"permissionless interop" is more essential to the value of decentralization than most of what crypto/blockchain work on

An advanced version of Gemini with Deep Think has officially achieved gold medal-level performance at the International Mathematical Olympiad. 🥇 It solved 5️⃣ out of 6️⃣ exceptionally difficult problems, involving algebra, combinatorics, geometry and number theory. Here’s how 🧵

“If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry.” Satoshi wrote that 15 years ago today. It took some time, but there are hundreds of millions of people that get it now.

On August 13, IC3 and the Columbia Ethereum Research Center will co-host the Ethereum Research Funding Forum - a day focused on research priorities in Ethereum.

The event is designed to facilitate conversations between academia, industry, and research funding organizations. Speakers include: Harry Kalodner (💙,💙), Fan Zhang, Mahimna Kelkar and Sreeram Kannan

Thanks to Yoar and Jay for an in-depth article on oracles. Oracles originate as systems to supply verifiable data to smart contracts, but their applications extend to digital identity, social media, and AI.

2002: Princeton announced that a dean would be fired for unauthorized access to Yale's admissions site. He was "seeing how secure" it was. Story: usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/2002… But he wasn't fired - he was appointed to a new position: nytimes.com/2003/03/30/nyr…

10 years in, Ethereum runs the world’s most composable financial OS. But behind every upgrade, every fork, every flamewar… was data—or the lack of it. 🧠 We bring together data scientists, dApps builders, and researchers to explore how data has shaped Ethereum’s past and

Decentralized AI is not about decentralized compute; it's actually about decentralized & proprietary data. Once AI systems exhaust existing and potential public data sources, the frontier systems will need to scale by leveraging private data (think trade secrets, proprietary

Decentralization underpins permissionless blockchains, but what about geography? 🌍 Our new study explores this often-overlooked dimension of crypto. (1/n)

Here we go, Chapter 3: x.com/yq_acc/status/… It looks like oracle issue is the root cause

Privacy is nonnegotiable for traditional financial institutions (TradFi). Sergey Nazarov today announced that the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) incorporates private-oracle tech Town Crier and DECO—the culmination of years of research and technology maturation. Chainlink

will present our interesting work this Thursday. If you will also be there, feel free to DM me :)

At the DeFi Security Summit at ETH Devcon, Sen will present his work on unveiling smart contract bugs hidden by obfuscation. Check out the paper at arxiv.org/abs/2504.13398, and our blog post at hackingdecentralized.com/?post=1.

The funniest thing has officially happened to the International Association for Cryptologic Research.