Building @frenglishAI & @Convoke_Games - Advisor @0xsequence 📝 Co-author of ERC-1155 and ERC-1271.

Montréal, Québec
Joined July 2012
After 6 years of amazing time building @0xsequence, I decided it was time to move on. Loved all the work we did there to make Ethereum great (again) and I'm leaving the team when it's adoption is exploding. What's next? I'm going to build on Solana
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Yesterday was my last day at the Ethereum Foundation. Today we are launching EthSystems. We build confidential systems for institutional Ethereum. I've spent close to a decade building privacy infrastructure in crypto: p2p messaging at @ethstatus, developing Waku protocols at Vac (both now part of @logos_network), mobile proving tooling with @zkmopro, teaching zero-knowledge proofs with my zkintro primer, and advising @ethereumfndn on privacy and access layer strategy. Most of that was aimed at individuals. The past year at EF's Institutional Privacy Task Force (IPTF) we've been looking at privacy for institutions. On the surface this might seem different, but there are a lot of similarities. There's also a very strong market need for it, and the timing is right. I've written in the past about the tension and overlap between cypherpunks and institutions. Twitter is not exactly the best medium for nuance, but right now we are at a sensitive point in time: the defaults for the next generation of financial infrastructure are being set, with or without us. I believe we need cypherpunks in the room when that happens. Excited to start @eth_systems together with my co-founder @motypes and @_rymnc as part of the founding team. See quoted announcement thread for more details. xitter.cf/eth_systems/status/207…
Today we're launching EthSystems. We build confidential systems for institutional Ethereum. Institutions want to use Ethereum, but one of the biggest problems is the lack of built-in, modular privacy tools. We were the Ethereum Foundation's Institutional Privacy Task Force (IPTF) for the past year. We had hundreds of conversations with central banks, regulators, tier-one banks, and asset managers, shipping open source work the whole time. Wall Street has found crypto as an asset class, but not yet as commercial infrastructure. Institutions want to run real flows on Ethereum: stablecoins, tokenized assets, settlement. These are businesses with billions of dollars on the line, and no bank will operate in full public view. On a public ledger, confidentiality is the hard part: each party to a transaction should see what it has a right to see, and nothing more. We have a year of proof of work: private bonds, confidential stablecoin transfers, private settlement across chains, the Ethereum Privacy Map, and more. All with protocol specs and security properties, at our website. We've spent a decade working on privacy in crypto. We know there's no silver bullet. Different use cases need different systems, each designed, specified, and hardened properly, and someone has to do that work. That's why EthSystems exists. We're an independent, for-profit company, backed by long-term Ethereum-aligned investors. This is a decade-long transition, and we aren't going anywhere. If you're an institution that wants to build on Ethereum, talk to us. We're hiring: BD in New York, protocol engineers, ops: [email protected]
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Is there an corp worse than @Cloudflare when it comes to managing your subscription? Been trying to chat with sales team for days and they don't want more of my money 🤷‍♂️
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VoidZero, the team behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+, is joining Cloudflare. Vite stays open source, vendor-agnostic, and built for everyone. cfl.re/3Q1XYSX
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disappointing to see that there is not a single founder, startup CEO, tech entrepreneur, VC, or innovation-economy builder on this committee this is an old-economy 🦕 list: > 12 legacy-industry executives or industry association leaders (aluminum, auto parts, steel, rail, pipelines, mining, agri, dairy, forestry, manufacturing, chamber) > 5 former politicians or current provincial premier > 2 labour leaders > 1 bank CEO > 1 Indigenous business association CEO > 1 cultural industry executive > 1 academic / US-politics specialist
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new advisory committee on Canada-U.S. economic relations has been announced. To be chaired by Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc. #cdnpoli
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Thank you @TuckerCarlson for inviting me on. A year ago, Genetic Optimization didn’t exist. Now, parents around the world are using it to have their best baby. I deeply believe genetics is one of the greatest tools for preventative medicine and will help define the 21st century.
Kian Sadeghi, CEO of Nucleus Genomics, wants to help parents design their own babies, from height to IQ to personality traits. What happens to humanity when we have the power to tamper with life’s formula? 0:00 What Is IVF? 9:03 Is Forced Sterilization Ethically Different From Selective Breeding? 12:35 Is Schizophrenia Genetic? 16:51 The Ethics of Choosing Your Child’s Sex 22:11 What God Does Sadeghi Believe In? 30:16 Who Creates Life? 33:38 Do We Have the Right to Take Life? 37:44 How Would an Embryo Not Have a Soul? 49:21 The Nazi Eugenicists 54:57 The Effect of Giving Parents Genetic Choice for Their Child 59:24 Why Did India Ban Sex-Selective Abortions? 1:02:14 Is There a Downside to Playing God? 1:15:37 The Blessing of Having Children Naturally 1:21:51 Should There Be Consequences for Thoughtless Use of Technology? 1:29:16 Divine Rules and the Limits of Choice
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Why does it cost less to build a base on the moon than high speed rail from Toronto to Montreal
JUST IN: NASA announces $20 billion plan to build permanent moon base
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The next three years will define how money moves over the next thirty years. The Polygon Open Money Stack will change everything. • one vertically integrated stack to move all money onchain • seamless global money movement enabled for anyone, anywhere. • open, interoperable, and invisible money for users • bringing more institutions and enterprises onchain
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I'm losing my mind over GPT 5.2 and 5.1 How the fuck did it get so bad at coding? GPT 5 was great
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idk whether GPT 5.2 is way worse than 5.0 for coding or if I’m just used to Opus 4.5 now
Opus 4.5 feels very different for coding than anything that came before. It’s pricy but it’s kinda stunning what it can do.
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how to hack discord, vercel and more with one easy trick kibty.town/blog/mintlify/
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From the Nucleus Scientific Team: "All substantive technical claims about the Nucleus Origin preprint...are false." Link: substack.com/@scordogan/p-17…
Everything levied unto Nucleus by @sichuan_mala is false. Worse than false, it appears to be architected by a competitor that has repeatedly published misstatements and inaccuracies. Sichuan is compromised. But it gets worse. I have been informed that @cremieuxrecueil — race “scientist” in chief — has been paid off by the competitor to promote this nonsense against Nucleus. For the independent scientists repeating this libel, I would encourage you to do more diligence on who you are aligning yourself with. Our scientific team will issue a point by point response. Unfortunately, though, this isn’t about science. It’s a concerted attempt to cancel Nucleus on the backs of our successful campaign and efforts to build + advance the industry, which benefits the very people who are attacking us. To the the mob trying to cancel Nucleus: Keep tweeting. Stay mad. We’ll keep building and serving patients. P.S. We won the injunction. Link below.
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🌀 Introducing Trails: the universal intents platform for 1-click crypto transactions. Pay, fund, swap, earn, deposit, or accept payments in any token, on any chain, with any wallet. Crypto transactions should feel internet-native. Now they finally do. trails.build/bltw
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I actually first bought NET at ~40$ during the 2020 Cloudflare outage because it was insane to me that 20% of the web went down because of a $5B market cap company Still cheap imo
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BREAKING Have your best baby. Today, @nucleusgenomics announces the largest genetic optimization campaign ever. > Full station-blitz of Broadway Lafayette > 1,000+ street ads across NYC > 1,000+ subway car ads > Dozens of Urban panels throughout Soho
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looking for great posters, let me know if found
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Looking for a killer product person to work directly with @gakonst and I on stablecoin products for @tempo (payments, liquidity) Team is almost entirely engineers, zero bureaucracy, intense focus on shipping. Send a DM if that’s you!
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Looking for 1 PM to join @tempo, working directly with me. The ideal candidate is a full-stack engineer who's built products or devtools. Will be responsible for juggling both external and internal buildouts of chain features, UIs & other APIs. DMs open.
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