Simanta Gautam 🏔️

🇳🇵🔁 🇺🇸 | zk + btc | ceo @alpenlabs | prev founded Synapse (acq. Palantir) | AI @ MIT

[Simanta Gautam 🏔️ @simanta]

@matthuang i've found "swarm riders" share these traits

1. highly adaptable - rewiring a decade+ of strongly held priors in months is no joke
2. amazing systems thinkers - could they crush factorio like @tobi and design mechanisms like @danrobinson
3. high agency - leverage-seeking kind

[Simanta Gautam 🏔️ @simanta]

@benthecarman @Rob1Ham a new victor emerges to take the bitcoin bench throne!

[Simanta Gautam 🏔️ @simanta]

@benthecarman @Rob1Ham also am curious about how Carbon does on this. happy to run the tests - gemini harness is opaque/meh but the underlying model seems surprisingly good on some things.

[Simanta Gautam 🏔️ @simanta]

@benthecarman @Rob1Ham i’d like to test our custom orchestrator on this bench. how?

[Simanta Gautam 🏔️ @simanta]

@realJessyLin this is awesome!

[Simanta Gautam 🏔️ @simanta]

@rel_zeta_tech i think a better framed question to follow is: will there be transparency around the chosen premises (morals, invariants, etc.)? Accountability? What can be done to decentralize this power & protect the individual?

[Simanta Gautam 🏔️ @simanta]

@rel_zeta_tech no, we wont

we will likely trust the deductions (reasoning), but the subjectivity lives in the premises (context).

this is why a chess game (objective, discrete premises) is very different from the real world.

[Alpen @AlpenLabs]

Readying Alpen and Bitcoin protocols for a post-quantum world and the cyber-AI era @tabconf.

[Simanta Gautam 🏔️ @simanta]

@benthecarman lmk if you’d like to collab on a site to curate useful building blocks / advancements!

ideally toward an ambitious goal of direct (non-interactive) snark verification on bitcoin w/o soft forks.

@liameagen @Ethan_Heilman?

[Simanta Gautam 🏔️ @simanta]

@benthecarman amazing!

I have a sense the bitcoin script design space is about to expand pretty significantly in the coming weeks/months.

also starting to see some promising new tricks / gadgets emerge this week in our experiments.

[David Seroy 🏔️ @david_seroy]

We expect AUSD to compete strongly for Bitcoin backed borrowing and lending on @AlpenLabs.

@Nick_van_Eck and team have been beasts.

Very much looking forward to growing AUSD on Bitcoin.

[The Bitcoin Historian @pete_rizzo_]

JUST IN: $24 BILLION CIRCLE JUST ANNOUNCED THEY WILL SOON LAUNCH USDC ON #BITCOIN

ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST POPULAR STABLECOIN'S ON BTC

THIS IS MASSIVE NEWS 🔥

[Circle @circle]

Circle 🤝 @AlpenLabs

USDC and CCTP are coming soon to the first bitcoin anchored chain supported by Circle.

[Simanta Gautam 🏔️ @simanta]

@twiteis what if i told you, mainnet is already live

*dips*

[Simanta Gautam 🏔️ @simanta]

native USDC

composable with BTC

settled on bitcoin

[Alpen @AlpenLabs]

USDC is coming to Bitcoin — through Alpen, in partnership with @circle.

Circle-issued dollar stablecoins for Bitcoin’s financial system, enabling BTC holders to borrow, lend, and trade without leaving Bitcoin behind.

[Simanta Gautam 🏔️ @simanta]

ICYMI: huge research unlock here.

this work opens the door for practical, one-round *permissionless* challenges to claims about arbitrary computation on bitcoin. more details coming soon.

[Alpen @AlpenLabs]

Our latest research reduces the offchain data required for garbled Groth16 verification on Bitcoin by more than 99.99%.

48 GB → under 2 MB.

https://t.co/Ia1mAlLTfL

[Simanta Gautam 🏔️ @simanta]

@n1ckler 🫡

[Simanta Gautam 🏔️ @simanta]

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