13 years ago I left academia to become a founder. My last research paper on language models ended with an open conjecture that I never found the time to pursue. tud.qucosa.de/landing-page/?… Today I gave that paper to ChatGPT. What surprised me was that it quickly connected my conjecture to areas of mathematics I had never thought to combine: branching processes, Perron–Frobenius theory, and analytic combinatorics. The problem had been sitting at the intersection of several fields. Those connections turned out to be the key. They led to a proof of the conjecture and a much deeper understanding of why it is true. We proved that these models undergo a remarkable phase transition: every non-critical model makes very long sentences exponentially unlikely, but exactly at the critical boundary that exponential decay disappears and becomes a universal power law. github.com/TorstenStueber/Yi… The irony is hard to miss: my last academic paper was about language models. Fourteen years later, it was finally completed with the help of one. The recent breakthroughs of AI in mathematics suddenly feel very personal.

I am honored to have been invited to give the international keynote at NEON Alagoas 2026, one of Brazil's largest innovation events with 30k people. My talk: how AI and blockchain will reshape business over the next decade. June 12, Maceió 🇧🇷 doity.com.br/neon2026

We were honored to welcome @torstenmove, Director of Platform Engineering at @paritytech, to the Protocol Builders Program last Friday. His lecture gave our students the opportunity to learn directly from those building the future.💡🎓

Nine years ago I wrote a cryptographic library in WebAssembly completely by hand, including Ed25519, SHA512, XSalsa20, Poly1305: github.com/TorstenStueber/Tw… I just realized today that it has been cited in academic research: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/32903… Nice!

🎉 We’re live! Revive smart contracts have officially launched on @Polkadot. EVM compatibility, PVM performance, shared infrastructure with native access to Polkadot features, now in production. Full launch update here: forum.polkadot.network/t/rel…

Quick update: the Polkadot upgrade will take place one week later, on the 27th of January. We decided to bundle this upgrade with a block time reduction to 2 seconds.

After months of intense work, our @Polkadot smart contract platform "Revive" is entering its final release phase. We’re excited to share a detailed status update and concrete release dates here: forum.polkadot.network/t/rev…

This marks the beginning of a new era for @Polkadot. Read more about its philosophy about human-centric technology and products that belong to people instead of corporations.

The recording of my @Polkadotsub0 talk is live. It’s a straight explanation of @Polkadot Hub and our novel execution layer "Revive": what we built, why it matters, and how it reshapes the developer experience. If you’re building on Polkadot, watch this. piped.video/kj1Be3_r8z0

Un résumé de ce que nous avons compilé pour vous cette semaine à Sub0 Symbiosis. Parmi les nombreux conférenciers : @gavofyork (3 talks), @torstenmove (@paritytech), @Mick_Republik (@MandalaChain ), @seunlanlege (@hyperbridge) et bien d’autres.

This month at the @StakingSummit in Buenos Aires I presented how @Polkadot Hub will remove many boundaries of yield strategies today and will unlock new DeFi use cases.

Great summary about our smart contract platform for @Polkadot.

Just gave a talk at @Web3summit in the legendary Funkhaus on smart contract VMs, the hidden engines of web3. Recording here: piped.video/fmAwSFFV68c Grateful for the all the amzing conversations and wonderful people at this conference.

Thrilled to be speaking at Web3 Summit this year! I’ll be diving into the hidden engines of Web3, smart contract virtual machines, and how new designs like PolkaVM are pushing their limits.

Now and then reinventing the wheel isn’t a waste. It’s how you learn, avoid bloated dependencies, and drive real innovation. Great article on why we should do it more often. endler.dev/2025/reinvent-the…

It was a pleasure to join some of the brilliant minds at @paritytech today to give the @Polkadot community a deeper look at Ethereum-compatible smart contracts coming to Polkadot. Exciting times ahead!