SBC'24 speaker announcement! 📢 alin.apt, Head of Cryptography Aptos Labs, will be presenting research on generating shared randomness in a weighted (PoS) setting.

The on-chain randomness of Aptos has almost no latency overhead. How? arxiv.org/abs/2407.12172 Our new paper describes how to remove the latency overhead of one network hop (100ms) in existing approaches for randomness. Our approach has broader applications -- see threads below

Bring out the notepad, it’s time to take notes 👀✍️ Justin Schmidt, President and COO Ondo Finance, will dive into the future of DeFi at The Aptos Experience. #ExperienceAptos — Tickets on sale now: aptosfoundation.org/events/aptos-e…

Theoretically optimal BFT consensus is going live for the first time in web3 (probably tomorrow, currently waiting for on-chain governance). Aka, protocol latency go down. This is a massive industry milestone for the lineage of BFT work that all kicked off via the '99 PBFT paper

💡 Aptos Keyless Accounts: A primer The future of Web3 onboarding is here via wallet-less, omni-device experiences powered by keyless accounts on Aptos. ✅ Familiar social login to Web3 apps ✅ Hard to lose & easy to access/recover ✅ Seamless access from any device 🧵 (1/6)

If you're at SBC'24 and you don't want to see gory math, do come to my talk @ 11:40am! I'll be presenting our work with Sourav Das, Benny Pinkas & Daniel Xiang on weighted VRFs for the @aptos randomness beacon! And I will absolutely not be showing this slide. I promise! 👇

If you want to learn more about our (Sourav Das, Benny Pinkas, Daniel Xiang) weighted VRF construction, used in @aptos randomness, see my presentation below at SBC'24 👇 Slides are here: docs.google.com/presentation/d… Hope to return with a longer thread on it.

Aptos has the best nerds on Earth 🤓 ​ When it comes to Research, no team in the space innovates like Aptos Labs. Whether it's Consensus, Execution, or Cryptography, Aptos has the best tech in the industry, full stop. And they're not shy! ​ Here's who to DM about what 👇🏻 ​ Talk

You like hard problems? Aptos Labs is looking for talented cryptography engineers: job-boards.greenhouse.io/aptoslabs/jobs… 1. Privacy-preserving keyless accounts (aptos.dev/en/build/guide…) 2. Fast, on-chain randomness (x.com/alinush407/sta…) 3. Veiled coins (github.com/aptos-labs/apt…)

My recent talk at a16z crypto Research on distributed randomness using weighted VRFs, used for Aptos on-chain randomness, is now online youtube.com/watch?v=-QrKQ0…

Woohoo!! 🥳 Our @aptos randomness beacon cryptographic design, based on weighted VRFs and PVSS, has been accepted to @IACREurocrypt'25. This would not have been possible without Benny Pinkas, Sourav Das and Daniel Xiang! 🙏 A bit about our journey below 👇

Delighted to share my new paper with Eylon Yogev presenting a new Fiat-Shamir (FS) transformation that aims to be secure against recent white-box attacks: ia.cr/2025/329 The FS transformation is used to convert public-coin interactive protocols to non-interactive ones.

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