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Growing @zksync | Investing@Papervc

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Despite being online most of the weekend, visited Opera Garnier.

Marc Chagall painted the main ceiling.

Truly beautiful.

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🫡

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No comment 😅

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Touching snow

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oh yeah let's make a huge deal about some exchange nobody ever heard of over laundering a few mil. let's take turns while 6 ppl repeat the same thing, super serious and important

"our office is committed to fighting crypto crime.." bla bla

sbf must be having a laugh

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Zeek the @zksync Devcat having none of this crypto winter

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Idk 🙃

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I'll be talking zk rollups & @zksync in Zurich with our friends from @sygnumofficial at the end of the month.

Stop by if you're curious 😃

https://t.co/b2AISD2n2K

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Some DeFi trends for 2023... what am I missing?

- Privacy via ZKP
- Account abstraction
- Options on Univ3
- Complex Computation on-chain
- Decentralized Custody enabling CEX 2.0
- Re-imagine Front Ends

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Been touching grass for 2 weeks. Good haul. Was great to reset.

Now it’s back to work and taking 2023 by the horns!

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Gn 2022

Despite everything, was a great year.

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we live in a simulation

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Zeek the devcat is going places

[seb @0xsseb]

The WoW auction house was the first NFT marketplace.

Be it BoE items, reagents used for crafting or potion buffs - there was a market for everything and it could be always be arbed if you read the upcoming patch notes.

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Haters gonna hate

@zksync

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What if you needed to buy my shares to book my calendly for BD stuff ?

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The @friendtech intern gave the Indian community a hard time and in return I now have some nan. Hope it’s garlic or butter that’s my fav.

If that ever happened with Sophon I’d at least throw in a butter chicken and an ice cold Kingfisher on the house.

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Some personal news:

I will be leaving @zksync at the end of April.

I've been working on starting my own project.

Allow me to introduce @sophon

Sophon is a general purpose hyperchain, focused on ██████ and ██████, using ██████ as DA, leading us all towards a brighter future.

I'm incredibly excited to build this new venture on the ZK Stack. I will be progressively sharing more information on X and Medium, but a few FAQ for now:

Why I am leaving zkSync

- TLDR: I'm bullish on hyperchains and realised I needed to build my own.

- I'm leaving Matter Labs, but I'm not really leaving zkSync. zkSync is so much more than Era, the first L2 zkEVM. The ambition is to build a constellation of hyperchains, leveraging the zkSync codebase, with shared users and liquidity on zkSync.

- I will continue to work closely with the amazing Matter Labs teams, lead by @gluk64 @Ozhar & @anthonykrose and will always endeavour to be their biggest ambassador.

Why build a hyperchain?

When I decided to build Sophon, choosing the ZK Stack was no brainer - I know the product inside out in comparison to other stacks on the market. Building for tomorrow rather than yesterday. I'm convinced that in a few years, looking back at the design and infrastructure choices ML made will seem obvious.

What is Sophon?

Sophon is the brainchild of @Pentosh1, ██████ and myself. We envisioned a place where communities could symbiotically co-exist, leveraging the best user experiences and partnerships.

Catering for today's most crypto native users, whilst building for tomorrow's newcomers. And always, nothing matters more than community.

Sophon will be pioneers in the modular ZK space, benefiting from the best tech and most strategic partnerships.

When will you start?

We already have.

The first partnerships struck are with @BuildOnBeam and @AethirCloud

We also announced our $10m seed round for Sophon, led by @Papervc, @Maven11Capital and participation from @TheSpartanGroup, @SevenXVentures, @OKX_Ventures, @the_matter_labs, @class_lambda & more.

With angels @StaniKulechov, @LucaNetz

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