SENTIENT RESEARCHER SPOTLIGHT: Peiyao Sheng
Peiyao earned her PhD in Computer Science at UIUC advised by Pramod Viswanath, was a visiting researcher at Princeton, and previously studied in the ACM Honors Class at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
One of our earliest researchers on the team @peiyaosheng works at the intersection of decentralized systems and AI agents, designing mechanisms that make open networks secure, governable, and measurable, then pressure-testing how agents behave atop those primitives.
At Sentient, she contributed to OML 1.0 (Fingerprinting) and evaluation efforts like LiveCodeBench Pro, while advancing agent-security (fatal context-manipulation attacks on online/Web3 agents) and governance reasoning.
Her research portfolio spans cryptoeconomic security and forensics for distributed ledgers—Proof of Diligence for rollups, BFT protocol forensics, TrustBoost for cross-chain trust, ACeD data-availability oracles, unconditionally safe light clients, proofs of backhaul for bandwidth attestation (NDSS ’24), and PoLoc proofs of location. This theme carries into practice: she co-founded Witness Chain to unify the DePIN economy and has industry experience at Chainlink Labs (with Dahlia Malkhi).
Across papers and systems, her north star is clear: build cryptographically sound, auditable foundations so open models and agents can operate safely at scale.
Soneium Score enters Season 03 🌀 💿
The journey continues — new projects @StargateFinance, @zombieidle, @SonovaNFT and Community Quest via @Layer3xyz, and NFT categories keep the game fresh.
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🚀 @UniswapFND has awarded Brevis a grant to build a trustless gas rebate program for v4 routers!
Up to $9M in rebates for DEX aggregators integrating v4 hooked pools. All calculations verified by Brevis ZK proofs.
Here's what we're building 🧵
JUST IN: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong "you don't need to buy a full Bitcoin or ETH to get started."
"You can start buying and holding crypto with a few dollars. It's never too late."
🇺🇸 🇨🇳 TODAY: President Trump confirms he will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping on October 31 at the APEC summit in South Korea.
Bitcoin rose by 2% following his comment.
🫡We’ve been busy: new partnerships, campaigns, integrations… you name it.
Even we needed a guide to keep up.
So here it is: the complete Brevis rundown, all in one place
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Announcing Pico Prism, the state-of-the-art zkVM for Ethereum real-time proving. 99.6% of blocks proven under 12 seconds, 6.9s average with 64 RTX 5090 GPUs.
This marks a major step toward scaling Ethereum by 100x and a future where you can validate the chain from a phone.
We're not done yet, let the surprises keep coming! 🔥
As you work through Basic Training, we want to give you a preview of what's coming in Phase 2 - Field Operations.
Over the next 7 days, we're revealing 7 featured participants you'll interact with to earn Sparks when Phase 2 launches November 3rd.
First up: @LineaBuild 🧵
The Brevis Proving Grounds are now live!
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We've built an arena showcasing every protocol and application that Brevis ZK technology has enhanced. Step inside and experience what intelligent smart contracts actually feel like.
Your mission: explore the ecosystem, become part of the ZK community, and stack as many Brevis Sparks points as possible.
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