People are underestimating the power of unstoppable, decentralized global tech. Aztec is the only decentralized L2. Programmable privacy baked in at the protocol level. Think about it.

The augment that ETH is just a gas token to prevent spam therefore it’s worthless is nonsense. Claude charge by token is also a way to prevent spam (especially from the subscription plan). The point is that llms are actually useful and therefore the token and its equity is valuable. ETH will also be valuable once we bring DeFi back, the real DeFi.

Fable on a 1-week codebase: "its years-broken state proved nobody used it." 😒

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when intelligence meets communication and taste 💝 lovely double date with power couple @Zac_Aztec @afrazhaowang 👑

Here's how to install and deploy a contract on Aztec before fable 5 can even read the skill file give claude a headstart here: docs.aztec.network/developer…

Privacy is normal. We need developer protections in all jurisdictions, including the EU, to recognise this. Prosecution of developers like @alex_pertsev in the Netherlands, should never have happened. Excited to discuss this important topic at the @DutchBlockWeek.

Building privacy requires a lot of efforts. And wires.

The greatest trick the government ever pulled was convincing people that freedom and privacy are obstacles to personal safety and national security

locked in accelerating @aztecnetwork proofs with webgpu Give me your tired, you poor, Your hobbled silicon yearning to breathe free. Your wretched refuse from TSMC’s floor. Send these, the downclocked, thermal-throttled to me. I’ll light their cores with golden ZK-PLONK

Building index-tracking assets on top of options instead of debt ethresear.ch/t/building-inde… What if the use options as the base of defi, instead of CDPs and liquidations? So instead of extreme price movements creating a sharp and global "you get liquidated" effect, instead your exposure to the index diverges quadratically from your preferred exposure in a smoother way? A key benefit is getting rid of the need for instant oracles, and instead making everything work on top of "slow oracles" (ie. the type that prediction markets use) This design has a significant downside - the need to do regular rebalancing - and an open question of whether and how this rebalancing can be made slippage-resistant enough. But it's worth considering and trying IMO. I would feel much safer holding algostables inside something like this, than in something that depends on an oracle that has to give real-time answers (and therefore could be tricked into giving wrong real-time answers with no time for human recourse).

Woke up extremely bullish on DeFi and Ethereum today Uniswap launched in the 2018 bear, when Ethereum sentiment was at all time lows Uniswap and other defi projects relentlessly built through that bear market and proved how powerful Ethereum can be, catalyzing defi summer and everything since Now vibes are down bad again and Uniswap intends to build our way out of it. Last time it was by proving defi is possible. This time it will be by proving defi is inevitable. The internet brought two disruptive changes: existing businesses moving onto the internet, and the formation of new internet-native businesses The same duality will exist for defi: the tokenization of all existing assets, and a growing vibrant economy of crypto native assets. And it’s all happening right now, with more and more assets being brought onchain, increasing the value and productivity of crypto native assets. As this digital economy grows, Defi is being integrated everywhere - payment processors, brokerage accounts, asset issuers. It won't stop until we eat the entire global economy Uniswap the liquidity layer Ethereum the settlement layer. The perfect combination of low counterparty risk, permissionless, programmable infrastructure And all this will result in huge growth in protocol volumes and fee generation. Which reminds me: UNI burn hit all time highs today, after several new sources of protocol fees came online. And there are many more to come: v4, uniswap x, aggregator hooks, more chains, etc Now add in all the new assets coming onchain We're still at the beginning 🦄

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Witness assigning operations not generating constraints should be in explict unsafe environments in a snark DSL.

watch the full ZKPassport flow in action

This week on Aztec: a deep dive on who really controls your privacy, a quarterly report from Nethermind, new developer education on selective disclosure, and a primer on how Aztec's state model works. Here's the recap 🧵

Oooh I think I got it right! 🥳 x.com/mike_connor/status/206…

Do you have to hand over your viewing keys to file your taxes on a private chain? No! @CiaraNightingal breaks down how selective disclosure on Aztec actually works, and how you can prove your P&L without revealing a single trade in her newest video below 👇

Oh right. Forgot to tell you: ✅ Schnorr signature over Grumpkin curve on @Ledger 👁️ Viewing key derive from Ledger's account, shared with app (it's per app viewing key) ✅ Signature key never leaves device You now can just build things, anon.