
💻😈💻💻 ➡️🤝;Decentralized systems; prev. research @protocolLabs & @scroll_zkp; PhD from @uclisec; she/her
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Sarah retweeted
I'm looking for my next research position.
After a PhD with Christian Cachin, I spent the past four years at the Ethereum Foundation designing and analyzing protocols for Ethereum. My interests are now extending to multi-agent AI as well: what can we still guarantee when some agents fail or misbehave?
Open to research and faculty roles in distributed systems, blockchain protocols, and reliable, secure multi-agent systems. I'm based in Seoul and looking in Seoul, Hong Kong and Singapore, and I'm open to remote roles or the right opportunity in London.
If your group works on these problems, or you know of a role that might fit, I'd be glad to hear from you! DMs open.
Sarah retweeted
New @NeurIPSConf paper: we're releasing ORBIT: A Framework for Multi-Agent Safety and Security Evaluations. Open source, with configurable attacks & defenses and dynamic topologies, all built on @AISecurityInst's Inspect.
When we started this work a year ago, we didn't imagine how urgent it would become by the time we published. Below are some of the interesting results and where we think this should go next. If you want to talk it through, let us know 🧵
Last week, I explored how intelligence is becoming a commodity and its impact on money. This week, I dive into @karpathy’s autoresearch project and what it reveals about the future of autonomous AI agents.
This one even features @SarahAzouvi, my partner in crime on the idea of bringing "dark compute" to light, and the amazing work that @varun_mathur is doing with his swarm of agents (the real pre-AGI architecture) :)
Here are the high-level ideas from this post:
* How autoresearch validates the near-term use of autonomous agents through simple, 5-minute evaluation loops that beat highly optimized baselines.
* The shift from execution to "research taste" and why designing the reward function and optimization surface will become the critical task for research and progress in other fields (once the barriers to execution are completely removed).
* The massive potential of "dark compute": how a decentralized swarm of agents can turn idle, everyday GPUs into a global, collaborative research lab.
Link to my post below 👇
Sarah retweeted
I'm hiring at the EF: jobs.lever.co/ethereumfounda…
If you're into Ethereum, cryptography, and formal verification, please get in touch! 🙂
Super grateful for how welcoming everyone at @zkproof was to our baby SNARK last week for ZKProof7 🦈
And special thanks to the organisers for the adorable bodysuit 😍❤️
Baby SNARK, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
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Baby SNARK!
🐣🦈@SarahAzouvi 👶🏼🐣
Sarah retweeted
🧵Mesh vs Hub: Approaches to Rollup Interoperability
Ethereum’s rollup-centric future is fast and cheap—but fragmented. Liquidity, UX, and composability are broken across rollups. How do we fix this? Let’s explore Mesh vs Hub models for rollup interop. 👇
1/ The problem: Fragmentation
Rollups scale Ethereum but at a cost:
🧑🤝🧑 UX: Users juggle wallets, bridges, & networks.
🌊 Liquidity: Capital is spread thin, leading to slippage & inefficiencies.
🔗 Composability: No atomic transactions across rollups.
Seamless interop is the missing piece.
Sarah retweeted
Meet @SarahAzouvi - Scroll's Protocol Researcher! 🌟
What does building the open economy mean to you?
"To me, this means creating a more accessible and permissionless financial system where innovation isn't constrained by centralized gatekeepers. I'm particularly passionate about how this can advance financial inclusion for women, who are disproportionately affected by financial exclusion. Creating an open economy means breaking down these systemic barriers and ensuring that technological advancement benefits those who have been historically left out of traditional financial systems".
Favourite xmas movie?
"My favorite xmas movie is The Nightmare before Christmas, which I’d say is both a Halloween and xmas movie (which is amazing since I absolutely love both celebrations)". 💃
If you were a type of pasta, what shape would you be and why?
"I’d be a spaghetti! As a dancer I’ve trained my flexibility a lot and in my professional life I’ve also learned to adapt and remain resilient in the face of changing circumstances - bending without breaking, both literally and figuratively, just like a perfect al dente spaghetti 🍝".
Most overused emoji: 🙈
What’s your favourite thing about Scroll?
"My favourite thing about Scroll is 100% the people, I feel super grateful to work with my amazing colleagues!" 💛
It was such a pleasure to present our research team's work at the Columbia CryptoEconomics Workshop earlier this month! Many thanks to the organisers 🥰
We discussed key challenges in x-rollup communication and shared Scroll's Interop Gadget design.
Video and slides 👇
Video: youtu.be/bN2s8sZhKpM?t=5391
Slides: docs.google.com/presentation…
Blogpost with more details coming soon!
Sarah retweeted
How can industry and academia work together to advance crypto and blockchain development?
We’re excited to introduce the IC3-Cornell Blockchain Accelerator: A groundbreaking initiative, led by students and alumni, to transform research and bold ideas into real-world applications.
Sarah retweeted
All-hands checkpointing to Bitcoin can cost only 1 tx via large scale DKG, and the @Filecoin's Pikachu blueprint @marko_vukolic @SarahAzouvi can finally become practically reachable; check out my student Michael's talk tmr @acm_ccs eprint.iacr.org/2023/1773
Sarah retweeted
When I first heard Marko's vision to checkpoint PoS into Bitcoin I thought it was crazy - but there has been great progress since then!
Filecoin (and many other chains) soon to be checkpointed on Bitcoin!
See his initial work with @SarahAzouvi, Pickachu: arxiv.org/abs/2208.05408
Filecoin is one step closer to checkpointing and trustless bridging to Bitcoin. Thanks Hanwen Feng, Tiancheng Mai and @QiangTang7 for your work on Pikachu RFP-12 and ideating Any-Trust DKG.
arxiv.org/abs/2311.09592
Sarah retweeted
The Science of Blockchain Conference (SBC) 2023 happening now at Stanford! Don’t miss the IC3 talks below and learn the latest #blockchain advancements with us! Visit cbr.stanford.edu/sbc23/ to see schedules and stream talks! Proudly co-organized with @CBRStanford @BerkeleyRDI🎉
My talk @EthCC is tomorrow (Tuesday) at 3:15pm on Eiffel Stage.
I'll be talking about the deplatforming and censorship happening on subscription platforms (like OnlyFans) and the challenges of building similar platforms on a decentralised stack.
Sarah retweeted
Joint statement from more than 300 scientists from 32 countries warning against the EU proposal for regulation to detect Child Sexual Abuse Material tinyurl.com/CSAScientistsLet……
The technologies it puts forward are inadequate to solve the problem and bring huge societal risks
🧵
Sarah retweeted
My theory — Purdue CS denied me tenure because of its shallow, insecure view of scholarship, deep dysfunction and pettiness, apathetic PL leadership, culture of silence, and, yes, sexism.
It has taken me a while to call this out; I am speaking up because someone should.
Sarah retweeted
Also happy to share one of my invite codes to my mutuals, feel free to DM me.
This is the platform that I’ve been using the most recently, such a good vibe!
Substack writers: If you’d like to try Bluesky, here’s a form to get early access.
We’re still working our way through the signup list for our private beta, but would like to give faster access to writers at this time!
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If it comes to this, here are a few other places to connect with me: @[email protected]
linkedin.com/in/sarahazouvi/
DM for signal, telegram or IG
Also happy to share one of my invite codes to my mutuals, feel free to DM me.
This is the platform that I’ve been using the most recently, such a good vibe!
Substack writers: If you’d like to try Bluesky, here’s a form to get early access.
We’re still working our way through the signup list for our private beta, but would like to give faster access to writers at this time!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
























