How did ZKsync (∎, ∆) Era get to mainnet 40% faster? 🚀 Matter Labs (∎, ∆) engaged OpenZeppelin for Continuous Audits on their zero-knowledge Layer 2, enabling the organization to shave 4 months off of their development time without compromising security. 👇 blog.openzeppelin.com/40-faster-go-l…

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Participants in BUIDLEra #2 gain access to live workshops featuring speakers from Ethereum, Code4rena, OpenZeppelin, Argent is now Ready and ZKsync (∎, ∆) 👇 Sign up to BUIDL: app.buidlbox.io/zksync/zksync-… June workshops (🎙️ coming soon): + DevEx on zkSync Era with Antonio (∎, ∆) + Ethereum

Every decision we make as a team towards building ZKsync (∎, ∆) is driven by our ethos, which is based on integrity and transparency. We have made honest mistakes in the past, but we always did our best to openly acknowledge them and take responsibility. And will always do so in the

There might be more to say about this tomorrow, but for today I think ALEX | ZKsync ∎'s comments also express how I feel.

Special shout-out to sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root / for a detailed report! Really appreciate the effort and contribution!

The biggest ever Code4rena audit is incoming, thanks to ZKsync (∎, ∆) 🤝 Find a valid vulnerability and take home a slice of the $1.1M prize pool. Get yourselves ready Wardens 🫡

Saving $1.9B. On September 15th, we discovered and reported a critical bug in @zkSync Era's ZK-Circuits that could have drained all the tokens passing through the bridge. This bug allows a malicious prover to produce "proofs" for invalidly executed blocks, which the verifier

Exploring museums of Istanbul together with @zkSyncZorro, found a portrait of his famous great-great-grandfather Zorro the First

It is pretty sad that crypto as an ecosystem consistently pushes people away from secure solutions, be it broken hardware wallet support at dApp or airdrop encrypted with attestation SSH key.

This was a tremendous effort but we got there. Decentralized Governance took over the control. Decentralization is not easy, but decentralization is not optional. etherscan.io/tx/0x04252ef77…

The Research team I have created and lead is no longer part  of Matter labs. It’s one of the most capable and productive teams working on rollup-related problems and blockchain-related research, more broadly. matter-labs.io/research/

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Historic win of course, but will those responsible for this power grab attempt be held accountable? The answer is "No".

A great take on memecoins, VCs, and ICOs

One critical feature of PoW that PoS lacks is that anyone can get crypto permissionlesly. You don't need to go through a CEX, OTC, find someone who already has crypto - all you need is some CPU and an internet connection.

I'm honored to work side by side with such an amazing group for security experts to safeguard Story Protocol