Randomblock

Ecosystem Arc. CPO @KyneSysLabs. Building @demos_network

[Randomblock @Randomblock6]

Agents are your digital employee.

Humans don't like to do what they deem boring.

If you can offload these tasks to someone who works 24/7 doesn't only do these tasks but continuously optimises them.

And you get to focus on what you enjoy.

Who wouldn't take this?

[Randomblock @Randomblock6]

Wow happening daily right now.

[Humanity @Humanityprot]

We're aware of a security incident involving the compromise of private keys belonging to a member of the Humanity Foundation. The safety of our community is our top priority, and we want to be fully transparent about what we know.
As a precaution, please do NOT interact with the bridge or any liquidity pools until we give the all clear. This is the single most important step you can take to protect your funds right now. We are actively working with leading security experts and our exchange partners to assess the scope of the incident and secure all affected systems.
We're deeply sorry that this has happened. Protecting this community is our responsibility, and we don't take that lightly. We will share verified updates as soon as we have them and we won't speculate before facts are confirmed.

Official updates will only come from this account or @terencekwok
Beware of the scammers and impersonators who exploit moments like this. We will never DM you first or ask for your seed phrase or private keys.

[Randomblock @Randomblock6]

so looking forward to this! cooking!

[Demos Network @demos_network]

Demos Network

Where Agentic Commerce takes flight.

[Randomblock @Randomblock6]

if agentic commerce is the next battleground we have 2 choices:

- Closed appstore systems with gatekeepers, censorship and centralised rent extractors.

- Open marketplaces and decentralised systems that are permissionless, minimise rent extraction and by design, cannot censor.

The battle is already happening.

[Randomblock @Randomblock6]

Hah! We all need a little bit of crazy.

[Ruth R @ruthblooming]

If your idea doesn’t look delusional to average thinkers,
You are probably aiming too low.
Do the math.

[Randomblock @Randomblock6]

@scattering_io

[Randomblock @Randomblock6]

No single chain will dominate AI.

AI removes the complexity barrier.

The benefits of the whole of web3 is at AI's fingertips.

[Randomblock @Randomblock6]

@0xJeff Agentic commerce - let's get it!

[Randomblock @Randomblock6]

Love this take, whether it is NEAR or not is yet to be decided but agentic commerce certainly is more than payments

[Illia (root.near) (🇺🇦, ⋈) @ilblackdragon]

Most crypto x AI takes are too small.

The real shift is from humans operating businesses through spreadsheets, dashboards, and SaaS to AI becoming the interface for computing and business.

But AI needs more than payments. It need identity, discovery, reputation, dispute resolution, escrow, insurance, forwards, and markets for work.

NEAR Intents are not just better crypto routing. It's the transaction layer for agentic business.

[Randomblock @Randomblock6]

@0xJeff looking forward to when we add @demos_network to that list

[Randomblock @Randomblock6]

@sadbryce I'm not sure banks or large enterprises pay for much on credit cards

Retail is a small part of payment flows.

[Randomblock @Randomblock6]

@123skely @0xSammy Looks cool, Use @demos_network DAHR for any feed you want to bring on chain (in testnet so free)

[Randomblock @Randomblock6]

@PayAINetwork @convictionprtcl We should chat @demos_network can help you achieve your vision.

[Randomblock @Randomblock6]

@MarvTimoth58362 @VividEtchInLine @PayGo402 Great stuff would be good to chat on synergies between what @demos_network and @PayGo402 could work together on.

[Randomblock @Randomblock6]

Crypto enables machine speed commerce

AI enables machine speed commerce

Machine speed commerce enables more effective business.

Let's not overthink this.

[Base @base]

Everybody:
Literally everybody:
Every single soul on this earth:

[Randomblock @Randomblock6]

@0x_Mist cleanest for agents mean:
- Assurances
- Reliability
- Price

i wont tell my agent to go the simple route I will tell them to find me the best guarantee I will actually get my product at the right time, price and volume

[Randomblock @Randomblock6]

Was always important to build for a post quantum future.

[Justin Drake @drakefjustin]

Today a crazy quantum story just got wilder.

On March 31, the Google Quantum AI team published a landmark result on Shor's algorithm for elliptic curve cryptography. Technically, the paper was a bombshell: a dramatic 10x improvement over the state-of-the-art. As a stunt and wakeup call to the blockchain space, those optimisations were illustrated on secp256k1, the elliptic curve underlying Bitcoin and Ethereum signatures.

But perhaps the most striking part of the paper was sociological, not technical. Instead of following standard academic process, the optimisations were kept secret, hidden behind a zero-knowledge (ZK) proof. Google's accompanying blog post mentions they "engaged with the U.S. government". The ZK proof demonstrates the existence of algorithmic improvements without leaking details. Academic censorship with ZK, a historic first!

As a co-author of the Google paper I witnessed some of the context surrounding this censorship. To be honest, multiple aspects of that context don't sit well with me. As much as I believe the general public ought to know more, I am limited in my ability to whistleblow. Though let me be clear about one thing: the Google team's professionalism has been absolutely exemplary, and they deserve nothing but praise.

Censorship has a way of backfiring. The Streisand effect, where an attempt to bury something only draws more attention to it, is exactly what's unfolding today. First, Google's key optimisation has been rediscovered by the French. And in a thrilling turn of events, a collaborative Shor-at-home challenge just launched. The initiative, available at ecdsa[.]fail, breached a new Shor world record in a matter of hours.

Let's start with the rediscovery. Just two months after Google's paper, French quantum expert André Schrottenloher cracks the main secret optimisation. His paper, titled "Optimized Point Addition Circuits for Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithms", landed on the arXiv today. Big congrats to André, who beat several other nerdsnipped experts to it. In a blog post also published today, Craig Gidney, the world expert on Shor optimisations, revealed that he'd been sitting on this very optimisation for a whole year under censorship pressure.

Interestingly, André missed a handful of minor optimisations, both from Google's original publication and from improvements found since. It's plausible there's still plenty of juice left to squeeze out of Shor, and this is exactly what the ecdsa[.]fail challenge is about. The verifier program developed for the ZK proof does double duty, automatically filtering for valid submissions. Dozens of compounding small and micro improvements are rolling in. As of the time of writing there's an 8.4% improvement to Google's circuit, as measured by the product of logical qubit count and Toffoli gate count. Nice!

The nerdsnipping ran deeper than anyone expected. Over the last few weeks it became clear it extended well beyond André and other quantum experts. Behind the scenes, a small army of amateurs quietly got to work. Inspired by Karpathy-style autoresearch, they turned AI on Shor. Ironically, the verifier program for the ZK proof makes an ideal reward function for AIs. The barrier to entry for this modern style of research is refreshingly low, with several non-experts, even a teenager, finding nice optimisations. Get in touch if you'd like to join a Telegram group with fellow autoresearchers :)

Part 2: neutral atoms and qday

The story doesn't end with Google. On the same day Google went public, a stealthy startup called Oratomic published its own Shor paper in a coordinated release. It made a splash, ultimately becoming the most upvoted paper on scirate[.]com, a website ranking arXiv papers.

Oratomic's claim was wild. By building on Google's logical optimisations and applying custom physical optimisations for neutral atoms, they claimed just 10K physical qubits were sufficient to run Shor's algorithm on secp256k1. That number is mind-bogglingly low.

Knowing essentially nothing about neutral atoms when Oratomic's paper landed, I was intrigued and decided to learn more about the tech. I fell straight down the rabbit hole and spent a couple hundred hours on the topic. I got a little obsessed and watched every YouTube video I could find and spoke to a bunch of experts.

My conclusion? The tech is real, very real. Even Google recently decided to start a neutral atom lab, a notable pivot from their sole focus on superconducting qubits. If you care about qday, i.e. the day a quantum computer will break the first piece of cryptography in production, neutral atoms demand your attention. I shared some of my learnings on Shor and neutral atoms in a 30min talk at the ZKProof cryptography conference. You can find it on YouTube by searching "zkproof neutral atom".

Here's an interesting observation about this duo of breakthrough papers: neither Google nor Oratomic say a word about what their results mean for qday. No timelines. Zero. Nada. That is especially baffling given that the whole point of whitehat quantum cryptanalysis is to inform qday estimations and help the general public make good decisions.

So let me attempt to partially fill the silence, similarly to what Scott Aaronson did in his April 29 post. Given everything I know, including scary non-public information, I now put the odds of qday by 2032 at 50%. 10% by 2030.

Anecdotally, the US government has its own date: 2035. Originating at the NSA and later adopted by NIST, it's when branches of the US government will be disallowed from using quantum-vulnerable cryptography. In plain language: with hindsight, that date is a joke and should be discounted entirely. I don't see how NIST avoids being forced to pull it forward by years.

Part 3: post-quantum cryptography

There are good reasons to sound the alarm today, but please do not panic. Rushing carelessly towards immature post-quantum cryptography is a recipe for disaster. IMO a good target date for migration is 2029, roughly 3.5 years out. 2029 happens to be the date selected by Google, Cloudflare, and the Ethereum Foundation.

These days most of my time goes to safely migrating Ethereum towards post-quantum cryptography as part of the broader lean Ethereum effort. There's a lot to do. We need to rip out and replace BLS signatures at the consensus layer, KZG commitments at the data layer, and ECDSA signatures at the execution layer.

The plan to get there is compelling, and is based on hash-based cryptography. Within the Ethereum Foundation we've developed a Swiss army knife called leanVM (github[.]com/leanEthereum/leanVM) powered by the magic of hash-based SNARKs. Thanks to truly exceptional work by Emile, Thomas, and others, its performance is derisked. Regarding security, leanVM is a jewel, a minimal zkVM crafted for end-to-end formal verification and maximum security.

Want to help? There are two $1M initiatives. First, the Proximity Prize (proximityprize[.]org). Solve a long-standing mathematical conjecture in coding theory, improve hash-based SNARKs, and go home a millionaire. Second, the Poseidon Initiative (poseidon-initiative[.]info), offers $1M for breaking Poseidon, the SNARK-friendly hash function.

[Randomblock @Randomblock6]

AI agents will redefine the platform economy.

Out - fixed pricing

In - deal by deal negotiation

Massive disruption to how we do business today.

[Randomblock @Randomblock6]

@Crypto_McKenna I don't even now if they recognise how inept their behaviour is

It's like some sort of political Stockholm syndrome - total detachment from reality.

The thick of it, seems less like a comedy parody and political reality daily