I use Farcaster daily via Warpcast. Great community. Highly recommend it.

1/I spent the last few weeks diving into dark pools. Here's a deep dive Since 2011, Tradfi Dark Pools have paid out over $340M in penalties for mishandling confidential trade information The future of crypto dark pools is trustless privacy and many projects are working on it.

Become a part of the team building the first Ethereum hackathon in Mumbai 🚆 app.deform.cc/form/5dc9c3f2-…

🚀 Exciting news! We're thrilled to announce the first crate release of Arecibo, our incubation fork of Nova. This release marks a significant milestone, completing the full SuperNova protocol integration. Check out the details! #zkproof #nova #supernova blog.lurk-lang.org/posts/arecibo-…

Here's a peek into the RUST programming workshop that took place over the weekend of Feb 3-4. A big thanks to Prof. Saravanan Vijayakumaran for conducting the workshop. To the participants: Stay tuned for more exciting events and opportunities coming your way.

Lurk will focus initially on light clients for Aptos Network (has moved to Aptos!), Sui and @Cosmos, and verifiers for @Ethereum, @Solana, Cosmos, Aptos, Sui and NEAR Protocol.

Bitcoin header validation using Nova. github.com/avras/btc-nova… Repo has code and benchmarks. 100k headers validated in 4 hours using 0.5 GB RAM or under 2 hours using 20 GB RAM. Proof sizes < 16 KB. Heavily inspired by the ZeroSync implementation.

Organizing a blockchain workshop at my alma mater IIT-Bombay on Dec 16. (w/ Saravanan Vijayakumaran Vinay Ribeiro at IITB Trust Lab). link: trustlab.iitb.ac.in/event/scpp-blo… Exciting talks from John Augustine (IITM), Chaya Ganesh, Chethan Kamath (IITB), Pratyay Mukherjee & others at IITB.

Introducing MicroNova, a new variant of Nova that features an efficient on-chain verifier: eprint.iacr.org/2024/2099.pdf

Use Noir with the Barretenberg backend - faster proofs - works in browsers, even mobile* - no app-level trusted setup + small universal SRS download (~10mb vs 600mb for an equivalent groth16) - relatively expensive solidity verifier (but only $0.03 on L2 + optimizations otw)

Feb 1st is the application deadline for microgrants from Public Good Crypto Research areas include ZK, FHE, MPC, PIR, PQC. Grant amount: 5k USD I am not affiliated. Just a friendly neighbourhood reminder uncle.

👨‍💻We implemented Nebula in our zkEngine (v0.9) (a WASM zkVM), it's open sourced w/ contributing to Microsoft/Nova repo. Running some tests today... with wasm files from the web and its 🔥🔥🔥 The NovaNet team is killing it! Cool features: 1. It's privacy preserving by default

Snapchain testnet is now live. All Farcaster data is being streamed into Snapchain in parallel and things are working smoothly. A team of 3 engineers went from problem statement to working, novel blockchain design in 6 months. I think this might be a new record.

Personal update: I’m stepping away from Daimo Pay

The new UIDAI notification that allows private entities to use Aadhaar infrastructure for authentication could set up the marketplace of age verification service providers that we need. My latest Ex Machina article. exmachina.in/05/02/2025/new…

Introducing Neo—not the One from the Matrix, but a new folding-based proof system, with: ✅ Efficient recursion (like Nova) ✅ Small fields: M61/Goldilocks (like STARKs) ✅ Pay-per-bit commitment costs (like Binius) ✅ Plausibly post-quantum secure 🔗 eprint.iacr.org/2025/294 🧵

Just dropped a blog post breaking down the circle group and trace domain for Circle STARKs! Stay tuned for Part III, where we’ll dive into the circle FFT.

Recently summarized how NeutronNova improves on prior work—thought it’d be useful to share it. Whether you're working on recursive proofs, zkVMs, or just want a modern folding scheme—NeutronNova is worth watching. It achieves the best of prior work—without their downsides.🧵👇

Excited to share that my master’s thesis work — "MProve-Nova: A Privacy-Preserving Proof of Reserves Protocol for Monero" — has been accepted at PETS 2025. This is joint work with my thesis advisor, Prof. Saravanan Vijayakumaran (Saravanan Vijayakumaran ).

They’ve authored protocols, built cryptographic systems, and shaped the research agenda. This summer, they teach at IIT Bombay. ACM India Summer School on Cryptography 📍 June 2–12 | Hosted by Trust Lab Apply now. #IITBombay #Cryptography #PQCrypto #Cybersecurity #ACMIndia