The news is out! Couldn't be more excited to announce that I'm back in the ring as a builder. Coming on as a co-founder to @0xMiden with our $25M seed fundraise being co-led by @a16zcrypto , @1kxnetwork , and @hack_vc . I spoke to what must have been over a 100 projects in the past few months, but nothing came close to being nearly as exciting as what this team is building. My co-founder @bobbinth is genuinely the most impressive person I've met in Web3 in the 13 years I've spent in this space. And this is no exaggeration. Brilliant, humble, and hustles like no other. Vitalik brought him into Web3 and got him working at the EF years ago on zk, then he went to Meta where he led the zk team, and is a Polygon cofounder as well. When I say the most impressive, I mean it. Privacy, scalability, and decentralization, with the ability to offer compliance. That's what separates Miden from just another blockchain. And we're going to be bringing institutions on chain with this. If you're a builder in this space, I'd love to hear from you. My DMs are open.

I’m the one twice over, I’m the new eleven.

Institutional privacy matters more than ever. Great conversations today on why at the Ethereum Institutional Summit

We co-designed Guardian alongside @0xMiden to solve private-state coordination and recovery without giving up custody. Great to see it behind Bread, a wallet where sending, swapping, and receiving stay off the public chain by default.

Mainnet soon!

"Could've cost millions." That's how @trailofbits refers to a bug they found in the Miden VM core library. The key word is could've, because they found it, and fixed it. Here’s how a leading security auditor tested our systems from the ground up.

Unless you’re on a keto diet, get you some bread 🥖

I strongly believe that getting digital assets into everyday finance requires spending more time with the people we’re building for. That means listening to what banks, fintechs, and regulators actually need from this technology. I’m in Jordan this week to speak at Jordan FinTech Festival, hosted by the Central Bank of Jordan at the King Hussein Bin Talal Convention Centre by the Dead Sea. The festival brings together central bank leaders, regulators, financial institutions, and technology companies from across the region and beyond. I’m looking forward to hearing how they’re driving innovation in their markets, where they see opportunities for digital assets, and what they need from those of us building the infrastructure. Thank you to Jordan FinTech Festival for the invitation. Looking forward to sharing my perspective and taking home a few new ones.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

One of the most interesting things over the past year has been watching two conversations happen in parallel. On one side, people are talking about crypto and privacy, and recognizing that there is no real path to mass adoption if everything we do financially is public. I agree. At the same time, there is a growing conversation around AI and crypto. The idea is that AI agents will use crypto wallets rather than opening bank accounts at JPMorgan, allowing them to transact and eventually act autonomously. I think that is right too. What has been missing is bringing those two conversations together. If AI agents are going to act on our behalf, or eventually act autonomously, we should not accept a world where every financial action they take is visible on a public ledger. Nor should privacy mean handing the most intimate details of our financial lives to an AI controlled by a single company whose incentives may not always align with ours. Privacy, crypto, and AI are not three separate conversations. They are increasingly the same one. And when you put that Venn diagram together, you get a pretty good picture of what we are building at @0xMiden.

Earlier this week at @money2020_me, we had a conversation about what happens as AI moves from being a financial assistant to becoming a financial decision-maker. The distinction I kept coming back to was advice versus agency. Today, AI mostly gives us recommendations and waits for us to act. Increasingly, we’ll express an intent and an AI agent will act on it, moving money, paying bills, rebalancing portfolios, and potentially borrowing or investing on our behalf. For decades, financial infrastructure has largely been built around the assumption that a human initiates a transaction. I don’t think that assumption survives the next decade. Once AI can transact, the questions change. What is it allowed to know? What is it allowed to do? When does it need our approval? How do we revoke its authority? The technology can become smarter and finance more automated, but humans still need to control what the machine knows, what it can do, and where its authority ends.

The doomerism about AI is a boring trope and overplayed hand at this point. AI in our lives doesn’t have to be a binary of taking over the world or being a dumb version of Wikipedia that agrees with everything we say. As it evolves, we need to create guardrails around its activity to best protect the humans it’s working on behalf of. That’s why we built Guardian. Go do your memecoin shit somewhere else. Here at Miden we’re here to show you how the actual future of agents on chain will look. Seamless, private, and acting in our best interests. Thanks to @MTSlive for having me on to chat about this. And even more thanks to the amazing @sophiadew for being the best host😄.

So great when the right people get the spotlight. Before I knew I was a hidden hustler, @azeemk spotted the hidden hustler in me.

“There’s a very big difference between what we’re hearing about in the headlines and what’s actually going on behind closed doors in the boardroom.” @azeemk, Co-Founder of @0xMiden, at ETHConf on The Missing Pieces for Institutional Adoption.

Generate client side proofs on an iPhone. Post quantum secure. Public and Private txs. Under the hood the wallet is running the Miden zkVM and proving that your account did a valid state change without revealing private state of your account. The network verifies the proof.

“That path toward eclecticism hasn’t brought him riches, but it has brought him a happiness his teenage self would be proud of. “I've met basically every celebrity I would have dreamed of. I had dinner with Spike Lee. I've met Denzel Washington, Jay Z, Beyoncé, Colin Kaepernick. I've played FIFA with Romelu Lukaku. I've met Drake. Kanye West owes me money. It's been a genuinely cool life.” theindex.site/cryptos-renais…

Honestly, when it comes to visuals, there’s only one team in this whole industry who I respect. Everyone on here talks about taste a lot, but none of you have it, so we’re here to show you what it looks like when you do. Get you some bread..

Today, we’re announcing Bread, a new wallet for using crypto privately on Miden.

RT @schmiddominik1: This looks like an ordinary wallet, but you would not believe how much thought and brainpower went into it. Under the…