Ari Juels

Prof., Cornell Tech; Co-Director, IC3; Chief Scientist @chainlink Labs; author, THE ORACLE, Views expressed are mine alone

[Stanford Blockchain Accelerator (SBA) @StanfordSBA]

🚨BASS Speaker Announcement🚨
@AriJuels Professor of @initc3org

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Work spearheaded (with many months of sweat) by my PhD students James Austgen and @danivilardell77. Their Crossroads universal faucet won first prize at the IC3 blockchain camp hackathon this year.

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Crossroads turns (nearly) every cryptocurrency into an ERC-20 token on a unified platform. Applications include private payments, cross-chain DEXes, and a universal faucet (good for AI agents).

Blockchain integration is permissionless, extending reach across the full ecosystem.

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1/ The DeFi UX is fundamentally broken.

Despite extensive work on cross-chain bridging, moving assets remains cumbersome, expensive, and centralized. Most bridges act as gatekeepers, permissioning only a few major ecosystems.

New IC3 research, "Crossroads," changes this:

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Are agentic AI platforms actually autonomous? 🤖📉

New research reveals many protocols rely on basic API integrations, simple social media prompts, or manual human-in-the-loop intervention tactics

Catch IC3's @theamyzhao (@AvaLabs) on the Dry Run podcast discussing "Paper Agents, Paper Gains"—a paper co-authored with @0xfishylosopher & @sui414 from @PanteraCapital

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Crypto and AI — the ultimate tech power couple, or a recipe for disaster?

As Professor @AriJuels puts it, "Crypto and AI are not natural bedfellows." 🧵👇

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Bloomberg @BW published a DeFi summer reading list curated by Cornell professor & economist @EswarSPrasad.

One major standout: The Oracle—a crypto thriller novel written by IC3 Co-Director Professor @AriJuels 👀

Here are the other 4 recommendations:

https://t.co/eVsoxPCRxF

[The Defiant @DefiantNews]

New @initc3org research: 1,900+ AI agent crypto platforms surveyed, yet most show no evidence of autonomous on-chain trading. Token holders lost $191.7M while top 1% captured 81.4% of gains.

Read more here:
https://t.co/45HmEHLJqQ

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How do we enhance security by expanding the threat model for restaking networks?

Elastic Restaking might be the answer.

New Proof of Research episode coming soon feat. IC3's @ittayeyal & @roibarzur and @eigenlabs' @soubhikdeb. Hosted by @WPReadingClub's Rongxin Zhang 🎙️

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Chainlink Confidential AI Attester enables a whole range of applications, including a bunch in this recently released paper: https://t.co/Nnv1UbL4rF. (See below) As a judge at tomorrow's hackathon conclusion, I'm eager to see what other ideas the teams there dream up.

[LINKWIRE @SmartContract]

NEW: Chainlink Labs' @AriJuels is judging this year’s @ETHGlobal NYC hackathon.

Submit your project for a chance to win: https://t.co/9T2Vm5HKeS

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NEW: Chainlink Labs' @AriJuels is judging this year’s @ETHGlobal NYC hackathon.

Submit your project for a chance to win: https://t.co/9T2Vm5HKeS

[Giulia Fanti @giuliacfanti]

Our @initc3org team of over 20 authors spent the last 6+ months wading through a huge body of work to systematize what we know (and what we don't!) in the space of AI x crypto. A few main takeaways:

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The crypto x AI industry faces many myths and misconceptions, something our new survey addresses.

Thanks to @TheBlockCo's @RT_Watson for covering:

https://t.co/oq5IRU4hvw

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Many thanks to my co-editor Giulia Fanti and to our numerous colleagues who contributed their time and specialized knowledge.

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Twenty-five experts from academia and industry put together this (monster, 150+-page) survey on the bidirectional impact of crypto and AI. Visit https://t.co/MPdy1bIoGw to read it, peruse the executive summary—or chat with a chatbot about it.

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https://t.co/JZ8k7zkU1U

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We cover everything from DePIN to rogue agents, with stops along the way for TEEs, ZK, agentic payments, oracles, AI-powered investment funds, decentralized data markets and much else besides.

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Oracles + AI =

[Dani Vilardell @danivilardell77]

πCreds is out!! Come see how to prove things about yourself to third parties — your health status, financial reliability, or that you're actually good at your job — without giving up your data 👇

[Dani Vilardell @danivilardell77]

πCreds is out!! Come see how to prove things about yourself to third parties — your health status, financial reliability, or that you're actually good at your job — without giving up your data 👇

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Spotted at @consensus2026 👀

IC3's @sjbreck participating in a workshop with @stephendpalley from @BrownRudnickLLP on the legal and technical risks of agentic AI

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An excellent account of hack of The DAO, authored by my former colleague @el33th4xor, recounting the key roles he and @phildaian played.

Happily, it ended in champagne with plastic forks at an @initc3org bootcamp.

Or did it end?

https://t.co/IKOJpZ5O76

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@KushalBabel Meet our judges 🫡

We have a preeminent lineup of judges that bring academic, VC, and founder experience to the hackathon