Ethereum

Helios is becoming a multichain light client for Ethereum.

Light clients are fundamental to Ethereum scaling. A future with thousands of rollups doesn’t feel far away, and the closer we get, the more critical rollup interoperability will become.

🧵👇

Honey, wake up the kids! A new Helios has dropped.

Music

https://youtu.be/pgz6PnHkmpY?si=qXI7IvZpO6Gre-nV

Absolute banger. Enough said.

I’m excited to announce @a16zcrypto is leading the $9M Series A round in /daylightenergy! 🔆 Daylight is building a decentralized protocol to fund & coordinate distributed energy resources.

Daylight will initially sell distributed energy resource (DER) data to energy companies. It plans to enable anyone to build a virtual power plant, with access to info about DERs & the ability to control their deployment.

Imagine a home with solar panels, an electric vehicle battery, & a smart thermostat. Daylight lets the homeowner capture & sell data from those devices to energy companies to better manage the grid.

Co-founder & CEO @jasonbadeaux is a leading expert on decentralized network design for the physical world. Along with co-founders @powertrader and Udit Patel, they've built a crack team of energy grid operators, smart contract engineers, and domain experts.

We’re thrilled to help Daylight build a better & more decentralized energy grid! https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/investing-in-daylight/

Huge news! Congrats to @jasonbadeaux and the entire Daylight team. A fantastic example of why we're excited about DePIN in distributed energy, and it's just the start. Excited to watch Daylight grow!

I'm excited to share Good Bread by Greg, a mini onchain bakery for onchain summer!

How it works:
- Order bread on Base (starts today)
- Pick up your brand and hang out in NYC (starts this weekend)

Let's get this bread 🍞 https://goodbread.nyc?ref=farcaster

I’ve had the pleasure of hanging out with @greg and getting to try his banana bread. I wasn’t even hungry and ate four pieces. 

Do yourself a favor if you’re in nyc… go get some 🔥 bread and bring an extra pair of socks because that bread will knock yours off.

I like baking /goodbread and building apps on web3 protocols. DevRel @ ENS Labs. gregskril.com

EthCC

Just listened to @colludingnode’s funny and insightful talk at modsum, including some nifty folding schemes.

Highly recommend checking out “Lightnodes Everywhere: Why and How?” when it drops on YouTube.

Subjectivocrat, Lunarpunk, Eschatologist | engineer @ Celestia

Farcaster

All these Farcaster tipping currencies are basically sovereign rollups using Farcaster as a DA layer with trusted bridges to an L2.

An odd consequence of this is that since Farcaster does not produce a canonical ordering, tipping is subject to double spends until the token is "bridged" to the L2.

teddit

lightclients

Do you hate trusting centralized RPC providers?

Do you wish you could have nearly the security of a full node right from your phone?

Then /lightclients is the place for you.

Do you want to learn a lot from THE MAN behind Helios and Magi?

Do you wish @ncitron.eth would honor you with his presence?

If you’re cool you’ll join /lightclients

building open source public goods @a16zcrypto

Food

Do we think @greg should start an onchain bakery? For those of you who haven't tried his banana bread, you're really missing out.

Wrote something about zkTLS.

95% of Internet traffic uses the TLS protocol, it enables communication between 2 parties, but you don't control that data

zkTLS returns data verification to its rightful owner (you) making the Internet interoperable. Read ⬇️

Wrote something about zkTLS.

95% of Internet traffic uses the TLS protocol, it enables communication between 2 parties, but you don't control that data

zkTLS returns data verification to its rightful owner (you) making the Internet interoperable. Read ⬇️
https://paragraph.xyz/@vinny/opacity-network-deepdive

Fabric

excited to announce Hypersummer, an onchain creative bundle from @hypersub, launched in collaboration with @base’s Onchain Summer

.001eth/week. 4 weeks only. all proceeds to @standwithcrypto

read more below
https://hypersub.withfabric.xyz/s/hypersummer-19fpayzyas5c0

The one and the only @nonlinear.eth launching a fantastic bundle that goes to a great cause. Check out Hypersummer!

eigenlayer

Professional updates for the Farcaster folks :)

I’m happy to share I’ve joined Eigen Labs as a DevRel Engineer focused on 
EigenDA (eigenda.xyz) where I'll be working closely with @dabit3 🐐
 
EigenDA is an essential piece and a catalyst for a future where decentralization = scaling. Opening the door for a new host of possibilities. 

Built on top of /eigenlayer which has created app store moment for innovation, this time the future is built on a permissionless, secure layer with strong commitments.

If you or a loved one needs DA, my dm's are open 🤝. Catch you around ETHCC 🇧🇪

One of the great developers and even better guy. Ran into @mane at the zk compute @archetype event last month-- EigenLabs is lucky to have him.

EigenDA DevRel - onchain thinker and sharer of information
~
Prev @ intuition.systems

early stage crypto fund accelerating the decentralized future · /archetype

NYC is a global crypto hub, home to some of the industry's most iconic companies and the destination for a constant inflow of builders

We wanted to make it simpler for everyone here to find and collaborate with each other

So we built MEMPOOL.NYC

Check it out and add your company if it isn't already there!

Huge shout-out to @dberenzon @0xfunk @katiewav @ash whole @archetype team for putting this together. Still have to add EV3 to the list, but i'm sure it's coming up ;)

netizen @archetype; ex-@coinbase; /aapi

katiechiou.xyz

Consumer Crypto

Opacity

95% of Internet traffic uses the TLS protocol which enables communication between 2 parties (like you + your bank) but your bank controls access to your data

zkTLS returns your data to its rightful owner (you) making the Internet interoperable. Read ⬇️

https://paragraph.xyz/@vinny/opacity-network-deepdive

Check it out! I wrote some stuff about TLS systems, how they work and the work @eulerlagrange.eth is doing at Opacity. Will unlock a ton of consumer use-cases, let me know what you think.

Working on building zkTLS infra/products. A ruthless empiricist and meme connoisseur.

/opacity
/eulerlagrange

Check it out! I wrote some stuff about TLS systems, how they work and the work @eulerlagrange is doing at Opacity. Will unlock a ton of consumer use-cases, let me know what you think.

95% of Internet traffic uses the TLS protocol which enables communication between 2 parties (like you + your bank) but your bank controls access to your data

zkTLS returns your data to its rightful owner (you) making the Internet interoperable. Read ⬇️

cryptography

Wrote something nifty about DA. Check it out and let me know what you think! Huge thanks to @ncitron.eth and @eulerlagrange.eth. Stay tuned for more writing coming out soon.

https://warpcast.com/vinny/0x2935fa04

Wrote something up. Check it out! let me know what you guys think :)

With EIP4844 and all these non-native DA solutions, thought it would be good to write something about it. Check it out, feedback welcome!

Wrote something nifty about DA. Check it out and let me know what you think! Huge thanks to @ncitron.eth and @eulerlagrange. Stay tuned for more writing coming out soon.

Hello fellow zk enjoyers. I'll be helping out to host the /zk channel along with all the other wonderful hosts.

A little bit about me: I spend most my time working on open source software, including the snazziest prover, Jolt. Outside of zk I work on projects related to light clients and L2s.

If you're in the US, care about crypto and have 10 minutes, calling or emailing your congressperson and senators is actually pretty helpful.

FIT21 would be a huge win for anyone building in crypto.

https://www.standwithcrypto.org

I know we’re busy with life and all, but spend the 10 minutes and do this. Please.

Base

In case you missed it, here's our latest podcast episode w/ 
@jessepollak from @coinbase & @base.

Topics covered:
- Scaling Ethereum
- Rollups vs. bridges
- Winning product vs. winning market
- Futarchy
& more
@hackr @ncitron.eth
https://web3-with-a16z.simplecast.com/episodes/base-jesse-pollak-layer-two-rollup-onchain

@ncitron.eth AND @jessepollak in one convo!! It’s like Christmas in May :))

Amateur math nerd. investing & research @EV3Ventures. Dislike lemon Starburst.