nico 🇺🇦 (nicolas.tez)

@cryptodavidw "cease" not "seize"

I definitely feel the heat of the competition when big LLM companies push products that not only compete with us an auditors but also with our own AI-based offerings (zkao). If I were to venture a guess, there's different world in which we might exist in the next 5-10 years. In one of these futures, we, as auditors, seize to exist. If this is the future, then developers seize to exist too, and most people touching software seize to exist. My guess here is as good as any developer's guess on if their job will remain stable. In another one of these futures, us auditors become more specialized, more niche, and bring the "human touch" needed or required. Serious companies will want to continue working with some humans, and delegating security to "someone". That someone could be embedded in the company, or they could be a SaaS+human-support system like zkao. On the other hand, vibe coders will definitely use claude code security, maybe we should call it "vibe security"? I don't mean it as a diss, I vibe code myself, but it will most likely be as good as vibe coding in the sense that you might have to spend time understanding it, it might make a lot of mistakes, and it will be "good enough" for a lot of usecases. I think that world is a bit more realistic today, than the AGI "all of our jobs are gone in the next years" doom claim. And as @zksecurityXYZ, I don't think we're too scared of that world. These tools have been, and are making us stronger auditors. We're a small, highly specialized team, that's resilient and hard to replace. On the other hand large consultancies and especially consultancies that focus on low hanging fruits like web security and smart contracts are ngmi.

I've been building Confer: private AI chat where your conversations are end-to-end encrypted so that only you can access them. It's still new, but I've been using it every day and beta testing it with friends. Let me know what's missing! confer.to/blog/2025/12/c…

@deulamco Try lazyvim

@JohnNaulty Carnet is french for notebook. It also lets you "temporarily import goods into Singapore for display or use at exhibitions, fairs, or other similar events", apparently.

TIL: - carnet != Skynet of cars - smiles go further than scowls - humans love robots that do flips - when asked if you have something to declare, "I love robots" may or may not be an appropriate response (context and customs agents matter)

You think crypto UX is bad? Try getting your quadrapedic drone swarm into Singapore without proper papers. Luckily the humans in the room got together, and realized Singapore would be better off with a Sui-coordinated robot petting zoo. Featured in photo: @irvinxyz , myself, and our friendly, Sui-pilled Customs Agent #Suingapore #suifest #token2049

@IDoctorWhoI True mastery of the sed command

🤡🤡🤡 what kind of circus is this

I'm not saying it's fine to issue tokens on L2. But custodial stablecoin issuers can deal with misbehaving L2s, and they often control bridging between them. Centralized stables are able to freeze any asset, that kind of negates the utility of crypto, which is a worse issue than whether they are native to L1. The whole ERC20 standard is problematic because it has centralized control as a core feature.

@nicolasochem you’re saying USDC issuers misbehaving is the bigger risk?

Heard Vitalik on Bankless saying assets should be issued on L1, not L2. Went down the rabbit hole... So native USDC on Arbitrum can be infinitely minted if 6-9 people collude? One compromised L2 could tank ALL USDC everywhere? 1/2

@ArthurB What time is the carioca dance?

TezDev opens its doors at the hotel Martinez at 9:30 AM (talks starts at 10)

@jdsika @LastPass @ProtonWallet You should run away from LastPass in any case :)

I just deleted my @LastPass account and replaced it with @ProtonWallet . Doing this for everyone I know. Let's get independent from American fascists and #goeuropean #trump #Boykot

@paularambles That's actually on Airbnb office's roof

also i’d like to believe that brian chesky personally placed this one right across the office of a vc that passed on their seed round

i will never tire of sf billboards

@jevonearth @TezosTaquito 2100 utc

The #Tezos blockchain is about to transition to the new "Quebec" protocol in just a few hours! Let's have some fun: drop your best guess for the exact transition block time in the replies. Closest guess wins a MiiR @TezosTaquito mug AND a MiiR Thermos flask!

Another testament to why Sui has one of the best white hat hacking security teams in the world, helping the whole blockchain industry and beyond. Our Chief Hacking Officer @JohnNaulty is a legend, he was part of the research team behind the Milk Sad Vulnerability detection media.ccc.de/v/38c3-dude-wh… and the most crazy stuff??? He launched the Church of Cryptography to teach crypto to anyone eager to learn! events.ccc.de/congress/2024/… About Milk Sad; here is the full details that affected crypto users, milksad.info/disclosure.html, I know that people like @billatnapier will be amazed how the heck crypto lib devs missed that. I ❤️working with John, this time he helped an amazing team to identify a class of vulnerabilities that exposed over a billion dollars worth of cryptocurrency to anyone willing to 'crunch the numbers'. The fatal flaw? Not enough chaos,💥 Same time - same “random” wallet! Unbelievable. A reminder that John is the “soul” behind Sui’s internet-less transactions and Mysten’s AI BugDar auto audit tool as well, @SoorajKSaju and @LoganJastremski you should interview John if you didn’t already.

“2025 will be an explosive year for AI agents on chain” by @JohnNaulty, our BugDar AI and internet-less transactions lead (super smart individual — UC Berkeley alumni, ex-Coinbase, ex-Meta, ex-BitGo, ex NeurotechX / OpenBCI etc etc). Sui launched a Telegram channel dedicated to #AI devs on @SuiNetwork

@sytses @gitlab Wishing you a quick recovery!

On today’s earnings call, I announced my transition from @GitLab’s CEO to the Executive Chair of the Board. I want more time to focus on my cancer treatment and health. My treatments are going well, my cancer has not metastasized, and I'm working towards making a full recovery.

@SaoudKhalifah @julien_c Or AI arbitrator?

@julien_c Legal Advisor AI coming next?

docusign going too far?

@cryptodavidw War is the continuation of politics by other means (Clausewitz)

Politics is war without blood

@Justin_Bons Sui is no longer using narwhal, it switched to mysticeti some months ago. blog.sui.io/mysticeti-cons…

SUI's Narwhal is a paradigm shift in blockchain design! Combining speed with reliability in a way that was impossible before Overcoming a major trade-off in design; fast deterministic asynchronous verification! All achieved with a DAG-based mem-pool with pre-conf qualities! 🧵 If that sounds crazy & wild to you then you are correct, as this is an incredibly novel design! Before we assumed the trade-off between slow reliable deterministic verification & fast unreliable optimistic verification was fixed. Turns out this can be effectively overcome with different forms of pre-consensus Explaining how SUI can match SOL's speed without also paying for "failed TXs", making SUI significantly more efficient in that regard This is all achieved by layering a pre-confirmation network in the form of a DAG before a more traditional consensus mechanism. This gives a sufficiently high guarantee that TXs will make it into the final form of consensus. Even though this guarantee is technically weaker compared to a traditional confirmation it is still much stronger compared to a TX in a pre-confirmed state in an optimistic parallelized chain such as SOL: As optimistic designs such as SOL resolve such conflicts by causing TXs to fail afterward, that is what makes them "optimistic". Whereas in SUI TXs can be deterministic, in other words, you can be confident that the TX will always go through & thanks to Narwhal it now even matches SOL's speed: The way Narwhal passes "certificates" on to the validators can be compared to how cross-shard TXs often work, the main innovation here is again how the use of a DAG-like pre-conf structure has significantly sped up this process: This technology has wider repercussions as we already hinted at; as I see no reason why sharded chains could also not adopt similar technologies to put their execution speed on par with chains like SOL & SUI! Where before there was a trade-off between speed & capacity when comparing sharding to purely parallelized chains, that trade-off at least theoretically might no longer be there, allowing sharded chains to match SOL & SUI's speed while also offering far more capacity! The research done by Radix most closely resembles this innovation; a pre-confirmation/consensus network over a sharded chain that allows for fast execution, though it remains to be seen which sharded chain will implement this on mainnet first, as some are only becoming aware of this breakthrough now Despite SUI's terrible economic design, as no chain tickets all of the boxes. SUI deserves our praise, as this technology helps move our entire cryptocurrency ecosystem forward for the better! 🔥

@mattyglesias This is yet to happen in the European Union.

@stylewarning @stevenheidel Grands pianos

@stevenheidel "brussel sprouts"

my most annoying personality trait is correcting people when they say attorney generals instead of attorneys general

Going to Switzerland for 10 days, who's around?