Justin Drake

@justindrake

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I have a favour to ask. My Telegram account has been partially restricted for weeks. I can't create groups or send DMs unless it's a reply. This is significantly affecting my coordination work. Radio silence from Telegram support—tried all channels I could find. For context I got restricted after creating a dozen or so groups titled "[zkVM vendor] + ethproofs.org". I'm guessing putting a link in the group names was the big mistake. If someone could help me get in touch with a Telegram insider I'd be extremely grateful :)

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I greatly enjoyed this episode with the new Bitcoin Suisse podcast. We touched on many topics related to ETH the asset and economics more broadly. https://youtu.be/lrFgjOc_Gkw

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A new book on hash-based SNARKs is out! snargsbook.org The book is a comprehensive treatment of the foundations of hash-based SNARKs. Definitions, theorem statements and proofs are rigorously covered from first scratch. A monumental effort by Ale Chiesa and Eylon Yogev—the fundamentals have never been stronger :)

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intersubjective -> intersub intersub faults intersub truth intersub token intersub security intersubly verifiable intersubly attributable intersubly slashable intersubly forkable

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SNARK ASICs are real :) https://youtu.be/URCH2d1cdyg

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Who are the best people at the intersection of AI engineering and crypto?

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my MEV agenda before ETH London :) * March 12: mev.market * March 13: Ethereum sequencing and preconfs roast * March 14: talk on shared sequencing at Pragma https://ethglobal.com/events/london2024 * March 15: chain abstraction workshop https://lu.ma/CA-standards-workshop-london

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1.5h technical presentation and Q&A on shared sequencing, decentralised preconfirmations, and based sequencing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eycLQCaqDsk

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BitVM gives 1-of-whitelist optimistic rollups on Bitcoin with 2-way BTC bridges. Defi and restaking can be replicated with BTC. Imagine: * BitDA like EigenDA, boosting DA past 4MB/10min * BitFG like FFG, boosting security past PoW Wait, it's all about monetary premium? Always has been. 🌎👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

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At first it was just Taiko. In the last couple weeks two more projects embraced based sequencing—announcements coming :) As awareness grows and design details flesh out, projects seriously consider based sequencing.

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Shared sequencing is to execution what danksharding is to DA. Danksharding: removes asynchrony across data shards shared sequencing: removes asynchrony across VMs With both we can fix Ethereum fragmentation.

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Four 2024 technical breakthroughs towards fixing Ethereum fragmentation: 1) Removing the need for a hard fork for based preconfirmations. 2) Espresso making their shared sequencer compatible with based sequencing. 3) Polygon releasing execution aggregation techniques. 4) Accseal releasing the first SNARK proving ASIC.

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Yesterday we had the first community call on Ethereum sequencing and preconfirmations—recording coming Monday!

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the Ethereum Foundation research team will host a Reddit AMA on Jan 10 at 1pm UTC questions can be submitted now :) https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/191kke6/ama_we_are_ef_research_pt_11_10_january_2024/

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New ethresearch post on based preconfs! IMO the missing puzzle piece for based rollups to win out :) The native Ethereum L1 sequencer is shared, decentralised, and available today! It's also the most natural, secure, simple, aligned, credibly-neutral sequencer. https://ethresear.ch/t/based-preconfirmations/17353/2

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The new due diligence process to join the Lido relay whitelist is surprisingly thorough. Expecting to get the ultra sound relay whitelisted next week.

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TIL: periodically restarting Geth makes it run significantly faster

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An under-appreciated benefit of Geth continuous trie pruning (coming soon™️) is running Geth on a 128GB RAM disk.

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TIL: Geth in a virtualised environment (like AWS or Google Cloud) performs significantly worse than on baremetal (available on OVH and Hertzner). Baremetal is also cheaper.

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the Ethereum Foundation research team will host a Reddit AMA on Jan 11 at 1pm UTC https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/107cqi8/ama_we_are_ef_research_pt_9_11_january_2023/

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