Ryan Spencer

Head of business development @DWFLabs. Formerly @krakenfx, @bitstamp, and @anchorage

[DWF Ventures @DWFVentures]

As crypto continues to mature, the next wave of adoption will flow towards the most complete ecosystems.

@base has been leading the charge for this, by scaling its technical capability and growing a strong native flywheel.

2026 will be year for Base - https://t.co/FXpDdAbuSg

[Ryan Spencer @ryanspencer]

@wclemente Real employees no longer needed. AI replacing employees

[Aerodrome @AerodromeFi]

New Launch Alert: $RIPE ✈️

Welcome to @ripe_dao : "the lending protocol that sees your whole portfolio"

$RIPE is ready to swap & LP on Aerodrome paired with WETH & USDC

Emissions and incentives incoming

[Sunscreen @SunscreenTech]

Gone are the days of learning an eDSL to work with FHE 🧵

Today, we’re open-sourcing our TFHE compiler! You can now write FHE programs directly in C, adding directives to indicate which programs are FHE programs and what data should be encrypted.

[Ryan Spencer @ryanspencer]

@BurntBanksy @RiscZero @union_build @SuccinctLabs @SunscreenTech @Rarimo_protocol

[Sunscreen @SunscreenTech]

Today, we’re unveiling our new vision for (T)FHE and how devs interact with it 🧵

For FHE to scale over the coming years, we must (1) architect it in a way that suits hardware and (2) enable developers to bring their own program.

[Ryan Spencer @ryanspencer]

Privacy-preserving taxes are in our future with fully homomorphic encryption! Join us to help make all of our futures secure.

[Sunscreen @SunscreenTech]

Happy Tax Day (for us Americans)! 🧾✨

FHE is like a magical locked box that lets you compute answers using the contents inside without ever opening it or seeing what's inside.

Privacy-preserving taxes are the future.

[Sunscreen @SunscreenTech]

thanks to @mit & @visa research for their insightful paper on FHE in smart contracts! great work advancing privacy in blockchain.

stay tuned for our latest work to be released soon!

[Ryan Spencer @ryanspencer]

This!

[Sunscreen @SunscreenTech]

"make privacy normal again" 🥰

[Ryan Spencer @ryanspencer]

@rezosh @BRRRDAOxyz @unichain FHE…. Anyone?

[Bold @boldleonidas]

February 19th 2025 marks exactly 2 years without missing a single day on my daily hand drawn comics. Christmas Day, birthdays, international flights, deaths in the family. Not a single day missed.

In lieu of having a ‘Patreon’ page I like to release annual Open Editions. It’s 0.01 ETH on @manifoldxyz via the @base network. A single mint of this edition equates to giving me around $2.50 a month.

If you want to do multiples, great, if you want to do zero, no worries (ngl I’m just going to keep doing comics anyway).

The piece itself is called ‘Memecoins 101’ and is a celebration of the daily emotional rollercoaster we know as ‘the trenches’.

Link below 👇

[Ryan Spencer @ryanspencer]

Big news! @LinksDAO has just announced the name of its new U.S. course. 🇺🇸 Hillcrest KC! Let's GOOOO

[Ryan Spencer @ryanspencer]

@KYGolfHoles @BlackDesertUT needs to be on the list! Spectacular

[Paul Grewal @iampaulgrewal]

We finally got the unredacted OCP 2.0 letters from @FDICgov. It took a Court order but you can now read them for yourself below. They show a coordinated effort to stop a wide variety of crypto activity — everything from basic BTC transactions to more complex offerings. 1/3

[Ryan Spencer @ryanspencer]

Let’s compete in a fair free market arena, not litigate competition to death. That is not the crypto industry I know.

[Sunscreen @SunscreenTech]

If @zama_fhe and @randhindi believe in their work, we invite them to compete with @sunscreentech in a way that moves the industry forward rather than engage in secret campaigns of intimidation, IP trolling, and speech suppression. Thread 🧵👇

On December 3, following a 6+ month long sustained campaign of harassment against @sunscreentech and our investors, we received formal notice from @zama_fhe’s legal counsel containing frivolous accusations of disparagement and patent infringement in France.

@zama_fhe is attempting to censor free speech and scientific discussion. @zama_fhe has alleged technical comparisons between our own TFHE library and their library during our zkSummit12 talk amount to “disparagement” and demand “financial compensation.” This is absurd and offensive.

Sunscreen stands for the principles of open source and free speech and we're proud to have built the most performant FHE compiler to date.

Citing European patent EP4150852, Zama also asserts the sole right to use a technique commonly referred to as programmable bootstrapping. We’re disappointed that IP trolling has become a consideration in our industry and @zama_fhe’s attempt to register a similar patent in the United States was properly rejected by the patent office [https://t.co/pUtlQZYjyb]. Apparently, @zama_fhe's claimed invention is an "abstract idea without significantly more."

@zama_fhe has indicated they will initiate proceedings in French court come December 20 if we don’t comply with their long list of demands.

The letter from @zama_fhe's legal counsel along with their demands can be viewed here: https://t.co/mOrqMxroiF

Our technical presentation at @zeroknowledgefm that @zama_fhe alleges is “disparagement” that caused them “commercial and moral damage” can be watched here: https://t.co/oVvsgDexE3. Our allegedly “litigious” TFHE library is available here: https://t.co/Wxjiayz3PI

Our evidence if you wish to see for yourself: https://t.co/Arpul44Bf2

We will vigorously defend ourselves against attempts to enforce illegitimate IP claims over cryptographic techniques in the public domain. We will loudly reject attempts to censor legitimate technical discussion and block scientific advancement. And we will fight for these principles and the future of FHE.

[StripMallGuy @realEstateTrent]

what if the bitcoin people were right all along

[PGA TOUR @PGATOUR]

For the first time in over 60 years, the TOUR returns to Utah this week @BDChampionship 🌄

[Ryan Spencer @ryanspencer]

Just passed the #StandWithCrypto bus running through my town. Keep up the good fight 💪

[Ryan Spencer @ryanspencer]

@nic_carter Kamala: crypto is a good voting block let’s talk to them

Kamala Brat girl tik tok advisor: I got dumped by a crypto boi after he made it big on Boden. Crypto sucks

Kamala: okay, back to crypto sucks

[Ryan Spencer @ryanspencer]

@LinksDAO @RBC_Heritage Putting dollars on Tony Finau