D.Nm

researcher | buidl @the_buidl

[Symply_milah @jemilah_shittu]

My first open-source PR just got merged, and I'm genuinely happy!

Knowing that people out there can use code I wrote is such a beautiful feeling.

Sometimes, it's not just about getting paid. It's about making an impact.

Do you remember your first merged PR? 👀
#rfb cohort 2.0

[D.Nm @Dv_nmd]

@geniusyinka @AntSeed Congratulations, brother!

[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.

[Fundable Finance @FundableHQ]

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[Aliyu Ahmad | Cheese Pay @xaxxoo]

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Illustration Done with @claudeai

[Fundable Finance @FundableHQ]

Businesses don’t all move money the same way. Some need to pay hundreds of people at once. Others need to manage recurring payroll, control their treasury or convert digital assets into local currency.

Fundable brings these financial operations into one place, giving businesses more room to focus on the work that matters.

[D.Nm @Dv_nmd]

@paulemmanuelng We must play this guitar 🎸
Na part of 2026 goals

[D.Nm @Dv_nmd]

@xaxxoo @PitchAside @claudeai 🔥

[TheBuidl @the_buidl]

We run Tomorrow! 🏃‍♀️⚡

Lace up, bring the energy, and come ready to burn some calories with the community.

See you on the track!

#TheBuidlGrid #HealthWeek

[TheBuidl @the_buidl]

Part of the journey is the end. ⚡

This Tuesday, Rust for Bitcoin 2.0 reaches its final milestone: Demo Day.

After weeks of intensive learning, hands on development, code reviews, and mentorship, participants will showcase the Bitcoin projects they’ve built and the skills they’ve developed throughout the program.

In partnership with @btrustteam, Rust for Bitcoin 2.0 bridges the gap between learning Rust and contributing to Bitcoin’s open source ecosystem, preparing developers to move beyond theory, engage with real codebases, and become active contributors to Bitcoin’s future.

Now, it’s time to put the work on display.

Real work start after the showcase.

#TheBuidlGrid #RustForBitcoin

[D.Nm @Dv_nmd]

@herrytheeagle Kudos brother

[D.Nm @Dv_nmd]

@0xGideonBature @the_buidl 🙏🏾

[Fundable Finance @FundableHQ]

If you manage ops for a crypto project, you know the pain. Sending 50 individual transfers. Checking 50 wallet addresses. Hoping no one made a typo. It is exhausting.

Stop the manual madness. Fundable Finance lets you upload a recipient list and execute a mass payment in one click. Direct crypto-to-fiat off-ramping to local bank accounts across 25+ African countries.

Save your time for building

[Shalom Rayhamen @Shalom_HeyEliy]

1 MILLION PLAYERS. IN 3 DAYS. 😭🇳🇬👑

Guys, we actually did it.

Lagos Life just crossed 1,000,000 players in only 3 days.

And right now, 109,000+ people are playing at the same time.

5.7M+ visits today.
7.2M+ visits all time.
Three days ago, this was just a game I put on the internet.

Today, one million people have entered Lagos Life.

I genuinely have no words anymore. 😭

Thank you for playing, sharing, tweeting, inviting your friends and turning this little virtual Lagos into a city of its own.

1M down. 10M next. 👑🇳🇬🚀

[SuperSanusi @supersanusi]

@CoLab_kd is 10 today!

I'll share some thoughts below.

[D.Nm @Dv_nmd]

@xaxxoo 🔥

[TheBuidl @the_buidl]

Health Week is back at TheBuidl Grid. ⚡

This October, we’re making room for something every builder needs to take seriously: their wellbeing.

We’re kicking off the week on October 10 with a fitness run, bringing the community together to move, connect, and break a sweat.

The main Health Week event follows on October 17, featuring medical practitioners for practical conversations around health and wellbeing.

October 10. October 17. Save the dates.

#TheBuidlGrid #HealthWeek

[Pull @pullosdev]

Excited to announce our partnership with @DadaDevs! 💚

Pull will serve as a pathway for Dada Devs members to move from learning to building and making real contributions to open source projects.

Together, we’re helping more developers become open source contributors.

Welcome to pull, Dada Devs! 🚀

[D.Nm @Dv_nmd]

@Faytey7 @Lvlupvc Congratulations, Faithie 🚀

[Btrust @btrustteam]

Abraham (@abeeujah) is a developer based in Nigeria 🇳🇬, whose Bitcoin open-source journey began through @BitDevsKaduna.

He built his knowledge through @ChaincodeLabs’ protocol development seminars, the @FreeRoutingAf Kaduna Lightning Developer Bootcamp, and Bitcoin Core Principles by @libdesatoshi.

He also completed the 2026 BOSS Challenge and was featured by @btrust_builders as one of eleven African participants whose journeys stood out.

With the starter grant, Abraham will focus on testing, protocol libraries, and developer tooling across rust-bitcoin and rust-lightning, strengthening the building blocks developers use for Bitcoin and Lightning applications.