1/ New post alert! ⏰
Is onchain ZK PQ-ready? Round two of putting WHIR on Ethereum gave us an inconvenient result: small fields shrink proofs but make them challenging to verify. We rebuilt WHIR verifier over a 31-bit KoalaBear field and measured where the gas goes.
https://t.co/xFjBJtKK1n 🧵
👀 new IPTF website dropped
Includes more user friendly guides to navigate our privacy map with problems, use cases, constraints, approaches, building blocks and vendors
We built a real-world OpenAC implementation for privacy-preserving proof of personhood.
It uses an existing government-issued credential, proves eligibility in zero knowledge, supports revocation checks, and runs the proof flow on mobile devices.
Check threads for links and summary 🔗
Devcon 8 tickets are live!
The first global ticket wave is open for Ethereum’s next major gathering, rooted in open source, privacy, security, censorship resistance, and capture resistance.
Early Bird: $349. ETH only.
Limited quantity! Get yours: https://t.co/Cc9O6zSMcO
Upgrading Finality - Edition 1
Check out the plan for bringing fast finality to Ethereum.
Hosted on the the brand new and shiny EF Protocol Consensus website 😁 Lots of good stuff there!
https://t.co/49edpFXtKb
We’re thrilled to unveil our new Interactive Interop page - a visual map of how value moves across the ecosystem.
The ecosystem is no longer a list of silos. Our interactive hub lets you visualize the connections between 15 chains and 33 supported protocols. 👇
After 5 years on the @ethereumfndn leadership team, I’ve decided to step away and pass the torch. I made this decision in early March, and will wrap up my work at the end of April. I’ve made no plans for the future, other than taking a long break to reset and spending time with my family & friends.
Working for Ethereum at the Ethereum Foundation has been a great honour. I’m proud to have worked with great people inside and outside of the EF, and proud of what our community has accomplished together. And I’m grateful to have worked with @aerugoettinea, @dannyryan, @hwwonx, @tkstanczak, @tjuliang, @VitalikButerin, and @AyaMiyagotchi on the leadership team over the years. We share a vision and a set of values that mean I will always be your ally and your friend.
This journey has been a gift. I have had the rare privilege of seeing up close how small teams of great people can do the impossible. It has changed how I see the world and my place in it. We do not need to accept the world as it is, or where we fear it is going. That is not hope, it is definite: I have seen the proof.
The Ethereum ecosystem has reliably done things the world told us was impossible. It is easy to forget how much real fear and doubt there was that Ethereum would never launch, that DeFi would never work, or that Proof of Stake would never ship. The lesson is not that our success was guaranteed and the doubters are always wrong, but that truly wicked problems can be overcome when great people make an extraordinary effort. You must make an extraordinary effort.
welcome PlasmaBlind: a new privacy L2 that ditches SNARKs altogether, with <100ms client-side zk proofs, using the blindfold scheme and a carefully designed aggregator.
uncompromising and instant privacy on *any* device.
we implemented and benchmarked the whole thing at @PrivacyEthereum and are opening it under MIT.
paper + code available at https://t.co/nW2kMCT50p
the time for a special purpose privacy L2 has come 😎
🚨‼️ BREAKING: Anthropic has decided to open source their entire codebase and is rebranding their AI to OpenClaude.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said: "Yesterday was no slip-up. If we disappear just like OpenAI is vanishing right now, our code can live on through the community."
A 500-node P2P network decoding a 2 MiB message with ethp2p Reed-Solomon erasure-coded broadcast (0.25x viz speed).
Initial benchmarks: ~1.4s p95 decode latency vs ~7.15s with gossipsub. 5x faster, 40% of the bandwidth.
This is with minimal tuning. Plenty of room to tighten.
Realistic topology modelled after Ethereum mainnet (downscaled), deterministically simulated on Shadow.
The visualizer handles 1.7M trace events without breaking a sweat, built on WebGL2/WebGPU via https://t.co/gNIQc3g3ef.
Purple = sender, blue = receiving, green = decoded.