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Slowly but surely, everything’s falling into place. Testnet-2 is live, and with it comes our most anticipated release yet — a fully onchain, first-of-its-kind Central Limit Order Book (CLOB) 🧵

Only to answer questions? Lol.. So unreal.

This was not an easy decision. It increases legal risks, but the very purpose of ZK is to help humanity change its mode of cooperation from “don’t be evil” to “can’t be evil”. I feel that this is the right thing to do.

Thank you to everyone who reached out following our post, offering ideas, support, and feedback. As a result of these conversations, we decided to drop all trademark applications for the term “ZK”. These discussions came down to one important fact: it would be impossible to agree on a group of people perceived as credibly neutral by nearly everyone. What could have worked for Ethereum would not necessarily work for the entire world. We're proud to be a part of a movement that cares so deeply about cypherpunk values. And we are incredibly grateful to the @zksync community in particular for the thousands of messages of support we received, once again affirming that community is everything. ZK summer is imminent 😎

Dear Mr. @haydenzadams. On behalf of the zkSync community, we humbly request being listed among our esteemed colleagues on the distinguished Uniswap front end. Thank you kindly - Your friendly neighborhood frogmonkee

Lol.. Keeps getting interesting.

Haha. Well deserved!

Lol.. Doings get level.

Not aimed at any specific project, but have seen a ton of discourse recently on the topic so figured I’d share my take on good token distributions: 1) tokens, not points 2) don’t farm the farmers - teasing and creating ambiguity around a token distribution to grow your numbers is bad behavior. If you don’t know yet, don’t speculate publicly. If you do know but are not ready to share full details, don’t tease them out. Just share real details when ready 3) real liquidity day 1 - low float tokens are malicious and my biggest pet peeve. You don’t need to work with exchanges or market makers. It’s so easy. Just distribute enough tokens publicly that real price discovery happens on DEX. People should start thinking in FDV not mcap when valuing these things 4) don’t create absurdly high token supply to farm people with unit bias, this is also bad behavior 5) don’t be stingy - give a significant amount away. If you don’t think the community deserves a significant amount, don’t release a token 6) don’t market token price - if you tweet about how your token is going to moon or hire influencers, or marketing firms to do so I assume you’re just trying to get rich quick vs build real value 7) keep it simple 8) put real thought and care into your decisions - so you can stand behind them and explain your rationale. Don’t end up in a situation where you’re fighting or apologizing to crypto twitter. Create something you’re proud of and stand behind it

The 4th #Bitcoin halving is complete! Block rewards are now 3.125 #BTC The countdown has been reset - see you in 2028 🫡

Amateurs are running Scroll.. Natural growth no longer a thing?

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary #up_only!

The Boojum Effect.. Congratulations to @gluk64 and the entire @zksync team for this incredible milestone. 2024 is surely gone be an epic year!

Today, I stepped down as CEO of Binance. Admittedly, it was not easy to let go emotionally. But I know it is the right thing to do. I made mistakes, and I must take responsibility. This is best for our community, for Binance, and for myself. Binance is no longer a baby. It is time for me to let it walk and run. I know Binance will continue to grow and excel with the deep bench it has. I’m pleased to announce that @_RichardTeng, our now former Global Head of Regional Markets, has been named the new CEO of Binance today. Richard is a highly qualified leader and, with over three decades of financial services and regulatory experience, he will navigate the company through its next period of growth. He will ensure Binance delivers on our next phase of security, transparency, compliance, and growth. Prior to joining Binance, Richard was CEO of the Financial Services Regulatory Authority at Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM); Chief Regulatory Officer of the Singapore Exchange (SGX); and Director of Corporate Finance in the Monetary Authority of Singapore. With Richard and the entire team, I’m confident that the best days for @Binance and the crypto industry lay ahead. As a shareholder and former CEO with historical knowledge of our company, I will remain available to the team to consult as needed, consistent with the framework set out in our U.S. agency resolutions. What’s next for me? I will take a break first. I have not had a single day of real (phone off) break for the last 6 and half years. After that, my current thinking is I will probably do some passive investing, being a minority token/shareholder in startups in areas of blockchain/Web3/DeFi, AI and biotech. I am happy that I will finally have more time to spend looking at DeFi. I can’t see myself being a CEO driving a startup again. I am content being an one-shot (lucky) entrepreneur. Should there be listeners, I may be open to being a coach/mentor to a small number of upcoming entrepreneurs, privately. If for nothing else, I can at least tell them what not to do. On that note, I am proud to point out that in our resolutions with the U.S. agencies they: - do not allege that Binance misappropriated any user funds, and - do not allege that Binance engaged in any market manipulation. Funds are SAFU! With that, I look forward to seeing the new leadership take the reins. Please join me in congratulating Richard on his well-deserved promotion. Onwards! CZ

Every decision we make as a team towards building @zksync is driven by our ethos, which is based on integrity and transparency. We have made honest mistakes in the past, but we always did our best to openly acknowledge them and take responsibility. And will always do so in the future. However, today’s accusations are unfounded, misleading, and extremely disappointing coming from a team I highly respect. The reader of the Polygon Zero post is left with the impression that Boojum is largely using Plonky2 code with little innovation, and that we allegedly re-used this code without providing any attribution to the original work. These claims could not be further from truth. I really want to believe in the good intentions of the Polygon Zero team (which I highly respect for their excellent work). I am deeply passionate about the mission of @zksync and the amazing work our team is doing, and I’m sure the same applies to the authors of the post and their work. Alas, passion can at times lead to rushed arguments and inaccurate statements. So I’m going to share pure facts here and let the reader come to their own conclusions. Here is what you need to know: • Both Plonky2 and Boojum are implementations of the RedShift construction (PLONK FRI). • RedShift (1) was introduced by @the_matter_labs team 3 years before Plonky2 paper. (2) • Plonky2 team never gave us credit (although they refered to RedShift in their paper). We never bothered. It’s great to see someone improving on your work! • Only ~5% of the Boojum code is based on the code of Plonky2. • For the reused code, a clear attribution is provided in line #1 of the main file of the module. (3) • The rest of the files are provided as they are. If they contained more information about the authors, we would obviously have copied that. • In addition, the README file contains an acknowledgement to Plonky2. (4) • In addition, the intro post contains an attribution to Plonky2, with specific names of the authors. (5) We could have done it better. The community rightfully pointed out that there is a more standard approach to attributions, which we will wholeheartedly apply from now on. Open Source is all about genuine cooperation. If the Polygon Zero team wanted additional credit, the easiest way would have been to submit a pull request which we would have happily accepted. Going ahead with public accusations of a complete lack of attribution (even if it was true, which is not the case here) is anything but the spirit of the Open Source movement. If you’re not happy about others – including potential competitors – using parts of your code, maybe Open Source is not for you? Now, the part that I am most surprised about is complaints about benchmarking. The whole point of neutral 3rd party benchmarks is to compare apples to apples, going beyond marketing noise and nuances of implementation. If you are unhappy with the choice of the benchmarking function (SHA256) or your implementations being unoptimized, why put your code out for benchmarking in the first place and then endorse it? (6) (7) If someone can take 5% of the Boojum code and make it 10x faster, not only will we consider this a breakthrough work and immediately hire this person, – @shamatar will name one of his cats in their honor. We all stand on the shoulders of giants. Boojum is built leveraging the work of the brightest minds contributing to the field of cryptography. And we fully agree with the Polygon Zero team: “We can sustainably build software in the open, leveraging the combined talent and expertise of entire communities, and everyone benefits.” This is why Boojum was open-sourced under a free permissive license the moment it was released to the public, just like ZK Stack, and like every other software component we will ever create for @zksync. Each of them is a small step on the long journey to scale Ethereum along with its values. (1) eprint.iacr.org/2019/1400.pd… (2) github.com/mir-protocol/plon… (3) github.com/matter-labs/era-b… (4) github.com/matter-labs/era-b… (5) zksync.mirror.xyz/HJ2Pj45EJk… (6) twitter.com/dlubarov/status/… (7) twitter.com/MihailoBjelic/st…

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