Steph Curdy
@Steph_Curdy
Blockchain @WolframResearch | Previously @TeslaEnergy | Alumnus @ #RWRI | Permaculture | Soccer Coach
Quai is the blockchain built for Mars. Where is it going next? Just launched a 3D real-time blockchain visualizer! So far Quai has been to Mars & Space. Quote tweet this tweet with your best idea for the next visualizer theme! 🏆 TOP 3 win 1,000 $QUAI EACH @elonmusk…
We got AI that can find a clump of cancerous cells on a scan & there’s 100 year old TSA guy running almost every bag back thru for ‘another look’ ??????
10/ Don’t build for yesterday’s problems. Build for a world where Earth isn’t the only node on the network. Quai is the first blockchain built for Mars and beyond. Want to learn more? Checkout the litepaper: qu.ai/litepaper Want to see the new explorer building…
9/ Quai isn’t just scalable. It’s causally invariant. This means global state emerges naturally, no matter the order of events in local chains. Like physics itself. That’s why Quai could be the TCP/IP of the interplanetary internet.
8/ Every other chain breaks down under the speed-of-light barrier. Quai adapts to it. By combining merge-mining, hierarchical consensus, and sharding, it doesn’t just work on Mars. It works because of Mars.
7/ The result? A blockchain that: ✅ Scales to billions of users ✅ Doesn’t sacrifice decentralization ✅ Enables planetary sovereignty ✅ Still synchronizes a shared global state Quai is the first chain designed for asynchronous consensus at the scale of a solar system.
6/ Let’s say the Prime chain has a block time of ~1 hour. That’s long enough to allow Earth and Mars to: Transmit block headers Acknowledge new global state Coordinate merge-mining ...despite the 40-minute round trip latency. Slow block time becomes a feature, not a bug.
5/ So what happens when you deploy Quai on both Earth and Mars? Each planet runs its own local shards which are optimized for speed, user experience, and settlement. They both mine blocks. They both build chains. But they stay in sync by merge-mining the global Prime chain at a…
4/ But Quai doesn’t require every node to agree in real-time. Instead, it uses a hierarchical system of blockchains: Fast local shards (low-latency) and confirmation times, 5-8 seconds. Slower region chains A global "Prime" chain that advances slowly and securely. Like…
Why is consensus in space so hard? Because of physics. At max distance, Mars is ~22 light-minutes from Earth. Meaning a round-trip message can take 40+ minutes. No Earth-based blockchain, i.e. Bitcoin, Ethereum, Sqlana, can reach consensus that slowly. Blocks get orphaned.…
2/ Quai isn’t just another blockchain. It’s a hierarchy of sharded, merge-mined proof-of-work blockchains. Designed from the ground up to scale without sacrificing decentralization. This architecture accidentally solves one of the hardest problems in space tech: interplanetary…
Imagine sending a Bitcoin transaction from Mars. It would take up to 20 minutes just for the signal to reach Earth. And another 10+ minutes to confirm a block. Finality? Settlement? Forget it. Unless… you’re using @QuaiNetwork. 🧵 How Quai is the blockchain built for Mars…
The frontier of computing isn’t quantum. It’s efficiency. Thermodynamic computers like extropic or neuromorphic computers with continuous memristors are the next big thing. Don’t know when it will happen but it will happen before quantum does anything useful.
Urgent Network Announcement Dear Alephium community, Earlier today, the network began experiencing significantly increased block times due to a sudden spike in difficulty. After investigation, we identified the root cause: a sharp drop in hashrate combined with a specific…
Wen energy money
The Sun is the source of ~100% of energy. Everything else is just crumbs. x.com/i/grok/share/y…
The deadline for submitting papers to the 1st Stability Workshop was extended to the 1st of August. Hurry up and submit your paper!
📢 Call for Papers! We welcome high-quality papers about blockchain technologies and their applications for a more stable world. 📰 Submit your paper to the 1st Stability Workshop. Check scope, paper types, submission instructions and deadlines in workshop.stability.nexus .
I'll be on a stream with @InferenceActive on august 6 to talk about AI and chips that exploit physics. Come check it out! youtube.com/watch?v=0h_mf5…
I actually think we're exactly where we should be, and need to be... I am optimistic. x.com/i/spaces/1lPJq…