussion/forum. I think everyone will agree on this simple and concise staking plan

@gianmalarcon @horizenglobal Solid framework tho. Hey Gian, how do you see this playing out in the first few months? 🤨

This proposal is a massive step for $ZEN. It’s not just about rewards; it’s about creating a sustainable economic flow and long-term alignment for @horizenglobal

@alex_prompter First at all we need to define what does "anonymous internet identity" exactly means

Holy shit… Your anonymous internet identity can now be unmasked for $1 😳 Not by the FBI. By anyone with access to Claude or ChatGPT and a few of your Reddit comments. ETH Zurich and Anthropic just dropped a paper called “Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs” and the results are the most alarming privacy research I’ve read this year. They built an automated pipeline that takes your anonymous posts, extracts identity signals, searches the web, and figures out who you are. No human investigator needed. Fully autonomous. Works on Hacker News, Reddit, LinkedIn, even redacted interview transcripts. Here’s how bad the numbers are. On Hacker News users: 67% identified correctly. When the system made a guess, it was right 90% of the time. On Reddit academics posting under pseudonyms: 52%. On scientists whose interview transcripts were explicitly redacted for privacy: 9 out of 33 still got unmasked. The pipeline works in four steps they call ESRC. Extract identity signals from your posts using LLMs. Search for candidate matches using embeddings across thousands of profiles. Reason over top candidates with models like GPT-5.2. Calibrate confidence so when it does guess, it’s almost never wrong. The classical deanonymization method from the famous Netflix Prize attack? Nearly 0% recall across every test. LLMs didn’t just improve on old techniques. They made old techniques look like toys. When they scaled to temporally split Reddit profiles, matching a user’s old posts to their newer ones across a full year gap, the pipeline hit 67% recall at 90% precision and 38% recall at 99% precision. Meaning even a year of changed interests and different conversations wasn’t enough to hide. More reasoning compute = better deanonymization. High reasoning effort doubled recall at 99% precision in some tests. As frontier models get smarter, this attack strengthens automatically. Every model upgrade is a privacy downgrade. What makes it nearly impossible to defend against: the pipeline splits into subtasks that all look benign. Summarize a profile. Compute embeddings. Rank candidates. No single API call screams “deanonymization.” The researchers themselves say they’re pessimistic that safety guardrails or rate limits can stop it. Their conclusion is blunt: “Users who post under persistent usernames should assume that adversaries can link their accounts to real identities.” And it extrapolates. Log-linear projections suggest roughly 35% recall at 90% precision even at one million candidates. Every throwaway account. Every anonymous forum post. Every “nobody will connect this to me” comment. It’s all searchable micro-data now. And the cost to run the full agent on one target is less than a cup of coffee. Practical anonymity on the internet just died. The paper killed it with math.

Ethereum's roadmap for quantum resistance involves a fundamental re-architecture of its core components, including consensus, signatures, data availability, and proofs. This effort, which is so comprehensive that it could be considered a new version of Ethereum, will heavily rely on the integration of STARKs to ensure security against future quantum threats. The future for Ethereum looks promising 😎

The Strawmap confirms the "2026 Pivot": Privacy is coming to the L1. Just weeks ago, @VitalikButerin argued L2s should stop being "branded shards" 🤔 and instead offer unique value-adds—specifically privacy. Now, the EF's North Star includes native Private L1 via shielded transfers. As L1 scales directly (Gigagas), it’s absorbing features once reserved for L2s. Native privacy on the base layer is no longer an "app-layer" luxury; it’s a protocol-level requirement. So… is the era of L2 as "scaling only" officially coming to an end? 👀

@EF_ESP Any updates on this rfp team? x.com/i/status/19886…

🎯We're looking for teams with experience in web3 public goods funding and a track record of shipping and maintaining open source projects or public APIs. Estimated project duration is 3-6 months. 📝Full details and application here: esp.ethereum.foundation/applicants/rfp…

📢New RFP: We're looking for a team to build the RFP Hub, an open, neutral aggregation layer that collects funding opportunities across the web3 ecosystem and and turns them into an accessible standard format, accessible through a public API, and documented data exports.

@Lyskey Where do you live in hcmc sir? Let's grab a coffee 😎

Let me go deeper on this: Southeast Asia Is the Best Financial Move for Digital Nomads Most people in crypto spend their time chasing yield, airdrops, and the next gem. But the biggest wealth unlock is often much simpler: lifestyle arbitrage. If you lower your cost of living without lowering your quality of life, you increase your savings rate, your investing power, and your long-term upside, with WAY less risk than any onchain bet. That’s exactly why Southeast Asia is such a strong move for digital nomads. Personal experience 👇 I’ve been living in Southeast Asia for more than 4 years now, after spending ~20 years in Europe. And one thing became obvious: for a young digital nomad with no kids and no debt, Southeast Asia is quite impossible to beat. It gives you the best mix of: > low cost of living > high quality of life > better savings/investing power > convenience > extremely high day-to-day comfort 1) Cost of living vs. quality of life In many European cities, €2,000/month mostly covers rent, groceries, transport, and a few outings. In Southeast Asia, that same budget can support a very comfortable lifestyle for two in modern condos with: > pool > gym > security > sauna > nearby modern malls / cafés / restaurants / coworking Examples from my experience: > Chiang Mai: very affordable, amazing if you like nature, mountains, scooters, and a chill lifestyle (my favorite place in Thailand for a long stay). > Bangkok / Phuket / Pattaya: more expensive than Chiang Mai, but if you like parties, beaches, and nightlife, these three are a better fit. > Ho Chi Minh City: great for affordable modern condos, ultra-modern malls, sports, and walking (if you live outside the city center, otherwise it feels too chaotic imo). > Phnom Penh: housing are pricier for similar condo quality than Thailand & Vietnam, but many daily expenses are cheaper. Beyond rent, daily life is cheaper in all these cities than in any European city: > taxis > food delivery > restaurants > massages > cleaning help + a personal chef So you get a better investing power while having a better life. If you earn remotely (example: $5,000/month), your savings rate changes dramatically depending on where you live. - In Europe, after taxes + expenses, maybe you save ~20% - In Thailand / Vietnam / Cambodia, saving 50%+ is easy while living better That gap compounds hard over time. TL;DR: changing where you live can improve your life’s ROI more than chasing another speculative trade. 2) You save money, and gain quality of life Southeast Asia is not just cheaper, it often offers a more convenient, less stressful life. Some examples: > As a foreigner, you’re naturally less plugged into local political/media drama. That alone reduces mental noise a lot. > Services are faster and simpler. > Renting an apartment, getting around, and handling daily tasks often feels much more direct and less bureaucratic than in Europe (at least in France) > Outsourcing boring tasks becomes affordable > Cleaning, laundry, rides, and food prep can be outsourced for a fraction of what it costs in Europe. > If you live in a good condo, daily life is optimized by default: gym, pool, sauna, cafés, malls, coworking, restaurants, all within walking distance. That buys back a lot of time, focus, & energy, that can go into: > work > building > gym/health > rest/enjoyment 3) The time zone is a productivity hack One underrated advantage: Asia time zone. If you work with Europe / US teams your mornings in Asia are often quiet: > fewer messages > fewer calls > fewer distractions That makes mornings perfect for deep work: writing, strategy, content, planning, research. Then when Europe/US wakes up, you shift into: > meetings > coordination > DMs > Ops work It creates a natural rhythm: high-focus mornings, lower-focus afternoons. For remote work, that’s a huge edge. Honestly, I think it would be very hard for me to move back to another setup now. 4) Lifestyle + travel + nature Southeast Asia gives you access to very different environments at low cost: > big cities > paradise islands > mountains > beach towns > business hubs And it’s easy to move between them thanks to cheap flights and (luxury) buses. 5) Health, safety, and healthcare are better than many expect A lot of Europeans assume high taxes = better healthcare. It's total bullshit. From my own experience in Thailand, private hospitals are faster, more modern, cleaner, more efficient than public hospital in France. Safety-wise, I’ve personally never felt unsafe in most places I’ve lived in Asia (including in Myanmar, a country currently in civil war). On the contrary, I’ve often felt less safe in parts of Europe. I can't even imagine the difference for a woman. That said, three honest caveats: > I’m still young, so my healthcare needs are simpler > Air pollution can be a real issue in some cities/seasons (especially Bangkok/HCMC and Chiang Mai during burning season) > Food quality can be amazing, but you need to be very careful (especially if you care about nutrition quality, sourcing, supplements, etc.). Otherwise, most of the time you’ll end up eating food that’s bad for your health. TLDR From a digital nomad perspective, Southeast Asia is impossible to bet for an optimized lifestyle. You can literally optimized all in one: > saving > investing > focus > health > quality of life You buy back time. You reduce stress. You increase your investing power. For me, that’s the real financial move. Not another speculative trade. Lifestyle arbitrage.

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@Q3Labs DevTools are evolving in this AI world

@359990902 @ZKVProtocol Yes. @poly_pay is powered by @ZKVProtocol and it is contributing to this growth 🔥

Yesterday. 500,653 proves verified . That’s huge! @zkvprotocol grows fast

We are changing the way payments is working until now in crypto. Check @poly_pay

@EF_ESP Hi team, do we have any announcement regarding this RFP? esp.ethereum.foundation/applicants/rfp… It is suddenly gone, 404 Not Found

1/ ESP’s grant applications are now OPEN! ✨ Our new grants program is structured through two pathways: 💡 Wishlist 🎯 Requests for Proposals (RFPs) Explore the new opportunities and apply below! esp.ethereum.foundation/applicants