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Agents @worldnetwork

[Aurel @aurel_fr_]

The story of @worldnetwork part 1.

[Aurel @aurel_fr_]

Did a couple of hours of Leetcode today. Need to set more time aside for this, it's like working out, but for the brain.

[Aurel @aurel_fr_]

When I see "load-bearing" in an article I tend to check-out but I did learn about RFC 5705 from this article, which is cool.

[Engineering at Meta @Meta_Engineers]

Since 1985, your computer has asked the network what time it is and simply believed the answer.

Meta's public time service now speaks NTS (Network Time Security, RFC 8915) at https://t.co/PEcqx89wCv. Every packet is authenticated, so a device can verify the time came from us and wasn't modified in transit. It’s free, public, and open source.

Read the full technical write-up on our Engineering Blog: https://t.co/ZddbMgJRzR

[Aurel @aurel_fr_]

It is this simple.

[hamsters🌐🐹 @sigmahamster2]

The moral case for capitalism is that your life belongs to you.

It doesn’t become a public resource for the collective just because a central planner declares it so.

[Aurel @aurel_fr_]

The inability to do this is often justified by words like "conviction". At the same time conviction is essential for facing the inevitable startup headwinds. "Strong opinions, loosely held" might be the optimal founder mindset, just being able to know when to persevere and when to pivot.

[Hubert Thieblot @hthieblot]

A startup’s biggest bottleneck is the founder’s ability to seek out evidence that they’re wrong about their product and themselves and act on it before the market forces them to.

[Aurel @aurel_fr_]

Scary and exciting to witness the brutal acceleration of human knowledge.

[Matthew Green @matthew_d_green]

@kmad @matthew_pines I think we might lose public key cryptography.

[Aurel @aurel_fr_]

Launching soon: an OIDC IdP for humans and their agents. Proof of Human on OAuth rails.

[ETHGlobal @ETHGlobal]

Learn about World's latest products: IDP vs IDKit, with Mateo and Arelien.

Catch the @worldnetwork workshop at ETHGlobal Tokyo: https://t.co/0MrqjSeE2G

[Aurel @aurel_fr_]

@jeff_weinstein @stripe What solution? Do tell.

[Aurel @aurel_fr_]

I dislike this (popular) take. Leetcode teaches reasoning, memorization and does select for capacity to work hard and focus. It adds value when coupled with other assessments in different rounds.

[Phillip Yan @phillipyan]

grinding leetcode today is like studying for the imperial civil service examination exam in China in 1910

[Aurel @aurel_fr_]

Alien technology, for the AGI world.

[Aurel @aurel_fr_]

The geniuses at @worldcoinfnd are hard at work bringing the world's most advanced privacy technology to the people. ZK proving on commodity mobile hardware is a reality now, thanks to their tireless work. It sounds hard, but it's harder than it sounds.

[Remco @recmo]

Proud to announce ProveKit v1! Devs can build authentication with ZK privacy, running on all user devices.

2 years ago I started this project to show that every users’ phone is capable of ZK proving a passport document, under a minute, no trusted setup, 128bit post quantum secure. Thanks to collaborations with many world class teams, and several breakthroughs, this is now reality! Thank you everyone involved 🙏

ProveKit uses Noir as it's programming language, so try your circuits today!

https://t.co/CmFhw89A8g

[Aurel @aurel_fr_]

The protocol team is locked in and shipping daily.

[World Chain @world_chain_]

Full block access lists are coming to World Chain Mainnet on August 17. This deep dive covers the protocol design, execution model, benchmarks, and why streamed access lists matter for scaling. https://t.co/HOKb0ZYVAl

[Aurel @aurel_fr_]

The American Dream.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

From photographer future founder at Startup School 2008 to this today

Look ma, I made it

[Aurel @aurel_fr_]

@cryptodavidw The team is still cooking at @worldnetwork

[Aurel @aurel_fr_]

@jarredsumner Great read, thank you.

[Aurel @aurel_fr_]

@mitchellh Nice flex.

[Aurel @aurel_fr_]

I like the direction this is going and the move away from the winner takes all mentality that has never really made sense in crypto.

That dynamic may exist in hyperscalers because building hundreds of data centers around the world requires enormous capital. In crypto, anyone can run a chain, issue a stablecoin, or build financial infrastructure.

Hopefully active cooperation between market participants becomes the new normal.

[Open Standard @openstandard]

Introducing Open USD: a stablecoin built for the internet economy, designed by the businesses growing it.

https://t.co/jqgDRs6mKf

[Aurel @aurel_fr_]

Hide execution latency behind block construction so validation becomes a cache hit.

1 Ggas/sec, 200 ms blocks, on modest hardware is cool.

[djosiris.eth @OsirisDjed]

The numbers: we raised our alphanet gas limit to 2 Ggas and sustained ~1 G gas/s in 93%-full blocks, while p95 flashblock validation held flat at ~180 ms, inside the same 200 ms cadence. On Sepolia, all load tested near-full 500M-gas blocks: engine_newPayloadV4 latency averaged 0.43 ms with zero cold executions on modest hardware.

[Aurel @aurel_fr_]

The fact that AC is a political issue in France seems to have surprised many people. Debates like this reveal how we think about growth and progress. There is a reason many French people in tech left for North America.

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

At least 1,200 people died of heatstroke in France last Wednesday, mostly elderly people indoors.

Even crazier, about 70,000 Europeans die from the same every year, akin to a bi-weekly 9/11. Eurobros, please vote for leaders who will let you open your windows and install A/C!

[Aurel @aurel_fr_]

Our sense of normalcy has tremendous inertia. We've already entered the AI era people used to make movies about.