Yash

Co-founder & CTO @launchnodes
Building @impactstake

[Yash @Weirdo_Yash]

Impact Staking = a new primitive.

Stake ETH via @impactstake
→ Earn yield
→ Route % of rewards to real-world impact
→ Withdraw anytime

No lockups. No principal risk. Just programmable philanthropy.

[Yash @Weirdo_Yash]

@snehanomics @outofofficedaku +1

[Yash @Weirdo_Yash]

@snehanomics Let’s pray now

[Yash @Weirdo_Yash]

👀

[Justin Drake @drakefjustin]

Today I call upon the blockchain industry to calmly begin planning for "bunker mode". My personal recommendation is to set in motion a controlled mass migration of assets to fresh addresses, i.e. addresses whose pubkeys remain hidden behind a hash.

Holders, starting with large and sophisticated ones, should consider moving the bulk of their funds to addresses that have never signed a transaction. And when they do sign one, they should also move remaining funds to a new address (possibly generated from the same seed phrase).

Don't rush. While I believe there is cause for action a rushed migration would do more harm than good. Don't panic either. Moving assets to protected addresses is a simple, preventative step which does not require new cryptography or new wallets.

IMO it is now reasonable to brace for the possibility that ECDSA breaks before qday, in the worst case in months not years. By "break" I mean fast private key recovery (e.g. in one week) on available hardware (e.g. a large GPU cluster).

Recent days have been humbling for human mathematical intuition. Long-held, unquestioned hypotheses have fallen. This includes the n log(n) bound for integer multiplication and the 3SUM conjecture. In hindsight, May's unexpected disproof of the Erdős unit distance conjecture was our warning shot.

Yesterday's OpenAI drop made it clear that mathematical superintelligence is upon us. They say there are weeks where decades happen. We are about to live through weeks where centuries of mathematical progress happen. Could our magic 64-byte ECDSA signatures be too good to be true? Was it just security through obscurity all this time?

Elliptic curves feel especially vulnerable to superintelligence. Curves carry rich structure, with room for fancy tricks like Schoof, Frobenius, pairings. (By contrast, hashes are designed to minimise algebraic structure.)

Separately, as Ewin Tang can attest, an efficient quantum algorithm sometimes foreshadows an efficient classical one. We should be open to the possibility of a classical counterpart to Shor that breaks elliptic curves and RSA at once.

Also noteworthy is the striking under-representation of cryptographic breakthroughs among the 722 mathematical results OpenAI published. I've witnessed first-hand the US government censoring academic quantum cryptanalysis results. Backroom interventionism is my base case.

I urge large, sophisticated actors to lead by example. Project11's "risq list" (bitcoin-risq-list.projecteleven[.]com) is a great tracker of exposed BTC pubkeys. Binance, Bitbank, Robinhood, Bitfinex, and Tether have an opportunity to harden their cold storage. Next month I'll address institutions in London in a live Q&A (forum.ethereuminstitutional[.]org/london-2026).

Again, please do not rush. Wallets holding under 50 BTC enjoy partial cover from "Satoshi's shield", i.e. his 20K exposed addresses that hold 50 BTC each. Load-bearing signers like oracles and L2 security councils should consider rotating ECDSA pubkeys with every signed message and/or multi-signing with a hash-based schemes like SPHINCS.

Exiting bunker mode safely will require post-AI cryptography. My inclination is to go all-in on hash-based cryptography and avoid structured mathematical assumptions entirely, whether from curves, lattices, or isogenies. A single battle-tested hash (e.g. from the SHA or BLAKE families) yields plausible post-AI security.

The Ethereum roadmap on strawmap[.]org fully embraces hash-based cryptography with end-to-end formal verification as a response to the quantum threat. Those timelines must now be revisited and accelerated in light of mathematical superintelligence. I'll be pushing for maximum defensive acceleration.

[Yash @Weirdo_Yash]

@terencechain Terence is back to posting about network upgrade updates 🔥🔥🔥

[Yash @Weirdo_Yash]

In our society group they have started collecting Navratri celebration funds and some smart asses started sending in chunks already, They think they will be charged MDR from today.

[Yash @Weirdo_Yash]

@MetaMask have pretty good team, and they are capable of responding to this situation. All power to Metamask team.

[Yash @Weirdo_Yash]

The ticker is ethereum:native

[Yash @Weirdo_Yash]

If you’re truly building for the long term, build on a credible chain.
Features can be copied. Narratives change. Incentives come and go.
But security, decentralization, and credible neutrality are foundations you don’t want to compromise on.

[Yash @Weirdo_Yash]

On the auspicious day of Samvatsari, I take a moment to reflect, let go, and seek forgiveness. 🙏

If I have ever hurt, offended, or disappointed you knowingly or unknowingly, through my words, actions, or even silence, I sincerely ask for your forgiveness.

May we leave behind grudges, carry forward kindness, and make a little more room for peace in our hearts. ❤️

From my heart to yours, Michhami Dukkadam 🙏

[Aakash @Aakash_jais03]

And that’s a wrap at @Eth_guj first Road to Devcon..!

What an event incredible energy, amazing people, and some seriously good conversations.

@EFDevcon

[Eth Gujarat @Eth_guj]

A huge thank you to @Weirdo_Yash Founder of @launchnodes & @impactstake, for joining us as a speaker & sponsor.

From Impact Staking to privacy as a bridge for RWAs on Ethereum, the conversation went deep.

Grateful to have you with us 🫶🏻 @EFDevcon

[Eth Gujarat @Eth_guj]

Was an honour to have you !

[Yash @Weirdo_Yash]

Had a great time speaking at @Eth_guj - Road to Devcon in Ahmedabad.

Talked Impact Staking and why privacy is becoming the bridge for real-world assets on Ethereum, but honestly the best part was the people and the questions.

Thanks @Eth_guj for having me. Great community, great energy. Onwards to Devcon 🚀

[Yash @Weirdo_Yash]

@TanviSolanki_ Whenever I hear Nemras it brings a totally different energy

[Jack @Jackofnomercy]

@Eth_guj @AX7_Web3 Speakers : @Weirdo_Yash, @Aakash_jais03, @mxxnwolf, @rahulbhadoriiya, @jenilt, @prasansinghh, @skivthecreator,

[Web3 Events ✨ @web3_events]

Our brother Yash is joining for teaching us staking !

Excited for @launchnodes

[Yash @Weirdo_Yash]

@StaniKulechov 💪💪💪

[Eth Gujarat @Eth_guj]

The minds shaping Web3 are coming together at ETH Gujarat.

Builders. Founders. Creators. Culture. Community.

It’s happening TODAY. ⚡️

Let’s make this one unforgettable. 🫶 @EFDevcon

[Yash @Weirdo_Yash]

KMS Driver on Canton network.