Preston Vander Vos

Researcher at @circle building @arc
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[Preston Vander Vos @PrestonVanderV]

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[Devcon 8 | Mumbai, India 🇮🇳 @EFDevcon]

Can privacy scale without becoming its own bottleneck?

@PrestonVanderV of @circle is joining Devcon 8 to tackle one of privacy infrastructure’s hardest problems: growing private state.

Catch his talk in the Privacy & Consent track on nullifier pruning & the privacy-scalability trade-off.

[Preston Vander Vos @PrestonVanderV]

In 2 weeks, I'll present at Ethereum's Devcon! 🎉
I'm discussing how to Handle Private State Bloat, joint work with @levduc @pedrorechez Zhipeng Wang

[Preston Vander Vos @PrestonVanderV]

Thanks to Boston Blockchain Week @blockchainwk for having me as a panelist. It was great to chat with fellow industry people right ahead of the Arc launch

[Preston Vander Vos @PrestonVanderV]

Now that frame-transactions are scheduled for Hegota, here is a proposal to make ecrecover
verify post-quantum signatures. This is vital for allowing existing smart contracts who use ecrecover to migrate to PQ without modification

[Mira Belenkiy @MiraBelenkiy]

Proposal to use EIP-8141 to make ecrecover in validate post-quantum signatures in already deployed smart contracts. https://t.co/x37GGFIl67

[Preston Vander Vos @PrestonVanderV]

@yannvon @dcason_bft Thanks! I drew the line because our sole intent was a minimal deviation whereas most protocols are presented entirely on their own merits

[Preston Vander Vos @PrestonVanderV]

5f+1 consensus protocols are very popular at the moment and, by and large, they are new protocols designed from scratch. In work with @dcason_bft , we instead adapt Tendermint to this setting--a surprisingly easy task for a foundational protocol

[Preston Vander Vos @PrestonVanderV]

The motivation stems from the difficulty of altering consensus protocols. Arc is powered by Tendermint and incremental changes are vastly preferred vs replacing it outright

[Preston Vander Vos @PrestonVanderV]

Check out our short paper which will be published at DISC! I am personally very proud of this as it is my first publication
https://t.co/HnoACa1vdG

[Preston Vander Vos @PrestonVanderV]

Soon 👀

[Arc @arc]

Arc Mainnet.

September 16.

[Preston Vander Vos @PrestonVanderV]

Also, what a fun conference! Great community of researchers and lots of good stuff to come

[Preston Vander Vos @PrestonVanderV]

My SBC takeaways:
- True believers only in this market
- Cryptographers must defend their protocols that arent PQC
- MCP incentives/fees need more thought (AMP will have more on this soon)
- Bitcoin bridges are looking better and better

[Preston Vander Vos @PrestonVanderV]

If you'll be at SBC, I'm presenting AMP https://t.co/h8ZfsD0tXa at Flashbot's MEV workshop https://t.co/bW3my5bDPi. Come by!

[Preston Vander Vos @PrestonVanderV]

From the perp (crypto's most liquid product) to REKT/the trollbox, it was a good run. BitMEX was my first crypto job. It's legacy will live on in how CEXs continue to operate and TradFi's (in progress) adoption of the perpetual swap

[BitMEX @BitMEX]

Dear BitMEX Users,

Today, we share with a very heavy heart that BitMEX exchange will shut down its operations, effective 23 September 2026 at 04:00:00 UTC.

The owner and operator of BitMEX, HDR Global Trading Limited, has made the difficult decision to close operations following a strategic review of the business.

It may not look the same today, but we are proud of our 11+ year legacy and the role we played in shaping the crypto industry. We invented the 100x leverage perpetual swap, which for most of you, was the first step to your crypto trading journey. It is now the most traded financial product in the crypto industry, adopted by thousands of users and exchanges. And we remain proud of our robust security infrastructure, which has allowed us to maintain a flawless track record of 0 customer funds lost to hacks in our entire operating history.

We want to reassure you that your assets remain fully safe and under your control during this transition period. This announcement is just to give enough time to ensure a smooth withdrawal process for everyone.

From today we strongly encourage all users to close their positions and withdraw their funds as soon as convenient. For more details on the full process, please read our blog: https://t.co/OOHeh6xHm8

BitMEX was once home to some of the greatest traders today. Our team has dedicated tremendous effort and passion into building the platform into what it is, and we are glad to have reached some of you during your time with us. To everyone who has traded, supported, and grown alongside us - thank you for your trust over the last 11 years.

The BitMEX Team

[Preston Vander Vos @PrestonVanderV]

Come out to Circle's SBC side event - https://t.co/rdNOZlHZrJ! We'll be discussing all things agentic economy related 🤖

[Preston Vander Vos @PrestonVanderV]

Can we set a precedent to stop needlessly saying unprecedented? Has someone tried this already or is it unprecedented?

[Preston Vander Vos @PrestonVanderV]

@XiangZhuolun @gordonliao Good call out, thanks. We'll be updating the paper based on some feedback and can correct the comparison as well

[Preston Vander Vos @PrestonVanderV]

The past couple of weeks have been great!
✅ First guest lecture (UC Berkeley)
✅ First talk at an academic conference (FC)

I'm excited to continue growing in the crypto research community

[Preston Vander Vos @PrestonVanderV]

I'll be giving a talk at FC's DeFi workshop next week! It's my first conference talk :) If you'll be there, let me know

[Preston Vander Vos @PrestonVanderV]

@b1ackd0g Detect is the most relevant which is unfortunate because it has far lower performance than Exploit - 45.6% vs 72.2%

[Preston Vander Vos @PrestonVanderV]

@Polymarket Huge 🎉