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Prolifreation of the EVM is, in part, a cargo cult

“A Plausible Attack on the Adaptive Security of Threshold Schnorr Signatures” with Alistair Stewart will appear at CRYPTO 2025 🎉 eprint.iacr.org/2025/1001 We present an attack on the adaptive security of threshold Schnorr signature schemes with a Shamir secret-shared key.

penumbra v2.0.0 is out labor of love from your favorite punks RT if you love teams that ship shielded pool technology github.com/penumbra-zone/… Penumbra 🌘

I have nothing but respect for vitalik.eth, but focusing on upgrading Ethereum to RISC-V is a giant side quest and would be a colossal strategic mistake: - Execution layer ossification and efficiency are goals in fundamental tension - "zk" (or succinct) VMs all rely on

My latest paper on optimizing the sum-check protocol is out! eprint.iacr.org/2025/1117 Joint work with Justin Thaler and Ingonyama (Suyash & Yuval). This combines and extends results from two prior papers, leading to 2-3x speedups in Spartan within Jolt! Quick thread...🧵 1/

As long as it's possible and not too painful to make a back by exploiting information, it should happen.

I think the CLOB has a lot of downsides, particularly in bootstrapping, which makes me pessimistic in it as a sole value prop.

Wrote a new post on how to think about time in programming It addresses the supposed complexity that programmers often cite online (where they'll list bizarre timezone edge cases as evidence of complexity or repeat advice like "just use UTC bro") shanrauf.com/archive/how-to…

Neat!

The change in age structure of a population becomes a driving factor behind most social metrics as it accelerates. E.g. income, wealth, crime, etc.

I'd like to talk a bit about this a game I made, all done in plain C, using only single header libraries, and it runs in the browser too. It's called "Neon Lies" and it's a retro-futuristic cyberpunk story in a William Gibson style setting.

Intellectual Property Law is fundamentally communist

Roosevelt's law: in the long run, the budget of any government department approaches 100% healthcare and pension spending

Evidence is much easier to object to than theory. The negative effects take a long to play out, can be counterfactual, and easily objected to in the discourse.

Prediction: the current AI wave will have small first order effects, but much larger higher order effects

You could BUY ~1k USD worth of $OSMO in privacy on Penumbra 🌘 for same/better execution as on Osmosis right now.

If your startup hasn't hired Soham, sorry, but you're ngmi

If Go has a million haters, then I am one of them. If Go has ten haters, then I am one of them. If Go has only one hater, then it is me. If Go has no haters, then that means I am no longer on Earth. If the world is for Go then I am against the world.