To acquaintances: given recent impersonators, I remind you that I will never write to you unless I met you in real life (and generally, I don't write to people often), and will never ask you to download any software or execute commands, or anything of the sort. I have several skills, but Chinese is not among them. I also don't send any files, photos or things of the sort. Beware of scammers. If you bump into someone saying it's me, it“s definitely not me
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Thanks @drakefjustin for sitting down with us to discuss your vision and roadmap for Ethereum. Really enjoyed the conversation. We have a lot of confidence in your leadership and in Ethereum’s future.
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Lambdaclass PropAMM Router new audited version, now live on mainnet. Same address, same interface. Access all ethereum PropAmm liquidity, with JIT requoting for optimal swaps and spoofing protection. Full write-up: blog.lambdaclass.com/lambdac…
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i believe most engineering teams working on core ethereum will disappear over the next 3 years. there is no real money to be made there, and nowadays there isn't even that much status to gain from doing it. AI changed the landscape pretty fast because implementing a client is simply not as difficult as it used to be. i actually think this is good for ethereum users and stakers. most crypto engineering teams outside ethereum will disappear even earlier. lambda's biggest strategy is to just keep doing what we are doing while most people eventually vanish from crypto. there aren't many teams with lambda's combination of expertise in cryptography, compilers, security, consensus and performance, together with the connections we have across corporations and startups. we're finding different ways of making money from the connections and expertise we have across aligned and lambda. i also don't think there are going to be many fundamentally new use cases beyond the ones we already know. what will happen instead is that ethereum will become the financial backend for a large part of international payments and fx. there are almost no economic incentives to be a core dev, and i don't think donations from ETFs or similar mechanisms will fundamentally change that in the long run. the reason is that it doesn't make sense to keep pouring money into large groups of people that don't produce that much. most of the work that actually needs to be done is researching new ideas, testing them and implementing them well. the ethereum spec will likely end up being written in lean, and lean may eventually become one of the main implementations too. there won't be a need for so many independent engineering teams, apart from having enough competition to keep progress moving quickly. the problem today is that many of the existing engineering teams have very little incentive for the system to change too much or too fast. most people on CT believe the EF is the main thing blocking progress in ethereum. it's true that for a few years after the merge, i think research progress stagnated and we weren't bold enough outside of ZK research. most of my criticism towards the EF was related to its size and the fact that it never prioritized making the UX of ethereum better or spreading the gospel to corporations and governments. now there are multiple new organizations doing this, so we're fine. nowadays i believe engineering teams are the biggest bottleneck preventing ethereum from becoming faster and better. the EF is actually the one pushing things forward. most engineering teams have almost zero economic incentive for things to change dramatically. what ethereum needs is to accelerate the natural consolidation of these engineering teams so that we can push for bigger changes much more aggressively. i hope the EF and CT start realizing this. ethereum won't have a real competitor thanks to: - current network effects - formal verification - minimalism - post-quantum security - privacy - zk becoming stupidly fast, with proofs verifiable on basically any piece of hardware - lean ethereum: new consensus, faster p2p and faster finality, while supporting even more stakers and maximizing decentralization - propamms solving many of the problems around pricing assets and trading on a slower chain like ethereum i don't think solana, tempo, hyperliquid or robinhood have a chance against Ethereum if we just focus on the important things and do the inevitable: remove the bottlenecks that slow progress.
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Very cool! We are doing something similar in Miden. The VM is already migrated to BLAKE3, and we'll have this released in the next few weeks. Interestingly enough, the performance degradation when moving off of Poseidon2 wasn't as dramatic as I thought. Overall, the impact was under 30%.
ZisK v1.3.0-alpha release šŸš€ ZisK is moving beyond arithmetic hashes with BLAKE3 strengthening security while outperforming our prior Poseidon1 version: ⚔ 7.43s p999 on 4Ɨ5090 ⚔ 5.14s p999 on 8Ɨ5090 šŸ›”ļø 128-bit provable security šŸ” Post-quantum secure This is a major step toward faster and safer proving. Release notes: github.com/0xPolygonHermez/z…
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Our team's latest paper, "Experimental Evaluation of Dickson Polynomials as an S-Box for Algebraic Hash Functions", has been officially published in Intelligent Computing (LNNS, vol. 2064, Springer): link.springer.com/chapter/10…
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The Research Center for Cryptography and Distributed Systems just kicked off a new study group, a continuation of their seminar on Coding Theory, Low-Degree Testing, and PIOPs, starting with a session on STARKs. We hosted it at our office, with Lambdaworks team taking part in the discussion. ccsd.uba.ar/
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Excited to see Propia out in the world. Built alongside @alignedlayer, Propia provides public infrastructure for verifying issuer authority, keys, and credential status, enabling verification without needing to call back to the issuer.
Verify a credential without calling the issuer. Propia is a public registry of issuer authority, keys and status. Any verifier can read it, and no personal data goes on it. Built with @class_lambda and @alignedlayer. propia.id/whitepaper
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Verify a credential without calling the issuer. Propia is a public registry of issuer authority, keys and status. Any verifier can read it, and no personal data goes on it. Built with @class_lambda and @alignedlayer. propia.id/whitepaper
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Nuevo León launched NLĆ­nea, its state digital wallet, together with Sovra. šŸ‡²šŸ‡½ NLĆ­nea lets people carry official credentials on their phones and present them when needed, with biometric authentication and verifiable credentials issued by the state. The wallet connects with Nuevo León’s digital service portal, which already brings together 700+ government services. The launch was announced at the 2nd Northeast Regional Meeting, organized by @nuevoleon and @ciapem in Monterrey. Governor @samuel_garcias opened the event, and @Marielasvmx presented the state’s progress in digital transformation. We’re proud to be building NLĆ­nea together with Nuevo León. Thank you to the teams at @nuevoleon for the trust and collaboration that made this possible, and to our partners at @class_lambda and @alignedlayer for helping build the infrastructure behind it. A meaningful step toward a more digital, accessible government. šŸ‡²šŸ‡½
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Proud to see a new digital identity wallet going live today in BogotĆ”, part of the infrastructure we've been building together with @alignedlayer for @sovraio and Propia. The wallet creates smart accounts with sponsored transactions on Sovra Chain, an Ethereum L2 running on @ethrex_client. It's especially nice to see this go live because it brings together a lot of the technology we've been working on for the last few years: from the execution client, to the rollup, to the wallet infrastructure. Having all those pieces working together also means we can keep almost the entire stack in house. This is the kind of real-world usage we build ethrex for. Not a testnet demo, but a live identity system handling real transactions for real citizens. Ethereum technology slowly becoming actual public infrastructure. Full whitepaper on the architecture here: propia.id/whitepaper/
Let’s make identity reusable across the city. Grateful to BogotĆ” for the trust. The SuperApp will give citizens verifiable credentials they control, not another silo. That stack is Propia + SovraWallet, built with @class_lambda and @alignedlayer. An open protocol, @ethereum secured, and a wallet that stays with the person. Thank you @Bogota @ConsejeriaTIC
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The state of Nuevo León, the richest in Mexico, is using @ethrex_client and the @alignedlayer white label solution wallet. Every important government procedure is being built on top of our stack, and millions of procedures every year will be powered by it, all secured with ZK and Ethereum. Congrats @sovraio and @class_lambda. Technology developed by the Ethereum ecosystem becoming infrastructure that millions of people can rely on in their everyday lives. Most citizens may never need to know what runs underneath, but they will benefit from systems that are more secure, transparent, efficient, and verifiable. For the last two years, I’ve been saying that we’re developing multiple solutions that use the technologies Ethereum pioneered to make states more powerful and citizens more free. We're working with multiple strategic partners around the world. Ethereum is not only building a new financial system, it is giving us the tools to build better institutions and better public infrastructure. This is only the beginning. We’ll be sharing much more in the months to come. And a special congrats to @fernandezdiego, our CEO in Sovra, for all the hard work that helped make this possible. We are closing more and more big deals, Diego is a deal making machine. I've learnt so much from you, I'm proud of marching under your command.
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It's happening šŸ’Ŗ
The state of Nuevo León, the richest in Mexico, is using @ethrex_client and the @alignedlayer white label solution wallet. Every important government procedure is being built on top of our stack, and millions of procedures every year will be powered by it, all secured with ZK and Ethereum. Congrats @sovraio and @class_lambda. Technology developed by the Ethereum ecosystem becoming infrastructure that millions of people can rely on in their everyday lives. Most citizens may never need to know what runs underneath, but they will benefit from systems that are more secure, transparent, efficient, and verifiable. For the last two years, I’ve been saying that we’re developing multiple solutions that use the technologies Ethereum pioneered to make states more powerful and citizens more free. We're working with multiple strategic partners around the world. Ethereum is not only building a new financial system, it is giving us the tools to build better institutions and better public infrastructure. This is only the beginning. We’ll be sharing much more in the months to come. And a special congrats to @fernandezdiego, our CEO in Sovra, for all the hard work that helped make this possible. We are closing more and more big deals, Diego is a deal making machine. I've learnt so much from you, I'm proud of marching under your command.
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Congrats to @WillyDuran65 on his new term as dean. Proud of the relationship we've built with the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences. Deep tech needs strong universities, and strong universities need companies that give back. Looking forward to what comes next.
I want to congratulate @WillyDuran65 on his new term as dean of the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires. Willy thanked Francisco Strambini and me, and he also thanked @class_lambda for its contributions and its relationship with the university. I value that a lot. Most people on X have a somewhat wrong image of what Lambda is. Many believe we’re a devshop that works in crypto, when we have dozens of successful products in different industries and most of our core members are mathematicians, physicists, mechanical engineers, chemical engineers, civil engineers and industrial engineers and yes obviously computer scientists and computer engineers. Lambda is and has always been deep tech. If you want to build SaaS (something that we also do), you don’t need to understand what a Koopman operator is, finite element method or what Riemann zeta function is. But if you want to build companies at the frontier of science and engineering, you need people who understand things deeply and can work on hard problems. That’s why Lambda’s relationship with the University of Buenos Aires, with the Faculty of Engineering and particularly with the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences is so important and strategic. For me, the relationship with the university has always been strange and very personal. I’m a college dropout who, more than 15 years later, came back to reform the same degree program I had dropped out of. It’s a strange circle. I left the university without a degree, but part of the university is still shaping the way I think. I spent more than 20 years in the private sector learning how to build companies, products and technology. Now I’m using everything I learned to build a new degree program at the University of Buenos Aires. I want to create an elite of builders who want to innovate. Not an elite based on money, family or status. An elite based on knowledge, work and the ability to turn science and engineering into companies and good public policies. For me, this is not about proving that I never needed the university. It’s the opposite, it’s about giving back, closing a circle and helping create the education that I believe the next generation of builders needs. If we want to create a better world, we need to create companies that are at the frontier of science and engineering and that work with universities and the public sector. We also need to destroy this idea, that part of the left has, that companies go to public universities only to steal their knowledge or to destroy them. Real deep tech companies need strong universities. A deep-tech company has nothing to gain from a weak university. But this works both ways. Universities also need a big and capable private sector with the ability to innovate, turn knowledge into products and give back to the universities that made that innovation possible. Universities have the right environment to do research that is long term and doesn’t depend on the results of the next quarter. This is something that part of the right in Argentina doesn't understand. Companies need the public universtiy that is the one creating the most amount of professionals for our country and doing the best international research. The University needs money to be able to give freedom to researchers to work on difficult problems. Then companies have the ability to turn that research and knowledge into products, jobs and new industries. They have different roles, but they need each other. This shouldn't be an ideological debate but a practical one. Willy and I have our differences, as all good friend have, but we also have a very strong bond. We believe in science. We believe the state should invest in it. We believe this is better for the country, for universities and for companies. It’s a win-win. That’s why I value my relationship with Willy so highly. Even with our differences, we agree on what we want. Thanks Willy and I hope you keep doing an amazing job.
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I want to congratulate @WillyDuran65 on his new term as dean of the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires. Willy thanked Francisco Strambini and me, and he also thanked @class_lambda for its contributions and its relationship with the university. I value that a lot. Most people on X have a somewhat wrong image of what Lambda is. Many believe we’re a devshop that works in crypto, when we have dozens of successful products in different industries and most of our core members are mathematicians, physicists, mechanical engineers, chemical engineers, civil engineers and industrial engineers and yes obviously computer scientists and computer engineers. Lambda is and has always been deep tech. If you want to build SaaS (something that we also do), you don’t need to understand what a Koopman operator is, finite element method or what Riemann zeta function is. But if you want to build companies at the frontier of science and engineering, you need people who understand things deeply and can work on hard problems. That’s why Lambda’s relationship with the University of Buenos Aires, with the Faculty of Engineering and particularly with the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences is so important and strategic. For me, the relationship with the university has always been strange and very personal. I’m a college dropout who, more than 15 years later, came back to reform the same degree program I had dropped out of. It’s a strange circle. I left the university without a degree, but part of the university is still shaping the way I think. I spent more than 20 years in the private sector learning how to build companies, products and technology. Now I’m using everything I learned to build a new degree program at the University of Buenos Aires. I want to create an elite of builders who want to innovate. Not an elite based on money, family or status. An elite based on knowledge, work and the ability to turn science and engineering into companies and good public policies. For me, this is not about proving that I never needed the university. It’s the opposite, it’s about giving back, closing a circle and helping create the education that I believe the next generation of builders needs. If we want to create a better world, we need to create companies that are at the frontier of science and engineering and that work with universities and the public sector. We also need to destroy this idea, that part of the left has, that companies go to public universities only to steal their knowledge or to destroy them. Real deep tech companies need strong universities. A deep-tech company has nothing to gain from a weak university. But this works both ways. Universities also need a big and capable private sector with the ability to innovate, turn knowledge into products and give back to the universities that made that innovation possible. Universities have the right environment to do research that is long term and doesn’t depend on the results of the next quarter. This is something that part of the right in Argentina doesn't understand. Companies need the public universtiy that is the one creating the most amount of professionals for our country and doing the best international research. The University needs money to be able to give freedom to researchers to work on difficult problems. Then companies have the ability to turn that research and knowledge into products, jobs and new industries. They have different roles, but they need each other. This shouldn't be an ideological debate but a practical one. Willy and I have our differences, as all good friend have, but we also have a very strong bond. We believe in science. We believe the state should invest in it. We believe this is better for the country, for universities and for companies. It’s a win-win. That’s why I value my relationship with Willy so highly. Even with our differences, we agree on what we want. Thanks Willy and I hope you keep doing an amazing job.
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New blog post out: what we learned running a 1024-validator devnet In this post, we go through what running our largest Lean Ethereum devnet so far taught us about where the bottlenecks are, and how we can move forward.
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Amazing work from @3miLabs . They always deliver, no matter how hard the task
tl;dr: we present an interpolation attack on 28 out of 31 rounds of Poseidon in practical time via a novel technique for partial round skipping; see ia.cr/2026/1692. šŸ§µā¬‡
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Happy to share the work we've been doing with @sovraio and @alignedlayer on Propia, a public protocol for verifiable digital credentials. Together, we combined institutional experience, protocol design, cryptography and blockchain infrastructure to build Propia: a public protocol for verifiable digital credentials. Check out the whitepaper: propia.id/whitepaper/
Over the past months, Sovra, @class_lambda and @alignedlayer have been working together on Propia, a public protocol for verifiable digital credentials. Propia starts from a simple premise: trust established by one institution should be reusable by others, without requiring shared databases or dependence on a private intermediary. This has become increasingly relevant as AI agents begin to participate in everyday operations. They submit requests, exchange information, authorize transactions and interact with other agents. These interactions need a reliable way to establish who an agent represents, what it is authorized to do and whether the claims it presents remain valid. Rebuilding that verification process within every organization is costly and creates isolated systems. A shared protocol allows credentials to be issued once and independently verified wherever they are needed, including by machines acting on someone’s behalf. For institutions, this means fewer repeated checks, fewer custom integrations and lower operating costs. As more institutions participate, more credentials can be reused and the protocol becomes more useful for everyone. We believe this infrastructure should be open and collectively governed. Today, we are publishing the whitepaper as a public proposal and inviting others to discuss it, improve it and build on it.
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Kudos to the entire @3miLabs team for all the hard work
Sir @TomerAshur from @3miLabs was right! I'm proud of working with Tomer and his amazing team. Smart people that fight for what they believe.
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With our partners @alignedlayer & @class_lambda we have been working on the design and optimizations for the LambdaVM: a post-quantum, RISC-V zkVM for proving @ethereum blocks. Check out their article for an update on its progress:
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