Joshua Fitzgerald

Privacy is the missing link! Confidential asset-agnostic transfers with fast proof times are coming to every chain! Over the coming weeks this will come to every EVM and SVM chain! Also if you're a builder and would like to build privacy-preserving applications on @anoma this is your blue-print. Lastly, AnomaSwaps are currently being audited and so should be ready by Q3.

crypto will never solve payments not without privacy paying salaries or invoices with crypto is a clear use case, yet it's so hard to do atm without leaking sensitive data i've been running payments myself in basically every company i've founded so far and it's currently an incredibly tedious process it requires: - setting a completely fresh wallet per recipient: if you have 50 employees, this means 50 new wallets; if you have 100 providers to pay, this means 100 new wallets - before paying, fund each wallet with crypto from an exchange: so that the receive (and everyone else) can only see it's coming from an exchange and to not accidentally leak your entire operational history - this CEX intermediate step is the easiest consumer-facing way of getting privacy, but of course the data is fully leaked to the exchange, so privacy is far from ideal - then you execute payments from each wallet, if you have to pay 100 recipients, you better be ready to switch the accounts around - and be careful with cross financing wallets e.g. if you realize you're short on funds or need some extra crypto to pay for gas, you must always fund that wallet from an exchange, otherwise you'll be leaking data - all you do before your next payment cycle is to pray that none of your employees or providers changed their wallet most people dealing with payments do it without realizing that they're leaking business sensitive data to the world OR just give up and ask their employee or provider if they accept fiat instead which is why i'm really excited to see more people trying anomapay, now live on the bnb chain the way i would use it to run private payroll is: - create an account as my main "operational account", i.e. only for payroll or invoices - fund it with enough balance to pay everything in this payment cycle - by funding it, i'm directly shielding the entire balance - i don't even need to know my employee or provider's address, i can simply create a payment link and just text/email them the URL i wish i shipped this way sooner

yeah. i want to see more "metasnark" research. i want to see papers that zip up a thousand snark schemes into one and start to probe the boundaries of what is even possible

I got Top Banana in 00:05:15. How fast can you solve Numbros #587? numbros.io

@cryptodavidw and buy your galoises by the carton

for people traveling to France for ethCC here are a few advice: take the train from Paris, try to order wine bottles instead of wine glasses, don't carry cash

I got Top Banana in 00:05:31. How fast can you solve Numbros #577? numbros.io

My wife had some music playing on shuffle and this song came on: youtu.be/4bmMztlkOAg?si… 3yo daughter heard it and came to get me, saying "Daddy it's your song! Let's dance!" Goth Education is in full swing around here.

@Autoparallel What is this computing?

``` (ROW >= NUM_ROWS) as usize * (ROW + 1) + (ROW < NUM_ROWS) as usize * NUM_ROWS } ``` what a trick

const generic expressions in rust are the same as writing zk circuits

Happy to see this

The Namada Keychain extension is now available for Firefox! 🦊 Creating and managing your Namada keys is now possible on Firefox in addition to Chrome and other Chromium browsers. Check it out ⤵️ addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/…

No, I am not "productive". I am inductive.

break all the circuits! tear them down! only the strong should survive!

How best can I compute Gröbner bases from Rust? I've rolled my own shoddy impl of Buchburger which works for now, but I'd really like to use optimized algorithms from Singular or Macaulay2 etc but in Rust. @aszepieniec?

@CPerezz19 @0xwazwski @PrivacyScaling Did this ever get posted? I wish I could have seen it!

@0xwazwski Hey thanks to you for reading this! Makes me want to keep doing it! I think they'll publish all the talks in YT. Probably the next month. And they might be in the @PrivacyScaling YT channel. But not sure yet.

Today, another awesome session on the ZK Vietnam Residency by @PrivacyScaling and @0xPARC . First @adria0 on Plaf(Plonkish Arithmetisation Format) + Powdr and Halo2

Trump actually freed Ross Incredibly based Now pardon @rstormsf and all the other unfairly persecuted software engineers who are helping shape this country into what we need it to be

BREAKING: Ross Ulbricht has been pardoned by President Donald Trump

Welcome to Deeply Intents Deeply Intents is a new podcast hosted by @apriori0x . There are two primary motivations; unpack Anoma with relevant guests, and have interesting conversations with values aligned builders. The podcast is long-form content, with an emphasis on the human element. Roadmap I've recorded eight episodes so far with a fantastic group of builders featuring: - @mteamisloading (@Spire_Labs ) - @cwgoes (@anoma ) - @hrojantorse (@intheanera ) - Jeremy (@anoma ) - @0xbodu (@Polymer_Labs ) - @colludingnode (@celestia ) - @haikane (@PropellerSwap ) - @ThogardPvP (@0xFastLane ) Starting this week, we will begin releasing two to three episodes for the next few weeks. After the bootstrapping phase, you should expect one to two episodes per week. But we'll see. Structure This podcast will focus on long-form content focusing on the human element. Podcasts will be one and a half hours or more. One key feature of this format is that guests and the host are not rushed. They have time to explore specifics, go off into tangents, or just wildly speculate about the nature of crypto. Most importantly, you'll be able to get to know the guests not as founders or products but as people. In an industry with much emphasis on the latest trends we rarely spend time to learn about who we are together. Reflections last but a moment. Here we are creating artifacts that I hope you will reference and look back on in the future as a source of knowledge and inspiration. As a result, there will be no AI edits where voices are smoothed over and everyone speaks at 1.25x as a baseline. Instead, you will hear the pauses, likes, umms, because this is part of what makes us human, imperfection. (I will get better here). There is no intro music yet. Taking inspiration from Joe Rogan, we will just roll into the conversation from the pre-recording banter. Bridging the discourse On Deeply Intents we'll feature a diversity of guests both members of the Heliax team building Anoma and Namada as well as values aligned builders working on other stuff. We'll have both deeply personal and deeply technical conversations. And hopefully, in time, guests who may not know about each other will start talking and maybe even collaborate. Why another podcast? This is all @cwgoes fault, blame him. No, really, blame him. Story time. I've been listening to podcasts for a long time, since 2007, when the Bill Simmons Report was on ESPN's page 2. I noticed early on that he was able to have material conversations with star NBA players who typically were more reserved. Simmons got people to open up. As a listener, I felt like I got to know the guests and relate to them as people. In 2020 during COVID I lost my job. The pain I felt is hard to explain. As a way to cope, I took long walks listening to podcasts by @aantonop (Unscrypted), @VitalikButerin (many), and others. These episodes opened my eyes to new ideas, new ways of thinking, and a new way of life. Later, listening to @hasufl on Uncommon Core inspired me to take my "crypto research" hobby more seriously and go all in. My favorite podcast over the last few years is the @lexfridman podcast. In a way, you can think of Deeply Intents as Lex Fridman meets crypto. I am not Lex. However, the guests and I will have meaningful conversations that are deeply fucking intents. Podcasts can change people's lives. People don't have time to read In the age of social media AI slop, LLMs, and access to anything you want anytime day or night, attention is hard to come by. Reading is hard. It takes concentration and muscle memory. You have to do it every day until you love to read. Assuming you love to read, you are probably busy reading things related to your job and personal hobbies. Everything in between is less accessible and time-consuming. It's not hard to play a podcast. You can play a podcast in the background while coding, tasking, washing the dishes, lifting weights, driving to the grocery store, or just relaxing on the couch. You can listen on any speed you like. You can also write a script to search the podcast for anything interesting and summarize the findings with help of an LLM. Qualifications What are my qualifications for hosting a podcast. That's a good question. I'll highlight some things I did in 2024 as it pertains to the specific skill set. Last year, I hosted or sat on eleven panels at different events. I hosted four twitter spaces recently on topics like ASS, intents, interop, chain abstraction, and the modular ecosystem. I also gave two keynote presentations, at Eth Prague and mev dot market. Likewise, I read essays and poetry aloud at the cypher cafes this summer. I am not afraid to learn in public. Aside from this, I've worked closely with the Anoma research, engineering, and ecosystem teams over the last 20 months on various initiatives. If you're interested in digging further, you can check the pinned link on my X profile which features all of my published writing and projects. Growth Mindset I will make mistakes. However, I'm willing to look like a fool for a while until I become a master. You'll notice improvement with the progression of episodes. Likewise, we are not starting with video. I want to put the focus on quality of conversations not facial expressions, backgrounds, or setups of the guests or myself. I also want to save video for in person settings where the quality will be higher. But if you really want video, please be loud about it. You can just do things Many of the podcasts in our industry are incredible. I've learned a ton and enjoyed hours of ZK Podcast, Bell Curve, Bankless, Green Pill, Uncommon Core 1 & 2, The Rollup, The Gwart Show, Epicenter, Lightspeed, Up Only, Unchained, and many more. Each of these shows has their own lane. Deeply Intents is doing something different. By doing something different, we are adding value to the community. Podcasting is something I've wanted to do for a long time. The timing for this feels right, and I could not be more excited to share this art with you. Goals My goal is to execute six to eight episodes per month. If we do more, that's fantastic. My stretch goal for the year is 100 episodes. I'm looking to talk to a diversity of builders. My network is mostly engineers, operators and researchers, but I'd also like to talk to folks who work in BD, Marketing, Dev Ops, and other roles. Thank you Thank you to the guests who have been gracious enough to lend their time and record episodes. I am grateful. Thank you to the @heliaxdev team. The support you have shown in this process has been exceptional. In particular, thank you to @cwgoes @zjcio @MauriceWbr @Thurisaz0x @awasunyin. The art is phenomenal, major kudos to @Chri5H0lt . Feedback You are welcome to direct complaints to me directly on X, fanboys and haters alike. Please be nice to the guests, blame me if anything. 😉 If you think you would be an interesting guest, please reach out. My DMs are open. Cheers.

@AGoldmund Steve Albini contains multitudes

I can't believe I logged on here and prepared my typing finger just to find my very important reply already made by someone else. @cryptodavidw @cronokirby we are crying out for content 🥺