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Excited to have hosted an incredible meetup with @callusfbi and @base in Kerala 🌟 The response was phenomenal ! 💭 The audience's enthusiasm for web3 and farcaster was truly inspiring. Their eagerness to delve into on-chain experiences was palpable! #web3 #Farcaster #Kerala

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A quick guide based on my experience in India 👇 If you have recs, places, playlists, ideas for @EFDevcon, send them my way! happy to keep updating or do a part 2 Thanks to the Indian community once again for being such incredible hosts and see you soon✨🫂

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quick personal update : after 2 years at starkware and about close to 3.5 years in the starknet ecosystem, i've now been promoted as the ecosystem lead at starkware. huge thanks to @odin_free spun a video to share everything abt how i went from 0 to now. enjoy ;)

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Now, the quantum resistance roadmap. Today, four things in Ethereum are quantum-vulnerable: * consensus-layer BLS signatures * data availability (KZG commitments+proofs) * EOA signatures (ECDSA) * Application-layer ZK proofs (KZG or groth16) We can tackle these step by step: ## Consensus-layer signatures Lean consensus includes fully replacing BLS signatures with hash-based signatures (some variant of Winternitz), and using STARKs to do aggregation. Before lean finality, we stand a good chance of getting the Lean available chain. This also involves hash-based signatures, but there are much fewer signatures (eg. 256-1024 per slot), so we do not need STARKs for aggregation. One important thing upstream of this is choosing the hash function. This may be "Ethereum's last hash function", so it's important to choose wisely. Conventional hashes are too slow, and the most aggressive forms of Poseidon have taken hits on their security analysis recently. Likely options are: * Poseidon2 plus extra rounds, potentially non-arithmetic layers (eg. Monolith) mixed in * Poseidon1 (the older version of Poseidon, not vulnerable to any of the recent attacks on Poseidon2, but 2x slower) * BLAKE3 or similar (take the most efficient conventional hash we know) ## Data availability Today, we rely pretty heavily on KZG for erasure coding. We could move to STARKs, but this has two problems: 1. If we want to do 2D DAS, then our current setup for this relies on the "linearity" property of KZG commitments; with STARKs we don't have that. However, our current thinking is that it should be sufficient given our scale targets to just max out 1D DAS (ie. PeerDAS). Ethereum is taking a more conservative posture, it's not trying to be a high-scale data layer for the world. 2. We need proofs that erasure coded blobs are correctly constructed. KZG does this "for free". STARKs can substitute, but a STARK is ... bigger than a blob. So you need recursive starks (though there's also alternative techniques, that have their own tradeoffs). This is okay, but the logistics of this get harder if you want to support distributed blob selection. Summary: it's manageable, but there's a lot of engineering work to do. ## EOA signatures Here, the answer is clear: we add native AA (see eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-8141 ), so that we get first-class accounts that can use any signature algorithm. However, to make this work, we also need quantum-resistant signature algorithms to actually be viable. ECDSA signature verification costs 3000 gas. Quantum-resistant signatures are ... much much larger and heavier to verify. We know of quantum-resistant hash-based signatures that are in the ~200k gas range to verify. We also know of lattice-based quantum-resistant signatures. Today, these are extremely inefficient to verify. However, there is work on vectorized math precompiles, that let you perform operations (+, *, %, dot product, also NTT / butterfly permutations) that are at the core of lattice math, and also STARKs. This could greatly reduce the gas cost of lattice-based signatures to a similar range, and potentially go even lower. The long-term fix is protocol-layer recursive signature and proof aggregation, which could reduce these gas overheads to near-zero. ## Proofs Today, a ZK-SNARK costs ~300-500k gas. A quantum-resistant STARK is more like 10m gas. The latter is unacceptable for privacy protocols, L2s, and other users of proofs. The solution again is protocol-layer recursive signature and proof aggregation. So let's talk about what this is. In EIP-8141, transactions have the ability to include a "validation frame", during which signature verifications and similar operations are supposed to happen. Validation frames cannot access the outside world, they can only look at their calldata and return a value, and nothing else can look at their calldata. This is designed so that it's possible to replace any validation frame (and its calldata) with a STARK that verifies it (potentially a single STARK for all the validation frames in a block). This way, a block could "contain" a thousand validation frames, each of which contains either a 3 kB signature or even a 256 kB proof, but that 3-256 MB (and the computation needed to verify it) would never come onchain. Instead, it would all get replaced by a proof verifying that the computation is correct. Potentially, this proving does not even need to be done by the block builder. Instead, I envision that it happens at mempool layer: every 500ms, each node could pass along the new valid transactions that it has seen, along with a proof verifying that they are all valid (including having validation frames that match their stated effects). The overhead is static: only one proof per 500ms. Here's a post where I talk about this: ethresear.ch/t/recursive-st… firefly.social/post/farcaster…

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@dabit3 So now you're entering into creator arc 😌

I've been asked why I haven't decided to go out on my own, here are some thoughts (also for people in similar situations) Two main directions in my head (in that spirit) - create a product (be a founder), or start a consultancy 1. Founder route - I should either have an idea I feel so passionate about building I can't sleep (I don't have that idea) or I'm ready to embrace years of uncertainty, betting everything on my ability to that thing out along the way (not who I am right now) Also, the idea of taking money from an investor is something that I wouldn't do unless I was ready to also put my entire net worth behind it, which to me is also a good gauge of whether your idea or passion meets the bar. 2. Consulting - I did this before, and I was very successful on paper, revenue grew around 500% in one year, I made more than I ever had in my life by far, but I wasn't happy and didn't enjoy it towards the end. I don't like billing and admin stuff etc.., and as a consultant people usually hired me for "an expertise" which led me to honing that expertise more and more over time, which led me to less time experimenting with and getting better at other things, something I enjoy doing a lot. Also, I was working in a silo and not directly working alongside smart people with new ideas on a regular basis which IMO is an opportunity cost. This is not what I want to do right now. It comes down to balance, tradeoffs etc.., if I wanted to optimize for guaranteed cash I would probably do consulting because I know how much I can make and I could scale that, but I'd have limited upside as I don't think my consultancy would ever "20x in a year" etc.... and this doesn't excite me. If I wanted to be more risk on, I would maybe found my own product company and aim for some type of exit. Instead there are many companies / products that have traction and PMF that are relatively early vs TAM, and for me these are the most interesting places to be. Less risk, still a lot of upside, I get to experiment and build stuff and hack on things, I get to do what I love, I get to work with and learn from many new and smart people. One note, having worked with so many founders I have built an incredible amount of respect for them because I've seen what they go through on a day to day, the ups and downs, the stress and anxiety etc... def have to be built for that or at least mentally prepared for what is to come and still bought in Anyway, if you're in a similar boat, I hope my thought process makes your decision easier.

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Most people assumed Satoshi Nakamoto was a quiet Japanese coder because of the name. It’s still funny to me that people just assumed he was a Japanese developer because of the name. It really shows how much bias exists. First, Satoshi Nakamoto isn’t confirmed to be a person at all. It’s a pseudonym. Could be one genius… or a coordinated group of cryptographers. No one has ever proven either. What we DO know is that in 2008, someone using that name dropped a whitepaper introducing Bitcoin a decentralized money system that solved the “double spending problem,” something digital currencies had struggled with for decades. Satoshi worked with developers for about two years through forums and emails never revealing identity, location, or personal details. Then in 2010, they handed Bitcoin over to the community and disappeared. Completely. The craziest part? Wallets believed to belong to Satoshi hold around 1 million Bitcoin that has never been touched. Potentially one of the richest entities in history… that never cashed out or claimed credit. Over the years, people blamed or credited everyone from cryptographers to billionaires to governments. Nothing has ever been proven. And honestly, the mystery might be the reason Bitcoin survived. No founder means no central authority, no pressure point, no single person controlling it. Today, Bitcoin runs on a global decentralized network, adopted by institutions, governments, and millions of people worldwide while its creator remains unknown. A trillion dollar revolution started by someone who might never be identified. And that still feels unreal to me.

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Be the Penguin.

Pengu never gave up, what’s your excuse?

life update: after ~5 years working on solana, i’m grateful to pass the torch and embrace an empty calendar. from using the sollet wallet to seeing internet capital markets come to life - it’s been a wild ride. i’m always amazed by the momentum our work generates thanks to a community that shows up to build with us, day after day. this is why i’ve believed that solana doesn’t need a traditional cmo - it already has hundreds. the ecosystem is our best marketing. our job is rather simple: help you crush distribution. together, we've shipped great work (some bad stuff too - sorry!), broken a few rules in the marketing textbook and the result is a brand that many would kill for - built by all of us. this is what makes solana special - everyone has write access to the network, brand, and culture. i remain excited about solana’s future, especially in a post-AI world where capital is the ultimate leverage. everyone will have to become an investor. the ability to buy any asset, from anywhere, on a phone is inevitable. solana is uniquely positioned to power this transition. super grateful to my all-star team (vibhu, ellie, niran, megan, amy, james, erica, simon, steff); friends in the ecosystem, labs, anza, foundation, superteam (esp. OGs - tanmay, dev, kash, neil and tamar); to raj and lily for trusting me with this responsibility, and to dan, yelena, and amanda for being incredible exec partners. @vibhu will step in to lead the team, and i couldn’t be more pumped. he’s an exceptional founder and a genius marketer - really glad I was able to scam him into joining us instead of starting another company. i once read that it’s a privilege to be tired of the work you once dreamed of having. i feel that deeply today. i leave with a full heart and lifelong friendships across more than 100 countries. this has been an all-consuming season of my life. thank you all!

A recurring theme that stayed with us: How students move beyond learning and into the ecosystem. The conversation around Xpedition, by @icphub_IN , fit right into that. #icphubindia #xpedition #web3tkmce

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