Miros (lav)

Community & Ecosystem Builder | Organising Claude AI community across the Balkans 🇷🇸 | Ex @PolygonID | AI, identity & responsible tech

[ETH Belgrade @ethbelgrade]

It’s time for another ETH Belgrade Community Meetup!

Join us on May 21 at the @TenderlyApp office to hear the amazing @definikola talk about managing risk in DeFi.

https://t.co/t6vbhrKVOy

[Miros (lav) @HackBugs]

The takeaway that sticks with me from the workshop: cheap intelligence, expensive verification.
And in B2B we need fast, accountable, and private at the same time. That's the actual problem we need to solve.

[Petar Atanasovski @AtanasovskiP]

AI agents are about to start spending money. The question isn't whether, it's whether we'll know who's spending, on whose behalf, and if anyone can stop them when something goes wrong.

That brought 30+ people to Belgrade and online last week for a two-day workshop on Controlling Agentic AI in Payments — practitioners, identity architects, regulators, researchers, and builders from across the globe.

My three takeaways:
1️⃣ Agent identity is a prerequisite, not a nice-to-have. If your agent can't prove it represents your company — verifiably, at machine speed — you don't have an agentic payment. You have a huge risk.
2️⃣ Privacy in B2B is structural. Your counterparty list, pricing, supplier relationships are trade secrets. This is exactly why we're building @0xCurvy and @0xCropsCash - verifiable, policy-compliant agent transactions without leaking the commercial data underneath.
3️⃣ The market isn't waiting. @Mastercard @Visa @stripe @Google all shipped agentic payment infrastructure in March–April alone. x402 : 43M transactions. Enterprise B2B hasn't started yet. The window to shape the standards is now.

Thank you to Ivan Mortimer-Schutts, Aydar, and the whole @GLEIF team for co-anchoring the workshop with us. To Ognjen Kurtic, Jovan Milovanovic, Christoph Berndt (Finspot), and @LavOdorovic (Relio) for being the inspiration, contributors from the start and from bringing own domain to the workshop. To @HackBugs, who's been working at the AI/identity crossover, for the sharpest framing of the two days. To Professor @ThomasHardjono (@MIT) for pushing the identity conversation further than we'd mapped. To @ajmalsamuel (@ftsmoney) J.G Yeom Gene C. (YourData), Maxim Neshcheret (@CMASmallSystems) Vladimir Simjanoski (Blokverse) and @ChrisOstrowski_ for the global perspective and active contribution to the workshop.

To Marija Vlajković and @WorldBankGroup, @IFC_org, and SEE UP Accelerator teams — thank you for your feedback, contribution and the space, literally and figuratively.

We're writing a joint discussion paper with @GLEIF on agentic payments — agent identity standards, AMC/AARC credential framework, use cases, policy landscape. Comment below if you want early access.

We're also building a product together. Because privacy and agent identity aren't two isolated problems — they're the same problem from different angles. Half-solved on one side means fully broken on the other.
You need both. At the moment of transaction. That's what we're building — and last week confirmed we're not building it alone.

[Tanja @tanjaweb3]

Why Belgrade?

Amazing venue
Overall infrastructure that can support that number of attendees and side events
Easy to get visa (or no needed)
Easy to travel to
Free public transportation
Great food
A lot of cultural sites to be explored
Strong Ethereum community
Rakija.

[Miros (lav) @HackBugs]

100 people showed up to Belgrade's first @AnthropicAI @claudeai AI Builders meetup 🇷🇸

Hit capacity fast. Dozens still on the waitlist.

Speakers: @lazartravica, @instantfinality, Uroš Petrović, Dragan Krstić

The Balkans are building. 🧡 #Claude #AI #Belgrade

[Miros (lav) @HackBugs]

@doguabaris @claudeai Thank you @doguabaris for helping the event be a success!

[Miros (lav) @HackBugs]

First Claude AI Builders meetup in Belgrade 🇷🇸

📅 April 6 📍 AI Hub Belgrade by Startit

Lightning talks, open mic demos, community building.

All experience levels welcome. Bring your laptop, bring your curiosity.

🔗 https://t.co/7CyFdbgCor

[ETH Belgrade @ethbelgrade]

The wait is over — ETH Belgrade returns for its 4th edition 🎉

📅 26–27 August 2026, Sava Centar

Every year we raise the bar — and this time will be no different.

Take a look at last year’s aftermovie below and get ready for the best euro summer yet 🙌

[Miros (lav) @HackBugs]

Privacy matters, a lot! Congrats to the team!

[Petar Atanasovski @AtanasovskiP]

Crypto is dead. Privacy is too risky (yes, we heard it all, many times). Long live privacy in crypto.

@0xCurvy won the second place and the special award from @fundraisingBC at @MoneyMotionXYZ, the biggest fintech conference in CEE, where 300+ startups applied and 18 were selected to compete.

A year ago, no one wanted to touch regulated crypto privacy. It was considered too risky. We pushed forward anyway, doubling down on Curvy when the whole web3 space was on its knees and 2025 was beating us up.

A few months ago something shifted. As a friend from @FireblocksHQ put it in a single sentence - this space became a red ocean overnight. We were already there, building, shipping and iterating.

To the whole team, our families and friends, and everyone who contributed - thank you for every storm we walked through together. This moment belongs to all of us.

Crypto is the future of fintech. Regulated privacy is a must. We're in it. And we're just getting started.

[Petar Atanasovski @AtanasovskiP]

Crypto is dead. Privacy is too risky (yes, we heard it all, many times). Long live privacy in crypto.

@0xCurvy won the second place and the special award from @fundraisingBC at @MoneyMotionXYZ, the biggest fintech conference in CEE, where 300+ startups applied and 18 were selected to compete.

A year ago, no one wanted to touch regulated crypto privacy. It was considered too risky. We pushed forward anyway, doubling down on Curvy when the whole web3 space was on its knees and 2025 was beating us up.

A few months ago something shifted. As a friend from @FireblocksHQ put it in a single sentence - this space became a red ocean overnight. We were already there, building, shipping and iterating.

To the whole team, our families and friends, and everyone who contributed - thank you for every storm we walked through together. This moment belongs to all of us.

Crypto is the future of fintech. Regulated privacy is a must. We're in it. And we're just getting started.

[ETH Belgrade @ethbelgrade]

ETH Belgrade is proud to partner with @ParisBlockWeek for #HackTheBlock 2026 🚀

One of the biggest Web3 hackathons in the world.

Developers will have the chance to:
👨‍💻 Build real on-chain projects
🤝 Connect with founders, investors, and ecosystem teams
🏆 Compete for prizes and ecosystem support

Don’t watch the future. Build it.

Apply here ↓
🔗 https://t.co/su8WAqZDBz

[Miros (lav) @HackBugs]

Great team, fantastic product! Confidentialité par défaut.

[Petar Atanasovski @AtanasovskiP]

EthCC has been the community place for me since day one, first because of Paris, later because of what it represents for @ethereum . Only @ethbelgrade ranks higher in my heart. Proud to return for @EthCC [9] - this time as a speaker.

See you in Cannes 🤘

[Billions @billions_ntwk]

Let's say you're building an app - maybe a DeFi protocol, an on-ramp, or a regulated exchange.

You need KYC. So you integrate with a provider. Build the flow. Handle data storage. Manage encryption. Deal with compliance.

Then your users want to use another app. They do it all over again. Different provider. Different flow. Data siloed in another database.

Right now, copies of your users' passports could be sitting on 23 different company servers. One hack, and identities get stolen.

Worse?

Every app rebuilds the same infrastructure. Every user re-verifies for every app. No composability. Just walled gardens.

Here's what just changed with the Billions Network and @idOS_network partnership:

Users verify ONCE.

That credential works across every app you build.

User opens your app → "Verify with existing credential?" → Approves → Done. 2 seconds.

Your app receives a ZK proof: "✓ Verified. Over 18. Not from restricted jurisdiction."

No documents uploaded.
No data stored on your servers.
If you get hacked? There's nothing to steal.

How it works:

Your app never sees the passport, birthday, or address. Just gets cryptographic proof: "Yes, this person meets your requirements."

Credentials encrypted to user's personal key. Apps request ZK proofs or selective disclosure. No raw data ever leaves user control.

This is composability for identity:

🤓Building a compliant DeFi protocol?
Access verified users without storing KYC data.

🤓Building an on-ramp?
Users already verified - instant onboarding.

🤓Building a regulated exchange?
Programmatic access to data only when compliance requires it.

The system is open. Users own credentials. You get what you need without the liability.

Why this matters:

For 30 years, people tried to build this. Hundreds of millions spent. Zero adoption.

😮Together with @idOS_network, we built the first system that actually works. 65,000+ people already using it. Live. Right now.

What this unlocks:

✓ Composable identity - build on open standards (W3C Verifiable Credentials)

✓ User-owned data - verify what you need without storage liability

✓ Interoperability - one verification across all apps

✓ Compliance-ready - hybrid model for ZK proofs + programmatic access

✓ No vendor lock-in - open system

⬇️ Bottom line:

Right now: every app rebuilds verification. Users re-verify everywhere. Data siloed. One hack away from breach.

With this: users verify once. You access proofs. No raw data stored. Nothing to hack.

Identity becomes a composable primitive - like money legos, but for credentials.

⚠️ The internet’s missing identity infrastructure layer just got fixed.

Most people don't know it yet.

You do.

Time to build with Billions Network and @idOS_network - and help save the internet in the age of not-yet-identified AI.

[Miros (lav) @HackBugs]

@Ter_Ry18 @billions_ntwk In the last screenshot it is visible that you are in the app. Which exact step do you have a problem?

[Miros (lav) @HackBugs]

Join us tomorrow!

[Billions @billions_ntwk]

Builders build with Billions

Get exclusive access to a live demo of "Login with Billions", the human-verified login alternative to Apple and Google

Register now: https://t.co/xPiUFMYPgm

Please select the session that works best for you if you can’t make it tomorrow.

[Miros (lav) @HackBugs]

@Ter_Ry18 @billions_ntwk Hi, can you share more details?

[Billions @billions_ntwk]

Imagine you go to a store and you want to buy candy. The shopkeeper knows you're a real kid because they can see you standing right there.

Now imagine you send a robot to buy candy for you. The shopkeeper looks at the robot and thinks: wait, who sent this? Is this robot allowed to buy candy? What if someone else's robot pretends to be yours and steals your candy money?

That's basically what's happening with AI right now.

Companies like Visa let people buy things all over the world. But now, smart computer robots (AI agents) want to buy things too. Shop around, compare prices, even pay for stuff. Visa looked at this and said: nope, not yet. Because they have no way to check if the robot is real, who it belongs to, or if it's allowed to spend that money.

The problem is that all the rules we have for checking identity - showing your ID, scanning your face, typing your password - only work for humans. Robots can't do any of that. Worse, bad robots can actually copy and fake human identities really well.

So Evin McMullen @provenauthority, Billions Network co-founder and CEO, says we need a new kind of ID system. One where you can prove something is true without showing all your private stuff. Like proving you're tall enough for a ride without telling anyone your exact height. That's called zero-knowledge proof.

And for the robots specifically, we need something called KYA - Know Your Agent. It's like giving every robot its own ID card that says: this is who I am, this is what I'm allowed to do, and this is the human responsible for me.

Until we build that, the robot economy can't really get going.

Here is Evin’s Thought Leader article at Silicon Valleys Journal https://t.co/oWMOllALmq

[Miros (lav) @HackBugs]

@UmarFarooq19367 @billions_ntwk If you do not have access to your old account I'm afraid no.
Big part of unique identity is that no one is able to bypass it.

[Miros (lav) @HackBugs]

@UmarFarooq19367 @billions_ntwk Hi. It seems you already claimed uniqueness credential. So you cannot do it again I'm afraid.

[Miros (lav) @HackBugs]

@J0SSY_AI @billions_ntwk Open to everyone, developer focus.

[Miros (lav) @HackBugs]

@leonari6 @billions_ntwk It's a show case of Login with Billions, code, example, docs.