i know we're sick of talking about infra and everything
but when you learn a language you're so sick of learning grammar
and the day you're actually fluent, suddenly you get to not think about grammar anymore
we're not zk fluent yet
we need infra
say what you want about me, but i'll let history be the judge. on the day that the world's most powerful leader threatened world annihilation, you better believe i was working my ass off to do b2b SaaS
When people ask how to avoid hacks I usually recommend having 2 separate devices. One “daily driver” with 0 funds that never touches a blockchain and then a completely separate, dedicated computer used exclusively to also not touch blockchains. I don’t recommend using blockchains
Just wrapped EthCC, Stable Summit & Vault Summit.
The takeaway: privacy needs to become a packaged, sellable product. The demand is there, the gap is real.
• Institutions aren't asking "what is blockchain" anymore. They're asking "what do I build with it"
• #1 gap in the market: being compliant AND private with seamless user experience on public chains. Apollo put out an open call for exactly this.
• Selective disclosure is the unlock. Institutions can use public permissionless blockchains without the transparency problem that's been blocking them.
• Tokenization of everything is loud, but liquidity doesn't follow automatically. The lending/yield problem is still unsolved.
• Agentic economy is the talk of the season, and onchain cost efficiency is the real infrastructure question.
This is exactly where Hyli plugs in: selective disclosure and compliant layer for DeFi.
One headline from the room: there was clear alignment that DeFi can strengthen Europe’s competitiveness, capital markets, and European digital sovereignty.
Yesterday in Cannes, at the margins of @EthCC , @BlockchainforEurope and @Aave co-hosted a closed-door roundtable: DeFi and EU Policy Goals: Fit or Friction?
Privacy in regulated finance is all about controlling what is visible, to whom, and when.
On public blockchains, every transaction is a permanent signal.
Treasury flows, client relationships, operating patterns are all exposed to anyone watching.
This is a structural problem.
Regulated actors do not need full anonymity.
They need confidentiality by default, with auditability on demand.
And under MiCA and GDPR, EU institutions need it more than ever.
Selective disclosure makes that possible: a transaction stays private to the public, verifiable by the network, and auditable by authorized parties when required.
A well-designed system lets institutions configure privacy policies per application or contract, rather than forcing a single mode on everything.
"The level of professionalism I expect from our team includes, at a minimum, reading the content of the PR you send AND understanding it. If you expect a team member to put in effort in review, you MUST review with equal or greater rigor prior to submitting it.
Your job is to think, not to delegate thinking to Claude. I can prompt Claude without you. I will begin asking people about contents of PRs they send that look suspiciously AI shaped. If you do not know its contents, you will need to explain why you are deliberately wasting your team's time with carelessness and disrespect."