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@aztecnetwork will bring privacy to productive defi assets and productivity to shielded assets @NocomFinance is the gateway to this future read the protocol thesis here:

@AnthropicAI Could @ethereum have access? The Protocol Security team at @ethereumfndn could do a lot of good work with this by helping secure the open source projects that are being used in the Ethereum Protocol.

@stephenjhall @JSeyff @biancoresearch What happened on Bitcoin block no. 74638, Stephen blockchain.com/explorer/block…

@JSeyff @biancoresearch There was no consensus. There is no equivalent rollback in bitcoin. This is why bitcoin is not crypto.

Please explain why, having this technology, you would focus on Bitcoin? Why not Fedwire, and take trillions from the banking industry? Do hackers really think this small?

The zebra can use the Twitter account

@beampaywallet @bitlarrain Bridge your zcash privately to Aztec

Why is Zcash $ZEC better than Monero $XMR? 🛡️

Nah I've been in deep talks about putting ai classes in public schools and underprivileged environments... google, nvidia , Claude, x , meta holler at me let's change the world real quick! Give ai to the "hungry watch the incredible happen!

I need a GitHub too! Is it like that or nah?

Arbitrage charlatans on precog

Every claim should have skin in the game. Those selling fake news should pay. Charlatans should get arbitraged. Introducing the new Precog. A fully onchain prediction market protocol. Built for signal. Here's what's new 🧵👇

@joakimhi @aztecnetwork @namada @AleoHQ zcash will be the reserve asset of private defi much like wBTC

the thing is that if zcash "succeeds" here it will have the limit of being "just" a peer to peer store of value while if it chases the vision of Ethereum, it will be the private backbone of the internet for finance @aztecnetwork, @namada and @AleoHQ are doing that.

@Franacc_ @aztecnetwork noir gud

Day 440 of sharing @aztecnetwork memes until mainnet is live

Good article explaining exactly how the continued use of the insecure "MD5" hash function in forensics and courts could result in wrongful conviction of the innocent and in the guilty going free. katelynsills.com/law/the-curiou…

EF Sells on Dexes: "Stop dumping on us!!!!" EF Sells OTC: "Why didn't you use your own chain to exchange!!!!" I know different ppl complaining about each case but EF can't win lol

Let me explain it in simple terms. Since 2024, when we first launched #freedomtool with the Russian opposition, we have been boiling in hot water on the ground to solve each issue and ensure every vote of dissent was secure (there were 40,000 participants). That might look small, but it was the largest protest gathering in Russia since 2021. There are two major caveats when working with passports. First, you need to ensure uniqueness so that 1 vote = 1 passport. For this you have three options: 1. Passport support (active authentication), where you can sign and get a nullifier directly from the document. But since the 2010s, major countries have abandoned support for that standard and it won’t work at scale. 2. An external signer: you can use a TEE, OPRF, secure server, whatever everyone is discussing. It adds an additional secret, and voila, it works. This is the architecture we used for the Russian use case. 3. A third way, which in my opinion is the purest but requires network effect: so-called “shielded privacy of passport hashes,” where you junk up all the passport hashes in an on-chain registry and reuse them for different use cases, granting everyone plausible deniability. I call this pure because there is zero dependency on any vendor. You get a system like blockchain was for money. one that works outside anyone’s control and no one can switch off. When you touch reality, we forget that MPC networks halt operations for certain jurisdictions on governmental notice, that states control bandwidth and can block your traffic, and that wherever you don’t face hostility, participation isn’t a crime and you don’t need these hard setups. That’s the reality check most builders lack with voting tools. It’s not just an engineering question, it’s a political one. When you hit the ground, you learn it on your skin and the skin of others. The second problem; governments issuing fake passports can be solved in two ways: First, a similarity proof of the passport photo and the person holding a phone (we’ve built that with ZKML Bionetta). Or, the second and more elegant one: a ZK graph, where you build participation commitments over time. That can become a much more valuable foundation to reimagine digital democracy. (We’ve built that too with ERC7812) So thank you all for your contributions, but it’s still odd that after all these years we’re discussing the same topics, yet no one asks the real question: what are the true barriers to bringing these tools to the masses, and under what circumstances they actually work?

@Starknet Cairo does client side privacy now???

1/ The STRK20s Technical Paper is now live. It outlines the design, architecture, and core ideas behind STRK20s, a privacy capability for any ERC-20. If you’re bullish on privacy as crypto’s next major unlock, this paper is for you 🧵

Oh sorry that I didn't reply for the last 2h 13min, I was out of tokens and didn't want to handcraft a message to you.

@maxdesalle @intranazionale @Zcash @nym @Arcium There is no way to detect passive collision (follow the protocol, reconstruct shares afterwards) in MPC schemes Staking can only be used to incentivize liveliness it does nothing to promote privacy MPC gud but it's multisigs for privacy, you incur very large trust assumptions

Yes, that's MPC. Arcium is well aware of the collusion risk, which is why each cluster has one node randomly picked, they also have a staking system, etc. and importantly, *all* nodes in the cluster would have to be dishonest and collude. And yes, it's a mainnet alpha, they are obviously first launching in a controlled way, don't see a problem with that.

The sovereign stack: - @zcash for storing value - @nym for connectivity - @arcium for compute

im sure this proud American patriot will be the first to put his life on the line to go claim this territory

@ameensol NGL I haven't used taceo's impl @ github.com/TaceoLabs/oprf… yet but says "don't use in prod" cc @aisconnolly @luhelminger Meta (FB) and EF PSE also have repos for vOPRF

@jp4g_ very cool! can I use it?

gm eth nerds who care about ZK voting

Do you hold any ETH on @arbitrum ? Then you can now prove it in ZK and claim Arbitrum Sepolia ETH from abetterfaucet.xyz Privacy is always better. Built with @NoirLang 👽