killroy

Short GitHub, long GitLab? Decentralisation helps isolate security vulnerabilities, limits compounding effects, and reduces the speed at which attacks can spread.

@Antosolus Congrats mate!

It’s all been God’s mercy keeping me alive. Happy birthday to me 🎉🎂

While most EVM privacy projects are just mixers, @zeroledgerxyz is built different. 🚀 We’re delivering confidential transactions, decoy recipients, and native yield. For the first time ever, @base users get a true “digital cash bank.” 🏦💨

You don’t need a permissionless and censorship-resistant blockchain to make a system predictable and auditable. The whole point of public blockchains is to have a neutral, incorruptible, consensus-driven layer. Those who cannot manage the risks of operating directly on this layer should use trust-based layers built on top

@MKjrstad Nope. The whole point of a blockchain is to make the system predictable and auditable so there are no information asymmetries. Then you build your system on top. My proposal was not to socialise losses, it was to build up the mechanisms to recover them.

If you'll permit me a suggestion. Technical solutions definitely should be investigated and implemented. #Ethereum is actually quite good at this. But my 2c, you will *never* have a perfect technical solution; you cannot with moving components and people. So when things eventually fail, you inherently fall back to social coordination and Ethereum is quite bad at that. There are many people carrying to torch, like @tayvano_, @fredrik0x, etc; but the crypto culture is not one of cooperation, but of calculated competition. Sure, you can bring up free-market, survival-of-the-fittest, self-interest-lead-to-robust-systems, etc. I would even agree with all of the above, *if* the foundation was perfect. But every time something fails, there's a frenzy to find a scapegoat; upholding that "the system works just as intended". It does not. A system is not only the happy path. A system should account for all the things that can- and will go wrong. And whilst Ethereum is good at the tech side, it has an very disconnected culture on the social side. As long as it's not "my money", screw the other guy. But every person burnt is another nail in the coffin (actually, many, because they will take their social circle too). The @ethereumfndn long held the view that they are not controlling the protocol; that they don't want to be a tech shop. EF's stated goal is research, education and guidance. My challenge to the EF then is to do that not only on a protocol level, but also on the social level. Whenever there's a hack, I want EF to look at it not only from the perspective of what could have been done to prevent it; but also how the blast zone could have been reduced. I want EF to foster research and collaboration on the unhappy paths too, on crisis handling and recovery. I also want EF to foster a culture of empathy, for people to stop being calculated machines and start caring about others who got burnt. If you think a hack doesn't affect you, I have some bad news. Every loss is a ripple across the world that Ethereum is a not a financial system, but a casino. Every loss erodes trust, and pushes people away. Are you sure there will be enough left to care when all is said and done? Ethereum has built an amazing technical machinery, but it's high time to admit that the algorithms alone are not enough in this messy world. If you truly want Ethereum to succeed, it's time to build up the social machinery too to fall back to when the tech fails. And the Ethereum Foundation is IMO the singular entity that this task falls to: they have the social creds and it's their self assumed mandate. This isn't throwing shade at EF for not doing it until now (although they do deserve a lot of shades of all colors for various things); it is rather poking them to realise it's their task to do this, not someone else's. 🦆

@newmichwill True, but monopoly over tx ordering and inclusion delays make this feature meaningless for all MEV-attributed activities (trading, lending, etc.)

@killroy192 Well you can push transactions without sequencers. This is more than that

Mhm. Right thing to do if they CAN. But also many will probably re-evaluate whether using Arbitrum is safe after this. Also IF they CAN freeze anyone - hard to argue that some TradFi regulations are not applicable to the chain itself. It is not neutral infrastructure

I think we should just make people go into the local branch of a defi protocol and show ID to move large sums of money

Quick update for our community: On April 11, our X account was unexpectedly suspended due to an internal flag. As a result, we were unable to post or engage for the past week. The issue has now been reviewed and fully resolved, with access restored on April 19. No policies were violated, and everything is now back to normal. We’re back and ready to continue building, sharing, and engaging with you all. Appreciate your patience and support 🤝

This means @zeroledgerwtf is finally ready to launch — the only things left are setting up multisigs and resolving the X account suspension.

Another interesting and valuable lesson was about how to govern protocol and manage contract upgrades. The logic was successfully tested on the mainnet as well.

While waiting on @Engineering to resolve the @zeroledgerxyz suspension, we keep shipping. Over the past few days, I’ve set up infrastructure for both testnet and mainnet — and even deployed a sandboxed version of ZeroLedger to @base mainnet.

@Engineering, please have a look

Hi, My account @zeroldgerxyz was recently suspended, and I believe this might be a mistake. To the best of my knowledge, my colleague (@Antosolus) and I have been running the account in good faith and in line with X’s rules. We’ve never used bots or automated replies — all interactions have been organic and relevant to the discussions. Our content is limited to educational posts and updates about the ZeroLedger project. I’d really appreciate it if you could clarify what specific behaviour led to the suspension and unblock @zeroldgerxyz. I’ve made a genuine effort to follow the rules and would be happy to resolve any issues if needed. Thanks

Currently identifying and suspending 208 bots per minute and growing.

Pour one out tonight for the reply bots. This week is going to hurt 🪦

All L2s with immediate upgrade rights carry this tail risk.

Deploying a new testnet version that includes updates to DDoS protection infrastructure and changes to the encryption key generation algorithm. Since this is a testnet, I did not implement encryption key rotation logic and instead reset user commitments in the web app. This means: • all balances in the web app are set to 0 • accumulated interest is reset to 0 • testnet reward tokens and airdrop allocations remain unchanged

🚨 ZEROLEDGER TESTNET UPDATE  Your money should earn, your data should stay hidden too. Another ZeroLedger testnet is live. This phase focuses on validating core protocol mechanics around yield, rewards, and token distribution. ▪︎Yield (Variable APR) Deposits are now yield-bearing. Funds are automatically deployed into yield strategies (testnet), with no manual action required. APR is dynamic and adjusts based on underlying market conditions. Protocol fees also contribute to user yield. This testnet validates: • Yield logic • Rewards minting logic • Airdrop logic ▪︎Airdrop We are testing the airdrop system to ensure controlled and accurate distribution. This includes: • Claim flow • Geo-restriction logic ▪︎Governance Token Issuance We are testing token distribution based on the protocol’s designed emission schedule. This ensures issuance and allocation function as intended. Experience it firsthand: app.zeroledger.wtf  More updates are coming soon❤

To have the same "buying power" as £1 billion today, you only needed about £338.94 million in 1990. This does not even consider that most 'real wealth', like land/reit/stocks, has inflated even further. In 1990 ~200 families (not even people) had this 300+m wealth in the UK. The UK has a cost-of-living crisis, not because of 'wealth concentration', but because of poor strategic decisions