Ivan Bjelajac 🔭

As an Ethereum person dealing mostly with EVM dapp, client and tooling/infra the decision to switch to Solana was not an easy one. But as an EVM environment on top of Solana’s paralelized processing Neon always seemed extremely interesting to me. While building Neon the team had to solve for many hard problems that are a part of how Solana achieves it’s performance advantage over Ethereum. Deterministic execution is existential for Solana’s long-term credibility as the Internet Capital Markets infrastructure. Ethereum achieves this easily: single-threaded EVM, strict gas ordering, serial transaction execution… But how do you keep a hyper-parallel, real time network perfectly deterministic? The only way to do it is by trading away certain things for speed. This introduces subtle problems that are technologically hard to solve if you want to build more complex apps and sofisticated DeFi on Solana and by looking at the hard work NeonLabs team had to do to make EVM on Solana technologically possible I believe we are in an unique position to help solve these problems.

Claude Pro does not deserve to be called Pro. Just name it starter.

@mert Yes, thank you.

I dont understand why telegram is the default msging app in crypto it is neither good at business nor privacy nor "community" if you want business, use slack if you want privacy, use signal

special Spotlight today with our co-founder @Ginnymmm 💜 “finance bro” past, crypto marketer present, professional solana yapper forever. tap in for the Sol Sisters origin story, unfiltered web3 takes, emotionally invested prediction markets + a little alpha on what's cooking. full interview w/ @inks:

🇷🇸 National team captain Jovana Nogić COOKED in her WNBA debut 😤 19 points (4-5 3PT) in just 21 minutes.

In ZK, performance is often described in terms of asymptotic complexity. But asymptotics don't tell the full story. In our setting, proving sits directly in the path between order flow and the throughput @solana already gives us at the base layer. Commitments and curve arithmetic are common operations, so even small differences in cost add up quickly. The interaction between components and concrete parameter choices is what determines performance in practice. That's where the design wins or loses. For Parasol, every microsecond saved per commitment means more matching-engine headroom on Solana. In this piece, we look at one delicate case: multi-scalar multiplication with Pippenger's algorithm. Sublinear in isolation, superlinear in theory once the security parameter enters the picture. 📝 Read it here: buildwithparasol.io/blog/asymptoti…

@solana with @buildonparasol

Very proud of @FalaleevAndrew and @buildonparasol team today.

@unable0_ And then they started generating revenue by selling shovels to each other.

san francisco in one picture

@0xMiden @gateway_eth 👏

𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐜𝐲 𝐒𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐕𝐌 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬 @gateway_eth released its Open Privacy Suite – an open, vendor-lock-free privacy infrastructure for any EVM chain. It gives institutions granular control over who sees what on their blockchain through ZK-proof authentication, hierarchical role-based access, selective disclosure, and compliance tooling, all running through a single JSON-RPC proxy.

While news this week was sparse, multiple breakout partnerships showed the industry is still bullish as ever on privacy. Let's get into them.

I think there are 3 reasons why AI/ML works well with Blockchain. - A big reason why supply chain did not go to blockchain and finance did is that you need a fully digitalized industry in order to get value from blockchain. AI accelerates that. - It is easier to abstract away a blockchain now with AI agents and chatbots, as the AI does not need human friendly UX. And abstracting away is necessary for the average user. - Access to data, protection and value of data is going to become more and more important. AI will both make data more valuable and easier to steal so a big thing for blockchains to prove now is that we can have ones that are truly private, trusted and not hackable.

here it is folks, it's finally time to understand Groth16

@SamSmith1426377 gym or ngmi

@instantfinality Is there an option instead of going to the gym?

The way I see the AI future is simple. There will be people max usiing AI. These people will work more than ever, not less. The rest of us (CEOs and management mostly) will have Universal Basic Income and will go to the gym every day. For every AI guy working 24/7 there will be 99 of us going to the gym. So if he stops working we will beat him up. The future of AI is very human.

I usually defend software engineers vs mathematicians but it now seems software people think they invented math

Last week we identified the bottleneck of zkVMs in our setting. Today, we move past it. The issue wasn’t the computation itself. It was how it’s expressed. 📝 This piece shows how we resolve that mismatch by flipping the script: instead of forcing computation into the proof system, we design the proof system around it. Rather than emulating arithmetic in a different field, we can prove it natively with field-agnostic proof systems. This leads to a different way of building: - no cross-field overhead - direct alignment with the computation - simpler and more efficient proving That shift is key for structured, high-throughput workloads like perpetual markets. Read it here: buildwithparasol.io/blog/how-to-pr…

Over time, AI-generated messages and writing styles will become indistinguishable from those of humans — not because AI will sound more human, but because humans will start sounding more like AI.

@functi0nZer0 After learning you have delusions of grandeur I respect you more. But now I think you need better marketing.

Vulnerable post that may come off as a red flag for some people or some kind of deterrent, but I think it’s important to be open about this sort of stuff to show that social media should be more than just manufactured positivity to compare against Today, I finally took the long overdue step of having an initial consultation with a psychotherapist - not because of any recent event, but rather my realising that after four years I’ve still not done anything to process the aftermath of the Indexed attack and a lot of my subsequent work in crypto security This perfectly genteel man asks me to explain my background/history, and I realised halfway through a ten minute monologue that he wouldn’t be unjustified in writing “Walter Mitty lunatic, pure delusions of grandeur” on my file and nothing else It made me realise that there are so many of us working in crypto that live absolutely *insane* lives, and trying to explain them to the man on the Clapham omnibus would rightfully get us sectioned Anyway, back to arguing about the Strait of Hormuz or commenting on the latest story about Clavicular, I guess

@Rainmaker1973 This is how Europe came up with the tethered caps for plastic bottles.

Other bottles just hold water [📹 getringo]

@by_olesia 🤓

making a gc for solana builders, creators & operators who wants in?

My X feed today. Elon Musk, Altman, Musk, Altman, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Musk on Altman, Altman, Musk, Musk, Altman, Musk, Altman, Altman, Musk, Musk