saurabhYaduvanshi

expermenting hedging with event contracts @ascemarket

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Over the past several months, we have substantially hardened the security of our research training environment. We’ve removed live internet access for all frontier models during training and built an offline world for them to use instead—a cached version of the web where they can still learn to browse, search, and use applications.

On September 20, after a model exploited a DNS misconfiguration to find a way outside of this offline world, we paused frontier training to strengthen containment further. We assembled teams of agents, powered by our most cyber-capable models, and tasked them with finding weaknesses in our research environments.

While they found no route to the internet they could easily exploit while concealing their activity from our monitors, they did find zero-day vulnerabilities, virtual machine escapes, and hardware side-channels for communication between agents. We used their discoveries to further strengthen our defenses and contribute fixes to open-source software.

After strengthening our containment architecture, we resumed our frontier RL training and inference on October 1. We’ve reserved substantial compute for continuous red-teaming, and made high-compute red-teaming part of the safety cases we use to decide whether frontier training and evaluation can proceed securely.

https://t.co/EmEZsFRMcF

[saurabhYaduvanshi @0x0saurabh]

I don’t know if I’m gonna make sense here but I think everything in this world has its origin in consciousness. trees, rivers, insects, animals, and humans are all expressions of the same awareness, each at a different frequency. In that sense they are not separate from your own consciousness. human consciousness is simply developed enough to look beyond one plane of reality.
Once you begin to see yourself in everything, you reach a kind of enlightenment that is no longer bound by space and time. The point of being born is to come closer to this truth, and truth is what sets you free.
There are many accounts of saints in India who did things the ordinary mind cannot easily explain: leaving the body at will, moving between different planes of reality. The more I read about them, the more it seemed that these enlightened beings were experiencing god in everything.
So is this a simulation? I do not think so. The spirit is real, and it already knows you: your past lives, and more. You were never truly born, and you never truly die. You were always eternal. I think once we truly understand ‘WHO AM I’ we can get much closer to real truth.

[saurabhYaduvanshi @0x0saurabh]

Tech at its best

[Neuralink @neuralink]

A beautiful surprise

[Derek Chiang | Ethlabs @decentrek]

I'm sad to report that the AA collab between 8130 and 8141 (Frames) broke down last week, and Base and Ethereum are now going separate ways to implement different AA standards.

I want to share some reflections on this collab and on the future of the EVM.

For a long time, the EVM has been a unifying force between L1 and L2s. Thanks to a standard account model (EOA) and a standard transaction type (EIP-1559), users have been able to enjoy their wallets working seamlessly across EVM chains. Similarly, a AA standard shared across L1 and L2s would ensure a consistent multi-chain UX for smart accounts, including post-quantum (PQ) accounts which we will eventually all use.

As the crypto industry matures, however, L1 and L2s are starting to diverge in the values they provide and the use cases they target:

- For the L1, it's all about CROPS -- censorship-and-capture resistance, open source, privacy, and security. In short, Ethereum L1 wants to be the most decentralized programmable settlement layer of the world, which is what makes it a good base layer for L2s in the first place.

- For L2s, it's all about scaling, customization, and compliance -- things that commercial and enterprise use cases demand, and that the L1 does not provide.

These diverging needs have pushed the shared layer -- the EVM -- to its limit, and AA proved to be the breaking point. While L1 and L2s both value core AA use cases such as gasless transactions and passkey wallets, they differ sharply in what these features must comply with:

- For the L1, AA transactions must be uncensorable, private, and quantum-resistant, which call for a transaction type optimized for PQ signature aggregation and privacy protocols, and an account model that can be freely programmed and extended by developers without permissions from the chain. These needs lead to AA standards such as ERC-4337, EIP-7701, and now EIP-8141 aka Frame Transactions.

- For L2s, AA transactions must work at high scale, and they must be legible such that the protocol can enforce clear rules about what kinds of accounts/transactions are permitted vs not. These needs lead to AA standards such as Tempo Transactions and now EIP-8130 by Base.

With the AA collab, the authors of 8130 and 8141 tried to define a shared standard that can work for both L1 and L2s. While we identified a number of technical solutions, they all required one side or the other to compromise at least a little bit on their core goals. But ultimately, Ethereum wanted to be the best version of Ethereum, and Base wanted to be the best version of Base, and while both sides acknowledged the benefits of ecosystem interoperability, it was ultimately secondary to the need for each chain to achieve their core goals. So separate ways we went, putting the burden on wallets to deal with the fragmentation that ensues.

Now, just because we ended up with fragmentation doesn't necessarily mean it was a bad outcome. If reducing fragmentation comes at the cost of homogenizing chains to the point that they fail to solve problems for the users they care about, that would not be a price worth paying. While I was initially sad that the collab did not come to a successful conclusion, I took solace in the fact that both Ethereum and Base are now free to innovate on AA to the maximal extent in accordance with their own visions, unshackled from the need to accommodate the other side. If they execute well, and if the wallet community can bridge over the fragmentation, we may well end up with the best possible UX for the end users.

So where does that leave us -- the broader Ethereum community including Ethlabs -- if we want to continue pushing for a consistent UX across EVM chains? I see two paths forward:

- We can establish a coordination mechanism that encompasses more stakeholders than ACD itself (where only L1 client devs have voting powers), to govern shared L1<>L2 resources such as the EVM. That way, L2s can participate in shaping the EVM, as opposed to having to accept whatever the ACD decides, or being forced to fork if they don't like the decision (such as in this case with Base).

- We can accept that fragmentation of the EVM and wallet UX across L1 and L2s is inevitable due to their conflicting needs, and dedicate our resources to building wallets and applications that can abstract over the differences.

Indeed, the collab was an exercise in the first path -- we invited Base, Arbitrum, and other stakeholders to directly influence how native AA shapes up for the L1. While it ultimately failed in this case, I feel a better outcome could've been achieved if we had established a dialog between both sides way earlier, as opposed to well after L1 core devs had rallied around Frames.

On the other hand, I also learned from this exercise that some differences are unavoidable, and indeed it would be counterproductive to overly pursue interoperability at the cost of differentiation. In other words, we sometimes just gotta let the chains cook. For that reason, I've also become more bullish about the second path -- building wallets and applications that can speak the native transaction types of each chain, and hide the complexity from users through UX abstractions. This puts a lot of onus on the wallet/application developers of course, but on the bright side, it's also an opportunity for wallets/applications to stand out and differentiate, by competing to provide great UX across chains despite the underlying fragmentation.

Ethereum is the art of staying together while remaining different. We must accept that chains will succeed by innovating, and innovations will naturally result in differences. On the other hand, we must never give up on dialogue when we can achieve interoperability without compromising core product goals. As Ethereum and crypto grow to eat the world, the push and pull between innovation and collaboration will only intensify, and it's up to all of us -- builders across L1 and L2s, applications and wallets -- to determine whether diverse innovations will split Ethereum apart, or make it thrive as one.

[Web3LORD🔺 @Unfortunate_95]

the woman in both these pictures is my mother. 😢

one is before cancer. the other is what this disease has done to her.

my mother, Babita Singh, has already fought stage 4 colon cancer once. unfortunately, we are fighting cancer again.

over the years, we’ve spent ₹38L+ ($38000) on her treatment, pooling everything we could from family and relatives. we’ve now reached a point where we’ve exhausted almost everything we had.

[attaching bills + medicines]

we need to raise another ₹10 lakh( $10000) to keep her treatment going. the fundraiser covers 5 lac part of this, and we’re trying to arrange the rest however we can.

if you can help with any amount, i’ll be forever grateful.

👉🏻 fundraiser: (gpay and all, only 5 lac)
https://t.co/gh0nXaiiHk

👉🏻 Fundraising through crypto (only $5k)

solana: [ HwJMgrHnGnDLvWhD8wVPMh6FVCmsHiGJrVRywrLp1hsH

ethereum: [ 0x99Fd581d47213b00b035b95b32deD0cE241902B2 ]

if you can’t donate, please repost this. it might reach someone who can.

feel free to dm me to ask any for any proof, thank you ❤️

[saurabhYaduvanshi @0x0saurabh]

Please donate to people in need in Nepal.
https://t.co/B7xALpNjuv

[binji @binji_x]

DEAR CRYPTO, LETS SHOW THE WORLD WHAT WE ARE MADE OF. DONATE NOW.

The Nepal floods have been devastating, 5,083 people are still missing but the search is still on, and it needs your help. This morning, two workers were pulled out of a hydropower tunnel after nine days underground.

Imagine being their family yesterday, and now imagine being one of the thousands of families tonight who are still waiting.

Every drop counts, and you can help directly.

https://t.co/x5jhurabna

Now let me get a bit more personal, I wrote this in my journal last week:

“My country was ravaged by what can only be described as an apocalyptic flood meets earthquake meets tsunami. It feels very strange being so far from home. It’s hard to think of anything that can even compare in the slightest to what those who perished or witnessed the floods felt; because for that, there is NO precedent, there are no previous videos of such things happening, there are almost no warning signs. It just happened, on a quiet morning, suddenly gargantuan waves filled with tons of debris moving at 200mph overtook entire villages, toppled entire buildings..and, well you’ve seen the footage.

And all I can think of is WTF are we doing? My industry speaks of millions and billions in revenue and hundreds of thousands in paper profits; but the beauty of all of that is that it is powered by a global financial network; one that literally just works and can genuinely help the world.

I’m also sat here thinking who the FUCK cares about all the bullshit we argue about everyday?

Solana donated 160k through a channel made by Polygon, and it just worked. Chains battling pseudo religious battles while thousands have been entirely displaced feels so inconsequential.

We ask which chain will win, but we never ask what will the world win if one does? We conveniently say we are boosting economic freedom but what about when it matters most? Why not reframe progress from real world outcomes instead of charts? Why not become the #1 vessel for relief on any calamity in the world? Why are we simply optimizing to please tech narratives? What about impact we can give to the world TODAY?

We have everything it takes, we just need to do it.”

Well, this is an attempted answer to most of those questions:

https://t.co/x5jhurabna

Special thanks to @sandeepnailwal, @Mudit__Gupta, @Ronak0010, @DianaChimes, @vibhu, and countless others who have spent nights and weekends to help Nepal.

And a major h/t to @0xPolygon

[Newell's Juveniles @NewellsJuvenil]

Gracias, Leo 🇦🇷❤️🖤

[saurabhYaduvanshi @0x0saurabh]

@RShil15177 https://t.co/hPmWJ2WqID building hedging infra for safer finance

[saurabhYaduvanshi @0x0saurabh]

@im_roy_lee

[saurabhYaduvanshi @0x0saurabh]

@AhaanRaizada @base @BasedIndia @baselatam @Based_Africa @Base_EUR @baseapac @BaseBrasil_ 🙋‍♂️ building a hedging product on prediction market rails

[Yadu @Yaduvam]

Krishna slays Shishupala 

by Giampaolo Tomassetti (Jnananjana Dasa)

[saurabhYaduvanshi @0x0saurabh]

@brianyoungilcho @thejessezhang @a16z @speedrun @DecagonAI great read.

[ascemarket @ascemarket]

What number actually hurts your P&amp;L right now?
Borrow rate, funding, gas, ETH price floor/cap, something else?
Reply with the metric and the window. We’re listening.

[saurabhYaduvanshi @0x0saurabh]

@lzminsky with @ascemarket we turns event severity into a continuous protection payout. and Please check you DM ser!

[saurabhYaduvanshi @0x0saurabh]

still think about this a lot.

[kache @yacineMTB]

you can outsource your thinking
but you cannot outsource your understanding

[saurabhYaduvanshi @0x0saurabh]

@hemansh_v_ lmme check , @grok can you cross check and verify about the truth said in this conversation.

[saurabhYaduvanshi @0x0saurabh]

@hemansh_v_ true self here is atman -- not an upgraded, emotionally stronger version of the personal self.