Dev for Ergo (@ergo_platform). Love to push the boundaries of what's possible. Cryptography, blockchain, research. github.com/a-shannon

Joined December 2019
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AI agents don’t need banks. They need uncensorable, deterministic infrastructure like @ergo_platform. Autolykos (ASIC-Resistant GPU PoW): Pure, decentralized computing power. No VCs, no pre-mines, and a strict Fixed Supply hardened by Miner Governance. eUTXO & NiPoPoWs: Deterministic fees with ultra-light verification. AI knows exact costs before execution with zero wasted capital. Lithos: AI GPU clusters use computational downtime to autonomously mine ERG, generating their own economic fuel. Machina, Chain Cash & Sigma Protocols: Algorithmic, bot-driven P2P trading using decentralized credit notes, secured by native zero-knowledge privacy. Sustainability & Scale: Sub-second finality (Matrix), cross-chain liquidity (Rosen Bridge), and automated ledger hygiene (Storage Rent). If Bitcoin is the unmoving bedrock of digital wealth, Ergo Platform is the programmable intellect that brings the thermodynamic universe to life.
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"In this work, we propose Basis, a monetary framework in which both local trust-based currencies as well as global blockchain-based trust-minimized ones can coexist via smart contract powered reserves needed when there is no trust " github.com/BetterMoneyLabs/c…
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Replying to @binance
@binance @cz_binance @BinanceLabs why do you rape retail investors by supporting such crazy scams having nothing but insider games?
Sahara AI's team just dumped over 6% token supply SAHARA lost 60% this morning. Team says: "abnormal market volatility, no security issues, investigating internally." On-chain tells a different story. Here's what the blockchain recorded: - Yesterday: 150M SAHARA moved into a team wallet, then split and sent to Bitget's hot wallet. - This morning: 500M SAHARA, 5% of the total 10B supply has deposited to Upbit. - 10 AM: SAHARA dumped 40% in the first 60 seconds, eventually down 60%. The sequence isn't complicated: team wallet → exchange deposits → price nuke → "we're investigating."
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ergoblockchain.org is no longer just Ergo’s website. It’s a live proof surface for the agent economy: testnet receipts, MCP, Proof Explorer, wallet-agent boundaries, and an honest mainnet gate.
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The same question to all the funds participated: @PanteraCapital @jump_ @animocabrands @hashed_official when will you stop to support absolute garbage just because of insider allocation? There was time when funds bought Proof-of-Work assets from open market, we need to get back
Why centralized exchanges promoted this via listings instead of Proof-of-Work @ergo_platform which security is proven with time by many researchers and hackers ? @Bybit_Official @bitget @krakenfx and others, you have to explain this
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For ideologically motivated developers, @ergo_platform ergo:native is unbeatable. No VCs, team allocations , p2p money and unstoppable money ethos etc .
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A lot of interesting Ergo ecosystem developments recently! Join the main tg chat to discuss current and next possibilities in tooling for self sovereign money creation and trading
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In 2026 , remove complex functionalities, governance etc from your smart contracts. Complexity is the enemy of security
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Crux Finance Trade Beta is live now 🔥 ✅beta.cruxfinance.io/trade #Ergo $ERG
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honestly ergo > cardano and like its because of @chepurnoy single handedly powering through
I keep seeing posts saying that Cardano needs a leader. To some extent, I understand the feeling. Right now there is a lot of distraction in the ecosystem. People are constantly arguing over governance, the treasury, price action, personal beefs, and everything else. But I do not think the problem is a complete vacuum of leadership. In reality, WE ALREADY HAVE LEADERS. You know who they are. Some people want Charles to be the central leader of Cardano again like he was years ago. But if we truly want a decentralized system, we cannot still rely on one person to tell everyone what to do and expect them to magically solve our problems. The truth is that leadership in Cardano is already distributed across the ecosystem. The real question is how much ownership people are willing to take. Alex Chepurnoy said this directly about Ergo. He said to take as much ownership of Ergo as possible. I think each of us needs to do the same for Cardano. Take as much ownership and responsibility as possible.
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Ergo blockchain is critical element in building p2p money issuance and unstoppable trust minimized p2p economic interactions
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Ergo is now available on CoinDCX! 🔥 ✅coindcx.com/trade/ERGUSDT #Ergo $ERG
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One day, $ERG / $BTC will rip to the upside, and I’ll be like, yup. #Ergo ⛏️👑
End the Fed for real this time, anon. Tooling is coming. Free banking for everyone!
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End the Fed for real this time, anon. Tooling is coming. Free banking for everyone!
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Overcomplication of generalized vm contracts for 99 % of real world use cases was predicted by Ergo devs back in 2016-17. Simplicity means security.
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The first wave of agent commerce is payments. The second wave is clearing: credit, conditions, receipts, settlement. Ergo isn’t trying to be the checkout button for AI agents. It’s where autonomous work gets paid, proven, and settled. $ERG
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Replying to @BarrySilbert
Awesome! Firo and then Monero bridges are coming timely for uncensorable onramp options, and we in Ergo are preparing a lot of things for fruitful interactions between transparent and private economic circuits
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Non-Interactive Share Proofs (NISPs)are the core innovation of Lithos Protocol. They allow miners to prove their work without constant interaction with a pool server, enabling true decentralization. What are NISPs? NISPs are cryptographic proofs that demonstrate a miner has performed valid proof-of-work. Unlike traditional pool shares, NISPs can be verified on-chain without requiring trust in a central pool operator. 
Non-Interactive: No real-time communication with pool required

Verifiable: Smart contracts can validate proofs on-chain

Trustless: No central authority needed to confirm work
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