π³π΅π πΊπΈ | zk btc | ceo @alpenlabs | prev founded Synapse (acq. Palantir) | CS @ MIT
Joined August 2016
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Simanta Gautam ποΈ retweeted
May 28
Congratulations to @Morpho team. Midnight enables fixed rate loans and very bespoke lending terms.
Big unlock compared typical DeFi.
Will be very impactful for BTC-backed loans.
May 28
The Morpho Midnight code base is now public
github.com/morpho-org/midnigβ¦
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May 27
unpopular opinion: weβre about to enter a golden era of safe DeFi
cost of superhuman audits, fuzzing, formal analysis & verification are rapidly collapsing
itβs wild
May 26
PSA: I now consider *all* of DeFi unsafe.
Coding agents are superhuman at finding vulnerabilities, and smart contract security is too asymmetric: defenders need to fix every bug while attackers need just one exploit to steal funds.
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Simanta Gautam ποΈ retweeted
May 18
BTC credit could compete with the Eurodollar system.
β Eurodollars created a global credit layer around USD
β BTC credit could create one around Bitcoin collateral
A transparent, globally accessible challenger is emerging β’ Chapter 7 of 7
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May 17
bottleneck is in context quality, not inference quality
opportunity is in modeling our messy reality & translating our intents into clean prompts
better judgement & taste is the final frontier
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Simanta Gautam ποΈ retweeted
May 7
Introducing Mosaic π₯π«
A practical fault-proof verifier implemented in Rust, with security strong enough to host financial markets on Bitcoin.
Mosaic realizes the Glock paper's vision at a low onchain cost.
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Apr 22
excited to support axiomβs upcoming fund as a technical advisor
@allenf32 @mattkita @Big_Al256 are top notch
Axiom is excited to announce we are raising our third venture fund to invest in the Bitcoin ecosystem, with @macrocrunch, @tierotiero, and @simanta joining as advisors.
email contact@axiomventures.vc for more info.
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Simanta Gautam ποΈ retweeted
Apr 9
βThe Plumbing of Privacyβ β hear Aaron Feickert at the @MITBitcoinClub Expo this weekend.
Alpen Labs returns to where our story began: MIT.
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CRQC is an important enough risk to warrant more attention & resources now
weβll do our part at @AlpenLabs to ensure bitcoiners will have options
most critically: any collective action for handling satoshi-era vulnerable coins must not violate bitcoinβs core principles.
Apr 3
My take on Bitcoin and quantum computing:
nehanarula.org/2026/04/03/biβ¦
tl;dr: I think the risk is high enough to warrant prioritizing designing, implementing, and evaluating post-quantum signature schemes and consensus upgrades in Bitcoin now.
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Simanta Gautam ποΈ retweeted
Mar 30
π€ My AI just got its own BTC credit line.
I can give it limited spending power backed by BTC.
Agentic payments BTC-backed credit is coming.
DM or join waitlist if you want access.
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Mar 30
this is really neat
on-chain secondary markets will emerge as fixed-rate primitives are brought on-chain (finally)
Mar 30
Secondary markets on @Morpho Fixed-Rate Markets are π to BTC credit.
Loans β become tradable assets
Assets β reused as collateral, no rehypothecation
Real markets form when loans move onchain.
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Simanta Gautam ποΈ retweeted
Mar 25
How does @Morpho V2 reimagine Bitcoin lending? π¦
β Orderbooks return
β Fixed-term rates for both sides
A leap toward real Bitcoin credit markets is coming.
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Simanta Gautam ποΈ retweeted
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duty-free glocks π€
congrats to our chief garbling intern @nakstar123 on the new paper
absolute menace xD
Mar 9
π₯π«Β Glocks are now duty-free.
Introducing Duty-Free Bits (DFB): a technique that removes the Bitcoin-compatibility tax on arithmetic garbling.
BABE β 45x smaller
Argo β 20x smaller
Research with UCLA & UIUC.
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garbling-based protocols reduced on-chain data overhead by 2-3 orders of magnitude compared to bitvm2
but they introduced more off-chain data/compute overhead
thereβs been an explosion of papers in last few months that have reduced off-chain costs from ~50 GB now to ~500 KB π€―
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Simanta Gautam ποΈ retweeted
Mar 8
Yet another breakthrough from @AlpenLabs research in BitVM-style bridges. 45x improvement from BABE and 20x improvement from Argo MAC.
eprint.iacr.org/2026/476
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marshall brain was really ahead of his time
people, go read Manna
Mar 5
Striking image from the new Anthropic labor market impact report.
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Simanta Gautam ποΈ retweeted
Mar 2
BTC-backed credit markets will soon emerge.
@AlpenLabs envisions a BTC credit market with market structure, fixed-term lending, secondary markets, and standardized loan claims powered by Morpho Fixed-Rate Market.
Alpen's full thesis β
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