Pierre
@xyz_pierre
🚀 July moved fast—here’s what teams across @PrivacyEthereum have been building, researching, and shipping. (full blog) 🔗 pse.dev/blog/pse-july-… Quick thread ↓ 🔬 Research • zkID benchmarks: transparent post-quantum ZKPs on mobile • FHE: vFHE focus on FHEW-style schemes;…
🌐 June went out fast, here's a short recap of many things moving forward from @PrivacyScaling (full blog)🔗pse.dev/blog/pse-june-… Quick thread ↓ 🔬 Research • Post-quantum zk-SHA256 benchmarks for mobile & low bandwidth devices • vOPRF x Stealthnote -> anonymous…
In 2020, I discovered Dan Boneh’s crypto lectures. “Batching Techniques for Accumulators…” - NSF funded research. 4 years later I was at a16z crypto working in the same org as the professor that got me excited with his enthusiasm 4 years prior. Without governmental funding none…
An open letter from leading academics highlights the critical role of university research in driving crypto and blockchain innovation. They argue that the U.S. can't lead crypto innovation through regulation alone; it needs top-notch research. Opinion. trib.al/h1mMrF5
to know that what's coming after the beam chain is the bose-einstein condensate chain is what drives me everyday
With @w1nd3r1c4, we are releasing plasmafold: a trustless, efficient, 14k+ TPS L2 from combining plasma with a folding schemes based client-side prover. eprint.iacr.org/2025/1300 Our MIT licensed prototype client-side prover runs in Chrome, with a 1s/tx proving time and *very*…
i killed a bedbug in my airbnb this morning. this is the 3rd time in 6 years. at least i caught things early here. am i super unlucky or is the situation really this bad
ethcc tuesday plan rwa asset summit (opening my chakras) [maybe a few hours at the based rollup summit] zksecurity event (if @cryptodavidw is oke)
ethcc monday plan ethereum vision (monroe) - 10.20am eth future hinges on tees (redford) - 10.50am the future is based (redford) - 11.40am beyond human: the next frontier [..] (hepburn) - 12pm plasmafold (hepburn, COME TO OUR TALK!) - 1.05pm eff signing encrypted tx with fhe…
barefoot gen over everything
Your favorite $Anime character with only one gif, I'll start 🫡
In the group setting, the fastest is NeutronNova (it has the best features of its predecessors like HyperNova, Protostar, and ProtoGalaxy while addressing their downsides): eprint.iacr.org/2024/1606.pdf. There is a preliminary implementation in the Nova codebase 1/2
The more I learn about Nestlé the more I'm like okay yeah that company is a net negative to world health and completely in bed with regulators
Nestle's Nesquik chocolate sugar balls cereal gets a Nutri-Score of ✅ A The most healthy scoring food you can eat according to @EU_Commission + @WHO
Coimbra: XIIth century churches, manueline architecture, enlightenment era botanical garden.. Gorgeous day
Memecoins might be a fatal blow to cryptocurrencies; the constant stream of ponzis it feeds could remove the wonder we all felt at first for decentralized, internet native, money
remember that every viral post is on this site essentially the result of darwinian selection to be maximally spreadable (usually via unfortunate means)
Bitcoin is starting to be in a strange, dangerous, spot. Or why miners making less money for securing more value makes a naive 51% attack plausible. pierredm.xyz/posts/btc-secu…
vitalik quietly made 2 blog posts about how TEE can be a part of the eth roadmap, but afaict no one is talking about this - TEEs as mostly-untrusted multiprover for scaling L2 ethereum-magicians.org/t/a-simple-l2-… - TEEs for privacy in RPCs ethereum-magicians.org/t/a-maximally-…
English hasn't even a word for abendsonnenschein
English is the most powerful human language and the universal medium for thought. I’d take mastery of English over multilingualism any time of the day.
Exciting to see ZK making its way towards becoming an IETF standard. If we are serious about mass adoption and being a backbone of a better Internet, this is the kind of work that is required. Kudos to @therealyingtong and @PrivacyScaling for pushing this! (Link in next tweet)