ceo @helius — Solana RPCs, APIs & data: helius.dev — bare-knuckle typist
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it is not too late to quit your job to help build the future of money, markets, and capitalism with solana
the window for asymmetric upside won't remain forever
I am hiring sr. engineers, BD, and product at @Helius
requirements: optimist. no belief in WLB. winner.
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the midcurving on SOL comes from a profound cynicism about crypto's future
what's going to happen is that crypto adoption is going to 100x
it will not just be perps, or RWAs, or memes -- it will be all of it
the totality of old finance combined with the weirdness of new finance, at planetary scale
and at that game, Solana is king
to that effect, one framing I've been riffing on: SOL is new money
'new' is a powerful & optimistic word -- it represents possibility and the infinite, rather than marginally optimizing spreadsheet accounting
it is too early in the game to treat novel internet money as it were a derivative of Costco stock. blockchains that scale are barely 2-3 years old
it's 2004, you can opt for JP Morgan or you can go for Apple
neither are wrong, but one is more optimistic
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your transparent blockchain activity is next to get doxed
encrypt, shield, win
Researchers built an AI that doxes any "anonymous" reddit account in under a minutes for $2.
eth zurich and anthropic published a terrifying paper proving that "practical anonymity" on the internet is officially dead.
they built a fully autonomous ai pipeline that takes your pseudonymous posts, extracts your identity signals, searches the web, and figures out exactly who you are. no human investigator needed.
the numbers are actually mindblowing..
- 67% of hacker news users identified correctly
- when the system makes a guess, it is right 90% of the time
- it even unmasked scientists whose interview transcripts were explicitly redacted for privacy
the scariest part? even time doesn't protect you.. they tested users who took a full year break and changed their interests. the ai still matched their old and new profiles with 90% precision. it sees through your persona changes like they aren't even there.
there is no defense against this. the agent splits the work into tiny, benign tasks like "summarizing a profile" or "ranking candidates." no api safety guardrail is going to flag it because no single step looks malicious..
every throwaway account. every "nobody will connect this to me" comment. it’s all just searchable micro-data now.
Community note
Paper shows LLM agents re-ID 67% of tested HN users (LinkedIn-linked then stripped) at 90% precision for $1-4 in minutes. Authors note these easier than typical pseudonymous accounts; lower for careful/Reddit users. Not "any" account.
arxiv.org/abs/2602.16800
decrypt.co/379228/ai-can-…
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mert retweeted
🛡️🛡️🛡️Shielded Zcash transactions are now available in Ledger Wallet desktop 🛡️🛡️🛡️
I personally committed to this one. It took far longer than I expected, but it is now delivered, and that is what matters.
Privacy here is not a server setting. To keep your shielded balance private, the scanning and the transaction building happen on your machine: your unified viewing key is stored locally and is never shared with anyone, including us. That is exactly what made the integration trickier.
When it comes to signing the TX, the ZKP is computed on your machine (it's much faster with Ironwood now 🚀), and then the transaction is signed on your device, on a screen you can trust.
Make sure your Ledger Wallet Desktop and Zcash app are up-to-date, and you're good to interact with Ironwood!
Privacy is normal ✊
Stay safe.
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mert retweeted
Last week Zcash saw its highest transfer volume since 2021, it's second highest week ever, settling over $23B in value.
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mert retweeted
@Helius is hosting a brunch at the Ritz in Singapore for Token, any friends who want to join and talk Solana hmu/ dm!
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mert retweeted
Solana was the 3rd-largest venue for trading spot zcash:native yesterday.
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the number of private transactions increasing in crypto is one of the most pleasing things I've seen this year
crypto's forgotten vision is still alive
Zcash's shielded pool just printed its highest weekly count in over four years and the fourth-highest on record.
Last week: 62,812 private transactions.
The only weeks that have cleared more are the three from the summer-2022 blow-off:
- 135,389 in late June
- 80,732 in early July
- 64,795 in early August
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mert retweeted
Zcash's shielded pool just printed its highest weekly count in over four years and the fourth-highest on record.
Last week: 62,812 private transactions.
The only weeks that have cleared more are the three from the summer-2022 blow-off:
- 135,389 in late June
- 80,732 in early July
- 64,795 in early August
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interesting
in some sense, NEAR could execute what ETH aspired to years ago
i.e., it scaled via sharding & is now acting as the hub between many chains
perhaps with a few tokenomics changes, you could bring back the programmable money dream
monitoring
*mute tweet*
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mert retweeted
Solana Agave 4.3 is here
If all goes to plan, this release will see Alpenglow come to mainnet
- Cutting-edge consensus mechanism
- 150 ms finality
- No more vote transactions
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I'm hiring a Sr. PM
scalable crypto has only existed for 2-3 years
there remains tremendous opportunity, invention, & glory for those who think about product from first principles
at Helius, you'll get a huge platform of products & users to build from
come work with me
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apply at the link below
- great pay
- insanely smart group of coworkers and direct relationship with the founders
- remote
- front-seat to everything on Solana
- extreme autonomy
helius.dev/careers?ashby_jid…
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“Crypto itself has existed since Bitcoin, technically speaking, which has been over a decade. However, programmable blockchains that scale, that are actually usable, have really only existed for maybe three years max.”
“People point to AI, but most people seem to not understand that AI has been around for over 50 years. People have been trying to work on AI since Alan Turing, since before computers even existed.”
“We’re only about two to three years into what’s possible on-chain.”
@mert of @helius at Solana Summit Serbia
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