Nobody enjoys squinting at a random string of characters hoping a clipboard hijacker didn't swap the address right before hitting send.
The double check anxiety on a high value transfer is a universal headache.
Human readable names is the answer 🧠
Our industry built a financial surveillance apparatus and labeled it "DeFi". Making everything public was a flaw of early tech.
#ModulusZK is the way out. Back to the original cypherpunk vision.
Bidding privacy coins makes total sense right now. They validated the demand for shielded transactions.
The logical evolution is full ZK chains where that same cryptography is embedded at the network execution layer by default 🤔
Everyone wants institutions in crypto.
The blocker: proving compliance without revealing competitive strategy.
You can't have both with traditional systems.
With zero-knowledge proofs, you can.
It doesn't matter how smart your AI agent is when you can't verify what's happening inside.
ZK proofs could prove an agent acted correctly without revealing its logic.
The tech exists. But it's still slow, expensive, and hard to scale. For now.
Vitalik: L1 is scaling, your general-purpose L2 is now nonsense.
Fair enough, but what still isn't scaling is privacy.
zkVMs are nice, but aren't going to cut it if we're serious about facilitating any use case at scale, whether it's Wall Street or millions of AI agents
They all tell you how amazing their zkVMs are.
But every opcode needs a custom circuit.
Made changes to the VM → Rewrite circuits.
Added a new opcode → New circuit.
Found a bug → More circuit work.
This is a choice.
We chose different. We skip the VM.
ICYMI, NYSE is building a blockchain-based platform for tokenized securities.
Cool, but do we really need another corporate chain?
With the right ZK verification infra, you could prove compliance without the fragmentation.
zkEVMs are supposedly the path to scale Ethereum, but what if we didn't even need a VM?
Find out all you need to know about zkVMs and how they're not the only feasible way to run computations.
https://t.co/eUBG6EA0OG
We're kicking off 2026 with our first X space, hosting the team from @fastxyz to discuss whether it's time to transcend blockchains.
Join us on Thursday, 22nd of January at 17:00 UTC to learn more.
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Now that all the social apps are turning into trading apps... It's even more important to figure out how to scale zkps realistically to millions of users without relying on hardware acceleration alone.
If only someone had a solution that drastically reduced proof size.