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Rustikon by @rustikonconf is coming March 19-20! 🦀
But first, one question: WHAT IF WE TOOK RUST… ON-CHAIN?
Join us the day before and find out 👇
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developer working on Solana (@anza_xyz) and https://t.co/T1dEXK8TWf
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1/ It’s a new year and a new Anza.
I’ve stepped into the CEO role at the start of what is sure to be an exhilarating 2026.
Let’s look at what Anza is cooking
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wincode v0.2.3 released
- comprehensive zero-copy support
- derive macros will automatically mark your derived types as zero-copy eligible at compile time if they meet the criteria (more in docs)
you may now replace bytemuck and zerocopy with wincode
github.com/anza-xyz/winco…
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If Bill Gates was alive, he would be proud to see Rust finally being integrated into the Linux Kernel.
Imagine seeing the project you created getting this far.
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whose code should I shame live on stage this time?
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@moonshiesty @alessandrod Tons of performance bugs (yes, in Solana), getting to 1M TPS, quantum resistance, compiler tooling of good quality, ZK with compliance, MEV, user friendliness. Fragmentation (there is no L1 that's the best in everything). So many things that I feel bad for having a chill Sunday.
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And this is exactly why all blockchains suck.
All blockchains are a joke engineering wise, not a solved problem.
Skill issue.
moon shiesty@moonshiesty
if you are in crypto working on blockchains, pivot to verifiability blockchain has been solved. engineering is always more fun when you're working on a novel problem space
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@moonshiesty @therealchaseeb @solana @Zcash Solana and ZCash are separate blockchains. One of them is relatively fast (still not fast enough) but lags behind in ZK. The other one leads privacy, but is slow and has no smart contracts. If we want to be serious, we need something which has all of that and more.
inb4 bridging
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@therealchaseeb > Speed of light decentralization?
already solved @solana
> Decentralized privacy?
already solved @Zcash
> New blockchains are created every day/month/year claiming to “solve” something.
so. which recent blockchains are solving a novel problem?
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if you are in crypto working on blockchains, pivot to verifiability
blockchain has been solved. engineering is always more fun when you're working on a novel problem space
Max Resnick@MaxResnick
If you are in crypto and working on a centralized sequencer, pivot to working on blockchains.
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@StrategicHash Halo2 proofs take 1440 bytes (more or less depending on parameters), so they would fit in tx v1, but don't fully fit in tx v0. And currently Solana supports only BN254 curve, which is sort of deprecated.
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@vaddotsol Can you elaborate? What kind of zk use cases does this unlock that you otherwise cannot do right now?
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Once tx v1 and BLS syscall (with G2 group ops) are there, zolana can actually happen
Anza@anza_xyz
3/ The new format supports transactions up to 4KB vs ~1.2KB supported in v0. Each instruction header is just 4 bytes specifying program index, account count, and data size. This compact encoding improves parsing speed and consistency for validators.
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@alessandrod i'm actually surprised that your basic macos fonts, out of everything, show the ubuntu logo
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@vaddotsol Girlfriend immediately says "her name was Maria Skłodowska-Curie" when someone mentions "Marie Curie". It triggers her more than the fact I don't like to eat cebuli.
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Happy birthday, Madame Curie!
[You can always say she was French if you want to trigger a Polish person]
Physics In History@PhysInHistory
Happy Birthday to Marie Curie - the only person in history to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences. Her work on radioactivity didn’t just change physics & chemistry - it changed medicine, cancer treatment and the way we understand matter itself.
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Okay, so here's all the problems that people seem to be having with Zcash:
- core contributor is trans (okay?)
- Mossad backdoored it because one of the co-creators of Zerocash is Israeli (following that logic, every zero-knowledge proof construction ever created is backdoored by Mossad because Shafi Goldwasser co-invented zero-knowledge proofs)
- NSA backdoored it because DARPA provided funding for the research (by that logic, SHA-2 and SHA-3 are also backdoored by NSA + Zcash has had two different iterations of shielded pools since then)
- not used for illicit activities (Tornado Cash, which is essentially Zcash with a smart contract attached to it, has)
- not delisted from all U.S.-based exchanges unlike Monero (Monero is not delisted from all U.S.-based exchanges either)
- the founders own the "decryption keys" (the trusted setup is only necessary for Sprout and Sapling, Orchard is Halo 2-based, which doesn't require a trusted setup)
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@ECwizardDan There are so many things that can be optimized that show on profiles. But what I'm cooking besides epoch activation now is avoiding copies of packets in turbine, kinda similar fix to: x.com/vaddotsol/stat…
michal r@vaddotsol
We've managed to push down the memory usage of the TPU QUIC networking stack in Agave from 2.6GB to 124MB. All of that just by using the `bytes` crate consequently and utilizing its zero-copy capacilities. github.com/anza-xyz/agave…
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@vaddotsol Game-changing optimization slashing epoch activation to 337ms! What's the next target for Solana's speed boost?
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We've just pushed down the time spent on epoch activation again, this time from ~519ms to ~337ms. That was the biggest bottleneck there and the main reason behind empty slots.
There are still more optimizations being cooked there, so stay tuned.
github.com/anza-xyz/agave…
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It's hilarious how haters don't realize that Rust, the majority of cryptography libraries and even Bitcoin have trans core devs. It's not only Zcash.
Quinten | 048.eth@QuintenFrancois
People will watch this Zcash video, see the massive jail sentences for zk-protocol founders, see the price go up 20x in the past months and still think “let’s buy some $ZEC ”. What could possibly go wrong, right?
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Daira-Emma is a *great* dev. Co-author of many excellent ideas and many more to come. And ze’s a lovely and sincere person who I’ve had the pleasure to know and collaborate with for I think about 20 years now. It’s good for freedom that ze’s a Zcasher.
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One of the better signals for how far crypto has moved on from it's cypherpunk ideals is the rampant amount of anti-trans, anti-queer and similar rhetoric
A space defined, in its origin, by its resistance to institutional power structures and the concepts of self-sovereign identity through pseudonymity, autonomy and privacy. It is no surprise that not only are these groups well represented in the space, but directly contributed to it
The cypherpunks, punkrockers and hippies had the right idea
You're not anti-establishment, you dislike taxes
Zcash 🛡️@Zcash
"Privacy allows people to think freely. There's the space inside your head where you can basically think whatever you want and be fairly confident that no one is reading your mind. You can reason about the world and reason about what should happen in the world. @feministPLT #zcash $ZEC #privacyisnormal
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@hush_wallet Privacy is when you have to gib your email and the source code is closed.
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we do 100k TPS and feel deep dissatisfaction
you do 19k TPS with creative crypto accounting across 50 chains and celebrate
we are not the same
RYAN SΞAN ADAMS - rsa.eth 🦄@RyanSAdams
Ethereum L2s did 19,000 TPS in the last 24 hours
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