Neeraj K. Agrawal

comms @coincenter—the cryptocurrency policy think tank | [email protected] | food account/retirement pasture: @neerajkafood

[Neeraj K. Agrawal @NeerajKA]

Companies and governments, inadvertently or not, enjoy a power asymmetry just from simple friction. Agents arm us against bureaucracy.

Without the right privacy preserving ID tools, the natural response to agents will be full KYC for everything. https://t.co/y30DVUm2W6

[Ryan Maue @RyanWeather]

Remember when CNN reported data centers were causing enormous "heat island" effects based upon a (bogus) non-peer reviewed research paper on March 30?

Well, now published research shows the exact opposite: the reflective roofs of the data centers actually dramatically cool the daytime temperatures around the buildings compared to otherwise.

https://t.co/1crmjqIzu8

Study: https://t.co/h6qKfOAlZk

CNN sloppy work:
https://t.co/BylQtleHAw

[5 nights at the Ryugyong Hotel @postponed_07]

that big purchases on laptop thing is real

[Neeraj K. Agrawal @NeerajKA]

@BlockEnthusiast @drjasper_eth I see it as an improvement to the security council approach to security in that it’s automatic, transparent, and not arbitrary. It’s also opt-in that you can choose not to use apps that have this set up.

[Neeraj K. Agrawal @NeerajKA]

Phylax flips security from trying to catch every hole to proactively defining what shouldn’t happen (draining contract, minting infinite tokens, etc) and blocking transactions that would do that from settling.

Something like this is badly needed to address the defi safety problem. It’s why I was proud to become a tiny backer.

[Phylax Systems @phylaxsystems]

Today, 1 in 2 Ethereum blocks will be protected.

With Phylax, apps can set circuit breakers that Titan Builder enforces at block construction, excluding transactions that violate app-defined rules before settlement.

It's a simple idea: hacks should not settle.

[Neeraj K. Agrawal @NeerajKA]

@rhahn I thought you might like it

[Neeraj K. Agrawal @NeerajKA]

Companies and governments, inadvertently or not, enjoy a power asymmetry just from simple friction. Agents arm us against bureaucracy.

Without the right privacy preserving ID tools, the natural response to agents will be full KYC for everything. https://t.co/y30DVUm2W6

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

“If I ask Claude to write some software for me, I don't think Claude should be building in moral judgments about how I may use that software into its design.”

[cindy Φ @endgamebarbie]

we built a company around the conviction that hacks should not settle, without playing into the hands of discretionary control. today, this design is in production on a chain with $40B.

we wanted a design that does not introduce a major liveness dependency, and we wanted policies to be in Solidity, backward compatible, and opt-in.

defense in depth is without doubt the theme of this year. avanti!

[Phylax Systems @phylaxsystems]

Today, 1 in 2 Ethereum blocks will be protected.

With Phylax, apps can set circuit breakers that Titan Builder enforces at block construction, excluding transactions that violate app-defined rules before settlement.

It's a simple idea: hacks should not settle.

[India Infographics Guy @Deshpacito661]

The Romans used fermented fish sauce with every dish. There is a good chance that Roman cuisine resembled modern southeast Asian cuisine

[Neeraj K. Agrawal @NeerajKA]

Government surveillance used to be limited by both the amount of work it took to track the movements of a single person and protections of the 4th amendment.

AI eliminates that first part, and the robust market for the digital breadcrumbs AI can use makes it trivial to sidestep the second.

The warrant has been replaced by an invoice. https://t.co/oimNIRO7d5

[Neeraj K. Agrawal @NeerajKA]

Coin Center doesn't have a suicide pledge. We have a tontine.

[Peter Van Valkenburgh @valkenburgh]

Today in Peer to Peer, @secparam and I take on policy issues surrounding AI Agents.
How they can rebalance power between internet platforms and their users, and how their abuse could be an excuse to impose KYC/AML style controls across the internet.

https://t.co/CNHo7XMV36

[Neeraj K. Agrawal @NeerajKA]

DHS has used administrative subpoenas more than 185,000 times since Jan 2025. Thats more than the previous 6.5 years combined. https://t.co/YQkmO0COOQ

[Timo @mustbesyrup]

Sorry, your class recording software is called what?

[Neeraj K. Agrawal @NeerajKA]

@coldhealing bottom

[Neeraj K. Agrawal @NeerajKA]

Hungarian OTP bank closed accounts of officially recognized refugees https://t.co/pzQ5y26SbO

[Nick Anthony @EconWithNick]

In Texas, the court described the $200 surveillance order as “unreasonable” because it “overreaches,” “defies common sense,” and “likely violates the Fourth Amendment.” https://t.co/tvtuvk51bm

[lil ♱⁺⋆ @lilsmoresy_]

do not kill. Thanks

[David Woodhouse → @dwmw2.bsky.social @dwmw2]

Seriously, @Wise? My daughter isn't allowed to buy chocolate? Every transaction she makes on her card pops up as a notification on my phone, and she knows it. I don't need you to do any more parenting for me than that, thanks.