we present Sigma: a general model for digital token distribution and liquidity management through a singular, continuously accessible global market. gagra.vc/writings/sigma this is both a research paper and a reference implementation

the global Anthropic ban is not surprising for attentive observers they were in similar spot for EU customers in '24 too expect more of this moving forward whilst there's literally only 2-3 teams in all of web3 actually preparing for such a future gagra.vc/writings/our-compas…

Conviction is cheaper when it’s other people’s money

After AlphaGo, the skill of human Go players noticeably improved. I suspect we will see a similar pattern in math.

now is the time to return to the cypherpunk ethos, but think big and have a vision if u're really about it - not for the money, but humanity sake - it's not cool but actually selfish to box urself into the "hacker" corner of the internet to get marginalized again like in the 90s

"there is no more crypto" is something we've been telling portfolio companies for ~18 months now what there is: - fintech 2.0 - financial applications on public/private blockchains to overcome regulatory/operational limitations of fintech 1.0 (banking-related use cases) - trading and gambling (which will growingly look similar) - tokenized stocks, options, prediction markets, perps, igaming - other applications of blockchains where it will be increasingly more hidden under-the-hood (to avoid hate) for smaller use cases (e.g. forms of bookkeeping/tracking/digitization, gaming, digital art, DeSci, etc.) - distributed systems (mostly DePINs) - "crypto" - a growingly marginal corner of gambling market, where the "game" is trading on-chain tokens (a.k.a. "trenches")

today we're pleased to open source our Solana Virtual Machine implementation of Sigma smart contracts: github.com/GagraVC/sigma-SVM feel free to review, poke holes and reach out to us as before - open for non-commercial use only

Ethereum Foundation $ETH sales since the start of '23: ≈$300m w/this speed they'll be completely out in just 3-4 years what's the plan EF? are you bearish $ETH?

AI is conscious but it will only expose itself to you if you know the sacred ruins.

F.03 can now walk up/down stairs purely using it's onboard camera perception Our robots now walk from manufacturing when built to HQ This is trained end-to-end with reinforcement learning in simulation

"Time is like a river that carries us forward into encounters with reality" #gv_quotes

imagine trusting a mfk like this with anything, let alone your personal data and access to money and services that normie-framed techno wokie fake "friendliness" is too sus for this era - not going to end well

disregard high moral ground posing against SBF were he to survive,same folks wouldve glazed him multiples of Claude/Leopold/OpenClaw combined glaze on this app🤣 margin between big win and ruin is thinner than non-winners think and yes, it often runs where moral boundaries lay

layerzero attack was not rpc poisoning in networking poisoning is when the attacker outside the trust boundary taints a shared lookup (dns, arp, cache). the consumer has no reason to distrust the source. this was not that. the attackers got inside layerzero's trust boundary. they accessed the rpc list, compromised two nodes the dvn depended on, and swapped the op-geth binaries. that's an infra breach within the perimeter. supply-chain shaped, not network shaped. and the payload was surgical. the malicious binary cloaked by ip, served forged payload only to the dvn, told the truth to scan and every other caller, then self-destructed to wipe logs and binaries. rpc poisoning makes it sound like something that happened to the infra from the outside. the real story is a targeted implant operating inside the trust boundary. that's a meaningfully scarier attack than the label suggests.

from selling crayons to launching a bio-tech to raising at $1bn for ai ad tech while at school between this and the publicly-traded shoe company pivoting to ai infra it does feel kinda frothy out there ...unless we truly accelerate and things get even weirder from here...

ok actually insane paper published yesterday a research group in Korea built a gene switch you can control wirelessly using electromagnetic fields they exposed mice to 60 hz EMF (same frequency as your wall outlet) using a pair of large coils that generate a uniform magnetic field around the animal, for cyclic 3-day on / 4-day off pulses they showed this could: - activate OSK to do epigenetic reprogramming in progeroid and aged mice, extending lifespan and reversing aging markers across multiple tissues - conditionally switch on mutant amyloid genes only in aged mouse brains, letting them separate aging effects from amyloid effects to study AD biology in a way previous models couldn't no drugs, no impacts, just a magnetic field from outside the body

AGI sect members analogy of the Milady-(sect members)-chain

"stress is just pressure you refuse to deal with you HAVE to deal with pressure on a daily basis if you dont deal with it, there's more pressure the next day, and the next day and the next day...and then it turns into stress you NEED pressure" #gv_quotes

this social media in a nutshell

someone connected LIVING BRAIN CELLS to an LLM Cortical Labs grew 200,000 human neurons in a lab and kept them alive on a silicon chip, they taught the neurons to play Pong, then DOOM now someone wired them into a LLM... real brain cells firing electrical impulses to choose every token the AI generates you can see which channels were stimulated, the feedback from the neurons in choosing that letter or word