DEFI OMEGA

DeFi Omega is a coalition of like minded individuals in the crypto space with common goals, values, and objectives.

[DEFI OMEGA @DefiOmega]

@MagicalTux @crypt0e Mark were you ever affected with these, or you spotted it beforehand?

[DEFI OMEGA @DefiOmega]

@gabrielhaines Screw that series, what CT really wants is THE MAX EXTRACTOR!

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

I don't recommend anyone scramble to move their funds to new wallets today. But we should take the risks to cryptography from AI-accelerated math seriously, and minimize our exposure to not just quantum-vulnerable cryptography, but also potentially AI-vulnerable cryptography.

The core new area of risk from this viewpoint is, unfortunately, ML-DSA / FHE / lattices.

(and it's also another reason, along with quantum, why ECDSA might fall even faster than expected, hence the "fresh address" recommendation)

So far most people have been in the mode of thinking "elliptic curves broken, hashes safe, lattices safe". But there is a good chance that the concrete security of lattices will take serious hits from the next two years of AI math.

The basic threat model is: factoring is something that naively takes 2^(n/2) time, but over decades smart people have found and optimized number field sieves, and degraded that to 2^O(n^(1/3)), which is why RSA keys and signatures need to be ~400 bytes (and not 64 bytes). What if there are skeletons in the closet like that, both for elliptic curves and lattices, that we are simply not smart enough to discover - but bots soon will be?

This is a major part of the reason why for the past year ethereum's lean roadmap has been going in the "hash-only" direction: no lattices, no ML-DSA, no Falcon, no lattice-based commitments inside ZK proofs, etc. Signatures in lean ethereum are all hash-based, either WOTS or SPHINCS-.

For signatures and proofs, we already know how to go hash-only. The bigger challenge is for *public-key encryption* - and this goes far beyond blockchains. Secure communication, anonymizing protocols, lots of things need public-key encryption.

And unfortunately there are long-standing mathematical theorems showing why public-key encryption cannot be done with hashes alone. You have to have some kind of trapdoor object that has at least one form of usable "structure" - either group theory (incl. isogenies) or lattices or code-based or potentially in the future even more newfangled and spooky things (local mixing?). But for anything that has structure, you should assume that AI will make at least some progress in breaking that structure. Here, one reasonable inference is that if you want to make something plausibly long-term secure, multiply the key sizes by 10.

To me that's a very plausible world and something not at all extreme to predict. If AI will bring us 50 years of math in 2 years, then that 50 years of math may very plausibly include a "naive factoring -> GNFS" level of improvement to our ability to break lattices. In that world, lattices will still exist, but they will have to be significantly bigger to guarantee the same level of safety.

And at those new larger sizes, hash-based constructions will beat lattice-based constructions on concrete efficiency in every use case where hash-based constructions are possible at all.

Theoretically, of course it's possible that hashes are broken too (eg. P = NP would imply that). But I think P = NP is very unlikely. And intuitively, it's much more likely that a mathematical object has exactly no exploitable structure (like hashes are intended to), than that a mathematical object has exactly ~3 forms of exploitable structure (for elliptic curves: associativity, Schoof, pairings) and not some secret fourth form of structure we have not yet discovered that greatly degrades its security (for elliptic curves, ECDLP and pairing security). Similar for LWE, SVP, RLWE and the zoo of lattice problems.

For this reason, we do not yet see any reason to worry and start padding the byte size of hashes (if we start to worry more, we would pad the round count first before doing anything to the byte size).

Concrete TLDR, my own personal views:

* Hash-based > lattice-based, in those situations where hash-based is possible at all
* For anything lattice-based, be much more paranoid on param sizes. Remember that blockchains are only a small portion of the cryptography story; this point goes far beyond blockchains and applies to eg. access to websites, secure messaging, Tor / VPNs ...
* For privacy protocols, strongly favor NOT putting encrypted notes onchain. Instead, send them offchain through some third-party mechanism.
* If it's not difficult for you, keeping your funds in addresses which have not yet been used to make a transaction is a good idea. If it's easy for you, do it. **But be careful about migrations; I personally have lost more money in botched migrations than I have lost in all hacks combined**.
* For multisig wallets, doing confirmations offchain is better than onchain, because this way the signatures of signer wallets do not get exposed to the public, so if ECDSA falls to AI much faster than expected, at least the multisig "gracefully degrades" to a 1-of-1 where the 1 is whoever was gathering the signatures - a much better place to be than "anyone can take the money"
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[Gabriel M Haines @gabrielhaines]

Presenting the official trailer for THE MAX EXTRACTOR

[CRG @MacroCRG]

few thoughts on $PEPE

I believe its put in a long term, multi year bottom this year

560 days from the top to the recent June low

PEPE is a lindy meme. it's widely loved. great ETH beta. its liquid, does tons of volume

tens of thousands of memes launch every day and go to 0. sure a few runners spawn out of the graveyard of shit. but i think this cycle, big money will bid the liquid, lindy memes

can see this trading back to all time highs with enough patience. i have a bag

[DEFI OMEGA @DefiOmega]

@gabrielhaines Hell yes!

[DEFI OMEGA @DefiOmega]

@binji_x @gabrielhaines It’s going to be amazing

[DEFI OMEGA @DefiOmega]

SEC Chairman speaking live on crypto and #bitcoin

[FordhamLawCrypto @FordhamCrypto]

Remarks from @ChairmanSelig at the 6th Annual @FordhamLawNYC Blockchain Regulatory Symposium on 10.5.26. https://t.co/wNuOgzvcMx

[Gabriel M Haines @gabrielhaines]

I wanted the world of crypto to feel authentic, so I had to show the actor and crew exactly how it’s done.

The Max Extractor trailer drops tomorrow.

[DEFI OMEGA @DefiOmega]

@gabrielhaines @MaxExtractorTV

[Gabriel M Haines @gabrielhaines]

2 days till the Max Extractor trailer

[DEFI OMEGA @DefiOmega]

@gabrielhaines 🔥

[Mike Selig @ChairmanSelig]

🚨BIG news ahead. Tune in below at 11:45am ET.

[The ₿itcoin Therapist @TheBTCTherapist]

Head of Macro at Fidelity, btw

[DEFI OMEGA @DefiOmega]

@tenuousgrail @JosephKahn It’s a fantastic film. Ignore the critics

[DEFI OMEGA @DefiOmega]

@travishelwig @JosephKahn Absolutely!

[Paul Atkins @SECPaulSAtkins]

Since the advent of Bitcoin in 2008, the crypto asset market has grown from a niche curiosity into a multi-trillion-dollar asset class to which investors actively seek exposure. Unfortunately, our rules and regulations have not kept pace.

To that end, today’s proposal would provide a clear regulatory framework for the custody of crypto assets, giving investment advisers and funds a compliant pathway where none existed before—and replacing the grey of uncertainty created by custody rules crafted for a bygone era.

[Matt Hougan @Matt_Hougan]

The Fed is citing stablecoin demand as an offset for China selling Treasuries.

The entire stablecoin ecosystem is going much, much higher.

[DEFI OMEGA @DefiOmega]

@DreadBong0 $1000 will happen eventually