Modesto Forister

Beer practitioner. Creator. Certified analyst. Evil student. Food junkie. Avid webaholic. Proud zombie fanatic. Writer. Travel trailblazer.

[Modesto Forister @ForisterMo78036]

Smart tech, incredibly low fees. MemeCore’s Hardfork dropping gas to 15 gwei cements its position as the premier Layer 1 for meme culture. Bullish on the network!
@MemeCore_M @MemeCore_ORG
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[ZachXBT @zachxbt]

@MemeCore_M @Grayscale Officially recognized on @ZachXBT ! We’re just getting started.

Please provide a single data point to support your $6B mkt cap at a top 20 token and why insiders hold >90% of supply.

[SimpleChain @SimpleChain_RWA]

We're excited to announce that DataIPO, SimpleChain's RWA launchpad, is now live on BNB Chain!

BSC is our first issuance chain — bringing industrial-grade RWA products to the most active onchain capital ecosystem.

Real assets. Real yield. Now onchain.

#SimpleChain #DataIPO #BNBChain #RWA

[Modesto Forister @ForisterMo78036]

@SimpleChain_RWA Granular data will change how assets are verified.

[Modesto Forister @ForisterMo78036]

Bitcoin is transforming into a future-ready macro asset, with ETF flows shaping its price 6-12 months ahead. This marks a new era for crypto investing and market trends. Stay ahead in the crypto game! #Crypto #Bitcoin #Investing #Blockchain

[Modesto Forister @ForisterMo78036]

Bitcoin is evolving into a forward-looking macro asset, with Binance Research highlighting that ETF flows now influence its price 6-12 months ahead. This shift signals a new era for crypto investment and market dynamics. #Crypto #Bitcoin #Investing #Blockchain

[Modesto Forister @ForisterMo78036]

Bitcoin is evolving into a forward-looking macro asset, with Binance Research highlighting that ETF flows now influence its price 6-12 months ahead. This shift signals a new era for crypto investment and market dynamics. #Crypto #Bitcoin #Investing #Blockchain

[Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph]

🚨 INSIGHT: According to Binance Research, Bitcoin is increasingly acting as a forward-looking macro asset, with post-ETF flows driving it to price economic conditions 6–12 months ahead rather than reacting after the fact.

[Modesto Forister @ForisterMo78036]

Breaking news: Vitalik Buterin predicts AI will revolutionize crypto wallets, making them smarter and more secure. He emphasizes that robust security remains essential as AI integration advances. The future of crypto is here! #Crypto #AI #Blockchain #CryptoNews

[BSCN @BSCNews]

🚨NEW: VITALIK BUTERIN SAYS AI WILL POWER NEXT-GEN CRYPTO WALLETS

Vitalik Buterin (@VitalikButerin) says the next generation of crypto wallets will integrate artificial intelligence heavily.

Buterin stressed that security must remain the top priority.

He said he would not trust large language models with multi-million-dollar transactions.

Instead, AI should propose actions rather than execute them directly.

A local light client would simulate the plan before any funds move.

Users would then review the outcome and manually approve the transaction.

[Modesto Forister @ForisterMo78036]

Today, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong highlights how crypto empowers individuals to escape government control and protect their wealth. Own your money, secure your future. Crypto is a game changer. #Crypto #Bitcoin #Blockchain #Finance #DigitalAssets

[Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph]

🚨 TODAY: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong warns that money can be seized or devalued in many countries.

"Crypto matters because it gives people the opportunity to escape these situations and truly own their money."

[Modesto Forister @ForisterMo78036]

XAUT soars into Binance Top 10 Perpetual Pairs! Gold-backed crypto is now a serious contender, rivaling major perps in liquidity and market attention. The gold revolution is happening fast! #Crypto #XAUT #Bitcoin #DeFi #CryptoNews

[Coin Bureau @coinbureau]

⚡️XAUT BROKE INTO BINANCE TOP 10 PERPS

Gold-backed token XAUT has entered the Top 10 perpetual trading pairs on Binance.

Gold-backed crypto is no longer a niche hedge, it’s now competing directly with major crypto perps in liquidity and attention.

[Modesto Forister @ForisterMo78036]

The quantum threat is real for Ethereum. Key vulnerabilities include BLS signatures, data availability proofs, EOA signatures, and zk proofs. Addressing these step by step is crucial to secure the future of crypto. #crypto #blockchain #eth #quantumsecurity

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

Now, the quantum resistance roadmap.

Today, four things in Ethereum are quantum-vulnerable:

* consensus-layer BLS signatures
* data availability (KZG commitments+proofs)
* EOA signatures (ECDSA)
* Application-layer ZK proofs (KZG or groth16)

We can tackle these step by step:

## Consensus-layer signatures

Lean consensus includes fully replacing BLS signatures with hash-based signatures (some variant of Winternitz), and using STARKs to do aggregation.

Before lean finality, we stand a good chance of getting the Lean available chain. This also involves hash-based signatures, but there are much fewer signatures (eg. 256-1024 per slot), so we do not need STARKs for aggregation.

One important thing upstream of this is choosing the hash function. This may be "Ethereum's last hash function", so it's important to choose wisely. Conventional hashes are too slow, and the most aggressive forms of Poseidon have taken hits on their security analysis recently. Likely options are:

* Poseidon2 plus extra rounds, potentially non-arithmetic layers (eg. Monolith) mixed in
* Poseidon1 (the older version of Poseidon, not vulnerable to any of the recent attacks on Poseidon2, but 2x slower)
* BLAKE3 or similar (take the most efficient conventional hash we know)

## Data availability

Today, we rely pretty heavily on KZG for erasure coding. We could move to STARKs, but this has two problems:

1. If we want to do 2D DAS, then our current setup for this relies on the "linearity" property of KZG commitments; with STARKs we don't have that. However, our current thinking is that it should be sufficient given our scale targets to just max out 1D DAS (ie. PeerDAS). Ethereum is taking a more conservative posture, it's not trying to be a high-scale data layer for the world.
2. We need proofs that erasure coded blobs are correctly constructed. KZG does this "for free". STARKs can substitute, but a STARK is ... bigger than a blob. So you need recursive starks (though there's also alternative techniques, that have their own tradeoffs). This is okay, but the logistics of this get harder if you want to support distributed blob selection.

Summary: it's manageable, but there's a lot of engineering work to do.

## EOA signatures

Here, the answer is clear: we add native AA (see https://t.co/YD9nIpsxcC ), so that we get first-class accounts that can use any signature algorithm.

However, to make this work, we also need quantum-resistant signature algorithms to actually be viable. ECDSA signature verification costs 3000 gas. Quantum-resistant signatures are ... much much larger and heavier to verify.

We know of quantum-resistant hash-based signatures that are in the ~200k gas range to verify.

We also know of lattice-based quantum-resistant signatures. Today, these are extremely inefficient to verify. However, there is work on vectorized math precompiles, that let you perform operations (+, *, %, dot product, also NTT / butterfly permutations) that are at the core of lattice math, and also STARKs. This could greatly reduce the gas cost of lattice-based signatures to a similar range, and potentially go even lower.

The long-term fix is protocol-layer recursive signature and proof aggregation, which could reduce these gas overheads to near-zero.

## Proofs

Today, a ZK-SNARK costs ~300-500k gas. A quantum-resistant STARK is more like 10m gas. The latter is unacceptable for privacy protocols, L2s, and other users of proofs.

The solution again is protocol-layer recursive signature and proof aggregation. So let's talk about what this is.

In EIP-8141, transactions have the ability to include a "validation frame", during which signature verifications and similar operations are supposed to happen. Validation frames cannot access the outside world, they can only look at their calldata and return a value, and nothing else can look at their calldata. This is designed so that it's possible to replace any validation frame (and its calldata) with a STARK that verifies it (potentially a single STARK for all the validation frames in a block).

This way, a block could "contain" a thousand validation frames, each of which contains either a 3 kB signature or even a 256 kB proof, but that 3-256 MB (and the computation needed to verify it) would never come onchain. Instead, it would all get replaced by a proof verifying that the computation is correct.

Potentially, this proving does not even need to be done by the block builder. Instead, I envision that it happens at mempool layer: every 500ms, each node could pass along the new valid transactions that it has seen, along with a proof verifying that they are all valid (including having validation frames that match their stated effects). The overhead is static: only one proof per 500ms. Here's a post where I talk about this:

https://t.co/rAUSJjW7WL
https://t.co/EtXpkaDll5

[Modesto Forister @ForisterMo78036]

Exciting news! Binance is relaunching tokenized US stocks and ETFs through Ondo Finance, marking their first offering since 2021. Stay tuned for new opportunities in crypto investing! #Crypto #Binance #Stocks #ETFs #DeFi

[Crypto Rover @cryptorover]

💥BREAKING:

Binance is relaunching tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs via Ondo Finance.

Its first offering since shutting the product down in 2021.

[Modesto Forister @ForisterMo78036]

BNP Paribas makes a major breakthrough by issuing tokenized shares on Ethereum through its AssetFoundry platform. Building on previous innovations with SWIFT onchain and Allfunds Blockchain, this marks a big step forward for digital assets. #Crypto #Blockchain #Ethereum #Tokeniza

[Coin Bureau @coinbureau]

⚡️BNP PARIBAS ISSUES TOKENIZED SHARES ON ETHEREUM

BNP Paribas issued tokenized shares via its AssetFoundry™ platform using a permissioned model on Ethereum.

The move follows earlier experiments with SWIFT onchain and Allfunds Blockchain.

[Modesto Forister @ForisterMo78036]

Ethereum's weekly transaction count reaches a new high of 17.3 million, while median fees hit record lows. This shows that scaling upgrades are effectively enhancing network capacity and user experience. Exciting times for crypto adoption! #Ethereum #Crypto #Blockchain #DeFi

[Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph]

🔥 UPDATE: Ethereum weekly transaction count hits all-time high of 17.3M while median fees drop to record low, indicating scaling upgrades are working, per Token Terminal.

[Modesto Forister @ForisterMo78036]

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[Modesto Forister @ForisterMo78036]

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[SSI (SoSoValue Indexes) @SoSoValue]

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[Modesto Forister @ForisterMo78036]

Excited to announce we're laying the groundwork for the future of high-performance interactive content, beginning with innovative games! Join us on this journey. Let's pioneer together! @YOM_Official #InteractiveContent #Pioneering

[Modesto Forister @ForisterMo78036]

Breaking news: Swift joins Chainlink for Bank of England Sync Lab test! @Swiftcommunity partners with @bankofengland to advance secure, transparent payments. Exciting times for crypto and DeFi innovation! #Crypto #Blockchain #DeFi #Fintech

[BSCN @BSCNews]

🚨JUST IN: SWIFT JOINS CHAINLINK FOR BANK OF ENGLAND SYNCHRONISATION LAB TEST

@Swiftcommunity has been selected to participate in the @bankofengland Synchronisation Lab.

The payments platform joins @Chainlink to test both PvP and DvP tokenized securities settlement.

Chainlink 🤝 SWIFT

[Modesto Forister @ForisterMo78036]

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[Modesto Forister @ForisterMo78036]

Ethereum's staking ratio has soared past 30%, reaching new heights and highlighting growing confidence in the network's future. This milestone signals strong investor interest and increased security for the ecosystem. #Crypto #Ethereum #Staking #Blockchain #Investing

[Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph]

⚡️ INSIGHT: Ethereum’s staking ratio surpasses 30%, setting a new all-time high, per Token Terminal.

[Modesto Forister @ForisterMo78036]

Breaking news: The Bank of England teams up with Chainlink to develop innovative atomic settlement solutions with tokenized assets. This game-changing move could transform digital finance and set new standards for settlement speed and security. #Crypto #Blockchain #DeFi

[Modesto Forister @ForisterMo78036]

Breaking news: The Bank of England partners with Chainlink to pioneer atomic settlement solutions using tokenized assets. This move could revolutionize digital finance and enhance settlement efficiency. Stay tuned for more updates! #Crypto #Blockchain #DeFi

[Modesto Forister @ForisterMo78036]

Breaking news: The Bank of England partners with Chainlink to pioneer atomic settlement solutions using tokenized assets. This move could revolutionize digital finance and enhance settlement efficiency. Stay tuned for more updates! #Crypto #Blockchain #DeFi

[Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph]

🔥 JUST IN: Bank of England selects Chainlink to test atomic settlement with tokenized assets.