Federico Carrone

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Vitalik Buterin

In apps, 80%+ of the difficulty is in figuring out which apps actually make sense to build. I think this is why a generalized pitch of "we need apps" gets applause from pragmatist types but ultimately leads to no action - if our vision for the world is "WE WANT STUFF HAPPENING ON OUR CHAIN!", that's very uninspiring. Meanwhile, specific categories of apps are starting to do well! Lots of progress in zk identity and zk social, all kinds of interesting stuff in info finance. I think if we want more apps, a more definite-optimist approach where we talk about specific types of apps and what kind of world they will lead to will be much more effective.

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Leon Waidmann | Onchain Insights

Ethereum L2s are beating L1s on fees! ⚡ Polygon: $0.006 Arbitrum: $0.015 Solana: $0.019 With the Dencun upgrade, Ethereum's Layer-2 solutions are now cheaper than some of the top Layer-1s. The race for dominance in DeFi and dApps is heating up! 🔥

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Announcement day for @getclave

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Stable enough, but imperfect! 90%+ of maintainers are from AMER/EU/AUS. I'd love to see clients emerge in other parts of the world (shout out to Lambda Class, here!) and recognize many ways in which ACD is set up make that hard. Funding-wise, I think it's great to have teams with different incentives/org types.

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Federico Carrone

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Thanks Tim! We’re working as fast a possible to have a production grade new consensus client. Mid of this year we will start working on the execution client!

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Federico Carrone

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I love how Polygon ZK teams are pushing the industry forward, particularly with plonky3.

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Indeed we are... And quite well too...

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Federico Carrone

@federicocarrone

a) you can find a similar number of problems in pairing based snarks b) you can use more bits to have more proven bits, it doesn’t change much the proving time you have billions of dollars running over starks/fri. would love to know how you can hack practically hack them. people would pay a lot for that info 😊.

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Federico Carrone

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correct. fri is what people are using right now in prod for a reason.

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Fantastic write up! Thank you for sharing this.

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So excited to organize the ZK Mini Summit at ETHDenver 👩🏻‍💻 @zac-aztec, Benedikt from @espressosys, @jasonmorton, @portport and others will dive into different topics on zero knowledge ☁️ We’re giving away our ZKP ELI5 book 🎁 https://warpcast.com/zksyncdevs/0xb8c4b729

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Federico Carrone

@federicocarrone

We wrote a new blog post about how we view the development of Zero-Knowledge Proofs. https://blog.lambdaclass.com/our-highly-subjective-view-on-the-history-of-zero-knowledge-proofs/

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What can’t outperform this

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Federico Carrone

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stealing robik meme

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The PR implements the fast CIOS method for Montgomery multiplication saving 7-15% on field multiplication time on ARM. https://github.com/privacy-scaling-explorations/halo2curves/pull/134 Thanks to the PSE team for the great library and rapid assist with the PR!

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lambdaworks. would love to help in any way.

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Calling all ML developers, data scientists, and ZK builders! Join Gizathon and Build ML Models for Web3, with Giza’s tools for ZKML. 📅February 19th - 26th 🏆$10,000 prize pool 📍Online Register here: https://764trmbrrb1.typeform.com/to/ApNFyqgm https://twitter.com/gizatechxyz/status/1755986306625089550

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SNARKs on ARM just got ~10% faster. The primary operation in a SNARK is mul between field elements – maybe 80% of total CPU time. These 50-70 assembly instructions run repeatedly on different inputs to create proofs. We upstreamed a PR to halo2curves to shorten this hot path.

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Federico Carrone

@federicocarrone

New Lambda post about ZK. How does Basefold polynomial commitment scheme generalize FRI https://blog.lambdaclass.com/how-does-basefold-polynomial-commitment-scheme-generalize-fri/

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Federico Carrone

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farcaster @farcaster client has been started internally at Lambda. Gonna share updates in the upcoming weeks.

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